That was the instance I signed up at, about 10 mins before I posted this link. Lemmy also went down in the last day, so nothing is bulletproof. But the site is working as I’m browsing and commenting right now.

There Matrix discussion forum may be best place to ask - https://matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org

No, the pull requests are to do with submissions of source code to the core project. The project owner has to review and accept those changes for them to happen (or not).

kbin had not been accepting some commits and apparently were moving quite slowly with newer features. So, this is more like a dev version type implementation. It is more “open” to changes and commits apparently. Not more “open” as in open-source.

Saw somewhere it was said the kbin side was going too slowly and not accepting some commits that their community gave. Some wanted to move quicker with newer features and enhancements.

Well not “problematic” as it actually works great, and I’ve never had to touch it. But yes, I’m not sure all the mobile app clients have implemented this option, which is why I mainly use the desktop browser. Having such a “watchlist” is essential for me for monitoring topics of interest. I prefer to follow topics, than profiles.

I have a couple of hashtags pinned in a column (desktop browser), so can see any of those topics as they are posted. For me this is actually better than Twitter has?

Yes I forgot I already post to a Matrix room using RSS, and to Twitter I’m using Integromat as I’m only using the Title, link and hashtags whereas my RSS feed is a full length post.

I have to post manually to about 8 and then that replicates to the others. I keep this diagram updated to keep track of what is being used where, as it changes. But I am actually active daily on 80% of these social networks, so it’s not just blasting out on its own.

Pleasure - no not on Wikipedia as that would be pretty global ;-) Very likely here as I do post a bit, but also on about 14 other social networks.

I did a post about the new instance at https://gadgeteer.co.za/new-perthchat-australian-lemmy-decentralised-social-network-is-an-example-of-where-social-networks-should-be/, and let my family in Australia know. Really hope it takes off!