@mikey Indeed the #threadiverse is a bit of an embarrassment (for lack of a better term).
#Lemmy has had yrs to improve & they still have fairly serious bugs like losing a whole msg if you click a button that intuitively should be clickable while composing. Kbin is a disaster out of the gate with copious chronic internal server error 500s that plague the system.
I must say I blame the web-based #GUI clients. They are just a shitty foundation relying on crappy #JavaScript.
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@feditips@weirdwriter@mikey Indeed, but it's a really nice looking piece, and I see no reason why it couldn't be forked or taken over by someone(s) with the skills and desire to resurrect it.
@taur10 There's also #Lotide which is more minimalistic - kinda like #hackernews. You can subscribe to both Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines from it.
@mikey yes, you can be followed on Lemmy, but not from Lemmy 🙂 you can be followed from other projects that allow following individual accounts.
I did follow a few accounts that, err, seemed to deal with the previous political majority better back in the day 🙂
Yeah good point by @cendawanita about permissions (or lack thereabouts) for #kbin et al to scrape the #fediverse and put posts/toots into magazines. It feels like so many #Mastodon admins are blind to how the fediverse beyond Masto software & the Masto API actually works.
Seeing such folks write lengthy posts about defederating Masto instances running Vyr's search patch while the rest of the fedi has #FullTextSearch and the #Threadiverse scrapes it with next to no backlash. It's like folks don't know that there's a bigger problem with #ActivityPub re #privacy and #safety than Website Boy's latest antics, and we need to push for #FediverseSafety and privacy flags at a ActivityPub protocol level. Until then, everything is just a non-binding, non-enforceable agreement about cultural norms that there's seems no consensus on; and definitely no focus on minority safety, rather features some will claim are wanted by a majority.
@jo@cendawanita I agree this is mostly one level higher problem (at the protocol) rather than software implementation or etiquette/norm issue
The software boy/gal will try as they might to create some kind of privacy shielding around #activitypub weakness, but at the end it will be leaky as hell... privacy can only be applied (if and only if) the protocol supporting it in the first place, no amounts of social pressure or dev pull request will fix this deep state problem 😔
@ShittyKopper@ada I just hope the worst of the Reddit folks don't work out how to harass the rest of us with their 🪢👀BS, at least before they were mostly on minor instances or expelled to the dark fedi.
@Lifecoach5000@ada i only scanned it myself because of how awful the tone of it was. So I could be totally off base. I kind of lost interest after: "In order to be truly independent from platforms like Reddit"
It seemed like communities themselves, rather than individuals, would be earning these silly tokens or whatever. Why not rank communities by how prolific their toxic users are? 🥴😵💫
J’en profite aussi pour faire ma pub : j’ai créé un magazine francophone dédié aux films et au cinéma. C’est @filmsFr ( https://kbin.social/m/filmsFr ).
From the AMA (ask-me-anything) with the creators of #Lemmy —
I assume this is a request for a user to be able to block everything from a whole server instance — all communities, all users, all posts, all comments, etc.
I just noticed that Mastodon web is identifying Group accounts in the UI and happy to see it.
With the #Threadiverse expanding, I appreciate knowing that I am replying or interacting with a Group account, where my response may end up in front of audiences I wasn't expecting.
Hoping more third party clients will start adding this as well.
The identifier is included in any Account element returned in through the official API.
@cheeaun It’s been open awhile, and no clear testing on non-Kbin.social sites. Also, I hesitate to reply to that thread because I don’t understand how ActivityPub expects group interactions to work. Is it really boosts? That feels clunky. Time for some research.