CoderKat

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Problem is that there's a bunch of major communities on that instance. They have no affiliation with the server admins and mostly just chose the instance because it seemed like the default very early in the migration to the Fediverse.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

I doubt that. It's not gonna "finish". It's gonna be a slow migration over time as Reddit's quality changes, more people become aware of the feasibility of alternatives, and alternatives becoming more usable (listen, kbin and Lemmy are great, but they have massive UX issues -- even I got very confused by one such issue despite being knowing how this all works).

As long as Reddit makes blunders or protests continue, there'll be news about Reddit on this site.

I agree with OP though. There's a dozen communities for Reddit oriented discussion. We don't need it in every single community. Kbin and Lemmy cannot be just about Reddit. I'm not saying don't discuss Reddit. Just do it in appropriate communities so that it doesn't drown out everything else and so every article isn't cross posted into every news, tech, internet and whatever other communities vaguely apply.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Reddit definitely has better features. It's not even a competition. The reason we're here is because of the Reddit administration and because of future potential. Eg, the apps are so new right now that Reddit's official app is better. But in a couple of months, that won't be the case anymore.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

It's sadly very annoying. What I usually do is I long press the magazine name if I'm in the front page. That will show the URL. I otherwise usually just use the URL of the page I'm on (it should have /m/foo@bar -- unless it's a local magazine, in which case it won't display the domain). But I know that isn't user friendly nor likely available on apps.

It needs to be improved. And the UI should stop hiding it (eg, the front page will show "gaming" instead of "gaming@lemmy.ml"), because the domain is a critical part of the magazine name.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

The how to subscribe to a magazine guide sadly won't work if you're the first to subscribe to it within kbin. Unfortunately, the guide to doing so might scare people away. You have to search @magazine.domain in the search (not the magazine search!).

Some of these things really highlight changes that need to be made. Like my above example. It's bad that there's two ways to subscribe to a magazine (one being completely unintuitive). It's bad that the whole thread vs post thing is so confusing. It's bad that we call something magazines while most of our content, which comes from Lemmy, calls them communities (and also has syntax for linking to them that doesn't work for us).

CoderKat, 11 months ago

I don't follow what you're saying. I love the shit out of many of my smaller communities. Reading TV subs after a new episode dropped was my favourite (and required a lot of active people). I wanted to discuss the Horizon DLC when I beat it the other day, but the Horizon sub here is super tiny. I tried to post on a generic gaming sub instead and did not get the discussion I wanted.

Similarly, Pokemon Go subs on Reddit were super detailed places to discuss the game, including with detailed analysis of any change, data mining for upcoming stuff, etc. Here, there's two subs that have just the sub creator trying to populate the sub. No actual discussion.

It sucks and I miss those kinda communities.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

How about Final Fantasy XIII? The first game has a full sized party, but Lightning is clearly the main character and the focus. Second game costars Lightning's younger sister and a new male character. Third game is just Lighting.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

It was probably a pretty devious and purposeful move. Boil the frog slowly.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

ChromeOS has its moments. It works great for most school and generic office work. It also works great for businesses that have designed around having all their software on the web.

But it's quite limited as soon as you need to run something specialized. And having to develop web UIs for everything is a lot of effort. Even when options exist, they might not be the best options.

But by no means do I want every OS to be like it. And I don't understand why anyone would want Windows to become more cloud focused. You already can access everything on the cloud from Windows. It doesn't need any changes for that. And I critically need strong support for local apps, as I don't want unnecessary subscriptions or for my PC to completely not work without internet.

As an aside, almost the entire reason I still use windows is because I'm lazy and don't wanna deal with gaming on Linux. If windows adds any friction to their one use case for me, I'm just gonna switch to Linux 100%.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Same. I actually love Linux and don't like to do software dev on anything else. The only reason windows is my main personal computer is for gaming and streaming services. And some of that is inertia, cause I'm aware that Linux gaming has improved a ton in recent years.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Here's a screenshot showing page 10. The pagination displays so many page numbers in this case that the arrows are completely off screen (lower page numbers will have them getting closer to the edge).

CoderKat, 11 months ago

We also need some way to keep it from getting so wide on narrow displays. On my phone, once you're a few pages in, the next page arrow is all the way on the edge of the screen. Multiple times I've gone to the very last page cause it's hard to click the next page arrow. Not even sure what the use case is to go to the last page.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

The Nazi bar story comes to mind.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Republicans are not championing free speech. Entirely the opposite with how they're treating LGBT folks currently.

And on that note, the Republicans are so beyond bad that yes, a one party state is actually better. To be clear, a one party state is utterly awful. That's how terrible the Republican party is. They cannot be even remotely viable when their entire platform is hating other people.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Ah, if only all dictators would be benevolent dictators for life like Guido.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Yeah, DeSantis is evil, not stupid. He has degrees from both Yale and Harvard. He knows full well what he's doing and how things work. It's all calculated evil.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Oceanic plankton produces like half of the world's oxygen. Trees get too much credit. I'm not sure what the exact impact of losing so much oxygen would be, but... Not good?

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Same. I make good money and can easily enough deal with the expense. But the durability is something they need to improve to get me on board.

I think it'd be pretty neat for the extra screen real estate, improve "front facing" camera, and for watching videos. It's mostly small things, but they are cool!

CoderKat, 11 months ago

That's a great usage! It'd be cool if there were apps and games that were designed for the two screens like DS games were, but it's probably too niche of a market for most apps to target. Though perhaps someday it'll be more common.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

I'm with you on the tablet thing. I even did buy a tablet many years ago, but barely used it. I think mostly because I didn't want to deal with carrying around another device.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Exact estimates vary, but are generally in the ballpark of about 1% of people being trans and non binary (though this is skewed towards younger people).

At any given time, the US federal government has 535 elected seats. The point of this comment is to highlight the disproportionately low rate of trans people getting into politics and being elected. Things are stacked against trans people, whether it's the barrier from how poor social acceptance growing up can limit opportunities or heightened fear of getting into politics because of how toxic they are.

And we're talking about a job where their coworkers are sometimes actively campaigning to outlaw trans treatment, acceptance, and protections. Something that in many work places would get you instantly fired, but is permitted in US politics.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

The whole CSAM issue is why I'd never personally run an instance, nor any other kind of server that allows users to upload content. It's an issue I have no desire to have to deal with moderating nor the legal risks of the content even existing on a server I control.

While I'd like to hope that law enforcement would be reasonable and understand "oh, you're just some small time host, just delete that stuff and you're good", my opinion on law enforcement is in the gutter. I wouldn't trust law enforcement not to throw the book at me if someone did upload illegal content (or if I didn't handle it correctly). Safest to let someone else deal with that risk.

And even if you can win some case in court, just having to go to court can be ludicrously expensive and risk high impact negative press.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

Reddit does give a fuck, though. If they didn't give fucks, they wouldn't be trying to fuck with the protests (eg, by forcing subs open or removing mods). Whether or not Reddit would actually do any of the things protestors want is a different question, but clearly the protests do at least hurt Reddit and Reddit would dearly like them to stop.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

I don't get preorders in the age of digital games. Just wait to see if the game is good and then buy it. Preorder bonuses are never worth the risk.

CoderKat, 11 months ago

To be honest, it can be a bad idea to setup your own stuff, particularly when you don't have much knowledge in the field. So, suppose you get the server setup. You're gonna have to maintain it. If some major security vulnerability gets discovered, you'll have to figure out how to update quickly. You'll potentially have to figure out how to setup stuff like backups. There likely will be times when things mysteriously break and when you're self hosting, it's entirely up to you to fix it.