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Moving to: m/AskMbin!

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### We are moving! **Join us in our new journey as we take a new direction towards the future for this community at mbin, find our new community here and read this post to know more about why we are moving. Thank you and we hope to see you there!**

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[–] avividtale@kbin.social 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@tauonite
I'm liking it a lot! Love that we can shout over the fence to our neighbors. :)

[–] tauonite@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Right now it's shouting over the fence to talk between Kbin and Lemmy, it's a bit clunky and buggy. Hopefully that fence can over time lower and be completely removed as the code gets better and better. Looking forward to having a great time with you guys!

[–] cloaker@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

True, but a lot works well. I can browse subs through the front page or sub really easily on KBin. I'm not a fan of how every federated sub says owned by @ernest though.

[–] avividtale@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@cloaker

@tauonite

I'm still learning the ropes. I agree a lot works well, but I'm always happy for things to become easier and more accessible. I love the idea that as people find their different niches across platforms and servers that work well for them, it's still possible to maintain that connectivity.

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[–] Saberkaze@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fediverse life is prospering and I already feel like my doom scrolling days are behind me :)

[–] cloaker@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Mine are just re-beginning

[–] ginerel@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, that reminds me, I gotta go walk the robot dog

[–] sik0fewl@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I can't wait until we live in a future where robot dogs can walk themselves.

[–] Joe@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That's lemmygrad if they could just try one more time

[–] spicy_biscuits@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We livin in 3023 here on the fediverse

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[–] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

Life has been good since the federation spun back up. I love that our little community isn't restricted to just the content we produce on our own.

[–] governa@fosstodon.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@tauonite hello from mastodon 👋 message received!

[–] DamnCatOnMyDesk@mstdn.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@governa @tauonite It never ceases to amaze me that all these wildly different Fediverse platforms can seamlessly communicate like this.

[–] governa@fosstodon.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@DamnCatOnMyDesk @tauonite it's wonderful isn't it? almost magical :ablobcatrainbow: :fediverse:
reminds me of Nokia's iconic tagline: "connecting people".

[–] cloaker@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you (easily) browse KBin from Mastodon?

[–] DamnCatOnMyDesk@mstdn.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@cloaker @tauonite @governa Unfortunately it's not currently easy to do that on Mastodon since we're limited to hashtag and account name searches. The best we can do is follow communities which appear as group accounts on Mastodon.

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[–] Liontigerwings@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've got hookers and beer over here. What do you have?

[–] freebrick@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

I think they have access to our federated hookers and federated beers.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not bad, not bad. Taking a break from designing a little crochet dice bag I'm gifting someone. Really shouldn't be bragging about literally a bag, but multicolored swirly patterns require the most basic math skills and math is hard when you've got terminal brain damage

[–] sab@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a knitter, making anything with only one needle seems like rocket science.

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[–] dominoko@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Not gonna lie, it's pretty awesome over here.

[–] regal@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that things have settled down a bit, the mobile site for kbin is pretty quick and there's a lot of new content. I'm sure the updates will keep coming and it should be interesting to see how it develops over the next months.

[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I pinned the mobile site to my homepage in the iPhone, and it feels like an actual app.

The icon is on the spot that was vacated by Reddit, which has now moved to the container where FB, Instagram and Twitter went to die. Twitter is actually not even there anymore.

[–] wave_walnut@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I feel like I'm 10 years younger.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I like it here. How's Lemmy? What, to you, makes Lemmy preferable to Kbin?

[–] tal@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy makes its image previews proportional rather than squashing them into a square, as kbin presently does, for one.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that's a thing! I had noticed that but not thought much on it. i imagine Earnest has that on his todo list already, but there's a lot on there!

[–] tal@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Heh. Last I looked there were 49 open PRs for him to review. I dunno if he's going to have a chance to actually code himself if he has to also be reviewing all the patches people are sending him.

I also saw something recently saying that he handed off the server admin work to someone.

EDIT: Apparently he's not the only one reviewing.

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[–] Perry@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

What's funnier is that Kbin squashes them into a square and then seem to stretch that square into some strange almost 3:2 landscape format.

I tried to add some custom CSS with Tampermonkey to fix the thumbnails, and was extremely confused until I realised what was happening.

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[–] VulcanSphere@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's awesome to be able to comment and interact across instances

The Beauty of Fediverse!

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do comments go across instances? I can see that posts can but I'm still not clear on whether comments sections for federated posts are separate or merged or what

[–] VulcanSphere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Comments are posted across instances, although sometimes it will be delayed in sync (especially when there is a lot of traffic).

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[–] InLikeClint@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best part about leaving reddit behind was that I could start over with a different username. My name over there was so negative and it didn't truly reflect who I am today...thanks to LSD.

[–] sab@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Hopefully over here we'll care a bit less about reputation points as well. The system for it is currently broken in kbin, and I can't say it's a great loss.

[–] McBinary@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago
[–] Ultra980@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It's pretty cool.

[–] TerabyteRex@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

kbin works great. i couldnt get signed up for lemmy

[–] chillicampari@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

@tauonite Hello and nice to see you! I couldn't look here much the last few days but it seems like we are federating again which is great!

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Life is good, so far.

[–] Steampunk@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Nice to see you

[–] MeowKittyWow@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It's good. I'm on a lemmy instance too, not sure which I prefer, but so far more active here. I appreciate that it doesn't really matter which I use.

[–] polaroid@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Chill as usual.

[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Hello from the other siiiiiide.
Our sorting algo is diiiiiivine.
Content is more varied,
Not shuffled poorly.
The front page looks better,
Doesn't scroll rapidly.
... That's all I've got.

[–] SeatBeeSate@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's good over here! Our news sorting actually works!

[–] LostCause@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Having a good time. Lemmy was giving me too many errors, but if they improve it I may switch more to posting from that account again.

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[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Really liking it so far. Federation isn't perfect but I'd say me being able to see this is at least a small win?

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