This user seems to obsessed.. All his/her previous post has been about how kbin is dying and that there now is a new fork of it. 7 days is nothing. As far as I know there are very few developers on kbin, cut them some slack will yah.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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I mean, I'm all for options, and I'm glad there's plenty of folks working to make sure there's alternatives to a single way of doing things, but are still federated.
But, dude, you're being a bit of a douche here. It's whatever, as long as mods of this C/ don't have a rule against it, but just from the casual user perspective, your post is douchey. Maybe that's intentional, though I don't think so, and I hope not. But there it is.
What's a kbin?
kbin is federating server product, like lemmy, but also includes the miroblog portion of AP.
kbin.social is the flagship instance of this software.
mbin is the community fork of kbin, made after concerns regarding the original developers restricted development pipeline.
many of us are concerned that kbin.social could go sideways at any time because it seems to lack any communicative management or development.
there are several mbin instances that can provide a near identical experience that are prepared to assist users should hey need a new home.
A different ActivityPub application something like Mastodon+Lemmy in one.
Hello,
Isn't the original post on this community already?
I looked at the kbin git repo, and apparently, it's not a week, but a month.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
Edit: Misunderstood your post. I thought you meant activity on their git repo.
"Now it seems development has ceased once again and there hasn't been chat on the matrix channels for over a week. Update: that's two weeks now" -
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/100460/What-is-going-on-with-Kbin
Mate, you are a none track record.
Recent posts:
What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life
What is going on with Kbin
Issues with the functioning of kbin.social
Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?
Why is kbin so full of empty stuff?
Mbin is born - Fork of kbin
Looks like the user deleted some of these posts by now.. Only two are up. But this is ridiculous behaviour..
Kbin is still a thing? Or I guess not...
A lot of people are leaving it due to the interruptions in service, but yeah it still exists.
I've heard talk of mbin being a fork with more active development, is it getting "ahead" of kbin or is kbin taking changes back from it? No disrespect intended to Earnest, but a single developer probably can't keep up with all this on their own.
I'm extremely in favor of being able to interact with both Lemmy people and Mastodon people, and I wanted to switch to kbin because it seems like one of a very few solutions that can do that.
Initially I was pretty skeptical of mbin, because as a general rule the "screw the existing maintainers let's fork" people are usually mistaken about some things, but I have to say having installed and worked with both, I like mbin significantly better. My experience is minimal, and the fork was pretty recent, but mbin fixes some specific things that I had trouble with or that irked me during the short time I was working with kbin. Some significant instances also seem like they've switched over to mbin. Having kbin's "flagship" instance down for like a week didn't really help either. As I understand it, the mbin philosophy is "let's fix up the backend and get federation more solid before we do much more in terms of big new features" which I can get behind.
They're both very rough and early pieces of software, honestly as is the entire Lemmy side of things it seems to me. If you're interested because you don't want things like the 0.19 federation breakage, then I am sad to report that you might find broken stuff in kbin / mbin as well.
I honestly have no idea about the drama side of things. I wish all good things for Ernest and I'm happy with the software he 99% created. kbin has some things (e.g. combined Lemmy+Mastodon posts all in one home screen) which mbin doesn't have, which makes it kind of a shame that they're being developed apparently irrevocably separately at this point. IDK. Like I say I have no idea about that side of things.
Just my 2c as a person that installed mbin recently and likes it
(Edit: To answer the specific question, it seems like they're completely separate at this point. They split in early October with no synchronization in the separate paths of development since then, it looks like to me.)
I think this is the most level headed pro-mbin comment I ever read.
If the project could attract and retain more of this energy it would only be a good thing.
This is exactly the reason I forked kbin in the past, the fork is community-focused called Mbin.
Dude, just build a better product and let it speak for itself. Or maybe try contributing to kbin. It’s not cool to always be harping on the guy for his development pace and trying to pull people over to your fork. Like, we’re supposed to hop over there because you’ve made more commits this week? How do we know your project would be any better off if it ever blows up the way kbin did?
That kbin dude got tens of thousands of subscribers overnight and then put on blast with bug reports and feature requests. He’s done a good job running the site too. He’s got a pretty good track record as far as I’m concerned. He hasn’t asked for shit in return except a little space to maintain his sanity.
Your sympathy for Ernest is good, we all sympathise with him. My main point is and has always been that kbin.social should not be run by one person alone, especially if he's having a hard time in his daily life.
So help him out instead of trying to steal the project out from under him. I see there are other contributors in the kbin repository. This fork comes off as really sleazy.
Ernest put in the work and established a community. Now somebody comes along and tries to move that community over to a fork. That’s some bullshit. Zero creativity with the name too. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this group tries to monetize this thing if they manage to replace kbin. Community-focused my ass. If it was community-focused, you wouldn’t be on here trying to split the community.
It's a long story.. I did help Ernest / Kbin for quite a while actually. Feel free to contribute to kbin.
I have offered him my help, several times, when he finally responded he explained he's bad at excepting help. That's fine, but that's one of the things which, as I've said in this thread before, makes him unsuitable for running kbin.social by himself
Your language... sends odd signals to people. e.g., Kbin.social is running on his own computer, which he bought, with his own money, yes? Maybe he asks for voluntary contributions to defray electricity and ISP costs. The Kbin software is separate from the Kbin.social server that runs it, you see what I mean? Why try to take his own computer away from him? Just build something better and people will flock to it instead. Heck, some people have abandoned the Fediverse entirely bc they could not figure it out, and went back to Reddit. To each their own.
Btw many of us see what is going on - have no fear about that. I personally left Kbin three weeks ago when it was down for just days and days at a time, after a similar incident a few weeks before that, and similar issues ever since the project began. But it was always free for me, I don't believe I have any "ownership" of either the server or the project. And I made my choice for me, but if others want to stay, that's also fine. You are trying to make sure that we know that Mbin exists? We know. Make it better and we might try it out. Give up on Kbin and step out ahead of it, if you want. If you are frustrated by the need to wonder and guess at how he will do things in the future, then bypass him entirely, if you can. He seems to want that too.
Btw check out this announcement. There are many great options, and it is wonderful to have choices, e.g. in how communicative the admins are at the server of your choice. Or any of us at any time can start our own - the sheer beauty of the Fediverse!:-)
Paid for, in part, by the nlnet foundation. So not just his own money, now that you mention it. But that's not what bothers me neither am I trying to take his computer away. What I have asked him to do, several times, and I am not the only one, is to make sure that should something go bad in his life again other people can take over for him (temporarily)
That does sound reasonable, and I thought he gave in awhile ago i.e. at least added admins to the instance, which retains him as the sole "owner" but allows others to step in for the more day-to-day work, as you said. But at the end of the day, what he does is up to him.
And what you choose to do about it is on you - e.g. if you want to write to the nlnet foundation asking them to communicate with him and possibly withhold further funding unless certain conditions are met, that is your business.
My own business was to communicate what I did, and now it is up to you to listen to the advice offered, or not. That is the essence of freedom, so please feel free to not have to worry about something outside of your control - his actions - by focusing on what you alone can do, your own actions.:-)
I assume nlnet are capable of looking after their own business, it's none of mine anyway. And from what Ernest has written in the past I suspect that he's lost the grant.
He has made several promises, several times but never stuck to his words. He's repeating his actions again, although it's not as apparent this time as before, because there's less people involved.
Admins is not enough, there have to be people he trusts, with full access to the server, to make sure the community can be preserved
That's why I left. And you too. The difference is, I give it precisely zero thought on a daily basis. Don't let him run your life even after you've gotten away from it. Forgive him even, if you can - not for his sake, but for yours - is what I guess I am trying to say. Also, the community has already somewhat shattered, as people are leaving it? Except I did not delete my account, I simply stopped using it (well, I did make one comment in all that time since), which illustrates how any metric based on user count may not measure the situation accurately (and ofc daily posts can always be complicated by bot accounts).
You could contribute to Lemmy perhaps, e.g. try to help get it to federate with Mastodon instances... or something. And as you said, you already are contributing to Mbin. Those kinds of positive changes (i.e., in the sense of moving forward, rather than looking back) are all that you can do, in the end.
Well, that's my two cents, fwiw:-).
How much did you pay for kbin?