Chuck-of-the-North
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Chuck-of-the-North

@Chuck-of-the-North@kbin.social

Hardware guy since 1980's. Linux user since 2003. Jilted Reddit user since 2023.

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)

As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."

tchambers, to RedditMigration

organizers aren't fooling around and many have shifted into full on scortched earth on Reddit and to mode:

/kbin - a few quick announcements

Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...

Chuck-of-the-North,
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@ernest Please hang in there and take a breath. This site is amazing quality for a beta given the insane traffic coming over from the /r debacle. Pace yourself. Development and testing is a marathon, not a sprint (no pun intended).

I hope the many new arrivals (like me) appreciate how far kbin has come so quickly. /r wasn't solid for quite a while.

Chuck-of-the-North,
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I plan to stay here if the site can scale up so that performance doesn't suck (although I know there will be growing pains given the sudden new traffic).

I LIKE the federated approach, and spez has become a total turn-off over at /r making that a future wasteland.

A small FAQ to hopefully help new users to kbin (kilioa.org)

I wanted to post this here since I want to help as much as I can in my own way to people coming here for the first time. I hope it is useful and helpful! I tried to assume low knowledge with the Fediverse in my responses which I collected here from a different post and assembled into a single article....

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