Daily General Discussion - June 12, 2023

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anon,
anon avatar

Anybody else bought an Autominter PRO Pass when they released? I've lost sight of that project after attempting to sell the $AMR tokens airdropped from having the pass, and finding out they were locked for an undetermined amount of time. Was it all just a slow rug?

newtosh,
newtosh avatar

From the discussions I remember in the EVM Discord, the "unlock period" was supposed to end when certain revenue goals were met. However, Autominter isn't as popular as we believed, and is far away from these revenue goals. I'm sure it's just a reflection of deeper lying problems (unflexible team, bad PR, ...)

Asdafari12,

I think I minted one, not bought but can't remember.

696,
696 avatar

we minted them for 0.07e + gas so around 0.09/0.1e total I think.

I don't think it's a slow rug. I don't think we re getting our $AMR tokens cause for the tier that we need to unlock is gonna take months/years.

Honestly, they have a decent product, especially with their decent AI feature but they are just not know and not doing anything about that.. A few of us tried giving feedback or raising questions and ye..

minimalgravitas,
minimalgravitas avatar

Did we buy them or did we get them free for holding EVMs and just have to pay gas...? I don't quite remember. Anyway I think the purpose of them is as an unlock for the premium features of Autominter (stuff like bulk airdrops and custom prices for different whitelists), so if you want to do an NFT project like the Pandas or Owls or whatever then they are probably pretty useful, but if you never intend to do anything like that then I'm not sure they have much reason to be valuable.

Ethical-trade,
Ethical-trade avatar

Hello all and thanks Kbrot

fiah,
fiah avatar

so what happens if you "boost" something?

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

At first I was led to believe it was a "retweet" -- that it would post to your (the boosting user's) microblog. But over the days I think it's more of a signal booster, a sort of community-driven pin. Basically, it moves boosted comments (or threads) up the page, for more viewership. We'll see how it works best as time goes on.

Supernova,

Why do I see posts from magazines that I did not subscribe to in my front page? Is there a way to turn that off?

T0Bii,

Good question. There's a setting where you can set what you want to see on your homepage. I changed in to 'subscribed' but not sure if it's actually working.

kayjay,

I’m still seeing these posts under my subscriptions page, so I’m not sure the subscriptions page is actually working properly.

edit: figured it out! on mobile at least, even if you set your homepage to subscriptions it will not actually take you to subscriptions if you click the home button. Yo have to use the filter button and select Subscriptions from there.

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

I believe the front page is currently operating like an r/all. In fact when they restore federation, you'll start to see content from other instances (Lemmy, almost certainly)!

But while that's super cool, many don't want that. I'd set your bookmark for https://kbin.social/sub for now. That'll filter it.

sleekninja,

GM to all in our new home!

T0Bii,

How do I stop the automatism that automatically opens the RIF app and tries to find the daily?

newtosh,
newtosh avatar

Like many third-party apps, Reddit is Fun is gonna be shut off in a few days anyway. So maybe uninstall already?

Ambrosius,

Good morning! Was missing the daily, great job setting this up Kbrot!

Made a new account for the occasion because I like it more thab my old handle (15KisFUD) even though 15k is still FUD

easy_like_sunday,

This is great. Even if it's intermediate. Thanks for setting it up Kbrot!

MrVodnik,
MrVodnik avatar

Morning!
Just testing new mic... =)

minimalgravitas,
minimalgravitas avatar

GM Ethfam, glad a few of us have found our way over here already.

Drogean,
Drogean avatar

glad to be back, hope to see reddit die

Dray11,

Good morning! Looking good over here, good work KB

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

Thanks, Dray. All the hard-working dev's efforts :)

Dray11,

Good morning! Looking good over here, good work KB

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

Hi all and welcome to kbin and m/ethfinance, our temporary-and-maybe-someday-more home while reddit learns its lesson.

I didn't get a chance to reply to everyone in the previous thread, but I did read. Please feel free to ask me any questions about kbin, Lemmy, the fediverse, and I'll try to answer. I've spent quite a few days now exploring it. I also encourage fediverse users to chime in, whether it's from Mastodon experience or somewhere else.

The dev (@ernest) is lovely, responsive, and working hard right now. Feel free to chip in with suggestions at m/kbinmeta or if you have web dev experience, maybe consider reaching out directly to help.

No doubt you're all noticing kbin is slow. It's good to remember that the beauty of federated (decentralized) servers is also in the initial brutality. Servers can be run by anyone (great!) but servers must be run by someone (oof). Ernest is one guy, spinning up a server for refugees of a global conglomerate. It's partly why I tried -- and will keep trying -- to open a server of our own.

I'd encourage everyone to have a little patience, be extra kind and gracious, and at worst, take a little time away from the screen if it's crawling. They're planning a large infrastructure change next week. In the meantime, try to enjoy the brave new world here. We haven't had a truly "new" website to explore in many years. It's kinda exciting!

Now back to the memes, lines, and triangles.

Brambrameth,

What's the process to set up a server ? I mean what are we missing ? Is it a matter of tech skills, a matter of fuding ? I'm happy to help with both

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

Thanks. Definitely tech skills. Don't need funding anytime soon. I'm extremely tech savvy and have a homelab, but never attempted anything remotely like a kbin server before. I basically crunched an entire server admin course into 3 days to try and get something up and running for us.

You can see my work so far here: https://ethfinance.duckdns.org/ ... (It'll eventually be EFbin.xyz)

Anyway, the only way to register and login currently is Google OAuth, which isn't great for a DeSo website. I also got my Github OAuth key running but... there's no button. I'm unable to get the kbin instance to talk to my SMTP server, which is just a namshi container. So, people were signing up -- and I can see them -- but they're all "inactive" and unverified because no emails are going out.

Perhaps most importantly, I'd be happy to turn off email verification and just let people sign up freely. I just don't know how to do it.

If you've got the skills, I'd see if you can grab the repo from codeberg/kbin and parse through the symfony compose and ENV files. You'll have to explain the solutions to a dumb dumb like me, but I'd greatly appreciate it.

Brambrameth,

I'm not sure I start from a better place than you. I know zero about all of this, but I would be happy to dig and help kickstarting an initiative !

hanniabu,
hanniabu avatar

Should we be using https://ethfinance.duckdns.org/ instead of https://kbin.social/m/ethfinance/?

kayjay,

Yo! I also have a non-ETH question, soz. I’m another newbie to kbin, lemmy, fediverse, the whole thing.
I noticed this post, and one for cs, were "pinned" to my subscriptions feed, despite not being subscribed to these subreddits.. ahem, magazines. Is this a "feature" or am I doing something wrong?

Having posts (or is it threads? I am so confused by all this new terminology) from magazines I’m not subbed to appearing in my subscriptions feed is not exactly something I want. If I want to find stuff I’m not subbed to, I’d check the r/all-equivalent page, right? That’s at least how I’d assume most people want it.

Having topics I’m not exactly interested in (no offense) like crypto and counterstrike shoved in my face isn’t a good first taste of the platform IMO. Or are they just pinned for everyone because they’re directly relevant to the Reddit exodus situation?

Probably not replying to the right person here, but thought it fitting since you seem to be in contact with the dev and this thread (post?) is relevant to my question.

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

Yo! Yes, threads here are either "articles" (on reddit would be a text post), links, and photos. On kbin, a "post" is essentially a tweet. Those are viewable in the Microblog tab.

I too have our daily and the cs at the top of the homepage. While it's possible there's enough activity her to place us at the top, I can't imagine it'll stay that way for long. I would anticipate all of these UI quirks being addressed over the coming days and weeks. I agree it's not ideal. The dev is working around the clock and could even be breaking things as he works.

In the meantime, I'd check out various Magazines and see what interests you can find established here. Hopefully the communities here are chill as they gear up.

kayjay,

I figured it out! Despite setting subscription as my home page in the settings, it seems clicking the home button still took me to the r/all-equivalent. On mobile, you have to use the filter button to filter to only subscribed to see only the magazines you’re actively subscribed to. Hopefully that’s a bug that’s fixed at some point :)

newtosh,
newtosh avatar

I’d check the r/all-equivalent page

Just to make sure I don't misunderstand, the r/all-equivalent page would be https://kbin.social, while our "sub"/magazine would be https://kbin.social/m/ethfinance/, right?

kayjay,

Yes.

  • kbin.social = reddit.com/r/all (or just reddit.com if not logged in)

  • kbin.social/sub = reddit.com (when logged in, as in just showing you your subscribed subreddits/magazines)

  • kbin.social/m/[magazine] = reddit.com/r/[subreddit]

shiftli,
shiftli avatar

Thanks @kbrot for setting us up with the magazine (will take a while to get used to this title) and 100x thanks to @ernest for making kbin in the first place!

Yes, the server is slow and there are things that could be improved, but everyone can help making this great:

anon,
anon avatar

Thank you, kbrot, for sheltering us here while Reddit goes all evil corp on us. Or do I need to write /u/kbrot to ping you?

I have a couple of unimportant and non-ETH related questions -

  1. How do I set up a profile picture? I went to “Profile” but I don’t see where to set it up (on mobile if that matters).
  2. I turned on “Infinite scrolling” in the Settings but the daily still paginates at the bottom (i.e., I have to click on the next page number). How do I change that?

It’s weird feeling like a helpless newb all over again.

haurog,
haurog avatar

  1. For the profile picture go to Settings -> Profile and there you can upload an avatar.

  2. same here

zzmthesurand,
zzmthesurand avatar

You have to go to Settings > Profile first to edit things like your profile picture and cover picture.

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

It's all the dev's hard work for now. I just made the magazine for us.

You should be able to @ me. Testing this @anon (what a username to claim!)

  1. Settings > Profile > Avatar for the pic
  2. Not sure, I haven't toyed with infinite scroll yet. (Didn't want to push the servers any harder than necessary for now.) It could be a UI bug that needs multiple refreshes or even a log out/in?
metaStatic,

literally won't upload for me. Tried with all addons turned off (which is how I had to register) and even on Edge. I just don't get to have one it seems.

kbrot,
kbrot avatar

Aw, hopefully just a quirk of these early days. We'll just pretend you're a dark gray block irl too for now.

anon,
anon avatar

Thank you @kbrot, I was able to set up my avatar, though I can't get the infinite scrolling to work just yet for some reason.

dont_forget_canada,

Not too shabby over here!

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