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Kbin user here, these don’t work for me.

I thought it’s because the instance is missing, but I checked out your comment on fedia.io and it seems like everything is correct there.

Here on kbin.social it only displays @username without the instance afterwards, and the link itself isn’t federated it seems. So kbin tries to resolve the name locally, fails, and just displays it in plaintext.

kbin.social’s admin (and kbin currently only supports one admin per instance) is also the main dev.

As I understand it, the sudden unexpected popularity of kbin caused infrastructure issues and made fixing bugs and limitations more important, while he still has to reach his feature goals to secure funding so he can actually continue working on kbin full-time. Additionally, real life had a lot of negative surprises in store he had to deal with.

All in all, he hasn’t had much time at all to properly moderate the instance, And the past two weeks he’s been gone entirely for real life reasons, leaving the instance unmoderated.

It’s not an issue with the software itself, just with kbin.social (and of course other badly moderated instances) specifically.

Yeah, someone else already pointed this out to me. All I was aware of (and got from google when checking) was the political definition, so I thought that’s all there is to it. I guess this is one of those cases where I should have probably asked ai instead of google because I’m sure I would have been informed of this that way.

Oh, that would be it then, yeah. In hindsight, I should have asked chatgpt about this first, that would have probably told me about this. I did check google, but it only gave me information on federation in politics, so I assumed that’s the only thing there is.

This makes perfect sense then, thanks for clearing that up!

I mean, without a central governance, just cooperation, isn’t it just a confederation then?

I see, I do think a confederation fits much more with that reasoning, but I can understand it from that perspective.

My issue is that there’s no centralized power that has control over all the instances/states, which is how federation works. Edit: So I think calling it a federation is wrong. A confederation, sure, but it’s not a federation unless there’s something I’m missing.

Thing is, as I understand, on kbin, you don’t really get a feed of the people you follow like on mastodon.

There’s no dedicated follow feed, yeah, but I noticed posts and threads of followed accounts showing up in my subscribed feed, even though they were made in a community I’m not subscribed to. So I think the follow and subscribed feeds are probably just merged together currently, or rather “following” a user is being treated as just a flavor synonym for subscribing to a user.

kbin can interact with mastodon freely, so if that’s something you want to be able to do easily, you might want to switch over from lemmy.

I was thinking you can probably open the user’s profile on lemmy and reply to the post from there, but testing that didn’t seem to work. I assume that’s just federation taking a while though, so I’d say try it anyway. Searching for @name@usersmastodoninstance I mean. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

@BloodSlut

I think you misunderstand what I meant.

This link: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]

takes me to the profile on kbin instead.

This happens with any kbin/lemmy community/user. Mastodon seems to automatically redirect, I’m asking if I can turn that off somehow. If I go to a mastodon.social url, I expect to arrive at mastodon.social not kbin.social or lemmy.world.

As I understand it, that addon you’re referring to would just redirect a lemmy.world link to kbin.social (aka my home instance) instead. Which isn’t really what I’m looking for at all.