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piezoelectron, in I'm happy to have a Lemmy-alternative like Kbin
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What’s the evidence that Lemmy’s developers are tankies?

Just to be very clear by the way, a “tankie” is, at the very least, someone who sincerely and unironically believes that Stalin was a heroic do-gooder, that North Korea’s “Juche” ideology will soon unleash utopia, and that China under the CCP is the very model of a communist society.

Furthermore, a tankie is someone whose gospel is Marxism-Leninism, i.e. Lenin’s extremely conservative spin on communism. A tankie will claim supreme knowledge about what Marc “really” said and boldly proclaim that dialectical materialism is pure science.

Organisationally, tankies tend to insist that all activist groups must be strictly hierarchical, with all decisions made by a Central Committee. “Activists” are merely the minions who’ll do the Committee’s bidding (btw, now how this is basically how Reddit is run). They’ll normally try to monopolize social movements into the banner of the local Communist Party of their region.

Socially, tankies also tend to actually be conservative, because their dialectical materialism dictates class reductionism. This means that, strictly speaking, queer issues are secondary to class issues (for example). There are definitive tropes of toxic masculinity, militarism, possibly even nationalism, in tankie discourses.

Now, in my opinion, a tankie is not someone who “merely” defends, say, the success of public health in Cuba, the fact that China has seen dramatic reductions in poverty since the 60s, or that India’s most literate state (which, btw, just announced free wi-fi for those in poverty) happens to be under Communist rule for a few decades now.

I’d also say (and this as someone who personally knows people involved with XJ) that “merely” questioning whether there’s an ongoing genocide in Xinjiang also doesn’t make you’re a tankie. Jeff Sachs, whatever else you think of him, has this position, and yet he’s as far from a tankie as you can get (the guy literally enforced hardcore capitalist “Washington Consensus” policies in Latin America).

Furthermore, a “tankie” is also not someone who talks about NATO’s role in the ongoing Ukrainian War. In fact, even the best Ukrainian scholars (e.g. Volodymyr Ishchenko) agree on this point, and again, they’re as far as you can get from tankies.

Just to be clear, I’m not saying that these views aren’t problematic. China is obviously a totalitarian state (as is Cuba) and the situation in Xinjiang is obviously hideous, but this is nowhere near saying that China/DPRK/USSR are/were communist utopias. These are individual claims that many people hold.

Lately, the “tankie” label has been a gift for chiefly Western hawks who’ve used it to silence anyone who speaks of Western and non-Western war crimes in the same breath. They do so because it’s in their interest to paint themselves as honest, freedom-loving liberals.

I think it’s best if we wise up to this sleight of hand, and don’t do Western overlords’ biddings for them, for free.


And while we’re on the topic, I personally don’t think a Dev’s political beliefs matter when it comes to their platform, unless there’s clear evidence that they’re using their platform as a tool to attack those who don’t hold the same views. This is why I ask: could you share evidence that 1) Lemmy’s Devs are tankies and 2) Even if they are, that they’re throttling non/anti-tankie discourse on Lemmy?

To take another example, Alexandra Elbakyan is the creator of Sci-Hub, perhaps the single biggest gift to scholarship worldwidein the 21st century. She’s also a hardcore Stalinist. That doesn’t stop me from using her platform, since her platform benefits me everyday. I find her views loathsome, but I’m also grateful for her work.

elight,

See feditips

TL;DR: close affiliation with lemmygrad.ml and no moderation of content supportive of human rights abuses.

Sota4077, in Thank you so much for your support! 😍

Honestly dude start a Patreon or something even if you only do it for temporary. I would chip in $5/month for a while to pay for server costs if it means getting a stable site and a viable alternative to Reddit.

Lor,

It's also useful because it allows monthly flow, which is way more useful for planning than just a lump sum and ??? on what you'll get in a few months.

gormster, in /kbin Issues

Not great that this requires a new account on a service most people won't already have :( I tried logging in with GitHub and it did that thing that I really hate federated logins doing where they go "yeah go ahead log in with your credentials from another site SIKE YOU HAVE TO TELL US YOUR EMAIL ANYWAY"

magnusdrakenkrauss, in /kbin Issues

Hello all new user here also. There's no 2FA?

Shortcake,

correct. maybe it will be added later, but there are more pressing issues now

FuriousRaccoon, in /kbin Issues

Idk if it's related to all new users but navigation is slow for me (France).

OverfedRaccoon,
@OverfedRaccoon@kbin.social avatar

I ate all the food. I can see why you're angry, and I'm sorry.

postscarce,

Slow for me as well (North America). It can take 10-15 seconds to load a page or perform an action like upvoting.

pirategoddess,
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My guess is that it's because a lot of new users are joining because of the Reddit blackout, but yeah, it is pretty slow (I'm in the US).

Meditative, in [Tips] Here are some shortcuts for your old reddit habits

Is there a way to save threads or save comments within kbin?

mihnt,
@mihnt@kbin.social avatar

For posts you can just upvote them and it will show up on your profile.

Meditative,

Interesting. Good to know!

If it's not already in the works, I could see a lot of utility from adding a "favorited" or "saved" threads/comment option for users to better organize and access the content they want to as opposed to having to sift through what could end up being thousands upon thousands of upvotes.

Balssh, in /kbin Translations

How to contribute to translations? I could help out for Romanian if needed.

adrian,
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You need a Codeberg account and can then translate right on https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/kbin/kbin/.

However, Romanian hasn't yet been added as a language to translate, too, and the "Start new translation" button is disabled. Maybe @ernest first needs to either add that language manually or can enable that button for everyone.

bananaghost,
@bananaghost@kbin.social avatar

Hey, thanks for the link. I'll start helping with the spanish translation

AmericanScream, in /kbin Issues

Magazine names should not be case-sensitive, but they are.

Flames5123,

This. Why?? This is a terrible user experience. I don't care if your little machine has case sensitive folders, it's bad form to have URLs be case sensitive with things users should be able to easily input (not like IDs like how YouTube does).

markrprior,
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Whether of not they are case sensitive they shouldn't be forced to lowercase as that would be an accessibility issue.

10A, in /kbin Issues

Does kbin not have a normal issue tracker?

10A,

Answering my own question: Yes, it does.

Shortcake,

What is a normal issue tracker?

10A,

Follow my above "Yes, it does" link and see.

Shortcake,

Yeah. Ernest posted it in the top of the thread.

Flames5123, in /kbin Issues

I am not enjoying kbin.social right now. The latency is beyond atrocious, at 10+ seconds to load each page. The UI reminds me of 2004 forums that don’t know how users work. The mobile UI is just the worst.

Some pain points:

  • I’m a software engineer so I can figure this shit out, but how the hell do I subscribe to a magazine? If I go to it, there should be a “subscribe” or context menu at the top to subscribe/favorite/mute. (I found it, but it's so weird on mobile to click the logo then scroll to get to the subscribe.)
  • Why is the comment box all the way at the bottom? Where’s the “add comment” button on a post?
  • Why are comments paginated like a forum? Why not just a “load more” like Reddit? What’s the point? It's not to decrease the response because you can do that with "load more" buttons.
  • Selecting the comment box should NOT zoom slightly into the page. The mobile web UI needs a lot of work from people who know how to do mobile UIs.
  • Is there no “homepage” button? Clicking the Kbin logo at the top just brings up a menu, which requires another click on the homepage button to get back. This is weird and unintuitive.
  • Edit: And you can't collapse comment threads? What even...

I really want a Reddit replacement, but this is not it with this terrible UI.

duringoverflow,

I’m a software engineer

if you're a software engineer you should had known to make constructive comments and also most importantly realise that you are on a Non-commercial open source one-man-project. Your attitude is disgusting and you sound like the guys that nobody wants to work with. Nobody forces you to be here and you're welcome to go and please take your cancer with you on your way out.

Shortcake,

Add issues to the codeberg.
RN there are users scripts and userstyles over at m/kbinStyles to add collapsing and move text box to the top. Users are already adding requests for these functions natively. The infinite scroll rather than pages is available in the gear icon on the side or in your profile

Flames5123, in /kbin Issues

When I do an action on the site after like an hour, it takes me through the dumb cloudflare thing. I'm already logged in, why do I need to go through it every freaking hour?? This is an AWFUL user experience. I say "remember me" not "forget me in an hour"

stickerface, in /kbin - a few quick announcements

Just found this site - definitely going to be putting an effort in to getting the formula1 kbin populated.

calixte,

FYI, there is already a lemmy community for f1 gaining some traction. Do with that what you will, just putting it out there :)

https://lemmy.ml/c/formula1

VerifiablyMrWonka,
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Sadly, until federation is working, it may as well not exist.

That said, when it does start working I look forward to the battle of the f1 communities.

rokejulianlockhart,
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It appears to be federating now.

Jerry, in /kbin Issues
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Has anyone tried creating a KBIN server using the Docker instructions since Saturday? I got a development server running on Saturday and I decided to bring up a production ready version on Sunday, but now I'm running into two errors while creating it.

First:

In these instructions:

$ sudo chown 82:82 public/media
$ sudo chown 82:82 var
$ cp .env.example .env

There is no directory "var" so the chown fails

Second:

When running docker compose build --pull --no-cache

It now fails with this:

=> [php app_php 20/21] RUN rm -Rf docker/ 0.2s
=> ERROR [php app_php 21/21] RUN set -eux; mkdir -p var/cache var/log; if [ -f composer.json ]; then composer dump-autoload --classmap-authoritative --no-dev; compose ...

This also seems to relate to the var directory, and so must be part of a recent change in the build that relates to the var directory.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

wally,

I have tried creating an instance on both Debian 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 with both Docker and the manual steps.

I can get the build to work fine. But at best I get 500 errors with no signs of logs as to why, not in postgres, not in nginx, not in redis or rabbitmq or even syslog.

On Docker i have both the kbin_messenger and kbin container boot looping with an error about creating cache directories. But since the containers are restarting I cant even get into bash on them to see why.

I finally said fuck it and ran the compose for "prod" and the containers start but again, 500 errors.

At this point....i give up i feel. I would love to host an instance and I am familiar with some of these modules (ie: NGINX, redis and postgres) but with how this is built, I dont see where the breakpoint is.

golgy,

I operate my own homelab and have a background in SRE, so I figured I'd try out the same. I've wrangled a Mastodon instance install before, so this couldn't be too hard, right?

My approach started by using containers via lxc as a quick and dirty way of getting a development environment that enabled me to figure out if it worked and then see if I could then wrap it into a proper docker container and look at potentially publishing that.

On my first attempt, I did the manual route. I skipped the redis, rabbitmq, and postgres installs as I already operate those elsewhere on the network, but I got everything else running. Unfortunately, I also experienced the 500 errors. Most of the front page loaded, except for the content where the 500 error was displayed. Even with some digging around, I couldn't find a clear path to figuring out what was causing the 500 error, as the Mercure hub was seeing subscribers connect and disconnect. Gave up.

I then figured maybe the docker route might be easier/streamlined. I'm not a fan of duplicating services, but I thought that if the core workflow was solid enough, I could put effort into splitting them apart and go from there. Unfortunately, I don't even get past the docker-compose build for dev. Docker compose hangs forever.

wally,

Yeah. Kbin install made me eat some humble pie for sure. I think someone called me a normie in a lemmy thread describing my troubles. Lol.

To be fair some of the parts like mercure and rabbitmq im unfamiliar with. But it was a stone cold stumper for me and that’s rare. I’m fairly familiar with Linux admin, and even some of the tooling like docker. But I just couldn’t get it to work in a cohesive way. I ran plenty of Linux servers from Drupal instances, Postgres, nginx for all sorts of shit, etc etc.

My lemmy instance took….45 minutes to roll out. Though I already had an Ansible box sitting in my lab.

Otome-chan, in /kbin Issues
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@ernest wanted to report a beehaw thread being broken. See here. apparently they used hashtags in their thread title which is allowed there, and it broke for some lemmy users and ended up in kbin's microblog section rather than showing up as a proper thread.

pa79, in /kbin Issues

I've been trying to set up my own kbin instance but without success. Is there a way to diable SSL? I'm running the instance on a raspberry pi at home behind a reverse proxy which already handles all the certificates for https. This already works great for my mastodon instance.

I tried installing the docker container and also manually but both times it expects https instead of simple http and I can't seem to find the place to change this. There's no mention of SSL in the nginx configuration file and I don't really have any experience with docker and where to change the configuration in such a container.

pa79,

Weirdly enough, the manual installation seems now to work (the website is reachable) but kbin shows me a server error 500 for every site. I don't have mercure installed because I couldn't figure out how (it isn't mentioned in the kbin doc and the mercure website is not really helpful), could that be the problem?

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