Hi all and welcome to kbin and m/ethfinance, our temporary-and-maybe-someday-more home while reddit learns its lesson.

I didn’t get a chance to reply to everyone in the previous thread, but I did read. Please feel free to ask me any questions about kbin, Lemmy, the fediverse, and I’ll try to answer. I’ve spent quite a few days now exploring it. I also encourage fediverse users to chime in, whether it’s from Mastodon experience or somewhere else.

The dev (@ernest@kbin.social) is lovely, responsive, and working hard right now. Feel free to chip in with suggestions at m/kbinmeta or if you have web dev experience, maybe consider reaching out directly to help.

No doubt you’re all noticing kbin is slow. It’s good to remember that the beauty of federated (decentralized) servers is also in the initial brutality. Servers can be run by anyone (great!) but servers must be run by someone (oof). Ernest is one guy, spinning up a server for refugees of a global conglomerate. It’s partly why I tried – and will keep trying – to open a server of our own.

I’d encourage everyone to have a little patience, be extra kind and gracious, and at worst, take a little time away from the screen if it’s crawling. They’re planning a large infrastructure change next week. In the meantime, try to enjoy the brave new world here. We haven’t had a truly “new” website to explore in many years. It’s kinda exciting!

Now back to the memes, lines, and triangles.