dannekrose

dannekrose, 3 months ago

@thebardingreen

People keep recommending Ted Chiang. But I don't want short stories (Murderbot somehow managed to be an exception). The longer the better.

While his stuff is shorter, it’s very thought provoking and sticks with you. If you haven’t read the longer ones, I recommend them.

The Alchemist Gate
The Story of You(?)
Hell is the absence of God

dannekrose, 7 months ago

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568

This is a link to an older comment thread where I shared a bit about how ActivityPub works with this.

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/131241/What-s-up-with-The-magazine-from-the-federated-server-may#entry-comment-516066

dannekrose, 9 months ago

@trashhalo
In addition to the previous information, as a side note, it is possible for non-Kbin and non-Lemmy content to be automatically routed to a Magazine via tags and show up as a Thread if the content is federated as a Page. One example is WriteFreely blog posts. Frendica can also do this but I’m not sure on the details.

dannekrose, 10 months ago

@Hondolor

I don't know if you've had a chance to see the FAQ in the magazine kbinfaqs@kilioa.org but I recommend checking those out.

Disclosure: I wrote those a few weeks ago during the initial flood to kbin.

dannekrose, 10 months ago

@McBinary

I run a personal Pixelfed instance as well as a kbin one. I think the "easiest" or most sustainable would be if there was a pixelfed instance also stood up at the same time a new kbin instance is started which had some kind of SSO for the kbin and pixelfed instance.

The challenges I see with this:

1. Media storage space for a place like Kbin.social could grow pretty fast, especially if people really started uploading videos.
2. Bandwidth concerns may or may not be an issue, but certainly would need to be carefully considered.
3. Moderating the pixelfed side could be a lot of work, especially if people start only using the pixelfed site and not posting anything to kbin. It becomes like Imgur and moderating images, especially when people are uploading non-OC constantly, adds greatly to the work-load.

I've done a little testing to see how embedding/linking to images on a pixelfed instance would work (without any special integration) and it works.

dannekrose, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

@martinjuhasz

• You Suck at Parking
• Minecraft: Dungeons
• Minecraft: Legends
• PSO2: New Genesis

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@Rainbows

There seems to be some intermittent federation issues at times it seems. You could raise an issue and see if someone can check the kbin.social server side.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@RainbowsAre they protected by any kind of bot protections? If so that could interfere.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@Pixelologist

I haven't seen one yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't one hiding out there.

I also know that not as many of the Twitch streaming group has made the jump to the Fediverse due to reach, existing audiences on Twitter or Instagram because posts only show up chronologically to direct followers.

With that said, while Lemmy and Kbin are great for what they do, perhaps something more like a Calckey instance would be helpful since it allows for more ways to keep and organize information you want to refer to. I use it a lot and the ability to keep information together as well as find new information as it passes my way for something like Streaming has been more valuable and useful for me.

I'll let the head dev for Calckey describe it:

https://calckey.social/notes/9giaghp6yvc5khvo

Good luck either way!

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@Frexican21PSO2: NG

https://pso2.com/agegate/lp/Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@Frexican21

I don’t have a PS5, but these do play on the PS5 from what I can tell.

Minecraft Legends ($)
Minecraft Dungeons ($)
Fall Guys (Free)
Splitgate (Free)
PSO2: NG (Free)

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@Nougat

Notification settings will be in your profile under Settings. Scroll down on the "General" tab to see them at the bottom.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@cendawanita
I updated my FAQ in kbinfaqs@kilioa.org with more clarification on following magazines from microblogging platforms like Mastodon or Calckey.

It’s more an issue with the microblogging platforms.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@ppptan

Correct. The post was associated with the magazine/community. It was created on kbin inside a magazine so it was associated with the magazine in the same way a Mastodon user could insert the community address in the Mastodon post and have their post show up in the Lemmy instance in the Community area.

What Kbin is doing differently is that it's accepting posts from the wider fediverse which was created on platforms "unaware" of communities or magazines. Lemmy ignores those unless they contain specific community addresses, but kbin doesn't and instead routes those based on hashtags or to the "random" magazine. You can see in the "random" magazine tons of microblog posts which don't seem to be related to anything or stand-alone posts.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@Pegatron
I'll be the first to admit that I actually wasn't much of a Reddit user. What I do is turn on my notifications and then check for new comments in the notification menu. I'm not sure that will get you exactly what you want, but hopefully it will be a start.

If you haven't, notification settings are in the Settings menu you can see when you click on your user name in the top bar. It's in the first tab, General at the bottom.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

Thanks for the write-up. I've been using Mastodon quite a bit the last few months, and I'm curious about how kbin interoperates with that with from a user perspective.

What happens if you you follow a kbin user from Mastodon? Do you see just their "posts" or also their replies to threads? Do you see when they post an article? Can a kbin user follow a Mastodon user?

Yes to all of these to the best of my testing!

How do hashtags interact between the two systems?

Hashtags are a good question for sure. It depends on a few factors as best I can tell.

1. If the content was created outside kbin and federated in from a non-kbin instance (Calckey, Mastodon, etc) the microblog post will be routed to a magazine. Magazines can be configured to “listen” for certain hashtags by the owner. If an incoming post has the hashtag, that post will be added to that magazine’s microblog section. If a magazine doesn’t match the hashtag, the post will be added to the magazine called “random” that each kbin instance has as a “catch-all” for incoming content that doesn’t fit elsewhere. A l

Note: There is still much I don’t know about the exact logic used to route these posts to magazines. “How does it decide where to add the post to when there are multiple hashtags which each match separate magazines?” for example.

2. If the content is created on kbin and sent to followers from kbin, it behaves more or less like any other post with hashtags.

What happens if you follow a kbin magazine from Mastodon? I noticed that they appear with a "Group" tag on Mastodon if searching for that "user".

Actually from what I can tell, not much. Unlike gup.pe, magazine accounts don’t boost all the content that gets created in the Magazine. The magazine accounts always shows as zero posts and replies for me.

(Edit: I could navigate to this post from Mastodon and reply to it, but it didn't show up here yet. But maybe that's due to the temporarily broken federation.)

I believe so. My instance doesn’t seem to have issues with federation very much right down as an example

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@ch1cken
I don't know the specifics of kbin. With that said, having spent time trying to understand how "likes/favorites/stars" work between some other non-kbin and non-lemmy platforms, I think the issue is with how likes federate. Likes are pushed, not pulled. When someone "likes/favorites/stars" something, that gets pushed to all the instances that that person follows. It only happens once and the "home server/instance" that created and pushed the content in the first place doesn't repeat the incoming "like/favorite/star" activity back out. That means that unless the person who clicked "like" also happens to be connected directly to everyone else that got the initial post, only the people who got the initial post AND happen to be connected to the person (on a different server. This doesn't apply when it's all on the same server) will see the like show up on the post.