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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Indeed. I’ve heard that from others as well.
    I, personally, do not intend to delete my account (yet), but I am aware that it is a manual process. As so much is here, it seems.

    I recently made some adjustments to my stuff here and it’s helped a little. (You’ll see the irony momentarily.)
    I’ve unsubscribed from most kbin magazines and have subscribed to magazines (communities) from other Fediverse instances instead. Now my feed actually has content and a lack of SPAM. So, essentially, I’m here in name only.

    Eventually, all of us normal users will need to ditch this platform because we won’t our names/accounts tied to something that is notorious for SPAM and other illegal activities. Perhaps sooner than later, if the rest of the Fediverse decides to stop federating with kbin.
    Until then, I figure at least I can still look through the window at the rest of the Fediverse.



  • Real posts (from kbin.social magazines) are becoming quite rare. I find myself coming to this site now to do the following circuit:

    1. sort by new and report SPAM and block users
    2. scroll through headlines and read (the few) recent comments/posts to mags I’m interested in
    3. come to kbinMeta and see if anyone else is seeing what I’m seeing and feeling the same way
    4. see if the radio silence has yet been broken by the dev

    It’s a fascinating case study in the rise and fall of an internet community and digital communication platform. And it highlights one important fact about human community management and technology development: COMMUNICATION IS KEY.




  • Over at Daystrom, this comes up from time to time. I’ve formed a head-canon for it as well. To quote one of my comments on a thread there regarding the explosions (and the “rocks”):

    My understanding is that the “rocks” are a product of the electroplasma system being exposed to air. Whether that is some sort of coolant that is meant to seal the EPS leak in that console or some sort of EPS byproduct reacting in air, I don’t remember or have a head-canon for it.

    All of that said, if I form this reply into one worthy of Daystrom, then I say it is an intended safety mechanism to protect the crew against catastrophic failure of the EPS conduits.

    So, the consoles are exploding from the failure of the EPS conduits and the expansion of the coolant.