While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.
We have to recreate the environment and communities we've created on on Reddit here, so that people don't feel like they're missing out being on kbin.
That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.
I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.
We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.
At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.
Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?
We would be leveraging Reddit's own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That's the biggest L we could ever deal them.
EDIT: WASN'T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.
I much prefer building up Lemmy over Kbin.
The issue and solution are the same whether you're on kbin or lemmy.
For me personally, either one, we all play in the same sandbox (for the most part).
But this particular magazine is on kbin so of course OP is interested in building up kbin.
I'm commenting on this kbin post from Lemmy. I also have a kbin account. We can make them all grow.
For sure! One of the many advantages of the fediverse, thankfully.
Yep. The content is the same, it's just the viewer that's different, roughly speaking. No real point to being tribal as a result, which is great.
No preference for me. Either would be good, and both even better.
I much prefer they build to be 100% interoperable and people just choose what they like
Glad Kbin fixed the CloudFlare issue with their federation.
Okay, I've been trying to understand this for the last hour and I finally thought I did, but maybe not? Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong in this?
A magazine (or any type of group) can post to a federated site and it will replicate the data to all other federated sites. Kbin and all the Lemmy sites are federated so we share the same data right? It's just accessing it from a different server with a different UI.
Each community has a "true" version that is controlled by the hosting instance. While indeed people can access communities from other instances, those other instances may make different mod decisions, may defederate with other instances, etc.
For instance, lemmy.world users cannot access beehaw.org communities, because beehaw.org defederated lemmy.world. However, us here on kbin can access both lemmy.world communities as well as beehaw.org communities.