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So, I post content (on average once every 3 days, despite my drop in activity this month), I engage in the comments (more than you do, if we’re counting), I moderate a community, and I file bug reports in an attempt to make this a better platform.

So yes, I am doing my part, and that does qualify me to comment on the state of Kbin. Suggesting I don’t is toxicity we don’t need here.

And pretending that Kbin is just fine won’t help this platform to become successful. And yes, despite my criticisms, I want this to be a successful Reddit replacement. But it’s struggling to become relevant, and I’m frustrated with its lack of progress.

People want stuff to read, not people to point at ‘the problem.’

People also want interesting discussions on topics they care about. I know that because for years I was a moderator of a small but active subreddit.

The m/men magazine I moderate used to be the #20 most active one on Kbin, a place you’re now proudly proclaiming m/scifi has…

I’m waiting to see if ernest’s promised next version of Kbin will actually improve things, especially on the moderation side. Otherwise I have to reconsider where to direct my efforts.

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.

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.

/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 just wrote about that here.

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

I remember Google Mail being invite only…

@ernest, what is Kbin doing to resist such overreach by law enforcement?

Threadiverse for Kbin, Lemmy, and similar.

This was an issue very recently in the Netherlands, when emergency services referred to Twitter for storm Poly updates… I hope these all move to Mastodon.

Custom themes should be toggle-able.

It’s a great idea!

I like it, especially since you’re implementing it as off by default.

Ah! My bad.

It’s confusing as the post appears here to be coming from kbin.social, but now I see it’s actually posted in a community on lemmy.world.

On desktop, when you hover over someone’s user name, after a couple of seconds a pop-up will appear, which has a field for adding a note. I’m assuming that’s private, to mirror how that works elsewhere, but I’m not 100% sure.