Thanks :) I thought Mbin 🌎 sounded a little weird, and the domain is still technically kbin.earth, so I could have stuck with Kbin 🌎, but 🌎 bin is a nice mix.
I don’t know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I’m on lemmy.world as my instance.
My comments seem like they're getting more votes/replies than usual. That could just be because of better stability though, also coincidental/context?
Though I posted 2 threads (OC, simple 3D models with vertex colors. banan) 2 weeks ago that didn't do much (and they both had federation issues in different places, one went to lemmy.world and not other places and the other thread did the opposite) in Kbin communities that don't have any new activity still. I thought about posting to artshare (on LW) to see if that'd be better but I also haven't done anything new with it recently.
Dzięki Waszym dobrowolnym wpłatom możemy finansować wiele projektów oraz utrzymywać serwerownię KRK-DC, w której prowadzimy dla Was paletę usług, by wymienić m. in.:
Oferujemy tę infrastrukturę również dla takich serwisów jak: NoEvil.pl, WriteFreely.pl, Kbin.social, FOSSGralnia, Polesie.Pol.social, TePeWu.pl, SVMetaSearch, CesarstwoKwadratowe, OZZIP, SKK, Plony.org, Parasol.coop, KO-OP.pl i kilku innych.
Więc jeśli wygodnie Wam wspierać te serwisy finansowane przez społeczność na Patronite, oraz uznacie, że nasza wspólna praca jest warta waszych dotacji, to serdecznie zapraszamy ❤️
Just any kbin account will do it. The info is there in ActivityPub so sooner or later there will be a client that includes it, if there isn’t yet.
(My main’s at kbin.social but we are temporarily on read-only here at lemmy.world due to our servers going haywire, so to comment here I have to use my lemmy account).
Are moderators allowed to ban people and list a fake reason? This conservative has defamed me by listing the reason as homophobia. Kinda funny coming from a right winger lol. Is this acceptable on lemm.ee?
Get banned for made-up reason X in publicly viewable modlog, without right of reply or recourse.
Get doxxed and username tied to your real world name.
Doxxers send screenshot of you being banned for X to employer.
Employer fires you for irresponsible use of social media.
Sue for libel and damages (lost revenue from prematurely terminated employment). Chance of winning probably zero, but a bored no win no fee lawyer, or someone with too much time/money won't care about that.
All quite implausible, but why any mod would take the risk when a generic reason will suffice or simple insult would suffice is beyond me.
It's similar amateur hour shit here on kbin. You can ask to have your account deleted, but it won't happen. If I was a dickhead, I could file a GDPR complaint. You only need to rub one arsehole the wrong way, to open yourself up to a whole load of entirely unnecessary bullshit.
I wonder if the tech solutioneers trying to create* a single fediverse identity ever talk to real people. In the real world, we maintain many identities, and they're separate on purpose. Sometimes our lives literally depend on it.
(Edited to change “force” to “create” because, no, no one is forcing anyone to do this. I meant “forcing into existence” but don’t wanna get off track about it.)
@fraying@evan I have multiple identities. I would like to use each of those identities in multiple places. That's the problem that it solves for me.
Distinct identity accounts per app is already solved.
But I'd like to use ID1 on e.g. Mastodon -and- Pixelfed -and- kbin, and I'd like to use ID-2 on those three apps. I'd prefer one account per identity, not one account per app per identity.
I want my separate identities, but I'd like each one to work on -all- ActivityPub platforms.
No. OP literally just does blog posts. They should be on kbin microblogging, or start an actual blog. I don’t even disagree with their posts, but they have no idea what “unpopular” or “opinion” means.
A 56-year-old Snohomish man had set his Tesla Model S on Autopilot and was looking at his cellphone on Friday when he struck and killed a motorcyclist in front of him in Monroe, court records show....
They still sell it as "Autopilot and Full Self Driving". Sure, they claim "Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment", but that's buried in the marketing text that no one reads. It really should be called "Enhanced Lane Assist with Auto-Follow Cruise Control", but that doesn't sell as many cars.
Edit: Warning...Lemmy or Kbin, I'm not sure which, is current buggy and showing my link as a video connected to RedGifs. Clicking the link actually brings you to the Tesla website. Don't open the video...
Thanks for the hard work!
Even though I don't post much so mostly ignore all those messages, still it is a big problem. Until we get it sorted out having tools like these helps stop "bleeding" by people who want to use kbin.
Had few pop up on my magazine even though there is barely a traction but saw few times bloat when posted on other magazines which is really discouraging.
One day it will involve fediverse. So enjoy it here for here now, where the only spam we face is the black market prescription drugs spammers on kbin, and people pushing their own news blogs.
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
@bayaz It's you who gave me food for thought, alongside many other moderators! I only found out yesterday how to properly ban spam accs on kbin.social.
I really appreciate all efforts to grow and take care of communities, be it on kbin, on lemmy, or on mbin! Every day, I try to keep learning from other moderators.
Given the sheer lack of moderation tools, many mods do great work. I hope the situation will improve so that moderatoring will become easier.
Lots of places that list ernest as the only moderator. Some I've seen are on communities such as: fediverse, internet, opensource, science, random (which also pulls content from various places, which had the added minus that spam from other instances will not have deletions federated). Even the ask communities are sometimes hit, or for instance in this community there's a spam thread for pills in Dubai right below this one in new (from 2 days ago).
Specifically I'm talking about stuff you'll either see piled up in the new feed OR in the 'random threads'/posts section. My new feed isn't lotsa spam like it was earlier, but the sidebar currently is.
You don't like bufo toad venom? I like to start my mornings by sipping a little bufo toad venom while reading kbin. Buy bufo toad venom today.
In all seriousness...I don't know if you saw my last thread about KES in this magazine, but I suggest giving it a try. I've extended the filter coverage based on your feedback, and those magazines should essentially be expunged of garbage for the time being.
As for the sidebar, I believe the implementation is fundamentally flawed because it loads content that, AFAIK, doesn't respect your actual block settings. I suggest disabling the random threads element altogether in KES by navigating to General > Hide sidebar elements.
Of course, I'm not trying to suggest that a third-party prophylactic tool is a definitive solution to what is ultimately a separate problem, just trying to be pragmatic here and restore basic readability for end-users, whether the filtering is done at the source or after the fact.
Let's be real here, we are talking about unmoderated magazines on an instance where the developer is AWOL and using a framework that is lacking many basic features. Even with moderators, manual moderation can be a big ask and is time-consuming for free volunteers, depending on the volume of posts or how rudimentary the moderation tools are.
I actually don't read kbin magazines much, so I wasn't aware of the extent of the problem until I started opening those magazines more closely, and felt that something is better than nothing.
On the magazines you mentioned, I do see a few anomalous patterns that I'll start filtering. For the most part, with filtering enabled, they were almost entirely free of garbage, save for a few patterns I may have missed on the first few passes. /programming and /food I need to take a deeper look at. The /food thing is good intel, because the use of Amazon referral links in the threads is something that can be generalized to other situations beyond books. Posting referral links is definitively block-worthy.
I also noticed some stuff that by any other name would be considered a thinly-veiled ad, such as specific users only posting articles to web sites they own and operate. I'm not talking about bots as such, but actively promoting one's own content--even when such content is on-topic for the magazine. I declined to filter this stuff yet, because it received a lot of upvotes and seemed to be received favorably, maybe because the readers felt it was at least germane to the topic at hand? I think this is probably true for /food as well, because the line between "content" and "promotion" is unclear here, since what is a food blog if not a product generating click revenue? It seems like the tolerance threshold for that sort of thing is higher in a magazine like /food versus some other magazine. Anyway, I digress. I'm not treating such stuff as in scope, just filtering what is blatantly noise.
Look at this fucking mess with these bots and lonely losers with too much time on their hand. They've all taken a dump on multiple instances and magazines....
That's sounding like a feasible option. I've thrown myself back into Lemmy itself because I can't take the constant breaking of Kbin and seeing so much potential just trashed about in instances like this.
antisemitism on campus (lemmy.world)
Mbin migration complete (kbin.earth)
kbin.earth is now running Mbin! Please let me know here if you run into any problems.
That feeling you get after you are caught telling a little white lie over nothing but instead of coming out with the simple truth you double down & it was accepted and you finally feel relief. (c.tenor.com)
Kbin gives you 255 characters in the title. Come on lemmy world give us at least 5000.
Has community engagement dropped off suddenly?
I don’t know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I’m on lemmy.world as my instance.
What's Your Favorite Community?
Hey all,...
62 percent of Biden voters want to replace both candidates on the ballot: Poll (www.thehill.com)
Lemm.ee mod abuse (lemm.ee)
Are moderators allowed to ban people and list a fake reason? This conservative has defamed me by listing the reason as homophobia. Kinda funny coming from a right winger lol. Is this acceptable on lemm.ee?
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Tesla driver was using Autopilot before fatal Monroe crash, police say (www.seattletimes.com)
A 56-year-old Snohomish man had set his Tesla Model S on Autopilot and was looking at his cellphone on Friday when he struck and killed a motorcyclist in front of him in Monroe, court records show....
North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows (arstechnica.com)
Thousands of exposed files on North Korean server tell the tale.
OC KES 4.1.0: Improving the signal to noise ratio by blocking unsolicited ads
The blurb below is excerpted verbatim from the release notes. For the full release notes, see here....
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
Promoting products on reddit by blatantly advertising in the comment section? Who would do such a thing?
The future of kbin.earth... (kbin.earth)
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
The future of kbin.earth... (kbin.earth)
Hello kbin.earth users,...
OC Banning spam accounts
Banning spam accounts on kbin.social is a cumbersome affair....
Yeah um...what future...
Look at this fucking mess with these bots and lonely losers with too much time on their hand. They've all taken a dump on multiple instances and magazines....