Daily General Discussion - June 12, 2023

newtosh, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

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

minimalgravitas, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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.

anon, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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

696, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

Hello all and thanks Kbrot

fiah, 11 months ago

so what happens if you "boost" something?

kbrot, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

GM to all in our new home!

T0Bii, 11 months ago

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

newtosh, 11 months ago

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

Ambrosius, 11 months ago

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, 11 months ago

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

MrVodnik, 11 months ago

Morning!
Just testing new mic... =)

minimalgravitas, 11 months ago

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

Drogean, 11 months ago

glad to be back, hope to see reddit die

Dray11, 11 months ago

Good morning! Looking good over here, good work KB

kbrot, 11 months ago

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

Dray11, 11 months ago

Good morning! Looking good over here, good work KB