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@Arotrios@kbin.social

For Amusement Purposes Only.

Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.

Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.

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Is KBIN dying? Srs Question: Is there any further development or support being done for Kbin.Social Keep getting the error page when trying to block users, create posts, view notifications. Been going on for weeks now.

Is KBIN alive or dying, moved here from lemmy because I'm fundamentally at odds with belonging to any social media platform named after a man who owned the largest personally held collection of nazi memorabilia in the world. It's also cleaner interface, and what I thought was a simpler more all encompassing platform where I...

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Why did you repost this? @ernest replied to you on the thread you deleted. He has a full answer here.

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Yeah - I think it's the operator of one of the spambot networks that Ernest shut out awhile back. Sad smear campaign.

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True, but this is direct recent pressure through backdoor channels to the 3rd ranking GOP member in the House, Elise Stefanik, which makes it newsworthy imho. I think it's important to point out that the campaign is ongoing and intensifying, regardless of its legitimacy. They're trying to make it an excuse for civil war when Trump is convicted.

Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas (www.garbageday.email)

Last month marked the official end of the Reddit protests. Any subreddit that had changed its rules or gone dark — or forced its users to post exclusively about John Oliver — has now gone back to normal. On the surface, it seems like a complete victory for Reddit, but things aren’t so simple when a major element of that...

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Not seeing that on my end - 173 posts a day in the overall stats, and comments fell off a cliff after mid-July according to the 3rd chart. I know a lot of that subscriber base moved to the Fediverse:

!noncredibledefense

!noncredibledefense

@NonCredibleDefense - small but scrappy shoutout to my kbin homies.

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You might dig Kbin. It bridges the gap between Mastodon and Lemmy, and allows you to follow users, which opens up a wealth of new content, as what they post appears on your feeds. It's new, so there are bugs with some of the more advanced features, but the dev is very cool and it's had a better uptime than lemmy.world. Here's some instances that run it:

kbin.social - main instance, run by the dev @ernest
fedia.io
feddit.online
kbin.cafe
kglitch.social

Links to others

If you do choose to use Kbin, you'll want to follow and subscribe to communities and people actively. I've got about 100 communities and 300+ people I follow, and my feed is better than Reddit's ever was.

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In my experience, they're split between the Mastodon side of the Fediverse and the Lemmy side. On Kbin, which bridges both, and where you can follow users, you end up with a pretty rich feed if you follow enough people and places - I've got about 100 communities subbed and 300+ users and my feed is better than Reddit's ever was.

Another thing to note is that your instance benefits from your discovery - it doesn't start indexing posts from another instance until someone from the first instance subscribes to it. This means a lot of smaller instances get lost in the shuffle, but they're out there - you just have to find them. I've noted that this is much more difficult to do on my Lemmy account than my accounts with other software, so you might benefit from an instance jump if things feel dry on your current account.

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I'm guessing a lot of accountants have been busy revising their projected P&L statements. Reddit was already unprofitable after nearly two decades. I can't imagine wanting to invest in it now.

Shame - Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie - 1983 (pdfhost.io)

In the remote border town of Q., which when seen from the air resembles nothing so much as an ill-proportioned dumb-bell, there once lived three lovely, and loving, sisters. Their names . . . but their real names were never used, like the best household china, which was locked away after the night of their joint tragedy in a...

[News] Child poverty in the US jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus pandemic benefits ended (apnews.com)

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau....

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Don't sweat it @ernest.

@downpunxx is trolling - he just reposted the same question here. I'm guessing it's the operator of one of the spam networks you shut the door on.

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You're doing awesome @ernest - I can't express how much your hard work has made a difference to the Fediverse. This is the only software that really bridges the Lemmy / Mastodon divide, and given how new it is and the fact that Kbin's uptime is better than lemmy.world - that's remarkably impressive. Take care of your family, and pace yourself - take a break if you need to, but don't feel like you need to quit because folks expect one man to do the unpaid work of multiple admin teams. Step back and delegate if you need to, but don't step down - you're an excellent leader and the current success of Kbin is proof of that.

@downpunxx Kbin is definitely not dead. These are just growing pains. I believe the bug you're encountering is related to domain blocking. Try unblocking any domains on your block list and you should see the commenting bug go away - this may fix the notification issue as well.

A Brief History of Imaginal Machines - Erik Davis, PhD (www.youtube.com)

Even the most cursory look at the history of modern visual and electronic media (printed broadsheets, camera obscura, phantasmagoria, magic lantern, radio) makes it clear that media technologies have always been bound up with the imagination in its archetypal as well as cognitive senses. Media technologies not only mimic and...

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Death toll is now up to near 5,200 according to this ABC news update.

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