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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Those aren't rumors. The Lemmy repo is quite open about this. Lemmy's devs are part of the Tankie problem here.

Honestly, Kbin and Mbin are looking very attractive, not being run by extremists. Lemmy, as a product, is dragged down by the Tankies that make it - just as Pleroma (a Mastodon alternative) is dragged down by the Neo-Nazis that make it.

[–] Dave 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Kbin is dead, Mbin is good but different to Lemmy. Also see PieFed and Sublinks.

The wonderful thing about federated services is that you can have fun with all the users on Lemmy and see all the content but not have to actually use the Lemmy software. You can even follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon and interact with posts from there (just in a Mastodon way).

[–] million@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Out of the loop, what happened to kbin?

[–] Dave 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think anyone really knows. It's the single person issue, that Ernest was the only person to have access to do anything. It seems something is personally wrong for him, maybe unwell, maybe something else, but no one hears from him for months. The flagship kbin instance run by Ernest, https://kbin.social/, has had an error and hasn't worked for months.

To my knowledge, this is the last anyone has heard from him:

I have been away from home for a long time now and do not have all accesses. I will try to restore access in the coming days. The care of the instance will also be handed over.

That was 5 months ago.

It's clear something is very wrong, but because Ernest is the only one with access that means no one can help. Mbin forked Kbin and have been actively developing Mbin. Many, if not most of the sites called "kbin" are now running Mbin.

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