Every comment in this post got 1 downvote for literally no reason. Like… it’s a post about cats, nothing controversial at all. Do people just go around downvoting every post? Why?
Afaik, Kbin lacks mod tools entirely, but Lemmy definitely has them? It may be a delete button that they (mods) control though, I don't know. Some mod doing that all of once has also permanently screwed up my Notifications now (see description that someone reported; like I can see a count and then I can go searching one-by-one through all of my previous comments hoping that someone replied to a recent rather than an old one, which is most definitely not always true). Obviously I am not blaming that mod for doing their job properly, but this shows how the whole "federation" thing still needs to work out the kinks, if even entirely normal processes like that can break such MAJOR components.
And it is not just that one thing: a LOT of the promises of the federiverse are unfulfilled as of yet, e.g. you cannot simply move your account elsewhere, as was claimed. You probably will in the future ofc, just not now. Which is fine, just acknowledging the current status of things.
The bugs are quite a bit less than fine, e.g. another one on Kbin currently is that "login bug" aka feature where ~80% of the time when you try to upvote or boost content, it takes you to an error page rather than do it. Logging in again solves it, so if you spend ~1 minute reading a thread and all the comments and then want to upvote something? That's a login. Read some more comments, and then want to comment yourself? That's another login. Take some time writing out your comment, on a mobile screen where we all know typing is fantastic especially as the screen hides >90% of your text as you try to work on it? That's still yet another login.
The Reddit experience is actually superior atm, objectively speaking - so long as you are okay with daddy spez being in control. They have powerful servers, can resist DDOS attacks, have the vast majority of people still on there, and as a bonus, help make sure that ad companies know your name and mobile # and full set of preferences - yay!:-) e.g. most of the people in my small gaming sub refused to migrate anywhere, and at this point who can blame them?
There was a tiny voice suggesting that we go to the GameFaqs forum, but that particular one was just too limiting. I expect better things in the future, but for now the options are not great. If your community(/ies) was successful at moving to a single forum, that is great but I can see that it is a bit like herding cats - everyone has different wants and needs, and some will stay on Reddit b/c of the coalescence of multiple subs being under one roof; thus all the more so the alternatives to Reddit need to somehow be BETTER, or at least some fraction of AS GOOD, if there is to be any hope of that.
@Csynthare I've been digging into Kbin and Lemmy recently in order to learn more about using ActivityPub for those implementations. What are the things you find most egregious compared to e.g. Mastodon?
A user on a Kbin instance follows a user on a Lemmy instance.
Lemmy user creates a new post. As Kbin user is one of their followers, a "create" activity wrapping the post is dispatched to the Kbin user's inbox.
Assuming the sender is verified, not blocked etc, the post is then added to that Kbin database (assuming one with that object ID doesn't exist already).
So as I understand it (and I might be completely wrong here).
In order for our Kbin instance to follow our Lemmy instance, we need at least one user on the Kbin instance to follow at least one user (or group) on the Lemmy instance. Other Kbin users may see those Lemmy posts, depending on visibility settings, but there must be at least one follower on the Kbin side in order for those posts to be imported (via that follower's inbox).
I didn’t hear much about kbin before using lemmy, saw it only linked once and i thought it was kinda ugly. But if it’s as you say, then we why aren’t devs flocking to improve it like with lemmy ? You comment convinced me to make an account there. Is there a piracy,tech, privacy related kbin instance ?
I could make an entire Kbin magazine of just Yasuhisa Watanabe tunes. This is a chill training stage theme for a two player game of shooting bullet patterns at each other.
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Didn't say blackmail the fediverse. I'm saying blackmail the company trying to spread CSAM.
And again, you don't derail a movement. You try to own it if you really care.
But even then, it's not worth it. XMPP has been "competing" for far longer and likely had more success up front than Lemmy or Kbin.
You're severely overestimating the potential here. And you're severely overestimating how much a company would want to destroy it instead of exploiting any other success. There's money to be lost in paying to derail it. There's money to be made in exploiting it.
Didn't say blackmail the fediverse. I'm saying blackmail the company trying to spread CSAM.
Ohhhh okay. Gotcha. There is one tiny problem with this.
On the Dark Web, you treat your identity like your password, you never give it out under any circumstances. And the norms in black markets reflect this, including the norms of transactions.
That means the seller doesn't know who the buyer is, and the buyer doesn't know who the seller is, and the exchanging of such information is a serious fuck up. Sellers don't want to know, as such knowledge can be a vehicle for the feds to charge them with a crime.
Now sure, a bad seller could turn around and blackmail the company, but only if that information gets leaked. This can be surprisingly easy to do, as there are avenues of info leakage that will catch out newbies, but anyone actually experienced with dark net transfers knows the score: no screen sharing, vet all screenshots carefully, don't use your real address for deliveries, don't use your home (or work) connection for the transaction, etc.
And again, you don't derail a movement. You try to own it if you really care.
Don't know what you mean by own here. Control? Maybe but that depends on your own position and what benefits you.
But even then, it's not worth it. XMPP has been "competing" for far longer and likely had more success up front than Lemmy or Kbin.
XMPP is an IM standard, is it not? What that does and what Lemmy/Kbin do are very different.
I haven't had any connections problems since canceling Xfinity.
To be fair, that occurred at the same time I returned to Mastodon from the Firefish crash.
Never had issues using Pixelfed. But every Firefish instance I was on (4 in all), I experienced constant problems with connectivity.
I wonder if Xfinity was throttling when I used Firefish?
Clearly Firefish was a bigger resource hog. 🤔
I run a Firefish server as well. I get occasional "Retry" errors due to network issues, and one member mentioned it to me as well. He thought he broke notifications.
I never see these issues on my other servers (Mastodon, Peertube, KBIN). They are all hosted with essentially identical infrastructure.
I have noticed that Firefish often peaks out in CPU for a minute or so, and this is when I'll see these issues. Mastodon never goes above 45% CPU on my setup, that I've seen.
I've always assumed it is a performance-related issue in Firefish. Just my unscientific observation and conclusion.
I think your posts must just show up in the sort if your instance is federated with ours. I found this in m/random on Kbin. I just came to see if the spam was gone and I could unblock. This post was number 6 under hot. If I had to guess, the number of comments probably pushed it up. The posts around it have more upvotes but less comments.
Pour le moment je découvre. J’ai un peu de contenu mais je ne sais pas où et comment parvenir à le partager. Qu’est-ce qu’à kbin que n’a pas j’ailu ? Ou je tombe au milieu de private joke?🙃
As a disabled person, I face ableism and ableist language every day. Some people use ableist language without even knowing that it is ableist. I thought it would be good for folks to take a look at the attached BBC article and expand their perspectives a bit.
Not sure, I've only been able to find snippets of dev discussion on it but as far as I can tell it's part of Ernest's philosophy.
He used to have the upvote button mean sharing and the "boost" button for upvotes, but he reconfigured it because we all got too confused.
This way we can never vote brigade, or be brigaded either, I guess?
But kbin is still being built, it's a lot newer than Lemmy, so who knows what the future holds. It's interesting that different instances will have a wildly different picture about whether a comment is popular though.
I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days....
I’m using kbin, lemmy, and reddit for context. IMO reddit has started to turn sour. Kinda hard to explain, but it’s like nobody reads what you say for context anymore. They immediately twist what was said or use specificity (or lack thereof) as some way to discredit your point while ignoring the whole. It’s getting frustrating to try to have a conversation there.
yup, this is what drove me away the most. I was even in one of those private subs that only invites people who are active on reddit and you have to stay active to stay in the sub - but even there, the people who claimed to have a nice little community were doing exactly that. They would hone in on one phrase or one term and twist everything that was said. No one was reading anything it seemed.
So I just stopped going on there. Now I’m gonna delete my account when I get a chance. Apparently you can’t do so on mobile? Just another dumb reddit feature.
Un tuto très intéressant de @Snoopy qui explique comment créer un nouveau fil dans une communauté Lemmy depuis un compte Mastodon, Firefish ou kbin. Vous n'avez plus d'excuse pour ne pas participer à l'aventure #threadiverse ! 😜
I have mentioned before how extremely impressed I am with pages such as the Japanese SDE guide that has not one but several "Meta" lists, including an environmental characters and equipment summary that lists excellent characters across sensible roles such as general DPS, attribute-specific attacker, support, and even "tank"....
I work in software dev, and supporting random things is a nightmare. And with agent strings, it's meaningless since antagonistic devs can basically just kill your browser. It's frustrating.
As for kbin, I get the feeling the dev team is a bit overwhelmed. They released when they did because of Reddit, but saying it was in beta was a bit on the generous side. At the least they should have hidden non-functional controls and did some UI tidying. Instead, they pulled off the alpha sticker, slapped on beta, and YOLO'd it, IMO. I don't think it was a wise move.
As a result of the disgusting and criminal CSAM attacks recently, I shut down my tiny personal Lemmy instance. I'm a mobile developer by trade, but a novice when it comes to self hosting complex web apps like Lemmy or KBin....
Hey all! This magazine has been around for awhile and I think it's about time to get a few more moderators in here. I know it's not super active but my hope is that it'll grow more (especially as Kbin grows!)...
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Every comment in this post got 1 downvote for literally no reason. Like… it’s a post about cats, nothing controversial at all. Do people just go around downvoting every post? Why?
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Kaiteki: a comfy cross platform (web app, android, linux, windows) Fediverse client (github.com)
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Senko no Ronde - shift (www.youtube.com)
[Question technique] Bête question, mais on sait bien si tous les utilisateurs ont bien "français" comme langue par défaut dans leurs paramètres Lemmy?
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The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use (www.bbc.com)
As a disabled person, I face ableism and ableist language every day. Some people use ableist language without even knowing that it is ableist. I thought it would be good for folks to take a look at the attached BBC article and expand their perspectives a bit.
Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days....
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I continue to upgrade my assessment of the Seesaa wiki: in particular I find the writer akashic_lin to be worthy of high praise!
I have mentioned before how extremely impressed I am with pages such as the Japanese SDE guide that has not one but several "Meta" lists, including an environmental characters and equipment summary that lists excellent characters across sensible roles such as general DPS, attribute-specific attacker, support, and even "tank"....
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Host Lemmy/KBin without Pict-rs?
As a result of the disgusting and criminal CSAM attacks recently, I shut down my tiny personal Lemmy instance. I'm a mobile developer by trade, but a novice when it comes to self hosting complex web apps like Lemmy or KBin....
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Hey all! This magazine has been around for awhile and I think it's about time to get a few more moderators in here. I know it's not super active but my hope is that it'll grow more (especially as Kbin grows!)...