The downside.. I'll really miss my #writers#poets#artists#communities that have been built on that platform when I sign off for the last time. This is going to happen as soon as the change is accomplished.
My perspective: It was pretty amazing while it lasted. shrug
"It may seem positive that Islam is being discussed by former detractors beyond the prisms of #extremism and #terrorism, but this exchange is part of a growing trend of something more ominous that involves #ideological borrowing in both directions.
Conversely, conservative #male pundits in the West are hosting #Muslim voices on their #podcasts and #shows.
And while these #groups have historically been at loggerheads, the overlaps in their values are also clear in their opposition to #feminism and the #antisemitism that is rife in both #communities."
So I seem to have found smaller Magazines / Communities that haven't been on Kbin before and after finding them they seem to have no posts but after looking through Lemmy it seems they do have posts. Does it take time for Lemmy to add all the posts or is it only new posts that will come across?
I was thinking about how there are similar communities on different instances. In some cases that is desirable/ok but maybe it would be cool to have another option....
#BenAndJerrys have this wonderful post on their homepage 👏
Here it goes:
The #US Was Founded on Stolen #Indigenous Land—This #July4, Let’s Commit to Returning It
Ah, the Fourth of July. Who doesn't love a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display? The only problem with all that, though, is that it can distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth: The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land.
The faces on #MountRushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy #Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights.
The Indigenous-led #LandBack movement is all about restoring the rights and freedoms of Indigenous people. It’s about dismantling #WhiteSupremacy and systems of #oppression and ensuring that Indigenous people can again govern the land their #communities called home for thousands of years.
A problem many have realized is that there are many /tech, /gaming etc. communities in different instances/servers. There is already https://fediverse.observer/ , so I think it wouldn't be too hard to make a service that periodically roams the fediverse, checks for example the last 100,000 submissions of each (or top 100 active...
How to find your peeps -- hashtag tips:
Did you know you can follow hashtags here? This helps direct posts that are likely to be interesting to you into your Home feed. Kinda like your own personal algorithm. It's also why its really important to hashtag words in your posts -- so others will see your posts in their feeds. It can help you find your #communities.
Type a hashtagged word of interest in the search bar. Like #ceramics
Click on one of the hashtagged words in the results.
Above the list of your results, next to the Back button you'll see an icon -- a head and a plus sign. Click on that. Congrats, you just followed that hashtag.
I'm not going to create an account on Threads for the same reason I didn't create an account on Bluesky, and why I've avoided Facebook and Instagram since forever.
I value my #privacy. I value not having every bit of data about me harvested so I can be force fed more and more advertising.
I value having real conversations with people. I value being a part of #communities that care about others. That do not tolerate hatred and bigotry.
"Communities" run by big tech will never have what we have
"I think we can do more to synchronize the effort of different sub-communities to work together for similar goals and to let them meet each other and improve the Python ecosystem for everyone."
-- Paolo Melchiorre
From my interview for the 2023 Python Software Foundation board election 🐍
Since we are building new communities, it's important that those of us who want to play an active role setting up these communities, either as active users or moderators, know when people engage in them....
People outside the so-called #threadiverse, how many Fedi groups of any kind (#Lemmy communities, #GuppeGroups, #Friendica forums etc.) did you follow before the great #RedditMigration and how many do you follow now?
For me, the stats look like this:
about 44 such groups right before.
129 so far, since I started following the #communities / #magazines of previous subreddits (I also discovered new and interesting former #subreddits along the way, and I keep discovering them, so I think I'm not done yet).
An #offset program — backed by the World Bank — that is meant to promote #conservation is actually devastating communities and the ecosystem in #Guinea, where villages have been torn apart and residents and endangered #chimps fight for the same #resources.
I'm guessing it has something to do with mastodon, since microblogging is interoperable with mastodon like how threads are interoperable with lemmy....
You can't just distribute them across instances the way normal actors do. Whichever server hosts @technology or @technology is going to get HOSED on the regular.
Gründet, fördert und baut offene, vernetzte #Communities! Ich freue mich sehr, wie viele und aneinander anknüpfende Sessions sich auf der #rp23 diesem Thema widmen (und auch, wie viel lebendiger #Mastodon im Vergleich zur #rp22 mittlerweile als digitale Kommunikationsebene zum Event geworden ist!)
Gerade @marcelweiss mit „Von Social Media zu einem echten Social Web“
🥥 In my youth -- 50+ years ago -- I remember seeing documentary footage of experimental rat #communities that were deliberately over-crowded.
Social living declined and was replaced by aggressive behavior, violence, and cannibalism.
Even back then I wondered if human society was headed in the same direction.
I have my answer now. 🥥
Until a few days ago, I'm thought that #knowledge will be a new #platform and so. I'm just realized, I'm being wrong. Knowledge will looking like real #money. Not just huge difference, but #scary it is.
How should human #communities exist if human knowledge equals money in this direct way?
How hard to have #transparent legal order, if money rules knowing of information too?
How far to #educate the next generation if giving the knowledge equals giving money?
II. Music industry
@-ppop@chirp.social
@-kpop@chirp.social
@-jpop@chirp.social
@-cpop@chirp.social
III. Asian dramas
@-pdrama@chirp.social
@-kdrama@chirp.social
@-jdrama@chirp.social
@-cdrama@chirp.social
Just remove the hyphen.
It is highly advisable that we always tag at least two similar groups (located on different servers) to ensure continuity of discussions in case one goes down. (If one goes down, then someone needs to create another duplicate located in another server for the exact same reason… continuity and redundancy.)
I'm overdue for an #introduction, especially with all you new followers…so here goes.
I'm a software engineer with a degree in Anthropology. I highly recommend the combo.
Most recently I was tech lead for Scaled Human Review at Meta. I worked in the Integrity Foundation (what other companies call "Trust and Safety") on Better Engineering initiatives and #Metaverse integration, with the teams that build human review software for the 30-40K external reviewers. I'd sworn I’d never work at Facebook, but I decided to see if I could make a difference. I couldn’t. And it wasn't a good fit for either of us. But I learned a lot about how the sausages are made and why they have such a hard time with #contentmoderation.
I've been on #socialmedia for four decades (seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978—this stuff isn't new), and virtually everyone I know I met online somewhere—many I've still never met in person. Needless to say, that's made me pretty passionate about making online communities safe for everyone, and especially marginalized groups.
I'm now a freelance #consultant, working on my own projects (I'll write more on that later), and with my wife's #consulting company (see below). I'm planning to do a lot more writing about #society and #technology (as well some #SFF), and to travel more.
I tend to write long posts (like this one). They may get shorter once my blog is back up. I don't stick to one topic, but I'll try to tag them so you can filter. I post about tech stuff (recent, as well as old geeky #Unix stuff), #social issues, #LGBTQ issues (especially the T), pretty #photos, and random personal anecdotes. When I boost, it's because I think it's something that might be interesting to someone, or some group, that follows me. Those tend to include all the above topics, plus SF&F-related things, and cool science stuff.
I'm #pan, #poly, #nonbinary (or #genderqueer, if you prefer). I prefer "they" for pronouns, but "he" is fine. I spent most of my life thinking I really was a straight cis man who just happened to be a bit quirky and a passionate and tearful ally, so I'm not too picky about how you refer to me. I'm also more than happy to answer any questions about all that, public or private.
I grew up mostly in #Maine and then lived in Massachusetts for a long time, but I now live on sovereign #Swinomish land in #WashingtonState (US), on the edge of the San Juan islands. Despite my first name (that's a story) and current location, I'm not Native American, although I focus a lot on Native American rights. My parents were both active in that area, and that was my introduction to civil rights in general.
I've been a #software engineer at various levels (from programmer to CTO to company founder) for 40+ years. I learned BASIC in high school, taught myself Pascal, FORTRAN and PL/1 in college, learned C as an intern at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, one floor up from the Unix crew), and went on from there. In college, I majored in #Anthropology with a concentration in #Psychology, and that's influenced the way I look at software ever since. Software is designed for people. Software systems build communities (whether intended or not). Anyone who does that damn well better understand how people and #communities work.
I've worked for Bell Labs (psych stats), Sperry Research (window systems, UX design), Apollo/HP (programmable shell, windowing systems, Unix porting, UX design), Bright Ideas (cookbook, educational games), OSF (windowing standards), Alfalfa (multimedia email - SMTP and X.400 :)), Wildfire (phone-based voice assistant), Utopia/USWeb (web and security consulting), Saroca (small boats), Messagefire (anti- #spam software), MessageGate (corporate compliance software), Somewhere (software consulting), ZeeVee (web video aggregation, metadata scraping), TiVo (video content correlation, #metadata pipelines), and Meta. Plus a few others.
I've been with my wife, Dr. Mollie Pepper, for over a decade. She's a #sociologist with a focus on #refugee migration, #gender, and violence; the kind of work that gives you PTSD. She did her dissertation on women's roles in the (now extremely defunct) peace process in #Myanmar (aka #Burma). A year ago she was at a military base frantically processing thousands of Afghan refugees and managing translators. She has a consulting company that specializes in evaluating and designing refugee service and placement programs. You can find her at https://carlsonpepper.com/. Everything I know about #feminism, #intersectionality, #queer theory, #CRT, and #racism I either learned from her, or she gave me the theoretical underpinnings to understand them properly.
I have two grown daughters from my first marriage with Nassim Fotouhi; a kick-ass software engineer/engineering manager who came to the States just before the Iranian revolution.
Shadi Fotouhi is an artist (see my profile background photo, go look up the drug codes and compare them to the mermaids' behavior) turned software engineer; building dynamic room installations will do that to you. She worked in QA at a gaming company, and then at Jibo; a robotics startup. Now she's a senior software engineer at Wayfair--Kubernetes, release configuration, and all that fun stuff.
Shireen Hinckley is a documentarian, digital image technician, video editor, and co-founder of Somewhere Films (https://www.somewherefilms.com/shireen-hinckley); a womxn's filmmaking collective. She works for #Beyoncé at Parkwood Entertainment, where she's an editor and post-production supervisor for all of their video releases. She worked on "Black is King" and just about every video since then, whether it's for Instagram, Times Square, Tiffany's, the Oscars, or Chloe x Halle. No, I can't tell you when the Renaissance visual album will be out—but it will be amazing.
I'm incredibly honored to have those wonderful women in my life. I wouldn't be who I am without them.
A couple other things that may come up, especially in my photos. My mother is an artist who lives in Maine in a round house she designed, and the family built, when I was in high school. And I'm part owner of a #lighthouse on Cape Cod.
Other kratom communities
Here are some other places where kratom is discussed. They are not specifically endorsed by this community. Just for informational purposes....
Does Kbin move all the Fediverse Magazines / Community posts across?
So I seem to have found smaller Magazines / Communities that haven't been on Kbin before and after finding them they seem to have no posts but after looking through Lemmy it seems they do have posts. Does it take time for Lemmy to add all the posts or is it only new posts that will come across?
idea for discussion: federation of individual communities across instance
I was thinking about how there are similar communities on different instances. In some cases that is desirable/ok but maybe it would be cool to have another option....
Idea: Fediverse community/"subreddit" explorer
A problem many have realized is that there are many /tech, /gaming etc. communities in different instances/servers. There is already https://fediverse.observer/ , so I think it wouldn't be too hard to make a service that periodically roams the fediverse, checks for example the last 100,000 submissions of each (or top 100 active...
OC How do I search for magazines and/or communities now?
Seems like something on KBin changed from the day I first signed up to today. I distinctly remember at the top where it says:...
Is it possible to set notifications for new post for magazines you moderate and/or are subscribed to?
Since we are building new communities, it's important that those of us who want to play an active role setting up these communities, either as active users or moderators, know when people engage in them....
Wordcloud of active fediverse communities
How does microblogging on Lemmy communities work?
I'm guessing it has something to do with mastodon, since microblogging is interoperable with mastodon like how threads are interoperable with lemmy....
CROSSPOST: People who already found their favourite communities and new users: here is a thread I started to find and boost up your favourite ones. (kbin.social)
Please go comment there, so others might possibly find communities to grow :)