• @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    21 month ago

    It will be interesting to see which one wins out, like how Lemmy won out vs kbin/mbin, since kbin never accepted any outside help and stopped contributing. Not really putting the open in open-source that way, IMO.

    • @prof_wafflez@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I picked kbin for no particular reason and then moved to lemmy. Kbin was a dumpster fire of spam and downtime. Seems to be permanently broken as of the last 2 months minimum

      • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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        21 month ago

        It’s a shame, I wanted to like KBin because it’s PHP and I specialize in PHP (also JS and Java), but the maintainer just made sure that it wasn’t sustainable.

      • Jupiter Rowland
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        130 days ago

        When /kbin was zerg-rushed after the Reddit enshittification, it wasn’t ready yet. It was a public alpha. It had five instances, all official, all experimental, only one of them public. I guess the dev had intended to calmly and orderly develop it until it’d be ready for prime-time. But all of a sudden, it was either developing missing features or removing bugs for those who daily-drove it in this state in expectation of it being a stable point release.

    • GHiLA
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      21 month ago

      Bluesky wins out.

      Sorry, but there’s companies and interest groups at play here. No one is championing Mastodon but us fossy poors.

      Would kinda be nice if I dunno… Harvard or, Brown maybe would take an interest in privacy focused social media and start lobbying for and spreading it.

      We have companies spending billions on bullshit, with nobody spending a cent on truth.