Eh. I mean, stuff breaks sometimes; I get it. No one’s getting paid to maintain the servers, so any degree to which they function is sort of a bonus. Honestly I kind of prefer it that way, even if NGL it’s definitely irritating when stuff is broken for extended periods of time like this.
I’m currently working on installing kbin on a server of my own so I can try to make that my new home. I like its codebase much better than Lemmy’s, to the very superficial extent I’ve investigated the two of them, and I like that kbin attempts to interoperate well with both Mastodon’s part of the fediverse and Lemmy’s part. Presumably if I can get it working as a little server for me, it’ll be better-behaved without the load of a ton of users on it, and I can just hang out there and wait it out until people sort all of this out and it all starts working well.
Blaze@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Did you have a look at mbin, mentioned in an earlier comment ? It looks quite promising too
github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I looked at it super-briefly. Honestly, I tend to prefer the kbin “I have a vision for what I want this to be and I don’t want democratically inspired changes to my codebase” system over the mbin “if it looks good we’ll merge it” system. Based on my little bit of experience with it, the backend of kbin seems relatively well-organized, and obviously he put it together well enough for it to be able to work in production on a busy site, so I trust his judgement a little. I didn’t look in detail enough to make a real informed decision about it though. I do have some nitpicks with it (definitely as far as the frontend in particular) but relative to other Fediverse software it seems above average (although, that’s a low bar.)
Looking over mbin now, the one thing that seems like a serious point in its favor is talking about security fixes. Do you know anything more about that? Are there security things that the maintainer(s) of kbin are not wanting to address or something?