As you noticed, I had to temporarily enable DDoS protection. Someone is trying quite effectively to distract me from my activities ;p Unfortunately, this may cause some issues with the federation. I will try to cut off the traffic as soon as possible and return to normal operation. Thank you for all your support and patience! :)
Appreciate the work you are doing and it’s been cool watching kbin develop so rapidly! Uptime has been impressive given the circumstances.
I noticed this earlier. I wouldn’t mind DDoS protection sticking around until things settle down. Thanks for the quick action!
I don’t think this is DDoS, you’re just on a front page of HN due to https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/10268/Fedi-Tips-at-feditips-at-mstdn-social-Apparently-Reddit-has-now-banned-a-subreddit-dedicated
suffering from success
Absolutely, kbin is great so far.
Yup. I’m loving it so far in terms of functionality.
General community experience is to be seen but I’m hopeful.
Like any similar site it will succeed or fail on the back of the community it manages to attract and keep, but I have to say that for me KBin feels far more like a natural workflow than Lemmy. I think I’ll stay!
The nice thing about Reddit was that you knew the vibe of each of the subs. Since everything is so new here, and the influx so immense, it’s going to take time for the various communities to settle. Unfortunately for the old timers here, the pre-existing magazines here are unlikely to maintain their prior vibe. Hopefully they don’t hate the Reddit exodus too much.
Do not worry about us, kbin.social oldtimers - it was founded only on April, and we are early adopters ;)
I have a feeling most of the exodus is going to be reddit old-timers that might fit in a little better than the rest of reddit, but y’know, remains to be seen.
Oh I hope so. I miss when top comments were actual top tier comments that added to the discussion. Now it’s all about posting jokes.
@ajar7 Yep, I saw it that way, and it seemed to be going quite well. That changed a few minutes after I posted the screenshots and server specifications :) Perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but it was a huge change in such a short period of time. I still want to verify this and have external confirmation, but DDoS protection is currently the only option to keep the website alive.
Wait reddit banned a sub showing how to make an account here? They are trying to speedrun their demise at this point.
Want to hear some irony? I’m here because I saw a thread on Reddit about that subreddit being banned.
I saw that and immediately went “alright, sounds like Kbin is the place to be!” If reddit is banning it, then Kbin must be seen as a threat.
Nice, the Streisand Effect is working
Same. Made my account this morning and since then this site is visibly more active already.
Me too! Today I tried both this and Lemmy, but I find Kbin more to my taste in terms of interface, and I can still access all of the Lemmy threads, which resolves the only issue (IMHO) of kbin: lemmy seems to have more content and “threads/magazines/subreddits”.
I hope to make Kbin my new home after the Reddit exodus!Same! I’ve been trying to comment this on Reddit where possible so that others won’t try just lemmy and give up. Hoping to stay here permanently
Ahh, is this why I keep getting asked to prove I’m human? I wasn’t sure if that was because my VPN was doing something goofy or if the site’s just getting hammered with new users (like myself).
Yeah I started getting those captchas after the DDoS protection got switched on, using a VPN on both. Have had the same thing on a few sites using a VPN, minor cost for the whole site not getting knocked out though.
The suble signs of success is when someone tries to mess with you. Well done!
No worries. You’re doing a great job. Keep it up.
No problem, seems someone is jealous. Do whatever it needs.
Keep up the great work.
Honestly, the site is far more responsive than it was yesterday. Keep doing what you’re doing.
It’s likely there is also a bunch of other tuning happening and this is unrelated to performance increases, but I stand by comment.
Glad to see kbin taking off. I prefer it over lemmy and the magazine concept has helped me explain it to others. I tell people kbin is like a shop. Anyone can set up their own shop. Then people can create magazines, and in those magazines, posts are like articles and you can comment on those articles. But this shop can also see the magazines in other shops etc. Its a bit arbitrary but it’s actually helped people understand the fediverse in terms they understand
Another explanation, also valid: /kbin is also like a bookstore - with people being able to create their own magazines (or even newspapers), consisting of long-form articles, but also of short notes (fitting a toot on Mastodon). And it contains also magazines from other bookstores, as they collaborate with /kbin. And people are able to write their own pieces on every magazine, not only these, which they own!
I loved magazine name of “subfeddit” since first sight, and now, I love this dual meaning even more!
While it’s probably from HN, make sure you don’t fall victim to the Mastodon design flaw causing DDoS-like traffic: https://jort.link.
Thanks for keep things running well. Is the DDOS mitigation confirmed to be causing federation issues or is it speculation at this point? How does Mastodon deal with it?
Edit: Are you able to create a rule to bypass the check for logged in users?
Can you point me to documentation to deploy kbin natively on linux? I know there’s a well documented docker installation guide, but I was looking for something native to Linux. I’ve successfully got postmill going until I realized it’s not (yet?) part of the the fediverse. postmill and kbin share very similar UI and I wanted to try out the deployment of kbin for evaluation before eventually(hopefully) rolling an instance out
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki#install-without-docker
You probably want to join #kbin:matrix.org for realtime help
Yeah, looks like I’m seeing the federation issues as I don’t appear to be able to follow my kbin.social account from my Mastodon instance - guess it’s being blocked.
That whole sentence is so dang confusing lol. I am so unbelievably green with the federation stuff.
The way I have it, Mastodon works like Twitter. Kbin, Lemmy, etc. work like reddit, as a way to gather together tons of individual forums/subforums.
Only, because they all use the same networking protocol, they’re all compatible with each other. So imagine being able to use your reddit account to follow/respond to a tweet. The whole thing comes off as so much chaos to the uninitiated, and I’m kind of liking it
