Switched a good while ago already because I felt the development wasn’t really going anywhere. Checked yesterday again and it is 95% spam there and weird federation issues even with its own instance, like kbin.meta only shows 7 month old posts, from within .social, even though there’s clearly new ones. Super weird.
Welcome to Mbin :)
Happy cake day, and thank you for your work on Mbin!
Ow right! It’s happy cake day for me! Thanks…
fedia switched when i was on it
I moved to lemme.ee because Kbin.social was down. Sort of a bummer…
I only look into kbin.social occasionally to see if they finally got their spam problem under control. They were nice maybe a year ago, but now it is a dumpster fire with half the main page being ads for drugs and junk services.
I’ve been on kbin.melroy and it’s pretty stable most of the time. Like @dumples, I keep both accounts (kbin.social) but mainly live on melroy
I gave up on kbin social months ago when it went down with no idea when it would be working again. I ended up going over to lemmy.world.
Same…
I am still hoping that Ernest is able to recover and get back on his feet. I did really like how Kbin was able to interface with Mastodon and Lemmy.
Ernest did respond a couple weeks ago on codeberg. Looks like he plans to hand the instance over for new management. I have no idea when exactly that will happen.
I have been on kbin.run (kinda confusing name lol) for awhile now because of the instability of of .social and the added functionality of mbin. For some reason .run’s the certificate doesn’t work with my home computer’s browser (Waterfox) so I made a fedia.io account as well.
I’m satisfied with the mobile web interface for m/kbin so I don’t feel a need for a dedicated app.
kbin.run admin here, i’m curious if this cert problem is still happening as i recently loosened up some of my super strict bot killing mechanisms… give it a shot again and DM me if it still doesn’t work so i can try to figure out what’s going on.
as for the name… yea, i should have named it something different. at the time, kbin was the only horse in town and the intent was to help alleviate some traffic from .social before the foundation took over to run it on their cluster… then things fell apart. unfortunately, i can’t rehome it to a new domain because it will break federation of all existing content, accounts, etc.
Thanks for you hard work! I’ll give it a try when I’m home (if I remember to do so lol). The naming makes sense at the time I suppose
The admin has been having medical issues and has been MIA for months. Last week there was a roumors about him potentially handing over the server but seems nothing come of it.
I still have my kbin.social account as well as this current one. Its good to have back ups for both
I started with kbin but left it for lemmy + mastodon. It was not mature enough to handle so many users (which was unexpected by its own creator). Too many issues with bots, the instance itself, and the lack of mobile apps motivated me to move on. It’s sad because it’s creator seemed pretty invested into its project (and I loved the UI, and the ability to get both a Reddit-like and a Twitter-like experience).
Same here almost exactly.
Although I left after it seemed like he was just having a tremendously hard time coping with the new expectations that came with having a lot of users. At some point he seemed happy to do the admin stuff - responding to reports, etc - but started to become paralyzed on everything else. But also was unable to hand things over to someone else.
I get it, but it wasn’t where I wanted to be anymore.
If it was today I might have moved to mbin instead (which exists for many of the same reasons) but app support on Lemmy was the big draw.
As a reddit moderator having a Twitter like interface seems essential. Too many people on Reddit treat it like Twitter
19.4 on lemmy adds some pretty crucial modding tools though so I’m torn LoL
Was super invested in it (was considering moderating multiple magazines), as I really like Kbin and the vision of it being an all-in-one microblogging and link aggregator platform in the Fediverse. With there being so many federated platforms serving the same purpose, I like how Kbin sort of went against the fragmentation. Had to leave it for Lemmy just the other day as well. I think that Ernest has created the best alternative to Reddit despite the struggles he’s faced with development and maintaining the instance alongside with personal issues.
mbin looks great but I think I’ll just stay with the more stable option and community…being an early adopter was fun for a year though. I’m still a little iffy about mbin personally. If there’s a mbin/kbin API release I may reconsider.
mbin has had an accessible API for a few months now. You can use Interstellar with for example (not on iOS thuogh)
made this one during the last one and been spending more time on it.
I’ve been using kbin.run for a while now and I like it.
Wasnt kbin development abandoned?
Yes but not by choice Ernest has had health problems and has not been able to work on it. The instance is going to be handed over to a new team when he gets the chance.
I’m guessing kbin’s original code is going to be deprecated in favor of mbin then. There’s not a whole lot of reasons for a new team to develop it separately.
I still use kbin social when it is up though I have been using here on kbin.run and I have been testing fedia.io. I did make a matrix to try and keep in contact with other kbin users but I think a lot of us are already spread out to different instances.
There are alternate ones, but they’re getting fewer as they migrate to MBin
