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gk99, 11 months ago

Funny to me that people like you always complain about "safe spaces" in the same breath that you make it clear you can't handle something as irrelevant to you as someone's sexuality. That's projecting fragility. These aren't "safe spaces," they're just only allowing decent people who don't flip their shit when they find out what two consenting adults want to do with their bodies.

Kabaka, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I would find it hard to actively support

I think regardless of personal views, the project is essentially tainted and should be avoided. Too many users will feel alienated by the controversy. I came to kbin because the lack of such controversy points to better viability for such a large community.

So where do you think kbin's best odds lie at the moment? Clone and rewrite it in a different language while it's still early or work with what's there? Get a couple of iterested devs together to do some brainstorming?

Rewriting it in a different language/framework was my first thought. Honestly, though, it is pretty large and I don't think I have the amount of time I would want to contribute to such a project. I might still make an attempt, but I agree that the best bet is to have a number of dedicated volunteers get together, plan something out, and execute as a team.

I also have real concerns about the architecture that was chosen. It is going to be really hard to scale this without just throwing a ton of money at it to horizontally scale [edit: or vertically scale, right now, since this doesn't seem to be ready for any kind of clustering] the entire app at once. It's just being operated as a single docker container running on a single VPS. This is just asking for trouble. The ecosystem with which it needs to integrate is mature enough that some reasonable optimizations can be made to keep performance good, especially around the federation APIs, clustering, and other separation of concerns.

Kichae, 11 months ago

I think it's both. The dev says it's something he's experimenting with - kbin is very early in development - and who knows if that will stick or not.

tojikomori, 11 months ago

It applies to both for now. I opened a thread about this yesterday and as Kichae said, it's something the dev is experimenting with and is open to discussing. They also helpfully shared a roundup of links to past discussions on this topic.

For now I've created a separate Fediverse account for my Kbin activity (this one!) which seems to be what most people are doing on Lemmy anyway, but I agree it'll be nice to change Kbin's behavior so it's a less jarring experience for followers on other Fediverse apps.