I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and Iâm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I donât know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not worry so much about equipment costs. Today, I donât have the headspace to think about how exactly Iâll use it, but I will definitely consult with you and report back in the future. Thank you also for all the kind words, suggestions, and questions. They are equally important to me.
Iâm sorry that the current circumstances are such that kbin isnât functioninng as it should, but it has given me additional motivation to keep fighting. Thatâs for sure.
Make that $10 more.
I came into kbin with kinda low expectations. I fear that Reddit is too big to fail, and that if a competitor isnât already where Reddit was when Digg died it wonât achieve the critical mass needed to get anywhere. My impression of Lemmy was that itâs just not ready yet.
But the more I explore kbin, the more impressed I am with the software. Itâs still a long way to go to attract the userbase, and I still donât know if that critical mass will come, but I want to try and push for this. Letâs see what happens, nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Lemmy also has an issue of being developed and flagship instances ran by unironic Tankies. People are a lot slower to clue in on Tankies than Neo-Nazis because for some reason denying genocides as a hoax and Western propaganda works for Tankies in a way that denial of the Holocaust as a hoax and Jewish propaganda doesnât work for Nazis. Itâs funny because if the devs were Nazis nobody would touch Lemmy with a 20 foot pole. People are a lot more ignorant of Tankies and there is a big excuse of âSo what? Just make your own Lemmy instance if it bothers you isnât that the point of Federation?â that wouldnât exist if the devs were Neo-Nazis rather than Tankies.
As long as they can closely control the narrative and keep the .ml (Marxist-Leninist) instances as the larger/flagship communities theyâll hold sway over their part of their part of the Fediverse and can surround themselves with people who are as radical as they are or open to being radicalized. Those who control the trunk control the branches.
I donât know anything about ernest and I consider that a good thing because that means they donât already have a bad reputation as a political extremist. Which made Kbin the easy choice to make between the two federation alternatives to Reddit.
I can understand your reasoning, but would your stance be different if you didnât know the political spectrum/ideology of the devs when joining lemmy or something else?
Just because you donât see something doesnât mean that it isnât there.
Have you vetted every single mod, admin, developer of every online community you joined to see if they are up to your political standards?
We are now on Kbin and can communicate with lemmy instances. Does that make one supportive of the ideology of the developers of lemmy?
You make a good point but at the end of the day, the best you can do is choose the lesser evil, not let perfect be the enemy of good. We donât know if Ernest has skeletons in his closet but we do know that lemmy does and they arenât ashamed of them.