Good to have this content cross posted here so you can gauge people’s opinions and feelings. It’s a net positive if it’s generating good dialogue (even if the OP won’t ever see it)

Fascinating. Wonder how many more people are close to leaving other platforms and will end up here, what will be the next straw that breaks people's backs

Also need to factor in the codebase of Lemmy. Kbin is based on the Symfony framework so the barrier to entry is going to be lower, hopefully getting more people interested in contributing.

It's still a pretty bleeding edge project, running PHP 8.3 and Symfony 6, so that's nice at least

It's a good move I feel. The original velocity on kbin has been lost over the past few months as the main owner struggles to get his own personal stuff organized. I'm pretty happy with this fork, the idea being that everyone will be about to contribute and perhaps these changes will eventually be brought back into kbin if they're open to it.

Good, glad this shithouse comment is getting the proper downvotes

A gut wrenching mistake, hopefully you'll only make it once!

I'm liking these periodic updates, it's really great for transparency and engagement. Prefer this compared to trolling through GitHub. Cheers

I miss the random non tech centric communities from Reddit. The userbase here, across the fediverse as a whole gravitates towards more tech focused aspects and while that's fine, you miss out on the random topics / subreddits you'd find on Reddit.

(The answer isn't also 'just start that community here', specially I miss randomly getting topics from subjects I wouldn't even search for, but just get surfaced because of the shear amount of content and users Reddit has)

Reducing your interaction with social media, even like what the author did where he dropped him daily tweets to a few times a week is still progress. Less interaction makes your account less valuable for advertising.

These sites used to be decent but it's all about the ad revenue now

People generally will fairly buy content when it’s available and fairly priced if they want to support the creators. There’s a huge difference between wanting to help your favorite content producer VS companies that fart out mult-hundred dollar box sets of old content

I’ve found CS6 has almost every feature you’d want and it’s well over a decade old now. Much better in my mind than paying monthly for new features you won’t probably use

Docker for example is used on the Kbin project. They’ve created a docker image that gets PHP, Posgres and all the other services needed to get up and running with the project.

Without that image you’d have to manually get everything up and running and while I’m sure some people are comfortable jumping into a new project, having a single image that does most of the legwork means you can attract developers who just want to get started right now.

This is super handy for UI/UX/Designers/concept focused people who need to get the project running locally quickly.

Looks like a decent workflow update, still going to be confusing for brand new folks I bet

Looks like a really good solution to the problem, even a false positive of 1% seems like a small trade-off considering the amount of spam and rubbish posted.

Good to see more platforms starting to focus more seriously on the fediverse, plenty of great little WordPress.com blogs out there that would be perfect candidates for federation

It’s a great use case that they’ve defined. Super keen to see how it turns out for them.