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Vibe check: What are your impressions and experiences of Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Beehaw? (kbin.run)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by NaClKnight@kbin.run to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Exactly what the title says.

What has your experience been on any of those platforms? Which captures more of your time? Why?

I'm relatively new here but I've read a little on the reddit-like platforms. I (mostly) understand what's a fork of what or what some of the technical differences are, but I'm curious about the vibes and communities.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

So several smaller lemmy instances (like sopuli, ani.social, reddthat, etc) are having some serious slowdown issues right now and are having delayed federation with lemmy.world. From what I understand, the suspected cause is a kbin bug, where it's glitching out and spamming the fediverse with infinitely repeating federation updates. Several lemmy instances have blocked kbin over it (including lemmy.world and sopuli), but it's still causing issues and slowdowns.

There have been multiple attempts to reach the admin for kbin about it, but his developer accounts seemingly went dark 4 months ago (according to his commit history) and he's not responding to any messages. Mbin has seemingly already patched it according to their resolved issues/pull requests, but it's looking like kbin may have to be cut off from the rest if the fediverse unless the dev resurfaces.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

rip kbin i guess

[–] NaClKnight@kbin.run 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah! I heard that MBin was started as a fork of Kbin when it's main/only admin went dark. I made an account there to try it out actually.

I'm now considering making a new Lemmy account since I'm having trouble finding Lemmy communities from Mbin

[–] CharlesReed@kbin.run 2 points 6 months ago

I think lemmy.world is letting kbin interact with them again. It was on 'read only' about a week ago, where kbin could see stuff being posted from lemmy, but anything being posted or down/upvoted from kbin wasn't going anywhere. But I noticed today that some kbin users were able to successfully post to lemmy again. Though, I don't know if that means the problem is fixed or not.