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What does kbin mean? Why is kbin.social called that? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it just random letters arrived to by keyboard mashing like a lot of federated websites seem, or is there any thought behind it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found this

according to ernest it stems from /sbin. though one of the early instances was named karabin based on the karabine gun and thus shortened to kbin (or rather expanded from kbin).

(Ernest Wiśniewski is the creator of kbin)