AFAIK, Mastodon users cannot create a new top-level post on Lemmy. (Don't know if Kbin supports this or not.)
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The user-experience around groups from a number of the Mastodon apps (maybe all of them) is poor. It is just a sea on individual posts. The comments are at the same level as the top-level posts, and the threading isn't ideal.
As we walked through the dimly lit streets of Manchester, my heart raced with unease. My boyfriend, Roy Schestowitz, had always been passionate about Free Software and Linux, but I had no idea he was involved in something so sinister.
I’m looking for fediverse platforms that implement threaded discussions similar to Lemmy, where you can see the entire conversation with different indentation levels. I’m not interested in the linear conversation display style found on Mastodon. Does anyone know of other platforms that offer this tree-like conversation...
I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts....
I’m the same way. I tried Twitter several times, and I am occasionally on Mastodon, but the format just does not suit me. Different people have different styles of engagement and that one seems to work well for some. I was primarily a reddit user and now I use Lemmy and kbin in a similar way.
Not OP but it seems like there are a small handful of topics that make it to the front page:
Memes, especially old ones
Linux/FOSS because Google/Windows is stealing my data
general news, especially Trump
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But there aren’t nearly as many smaller communities for asking questions about niche things, like sublemmys for the city you currently live in, or sublemmys for your favorite indie video game. Questions can’t really be asked because there aren’t enough people who’ve played the game to answer. I haven’t even found a list of my subscribed communities on Kbin, so I tend to browse the front page which tends to be one of the above 4 things.
@ShanonRose@paul Your followers are following you. Everything you post from this account is on mstdn.ca. Your followers can choose to filter out anything they don't want to see, but Mastodon is definitely more like Twitter than Reddit in that regard. You're following a person.
If you're looking for a reddit-style experience, check out Lemmy (or Kbin). It's not as polished yet, but it has plenty of users. On Lemmy you can post to a community (subreddit) even if it's on a different instance.
Kbin has a separate tab within a community called “microblog” I think. Any hashtags set by the community are automatically followed in the “microblog” feed and can be fully interacted with.
This doesn’t bring threadiverse content into mastodon, but it does bring kbin users at least, into mastodon.
And with the @ing of lemmy communities, you can post from mastodon to lemmy. There’s some work to be done, for sure, but I think we’re close to a decent solution.
But also, 100% compatibility would be odd, wouldn’t you just switch platforms if you wanted the different functionality.
I know mastodon joked about not changing their name in their recent changelog but I wish they really did change it. It’s long, doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue and it’s difficult to pronounce in most languages....
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.
Without jumping through flaming hoops, though… does the “Threads” tab really ever talk to the “Microblog” tab? (aside from your kbin account being able to interface with both)
(I do find it funny that kbin’s “Threads” is their Lemmy/Reddit-like, and not their Mastodon/Threads/Twitter-like)
For real. I can never understand why some of ye don’t have a cool pfp. You could even get some cool background art on your profile as well. Really jazz it up, ya know. But I swear 90% instead opt for the default lemmy logo. How uncreative and boring. I can’t even tell most of you people apart.
I think it should be at least somewhat personal, so a bit more difficult to have something interesting I suppose. Especially with restrictions, at least on Kbin I think with the avatar it's 500x500 (but usually downscaled to 100x100) and for profile background it's 1500x500 (and then that gets zoomed in a tiny bit for whatever reason).
Also relevant to the linked SVG, I'd be more inclined to create something better if live-rendered SVGs were possible here (but you can't upload them and even the linked one doesn't get a thumbnail). For instance my avatar was made in inkscape (though I'm not good at using it and I'd prefer a polygon workflow, like this animated eye that I made using Godot).
It’s been such a good day on #kbin that I’ve blocked 4 people, despite the fact that kbin’s block is a dysfunctional, broken nightmare that will send you notifications of comments from people you blocked and will still let them see and comment on your posts, but will not let you see their actual comments. And people can just block mods to get around being modded.
When the fastest woman ever built is dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend, she's got to pull herself together across four parallel worlds before a hive-mind can take over the planet....
@anthracite Your comment got me going, so this part 1/2 - you inspired me to blow through my writers block and the kbin comment character count. Gotta thank you for that before posting.
So I've been thinking all night about what you wrote above, especially because one of the reasons I first followed your profile was because I knew (or was, depending on how you view it) a dragon at one point, and caught the same flavor of energy signature from your profile as I remember from him - a sense of kindred.
He was not a creation of mine, he first made himself known through a ouijia board session my friends and I had set up as joke whilst teens. Scared the hell out of us with his accuracy, gave us a name, declared himself a dragon and said he lived in me. I kinda brushed it off at the time, chalked it up to me liking dragons as a kid and didn't think anything much of it until about a year and a half later.
I was with two of my friends, M and N, both who were heavy drinkers (I'm a lightweight), and both who were far stronger than I (I'm built like a bird). We were small town boys stuck out in the back hills of California, freaks and geeks the three of us, so our Saturday night was a bonfire on a hilltop with a bottle of jack. None of us had good home lives, but M probably had it near the worst of all, and as we were walking down the two-lane highway back home, a line of cars started rushing down the hill towards us, and M jumped out into the freeway in front of them.
"C'mon motherfuckers! Kill me! C'mon!"
N was closet to him, but M was a full head taller and batted him away like a fly, screaming at the cars to kill him. There was no way they could stop - they were going about 50 on 20 degree incline.
Something roared in my ears. Time slowed down and I felt heat ripple through my muscles. In three strides I was at M's side, picked him up by his throat, all 200lbs of him (dude was pure muscle - he benched 290), and tossed him like a ragdoll over the embankment, out of the way of the traffic and into a tangle of blackberries.
I weighed maybe 150 at the time. Even with adrenaline in the mix, it was physically impossible for me to do what I had just done. It was 15 feet from where M had been standing to the edge of the road, and he had flown through the air, clearing the edge without touching the ground.
We managed to pull M out of the blackberries and N cussed him out the whole way home. I was trying to keep the sound of chanting out of my head, and kept running my hand up and down my arm because in the darkness it didn't feel like skin.
It felt like scales.
During my twenties, the dragon would return at points, although never quite so dramatically until the very end. Usually as a voice, biting, incisive, demanding I take certain paths and berating me when I didn't. There would be times when talking in a group, when I'd feel him take control of the oratory, saying things beyond my years, and often leaving me (and the listeners) wondering where the words had come from. We'd get in long internal arguments that would leave me exhausted - he was the neurotic overbearing uncle I never had. I came accept him as part of my personality - he was often enough in my thoughts I assumed him to be simply a neurosis given veracity by coincidence. Even when he would manifest physical effects in the world - a gust of wind blown by a psychic wingflap, the ability to run incredibly fast when needed despite my asthma, the odd capacity to reach out those wings and calm a room - I assumed it was a perceptual flaw of my own mind... even when others would observe and remark on the weirdness of it. I didn't want to believe it was an actual being that had a separate reality from my consciousness.
Until one night, in the depths of Los Angeles, he died.
I had holed up in hotel room with my girl at the time with enough ecstasy to ride out the weekend in erotic bliss. There were no hallucinogens involved, but almost immediately I entered into a state of complete detachment from reality. In the vision I was at a funeral - or more accurately, a dying ritual, for the now very old dragon. I was to witness his passing. They were entombing him as he slowly died at the center of a grand library built like the Colosseum, all made of marble. He had been a teacher to the young and this was to be his legacy. He looked out at me from that world into my eyes with the disappointment of a mentor denied, but a sense that he had done all he could, and I was as good as I was going to get. Then he closed his eyes, and he was gone, and I was back in the hotel with my girlfriend puking her guts out in the toilet.
@RookieNerd Nice! One of the problems that kbin faced, when people started migrating massively from Reddit a few months ago, was that the flag instance, kbin.social, couldn't bear the load of the newcomers. So it's cool to see other instances joining the #threadiverse!
And in my opinion, having a kbin instance makes total sense for a hacklab.
Yes, it works poorly everywhere on the fediverse, is exactly what I'm saying.
Hashtags on Fedi can be good for organizing stuff within a single account or instance, or it can be used for other things like trigger specific bots, but they can not (as you know) work like an IRC channel like they did on Twitter.
That's why I'm not happy about kbin elevating that misfeature and legitimizing its misuse as if it were as robust as the other federated group protocols are. It's not the end of the world or the worst feature on the planet, I'm not that worked up about it, it's just not good, is all.
(Again, not blaming you for that ofc, you only reported on it, and that was awesome, thanks.)
Correct, and that's exactly why it does not work for group things.
If fedi is like email, and it is similar in many ways, a Lemmy community is like a mailing list. People can send to the list and the threads on the list from different servers. And there can be separate communities about the same topics just as there can be separate mailing lists about the same topics.
But hashtags in email wouldn't work as a replacement for mailing lists. Hashtags in email can still have some use, within a mailing list or in a specific conversation, but it's something very different from a mailing list.
On kbin, if people think that "Oh, here is where the posts about cycling will show up" but the magazine is just based around a hashtag, there's no way for people to participate deliberately. It's misleading.
Using hashtags as if it were tumblr or twitter is anti-decentralization and drives people into using the biggest instances only. Groups a la gup.pe and Lemmy and Friendica is a solution to that. It's only a partially decentralized solution, since each group itself is centrally hosted (exactly like mailing lists were), but it's at least a solution, whereas misusing hashtags that way isn't.
Yep, but that’s true of keyword search on all fediverse platforms, and unlike lemmy, you can follow micro blog fedi accounts from kbin, so you can federate non group content in more readily
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Neo-nazi group Combat 18 learned OPSEC from Roy Schestowitz (ameliasconjecture.wordpress.com)
As we walked through the dimly lit streets of Manchester, my heart raced with unease. My boyfriend, Roy Schestowitz, had always been passionate about Free Software and Linux, but I had no idea he was involved in something so sinister.
What fediverse platforms have threaded discussions?
I’m looking for fediverse platforms that implement threaded discussions similar to Lemmy, where you can see the entire conversation with different indentation levels. I’m not interested in the linear conversation display style found on Mastodon. Does anyone know of other platforms that offer this tree-like conversation...
I don't understand the whole Twitter/Mastodon social media format
I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts....
Should we defederate from Hexbear? (hexbear.net)
In your opinion, how do you think lemmy is measuring up so far as a Reddit alternative?
I know every one hates reddit I know. I guess I’m looking for unbiased type of answers. Anyway, how do you think lemmy is doing so far?
Crap (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
10 Celebrities Who Just Had To Make Transphobic Comments (www.pride.com)
Carlos Santana, Alice Cooper, Róisín Murphy, Dave Chappelle, J.K. Rowling, Harry Jowsey, Bette Midler, Macy Gray, Kevin Hart, John Cleese
Stella Fantasy: New NFT game arrives for Android and Windows - DroidLocal (droidlocal.com)
Players of Stella Fantasy will be able to collect and trade characters, as well as have fun with strategic battles and colorful graphics....
Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances
Does something like this exist? As far as I can tell, setting something similar up would require:...
Mastodon is a terrible name
I know mastodon joked about not changing their name in their recent changelog but I wish they really did change it. It’s long, doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue and it’s difficult to pronounce in most languages....
Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.
Hot take: Users without a profile pick are mildlyinfuriating (upload.wikimedia.org)
For real. I can never understand why some of ye don’t have a cool pfp. You could even get some cool background art on your profile as well. Really jazz it up, ya know. But I swear 90% instead opt for the default lemmy logo. How uncreative and boring. I can’t even tell most of you people apart.
OC Decrypting Rita by Margaret Trauth (Egypt Urnash) - Comic - 2015 (egypt.urnash.com)
When the fastest woman ever built is dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend, she's got to pull herself together across four parallel worlds before a hive-mind can take over the planet....
ELI5: What's the differences between Lemmy and kbin?
I'm out of the loop.