Elevator7008

joined 1 year ago
[–] Elevator7008@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I want to say thanks for helping but I sort of feel you ignored the body of my post where I say I fled kbin.cafe for its inactive admin. Just checked now and they are still inactive. On the other hand I have also missed things while reading before. I guess I'll be staying where I am at until a new Kbin instance opens up ¬_¬ I feel very odd about using Mbin given some of the drama I have seen occur over the split (my admin on kbin.run did not get involved in any of the drama for what it is worth, though), and having gotten no say in the switch, but I also appreciate the decentralization of the Fediverse and refuse to get comfy in the flagship because then I'll never move and will be part of the problem keeping it centralized. Thanks anyways.

 

I started on kbin.social with this account, then moved out to kbin.cafe to try to avoid overloading the flagship instance and help out with decentralization. Then the admin went inactive, so I fled to kbin.run. This is active and I am satisfied, but it is also running Mbin, a fork of Kbin. I'd like to try regular Kbin again, but I don't want to go to the flagship instance and be yet another person concentrated there, only further centralizing the Fediverse when it was probably supposed to be decentralized. Is there a known instance with an active mod?

I also posted this already to kbinMeta through kbin.run but got very few responses, so I decided to check kbin.social in case something happened with the federation. It didn't show up when searching by New on kbin.social, so here I am, dragging out the old kbin.social account and posting again.

[–] Elevator7008@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a much more extreme version of the same reason I never used Quora. I'd be allowed on one page, but after that, clicking on any internal link in the site would push a "create an account" dialogue and wouldn't let me click off to see the content. The way around that was just reloading the page, but the irritation and tiny extra step was enough to stop me from browsing that site. Just checked right now and Quora doesn't do this on PC, but it does on my phone.

Now Twitter won't let you on the site at all without logging in.

[–] Elevator7008@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people were already doing archival of Reddit over at r/DataHoarder.

https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/DataHoarder/comments/1479c7b/historic_reddit_archives_ongoing_archival_effort/

(This link does not give Reddit traffic.)

[–] Elevator7008@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for writing that. I took that exact wording and sent it to some mods. Probably because it was easy and convenient, with the words given to me.