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Hope you feel better soon!
I have to say that I agree with others there are significant structural issues with the benevolent dictatorship type governance model. A team of people with diverse skills, strengths, weaknesses, commitments and all that is needed to bring a project like this to its potential.
Establishing a committee of some sort to share the work is really going to allow your efforts to shine to a greater degree and highlight your contributions, not diminish them. Perhaps getting in touch with some organization like Software Freedom Conservancy for advice? They exist to help with this sort of thing:
Conservancy assists FLOSS project leaders by handling all matters other than software development and documentation, so the developers can focus on what they do best: improving the software for the public good.
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for myself I find the existing android clients far from adequate. if you have filters, folders, identities etc it is a fuck tonne of set up. last time i tried i just gave up.
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Idk anything about this person in specific but my guess is that @ferralcat is referring to "legacy students". If you search for that term alone or in combination with "Standford" you can read all about what those words mean. The words have very well-understood meanings. For example:
Nearly 18% of Class of 2023 are legacy students or relatives of donors, report reveals
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https://github.com/hackjutsu/Lepton ? I do not follow how this is relevant?
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working hard and nepotism aren't mutually exclusive
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actually what you said was
any opinion
it's not a crime. but you know lemmy isn't a court of law right? you sound like an asshole.
whether it deserves a ban I guess that depends on the context.
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it's like going to a party and then just hanging out in the kitchen. or spending the whole night out on the porch smokin cigs.
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in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began. since that time, there have been various other intrinsic and extrinsic threats. I do not see much panicking about beehaw. did the threadiverse survive beehaw? or is this only a shell of what we might have had otherwise?
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well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.
If this isn't Github already, what is?
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Maybe this is why the data set was chosen. But does anyone else notice the huge jump between the last and second-last items?
136.@pixelfed Pixelfed 19.5K 2 22 pixelfed.social Jun 2018
137. @Mediapart Mediapart 2.8K 302 15.7K mastodon.social Apr 2017
Once you get past the george takei / neil gaimen top 5-10 zone it is a pretty smooth descent til this very sharp drop.
PS @BentiGorlich this post is tagged as being german language on kbin.
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they're famous to @outer_spec
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As a workaround, if you go to your notifications inbox page, near the top right of the content area there is a little "feed" icon. It is a link to a private RSS feed to your notifications. You can use an RSS reader like a standalone application or a browser plugin to monitor. You can get a notification that way.
Above instructions are for the default lemmy interface as it appears on desktop. You can't find the link in some other interfaces. And kbin doesn't have notification inbox at all that I can find.
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It's a bit weird to only be on discord don't you think?
do they just post their code in a chat or something?
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@melroy Dude, you need to reign in your street team. This post and all the others like it are harassment done on behalf of you and your project. And you are here posting in support, condoning it.
Tracking a person's online activity is fucked up stalker behavior. It doesn't matter what role they play in what project. It is harassment and obviously intended to menace. No matter what OP says, everyone can see this is the case. Look at the comments on the page. Do you see comments like this about any other open source project?
It's really likely this will escalate. Nothing good is going to come of this. Kbin won't be developed any faster. Mbin's reputation will deteriorate, attract fewer users/contributors than it otherwise might have and specifically repel friendly helpful people who don't appreciate this kind of thing. Your instances may be de-federated for failing to stop harassment. OP will sink further and further into whatever miserable spiral they are in. You personally will be associated with all of it because as a community leader you come here to encourage OP in this unhinged behavior. Find a way to redirect this energy into something that is useful for your project, or disassociate from it.
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global blocklists
good thing nobody suggested that..... And if they did it would be completely unenforceable.
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Imagining for a second that I had the technical ability to do so. The thought of running a lemmy server and letting random people make accounts sounds scary to me. Especially a "general purpose" one. I would feel responsible for the crappy stuff posted by users. How do people cope with that.
Also would not be able to conduct the "investigations" required to determine if an instance was csam etc. Because that means you have to go and check it out! we can't have a system where every admin is basically required to view CSAM. that's crazy.
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There are some tools that can help with this but I don't think completely automatically. I don't use any of them.
See: https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy#tools - scroll up and down the page too might be something that suits you
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Well I'm not involved so don't let me put you off it. :)
In broad principal I think a lively kbin fork is desirable.
It is very strange that the people associated with it spend their time doing posts like this one. No matter what you think of someone development style, tracking their behavior like this is fucking weird. Bordering on harassment. And in service of promoting their platform.
Why not announce features and bug fixes like a normal project?
But honestly I am hoping that if some more calm people get mixed up this will cool down.
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@TheVillageGuy take a look at this post that showed up on my feed along with the present one: Why I started Sublinks: A timeline of events.
It seems like this person had a somewhat similar experience to yourselves in that they were frustrated with the development of lemmy. Some effort was made to contribute but it didn't work out. The frustrations mounted and eventually a new project was the only way forward.
Same the mbin folks, a chat server was a useful off-threadiverse venue where ideas coalesced and relationships were built. As a participant in mbin do you catch my drift that they are roughly parallel trajectories? I'm not in either community don't know the details.
But notice how the problems with other people or orgs is only mentioned in that they are relevant to this story. And while it does allude to some problems which were emotionally taxing, the focus on what was done to fix it and the outcomes.
So far the mbin project still exists and I do see people using it. If it's going to be a long term thing youse should consider how you are representing yourselves. Being a weird Earnest accountability stalker is off putting. If you were doing it on your own behalf it would be a little disturbing. But you so clearly are doing it as some sort of ambassador in order to suggest people use mbin; and other mbin people have said similar things so I am not intending to single you out. This behaviour makes you and by extension mbin seem like a bunch of unhinged petty drama queens. It give a shine to the project as a whole. It is unnecessary. It will continue to have no helpful impact on the outcomes of kbin.
I think it is possible at this point to set a new tone if you want. Try the link, maybe even get to know these folks if you don't already because I bet it would be productive. Youse are probably facing similar issues with federation. Just need to decide what chat software to use.
When I join threadiverse (summer 2023), soon everyone was talking about Threads and how it was about to destroy the whole thing. Then nothing came of it and the whole convo kinda vanished. Why didn't threads destroy threadiverse already?
On desktop kbin is 5x better than vanilla lemmy. But on mobile I have several FLOSS lemmy clients. They all have their pros n cons. Their development is spread out with different projects. Work and the responsibility are distributed from the main lemmy maintainers. The kbin webapp is *pretty* good, but not as good as a native client. There is of course only one. My feeling is that designing for clients (having an API) imposes some kind of discipline on projects. Like you can't just do whatever willy nilly. My other feeling is that kbin is setting up to be like iCloud whereas lemmy is more akin to sftp. Thoughts?
When I Find-in-page for a term using `ctrl`+`f` or "find as you type" with "Highlight all" turned on, all results will appear highlighted. *But* then much of the time several seconds (variable) later it goes away, as though I had hit `esc`. If I hit `ctrl`+`g` for "find again" it starts again at the top. So current place in page is lost. This happens even if I take my hands away from keyboard/mouse. It is not some kind of input I am doing. Does this sound framiliar to anyone? Is there a way to make the "find" results stay found? Or is there an add-on which reliably implements Find? I have problem on multiple devices, for a long time, and with linux, windows and mac.
One of the extremely useful things about reddit was that content was somewhat organized by URL. Each post was created in a subreddit. So you could do websearch like `keyword site:reddit.com/r/subreddit` This is more difficult/impossible on the threadiverse. I am not sure to what extent it is configurable on either platform, but quickly looking I see URLs like this: * lemmy: `https://lemmyinstance.tld/post/0000000`; no community/magazine context is present * kbin: `https://kbininstance.tld/m/magazinename/t/00000/the-title-of-the-post-is-optionally-included` I like the kbin way of doing this because it provides the possibility of searching as with reddit. Are there any potential solutions to this problem? I haven't even mentioned various other hurdles inherent to the distributed nature of the fediverse content. So feel free to enumerate those. I'm sure I'm not the only one to want this feature. What is the status of it?
Somebody who was previously active on the kbin codeberg repo has left that to make a fork of kbin called mbin. repo: [https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin](https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin) In the readme it says: > > > Important: Mbin is focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo member. Discussions take place on Matrix then consensus has to be reached by the community. If approved by the community, no additional reviews are required on the PR. It's built entirely on trust. > > As a person who hangs around in repos but isn't a developer that sounds totally insane. Couldn't someone easily slip malicious, or just bad, code in? Like you could just describe one cool feature but make a PR of something totally different. Obviously that could happen to any project at any time but my understanding of "code review" is to at least have some due diligence. I don't think I would want to use any kind of software with a dev structure like this. Is it a normal way of doing stuff? Is there something I'm missing that explains how this is not wildly irresponsible? As for "consensus" every generation must read the classic [The Tyranny of Stuctureless](https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm). Written about the feminist movement but its wisdom applies to all movements with libertarian (in the positive sense) tendencies. Those who do not are condemned to a life of drama, not liberation.
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hello friends of rblind. I am a sighted person who follows the [kbin-core](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core) repo. I saw an issue [#1143](https://kbin.social/tag/1143) opened recently regarding the use of `alt` in markdown. I am having a hard time discerning whether it is a productive request or not. I understand that rblind is not a free-of-charge accessibility consultation company. But I thought I would point out this issue in case anyone had an interest in contributing to the discussion. If I am posting in error, please either remove it or notify me so I can remove or edit the post. Here is the text of the issue: > > > See [this post](https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisAppPlayground/t/467262/Testing-alt-text) > > > > Current widespread wisdom is that you should specify alt text with the format `` but this ISN'T behaving as alt text. It's behaving as a label. It needs to be set to the alt text attribute on the image. > > > > True alt text doesn't need to be rendered out. It's a nice feature that apps like pixelfed give you a button to see the alt text, because it can give extra context, but this is a secondary feature. This would be great to add as well, but it's out of scope here. > > > > Labels are meant for things like crediting the photographer. See any well written news articles for examples of this. [This one](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/498248/grenadiers-leave-mysterious-markings-deep-beneath-aotearoa-oceans) has an image of some sharks as a header. You'll see underneath that it has an explanation and credits NIWA for the image. > > > > There IS a way to specify labels in markdown, and leave the alt text in tact. The correct format is `` but this isn't currently recognised by kbin and the label gets completely stripped out. ([link](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#img)) > > > > You can verify this by using something like [this plugin.](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/image-alt-text-viewer/nhmihbneenlkbjjpbimhegikadfleccd/) > > > > Notice how all the post images are marked as "Missing alt attribute" > > > > Notice how things like the magazine icon don't render out their alt text "ArtemisAppPlayground Icon" > > > > Further, see codberg's handling of images: > > > > [alt text](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg/320px-SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg.png) > > > > `` > > > > results in the following html: > `<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg/320px-SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg.png" alt="alt text" title="Label text here">` > > > > (codeberg displays labels as tooltips) > > > > I honestly think it's fine to keep using the first `[part]` as labels, mostly because this syntax is already widely in use, but I think the second `(link "this bit")` should be set to the image's alt text attribute. > >
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I just learned: [https://github.com/ogham/exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa) the `ls` replacement has been replaced by [https://github.com/eza-community/eza](https://github.com/eza-community/eza) the `exa` repo says: > > > exa is unmaintained, use the [fork eza](https://github.com/eza-community/eza) instead. > (This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable). > > For the curious, looks like the story, contributor deliberations and conversations are here: [[Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/1139) hope everyone involved is OK & on to other projects both projects are MIT licensed and written in rust.
I just learned: [https://github.com/ogham/exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa) the `ls` replacement has been replaced by [https://github.com/eza-community/eza](https://github.com/eza-community/eza) the `exa` repo says: > > > exa is unmaintained, use the [fork eza](https://github.com/eza-community/eza) instead. > (This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable). > > I didn't read it all, but for the curious, looks like the story is here: [[Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/1139) hope everyone involved is OK, on to other projects
I just learned: [https://github.com/ogham/exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa) the `ls` replacement has been replaced by [https://github.com/eza-community/eza](https://github.com/eza-community/eza) the `exa` repo says: > > > exa is unmaintained, use the [fork eza](https://github.com/eza-community/eza) instead. > (This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable). > > I didn't read it all, but for the curious, looks like the story is here: [[Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/1139) hope everyone involved is OK, on to other projects
Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. ([also missing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadiverse)!) At some point, there will be some sort of drama involving kbin. It could be constructive drama or not; who knows. When it happens, whatever it is, lots of people will direct themselves to wikipedia to learn about what this website is. We all know wikipedia can be very influential. Even in the absence of drama.
Links: * [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/) * [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/mbblbalkjcikhpladidpimlfiapdffdh) * [Edge](https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb) - v1.2.3 is still being approved, you can grab the release from Github if you are eager * Opera: Still under review, please download from Chrome webstore or Github release. For questions / support: [https://lemmy.ca/c/instance\_assistant](https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant) (alternate: [lemmy.ca/c/instance\_assistant](https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant)) ### What’s new? ### ([read on the wiki](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/wiki#recent-updates)) * You can now customize the instance list to match which instances you actually use. This should be helpful for those that have accounts on different instances. * Added a settings page so that you can turn off features that you don’t want active * Added buttons for helpful tools that let you explore Lemmy/Kbin communities (with lemmyverse.net), and search across Lemmy sites (with search-lemmy.com). * Added a sidebar for those that prefer it (works on Firefox, Chrome & Opera; Edge doesn’t have sidebars yet but the code is there) * Fix for issues with the search trigger on the community not found page (thank-you to [whqwert](https://github.com/whqwert)!) * Various bugfixes, small theme changes, and improved wording ### What’s coming up? ### ([read on the wiki](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/wiki#recent-updates)) * Working with the amazing /u/howdy@thesimplecorner.org to bring over features from the LemmyTools Userscript^1^ * Integrating lemmyverse.net and search-lemmy.com so you can do everything right on your community page^2^ * Adding icons and simplifying the design, as the UI is getting wordy * Adding support for alternative home instances (ex. Alexandrite - [Issue 14](https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant/issues/14)) * Ability to have multiple ‘home instances’, so you can open it in any without having to change your home instance each time. * Finishing the setup so that people can contribute translations / other languages to the extension. * Getting the extension on Opera (no immediate plans, but this would be good to have) More details: 1. /u/howdy@thesimplecorner.org has created a really useful userscript that you can find here: [https://kbin.social/search?q=lemmytools@thesimplecorner.org](https://kbin.social/search?q=lemmytools@thesimplecorner.org) (alternate: [thesimplecorner.org/c/lemmytools](https://thesimplecorner.org/c/lemmytools)). We’re going to be working together to bring those features into Instance Assistant, so that you can have all the features in one place. 2. Right now there are buttons to explore Lemmy/Kbin communities (with lemmyverse.net), and search across Lemmy sites (with search-lemmy.com). Both of these take you to the respective webpages. Instead, it might be nicer to have a lightweight version right on the Lemmy/Kbin community page (or in the extension popup/sidebar). This should be possible using their APIs/data access, and I have a little working proof of concept already (see GitHub) I’m new, what is this? ========== Instance Assistant is a browser extension that started out as a way to quickly jump from one community to the version on your home instance, so that you could subscribe/participate immediately. Since then, a few other features have been implemented: ### Features ### * **Redirect to your home instance:** * Buttons will be added to the sidebar of any Lemmy or Kbin community you visit, which will let you open the same community on your home instance. * **Open links in home instance:** * Right click context menu will allow you to open any links in your home instance * **Improved Error Pages:** * ‘Community not found’ pages now have better information, a button to trigger a fetch, a button to open a community in the source instance, and more. * **Customizable popup & sidebar menus:** * Customizable list of instances to let you quickly switch home instances. This is great for if you have multiple accounts on different instances. * There are also buttons for helpful tools that let you search for communities (with lemmyverse.net), and search across Lemmy sites (with search-lemmy.com). * **Settings:** * You can change the default behaviour of the extension, customize the popup & sidebar menus, and turn off features you don’t want to use.
I can't believe how fast this addon was developed into something that is super useful. A month ago I made a list of all the available addons to address this need. There were I think 4-5 of them and I actually didn't end up using any of them because they were too simple and didn't add much for my usecase. In the intervening days (days!) this project has really fleshed out. I am impressed that you've managed to make an interface that makes sense. I wasn't sure if that would be possible because it is kind of an inherently complex situation. And on top of that, it *works*. There are issues with federation which are network wide and not much you can do about that. But as much as the threadiverse is willing to cooperate, this addon smooths the experience. Thanks, I really appreciate this.
I am not sure what is correct to put in [kbin-core/issues](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues) without cluttering it up with somewhat speculative requests. I have no idea how to implement this or whether it is possible. So I will post here? This is a response to issue [\#635 - Editor support for autocompletion when a user types /m/, /c/, /u/, or @](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/635) @garrettw [said](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/635#issuecomment-976794): > > > After all of this I'm left with the distinct impression that a standardized link format is needed *across the fediverse* for any fediverse content. > > I keep wishing for UUIDs or hashes or an internal link shortener or permalink something. These are the same post on different instances: * [https://fedia.io/m/firefox/t/132144](https://fedia.io/m/firefox/t/132144) \<- this is the instance where the community lives * [https://lebowski.social/post/12337](https://lebowski.social/post/12337) \<- this is the poster's home instance * [https://kbin.social/m/firefox@fedia.io/t/237162](https://kbin.social/m/firefox@fedia.io/t/237162) * [https://beehaw.org/post/6759290](https://beehaw.org/post/6759290) It would be nice if it would have a unique ID like `e3d14d6c-28d7-11ee-be56-0242ac120002` across the \*verse. I can't be the first person to think of this right? Why is ity either not a good idea, or not a viable idea? I imagine 2 variations. I am not attached to any of the particulars... Just spitballing. What do you think? 1. `/local/uuid` ---------- `/local/e3d14d6c-28d7-11ee-be56-0242ac120002` - this link would bring the user to the post on the instance where you are viewing it. So if someone writes in a comment: ``` check out [this post](/local/e3d14d6c-28d7-11ee-be56-0242ac120002)! ``` and you are viewing it on beehaw, it renders like this: ``` <p>check out <a href="https://beehaw.org/post/6759290">this post</a>!</p> ``` if you are viewing it on kbin.social, it renders like this: ``` <p>check out <a href="https://kbin.social/m/firefox@fedia.io/t/237162">this post</a>!</p> ``` 2. `/orig/uuid` ---------- On the other hand we need a way to link to the particular item as it appears "originally". To do this, you could write: ``` check out [this post](/orig/e3d14d6c-28d7-11ee-be56-0242ac120002)! ``` And irrespective of where you are looking at it, it will render like this: ``` <p>check out <a href="https://fedia.io/m/firefox/t/132144">this post</a>!</p> ``` I am not 100% sure if the correct behaviour for this is to link to the community home instance or the poster's home instance? I went with community home but maybe there is argument for the other way, or for both.
I would like to suggest that developers consider as much flexibility when trying to interact with links/handles from off-instance and off-kbin (e.g. lemmy) as possible. I would like for it to work on lemmy in a similar fashion. I think that the various "incorrect" ways of doing things should work as redirects assuming this would not cause a technical problem. It could even explain the correct way of doing things if you'd like to discourage it. Non exhaustive examples: **communities** as an example: [https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists](https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists) [search kbin.social](https://kbin.social/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ca%2Fc%2Fwowthislemmyexists) for `https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists` - finds occasions where people have mentioned the URL in comment/post Most lemmy instances suggest searching for a group in a way that doesn't work: [search kbin.social](https://kbin.social/search?q=%21wowthislemmyexists%40lemmy.ca) for for `!wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca` - finds occasions where people have mentioned the handle in comment/post you need to replace ! with @ to find it: [search kbin.social](https://kbin.social/search?q=%40wowthislemmyexists%40lemmy.ca) for for `@wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca` - works as expected So the kbin.social URL is [https://kbin.social/m/wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca](https://kbin.social/m/wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca) But what about variations a person could try based on principals of how things work e lsewhere: [https://kbin.social/m/@wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca](https://kbin.social/m/@wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca) [https://kbin.social/m/!wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca](https://kbin.social/m/!wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca) even allowing use of the /c/ instead of the /m/? **profiles** profiles have similar inconsistencies. I can view this off-instance profile on kbin.social: [https://kbin.social/u/@btschumy@mas.to](https://kbin.social/u/@btschumy@mas.to) but if I try to drop my own username into the same structure, it doesn't work: [https://kbin.social/u/@density@kbin.social](https://kbin.social/u/@density@kbin.social) The only way to see my profile is (I think) [https://kbin.social/u/density](https://kbin.social/u/density) Hope this all is intelligible.
/r/Firefox and /r/FirefoxCSS have both moved to fedia.io kbin instance. from kbin.social I can access Firefox. But I can't access FirefoxCSS. I waited about 90 mins since first trying. Should I just wait longer or is there some other issue? `@Firefox@fedia.io` fedia link: [https://fedia.io/m/Firefox](https://fedia.io/m/Firefox) from kbin.social: [https://kbin.social/m/Firefox@fedia.io](https://kbin.social/m/Firefox@fedia.io) search on kbin.social: [https://kbin.social/search?q=Firefox%40fedia.io](https://kbin.social/search?q=Firefox%40fedia.io) `@FirefoxCSS@fedia.io` fedia link: [https://fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS](https://fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS) kbin.social: [https://kbin.social/m/FirefoxCSS@fedia.io](https://kbin.social/m/FirefoxCSS@fedia.io) "404 Not found" search on kbin.social: [https://kbin.social/search?q=FirefoxCSS%40fedia.io](https://kbin.social/search?q=FirefoxCSS%40fedia.io) "Empty"
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