HarkMahlberg

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

You can make them private in your user settings.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

I'm more of a visual learner and none of the explanations of the Fediverse included a detailed map of all the different entities involved. By all means, please make corrections, I'm sure there is at least one misunderstanding in there somewhere. Also not sure how Mastodon fits in, seems like the format would be incompatible with kbin and/or Lemmy. Thanks.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

My understanding is, to reach content found on other kbin instances, it is not necessary to create logins on them and go to them, rather the content on those instances can be "rebroadcast" to the instance you have an account on. You don't go to the content, the content comes to you. Likewise content you generate on your "home" instance can be rebroadcast to other instances.

I realize that's an optimistic assumption, one that I can't prove. By what mechanism the content is rebroadcast, I do not know.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

I think the conversation in this thread might help: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/12719/Why-aren-t-you-seeing-as-many-posts-from-Lemmy-communities#entry-comment-53517

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

All good points. I had the same argument with a software engineer friend, he touted the Free and Open Source Software aspect, the removal of an untrustworthy central authority, the ability to connect with only the servers you want and not the ones you don't.

And I just said "if you can't explain it to someone without a master's degree in computer science, it's not gonna gain mass adoption." This image was just my attempt at explaining for myself, it's not even as layperson as I wish it was.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

I believe disassociating from Nazis, CSAM, etc is still very possible in a distributed network like this, the instance admin just blacklists the instances they don't want to interact with. But it requires the user to find the server that best aligns with what they want to see. A centralized admin won't do it for them.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

I see. So this is how kbin and Lemmy and Mastodon share content despite being totally different user experiences. They just implement the protocol as they see fit.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

I simplified it to the three I saw gaining the most traction. But thanks for the link!

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

All software and online communities go through growing pains, it's still Eternal September after all. Have you noticed the users making test comments just to try out the different markup options (bold, underline, strikethrough, etc)? It's always fascinating to see a new platform make those kinds of baby steps.

I suspect kbin will improve as requests for features gain traction and the developer (the only one!) finds the time to add them.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

No offense taken lol. I share many of your concerns about the viability of mass adoption of a complex system. The average user is not a computer scientist, and we can't expect them to have the time or patience to learn all this stuff: it needs to be intuitive and user friendly.

I think the Fediverse can get there, if not today, soon.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

Standup response, I hope Christian finds a promising career ahead of him.

If I'm being honest, I wouldn't be nearly so kind to Reddit following his ordeal. Even if Reddit renegs on the API pricing completely and go back to making it free, the trust has already been sufficiently broken that I wouldn't return. They won't stop monetizing the site just because they lost some users and pissed off their developer partners. They'll just be subtler, quieter the next time they try to screw you over.

Second chances are important, but there are limits to trust. Reddit slapped their users across the face today; despite any promise or apology they make in the meantime, there is no indication that they won't do it again tomorrow to get what they want.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

Former guy has not quit the race despite being under indictment, Ron Disaster hasn't quit either, Pence literally just entered the race. As they say, it's anyone's game.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

Multiple levels of residential density, in depth road tools, upgradeable municipal buildings, it looks like they included many of the most requested features from the community. Good to see.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

In the video, the residential density they have selected has a blue base, and the buildings are being plopped (cool on it's own!) on blue tiles. I can't tell if that means those are mixed commercial/residential buildings? But why have that be limited to a single density out of six? I'm sure we'll get more info soon.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

So I'm trying to figure out what is the entity being federated. Let's say we have instance A and instance B. A has 2 magazines, "anime" and "news," and B has 2 magazines, "biking" and "news."

With my single account, which magazines can I subscribe to?

Are the two "news" magazines the same entity, or different entities with the same name?

Does this logic apply cross-platform, i.e. to Lemmy's "anime" or "biking" or "news" communities?

If all this is explained by a FAQ, I'll take a link to it but so far I've been a little confused by this system. Thanks.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

Understood, so the format of any given community/magazine is @.community@platform.domain.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

Oh, I didn't know if that was important to the syntax lol.