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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (5 children)

The W in MRW stands for When.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

argh thank you, I clearly have not had enough coffee yet. I know you can edit titles, I'll just leave it LOL out loud

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's twice now, RIP in peace friend

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That’s cool. Have a good one.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] DumbAceDragon 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It stands for Wreaction actually.

My Reaction Wreaction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

My Real Wreaction when

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I feel like this is a huge problem with Lemmy. All that talk about federation and decentralization and every guide out there for getting started is just like "just register with lemmy.world and don't worry about it". THE WHOLE FREAKING POINT is to avoid one single instance having an outsized influence on the network as a whole.

But choosing an instance to sign up with is such a huge hassle and also kind of a crapshoot. Even if you pick one that seems like a good place to be, it's highly likely the admins will either burn out quickly or just not do their job, and suddenly you're defederated because your instance is full of CSAM. Or they're actually just pieces of shit to begin with.

Fortunately, it seems like I found a decent instance for now. Lemmy.zip has more than one admin, so the burden isn't all on one person, and the main person running it seems to be just a real chill dude. I really hope it lasts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For quite a while there, Lemmy.world was the only one that handled the reddit apicolypse rush and stayed up reliably. So it became the defacto funnel point to the Fediverse.

Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml were tankie cesspits, Beehaw were too busy sniffing their own farts yo approve registrations, Lemmy.ca gave the impression they were a Canadians-only, eh instance and a pile of others were yet to come on line or be stable. So thats where we are.

There'll be another migration wave and may be there will be more diversification in this one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There needs to be a profile export/import functionality

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah on 0.19 version

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

OP you said the quiet part out loud. We aren’t supposed to bring this up because it’s apparently a very touchy subject.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait, are you me? That’s my exact experience! But now I’m on lemmy rather than kbin I can use Voyager on my phone, and I’m getting warm and fuzzy Apollo feelings! So maybe I’ll stay…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I lost track of Voyager development, how do you like it so far? I'm getting tired of using the browser on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Voyager is great and it’s not even an app. Definitely made the transition from Apollo friendlier for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I lost track of Voyager development, how do you like it so far?

Better than the web interface for kbin.social that I’ve been using for the last few months.

It really does feel very Apollo, if that’s a useful reference for you.

I’m not exactly a power user though, so I can’t promise it’s good for everyone. But hey, it’s free. Give it a go, see how you get on with it. You don’t have to keep it if you don’t want to…

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Hey, glad you're happy with us ❤️

The infra team tries hard to keep the lights on. 🤓

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Thanks, glad to be here!

I can tell, outages seem rare and your instance's latency is pretty low (esp compared with others). Props to your DevOps/infra team, everything appears to be solid and reliable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Its not so bad we got wordle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which one is dead and should we block it?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The main Kbin instance, https://kbin.social. I don't think it warrants a block just yet, but it could become a real problem if the spam in its communities doesn't get under control (i.e. - new mods get added to handle it, for starters). Some communities have been getting hit by spam posters for weeks without end.

There's just one guy running the whole thing. It sucks because it's a good place with good people and the owner is a nice guy, but the lack of administration & communication is killing it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This is both the blessing and curse of truly decentralised and people run technology. The "business case" for it is extremely minimal, so people get bored and just start drifting away.

It's not malicious, it's just how people are.

Trying to find the few diamonds in the rough to keep everything going and put in the effort is like trying to win the lottery.

Even with my home lab services I use constantly, it's a chore to keep them updated and bug* free.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Oof. Yeah that's where I started. When it had problems a few months ago I found a second instance. Seems like it's still in it's growing pains.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

This is both the blessing and curse of truly decentralised and people run technology.

Agreed. It's also a strength, as the Fediverse's independent operation model allows us to stay somewhat connected even if an instance goes down. I hope everything is all right over there in ernest's world, he was already burning out before and it looks like it might be happening again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

FWIW kbin seems to be back up today. I usually assume when it goes down for long stretches like yesterday that some server maintenance/upgrade is going on, though I do wish the messaging around that was a bit better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice to have you here :) We try our best to be stable and have active moderators!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Any way to bring comments from one home to another? KBIN being down annoyed me enough that I spun up a lemmy.world account but I'm curious if there's any may to mirror the things I've posted...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember anything more than this, but I do remember seeing posts about transfer tools. So do some digging and you may find what you need.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I suspect the answer is no. I know I wasn't able to transfer comments from my prior Lemmy account to this one. I was able to use Sync for Lemmy to transfer my communities, but that was it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Overrun with spam? I don't see any, and I'm on here all day every day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There are several communities like https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/newest that are riddled with prescription drug and direct links to pirated content. It has died down recently and it looks like someone or something* has been pruning them, but there's still several links that haven't been scrubbed. I mean, I'm just speculating about who/what is cleaning up, because there's been no administrative communication about...well, anything lately.

I mean, I love the guy, he has been nothing but kind to the userbase, but he's spread himself way too thin and the cracks are really starting to show. There's no oversight, and that is bad. Because some dumbfuck is gonna post something really stupid one of these days, and that instance is gonna get a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's probably a silly question, but how exactly does one join lemmy.world? I tried making an account here yesterday, got the mail to confirm my email address, confirmed it, and now... nothing. Can't login with the credentials i made, if i do recover password, it says my email address it sent the confirmation mail to is unknown. Or do i just need to wait longer until some admin approves my account?

[–] FractalsInfinite 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You probably just need to wait since you account needs to be approved. Alternatively you can join a smaller instance that doesn't require manual approval such as sh.itjust.works (what I'm using)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Welcome! 😎

[–] eletes 4 points 9 months ago

I'm always hearing about drama and idk I've been having a killer time at sh.itjust.works. practically get no spam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Be like me, jump to another seemingly low maintenance fork of kbin. 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I see you're on fedia.io, I did consider a couple of the forks for a hot minute. FWIW mbin does have a team working on it, so that's a good start!

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