@thomas well popularity aside (compared to masto at least) the amount of Reddit alts is approaching the Twitter alts now (just much younger):
Lemmy
Kbin
Mbin (fork)
SubLinks
Piefed
Azorius
(Plus some I prob forgot)
And if forums count, NodeBB, with discourse coming (?) #threadiverse#fediverse
Made with Blender. If you want to see more (or read details I've written about before) I have other threads but note that most instances I've seen seem to only get one thread or the other (so you may need to look at my threads on Kbin). There's another image (an office plant) in the comments of one too. Nothing really...
I have stopped supporting the Kbin site I had created for Fantasy Grounds Unity and have moved to the TTRPG network. This new site will be used for posting of Fantasy Grounds related information going forward.
I have moved the Fantasy Grounds VTT magazine from Kbin to Lemmy - specifically the ttrpg.network. It seems the Kbin environment I used to house it before has succumbed to bad actors. Please excuse any bad formatting on my part as I get used to the environment.
The guy that manages Kbin has been having personal issues and stepped away from the fediverse so yeah Kbin is kind of in limbo at the moment and indeed not well moderated. Thereโs mods but thereโs just so much they can do. The software doesnโt federate the deletions so even if theyโre gone on Kbin, they remain everywhere else.
I have an account on Kbin and no, you donโt usually see downvotes. But I donโt see that as a bad thing actually. Your comments in this thread didnโt get any downvote, by the way.
To be more specific, kbin doesn't federate downvotes, or at least doesn't import downvotes from outside an instance. Not sure if it sends any downvotes generated here back out, but any downvotes you see here are from other kbin.social users
Russia has announced military exercises near Ukraine that will include deployment drills of tactical nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, six were reported killed in a drone strike on Russiaโs Belgorod....
Unfortunately one of those things that does not work on kbin / mbin yet. I've not seen it this heavily outside of this specific community though. Fairly recently another article was basically ~12 out of 25 or so comments from hexbear accounts.
Maybe all the other instances who host the other news communities just defederated from them and that's why I don't see them.
The pair restarted their work in Massachusetts with about 400 brook trout reared for up to eight months in tanks. The scientists kept some of the fish in waters set at 59 degrees Fahrenheit while others at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. All were fed the same diet....
Kbin thumbnail bug strikes again, this article has a thumbnail of that US dog killer politician pouting. Makes it look like she's angry she can't kill bigger fish.
Probably because it is, and then add in federation issues (at least that's been my experience with Kbin). That and if I post about something niche people may have no reason to actually respond.
Ugh that will probably never leave you. I haven't seen CSAM since I stumbled on it in the 1990s but what I saw is still burnt into my brain. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
This is one of the reasons I stay on kbin, it doesn't autoload images.
Yeah Kbin really jumped the shark. I gave up on it as well. Maybe one day Ernst will do literally everything that he said he would butโฆ today is not that day, nor was yesterday, and Iโm done waiting. In the meantime Iโm wondering if I should block the entire instance due to all the spam that the complete lack of moderation (in some communities) is sending out to the entire Fediverse. Seriously, I am surprised it hasnโt been hit by waves of CP as many other instances have, in an attempt to swat it by getting the FBI involved. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your new instance better!:-) Weird conversations such as is happening on this post aside, the Fediverse is kind of a neat place!
Also, you might check the list of which instances Kbin blocks by default, and choose to block them here (Settings -> Blocks, scroll way down to instances). e.g. lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net are some really common ones that people often block. Ofc you feel free to do you, and decide first what you want to see in your feed!:-) I just mention that bc after leaving the safe and protected Kbin.social I game close to leaving Lemmy too, until I blocked those two instances and it improved my experience on the Fediverse 95%.
For a user, you hit the @ sign then start typing, then you may have to wait a bit and it will make a list of every user that matches that partial string that you typed, and you have to select it from the list for it to convert into the actual link - e.g. @bolexforsoup.
For communities, Iโm only recently learning this myself, itโs the ! sign and then the same process - e.g. !technology.
You can hit the view source - icon to the right of up & down votes, left of reply - to see how it translates into, but thatโs a LOT to try to remember, while the above is a lot easier process. The web browser UI isnโt really intuitive though - e.g. there are no buttons for either of those, and a bunch of other stuff doesnโt work all that well either when you click it, plus beware of clicking the formatting help button b/c it wonโt open a new tab or anything - even though you can ONLY access it from within an EXISTING reply, nonetheless by default it will obliterate all of the text that you have typed so far and navigate to another page. None of the other options do thatโฆ but despite how there is basically zero distinction wrt its icon color or placement that might hint at that fact, that one behaves fundamentally differently from all the rest of them. So, if you are struggling, note that it may not be your fault: Lemmy is still in its infancy, and a lot of this isnโt as โpolishedโ as it may one day become.
I still love it 100-fold better than Kbinโs interface. I did not think that I would, but I do.
Tbh, I feel less bad for Ernst the more time that goes by. At first I thought he was a GREAT dude, to take upon himself that whole concept of entirely re-envisioning the whole Lemmy code, and I definitely get that he was handed a bunch of lemons by life, but he also was the only one who decided what to do with them. e.g. he could have allowed a couple of other admins onto the kbin.social instance, even if he retained full & total control of the code side of things. I would not dream of trying to tell him what to do butโฆ I also have the same rights, and since I no longer trust his word, him having broken it far too many times, I donโt think I will ever go back, even if everything that he hoped to do with Kbin ends up being done. Heโs made his choices, and I do not respect them, though meanwhile everyone will move on regardless - which I do agree is really sad, especially after such an auspicious beginning, and along with everything I am saying I really truly do wish him the best, butโฆ I am no longer willing to hold my breath anxiously awaiting that to happen anytime soon.
Sharing Federated content in general works like that. However, the originating server will still receive an onslaught of HTTPS requests of remote servers fetching the signing key used to sign the federated message.
โJust defederateโ is not a real solution. Iโve observed malicious behaviour on all major Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon services, and even more on smaller services like personal Mastodon servers.
Lemmy (and Kbin for that matter) very much do the same thing for posts. I don't think they fetch URL previews for links in comments, but that doesn't matter: posts and comments are both fairly likely to end up spreading to Mastodon/etc anyway, so even comments will trigger this cascade.
Direct example: If you go to mastodon.social, stick @fediverse@lemmy.world in the search box at the topleft and click for the profile, you can end up browsing a large Mastodon server's view of this community, and your very link has a preview. (Unfortunately, links to federated communities just result in a redirect, so you have to navigate through Mastodon's UI.)
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I donโt want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldnโt seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
Im on kbin and it does not show a total but I block anything in languages I don't know or that seems to be all memes or sports related but certainly not anime or porn.
Iโm seeing a bunch of these 9โ gauge cluster screens that double as CarPlay screens. Only problem is that I find 9โ way too small for CarPlay/Android Auto. Are there any in the 11-12โ range?
OC Yeah I stole the idea from a spam thumbnail, low-poly 3D vertex colors only
Made with Blender. If you want to see more (or read details I've written about before) I have other threads but note that most instances I've seen seem to only get one thread or the other (so you may need to look at my threads on Kbin). There's another image (an office plant) in the comments of one too. Nothing really...
New Home
I have stopped supporting the Kbin site I had created for Fantasy Grounds Unity and have moved to the TTRPG network. This new site will be used for posting of Fantasy Grounds related information going forward.
New Home on TTRPG (ttrpg.network)
I have moved the Fantasy Grounds VTT magazine from Kbin to Lemmy - specifically the ttrpg.network. It seems the Kbin environment I used to house it before has succumbed to bad actors. Please excuse any bad formatting on my part as I get used to the environment.
Kbin /m/fediverse is over 90% spam
Looking at the front page of this forum and many others, leads me to conclude that kbin has a ridiculous spam problem....
A simple guide (lemmy.world)
Ukraine updates: Russia orders nuclear preparation drills (www.dw.com)
Russia has announced military exercises near Ukraine that will include deployment drills of tactical nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, six were reported killed in a drone strike on Russiaโs Belgorod....
moved instances again rule (lemmy.zip)
My last instance was having federation issues and holy shit I have missed so many posts
Fish are shrinking around the world. Hereโs why scientists are worried. | Figuring out the reason why has big implications, with billions of people depending on seafood for protein. (wapo.st)
The pair restarted their work in Massachusetts with about 400 brook trout reared for up to eight months in tanks. The scientists kept some of the fish in waters set at 59 degrees Fahrenheit while others at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. All were fed the same diet....
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are โripeโ and โfertileโ (www.nj.com)
Why does beehaw and Lemmy in general feel so dead?
I post quite a bit here but it feels so damn quiet. Why?
Thousands of Israelis take to streets of Tel Aviv to demand cease-fire and Netanyahu's resignation (apnews.com)
1:21 video shows the scale of the protest....
What is the most horrifying thing you've seen on the internet that didn't involve gore?
Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two (www.hindustantimes.com)
The Fediverse has a DDoS problem (aumetra.xyz)
I was recommended to share this article I wrote a few days ago on here, too; so here we are!...
4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely (itsfoss.com)
Please Donโt Share Our Links on Mastodon: Hereโs Why! | itsfoss.com (mastodon.social)
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I donโt want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldnโt seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
Rule their balls (lemmy.world)
Biggest gauge cluster screen mod for Tesla Model Y
Iโm seeing a bunch of these 9โ gauge cluster screens that double as CarPlay screens. Only problem is that I find 9โ way too small for CarPlay/Android Auto. Are there any in the 11-12โ range?