Dude, where's my Kbin? - Apollo Town
Dude, where's my Kbin? - Apollo Town
I’m making this post because I’m shutting down my Kbin instance, kbin.lol, and redirecting it here for an undetermined amount of time. ## But why? Kbin isn’t ready. Not even close. I know the developer, Ernest, has been working his ass off trying to get everything fixed and pushed, and I really valu...
Looks like the admin for kbin.lol has some pretty valid gripes with the current status of Kbin. I have to agree, you can tell the platform is not up to speed at all.
Kbin looks visually great but the backend just isn't there. Check out his statement, it's worth the read.
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Definitely it’s bad when there are many alternatives with many instances. Community will become fragmented
It's a good thing, when federation is working properly. It spreads the load over many instances and the users can still converse across instance boundaries without issue.
So the community is the federated instances for all instances connected regardless of the software being used.
yes, just it needs to be seamless.
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I am not saying that. Communities are not an issue. Issues are instances that have the same communities that are not connected.
E.g. if there is an F1 community on lemmy.world and a different one on lemm.ee, it’s an issue
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Yep, I get that. It definitely brings advantages. Just the content should be shared imho
You're probably wanting something like Reddit's "multireddit" functionality. I know of this issue for Lemmy, with some links to related issues in the comments. Kbin has one here. That would allow multiple communities to look like a single one from the user's perspective.
No many alternatives does not fragment the community.
Unfortunately it does. Imagine that some time ago, everyone was on reddit. Now the people who leave reddit split between many lemmy instances and kbin. In addition, some will stay on reddit.
No it doesn't. On lemmy or kbin or lolite you can have as many instances as you want across those platforms and the communities, comments and posts are all shared.
I'm on lemmy but I can post in kbin communities and interact with their users. I can view posts from lemmy on mastodon ( and the reverse once the devs get around to it)
As long as the content is shared, it’s all good