Identify a magazine which is prone to spam, scroll down to “Moderators”, click the icon of the index finger pointing upward. Click it.

Request modship and then wait as nothing happens.

I have a notification waiting for me, but I get a 404 on the page to check it out.

Append ?p=1 at the end of the URL; that sometimes fixes it.

Next, relax.

Kbin/Mbin is still the only platform(s) to try to bridge the two.

Moreover it seems to have better discoverability than mastodon Mastodon. I can type a word or phrase in the search bar on kbin and find “Mastodon” posts whereas I’m stuck viewing whatever is timeline trending on Mastodon proper unless I follow someone or can figure out whatever hashtag person might have affixed to their post.

Even with kbin being down a good 1/5 of the time it remains the best ActivityPub viewing experience (in my).

I said that already, mbin might be good but I didn’t like the advertisement.

I’m not quite sure what your position is. I am by no means an mbin booster. In fact I find some of the people pushing mbin over kbin (in lieu addition too) jerks about it.

This whole thread has been about the similarities I noticed between comments people made about/to Ernest previously and the sort of comments we later learned led to the xz backdoor.

When I started to read breakdowns about the social engineering behind the xz backdoor I was like, “Waaaaitaminute, I’ve seen that sort of talk before.” I found it notable to point out the similarity and maybe poke around at it.

People decided to use the thread (to my excessive chagrin) to talk shit about kbin and rehash the exact same pressures I was attempting to analyze.

This project is getting too large for any one person, and it’s far too important to have one point of failure. And even someone as great as Ernest needs an understudy.

That’s what “Jigar Kumar” said about xz.

Piefed also looks promising.

That one interoperable with Mastodon like Kbin is?

Erm, I thought kbin was open source? Can’t anybody fork it if they have a problem with it? This sounds like a whiny nothingburger.

They can. That’s what mbin is.

That’s part of why I don’t get why people always pressure Ernest to add maintainers.

I thin you need to chill a bit.

I’m not the one calling people willfully ignorant about things a thread isn’t even about.

one of the strengths of open source because of that.

I don’t think being a jerk is a strength

I don’t know what this xz thing is about, first time hearing it.

Someone pressured the maintainer of a compression tool used in a bunch of open source software to hand over the keys by citing burnout and offering to “help” then spent ~3 years slowly adding tiny changes that combined to form a backdoor in SSH that nearly compromised the entire internet or something.

It was only barely caught by accident because it made some thing some guy was doing that wasn’t even related a fraction of a second slower.

Been all over the FOSSiverse for days, and the social engineering that was used on the xz maintainer reminded me personally of similar pressure certain people have applied to Ernest in most threads about kbin performance I have seen.

I think Ernest is doing a fine job. [shrug] Especially when you consider none of us are being charged to be here.

Could we please stop talking about if Ernest is burning out though? That was never the question of this thread.

The question was if the comments reminded you of the social engineering that engendered the xz backdoor.

I used it as a support to my argument

What argument? I’m not sure what you position is.

I’m not going to pick through his last year’s posts and make a diagnosis, but if you’ve seen no evidence of that, I think you’re wilfully ignoring the signs.

Ok, I’ll continue “ignoring” evidence you can’t even describe (“He talked somewhere about…”), much less cite.

For all we know his frequent absence is down to a great work-life balance on his part.

Irrespective this thread is not about who is or is not burnt out, it’s about how posts like your are what enabled the xz backdoor to happen.

And he’s burning out.

I have seen no evidence of that. Also not the point of this thread.

I mean, he’s developing and administrating what’s essentially a Reddit clone all on his own.

And doing a damn fine job.

The question was if you saw similarity in the pressure to add maintainers to the project with the social engineering that lead to xz getting backdoored.

I am using the PWA right now.

le quoi? Portable Web Application?

A Reddit is a kink community, all simping for its boss…
because it’s full of subs.

Ohhhhh, is it called “red it” because that’s what they request their boss to do to their asses?

A collection is a way to view multiple magazines in one feed.

Oh, ok.

A magazine is like a Reddit subreddit

the hell is a reddit?

There isn’t air on the floor of a life boat

The inflatable double floor works as a good insulation from the cold ocean.

Inflatable.

1987 called and wants their memes back.

Madonna hadn’t even contacted Jean Paul Gaultier until 1989 and she didn’t wear the bra this is a reference to until the Blond Ambition World Tour in 1990.

Are there any alternatives?

To sport? Try musical theatre.