It’s a shame it’s not written in a PHP framework or something that’s more common. Plenty of devs have been helping about contributing to kbin development, it sounds like it’s a lack of manpower on Lemmy’s end that’s contributing to this

Game preservation is something that’s already actively biting us in the ass. Apparently the percentage of games that have been saved is on par with early silent motion pictures.

Even if we ensure all the critically acclaimed games are preserved, there’s still heaps that are just going to vanish over time and that sucks for everyone.

I’ve looked at this for kbin, marking posts as ‘read’ once you’ve interacted with them before (either upvote, downvote or boosting) so that’s way when you come back later in the day you can see things you’ve already interacted with.

It’s one of those things that will probably take a while to get going

Along with what the other old mates have said. Using containers is super handy in web development. You can use Docker Desktop (windows, mac, linux etc) and set up containers, one for PHP, another for postgres (database) and have them all interconnect.

The benefit I’ve found is that once someone has set up a docker file (the thing that says how it all builds and interconnects) you can launch it with a single click.

The Kbin project itself has a docker setup to get up and running, handling most of the connection between the database and Symfony (the framework of the website)

The issue is I’m keen on following the self-hosting / server specific content but generally I’ve got nothing exciting to add. I can offer upvotes and kbin boosts 🚀

Hate sites that do this, off with their heads! 🪓

This is a strange one. I assumed people wanting this type of service would want to view all the content from the fediverse but not push to the fediverse

E.g. start your own instance of kbin and connect with everyone but turn off your own federation so no one sees your posts.

Wonder if that scenario has been catered to?

How’s the content on Masterdon compared to say Lemmy/kbin? Can always add a new site to my daily doom scrolling, but is it just a collection of people complaining about the smallest slight like on Twitter?

I know specifically for kbin that the topic of what shows up in what section is a point of discussion with the other devs. Getting these things to work “right” is going to be a challenge.

I like the idea of more “metrics” being used to help “weight” the search results. E.g. if you’re viewed heaps of content from “magazine A”, then content should be surfaced more from that magazine.

I think search / these collections will take a while to get into a really polished state (and it’ll change as the site grows)

Eventually I’m assuming sites will need to implement some type of auto mod system when they get to scale. It’s only a matter of time before bots and bad actors see these sites as valuable targets

The hardest part is the interactive, especially coming from say for example Reddit where you’d realistically have hundreds of comments on every thread. The overall quality was pretty average but it was nice to see that volume

That’s one of the most glaring issues I see with activityPub. The Reddit style, I’m going to block you because your follow XYZ sub mentally.

I’ve got no solution for it besides hiding which places federate with who, but by looking at the content you’d be about to make an educated guess anyway

Apparently this guy thinks Nazis are everywhere. Almost reminds me of Russian propaganda, Ukraine is full of Nazis we need to go over there and clean house etc.

It sounds like they just don’t like people with differing opinions and anyone who doesn’t toe the line must be a Nazi or Nazi sympathiser 🙄

You can also use third party providers like these guys who can set up an activity pub centric website for you.

That looks like a pretty good starting point for people who have just a moderate understanding of servers and websites

Yeah that’s something I’ve not seen discussed here much. I get that people want control, but getting started with an ActivityPub centric site (like kbin) is now cheaper than ever. Get your own cheap hosting on a VPS and handle some traffic.

People can even create their own instances just to federate with everyone and absorb their content if they’re worried about the rules and regulations or “x server not connecting with y”

Overall I think it’s a pretty good system compared to a single silo like Reddit

Eventually most places will support a “block domain” feature so if sports.lemmy for example keeps pushing out sports content and you don’t want to see it, you can block it on your end (without impacting everyone else on your server who may want to see it)

That seems like the best of both worlds.

Seen this sentiment that green bubbles = bad a few times online but never it’s never come up for me. I assume this is a teen - early adult specific issue where the idea is mostly to be part of the group

Yeah, what are they actually getting that’s arguably better to justify switching your entire ecosystem over for? Android and iOS have close enough feature parity that it’s really up to use choice at this point

I know we’re using codeberg for kbin.social

It’s been a pretty decent experience so far, similar to GitHub but a little more basic. The markdown editor is my biggest gripe so far, it has weird backspace handling on mobile

From memory posts are partially archived by Google’s cache, so if they’re indexed correctly people should still be able to search for something and have it as a result? Unsure if that would work if the whole domain is actually gone though

I’m keen on having as many communities as possible. Having things silo’d into a few mega hubs is a recipe for disaster. Having a concentration of users all in 1 or 2 spaces where there’s no transparency from administrators / moderators is what we should have all learned from Reddit and their recent nonsense.

While I like the quality of the content on here, I’d always enjoy more quantity. The discussions here are great but always keen for more.

Great. Hopefully we can get that fix in soon. Better to not even have that data, there’s no point in keeping it.

I’ll have a look at this when I get a sec. I know the images are re-processed on upload (and cropped etc) so I assume no useful data is preserved in that process. Good to confirm tho

I’m finding that subscribing to similar communities/magazines is the easiest way, e.g. subscribing to the Android community on kbin.social / other locations I can find.

I’m trying to comment and interact with whatever community / content I can find to get robust discussions going.

The overall goal seems to be to slow down piracy in the initial launch period where they’re trying to get critical mass for sales. Eventually it looks like a good number of them get cracked, but by that time it’ll probably also be discounted on steam sales

Scatter shot approach, they DGAF who gets caught up in the crossfire so long as it makes life harder for pirates

I prefer my favorite one: “as per my previous email”