It’s a new year — about 6 months since that Reddit migration occurred — and Kbin progressed a ton in 2023. What are your thoughts on it? How much value have you gotten out of it, and what would you like to see in the future?
I’ve been enjoying Kbin a lot, and it’s been awesome seeing the progress that’s been made over the past few months. We have magazine collections, an aggregate view for threads and microblog posts, awesome crosspost functionality, a marker for new comments, options for the homepage, and plenty more. I’ve gotten a ton of use out of all of these new features, and I’ve enjoyed working on my CSS userstyle (something that Kbin introduced me to) to further improve the UI to my tastes.
Because of the issues during the holidays and the previous focus on API and ActivityPub tweaks (as opposed to visible frontend features), a lot of people think that development has slowed down a lot, but I’m personally excited to see further improvements over the coming year. The things at the top of my wishlist are probably improved federation, better features for moderators, and some sort of subscriptions / favorited collections dropdown in the header please ernest I beg you. But of course, development takes time, and I’m happy with Kbin so far.
I like Kbin a lot, it’s a good platform and I look forward to seeing it work out the last handful of kinks and becoming a rock solid social media system
It scratches my scrolling itch. I haven’t really been back to Reddit other than when Google lists Reddit as the best choice for some info I need. But I’ve really enjoyed KBin and the communities that are popping up here. I hope it continues to grow.
Feels good. Mostly just some QoL features and stability that we’re missing now.
im enjoying the 'bins. the dev channels seems steady, and active.
my nonsense aggregation project (moist.catsweat.com) has reached a stability milestone thanks to recent dev activity. ill be reaching for high availability and redundancy next.
its been fun!
It’s nice to see more Kbin and Mbin instances popping up. I’d love to get to the point where the majority of Kbin users aren’t on one instance, though that’s probably a long while away.
i think part of the issue is the conflation of instance branding/application name. i wish they were a bit more distinct.
external ‘kbin’ users would be any federating platform, in this context. kbin.social users are that, @kbin.social
for example, if someone was running kbin.nonsense.com and wanted to change to mbin, they would be stuck with the kbin branding.
the site branding should be somewhat agnostic to the underlying application (in my opinion, of course).
I see where you’re coming from, though having the instance be related to the underlying software helps a lot with clarity. I still have trouble remembering whether programming.dev is a Lemmy or Mastodon instance, whereas lemmy.ca causes no such issues.
Also, with Kbin and Mbin, I don’t think it’s much of an issue. Kbin.run uses Mbin, and I’ve never seen that as odd. The differences between the two aren’t very significant anyway (i.e., it’s clear that they’re both versions of the same general thing). I could see it being a problem if you wanted to switch your instance from Kbin to Lemmy, but that seems like an unlikely scenario that isn’t worth the sacrifice in clarity.