yukichigai

Agh, right, so you are.

Larger point still stands though.

From the site:

IDDQD: Instance For /vr/, /tg/, /g/, etc.

In other words an offshoot of 4chan’s gaming-related boards (vg - Retro Gaming, tg - Traditional Gaming, g - Gaming). Unfortunately it’s 4chan, so…

Swag. The more we show up in search, the more people will be asking “what the heck is Lemmy?” Some of 'em will join.

Well then. Here. We. Go.

Ahh gotcha. So this is the start of the fork. Interesting.

Well I’m definitely gonna keep an eye on it. Think I’ll make an account over on your side too just to keep up with my basic plan of diversification. That way whichever one winds up becoming the superior product, I’ll already be established there.

EDIT: Oh snap, mbin already has an option to put the reply bar at the top. That opens up the option for expanding infinite scroll to comments as well, which has been one of my major gripes about kbin.

EDITx2: Oh and it has 2fa support. Well damn, that’s significant. Huge even.

Huh, got me intrigued, gotta say. Any significant differences between mbin and kbin you can point out? I know for me in kbin the Mastodon interactivity doesn’t work the best, and finding the context of replies in threads doesn’t work when it goes to multi-page.

I stopped using it for about 5 years because there was this truly cursed period where it wouldn’t remember manual connections if you weren’t logged in and wouldn’t work without an active internet connection if you were logged in. Even after they fixed both of those there was still a 50/50 shot it would treat logged-in local devices as remote devices and stream out via your internet connection and then back in to the client device. In fact I still don’t log my devices in if I don’t have to.

I can’t speak for everyone else, but I know I was taken aback by the prospect that selfhosting meant I’d be caching copies of media uploaded to other instances without any way to opt out of that. It’s one thing to provide links, it’s another thing to be functioning as a knockoff CDN. That’s a bit more than I’m willing to do for the sake of a vanity instance.

Same thinking here. Caching media pretty directly undermines any Safe Harbor protections you have running a site, not to mention the resource overhead required.

You can kind of get that on Kbin, though it shunts all the Mastodon stuff over to the “Microblogging” section. Also it’s not exactly bug free right now: a lot of the time you won’t see all of the replies to a post, especially if they’re replies to replies (and so on and so forth).

The idea is there though, and the devs are working on it constantly, so one day it should work correctly.