With Lemmy - I can block whomever is bothering me and I will not see their posts ever again. I can see their notifications and they somehow can keep responding to me (which ought to be worked on). But erasing their existence on my end should be a thing when you don't want to deal with them....
Misskey is microblog compared to Lemmy or Kbin , but still it's fun to use albeit more demanding on resources. While Kbin/Lemmy see karma as numbers, Mastodon (main branch) as likes, Misskey have emoji's so you can convey your feelings without making short replies.
Sure some people will say that's dumb or useless, but hey when you see some art and having only ❤️ instead of 🆒 or :cool__i: or :otoge_rank_aaa: and so on.
There is many other neat features but the main point of this comment is.
You can join in on conversation without restricting yourself to limitations imposed by soft/server one use.
Add on top that you can self host which is not for everyone but people having their whole identity tied to their own space instead of Twitter/Youtube/Twitch etc.
Which would be true if Misskey wouldn't send error and deny me sending message, so we still far off in that point.
I’ve started to realize that every social media platform, including Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, etc., has issues with bot spam and fake follower accounts. These platforms typically combat this problem by implementing various measures such as ban waves, behavior detection, and more....
That’s a kbin thing. I have never seen ‘buy cheap Viagra, Oxycontin, etc.’ on Lemmy. It probably exists, but whenever I block and report a user they’re from kbin.
One of my most hated things in the dying days of Reddit is people having to put the /s because of all the mass down voting from users that didn’t get a post was a joke....
On Kbin, in addition to up and downvotes, there is the Boost option, as seen in the picture.
If you are looking at these comment threads on Kbin/Mbin, when a comment/post is 'boosted,' it is automatically moved up higher in the thread, similarly to if it had been upvoted a lot.
Lemmy does not have Boosts, and so neither do any of the Lemmy clients on desktop/mobile.
Lastly, on Kbin you can look at the 'Activity' on a post which lets you see who upvoted, who downvoted, and who Boosted, which is what is shown in the picture.
I'm calling this guy out for being insecure and Boosting his own opinion to the top for visibility, despite the fact that he's just parroting an already popular opinion in this thread.
Edit: also lol, he unboosted his post at the time of me writing this comment. But the picture captures the original tomfoolery. Also I checked his profile and that guy regularly Boosts his own comments, but I bet he removed a bunch of those by now too.
Not a paid for thing, anyone can do it. As far as I can tell, it was just a feature Ernest (Mr Kbin Sir Guy Creator) programmed without much thought. So it's just a weird unique thing that Kbin can do.
That’s the point of the fediverse and activitypub - posts from one platform are federated to other compatible platforms. I know this also includes kbin, but there’s probably other platforms.
Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I’m curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there’s no hate-speech (that I’m aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let’s hear your suggestions! Thank you!
Personally I would filter and only look at platforms that are open source and Fediverse/ActivityPub compatible. Otherwise it will suffer from similar issues as the other alternatives (centralization, lack of community/momentum, takeovers).
As long as the platform federates nicely then it really comes down to personal preference. The content and communities can grow independently :)
The platforms that come to mind for that are Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Sublinks. I’m probably missing some other good ones
Sorry it takes 4 days to get a response to you! It’s not really lemmy.world’s fault, lemmy has a bug (more like a design problem) that means servers can only send one federation activity (post, comment, or vote) at a time. It has to wait for a response before sending the next one. Because their server is on the other side of the world to ours (plus some other technical reasons), we can only receive around 4 or 5 activities per second. Unfortunately they have gone over that threshold, it’s so big they are creating more activities than we can receive. There are other servers in our area having the same issue, auzzie.zone is over 5 days behind! There are various people working on various things to help this, but it’s all taking time.
So as for accounts, they only exist on one instance. A bit like an email address where dave@gmail.com would be different to dave@outlook.com. However, the last lemmy update added the ability to export your settings (found on your settings page on the website). So now you can create a new account on another instance and move all your settings over, including the communities you follow, but this isn’t quite the same as moving your account. For example, you’ll have to log in to the lemmy.world account to see any replies to comments you made on that account. Nothing is “forwarded” to your new account (Mastodon actually has something along these lines, but Lemmy doesn’t yet).
There are many people on this instance who use multiple accounts. Because how the federation works in lemmy, different instances see different posts in the Local feed (only communities hosted on that instance) and the All feed. This is because the All feed is posts from all the communities that the members of your instance are subscribed to. Different instances have different members with different subscriptions and so you’ll see different content. So many people like to have a few different accounts and switch between them,
Lemmy.world is so massive it would be interesting to hear what other instances are like in comparison! On lemmy.nz our Local feed is mostly posts in the newzealand or politics communities, with occasional regional posts. All has a lot more content, but at the moment we are missing lemmy.world posts for the most part. Because of a special prefetching that’s set up to try to help with the issue, we get them straight away but with no votes on them. We can’t prefetch the votes so they take 3 days to come across, by which point the posts are all three days old. So the Hot posts never have lemmy.world content at the moment because they have no votes on them.
There are plenty of other instances too. At this point most instances are up to date with both lemmy.world and us, just the handful that are having problems. You can actually check which ones are having issues - here’s lemmy.world’s status. Lemmy federates with lots of other platforms so many are mastodon, kbin, or others, but you can have a look for an instance and check how it’s doing by putting it into that site.
I guess the other thing to know is that different sites de-federate from each other. For example, beehaw.org is a nice, big, friendly instance, but they defederated from lemmy.world because Beehaw are strict moderators and have a vision for their site and lemmy.world was too big, too many users from lemmy.world causing issues on beehaw. Some instances don’t defederate from anyone, but that can be a bit crazy too. Most of the larger instances would be fine to join, though.
Accounts are also free, so just pick any and if you don’t like it try another! Most will have registration applications turned on though (so you can’t use your new account until you’ve been approved), as spam is becoming quite a problem and reviewing each new user is an easy way to avoid being the instance spambots like to use. But I’m sure you’re patient enough, most instance will approve new users so long as the follow the instructions.
Happy to answer questions but I know it’s going to take 3 or 4 days before I see your response so maybe pick an instance and sign up, then come back here and ask your questions with your new account 😆
I find it funny that Marjorie Taylor Greene has an identity as a sort of "white-centric", quite far right US conservative when it's pretty obvious that she has a significant amount of Native American ancestry, which can be seen just by looking at her face (ignore the blonde dyed hair, makeup, etc.).
Sure, I can probably dig it up if you're interested. Like I said, it wasn't a spat, it was just you telling me not to reply to your comments.
I'm a bit of a film fan and was pleasantly surprised when Spielberg of all people said something vaguely against killing civilians in Gaza (half of Hollywood seem to be wildly pro genocide), so I posted it in a movie sub.
Emotive subject, might explain it. Also I get lazy about deleting tags. Maybe when you see it again you'll remember how annoying I am and block me this time!
Anyway here it is, I can't seem to format it for other instances but here it is viewed through kbin.
Thanks for the apology, it's all good. Glad I can stop avoiding replying to you in my threads.
I am really bad at not backspacing over the pre-populated tag though. Doesn't help that I interact a fair bit with people from Mastodon on here and they tend to use it. Also kbin thread displays can be confusing so the tags help me keep track of the conversation in big threads.
So, yeah I'll try to not tag you but if I ever do start annoying you, do block me.
Maybe read some of the other threads here. kbin has a few issues at the moment - some would say a lot - and the lead dev has a few issues of his own that are keeping him from working on them. To be fair they're probably keeping him from a lot more than kbin.
I'm going to guess the downvote is because of the trollface picture but it could be because you're asking something that has been asked before.
Is it just Kbin, or does every fediverse service have the issue of being totally swarmed with bots advertising illegal pharmaceuticals? Is this just the result of limited moderation?
I'm gonna post here instead of your post on kbin. I have questions! I already have an mbin account but stuff just doesn't matriculate like I am use to. How do I get magazines/communities to populate?
It's been a good time here on kbin.social. But the lack of perspective and communication has done it for me. I lost hope that the instance would heal eventually and will move to another place instead. Hope you're ok Ernest and all the best for the future.
Hey, microblog folks! I'm the current owner of this magazine. I recently noticed that there has been a fair amount of spam on the microblog side recently. First off, I want to apologize for that. Second, I want to give a few explanations:
I mainly read threads (I know, that isn't a great excuse, but see my link later)
I only recently realized that kbin filtered out 18+ posts by default, so any spam posts that marked themselves as NSFW were invisible to me
There have been no unresolved user reports of spam for quite a while
So, I'm asking for your help in two ways to keep the magazine spam-free:
(1) Please report spam as you see it. I know it gets tiresome, especially as kbin.social in general has been overrun recently, but I do check those reports regularly, and I will delete any spam that you report.
(2) If there is anyone who wants to be a moderator, please see this previous thread: invitation to moderate . Basically, if you are an active kbin user who shows interest, I will gladly add you as mod.
I will check the microblog more actively from now on to delete spam, but both of the above would be a big help to me in keeping the magazine (both threads and microblog) spam-free.
Overall, this community has been very straightforward to moderate -- no hate speech, flame wars, etc. Thank you all for that, and thanks for keeping this community active and vibrant!
I posted some stuff and ran into this plus my threads not getting federated to certain places. And 3 weeks later they are still the newest posts on those communities (Kbin's ps1graphics and blender communities, note that Kbin communities seem to not use the community link format).
I had some technical questions and a roadblock too, but they are niche so I just... didn't deal with it. Maybe there's an instance out there that'd fit (for me, someone who dabbles in art and programming while not really being those things), but also I doubt it particularly because I'm only interested in a semi-niche programming language. Audience vs niche seems like an unwinnable balance.
I've thought about posting to a more popular lemmy.world community for the next thing I make as it would probably get more of a response, but probably not answers so that wouldn't matter since the stuff I made so far was just random objects. Well, I guess getting answers for Blender questions is more likely.
Google provides a tool called PageSpeed Insights which gives a website some metrics to assess how well it is put together and how fast it loads. There are a lot of technical details but in general green scores are good, orange not great and red is bad.
I tried to ensure the tests were similar for each platform by choosing a page that shows a list of posts, like https://mastodon.social/explore.
The rest don’t seem to have prioritized performance or chose a software architecture that cannot be made to perform well on these metrics. It will be very interesting to see how that affects the cost of running large instances and the longevity of the platforms. Time will tell.
I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has....
Let's gloat a little, What makes Lemmy/Mastodon/KBin/BlueSky and the Fediverse better than Facebook/Reddit/Twitter?
With Lemmy - I can block whomever is bothering me and I will not see their posts ever again. I can see their notifications and they somehow can keep responding to me (which ought to be worked on). But erasing their existence on my end should be a thing when you don't want to deal with them....
How does Lemmy deal with bots?
I’ve started to realize that every social media platform, including Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, etc., has issues with bot spam and fake follower accounts. These platforms typically combat this problem by implementing various measures such as ban waves, behavior detection, and more....
Why is the /s necessary here as well?
One of my most hated things in the dying days of Reddit is people having to put the /s because of all the mass down voting from users that didn’t get a post was a joke....
TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything....
Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience (sh.itjust.works)
Source...
Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?
Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I’m curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there’s no hate-speech (that I’m aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let’s hear your suggestions! Thank you!
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 19/4/2024
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is an Injun'
I find it funny that Marjorie Taylor Greene has an identity as a sort of "white-centric", quite far right US conservative when it's pretty obvious that she has a significant amount of Native American ancestry, which can be seen just by looking at her face (ignore the blonde dyed hair, makeup, etc.).
Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening. (www.usatoday.com)
The suffering of the Sudanese may be off camera now, but it won't be in a few months when babies are starving en masse.
How come every time I post a new thread on kbin it crashes to some 50x error thing...
...and I get this message:...
Renowned Gaza doctor Adnan Al-Bursh tortured, killed in Israeli jail (www.newarab.com)
Adnan Al-Bursh, a renowned Gaza surgeon, was tortured to death in Israeli detention, a Palestinian prisoner association announced on Thursday....
New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) (codeberg.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15109471...
Welcome to m/AskMbin! (thebrainbin.org)
Hello everyone!...
So long and thanks for the nice time.
It's been a good time here on kbin.social. But the lack of perspective and communication has done it for me. I lost hope that the instance would heal eventually and will move to another place instead. Hope you're ok Ernest and all the best for the future.
No more hidden fees. Junk fee law bans restaurant surcharges (www.nbcbayarea.com)
The new state law goes into effect July 1
Made my first short film (www.youtube.com)
How do you deal with being the only one posting in a community (aka "shouting into the void")?
I’m not gonna lie, sometimes it feels a bit lonely. I try to post on a few generic communities...
Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?
I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has....