Thanks :) I thought Mbin 🌎 sounded a little weird, and the domain is still technically kbin.earth, so I could have stuck with Kbin 🌎, but 🌎 bin is a nice mix.
I think I prefer lowercase. It becomes "Earth-bin" rather than "Earth Bin".
🌎 bin, or Earth-bin, sounds to be like a universal take on the kbin/mbin network. In the end they're both *bins; Replacing the * with 🌎 makes this website 🌎bin.
🌎 Bin, or Earth Bin, sounds to me like a garbage can for the earth.
The difference is obviously not that huge, but that's my intuition at least. :)
As someone with minimal skin in the game compared to you fine folks that keep the place running, it seems like option 2 is the most sensible for the time being. If it ends up being a disaster, then going to option 3 makes sense.
I just wanted to reach out to let you know that this may actually be a kbin issue, where your server has been spamming feddit.de and feddit.de has just been acknowledging/relaying your activities.
Since several weeks ago already we have been seeing various issues with massive amounts of activities being sent by kbin instances, primarily kbin.social. Today we (Lemmy.World) have also discovered a kbin.earth user being affected by this and have issued a community ban in one of our communities to remediate the issue and prevent thousands of activities sent from kbin.earth from being relayed through Lemmy.World.
We have so far been unable to establish any communication channel with @ernest, despite trying over multiple channels.
If you wish to perform some research about this, the user account we’ve seen this happen with from kbin.earth is @Oofnik, who we have banned from !world for the time being.
Feel free to reach out to me via matrix at @mrkaplan:lemmy.world directly if you’re looking for more details.
Hello, thanks for reaching out. I wondered if the federation issue we've had was actually just a kbin issue, but it's a lot easier to see incoming messages than outgoing, and I just assumed it was feddit.de's fault when I saw all the spam. Unfortunately, I'm guessing I won't be able to do much to fix this since I'm not a kbin (or php) developer, and Ernest doesn't seem to be actively developing anything (including bug fixes) for kbin right now. I'll message you on Matrix for more details, just in case.
Hi,
Did you really mean me? I certainly am a real person, if someone is using my account to spam Lemmy I would be happy to know, I can delete the account and make a new one. I just looked at my profile and I have only posted one comment that I see, on this very thread.
i believe this is a bug in kbin somewhere causing (almost) endless loops for the same activities (data sent between instances to communicate your actions like votes) over and over again.
all the accounts i’ve looked at so far are (or at least look like) real users. we do not believe that this is a malicious action triggered intentionally by someone who has access to the account. you just happen to be one of the unlucky so far 37 users affected by this.
I don’t want to tell people not to interact with the platform, but it seems that it’s mostly votes triggering this issue currently.
Not voting kinda defeats the point of the platform in the first place.
I don’t think there’s really anything for you to do different, at least not until it’s known what exactly triggers this issue.
We’re currently evaluating a solution on our end to ignore all votes coming in from kbin.social, which we may consider extending to other kbin instances if necessary. That should mitigate most of this hopefully.
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