part of the issue is that kbin has been hit by so much traffic that they've activated cloud flare to protect it, which I understand is causing content from other parts of the fediverse to not come in at times. There may be more content here than you are able to access at this exact moment due to the technical issues of growing several orders of magnitude in size.
I heard Louis Rossmann make this analogy and I think he missed the strategic necessity of the duration and gambit.
*Strategically, if all subs pledged to go dark indefinitely, Admins would have been able to start working proactively to replace mods to bring them back online immediately after the blackout started. By giving a reasonable timeframe, the admins would further alienate the average user if they tried to intervene.
*The gambit is that by saying they will come back after two days, they aren't required to come back. Even if they unprivate it, they aren't required to moderate. Even If they moderate, they aren't required to moderate well. Even if they moderate well, they aren't prevented from going dark again later. So the gambit is, they can manipulate the admins into not taking draconian action against them by planning to only do it for two days, but they give up absolutely no leverage to extend the black out, repeat it, or quiet quit.
To continue the analogy, it's like an abused wife saying I'm leaving you for two days, then never coming back. By saying two days, she gets a 2 day headstart to get out of town and get lost before the abuser even realizes there's a problem. I would imagine that some subs that come back will go dark again July 1st with no plans to reopen.
We recently got a switch and love it! I've been sent back to my childhood and get to enjoy playing with my kids now. We've been playing the following. Looking to see what else might be out there too....
Loved both Ori games but I think I actually preferred the first one. All that is to say it is NOT a situation where you need to slog through the first to get to the better game.
Surprised more people haven't mentioned Super Smash Bros: Ultimate! It's a series I've played since I was a kid, and this is by far the best one. Here's what you get with this platform fighter:
An extensive "World of Light" single player mode that involves playing through many challenges, unlocking the whole roster one by one. You get helpers along the way that you can level up as you play. Kids can sink an enormous amount of time into this.
Online multiplayer with no chat. You can see your global ranking with a character and do your best to rise in the ranks as you get better.
Local multiplayer with an incredible amount of modes and nobs to tune. You can all brawl with each other, against computers, on teams of any size and configuration. You can change the handicap, the items, the stages. You can do a variety of silly modes, change the win condition to whatever you want. For a group of people of different ages and skill levels, you can make the challenge just right so everyone has a shot of winning.
Ridley is a character. Every time I show this game to younger kids they immediately want to play as the dragon.
For a family, this game has a ton to offer in terms of individual challenge and group play. I recommend it highly.
For me it's rather trivial. It just means "I like that" or "I don't like that." It's an easy way if someone says something dumb or wrong for everyone to see that what they said was really unpopular. I think blocking is a far less trivial and shouldn't be bandied about so easily. Commenting in response can be adding to the discussion, or it can just be a super downvote where you explain exactly how wrong they are. You're entitled to your opinion and I won't block you for having a different one than mine, but I will downvote when I disagree.
I have forbidden Island and just bought dessert for a friend. How different are they? Is it worth picking up dessert if you already have island, or are they very similar?
Kind of random here: you can play Mario Kart in co-op mode by choosing to play with teams and going on the same team as the other player. Super Smash Bros is the same way. I play both my nephews and a cousin with intellectual disabilities. I like in Smash that we can super fine tune the difficulty by choosing the number of opponents, setting their level and handicap, playing with items, etc. We can even play 2 on 1, 4v4, or 2v2v2v2.
Yeah I'm pretty sure when I started using reddit it was RES on desktop and just the compact mobile site for my smartphone. It worked fine until I discovered Rif. Kbin doesn't really need an app. I just discovered a new mastodon variant called Calckey and the interface is insanely good and responsive. If any fediverse site doesn't need an app it's them, hands down.
@mastodonmigration can you explain what you mean about Kbin not being federated is? I'm seeing this mastodon.online post in Kbin.social, and I regularly see Lemmy and Beehaw.org magazines on here as well. Is Kbin not available for lemmy or Mastodon to see posts from? Is the lack of federation a limit of the main instance or of Kbin as a whole?
As a former redditor I am glad to have found a new "home" and I hope I'm not intruding. Nevertheless, we are all a huge migration that is bound to change how kbin works and we're bound to piss off some pre-migration Keebinetters. The fact you guys were here before and not in reddit makes evident you don't want this to become a...
/m/enlightenedcenterist right here. "I hope no one defending minorities or trying to eradicate them from public life get on here. They are both insufferable."
You're not the only one. I'm constantly seeing cloudflare pages that look like they want to captcha me but then just wait for a while before finally loading the page. Growing pains, it seems.
New migrants please be patient. This is a lot like Nov 2022. It will be choppy, but get sorted out. This is another golden opportunity to break down corporate social media.
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@mastodonmigration I'm seeing this post on Kbin. If I'm understanding correctly, when people toot about a story from a federated forum site, the conversation is connected through the fediverse? Basically Open Source reddit and twitter talk to each other?
iPhone 12 mini was my first and recently upgraded to 14 Pro Max. Switching from S10+ to 12 mini was a huge change in screen size, but other than that there was a very high degree of feature parity. Many of the apps were the same. I liked some things better, some things less. I didn't like Apollo very much coming from rif. After using it for a couple of years now I used rif on Android for the first time in a while and I had the same feeling as when I first used Apollo. I think they are basically equally as good. Rif feels like an android app and Apollo feels like an iOS app.
Looks like federation is working again!
I just saw some posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.world, looks like we're back in business!
I definitely think r/gaming has the biggest banger of a privated notice
95% down <3 I love the coordination and hate all this situation at the same time...
What are your favorite Nintendo Switch games?
We recently got a switch and love it! I've been sent back to my childhood and get to enjoy playing with my kids now. We've been playing the following. Looking to see what else might be out there too....
As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin
On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you'll get the info....
OC Cooperative games that are newbie friendly
Hi, i like coop games because I like working together and don't enjoy competitive games....
Any good mobile apps to access kbin?
Obviously this migration is all about 3rd party apps. Do any even exist yet for kbin?
People from Reddit or redditors, people from Boston are Bostonians, people from Canada are Canadian. What should the people of this site use for a demonym?
I've seen keebinetters, but that feels like trying to say Massachusettsian instead of Bay Stater....
Dear pre-migration Keebinetters, how can we NOT ruin kbin for you?
As a former redditor I am glad to have found a new "home" and I hope I'm not intruding. Nevertheless, we are all a huge migration that is bound to change how kbin works and we're bound to piss off some pre-migration Keebinetters. The fact you guys were here before and not in reddit makes evident you don't want this to become a...
Lag
Am I the only one facing constant lagging when moving between different pages?
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Reddark- see who's going dark this week. (reddark.untone.uk)
An open source website to watch subreddits going dark
Waiting for Apollo to create a Fediverse fork be like (reddthat.com)