A blog post I made about my experience on Kbin, what I like about it, and some of the challenges I still face in using it. Any feedback would be appreciated as someone who is still new to blogging. Thanks.
The native interface is bafflingly unintuitive, in my experience. Not being able to click through to the referenced article directly from the front page, and no way to view images in a larger format right on the page, is annoying.
I ran into the unusual situation this week where I couldn't put a new article into a kbin magazine (community / subreddit) from my kbin account, but could get it to stick if I did it via Lemmy.
I keep forgetting I even have a kbin floating out there. I like it’s interface, I do particularly like the unique feature of seeing who downvoted your posts. It’s a double edged sword in that, a good way to filter out assholes from contributing individuals but also can limit responses. It’s a sacrifice one has to decide on.
My known gripe with it and this applies to Lemmy too is that, when I block someone, I don’t want to see their replies crop up like unread messages. I block them, to keep them out of sight completely.
I think kbin is still quite new. It's being updated daily and really your choices are larger instances that probably stage updates to make sure they don't break everything and smaller instances that are more likely to be up to date with the latest version.
In my case I'm running an instance that is generally on the latest version but also with some of my latest submissions (pull requests) applied too.
It's a double edged sword. I'm generally running with the latest changes. But sometimes the latest changes break things. I had around 30 minutes downtime today for example.
The fediverse isn't established tech yet, lemmy and kbin are still effectively alpha versions. The whole thing is likely to be rough around the edges for a while. But it's still usually working well I think.
Smaller instances won't have a lot of the issues that the main instance has. I run one at https://dmv.pub. DMV being the DC/Maryland/Virginia region but anyone is welcome to join.
They were, but it kinda feels like every new instance I try is a kinder egg of new errors and issues. I would also like to return to my old instance if I can.
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