I know some of you consider this as documented whining. I hear you but won’t stop sharing my opinion and reminding. I recommend continuing commenting on the original post to keep it a bit organized (this post is a link to it)

Update: this thread has gotten out of hand. This is not what I intended, this is not what anybody should want. Let’s leave it at this, for now.

  • density@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    @TheVillageGuy take a look at this post that showed up on my feed along with the present one: Why I started Sublinks: A timeline of events.

    It seems like this person had a somewhat similar experience to yourselves in that they were frustrated with the development of lemmy. Some effort was made to contribute but it didn’t work out. The frustrations mounted and eventually a new project was the only way forward.

    Same the mbin folks, a chat server was a useful off-threadiverse venue where ideas coalesced and relationships were built. As a participant in mbin do you catch my drift that they are roughly parallel trajectories? I’m not in either community don’t know the details.

    But notice how the problems with other people or orgs is only mentioned in that they are relevant to this story. And while it does allude to some problems which were emotionally taxing, the focus on what was done to fix it and the outcomes.

    So far the mbin project still exists and I do see people using it. If it’s going to be a long term thing youse should consider how you are representing yourselves. Being a weird Earnest accountability stalker is off putting. If you were doing it on your own behalf it would be a little disturbing. But you so clearly are doing it as some sort of ambassador in order to suggest people use mbin; and other mbin people have said similar things so I am not intending to single you out. This behaviour makes you and by extension mbin seem like a bunch of unhinged petty drama queens. It give a shine to the project as a whole. It is unnecessary. It will continue to have no helpful impact on the outcomes of kbin.

    I think it is possible at this point to set a new tone if you want. Try the link, maybe even get to know these folks if you don’t already because I bet it would be productive. Youse are probably facing similar issues with federation. Just need to decide what chat software to use.

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      9 months ago

      This behaviour makes you and by extension mbin seem like a bunch of unhinged petty drama queens.

      Personally, there’s already absolutely no way I’m ever going to use mbin, no matter what, just because these people nauseate me.

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        9 months ago

        Agreed, every post I see from them further paints them as very childish and desperate for attention.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah honestly feels like finding a McD clown advertising inside a Burger King…
      And every fork gives me the idea of stretching resources further thin.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah that makes sense and frankly I was a bit scared at first that mbin wouldn’t last long. But it’s still here and actively being developed. What we have to try to avoid Indeed is forking again.

    • TheVillageGuy@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      9 months ago

      Your opinion is welcome and duely noted. I am posting this on my own behalf, no others related in any way to mbin are involved

      When I have time I will read the link you’ve supplied

      However, Please don’t spin the situation of kbin so that it looks like I’m the one causing it or making it up. Reality remains that one person controls the main hub kbin.social and has proven and admitted before that he can’t handle it by himself.

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        9 months ago

        However, Please don’t spin the situation of kbin so that it looks like I’m the one causing it or making it up.

        … nobody did…

        … you do realize that nobody did, right? Read the post again.