I didn't know about any issues — just assumed it had petered out due to minimal buy in. I'm glad that these projects exist dgmw — the more the merrier — but it did always feel like the pitch was 'Lemmy without tankies' and not much else

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I have no idea if kbin was meant as a 'lemmy without tankies' type alternative, but fwiw lemmy is 2019 and kbin is 2021.

But mbin the successor isn't concerned about that, the dev seems chill and doesn't really care about this type of stuff. Idk if their instance is defederated from you or not (you need to create an account to check, and i'm not in the mood tbh :D). Plus mbin is just very different in general, idk if it can/is even intended to be a replacement for Lemmy.

As for piefed, i've talked to rimu about this some time ago; off the top of my head, this is what i remember:

Piefed was started as a personal project, and had many biases in the code. Even not giving points for memes, and the algorithm pushing them down because he doesn't like memes. Also, he had something about removing 4chan-greentext posts? I can't remember the exact details.

To say it was flawed earlier would be an understatement. This was at the time when there were only ~1-2 instances besides the official one (and one was dead, anyway) so he didn't really give much thought about it. Though after a lot of complaints about all of these problems, he solved almost every one (this was after a lot of big instances like piefed.ca piefed.blahaj.zone piefed.zip etc were popping up, and admins were, including me, rightfully complaining about all of this).

And tbf piefed, despite its clear flaws, does have a lot of great features (post tags, user flairs, feeds, local user tags, and a lot of other miscellaneous stuff (the UI is bad tho, i'm sorry but its so hard to use lol)

I'm sure the dev could be convinced to revise the banlist. I don't know why it's still there, it should've been removed alongside the other "personal touches" but maybe he can be convinced.

Sorry if this was written sloppily its late lol. I'm not saying this is a good thing btw, i disagree with the default banlist, and i think it should be removed

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

That's certainly an interesting perspective, thank you for sharing!

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Thanks! Tbf I don't know whether kbin was meant that way, but it was certainly sold that way on Mastodon - at least from what I saw. There was this whole thing where Mastodon liberals started freaking out because they had been recommending Lemmy and then found out it was 'tankie'. Much rending of clothes etc etc

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Ah, gotcha. Thanks!