It will be interesting to see which one wins out, like how Lemmy won out vs kbin/mbin, since kbin never accepted any outside help and stopped contributing. Not really putting the open in open-source that way, IMO.

[–] prof_wafflez@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I picked kbin for no particular reason and then moved to lemmy. Kbin was a dumpster fire of spam and downtime. Seems to be permanently broken as of the last 2 months minimum

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

When /kbin was zerg-rushed after the Reddit enshittification, it wasn't ready yet. It was a public alpha. It had five instances, all official, all experimental, only one of them public. I guess the dev had intended to calmly and orderly develop it until it'd be ready for prime-time. But all of a sudden, it was either developing missing features or removing bugs for those who daily-drove it in this state in expectation of it being a stable point release.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

It's a shame, I wanted to like KBin because it's PHP and I specialize in PHP (also JS and Java), but the maintainer just made sure that it wasn't sustainable.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Bluesky wins out.

Sorry, but there's companies and interest groups at play here. No one is championing Mastodon but us fossy poors.

Would kinda be nice if I dunno... Harvard or, Brown maybe would take an interest in privacy focused social media and start lobbying for and spreading it.

We have companies spending billions on bullshit, with nobody spending a cent on truth.