The fact that I can open up ChatGPT right now and say "Write a Kotaku article about why Tetris is racist" and get a 100% believable result out of it should be a sign that they've been replaceable for a while now.
"Why won't they just let us make wildly unpopular decisions that jeopardize the livelihoods of Americans without having to make us feel bad about it?!"
I think I figured it out immediately after posting this, lol. If there's a red line next to this comment, then I think that's to highlight OP's comments in their own thread.
Kbin also has Mastodon integration (though it's still being worked on and isn't in its final form yet), which I think is handy because I'm hoping that Kbin doesn't defederate from Meta, so that I can also still have an account to keep in touch with people I care about who are going to be using Threads without having to manage another account elsewhere.
I also prefer the layout to Kbin better. While the stock Lemmy layout is nice (it does a fantastic job of emulating the old.reddit layout), I like the fact that Kbin shows a little bit more text about each post. It also keeps more data public (like your votes and reputation scores), which I actually prefer being out in the open, as it helps weed out people who may be giving bad faith arguments in various discussions.
This has been my experience playing with the microblog section. Somebody please feel free to correct anything I'm wrong about here.
Do I follow mags? How?
The Lemmy magazines you subscribe to will also be subscribed as hashtags on the Mastodon side. So if you're subscribed to /m/technology, you'll see Lemmy threads in the magazine as you normally would, but you'll also see anything posted on Mastodon with the #technology hashtag. From any user. So if I were to go onto a Mastodon server and post something with that hashtag, you should be able to then see it under the microblog section of the /m/technology magazine.
Do I follow people? How?
You can open any user's profile from the microblog as you would from a Lemmy thread. I believe that subscribing will put them into your Hot and All microblog feeds when viewing the microblog tab from the main page.
My feed includes all sorts of items not just who and what I follow. Why?
They're showing up because they posted something with a hashtag that matches a magazine you're subscribed to.
When I post, where does it go? Who can see it?
Your posts go to Kbin's own Mastodon server. This means that the people who will see it are Mastodon/Kbin users who have subscribed directly to your Kbin account, Mastodon/Kbin users who are viewing a hashtag mentioned in your post, or Kbin users browsing the All microblog feed around the time you post (I don't know if Mastodon users can view Kbin's local feed; there's probably a way but I have no idea how that part works). If you post to a magazine's microblog, this is as if you were to write a microblog post using that magazine as a hashtag (although it will be a "hidden" hashtag in the post).
and anything else because I don't know what I don't know.
I've not tested this out, myself, but I believe that if you write a microblog post to a magazine, such as /m/technology, then that "hidden" #technology hashtag is still searchable by Mastodon users. Though I've not tested it.
Also, upvotes in the microblog section act as Favorites in Mastodon, and boosts are still called boosts in Mastodon, but are more of a "retweet" function. So boosting a post will appear to a Mastodon user as if you were retweeting their post. There does not appear to be any equivalent "quote retweet" function, as this was largely used for bullying on Twitter.
Also, some clarification on terms: On Kbin, "microblog" refers to the Mastodon element of the site, tweets/toots are referred to as "posts", whereas Lemmy threads are "threads". "Replies" are replies to microblog/Mastodon "posts", whereas "comments" are replies to "threads". Just in case you're browsing anybody's profile and are confused by the differentiation between these lists.
The version you've installed is the PWA (Progressive Web App). It's effectively just a stripped-down browser window that loads the mobile site in its own dedicated "app" on your device, even though it's technically just a separate Chrome window.
For a lot of users, this may be all they need. But because it's just the mobile web page, you won't get any extra features that you might find with a dedicated app (like notifications or custom UI elements).
He wasn't searching for it or knowingly distributing it. The way Tor exit nodes work is that you're hosting a machine that lets other people on the Tor network communicate with the internet. You're essentially routing a portion of the entire network's traffic through your machine. You can't really control who is using it or what it transmits at that point.
He got punished because somebody else shared CP, using his equipment to do so. It's like being jailed for having your car stolen and being used to hit a pedestrian.
the only solution anyone is capable of giving: "Try biking to work"
I hate this so much, too. We keep seeing these pushes for individuals to reduce their carbon footprint, but it's not the individuals who are responsible for climate change; it's the corporations who continuously skirt emissions laws and lobby for looser regulations on their industries who are polluting the planet en masse. We could all bike to work for a year, and it wouldn't even make a dent to offset the environmental damage caused by a single luxury cruise ship in that same span of time.
Elon is literally everything Cyberpunk warns is about. He's the biggest corpocunt the world has ever seen. Arasaka is exactly what Elon wants X Corp to be. He's actually trying to make chips that get implanted into your brain. He wants his own Relic. He wants to be the immortal Saburo Arasaka.