Why do posts that aren’t from kbin show “kbin.social” next to the title?

It works on dark theme (I use only dark).

On dark it's light (white) text on dark green background, and it looks fine (I would prefer black or similar, but this works).

Your edit breaks dark design because you get white/grey background.

I went a bit farther and used the built in variable to set color, as well as setting the font weight down to match the "n hours ago" text, and changing " - " to "@" so that the uesrname matched the standard fediverse string that you can put into search boxes

I'll publish this properly as soon as greasyfork sends me an email to authenticate my new account, but in the meantime here's the source. EDIT: Email has yet to arrive 13 hours later, I doubt it's going to. Anyone interested feel free to publish this somewhere it's easier for people to install.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        kbin social add home-instance name to username (modified)
// @namespace   english
// @description  kbin social add home -instance name to username, modified to match style and fediverse formatting
// @include     http*://*kbin.social*
// @version     1.16
// @run-at document-end
// @require       https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jquery@3/dist/jquery.min.js
// @license MIT
// @grant       GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

$( document ).ready(function() {
    $( ".user-inline" ).each(function() {
        // get username URL and text, then remove username from URL and paste the instance name after username (not if instance is home-instance of kbin.social

        var homeinstance = $(this).attr('href') ;
        var myname = $(this).text().trim();

        var homeinstance2 =  homeinstance.replace( "/u/@" + myname + "@"  , '');

        if( homeinstance2  !=   "/u/" + myname ){ //show nothing if home-instance kbin
            console.log(homeinstance2 );
            $(this).append( "<span>@" +  homeinstance2 +"</span>" );
        }
    });
}); //end each username a href

var style = document.createElement('style');
style.type = 'text/css';
style.innerHTML =   '#content a.user-inline span{color: var(--kbin-meta-text-color); font-weight: 400}' ;

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);

You mean the thing you get when you hover over someone's profile pic?

Why!?

I had slept on that particular script, thanks for pointing it out!

You can use Tampermonkey on Firefox mobile to run these scripts. I just installed both of them they work great!

kbin enhancement script has this fixed.

The problem goes in how you would change the coding on that, since it's based on how the fediverse works.

To see the original ite it's from I look at the magazine on the sidebar below the thread stats, that'll tell you where it comes from.

That depends on how you want it. While I get your point and struggle with it myself, it shouldn't really matter where the original is. The name after the title is mostly useful with pictures, videos and links. You'll see where it is from, if it is reliable (who clicks sketchy links or reads fake news) and where you're going when you click it. For articles, I agree it could be better. Maybe they'll change it to make it more intuitive.

As the OP I am seeing responses from many difference instances during the thread. That is the fun part

Well, technically you will respond to a "copy" of the post. However, everything is federated (shared). So your comment (the "original" on kbin.social) will be a "copy" on the other server (for instance lemmy.world). So while technically speaking people could be responding to "copies" of comments/post, everything will be shared between servers.

To make it more clear (perhaps): I have my own instance/server (k.fe.derate.me) and I use my own link, website and interface to type this reply (not related to kbin.social). When I hit "send", my reply will be stored on my instance. However, kbin.social will recieve a "message" from my instance that I replied. kbin.social will then save a "copy" of my reply on their instance/server and you will receive a notification that I replied. When you open your notifications and click on it you will see my reply, but it will be the local copy of kbin.social.

As I understand it, you'd be responding to the copy and (after a random amount of time) the comments on each copy would sync.

To drive this home, recent updates to some lemmy instances have caused them to have janky federation issues despite not being blocked. Now and again comments across instances won't show up or I'll only get the thread under an image post that for some reason forgot the image when it copied over.

But the original was fine when I checked. I just don't have an account there in order to comment and it hadn't synced correctly for me.

Oh and by the way, I made an error. So if you see my long answer twice (once as a reply to you and once as a new comment) that was my dumb ass using the wrong input box.

Which is a good point that it should probably be put directly on the feed somewhere, I agree there

Even on desktop, it's not a good UX. It'll get changed. Ernest just needs time, and more people need to contribute code.