Excuse some software ramblings and rants, but been making a number of changes and trying some experiments as of late and feel like talking about them some here.
First off, Telegram got largely yeeted a few weeks back. The app is still on my phone and I haven't deleted my account. But it's probably coming. The company's flirtations with ways to make money have long been a little concerning. The CEO really tipping his hand with a Tucker Carlson interview broke me.
So in light of that, let folks know I'd rather pivot to other ways to chat. There's no perfect replacement, but basically iMessage, Discord, and Signal are all gonna take over. With a preference for the first two but the later still a strong option.
I've also been flirting with Lemmy and Kbin as Reddit replacements, as Reddit did a great job making me loathe them as a company. Alas, both of them suck. Also peeked to see and Narhwal 2 is a $4 a month sub. To just get a decent UI. 🤣
New here. Migrated from Reddit. Still trying to figure out Lemmy - what’s everyone’s experiences like coming from Reddit and does Lemmy serve as a good alternative? Pros and cons/differences?...
Welcome. Its been great for me so far. Whatever instance you are currently on the amount of politics and echo chamber does matter. So feel free to comment and enjoy. If you have a complaint try another instance (or even Kbin) to see if this helps. Also to note that there is much more control about what communities and people you can interact with
Five days ago I made this magazine on Kbin social but wanted to test out mbin so I decided to make it here as well. I look forward to seeing how this magazine turns out....
I’m looking for a place to upload some video. By now i’ve found playeur.com and rumble but i would love to hear what you guys are using. Thanks in advance.
Peertube is the Fediverse equivalent of YouTube, the Fediverse being what Lemmy (where you are), Kbin (where I am) etc. are also a part of.
As far as I'm aware, it's a matter of finding an instance you resonate with, create an account and share away.
Do bear in mind that since it's the Fediverse, Peertube instances aren't usually backed by a large organisation with bags of cash, so if you can afford to donate to your instance, at least consider doing so.
I'd also recommend not using Peertube as a be-all-end-all storage for your videos. Always keep a copy for yourself. People do this with YouTube and they shouldn't unless they're OK with suddenly and forever losing that content at some unspecified future date. The same can happen with PeerTube, but the reasons are likely to be different (instance closing rather than unexpected account deletion).
Corporation-backed video hosts include: Twitch, Dailymotion and Vimeo. You could probably also host on Facebook. While these are options, they might make you feel as unclean as I did typing that out.
@Badluck Esto era literalmente una prueba para la federación con #Kbin. No buscaba ningun tipo de reacción.
Para fotografía y vídeos hemos solido usar más #Pixelfed desde @Detuned pero el tiempo dirá si eso sigue así, porque hemos tenido algunos problemas subiendo contenido ahí y por ejemplo terminamos subiendo estas capturas tan bonitas de Deathloop aquí: https://mastodon.social/@tuneintodetuned/109841037039062148
Not going to downvote you, partly because I only downvote spam and partly because kbin doesn't federate downvotes so I can't even see downvotes from you and vice versa.
But I fundamentally disagree. One of the lessons of Nuremberg was that obeying orders isn't a good enough reason to commit war crimes.
One of the corollaries to that, for me, is that obeying rules isn't a good enough reason to be complicit in covering up war crimes either.
If a secret is a crime it's more treasonous to keep it a secret, because the people of our nations haven't voted to leave the Geneva Conventions and go out and commit war crimes.
Kbin is an example. But just due to the nature of the protocol, it has to be stored somewhere but Lemmy also just lets admins view all the individual votes directly in the UI.
Kbin users seeing who downvotes their posts is potentially an issue, but I don’t want to discourage downvoting bad or harmful content for just that reason. The end goal is that bad content gets removed and offending users acted on. So if a Kbin user is abusing the system to harrass or abuse, they should likewise reported and banned.
Ooh thanks for the step by step. I was able to identify the one kbin user who downvoted me over the past 24 hours. 😜
Yeah, given this I won’t recommend that kbin users downvote just anything since the platform doesn’t protect their privacy. Lemmy users should be good tho. Thanks! 😊
(Content warning, discussions of SA and misogyny, mods I might mention politics a bit but I hope this can be taken outside the context of politics and understood as a discussion of basic human decency)...
There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
For what it’s worth, I have a couple accounts on Fediverse. I’m wolf_shadowheart on Kbin and SlrPnk.net, and the two of those act as the “unfiltered fediverse” and here on Beehaw is much more community discussion oriented. While our threads about specific brand new games or deep-cut niche content isn’t very full, we have lots of early-Internet question answer threads which are very nice.
Slrpnk.net isn’t defederated from much but I also use it the least. Note: The pnk.net community itself is great. It’s the wider fedi it’s attached too. There’s so much… trash? Lemmy.World may have the most users, but it has the least soul. They seem to be the redd-t equivalent of those communities, but with far fewer content posts and mostly comment posts (which I get, that’s me too.) and unfortunately as a result, these communities get heavily skewed by the type of guy on the left (the critic) while most of us are just on the right trying to enjoy stuff and maybe talk about some of the deeper implications.
Kbin is on the full opposite end with no moderation. I don’t really use blocking features, but goddamn if I have to do it to kill spam accounts. When it’s good, it’s nice and I use it in tandem with Beehaw. When it’s bad it’s really rough (just spam mostly) it gets really hard.
Anyway Tl;DR using multiple accounts isn’t a bad thing as it lets you experience multiple levels of curation. The way I use them, Beehaw is most curated, Kbin is second most curated, Slrpnk.net is least curated.
That’s actually a great suggestion. I thought of it as “I need to pick a new home to move to” but looks super simple on voyager to switch between accounts. I technically still have my kbin with the same user (and also see kbin in the modlog a lot lol). Thanks for the tips and suggestions!!
I started on kbin.world and really liked it, there are several features I much prefer on Kbin vs Lemmy like being able to see the activity log for comments and posts. Unfortunately I wouldn’t recommend new users start there anymore. Ernest is awesome but it seems like he’s got some stuff going on IRL and he doesn’t seem to want to share development responsibilities. He was accepting some more help and putting together a small team so maybe it’s gotten better since I switched to lemm.ee but especially back around December and January there were periods where he was absent for extended periods and issues weren’t getting fixed until they had some time to snowball into big issues and he was stuck spending more time on playing catchup from that than working on improvements. I didn’t try Mbin but it seems like that might be the better choice for the time being if someone wanted to start using that part of the fediverse.
Yeah it seems Ernest has been on another break. From what I’ve heard, Mbin is a little combative in how/why they created it and the alternative ones never really called to me. I’d agree with you though. The main issue with Kbin right now is honestly just that accounts can be created freely, and that’s only because it makes it so easy for spam accounts to post about selling/buying drugs online flooding /m/tech and /m/opensource and a bunch of others.
However, I do think a push was made recently that we can ask to take over dead magazines (subs), so community can sort of step up now if that gets seen and approved.
@Gamers_Mate Oh, 100% Everything around Kbin aside, Ernest had a ton of stuff going on in his personal life that should totally take precedent over this here.
I did see the post about applications for instance-wide moderators, which Kbin definitely needs. But I don't believe any action has been taken past the announcement yet.
But that's really interesting. I just checked and I got a notification for your last comment over on my Mbin account as well. I don't know if maybe it has something to do with the fact that my Mbin account is subscribed to this magazine as well and got looped in as well or what? I may have to look into it and see if either it's just a bug or if I'm doing something wrong lol.
Is Lemmy a good alternative?
New here. Migrated from Reddit. Still trying to figure out Lemmy - what’s everyone’s experiences like coming from Reddit and does Lemmy serve as a good alternative? Pros and cons/differences?...
Gamemaker Legacy Mbin Magazine. (kbin.run)
Five days ago I made this magazine on Kbin social but wanted to test out mbin so I decided to make it here as well. I look forward to seeing how this magazine turns out....
in search for a YouTube alternative to upload my video
I’m looking for a place to upload some video. By now i’ve found playeur.com and rumble but i would love to hear what you guys are using. Thanks in advance.
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David McBride: former army lawyer sentenced to five years for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents (www.theguardian.com)
Complete bullshit. Regimes that punish whistleblowers harder than war criminals reveal themselves as dreaming of tyranny....
PSA for reporting best practices (lemmy.cafe)
Created using feedback from lemmy.cafe/post/4823550. Maybe this can be useful....
Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency (www.theguardian.com)
The Republican frontrunner has vowed to put an end to ‘horrible’ wind turbines, pledging to undo yet another key US green policy...
Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting?
With recent events hilighting the value of quality moderation, it got me to consider: How can we help you out?...
Lemmy is a worse platform for women than Reddit was
(Content warning, discussions of SA and misogyny, mods I might mention politics a bit but I hope this can be taken outside the context of politics and understood as a discussion of basic human decency)...
lemmy.ml Tankies
There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
Migration of Windows Insiders magazine to Mbin
Hello members of the Windows Insiders magazine,...