RedSquadCampFollowerwhat happened to kbin?
OpenStarsPretty much, as others have explained here. I wanted to add that in addition to its fork Mbin there is also the Sublinks project to make a new implementation of the ActivityPub protocol and thus surf the Fediverse independent of Lemmy. sublinks.org (link to GitHub there too)
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Sublinks, crafted using Java Spring Boot, stands as a state-of-the-art link aggregation and microblogging platform, reminiscent yet advanced compared to Lemmy & Kbin. Sublinks is not just a platform; it’s a community-centric ecosystem, prioritizing user experience, content authenticity, and networked social interaction.
ProdigalFrogPiefed is another Lemmy compatible alternative that looks quite promising: piefed.social
Thank you, I keep mixing it up with Pixelfed in my mind and forget that it exists:-).
It looks both really primitive (e.g. comment from Rima about lack of moderation tools) yet also extremely sophisticated at the same time. Like for me the upper right hand menu bar disappears entirely in dark mode (Android Firefox) - it seems still fully functional but I could not see it to know to click under most conditions - but those category arrangements and how they improve discoverability, it just makes so much sense!
Wow, now I’m as excited about this project as about Sublinks:-).
"Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy [...] The software is downright frustrating to work with" - Can any other instance admins relate to this? - Discuss Online
After a year online the free speech-focused instance ‘Burggit’ is shutting down. Among other motivations, the admins point to grievances with the Lemmy software as one of the main reasons for shutting down the instance. In a first post [https://burggit.moe/post/5374602] asking about migrating to Sharkey, one of the admins states: > This Lemmy instance is much harder to maintain due to the fact that I can’t tell what images get uploaded here, which means anyone can use this as a free image host for illegal shit, and the fact that there’s no user list that I can easily see. Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy due to the fact that it rapidly caches images from scraped URLs and the few remaining instances that we still federate with. The software is downright frustrating to work with, and It feels less rewarding overall putting effort into this instance because it feels like we’re so isolated. A few weeks later, in the post [https://burggit.moe/post/5435792] announcing that Burggit was shutting down, another admin says the same: > The amount of hoops that burger has to go to in order to bring you this site is ridiculous. To give you an idea of how bad this software is, there’s no easy way to check all the images uploaded to the site (such as through private messages). When the obvious concern of potential illegal imagery is brought up to lemmy devs, they shrug and say to plug in an expensive AI image checker to scan for illegal imagery. That response genuinely has me thinking that this is by design, and they want it to be like this. We can’t even easily look at the list of registered users without looking through the DB, absolute insanity. > The other thing is there’s no real way to manage storage properly in Lemmy, the storage caches every image ever uploaded to any instance forever. > Also the software is constantly breaking. They also say that Kbin has many of the same problems, so I’m just curious to know if the admins of bigger Lemmy & Kbin instances feel the same way about these software.
Yes, those image layouts are fantastic for art communities! It definitely still has a lot of rough edges, UI wise.
I think he’s made some good strides with the mod tools, as seen here: piefed.social/post/167045
I’m glad we have a couple promising alternatives, and it’ll be exciting to see how they evolve differently ^^
Oh wow, community wikis with version history even - that’s fantastic.
Best of all though seems to be that it is in a language that people actually use - no disrespect to Rust bc it’s arguably the best, certainly the hottest language right now, but it definitely seems to be limiting progress that so few people are willing to learn it.
cabbageI think it's also worth highlighting how PieFed interactions with other fediverse services. Both a.gup.pe groups and PeerTube channels integrate super well, and you can follow them like any other community.
In practice, this means that content from technology content creators posted on PeerTube will appear directly within the technology topic; videos posted to flipboard.video are pushed directly to the fediverse topic. Discussions and upvotes are, of course, federated directly to PeerTube.
As I love the potential of PeerTube but find it lacking in discoverability, this is something I really love.
a.gup.pe groups
Guppe groups look like regular users you can interact with using your existing account on any ActivityPub service, but they automatically share anything you send them with all of their followers.
is this like a hashtag?
I guess the main difference is that once you tag a.gup.pe, your post gets relayed to all followers of the group - independent of whether they are already federated with you. So kind of like hashtags, but it allows content to travel further.