I can’t believe in this day and age marijuana is still an object of political influence.
Just legalize the shit, period. What’s with all the conditionals attached to it? You just have to marginalize users one way or the other because god forbid we have fewer things “those people” do to point fingers at.
Hi there! So I'm two weeks in to kbin and I think I have a layman's understanding of the fediverse, but I'm still not the most technical person, so I thought I'd just post my questions here....
I think the name kbin, which is officially /kbin, is a play on the term /sbin, which is a system directory on unix based systems that houses binary files which require root privileges to run.
I don't know how @ernest got from /sbin to /kbin though. Maybe he told the story somewhere but I haven't seen it.
Centrists can go suck a fat one. The primary reason we're in this fascistic mess globally is the centrists' aversion to being inconvenienced for the rights of their fellow people and for the future of the planet.
That's what creates dictatorships, that's what starts world wars, in summary, that's what enables fascists.
I got over leaving reddit for good but I'm a bit worried about the hellhole it's seemingly becoming with all the exposure it's able to give horrible ideas. I won't be surprised if it goes full fascist next week Twatter style.
Kbin doesn't currently support saving.
I bookmark things for now on my local browser. Afaik, the feature is in the to do list so I'll save what I can from from the bookmarks manually once that's done.
It's kinda similar to what I dislike about CMV but blatant. I think CMV created this whitewashing effect on horrible opinions by presenting them as a discussion against them, while giving them a megaphone into the mainstream.
UnpopularOpinions is similar but a bit more honest, I guess, lol!
I recently started studying social psychology, and sadly the main takeaway from my initial venture into the field is a confirmation of how unaware and automated the average person is.
Middle managers, marketers and the average customer are all caught up in a perpetual feedback loop, constantly enabling each other's addictions. It doesn't help that these demographics overlap as managers and marketers are customers of other marketers and managers, turning the feedback loop into a vicious cycle.
Dude is an absolute narcissist. The way he understands the world is in leader-follower hierarchies. He likes the position of power he's in and absolutely can't stand there are other people with power, especially if those people's power is a necessity for maintaining something rather than ruling something.
He can't understand third party app developers do it because they love reddit and want to make it easier and more fun to use. No, they must be doing it because they can't build another reddit and want to feel like they own something they can't. He can't understand moderators are mostly people who are trying to keep the communities they love alive against all sorts of situations which can drive members away. No, they must be doing it because they want to have power over people, and the more their community seems to like them, the more proof it is of how well the moderator manipulated them.
"Spirituality is innate" is such a copout for me. In my opinion, it just means people have an imagination and emotions, but I don't want to admit magic isn't real so I'll call it spirituality.
Not only nobody "earns" that much money, nobody should have the right to command the amount of influence that kind of money provides.
We are literally talking about FIVE people fucking with the lives of the entire planet.
Even if you add the active politicians of every country on earth, it would be a minuscule number of people controlling the lives of eight billion of us, and the most frustrating part of it is that vast majority of that eight billion thinks this is normal, or even should be encouraged.
I believe this was reddit's intention at least in part. People who care were also those constantly exposing their anti-consumer practices and greedy policies. I'm inclined to believe the administration will be pretty glad, at least for a while, that those who get what's happening are gone.
The biggest problem with kbin is honestly quite simple, but I don't people is talking about is the fact that finding the magazines that I'm subscribed to is in Settings > Subscribed, on Reddit, it's literally in the top bar, I don't get why it's buried in settings. Another thing is why is my home page full of posts from...
They are basically the same reason. Forums put the comment box at the bottom so people at least glance through the page before commenting, in hopes of reducing duplicate comments.
I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...
You go and browse the instance you want first. You don't have to create an account there, you can view everything, just can't post of comment without an account obviously.
Then, you look at the name of the community you want, in the form of /!something/ or it could be /@lemmy.world/ too.
You come back to kbin and type or paste that into the search bar without the exclamation mark but with an @ sign instead. so /!something/ sould be typed as /@something/ into kbin's search bar. The option to subscribe will appear in the search result.
You can use the same technique on mastodon to subscribe to kbin and lemmy accounts (and communities because technically they are accounts too). Just type or paste the /@something/ into the mastodon search bar.
Even though I understand how this works on an intellectual level, it's still astounding to me that you can ascribe yourself a literal ideology as an identity -in that you start as a Muslim, instead of as a member of Islam- and accuse a whole lot of people who have a literal identity inextricable from their person of subscribing to an ideology.
It's very interesting.
I could say the same from the point of view of an atheist living in a western country with muslim populations. First it was these people can go to mosques to pray and can cover their hair if they are women. Why do I care. But it didn't stop there. Now they want me to respect their fasting on ramadan and not eat in public, force me to listen to their call to prayer five times a day, including at the crack of dawn, force alcohol serving restaurants -if they permit them at all- to be out of sight. That's why I became more hateful...
I do all of those things too because why wouldn't I?
Is there anything as to the outcome of the arrests? Also what was the reason in the first place for the police to be interested in these people?
I nuked my twelve year old account yesterday and I'm literally not even sad. That joke of an AMA sealed the deal for me.
The best part for me personally is, I got an excuse to finally migrate to fediverse. I'm joining a discussion on lemmy from kbin while following stuff from mastodon and beehaw.
It's nerdy and fun. Also, interestingly, feels more reliable. You don't like the people running one service, did the owner turn out to be an utter sociopath? Go, make an account on somewhere better suited to your style and keep engaging with the same communities, maybe at the cost of a different UI experience. It's much preferable to losing an entire platform to the whims of a few at the top.
Edit: I visited beehaw.org, which seems to be a relatively large fediverse site (I'm new, don't judge), and their communities tab lists communities they host locally and others they are federated with. You can subscribe to any one of them through kbin by pasting the full address of the community (which looks like communityname@hosturl, usually listed on the right hand side column in the community) into kbin's search bar.
Also the notifications for comment replies are turned off by default on kbin. Actually, all notifications seem to be off. It detracts from the new user experience as people don't realize their comments have been replied to. Turn on your notifications in your settings!
I'm wondering this too. And if there's a good way to see what instances there are in the first place.
I'm quite sure I understand how the overall "fediverse" system works on a technical level, and I think most people are quite capable of understanding the architecture of the system.
What people are confused about when they ask how this works (and are answered with useless email analogies and metaphors as to how the architecture is set up) is the user experience of finding curated content similar to a way they are used to getting on centralized systems.
I don't think most people are confused about what federation is or how the underlying protocol works, nor do they need the details unless they are interested in creating and hosting their own instances. What people are wondering is how they can recreate a reddit-like (or twitter like, in the case of mastodon) experience, while the decentralized nature of the system seemingly makes it impossible.
Bahamas Government Unveils Proposal To Legalize Marijuana For Medical, Religious And Scientific Use - Marijuana Moment (www.marijuanamoment.net)
300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before (edition.cnn.com)
Why "kbin"?
Hi there! So I'm two weeks in to kbin and I think I have a layman's understanding of the fediverse, but I'm still not the most technical person, so I thought I'd just post my questions here....
John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
Entire mod teams of r/interestingasfuck, r/TIHI and r/mildlyinteresting KICKED out. Some even locked out of their accounts (old.reddit.com)
Hunter Biden to plead guilty to three federal charges | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will plead guilty to three federal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday in a court filing....
At Reddit I can save a thread, at Mastodon I can bookmark a post or comment. How do I save a Kbin (or other) 'article', comment, etc?
Yes, I know browser bookmarks exist. But there must be some native functionality that I keep just not noticing - right?
I've felt more compelled to contribute to the "Fediverse" than I ever did on Reddit.
Over the last week or so I have noticed that I have a lot more fun engaging in discussions on here as opposed to reddit....
This thing... (lemmy.world)
What they're really saying is "But you don't look regarded." (lemmy.world)
I miss Reddit's size
I know Kbin will grow in time but I miss how huge Reddit was.
What do you NOT want to see replicated on kbin?
Or the fediverse in general....
A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other. (www.theverge.com)
As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty (arstechnica.com)
Here's an interesting ARS article regarding the Reddit fiasco, but from the moderators' perspective.
Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders (www.nytimes.com)
Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.
Nobody earns a billion dollars (lemmy.world)
Hi comrades, I'm new here, how do we feel about posting Mastodon content on Lemmy?
This comment right here (lemmy.world)
My biggest problem with kbin
The biggest problem with kbin is honestly quite simple, but I don't people is talking about is the fact that finding the magazines that I'm subscribed to is in Settings > Subscribed, on Reddit, it's literally in the top bar, I don't get why it's buried in settings. Another thing is why is my home page full of posts from...
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....
OC How did you end up finding kbin? Did you migrate here from Reddit?
I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...
why are we so hated outside the community?
Why do people hate us for who we are? I don't get it
Arrested for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, Better FOSS Firmware - Linux & Open Source News (tilvids.com)
France arrested people for being private and using Linux...
thanks spez (lemmy.ml)
Tips for a new user!
Reddit refugee here - stumbled across Lemmy as it was mentioned in a comment on Artifact but intrigued by this format and communities!...