At the moment the server owner effectively 'owns' magazines & communities. Is that the right balance of power? What happens when servers go offline, or server admins go rogue?...
However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died....
Kbin.social passes 30k Monthly Active Users
It's still tiny numbers in the scheme of things, but also quite a big number for a site that had ~30 users this time last month....
Kbin.social passes 50K users (fedidb.org)
Two weeks after 30K users we reach 50K...
I'm no climate scientist, but it looks to me like we might have skipped over oops.
List of subs people may find familiar
General...
Donating $5/month to Kbin to keep the lights on?
I was trying to work out how much to donate to Kbin to keep the lights on. I read somewhere it costs something like $1/month per user?...
Today I think kbin.social became the busiest server in the threadiverse
Who should 'own' magazines? Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a “third way” between federated and P2P networks?
At the moment the server owner effectively 'owns' magazines & communities. Is that the right balance of power? What happens when servers go offline, or server admins go rogue?...
Moderate by lottery?
So this is a half formed idea that might be horrible, I thought I'd throw it out there for critique....
I needed a world-news aggregator to help me get off that other site so I made one (fledd.it)
You can't sign up directly on !worldnews as registration is not enabled....
Alexandria, Egypt has become the latest city to solve traffic. Check out their brand new 10 lane highway on the beachfront.
Welcome to #kpop on kbin
Hopefully this space will be interesting to some....
Oops. Fuck
Have you had any bad experiences with people on Kbin yet? Can we do better than Reddit culture? (lemmy.world)
However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died....
Somehow we need to monetise this
kbin.world
I stuck a service on https://kbin.world that redirects you based on a IP lookup for your country. In descending order it tries to;...
It's not too late. Also it's not fine
Evolution of the alphabet
I needed a world-news aggregator to help me get off that other site so I made one (kbin.social)
You may be able sign up directly on !worldnews...
sub.rehab · Find your next diving spot (sub.rehab)
Find your next diving spot. A list of subreddit alternatives on different platforms.
Confederal Protocols: What people actually want is user sovereignty: (nexus.blacksky.network)
Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a “third way” between federated and P2P networks....
Tennis ball-sized hail pounds Italy injuring more than 100 people | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
At least 110 people have been injured after tennis ball-sized hail rained down on a region of northern Italy overnight Wednesday.
Yesterday's sea ice extent was 4.02σ below the 1991-2023 mean (1-in-34,000).
Parts of the North Sea are >6°C warmer than usual for this time of the year.
Twitter failed to pay cloud bill or migrate, off the service. So it then DDOS'd itself