One fun thing about kbin is that websites that get posted frequently can be followed or blocked like their own magazine. This means if you’ve got a bunch of bot accounts posting links to the same dumb site, you can just go to the magazine of that site and just block that instead of playing whack-a-mole with bots.

There is a mobile app called Artemis that works well, and has recently opened it’s beta to the public, go check it out at @ArtemisApp.

active development by one sole individual who’s very involved

There are lots of devs contributing to the project, but only one who’s processing prs right now. There’s mention of it on kbinmeta.

FYI, I’ve tried figuring out why people down-vote my posts and who does it. For example if that’s all users from one specific instance. And every time I go to KBin to figure it out, the down-votes aren’t visible. It’ll just say 0. Sometimes a measly 1 but I’ve said something controversial and it should be 10. But it knows nearly all the upvotes. So I don’t know if they stopped showing Lemmy downvotes, just their own… Or everyone down-voting me is from a single instance that is defederated with kbin… Idk. But it isn’t just as simple as ‘downvotes are publicly visible’. I think in theory they should be.

blocking whole instances is enabled at the user level

I think you just sold me on kbin.

munis are called “magazines” and located at /m/ instead of /c/, which csn break some links which would be instance-neutral on lemmy

This one sound easy enough to fix though, just set up a redirect on the web server. I think that’s how it works.

e: NEvermind turns out blocking a domain doesn’t block the users so there’s no fucking point to it.

Interaction with mastodon must be why they always have so many hashtags, TIL!