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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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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] tauonite 32 points 2 years ago (4 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!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

With jerboa(android mobile app) everything seems to work fine.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Mine are just re-beginning

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We livin in 3023 here on the fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@tauonite hello from mastodon 👋 message received!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

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

How do you (easily) browse KBin from Mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years 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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I feel like I'm 10 years younger.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

The Beauty of Fediverse!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

kbin works great. i couldnt get signed up for lemmy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Nice to see you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years 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.

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

Life is good, so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Fabulous.

The future is federated. 💪🌎

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] LimeStone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorting on lemmy.world has been fixed since yesterday from what I can tell.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Chill as usual.

[–] T156 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This isn't my Kbin account, but I honestly prefer Kbin's interface. Lemmy's is shiny, but it also has a few problems that can be a little annoying when trying to use Lemmy on a computer.

It also works on my older tablet without imploding like Lemmy's does, which is a nice bonus.

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