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The bug report is the way to track this. Tho sometimes ernest makes posts in this magazine to share what’s happening.

A bug was filed about this issue four months ago and ernest has commented on that thread, so he’s aware of the problem. So far, no solution has been reached, which makes me as a moderator extremely demotivated. I don’t want to put effort into building a community if comments that break community rules are federated but moderation is not.

So, I post content (on average once every 3 days, despite my drop in activity this month), I engage in the comments (more than you do, if we’re counting), I moderate a community, and I file bug reports in an attempt to make this a better platform.

So yes, I am doing my part, and that does qualify me to comment on the state of Kbin. Suggesting I don’t is toxicity we don’t need here.

And pretending that Kbin is just fine won’t help this platform to become successful. And yes, despite my criticisms, I want this to be a successful Reddit replacement. But it’s struggling to become relevant, and I’m frustrated with its lack of progress.

People want stuff to read, not people to point at ‘the problem.’

People also want interesting discussions on topics they care about. I know that because for years I was a moderator of a small but active subreddit.

The m/men magazine I moderate used to be the #20 most active one on Kbin, a place you’re now proudly proclaiming m/scifi has…

I’m waiting to see if ernest’s promised next version of Kbin will actually improve things, especially on the moderation side. Otherwise I have to reconsider where to direct my efforts.

The problem is that Kbin sucks as well. For example, /m/science lacks actual moderators and gets flooded with spam on the regular. And even where there are active moderators, moderation actions often do not get federated.

I was hoping these issues would get fixed soon, but here we are, three months after the Reddit apocalypse, and Kbin is still not a fully functional platform. For example, I filed bug #1102 fifteen days ago, and this has still not been resolved. And bug #570 has been open since early July.

If Kbin wants to become and stay relevant, it needs more hands on deck.

Can you also add moderators to those magazines? I volunteered for the science mag, but have not gotten a reply. Active mods will help with your workload too.

/r/Reaper (55k) is still restricted.

That’s not what was asked for.

For the main community: https://kbin.social/m/futurology@futurology.today

I don’t think it works that way.

This is a known issue and needs to be fixed at code level.

I just wrote about that here.

If you want a platform with ActivityPub integration (i.e. it’s part of the Fediverse), then there are several options:

• https://writefreely.org/
• https://write.as/new/blog/federated
• https://joinplu.me/

There’s also WordPress, which has a free hosted tier, and can alternatively be set up on your own server. There is an ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, which can be used freely on your own server, or with the paid business plan on wordpress.com.

Another possibility would be to use a Mastodon instance that doesn’t limit your character count to 500, such as Aethy (which IIRC has a limit of 1M characters per post).

If I were to start a blog again (and I have considered it), then I would probably use WriteFreely, or alternatively Aethy.

It does not. But it has been flagged, so hopefully it will be fixed at some point in the future.

As far as I’m aware there’s no timeline view of all people you follow.

Yes, that would be a good thing to have.

I know, and I do appreciate that. I mostly speak out of frustration that our moderation tools are very rudimentary. We simply don’t have all the tools we need to do proper content curation.

Kbin has burst onto the scene of the fediverse, and is now a serious player. I think it risks defederation if this issue isn’t fixed. It is an attack vector for people with nefarious goals.

I don’t understand how developers think this is okay. This needs to be fixed with priority!

Yeah, lots of 50x errors all around again.

Yeah, I figured that out. Thanks for your help!