Looks like federation is working again!
Looks like federation is working again!
I just saw some posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.world, looks like we're back in business!
For now, I'm just preparing the groundwork, but first, I need to get some sleep :p
You are killing it. Keep it up and take care of yourself!
just kidding
rip sleep
Keep up the good work man, but also take care of yourself.
It doesn't do anyone any good if you burn yourself out from lack of self care.
You're the man!
you're the man too, the exodus is on? at least the 'traffic is enormous holy shit' prompt on the right is a good sign.
someone's gotta help this guy though if it's just one dude and his server rack in his spare room
*edit works looks like. yea this is cool, pretty much reddit, nice
Indeed, pretty cool!
First thing I noticed though is that I'd really like to know which instance a thread is actually on.
For example, this post:
Going back to Reddit feels bad (kbin.social)
polygon, 2 hours ago to chat... is actually on [email protected], even though it says "kbin.social" and just "chat" below. Pretty confusing.
EDIT:
There's at least one fix for this in the meantime -- get this userscript:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468612-kbin-enhancement-scriptI get what you're saying -- that the link source indicator should point to the instance that hosts the group -- but it's a quirk of how federation works that the thread is actually on kbin.social. And, well, any other site that's following the thread.
Everything is actually local on the fediverse. It's just that not everything has to originate from the local website. Federation works via content mirroring, which is why the URL for any given Magazine you're viewing still starts with kbin.social. You're not viewing remote content, you're viewing local content that was imported from a remote source. And the link indicator is telling you where kbin has been told the content resides.
And that's on kbin.social.
I think maybe the link source indicator just shouldn't render if the thread doesn't have a link purposefully attached to it, and the Magazine name should show the full name@host indicator.
Cannot tell you how much I appreciate things like this and how long it's going to take me to get used to the idea of not being on a closed platform. It makes perfect sense, but it would seem to defeat the purpose of having the source there at all, like you've suggested. We know it's on kbin, that's where we are.
Also: I think usernames from other instances should show which instance they're from.
Yes the full username@instance for all remote users at a minimum would be good
you can see this if you hover over their name. but it's not displayed by default. It'd be nice to have an option to have it written out rather than hidden.
There is a userscript for this now! Works a treat!
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468612-kbin-enhancement-script
Threads are hosted on the instance that the magazine is on. I think instances viewing it also just make a copy?
You can check the @ to see the url for both users and magazines. I'm not fond of the fact that kbin often hides the @url for things. I'd much prefer to see it since it makes things feel bigger to me. @[email protected] just ends up being shortened to @.chat lol. see? @chat @chat they are identical lmao. it's annoying.
@ernest doing the business. What a dude.
If you have the means, sling him some funds
I mean seriously? This dude's project has had hardly any downtime (like 100% inaccessible downtime) in the last few days during a massive migration. How impressive is that? He was able to find a solution with cloudflare where, sure things were a little slow to load and didn't federate, but I never found myself unable to access kbin. On top of that, he's communicating clearly and often. I hope this succeeds. @ernest has absolutely earned it.
There have been a few times I've been unable to log in, unresponsive pages etc., but considering how recently kbin.social was created, the massive influx of users and the fact that @ernest is managing all this himself - absolutely phenomenal job.
Thanks for the link just donated!
Bought him several coffees earlier today, he deserves it!
Federation is back on the menu boys!
yes I've been seeing much more activity at least from lemmy world and beehaw. moreso than these past few days. I've actually had a "live" chat with some of them!
It seems to be slowly rolling back in. I still can't find my kbin account from my Mastodon account, but I can find my Mastodon account from my kbin account, for example. I also left a comment on a thread from [email protected] from kbin.social, but when I go to the actual Lemmy instance, I do not see my comment.
Is slowly coming back, ernest is testing the waters, he said recently that he was working on upgrading the server and that federation will slowly come back.
This is the first post I've seen from kbin! Hello 👋
yesss, the only thing i'm really hoping for is all my subscriptions from multiple fediverse platforms show up under one page.
I can see this (and am posting from) from my personal kbin instance, so it seems to be working!
Just curious, are you guys exclusively using phone or computer, mix?
I’ve only used my phone so far out of habit and it’s definitely kept me more limited in exploring
A mix of both, and on that note I'm thankful that this website actually works well on mobile.
I'm still not able to subscribe to magazines on here from Lemmy, which is interesting. Maybe federation needs some time to catch up.
Same. I've tried searching for kbin from lemmy, but nothing ever pops up. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or it just isn't fully working yet.
Figured it out - you have to put the entire URL into the Lemmy search bar. For example, to find @modeltrains, you need to search Lemmy for https://kbin.social/m/modeltrains.
Once one person subscribes, then the community will show up in searches for "modeltrains".
not really, while apparently there is read access for other instances, I couldn't get a post to this thread from lemmy
Is this why when I search for Lemmy instances from Kbin it just shows error?