One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!

This could be a weekly thread, but let's see how it goes

Finally, [email protected] and [email protected] are communities that you can subscribe to to see updates about communities

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[–] PugJesus 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Some casual history promotion

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don't think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[email protected]

Very good point. I just had a look at https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected], and despite having 34 local subscribers (visible in the sidebar), the newest post are from 2 months ago.

@[email protected], you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

[–] MrKaplan 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected], you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

this is unfortunately correct for the time being.

while we still have aggressive rate limits in place to limit federation impact from kbin bugs, which started with the measures that @[email protected] mentioned, this wouldn't impact activities coming from lemmy.world towards kbin.social.

while kbin.social used to break down every now and then based on what i saw people comment, service was typically restored within a short period of time. more recently however, any time i've looked at kbin.social in the past couple weeks, it's only been showing an error page. i suspect it may have been unavailable the entire time, not just at the times i looked at it. looking at our federation stats, the last successfully sent activity from lemmy.world to kbin.social was dated 2024-06-18 00:12:25 UTC, although the actual send date may have been later. successful is also not necessarily guaranteed, as some error codes might be misinterpreted as success due to how servers can be set up and how response status codes are interpreted on the sending side.

if activities sent from lemmy.world don't reach kbin.social then the posts and comments won't be relayed to other instances. this is generally an issue in activitypub when instances are down, as such "orphaned" (at the time) communities effectively become local-only communities, isolated islands on all instances that already know about them.

at this point, the last time we've received an activity submission (federation traffic) from kbin.social as on 18th of June, so it seems like it was working for some time on that day and has been broken since.

at the start of this month, @[email protected] (kbin.social owner, main kbin dev) said that he was going to hand over management of kbin.social to someone else, as he's currently unable to take care of it. presumably this hasn't happened yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for jumping in and providing this context!

[–] Rolando 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I'm seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They are basically local-only communities on lemmy.world at this point, unfortunately. There is no federation to any other instance for any lemmy.world user posts on those communities.

[–] Rolando 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] it's time to "cross the Rubicon" to full federation!

[–] PugJesus 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna give Kbin a little while longer to get its shit together, but if need be, I'll swap to Lemmy.world in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They have been out for 12 days, hope is quite low

https://lemmy.world/post/16654789

[–] PugJesus 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ernest said he was handing over the reigns to someone else soon. I'd like to give them a chance before I bail on Kbin. I really like Kbin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You do you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Come to Mbin! We have active developers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Hello,

Thank you for sharing.

I clicked on the two first ones, and the last posts seem to be from 28 days ago (the OP suggested to only post communities with at least a post in the last 7 days), and the kbin.social link sends to an error page.

Are you planning to move those communities to another instance?

Edit: federation issue on my side

Edit2: It might indeed be an issue, see other comments

[–] PugJesus 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Both of them have upvoted posts in the past 15 hours.

https://ibb .co/GsV1znm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Indeed, thanks! I guess it is just a federation issue on my side. When that's the case, I would usually try to see the community on its host instance, but couldn't here.

Thank you for keeping all of those alive !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's not really on your side, most likely either just something wrong on kbin.social itself, OR a side-effect of the measures lemmy.world implemented against kbin.social recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Indeed, thanks!