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Enshittification strikes again

Removed by mod

holy shit that’s bad

Right?

Oof. This definitely needs to get sorted out asap. It would be the death of a federated platform centered around discussion. It’s kinda one of the main tasks.

Man if you look at this thread on Kbin and then again via another instance like Fedia, there are number of comments not federating across both instances. Kbin counts 24 comments and Fedia just 19. The missing comments on Fedia seem to be Kbin users. There’s some comments in here that are upwards of 8 hours old that have not made it to both instances. This is really problematic.

Yeah the comments are not federating across fedia/kbin. I’m only seeing your comments on this thread when you’ve posted them on the server I am currently viewing. Even 8 hours after you commented.

Yep actually did the same myself with fedia and that script. Also had some fail which I think were likewise abandoned.

Appreciate the communication, hope you get well soon

Thanks for this!

I get where you’re coming from, but don’t really agree that because it’s been bad it’s fine that it continues to be bad or even worse when these are solvable problems. The issue with recent posts federating in a timely fashion is pretty concerning for one.

But even if I did agree with you about the site errors, the huge gaps in any communication are a big issue. It’d be great to know what’s going on. And not being able to get an account deletion honored is frankly unacceptable. I’ve had one pending for close to a month. And having the entire project tied up with one person who just disappears without warning is also a big problem. Administering this instance all by one’s self is already impractical. But doing that and also single-handedly running a software project of this complexity and magnitude on top of that is really hard to rationalize.

Anybody remember what happened Artemis? All that effort and community support poured into an app with a single dev holding the whole thing together and poof. She’s gone and the app is no more. I still don’t think anybody’s heard from her since.

Huge props to him for what he’s achieved, but Ernest needs to accept help. It’s that simple.

Unfortunately not possible right now as far as I’m aware.

Yep I decided to switch accounts to this username from another one I had been using that is kinda attached to my freelance business. I felt like it wasn’t the wisest move to get into occasional debates with strangers like that. Some people just lose their mind if you disagree with them online.

So I requested deletion close to a month ago and it still hasn’t gone through. Will it ever? Who knows

Yep I get that comment/post error pretty frequently as well

The sole maintainer of the project has been totally MIA for a month and the site has gone down or partially not worked repeatedly for months now. Now we’ve got issues with post federating on time and spam bots. It’s not sustainable like this. I really appreciate what Ernest has done and am a big fan of Kbin, but he’s clearly spread too thin and apparently wont allow people to help him.

Are the Mbin instances well federated so you’re still getting about the same mix of content? They all seem pretty small in terms of subscriber count

Hopefully the UX improves. Last time I tried Bitwarden it was so much worse than 1 Password.

Ah yeah that’s not a mod action. That’s a Reddit site-wide thing on the admin side of things or some automated system they have. Subreddit mods had nothing to do with that.

I’m a big fan of Kbin but the project is a total mess right now and kbin.social is always down or only partially working. And there’s next to no communication about what’s happening.

I don’t wanna do it but it might be time to pull up stakes and figure something else out.

I used to mod two pretty large subs (iirc something like a combined ~400k subscribers) and we had no way to detect ban evasion other than the user being stupid and obviously giving themselves away (eg. “fuck you mods, I’ll just keep making new accounts”). This was fairly recently and I left the site and quit modding about a month after they pulled the API bullshit and booted Apollo and other apps.

So unless reddit added additional tools for mods, your story doesn’t quite add up here.