I feel like the reason [#Mastodon](https://kbin.social/tag/Mastodon), and the [#Fediverse](https://kbin.social/tag/Fediverse) at large, aren't taking off has to do with the fact that they're *actually by Sam_uk in c/fediverse@kbin.social
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

@Chozo I wonder if this bodes well for Kbin/Lemmy? Arguably their model is more about content than social relationships.

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Wow, just wow. The planet is breaking. Antarctic sea ice extent. There was actually a net decrease in ice extent day over day, and it's mid-winter there, peak freeze season. (media.kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Who should 'own' magazines? Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a “third way” between federated and P2P networks? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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At the moment the server owner effectively 'owns' magazines & communities. Is that the right balance of power? What happens when servers go offline, or server admins go rogue?

In a world where both users and magazines had public and private keys and magazine moderators had the tools to do off-site backups.

Could the magazine moderator then do an unassisted migration to a new place?

They revoke the key that gives the original server the right to host the magazine. They use the key to re-create it on a new server.

Somehow notify all the members the magazine of the new location. The users use their public keys to reclaim their identities and content.

Would that give mods too much power?

It all gets complicated fairly quickly! I think the Bluesky AT protocol is somewhat close to this model for user content, but doesn't really extend to 'community' scale content.

It falls short of a full confederal protocol

Russia gathers over 100,000 soldiers on the Lyman-Kupiansk axis by Sam_uk in c/worldnews@lemmy.world
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Russia is concentrating "more than 100,000 personnel, more than 900 tanks, more than 555 artillery systems, 370 MLRS" in the Lyman-Kupiansk direction, according to Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Eastern Military Command.

Cherevatyi said on television on July 17 that Ukrainian soldiers are currently holding the defense.

Kupiansk was liberated in Ukraine's surprise counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast in September 2022. Lyman, in Donetsk Oblast, was liberated just weeks later. https://kyivindependent.com/military-4/

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List of subs people may find familiar (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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General
!Asklemmy
!showerthoughts
!General
!MildlyInfuriating
!YouShouldKnow
!NoStupidQuestions
!MildlyInteresting
!Memes
!Videos
!ExplainLikeImFive
!TIL
!AITA

Local area
kbin.world

News/Politics
!World
!Politics
Fox News

Pets and such
!Aww
!Cats

Gaming
!Games
!RetroGaming
!Nintendo
!Diablo

TV and Music
!MoviesandTV
!Anime
!Music

Pics and Art
!Pics
!DigitalArt
!MobileWallpaper
!Wallpapers
AccidentalRenaissance

Technology and Science
!Technology
!Science
Climate
!dataisbeautiful
!Fediverse
!android
!apple_enthusiast
!Hardware
!Privacy

Sports
!NBA
!NFL
!Soccer
!baseball
!golf

Fitness
!fitness
!running

Others
!FoodPorn
!3DPrinting
!Gardening
!solarpunk

For more see Lemmyverse.net or Sub.rehab

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kbin.world (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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I stuck a service on https://kbin.world that redirects you based on a IP lookup for your country. In descending order it tries to;

  • If there is a kbin instance for your country it redirects you there (Just Poland for now!)

  • If you have a feddit instance for your country it redirects you to the most appropriate magazine on that instance, within kbin.social eg Germany

  • If you have a large national community on another Lemmy instance it redirects you there, again within kbin.social (eg Brasil)

For the ones I haven't got around to it redirects you to kbin.social homepage

It could be broken down to regions too. As more national or regional kbin instances emerge I'll replace the existing feddit/other sites.

I did a bit of testing with Pingdom and it seems to work

In the process I noticed that New Zealand and Japan feddit instances won't load for some reason. Any idea why?

Where do you get your news from? by Sam_uk in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

@fantasy95 The threadiverse. I made an aggregator to suit my tastes https://fledd.it/

Have you had any bad experiences with people on Kbin yet? Can we do better than Reddit culture? by Sam_uk in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@FaceDeer Do we? Or do we have lots of small groups in the same space?

It does seemthat Mastodon culture is different to Threadiverse culture. I'm OK with that, Mastodon is a little earnest for my tastes. It would be nice if we could keep the worst of Reddit out of here with robust moderation

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Have you had any bad experiences with people on Kbin yet? Can we do better than Reddit culture? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
10 comments fedilink

However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died.

So, when reddit died, there was no established culture. Instead, people brought reddit culture with them, and reddit culture, because of lax admins, was much more tolerant of hate speech than microfedi. And so, people who are “reddit people” more than “fediverse people” set up lemmy and kbin instances, and brought those reddit norms with them.

So then, you get instances like blahaj and beehaw that are threadiverse instances, but have the “old school” microfedi approach to bigotry. We smash it down hard at the first hint of seeing it, but most of the instances we federate with don’t attack it so aggressively.

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Reddit > Kbin migration script (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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I didn't write it, but it seems good

Any Nostr ppl here? by Sam_uk in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

@JoeClu I think the protocol gets a lot right. It's just a shame all the users are alt-right.

I needed a world-news aggregator to help me get off that other site so I made one by Sam_uk in c/news@kbin.social
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@dismalnow Sure, I didn't write it, but a couple of my feature requests have been implemented. Code & config

@dystop

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I needed a world-news aggregator to help me get off that other site so I made one (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social
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You may be able sign up directly on !worldnews

You could subscribe the main magazine on
Kbin.social or Lemmy.world

It's fed by a bot, but human submissions welcome too. If a human makes a post the bot stops posting for one hour.

Comments and upvotes will improve it.

KBIN running OK on $10/month managed service by Sam_uk in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It looks like you don't have caching on that site.

In the WebUI go: Security > Nginx config

Uncomment this section, editing the 600s section.

proxy_cache_valid any 600s;
add_header X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status;
proxy_cache my_cache_fledd.it;
proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control;
proxy_cache_methods GET HEAD;
proxy_cache_bypass $cookie_nocache $arg_nocache;
proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout updating http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;

Press the Update & Restart Nginx button. Pages should then load in ~2sec rather than ~4sec

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KBIN running OK on $10/month managed service (elest.io)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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I've been running a Kbin server on a service called elest.io for around a week.

Had a few teething troubles configuring caching, but that should work out of the box now.

If you can point & click on stuff in a semi-sensible manner then you could run your own instance for yourself, a specific community/sub.

I've configured mine as a news aggregator: https://fledd.it

You could subscribe to the main magazine here !worldnews

Elest.io do the install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime.

I'm not connected with them in any way other than as a customer.

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South Korean shoppers hoard salt and seafood ahead of Japan's release of treated radioactive water (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social
1 comments fedilink

In many supermarkets across South Korea, one item has conspicuously vanished from shelves: salt.

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I needed a world-news aggregator to help me get off that other site so I made one (fledd.it)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
14 comments fedilink

You can't sign up directly on !worldnews as registration is not enabled.

You could subscribe the main magazine on Kbin.social or Lemmy.world though

What do people here think about Nostr? by Sam_uk in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@Metaright I liked the concept behind the software. Unfortunately the people I found on there were alt-right shitcoiners

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Additional Worldnews feed, generated from /r/worldnews (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/worldnews@kbin.social
2 comments fedilink

I made a bot to copy the top links from /r/worldnews

You can subscribe here !worldnews

Today I think kbin.social became the busiest server in the threadiverse by Sam_uk in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@bedrooms Arguably Lemmy.world is the 'main instance these days https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse But I agree kbin is the better choice.

@plantmoretrees @XiozTzu

We are launching KBIN fully managed service by Sam_uk in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@Frog-Brawler@kbin.social It does run, but not great.

The dual core 4Gb seems good so far, but I've not stress tested it. There's an instance here you could have a look at: https://fledd.it/

@jbenguira

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Anxiety and anger over Fukushima nuclear waste plan - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by Sam_uk@kbin.social to c/worldnews@kbin.social
0 comments fedilink

Japan wants to release Fukushima's waste water into the ocean - and a lot of people are not happy.

YSK: There's a protocol designed for decentralized networks. It is called Named Data Networking (NDN) by Sam_uk in c/technology@lemmy.world
Which to host for a single user instance: lemmy or kbin (or others)? by Sam_uk in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[-] Sam_uk@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

@cyclohexane I think this should be merged today with a bit of luck: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/143

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