Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a...
The fediverse grows in waves. This was the first wave for the threadiverse, not The Big Wave. Nows the time to let the lead devs catch their breath, prepare for larger userbase and contributor base, and work on critical issues and let contributors start to polish UX issues. The next time there's a wave, this will be a much better place and we'll be ready. That's when you'll start to see a lot more niche communities able to sustain themselves
I have now released a significant new update for KUP that introduces a new experimental mobile UI and adds support for the coming release of the Kbin platform....
Kbin is open source. Surely the android app should be as well?
There's no correlation between those two.
Just because Kbin is something, doesn't mean the app consuming its API (or well, in this case, scraping, since it doesn't have useful API yet) can be whatever the software author decides it to be.
Having said that, I believe the upcoming Artemis app is going to be open sourced, once the codebase "calms down" a bit. It's still in prototype and I'd assume the dev doesn't want to deal with people reporting issues or forking it at this point.
This report seeks to build a coherent narrative about the roots of the polycrisis, the signs of its arrival and evolution, and why we should be thinking differently about the future.
There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...
Beehaw has more than 380 instances blocked. I don't think that kbin blocks anything, where can we see the list?
edit: I see a lot of downvote. You DO understand that some instances are sharing lolita stuff and the police can close the servers of Ernest depending on what is federated? Right?
The kbin.social/stats page actually reflects a count from the instance DB, which includes federated accounts/posts/comments. Check https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0 for just local instance stats, it's about 20K for kbin.social. 125K I think is lemmy and kbin combined considering all lemmy instances is ~100K, kbin.social is ~20K, and fedia.io in second place is ~2K.
fedidb.org also uses the nodeinfo (and shows the raw data when you click into a specific instance), though it lags slightly, I think by 6 hours maybe more as it still shows only ~6K for kbin.social instead of 20K.
Not at all! We just need a combination of A) more new instances popping up, B) some people moving to other instances because they like them better or they run faster, and C) kbin.social admins scaling up this instance. It's just an adjustment process.
The good thing about fediverse services is that as long as there are people willing to throw up a server, you can just keep scaling - unlike on a centralised service where if the owner doesn't scale, that's tough.
I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and I'm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I don't know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not...
I have seen https://opencollective.com/ used a lot to collect donations in a transparent way (also supporting crypto payments). Maybe that is something you want to look into as well.
Hi everyone, You may have noticed a small change on the website. From now on, upvotes work just like on Lemmy - they are equivalent to Mastodon's "favourite." You can boost a post using the button that replaced "favourite." Another change is that you can now rate and boost your own posts. Boosting has a one-time effect - it...
The instance list has a couple of recommended sites at the top. They are defined in this file and seperated by language. For most languages there is only one recommendation or none at all, so you can simply add yours by making a pull request....
If your goal were wider adoption, having a big "sign up" button (with the server name on/next to it) that links to a random "recommended" general instance could be best. Put a "sign up on a different instance" button next to it, and a list of instances below that.
Of course - that's IF it's your goal.
I think Mastodon does this, but just a static link to mastodon.social instead of randomly rotating it.
Edit: that's what they do on the app - but not joinmastodon.org
I have been subtweeted for the first time as a 31 yr old ladyyyy and can I say, I feel so special someone dedicated a post to me because they dislike sme soooo much but not enough to name me 😉
The Fall of Reddit (lemmy.world)
Ernest Appreciation Post
Kbin has seen a staggering amount of growth in the past few weeks, and with it a bunch of discussion about issues and bugs....
NEW: Update & Clarification on Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points on kbin
Ernest just posted some comments clarifying recent changes to Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points:...
Zelenskiy: Russia may be preparing to trigger nuclear plant explosion (www.theguardian.com)
President cites Ukraine intelligence that Moscow has mined Zaporizhzhia nuclear station and sent away staff
While larger, more general communities are thriving on the Fediverse - I'm missing out on the niche communities
Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a...
OC Kbin Usability Pack 0.3.6 - Mobile UI and compatibility with next Kbin version (greasyfork.org)
I have now released a significant new update for KUP that introduces a new experimental mobile UI and adds support for the coming release of the Kbin platform....
YT Short - How to install user scripts on Firefox for Android (youtube.com)
Why is kbin android app not in F-droid?
Kbin is open source. Surely the android app should be as well?
Kbin.chat - New general purpose instance for spreading the load (kbin.chat)
Everyone is welcome to join....
PowerDeleteSuite is a quick and easy way to purge / mass update your Reddit Comments before the API changes come in effect. (github.com)
The third party API changes come into effect tomorrow (1/7/2023) so now's a good time to either purge or edit your existing content....
Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown (www.postcarbon.org)
This report seeks to build a coherent narrative about the roots of the polycrisis, the signs of its arrival and evolution, and why we should be thinking differently about the future.
P Nation confirms MAMAMOO's Hwasa is in talks to join the agency (www.nme.com)
K-pop agency P Nation, founded by Psy, has confirmed that it is in talks to sign an exclusive contract with MAMAMOO member Hwasa.
ATEEZ - Bouncy (K-HOT Chili Peppers) Dance Practice (www.youtube.com)
r/ModCoord has officially recommended migration off of Reddit.
kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.
Spam and porn are flooding kbin already
There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...
A few thoughts about the blackout and the future development of the Fediverse.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/25185...
Start things off with a meme
The Migration seems to be going well! 125k on kbin.social instance alone, and over 100k across Lemmy!
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy...
kbin.social is getting the hug of death right now, consider signing up for another instance
Hey Reddit refugees! You may have noticed that kbin.social is taking forever to load because of all of the traffic it's getting....
Thank you so much for your support! 😍
I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and I'm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I don't know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not...
/kbin update - upvotes, boosts, languages...
Hi everyone, You may have noticed a small change on the website. From now on, upvotes work just like on Lemmy - they are equivalent to Mastodon's "favourite." You can boost a post using the button that replaced "favourite." Another change is that you can now rate and boost your own posts. Boosting has a one-time effect - it...
Which instances should be recommended on join-lemmy.org?
The instance list has a couple of recommended sites at the top. They are defined in this file and seperated by language. For most languages there is only one recommendation or none at all, so you can simply add yours by making a pull request....