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@ernest, please. All they need is commits, PRs and comments that add something. True, dev work is full of cool updates and reporting, but it crosses roads with other mundane activities. Devlog is probably going to drain you more than it’s worth, so I hope you’ll build your priorities straight.

Let’s be open: I’m only making a press-kit for Mbin recently (and nothing much) just after being introduced to the fork as a result of @melroy migrating. It’s a crazy amount of reviewed and merged pull requests, which I couldn’t dream of committing nor reviewing in detail. There is simply a lot that can be done with community harnessing the project. No way this fork would be considered serious if it were to feed everyone with blog updates. At this point, your words set up a head start. It’s a matter of whether it will start: will these old habits offer something that was not served already? (Big downtimes happen to be one of those things…)

No idea if any competition will take place - again, introduction to a fork was ever so sudden, making me wonder if it didn’t have to come to this. In any case, whatever we continue doing I hope remains healthy for the wider community of contributors and users. Thank you for returning! 🤝

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A fun story: I was curating my magazine on Melroy’s instance and didn’t butt heads with any regression when he switched from Kbin to Mbin. Nice to see priorities set straight on migration!

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In retrospective, it’s a practical decision to move away from downtimes, especially seeing as development is so rapid now.

We might do a mirror to Codeberg to avoid a complete dependency on GitHub, while accepting PRs on the side. Priorities tell us to postpone this idea in favor of long-awaited changes and fixes, though! 😉

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It’s a fun idea to explore, which is why I didn’t nod it off. 😄 Imagine: PeerTube channel as a magazine (under the hood, it’s a link between video posts made by actor/boosted by ActivityPub group and magazine entries). Not only we’d have a way to preview several videos on a singular page, but also see description and likes. There is certainly a room for improvement in this model, just leaving it here before I forget.

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Hello! I had the same question and I’ve got a perspective from one fellow contiributor: Matrix thread. (There’ll probably be an error when you first open it: join the room with your account and try my link once more.)

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I would love to see this as well, seeing as how Microblogs prosper! Please, add your ticket to https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues - it’s a recent fork of Kbin that’s governed by a community.

Also, account for possible scope creep and try finding a solution in what Mbin already has to provide with extra steps. For example, test whether the video you post on PeerTube with one of the tags featured on a magazine does actually appear on Mbin. It most likely does not… unless you try following the PT account from Mbin? Do media previews work on these posts? We could really use some help understanding this model and possibly make a fun multimedia experience that would outgrow plain text.

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You know when some people are just inferior: despite many communities going on a protest and being marked as private, each of members suspecting nothing or drowning others remains a priority…

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Haha, that aged well, didn’t it? Join Mbin :)))

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That’s a lotta things… 😵‍💫 Take your time, Ernest.

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I have an extensive write-up about contradictions with fair use that come from repost bots: https://lemmy.world/comment/3979989

It seems the bot that was reposting in your community is no more. Caught them red-handed without waiting.

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