Abandoned large magazines are being bombarded with spam and admins are nowhere to be seen it seems. Hundreds of spam bot posts have not been deleted for months, see /infosec /internet /opensource /science, etc. and there are some posts about admins not responding to reports. So whats happening here?
I see that non-admins are banning spammers from their communities in mod log but thats not an instance wide ban
are any other instances even federating with kbin after this barrage of unmoderated spam?
haven’t seen the admin since he had a medical procedure done a month ago
I’ve sent requests for taking over dead communities including a private message and haven’t heard anything. I’m concerned that the project will stagnate and, with it, the community.
I hate to say it, because I’ve been really pleased with kbin for the most part. I’ve liked being able to dip my toes into the Mastodon side without yet another account; I like the interface; and my interactions with Ernest have been nothing but pleasant. I certainly hope all is well with him personally. But whether it’s legitimate medical issues or undisclosed burnout, the instance and platform are struggling.
The good thing is that everything has been federating and most of us have been interacting with Lemmy and mbin users daily anyway; it’s “just” a loss of fake internet points and comment history to move. I’m trying to put that off, but the mobile site/pwa is only okay, API rollout has stalled (meaning app development has stalled as well), admin activities can’t happen with Ernest, and technical issues with the instance are becoming more common.
I think the Reddit API mini-exodus last year hit at that exact “sweet” spot, in terms of numbers and point in kbin development, where one dev/admin could almost keep up with it, but not quite. Suddenly this thing he was noodling with to combine Lemmy and Mastodon has thousands of people wanting it to be production ready. I don’t begrudge him anything even if it is just burnout, but if that is the case then maybe it’s time to bless mbin as a successor and start migrating people off kbin.social or find someone else to admin it and ugrade it to mbin. Ernest has built up a ton of goodwill; if he’s done, then he’s done (and of course, if he’s ill then he’s ill). Who among us could stand up a minimum viable product of a reddit clone and admin two instances? Not me, that’s for sure.
Edit: I checked, and Ernest’s Polish-language instance karab.in is completely down right now.
We have all been very lucky that these open source projects are there as an alternative, and there are ways Ernest can step back if being the sole PM of a sprawling social network project isn’t good for him. I just don’t want it to happen in a way where people are left with a bad taste in their mouths for the Fediverse or him personally.
I agree completely with you about the state of kbin and what it means for Ernest: if it’s become too much for him, or he has medical issues, just ask for help.
That said, I don’t know what to say about switching to mbin: I don’t know what caused the split, and honestly the 2-3 threads by some noisy bozos going “KAY GUYS KBIN’S DEAD, YOU’RE ALL INVITED ON MBIN” don’t exactly make me wanna rush there.
Ernest has not been seen in a while. So no, there’s basically no admin currently available.
off topic: is kbin dead today? not getting any new threads. bout to start looking for a more supported lemmy instance i guess.
Someone said mbin above so I found this instance: https://fedia.io/
Is this where we have to go now?
I kinda feel bad as Ernest did well in a tough situation, but this clearly needs to be handled by a larger team now.
I think it’s the niche communities that are more actively moderated, while the large ones (the ones that were big on Reddit and were taken in the early day of the migration by users who saw an opportunity to mod a big community) were abandoned to their luck)
Man, that sucks. I was just getting comfy here.