I signed up kbin.social but have since decided to go all in on Lemmy. I’ve tried all day to delete my account on kbin but it won’t let me. Once I click the delete confirmation pop up it simply reloads the feed and keeps your account.
Be warned. Currently you have no control over your data there. I think that settles it for me. I won’t be using that service again.
Bit of an overreaction, it’s just that kbin is experiencing a lot of server issues and is insanely slow lately. Your request will probably go through later.
100% this. I’ll bet you’ll find a bunch of failed requests in the inspector. Things are being hugged to death right now.
I’m willing to let them slide. Kbin and Lemmy are getting power slammed right now. Requests from clients aren’t going through properly and everything is being held together with duct tape and prayers.
If you find something weird, see if there is community / magazine that makes sense to report the bug to. I don’t think there is any ill intent happening right now. Shits just cracking under the extreme traffic load.
Have you tried to contact the admins? Their servers are under immense load, it could be a problem related to that.
There is only one admin and it is also the only kbin developer.
Kbin is not ready, I’m sad to say.
But then we couldn’t bait
Not sure about kbin but sign-up/account management on lemmy is kinda broken as well. For example lemmy.ml doesn’t allow new users to sign up and when you try its just infinite loading with no visible response. Or on beehaw.org where you have to sign up and pray that you’re accepted cause otherwise you’re just ghosted. Edit: also there’s no way to migrate to another instance There’s a long way ahead in terms of UX
One thing that definitely worries me with federation in general is the barrier to entry to hosting an instance is low, by design. On one hand this is great, but on the other hand it means just about anyone can spin up an instance and collect usernames, passwords, emails, etc. from anyone who signs up
I know this is obviously no better than an single giant corporation who can do that. But it’s interesting to think about.
I’m definitely not suggesting kbin.social is doing this by the way. Your post just spurred this thought for me
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I’d imagine the servers were just overloaded. I’d give it some time and try again.
