First, I think Ernest has done a fantastic job and I’ve been rooting for him this whole time. But it’s becoming clear it’s all too much for him without the support of a larger team.
Over the last several months there have been multiple posts about the spam problems on this instance, both here and on other instances. We’ve been fortunate so far they haven’t simply defederated us.
Now when I go to the Hot page it’s 12 hours out of date.
It’s with a heavy heart I looked into a kbin fork mentioned in another thread in this magazine: Mbin.
GitHub: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
Instance list: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin
The largest instance: https://fedia.io/
I’ll miss you Kbin. It’s been good. Thanks Ernest!
It’s not the purpose of this post to support any particular instance. Feel free to mention your own alternatives below.
Funny thing…
Underneath all of the sycophantic language, this thread somehow still has the same stench as the past mbin concern troll threads.
I’m just not buying it.
I agree. I’m no marathon kbin contributor, but I like it here a lot and I would be happier if this thread was about what we can do to support kbin as an instance.
If mbin where a placeholder for doing this (as in if certain permissions aren’t available yet) then I’d be buoyed up by OP’s thread.
Anyhoo, viva la kbin, viva la federation!
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Again, the point here isn’t what the alternative is.
It’s the fact that Kbin isn’t WORKING.
Kbin is working fine for me.
If you want to use mbin, just use it - who gives a shit what instance you are on? Innit that the whole point of federation?
I couldn’t figure out how to describe the vibe I was getting, but you put it into words very neatly.