First post on kbin. Sorry if this ends up somewhere it shouldn't. Still figuring things out.
I don't think I'm ready to leave reddit completely, but I don't want to stay there. My compromise has been to bookmark niche subs that still don't have an active equivalent on fediverse or elsewhere. At the very least, I don't have to settle for the insufferable communities on reddit when better communities exist here. So long r/nintendo, r/pokemon.
I find myself doing far less doomscrolling on one site now, and more popping into different places on different sites like I used to pre social media hubs. I might visit my hometowns sub or r/ADHD on reddit, read about current events or gaming news here, and pop into tildes for pleasant conversation. All in all, if there is one positive thing the reddit enshitening has caused, its for the web to feel less centralized and a little more like 2008's internet.
@Roundcat FYI, it looks like you did this as a "post" rather than an "article". Posts appear under the "microblog" tab in kbin and are grouped with content from Mastodon and other apps on the wider fediverse. Articles are what you want if you want the post to appear as a regular thread in a kbin/lemmy community
@LSNLDN Yeah, it federated fine, but it's a kbin post made to a kbin community, so I thought it worth mentioning that it doesn't appear on the default tab of that community when viewed from kbin
Very curious how well kbin can work as a Mastodon replacement in addition to a threadiverse reader. Does it work as a one-stop shop for fediverse browsing?
@koncertejo It does, but it's not quite as convenient for the microblogging side of things. It can do them, but it's more suited to following hashtags and topics from the rest of the fediverse than it is for following specific people
@robert_p_king I wouldn't worry too much about sticking exactly to conventional wisdom. 600km is when you need to start thinking about retiring them, but a lot of that depends on the quality of the show and the environment in which you do most of your running. Just make sure you keep your eye on them as they get more mileage under them.
So, suppose I have an idea for an #ActivityPub implementation that guarantees more control over content and more privacy.
Who here knows enough about ActivityPub to help me break down the idea to detect any pitfalls and discuss viability? I could see myself coding a basic implementation but I don't have nearly enough experience to really assess its viability.
If you know anyone who could help me review a theoretical proof of concept on a really high level, please let me know.
It’s the Dalnet vs. Efnet IRC split happening all over again right here on the #fediverse because too many #fediadmin / #mastoadmin flat out refuse to practice Assume Positive Intent.
@gme What I'm getting at though is that there are bigots out there that specifically work around that. They aren't openly disrespectful (to start with). They are simply "asking questions" and pushing a huge workload on to vulnerable folk to validate their rights to exist on their own terms. And then when the queer person has done that, they either shift goal posts or finally unleash the bigotry that they've been keeping in check.
Speaking as a trans person, I literally cannot count the amount of times I have done this exact dance with someone. Someone who appears to be open to genuine conversation, who gets a huge amount of emotional work from me, only to eventually make it clear that they were always bad faith.
I've assumed good intent most of my life, and though it pays off sometimes, all to often, it comes at a high cost. I've learned the hard way that "assume good intent" works when you're trying to defuse an argument about a topic that doesn't directly impact the lives of anyone involved in the discussion, but when it involves the basic rights of vulnerable folk, assuming that everyone is acting in good faith can get people hurt. Our caution is earned the hard way :\
@Tmarsland What makes it so? I keep hearing people say amazing things about it, but the show description seems pretty generic so I remain unsure what makes everyone love it so much :)
Thing I like about #kbin is that it has a section called "microblog" (poorly named) which takes posts from the #fediverse that contain hashtags and aggregates them together in a #reddit-like interface.
It's basically the same as subscribing to hashtags on #mastodon.
It also has a section called "magazines" which are for proper #reddit-like posts, similar to #lemmy's "communities", but those have much less activity due to Lemmy/kbin's relative lack of activity compared to Twitter-like #activityPub implementations..