in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail
Umm, you really should have launched this before shutting down the current tools mods use.
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in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail
Umm, you really should have launched this before shutting down the current tools mods use.
Can someone explain the "tankie" baggage? I've seen it thrown around quite a bit but no one seems to explain it in detail.
What are the pros and cons of one platform over the other? Is KBin just Lemmy+Mastodon? Can Lemmy see KBin magazines?
Yep, thread based communities are shared perfectly between Lemmy and kbin. Other than currently the largest kbin community is having federation issues due to the influx of users
Hmm, interesting. I just spent some time getting a Lemmy instance set up -- maybe I should've gone for kbin instead?
i think you can engage and interact across both so it may not matter as much.
kbin.social currently has 20k + users. However it currently has federation disabled due to the traffic is receiving. Edit: It isn't 100k
It's a bit funny to be like "federation is what will make this great" and then "federation blows us up, so we're turning it off".
Can someone please explain the "tankie baggage"?
I understand the words, but not the history.
What's kbin?
A different instance software for Reddit-like discussions. It federates with Lemmy instances, so it's all a nice single network.
I find kbin’s interface to be a bit cluttered. But I really like the ease of following microblog accounts. If I could just have a “microblog only” feed in kbin I think it would make me switch my dartboard.social domain from Akkoma to kbin.
We will see how it shakes out after a few updates.
I signed up for KBin but can't log in. I've seen similar complaints from others. I'm assuming they're either seriously overloaded or something has gone wrong on their end.
kbin.social is overloaded. Check out alternative instances, like fedia.io