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Magazine dedicated to discussions about the kbin itself. Provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics. ---- * Roadmap 2023 * m/kbinDevlog * m/kbinDesign

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With Twitter and Reddit the way that they are, many people are turning to federated servers as their online home, kbin among them.

How are you using kbin? As a Twitter replacement? Reddit? As something new entirely?

Personally I'm trying to follow multiple types of federated content, magazines, and people.

I think kbin has a lot of growth to go through before all that content can become streamlined and look nice - but it's all there, and that's what counts.

If there's one thing I would change, it would be putting the comment box at the top, or in a drop-down instead of at the very bottom of a thread. But, I'm also just happy that the site is more stable and people are posting!

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Working on a guide to kbin. Would anyone else find something like this helpful?

#kbinMeta

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So funny thing about #kbin. I post a photo thread. I go to my profile and see the thread. I click on the image preview icon. I immediately get sent to https://kbin.social/u/undefined. Not only is Mr. Undefined a real user, hello @undefined, but somehow my image now directs to his profile.

As I dig into Firefox dev tools to find out why, I see that uBlock Origin has blocked the request for my image. But that's odd, I have no specific blocking rules for kbin, and kbin.social doesn't run ads. What's up?

So it turns out my image got uploaded to the following URL: https://media.kbin.social/media/ad/b2/adb203028331eada7f99f2b4547cbc0a7efc0ba4e203a71d9d193c02d38aa4f1.jpg

.../media/ad/... That's what uBlock was upset about. So by blocking that request, the target of the AJAX fetch is... undefined. Hence my trip to a random user's profile. XD

#kbinMeta

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I have been trying to make threads on wayfarershaven.eu, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org and lemmy.world. For weeks. Comments work but links/photos/posts do not. They obviously never actually make it to the instance... sometimes I can delete them, sometimes I can't.

Initially I was just testing on lemmy.world and assumed it had to do with their constantly going down due to bot and DDOS attacks, but it seems like this must be a kbin problem.

It's becoming pretty tiring. I don't really want to bother participating anymore if I'll never be able to post anywhere other than kbin.social.

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I've seen a few posts on it but none recently on the progress towards it.

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EDIT: thanks to @Destragras, who pointed out after I posted that kbin does have a raw RSS feed at the bottom of the page for your reader. Example:

https://kbin.social/rss?magazine=kbinMeta

Leaving the post up in case anyone wants to use OpenRss.


Open RSS is a volunteer non-profit that provides free RSS feeds. They've indexed kbin.social, which means that any magazine on the instance has an RSS feed available through their site, using the following syntax:

https://openrss.org/kbin.social/m/[your magazine here]

Some examples (link on post goes to kbinMeta):

Now what's doubly cool, is that if you're a magazine or community from an instance outside of kbin.social that's been indexed by kbin.social, Openrss has a feed for you too. Examples of communities outside kbin.social:

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Microprokey is best website for buy Microsoft product

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There's been a definite uptick on spam bots lately, all Kbin users. I've been reporting them as I see them while browsing new, but it gets tedious. Sorry about the report spam, mods. Does the new user registration need to be tightened up any?

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I dunno if you've noticed but federation between kbin and lemmy is shaky at best. By doing even a quick comparison between some original instances and their kbin pages, it is easy to see that comments and sometimes entire threads do not get synced and are practically invisible to the other side.

Has there been any official acknowledgement of this issue, an analysis done on what % of content gets lost due to these syncing errors or anything of the sort? Are these failed syncs being logged somewhere and will there be a way to retry them a later point perhaps?

I understand that we had a lot of issues in the first month after the reddit exodus and I understand this is still immature software in active development, but the traffic must have stabilized by now and I feel like just losing data like this should be the first thing to get fixed if we want to have actual faith in a federation. If we're supposed to have different accounts for every instance in order to actually reliably get the content from there, then that kinda defeats the purpose of it after all.

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Spam from the past week on that sub hasn't been dealt with, despite multiple users reporting it.

I tried to message the two moderators directly, still waiting for a response. That said, the last activity for either moderator was from last month.

Thoughts on what can be done? I can volunteer to mod that sub until one of the regular moderators returns if there's no better solution (though considering how big that magazine is, I'm not sure if one person is enough).

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I know Artemis is out there and it looks cool, but it is only for kbin.camp. Is there anything that supports kbin.social?

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The front page seems to work alright most of the time but when I try to load any thread it either loads so slowly(sometimes like 30+ seconds) that I end up closing the page or I get hit with a Error 50x page that has been saying "Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure." for a long time.

Expanding images on the front page also tends to be slow.

Sometimes I get the 50x page when trying to do various things like posting a thread, upvoting, blocking and so on.

I feel like I haven't really seen anyone else mentioning it, is this just happening on my end, is it a known issue, if so then when can we expect things to get better?

Sadly it's quite effectively training me to not come here often since it rarely works.

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I recently stood up a kbin instance using the Docker guide for testing purposes. I can see the KBin UI, log in with my admin user, create magazines and threads.

  1. After creating my admin user using the sudo docker-compose exec php bin/console kbin:user:create command, I cannot seem to create any other users using that method. Additionally, I tried registering as a new user through the site and I neither receive a confirmation email, nor can my admin account "approve" the user.

  2. I can search for magazines/communities on other instances (i.e. memes@lemmy.ml) and about 90% of them will be added to my federated magazines listing. However there is zero content on them if I visit them from my instance; I can see on the host instances that newer content has been added.

Any ideas on either of these items?

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This method only works within your magazine, and will remove downvotes or upvotes on comments as well as posts.

To implement it, go to Magazine Panel -> Appearance, and enter the following in your CSS box to remove downvotes:

{span style="color:#323232;"}.vote__down { display: none !important; } {/span}

and/or for upvotes:

{span style="color:#323232;"}.vote__up { display: none !important; } {/span}

Example with downvotes removed : @13thFloor

Many thanks to @Anafroj for writing the original CSS code, and suggesting it as a way to combat trolls. Note this test shows that standard CSS works in Kbin, but you do have to replace <> with {} to get it to parse properly.

This isn't a perfect solution, but it should mitigate the amount of users that try to sink communities through downvote spam.

Thanks to @some_guy and @cre0 for posing for the picture.

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Reddit has a setting for "don't allow search engines to index my user profile" and I was wondering if kbin has this or if anyone knows whether it's on the roadmap?

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My understanding is that the imgur thing is imgur's fault, but until the image upload functionality is working I don't really know what the best choice is.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Arotrios@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
 
 

A demonstration on posting, liking and commenting on Lemmy and Kbin from a Mastodon instance

OP note: Testing of the method above shows that posting:

@[magazine name here]@[kbin.instance name]

will tag the post directly into the Microblog section of the magazine.

This is useful, as hashtag publication in the Microblogs is currently inconsistent, and only partially grabs posts with your magazine hashtags.

Other good notes in the video show how to access magazines in mastodon:

https://mastodon.social/@[magazine name here]@[kbin.instance name]

is the format of the direct link to pull it up.

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I've reported a few posts on kbin and I'm not sure if they go anywhere. Who reads the reports? Does the report go to the magazine owner? What if hate speech is coming from the owner of a magazine?

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Currently users you block can still see your posts, reply to those posts, and trigger notifications when they do reply.

You can read the beginning of messages people you have blocked in your notifications tab, but have to unblock users to see the rest of what everyone else reading the replies to your post can see.

A "blocking" feature that is only inconvenient to the blocker is worse than no blocking feature at all, equivalent to trying to escape a fistfight by turning invisible but actually just closing your eyes.

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I got this when trying to report https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364640/Trendy-Reaction-Videos and also separately got the same when trying to report https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364628/Home

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I moderate @mcsuggestions, and today, I noticed that my comments on the two most recent threads didn't show up when I was logged in. After some experimentation, I figured out that whenever I had any domain blocked, all comments on those threads disappeared. From what I can tell in this magazine, others are experiencing the same problem. What's causing this?

And, while we're here, why am I taken to an error page every time I make a thread? That's also odd.

Edit: Haha, just remembered something based on another bug that occurred with this thread.

Those two threads I mentioned each had 4-5 copies that I had to delete. I assume that maybe it was a mistake due to the error page when you post a thread, but it turns out that this very thread posted twice somehow. Maybe that's part of the cause here?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by McBinary@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
 
 

Could anyone assist in how to report this problem as an issue on codeberg?

I was only able to post this as a "Link"

Strangely, a post is made as I can view it from my profile, but it's just not visible in the magazine unless I log out.

Here is the error I receive.
The post is visible in my profile.
Not visible in the magazine.
Unless I log out, then it IS visible ...

I just don't know how to word this to report an issue. It's so strange.

I have not been able to post "Thread" or "Photo" for over a week. There is another post about this as well, but it doesn't seem to be seen by many either.

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Since Monday, I’ve had issues posting threads. I’ll get an error message saying:

We are working on resolving the issues

Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure. Temporary problems with the website's functionality may occur during this time.

...Despite the message, my threads will still post to the magazine--but few users can see them.

I’m sorry if this has been addressed before; I did a quick look at this mag and couldn’t find the exact issue I’m dealing with. I’m just wondering if this is normal ‘fediverse growing pains’ or something I need to fix on my end?

Thanks for any help. We have a massive event coming up in a week—probably going to drive a tonne of traffic to our magazine—and I’m really hoping we can find a fix before then.

EDIT: The specific magazine I'm referring to is this one: kbin.social/m/Squaredcircle

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