Welcome. It’s gonna take everyone’s effort to make KBIN fun. Upload content daily, and interact with other people’s content that you have something to say about. It’s gonna take effort from all of us.
This (in Reddit parlance). Kbin has come a long way even in the short time since I came here at the beginning of the reddit protest a few weeks ago. I am hoping with the second influx of refugees it will get even better now.
Excited to watch it grow and hope the API comes soon! At least the webapp is fairly nice in the mean time.
I may be out of the loop, but I’ve seen that kbin has an API. Is it not complete yet, or something?
@Calcharger Apollo stopped working for me a little after 7 ET. Doing a little cleanup then deleting it all tomorrow. I’m happy to be here
Sup and welcome from an ex-Boost enjoyer! Things are still extremely young here, so I’d ask some forgiveness while our fantastic dev works himself to the bone to set everything in order. There is only one of him, he did not think his pet project was going to be on the radar, and he only took on helpers a few days ago.
Minor bugs aside, it’s surprisingly nice here and I hope you and any others in the comments enjoy yourselves. If there’s anything you need help with, just ask around. 99.9% of us only just learned the ropes ourselves, so we won’t judge. Getting used to the fediverse is super weird
new people: if you want to help Ernest out, consider donating to him here
Hello, I’m here now too from Apollo. Hoping to get the hang of this website so I can delete my Reddit account all together.
You will! For now, if you have questions, check out /m/kbinmeta. Folks are willing to help around here
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welcome! In case the fediverse seems confusing/weird to you now, I’m sure you’ll get used to it pretty quickly, you’ll figure out it doesn’t differ from Reddit all that much :')
If you put the phone in airplane mode, you can get the app to load the UI at least. Doesn’t do/mean anything but I suspect I’ll be doing it out of nostalgia a lot in the coming months.
Just crashes for me. I can’t even get it to load.
I got that loading screen then force closed Apollo because I thought to myself “it’s not even midnight yet”. Now Apollo just crashes for me as well.
I use Sync too, mine is Error 401. So long and thanks for the memories! I’ll be waiting patiently for the kbin app by ljdawson.
Fuck spez ill miss sync
You just missed it. We did a Taco Bell run. You can have my extra taco, though.
Goddammit, now I want tacos.
Hello
A fellow homosapien! Welcome to the party! It’s pretty nice around here and I hope you enjoy it.
Welcome, fellow refugee.
Baconreader too is no longer working!
Hi!
Welcome aboard! Which app is that?
Sync for Reddit. IMO the best Reddit app for Android.
yeah, it was my favorite as well - I played around with RIF and Boost, but kept coming back to Sync. At least LJ has confirmed he’ll be developing Sync for Lemmy.
I used basically all of them, Sync was amazing and I’m super stoked for Sync for Lemmy/kbin support once it’s possible
yeah, that’s what I’m waiting for as well. I’m not a huge fan of the webapp on mobile at least, but it’s so much better than reddit
I agree, it was the best on android. Before switching devices I was there in the beginning of Sync for Reddit during its beta.
I’m also here. Still a little confused, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually.
Welcome! I’m also on kbin.social and have been here a few weeks, so if you’re curious or confused about anything I’m more than happy to help. It doesn’t take long to get the hang of things here, you’ll be at home in no time. :)
Welcome. It will become familiar with some time. If you have questions, check out /m/kbinmeta. Folks here are pretty willing to help.
Don’t worry, you’ll catch on soon enough. Just canoodle around until something interesting hits you and then follow the “how federation works” rabbit hole until it stops making sense. Rinse and repeat. Remember that things are still in flux, so you’ll probably run into bugs at some point. Using the platform gets significantly easier once you can identify what proper operation.
For example, if I let a kbin thread sit in a background tab for too long, it loses sync with the server. Once I reach the tab, and interaction that deals with storage (voting, commenting, etc.) brings me to 1 or 2 error pages. At first I thought this was a problem with which instance I joined or some federation thing I didn’t understand. Nope. It’s a minor bug. Just needed to refresh the page to get around it.
The fediverse is getting better and more stable every day. There’s still a lot to be done, but the devs are doing a solid job. A couple weeks ago there were 300 kbin users. Now there are 235,000. Lemmy went from 50k to 1.5m. That’s crazy!
