Some turbulence on the instance (kbin.social)
Today, there may be transient issues with voting, counters, etc. I'm working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Also, there might be 2-3 brief interruptions in the website's operation. Thank you for your patience!
Strange object found trapped near Uranus (www.livescience.com)
A distant comet trapped in orbit between Saturn and Uranus is accompanied by a transforming disk of icy dust, new observations reveal.
Five Years Later, Mobilizon "Reaches Maturity" (wedistribute.org)
With a new release under its belt, Mobilizon's developer Framasoft is stepping back from the project.
✨ What is your favorite thing about kbin? ✨ (kbin.social)
Here are mine! A handful of things come to mind right away, but there are plenty more:...
Mobilizon V4 : the maturity stage (framablog.org) Polish
5 years after its announcement, Mobilizon, our free, federated alternative to Facebook groups and events, is reaching maturity. We take this opportunity to look back on its history and future. 🦆 VS 😈: Let's take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is taking...
Request: pinned thread tracking instance defederation (fedia.io)
Looking at the (short!) list of defederated instances, I tried looking through this magazine to read about what caused some of the defederation actions -- unfortunately it looks like some of that information might've been lost in the mbin migration and subsequent cleanup?...
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.
What does the "Favorites" feed do? (kbin.social)
I've been using Kbin for a few months now and I didn’t really feel the need to set my #feed to anything besides "Subscribed". I can guess from their names what the "All" and "Moderated" feed are but I have no idea what the #favorites feed does. I've seen that the recently added #collections also use the word "favorite" when...
Released idkbin 1.3.0! — A few small visual improvements for Kbin (userstyles.world)
In the past week or two, I've been making a lot of updates to my Kbin userstyle, idkbin, to account for all the new features Kbin has been getting. This weekend, I had a bunch more motivation to work on it, so I decided to make a bunch of additions to the userstyle and make the next version 1.3.0 (as opposed to 1.2.7, which...
Problems with spam accounts from lemmy.blahaj.zone (kbin.social)
Over the last few days, there's been an increasing problem with spam accounts from lemmy.blahaj.zone. It seems like they're working on addressing this issue, at least in a one-at-a-time fashion, but it's clear that they have not been able to proactively prevent the problem yet....
Anyone can edit our wiki now (wiki.startrek.website)
Original post...
RTR#32 Further refactoring, debugging voting errors (kbin.social)
Today, I continue with code refactoring, getting closer to finishing the most tedious part. I've also improved tools to prevent spam on the instance, which will take effect in a few days, addressing the issue of overloading other instances that have been reported. After today's wave of spam, I've also started working on...
Looking at NLnet’s Latest Grant Round (wedistribute.org)
The EU's Next Generation Internet grant continues to support innovation in the Fediverse, funding the social platform of the future.
Does adding a photo to a comment not work with federation? (kbin.social)
I commented in a discussion and added a photo. Others could see it....
anyone else unable to add images/photo posts? (kbin.social)
title. i click the add photo button and it does nothing. i tried on both chrome and firefox. just me or?
Fedia.io downtime for maintenance (fedia.io)
Hi all. I am going to be taking fedia.io offline for a bit today to move to a new server, switch to a containerized version, and some other enhancements. Thanks for patience.
The Magazines page is a bit of mess (kbin.social)
I've thought the Magazines page has been messy for a while now, though with collections now also being on the same page (at least for the time being), it's starting to get very out of hand....
Where can I find documentation on how federation works? (kbin.social)
I can't find anything on the specifics of how federation actually works. The op thread gets copied to any federated server? What happens if the thread is deleted on the op server? Does it still exist on all other federated servers? How do comments and votes work? That kind of thing.
PHP wishlist for 2024 (medium.com)
Is kbin social and kbin cafe run by the same person? (kbin.cafe)
I am new and signed up using kbin cafe but seem to be able to post in kbin social. I am guessing each website is like its own email service from what I can see. Though I am not sure if the owner of kbin social is the same as the owner of kbin cafe. I take it anyone can set up their own kbin site and connect it to the other kbin...
Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
Mastodon, we wrote this because we love you and care about you. People have been saying a lot of things, and we need to get the facts right.
Symfony 7.0.0 released (Symfony Blog) (symfony.com)
Also released Symfony version 6.4.0 (LTS)...
Re-introducing Bridgy Fed (snarfed.org)
Hi! I’m Ryan. I’ve been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal web sites and blogs to centralized social networks…
Up the Slope: On Mastodon and What Social Engineering Should Be (siderea) (siderea.dreamwidth.org)
The original mastodon thread with some conversation on the replies....