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melroy

@melroy@kbin.melroy.org

Software Engineer & DevOps Architect. /kbin lead developer.

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Why has this blog post with media preview on, no media preview?

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we (humans) let this happen to us.

SustainedChaos, to AskKbin

How do you get an avatar on kbin.social?

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@SustainedChaos You go to profile dropdown menu-> Settings -> profile -> (scrolldown to) avatar. Select a file and press Save.

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I have two cats.. And believe me, this is a fact... I'm not the owner. They own me. haha

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Both Google and Microsoft (Bing) aren't your friends...

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My site doesn't seems to be index. Is there a way to let SearXNG instance know about my URL?

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My site (melroy.org) is both indexed very well in those search engines. But still not ending up in searxng for some reason..

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This might be very well related to Google's Manifest V3.. Google is NOT your friend. They pushed Manifest v3.. hard!! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

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Please, be aware another PR is opening reading introducing an API: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357

Try to combine the efforts. And push your changes to this PR or upstream.

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No it's NOT a compatibility issue.. They just ban the 'kbinbot' user agent string. I have no words for it.

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Linux Mint is perfect! Avoid Ubuntu, which has a very shady history... Despite Mint being based on Ubuntu/Debian, it doesn't have any spying software. Like Ubuntu used to send all the search queries to Ubuntu when you were searching locally on your system for a file or an image.

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I will never forget. The internet will never forget.

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Well you can in that case still try out Linux Mint.. I mean, why not?

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Me either... 9 hours later*

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Seems like posting a link will not retrieve <meta property="og:image" content URL (image) anymore?

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Kbin is.. using the search button.

Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances (kbin.social)

I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...

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They also do not sent POST / updates to my /f/inbox instance anymore. Lemmy.ml seems to activity ban Kbin instances. Which is very bad. I really hope this is not on purpose..

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Still after 5 hours.. the upvotes are behind.. I hope AP will scale well in the future.. This since looks not great.

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People are indeed getting ghosted from Lemmy's Matrix channel, when they report this issue.

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well we can't deny this fact.

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Yea this is bad. Lemmy.ml is actively blocking on 'kbinbot' (case insensitive) string in the user agent request.

$ curl -I --user-agent "this is KBINBOT" https://lemmy.ml/u/test
HTTP/2 403
....

$ curl -I --user-agent "this is KBINBO" https://lemmy.ml/u/test
HTTP/2 200
....

$ curl -I --user-agent "this is BINBOT" https://lemmy.ml/u/test
HTTP/2 200
....
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Sorry to tell you this, but Lemmy.ml seems to actively blocking 'kbinbot' user-agent requests...

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I have high hopes for the fediverse.. All fediverse software/servers is still in its infancy. But I believe the fediverse will have a very bright future...

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This was to be expected... But eventually.. Microsoft will force people to the cloud.. I just feel it.. it's happening..

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100%! This will happen indeed.

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I don't think the twitter or reddit migration failed..

kholdstayr, to kbinMeta

How do you view all subscribed magazines? On Lemmy you can go to Communities, and then choose subscribed, and it shows you a list of your subscribed communities. When I click on Magazines on top in kbin, it doesn't have a selection to let you pick subscribed only.

I'm assuming its here somewhere and I'm just being dumb because I can't find it.

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@kholdstayr See attachment.

Varyag, to kbinMeta
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So, if I'm following correctly, Lemmy currently is experiencing a massive wave of bot registrations, and now about 800 thousand new registered accounts across several different instances are bots. What is kbin doing to prevent that, other than just being somewhat smaller and not picking up as much attention?

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@Varyag You can enable email verification and enable hcapthca. But admins do need to configure that.

Ohwatafool, to kbinMeta

What is this this .m3u8 file that keeps downloading every time I open the kbin homepage on firefox?

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@Ohwatafool That would be considered a bug I think. Are you doing something special (clicking on some link?) when this happens?

Robotoboy, to RedditMigration
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I have a Mastadon, AND a Kbin now. I'm trying to sign up for different Federated services and link 'em all together. I'm loving this new protocol so much. It's quiet...

It feels similar to the early 2000's internet and I'm loving it.

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@Robotoboy Welcome to the club!

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Decided I'm going to go ahead with my Kbin mobile app.

Yeah I know i have a lot on the go, but I use Apollo daily, and want a solid Apollo like experience for Kbin.

I'm willing to hand over the project to Kbin if they want, and would love to work closely with the developer on this if possible.

Will be starting this next week, after my camping trip! It will be open source from the start, and contributors will be gladly welcomed!

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@dansup @ernest @pixelfed Welcome to the club 😅.

/kbin contribution and information for instance owners (kbin.social)

The search form has been fixed (if you were experiencing this issue). This time, the Docker recreate may take a bit longer. Moving forward, when making changes, I will create pull requests like everyone else and ask for your review. Sorry for the inconvenience. Soon, the first tagged release will also be available. It's time to...

Thank you so much for your support! 😍 (kbin.social)

I just saw an email from Buy Me a Coffee. Not just one. I went in, and I'm truly shocked. Thank you all for the support; I would like to thank each and every one of you individually someday. Honestly, I don't know what to say. The account balance is $350, which will definitely allow me to develop kbin faster or at least not...

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