Daily General Discussion - June 12, 2023

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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.

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.

Ethical-trade,
Ethical-trade avatar

Hello all and thanks Kbrot

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,
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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,
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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.

minimalgravitas,
minimalgravitas avatar

This is one of the most wildly convoluted/sophisticated example of a crypto scam that I've seen:

https://twitter.com/MrMMarsh/status/1668183547574624257

Fake death leads to fake obituary in fake newspaper, describing a fake interview which mentioned the fake 'crypto platform' that the scammers are trying to get you to connect to.

How come we never get anything that interesting from the scammers that target EthFinance? All we have is boring fake airdrops spam. Lazy.

MrVodnik,
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Whenever someone tells me crypto is full of scams, I agree. Then I add, its the same for the internet. It sooo full of all scammy pages, ads, mails, reddit dms, shopping offerings, etc. We just got used to this (both to seeing them, and to the fact, that many less tech savvy people are scammed daily).

I just don't get why the tweet blames twitter for this? Especially "since Musk" took over. Not long ago it was hard to watch any crypto related video on YT without an 1 hour "ad" with Vitalik or Musk talks and their address, that will double your coins if you send them your ETH. Googling for Curve finance often returns "curvle" or similar scam result as "ads", which are very neatly presented as first results of your search.

This is how internet works. Especially, since the platforms are not legally culpable for their ads content in the US.

This is also a reason why no one should feel bad for using ad-blockers. I would even go as far as say its a moral duty to install these on our parents and children devices.

newtosh, (edited )
newtosh avatar

It is with great pleasure that I discovered that even on kbin you can, in fact, updoot the diddly! 🥳

MrVodnik,
MrVodnik avatar

a16z moves to UK, they welcome them:
https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1668045082631581697

US crypto flight is accelerating thanks to SEC.

honkhonk,

Hi!

Asdafari12,

Thanks for setting this up KB!

@jtnichol I know you are not there anymore but do you know if Gridplus has any plans to ship from EU? I want to buy like 6 more cards.

newtosh, (edited )
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Random observations & thoughts about kbin.social:

  • Unlike Reddit, kbin natively supports posting pics in comments 📸
  • How to set an avatar: Click 'your-username' (on the top-right of the page) --> 'Settings' --> 'Profile' (in the appearing horizontal menu). I overlooked the horizontal menu a dozen times.
  • Subreddits are called Magazines here
  • The ethfinance magazine that @kbrot set up for us lives on the main kbin server, https://kbin.social - if you check its homepage, you'll see posts from other magazines too, such as news, RedditMigration, or unpopularopinion
  • The default sorting of our daily thread is "hot" (=nr of upvotes), you gotta switch manually to "newest" every time (sigh) if you prefer that
  • Like on reddit, we can upvote threads (updoot the diddly) as well as individual comments/replies
  • We're still missing a choo-choo-train or some other banner. Can magazines have banner pictures @kbrot?
  • Federation, the hallmark feature of kbin, is switched off temporarily. Check out the kbin-alternative Lemmy to see how it works: The homepage of the lemmy.ml server curently also displays threads originally created on the lemmy servers beehaw.org, lemmy.world, and feddit.de. In the comments of such threads, you see accounts registered on a variety lemmy servers, such as lemmy.one, sh.itjust.works, sopuli.xyz, etc. Federation means the servers talk to each other to enable cross-commenting and cross-viewing.
kbrot,
kbrot avatar

Excellent summary. Boosted. (and maybe we pin it in Discord for the downtime moments?)

fiah,
fiah avatar

Federation, the hallmark feature of kbin, is switched off temporarily. Check out the kbin-alternative Lemmy to see how it works: The homepage of the lemmy.ml server curently also displays threads originally created on the lemmy servers beehaw.org, lemmy.world, and feddit.de. In the comments of such threads, you see accounts registered on a variety lemmy servers, such as lemmy.one, sh.itjust.works, sopuli.xyz, etc. Federation means the servers talk to each other to enable cross-commenting and cross-viewing.

this is the killer feature, and I honestly don't think it's a great idea to try to have a community on an instance that isn't part of this federation (yet). I like kbin, I think it looks better than lemmy and it feels great to use, but not being connected to the other (thriving!) communities out there is probably not worth it

BlackCoffee,
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Hey! To chip in;

Kbin is already discoverable and you can already access other communities on different instances via Kbin.social (I don't know if it is possible the other way around for now because of Cloudfare enabled).

The thing is because of the influx of new users Cloudfare is turned on temporarily so that the site doesn't crash constantly, it only messes up Kbins "place" in the universe for the time being ;) from what I understood.

Beehaw.org is an lemmy instance for example and if you go to "Magazines" here and type in "Beehaw" you can see the beehaw communities and access them from the Kbin instance.

strawdar,

Yeah, I suspect federation is off here for stability and performance reasons during the blackout. I believe this instance had federation on last week.

696,
696 avatar

EVMavericks Weekly : June 5-11, 2023 | Homepage

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🦁Everything you need to know about the last week in EVMavericks in less than 69.6 seconds 👇

1. [EVMavericks is opening up their doors for @ethfinancer , ethstaker and other communities for the duration of subreddits going dark to protest the Reddit API changes.](https://twitter.com/EVMavericks/status/1668024323888631809)

  1. The final week of buidlathon is here. Submit your projects by June 19th.
    Prizes:
    1st place: 5 ETH
    2nd place: 3 ETH
    3rd place: 1.5 ETH
    Random participation prize: .05 ETH

  2. Ethfinance Weekly Doots #22 with our guest Matt Finestone with taikoxyz

  3. Whatthefuck starts resurging the Chad Fund.

  4. Lidont is continuing to be developed.

Security reminder: here are a few guides

Additionally, if you are in EVMavericks discord, we have a security channel. You can literally mute everything else but that channel and only get notifications from there.

Join:

@EVMavericks🦁 - http://discord.gg/evmavericks

@EthfinanceR - https://kbin.social/m/ethfinance

EVM weekly & More at https://evmavericks-weekly.netlify.app

696,
696 avatar

Good formatting is available here:

https://twitter.com/696_eth/status/1668341901014216709

https://week22--evmavericks-weekly.netlify.app/

not-ngmi,

Based on my understanding, Mastadon doesn’t scale well because a server can be spammed with illegal content which creates legal liability for the person running the server.

Does this platform have the same issue? Or is there a different way to address that issue?

strawdar,

Seems like an issue for virtually any website that allows user posts/uploads? Or do you mean that the federation part makes it more vulnerable to spam? Corporate sites like Reddit and Instagram just have the money to hire lots of admins to keep on top of it.

minimalgravitas,
minimalgravitas avatar

Better late than never:

https://www.bankless.com/sounding-the-lido-alarm

ieperen,
ieperen avatar

This is great to see. Like it or not, their voices carry much further than most of ours.

protomiller,

Glad to see this community dipping its metaphorical toes into the fediverse. I hope one day an entirely decentralized stack will be possible (L3 perhaps?), but federation is already a huge step in a better direction.

endless_bear,

Man this site takes 9 years to load. Unrelated, alts are crashing to levels not seen in years

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