Pending.

No public communication from him here since October 4, and last Codeberg activity was October 7 and 10. I hope I’m wrong, but I sense a burnout. If he did leave, he went quietly.

The problem is that Kbin sucks as well. For example, /m/science lacks actual moderators and gets flooded with spam on the regular. And even where there are active moderators, moderation actions often do not get federated.

I was hoping these issues would get fixed soon, but here we are, three months after the Reddit apocalypse, and Kbin is still not a fully functional platform. For example, I filed bug #1102 fifteen days ago, and this has still not been resolved. And bug #570 has been open since early July.

If Kbin wants to become and stay relevant, it needs more hands on deck.

Can you also add moderators to those magazines? I volunteered for the science mag, but have not gotten a reply. Active mods will help with your workload too.

You can completely customize Gentoo Linux to be what you want it to be and slim it down to what you need.

I followed up with a bug report.

No. Tho I volunteered. It’s now up to @ernest.

@ernest, I am volunteering to help moderate the science magazine to free it from spam.

Because it has real, live actors. It not all CG.

/r/Reaper (55k) is still restricted.

That’s not what was asked for.

For the main community: https://kbin.social/m/futurology@futurology.today

I don’t think it works that way.

This is a known issue and needs to be fixed at code level.

I just wrote about that here.

If you want a platform with ActivityPub integration (i.e. it’s part of the Fediverse), then there are several options:

• https://writefreely.org/
• https://write.as/new/blog/federated
• https://joinplu.me/

There’s also WordPress, which has a free hosted tier, and can alternatively be set up on your own server. There is an ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, which can be used freely on your own server, or with the paid business plan on wordpress.com.

Another possibility would be to use a Mastodon instance that doesn’t limit your character count to 500, such as Aethy (which IIRC has a limit of 1M characters per post).

If I were to start a blog again (and I have considered it), then I would probably use WriteFreely, or alternatively Aethy.

It does not. But it has been flagged, so hopefully it will be fixed at some point in the future.

As far as I’m aware there’s no timeline view of all people you follow.

Yes, that would be a good thing to have.

I know, and I do appreciate that. I mostly speak out of frustration that our moderation tools are very rudimentary. We simply don’t have all the tools we need to do proper content curation.

Kbin has burst onto the scene of the fediverse, and is now a serious player. I think it risks defederation if this issue isn’t fixed. It is an attack vector for people with nefarious goals.

I don’t understand how developers think this is okay. This needs to be fixed with priority!