The idea is to get some census like data to learn about the kids of people who use our instance/Lemmy. We've put some effort into trying not to scare people off while still yielding useful data. If there is any feedback I'd love to hear it! I can't change much after the survey has started but I'd love to take feedback into the next time and help other instances too.

It's worth noting that no question is mandatory. If you're not comfortable answering a question you don't have to (and it's fine to e.g. skip the "census" style questions and jump to the questions about how you use Lemmy.)

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Feedback I forgot the other day is that kbin no longer exists.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah I didn't spot that when copying over from last year.

I guess it's a bit more nuanced, too. I probably would have changed it to Mbin/Kbin.

Kbin the platform is no longer being developed, replaced by the fork Mbin. But there are still instances called Kbin that are running the Mbin software, e.g. https://kbin.earth/

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So there are.

Mbin forked before a lot of kbin's cooler features got implemented, I wonder if they ended up developing them too. Piefed seems closer but I haven't really explored it yet.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think Piefed does the microblogging /mastodon thing like Kbon/Mbin. But it seems pretty cool. Developed by a guy in NZ.

Piefed does have the topics thing where you can subscribe to topics that hold groups of communities, which is cool. Plus new features coming all the time. One of the aims was to write it in Python which is much more widely used so easier to find contributors. Lemmy is written in Rust, which has performance benefits but is also a newer language will fewer people that know it and so fewer contributors.

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh that's a pity, I loved being able to follow mastodons via kbin. Kbin was written in php so probably just as niche as Lemmy but for the opposite reason?

I think the topics was why I thought Piefed was going to be more like kbin.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think there are more PHP familiar devs around than rust, the main issue with Kbin was a combination of a developer who was fiercely protective of his codebase, and also had no time to work on it or review contributions from others.

I think as a result of that, Mbin is expressly consensus based and there are more people who can merge code into the code base.

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it was sad how that whole thing went down. Ernest was visionary, but protective and had health issues, and a couple of the people who wanted to help were kind of being dicks to him imo.

I feel like with the fediverse we are in the early stages of something that could be really powerful and amazing. Thanks for all you do with this corner of it!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago

Ah I didn't really see the drama, only brief bits of information from time to time.

The fediverse does feel like the next generation of the internet. There are a lot of obstacles but I do hope it continues to grow (at a sustainable pace).

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