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Kierunkowy74

@Kierunkowy74@kbin.social

Today's social media transform us into merely numbers.
No problem for me.

Alts: @Kierunkowy74 (kbin.earth) @Kierunkowy74 (PieFed)
Polish account: @Kierunkowy74
Mastodon: @74 or @Kierunkowy74 (alt)

chfrankcgn, to threads
@chfrankcgn@chaos.social avatar

Threads

A couple of my friends have an account on Threads. So naturally, I created an account over there after it became available in the EU.

The amount of unmoderated hate speech, transphobia, homophobia, and racism is staggering and mind-blowing. I had to block more people in the first couple of days than in a year on X, even after Elon.

I am so grateful for this well-moderated Mastodon instance - thank you so very much, @ordnung!

YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine

Due to the nature of fediverse, you can’t just do a “site:lemmy” search as you’d do with reddit (site:reddit.com). I was searching for ways to do it on my firefox browsers and I came to a solution that searches 21 different instances simultaneously, which I consider to be a big part of lemmy (I also include kbin...

testing, to fediverse
@testing@iceshrimp.social avatar

differences between threadiverse folks and microbloggers on the fedi:

  • microbloggers boost a lot, but that's not big on the threadiverse
  • microbloggers tend not to like anything - neither the posts they keep boosting nor the replies to their own posts - whereas this is absolutely common on the threadiverse
  • microbloggers tend not to reply - whereas on the threadiverse, this keeps happening all the time

i totally get why folks from lemmy find mastodon in particular strange

thomas, to Software
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

Let's see if I can perhaps publish a first version of my software for http://watch.metalhead.club today. I still need to tidy up the code a bit and document it properly so that it can be useful for others.

hrefna, (edited ) to fediverse
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

I sort of want:

  • To/cc to control where the message gets sent.
  • Audience to control who can see the message.
  • bto, bcc to not exist or be broadly disabled in AP (edit, to clarify: I want to and cc to take the meaning of bto and bcc in general; the functionality is useful, but in a social network it should be the default behavior and we have other mechanisms to tag people in)

FediExt, (edited ) to BetterKbin

[po polsku niżej]

🇺🇸 The Better /kbin update to version 2.1.1 has already landed in the extension stores!
It adds a toggle switch to enable and disable automatic theme changes to the pop-up. Apart from that, the Polish translation in the options has been improved, the file structure has been gently changed, and (FINALLY!) a bug has been fixed, which caused Better /kbin options to open every time the extension was updated (and in some browsers - even every time it was launched). This problem had been present since early versions of the extension, but the source of the problem could not be found - finally, it worked!
If you miss something in the extension or have some interesting ideas about it - reply to this post :)
https://www.mstankiewi.cz/projects/other/betterkbin

🇵🇱 Aktualizacja Better /kbin do wersji 2.1.1 już wylądowała w sklepach z rozszerzeniami!
Dodaje ona przełącznik włączający i wyłączający automatyczną zmianę motywu do pop-up'u. Poza tym poprawiono tłumaczenie na język polski w opcjach, delikatnie zmieniono strukturę plików, a także (W KOŃCU!) usunięto błąd, przez który przy każdej aktualizacji rozszerzenia (a w niektórych przeglądarkach - nawet przy każdym jej uruchomieniu) otwierały się opcje Better /kbin. Problem ten występował już od wczesnych wersji rozszerzenia, ale nie można było znaleźć jego źródła - w końcu się udało!
Jeżeli czegoś Wam brakuje w rozszerzeniu albo macie jakieś ciekawe pomysły odnośnie do niego - piszcie :)
https://www.mstankiewi.cz/projects/other/betterkbin

@BetterKbin @BetterKbin

benjamingeer, to Trains
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Polish hackers figured out that a train manufacturer had programmed its trains to break down after certain dates, or if they were serviced at another company's workshop.

https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/

attn @jon @echo_pbreyer

OC Official Collection Checkmark 1.0.1 (userstyles.world)

This userstyle adds checkmarks next to the names of official collections (i.e., collections that Ernest verifies and gives an official link). Right now, official collections aren't distinguished in any way, so I thought this would be a nice way of doing it!...

How did Lemmy World become the default instance?

World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....

themeatbridge, (edited )

I remember when I joined, there was a list of suggested default instances. I don’t remember the actual list, but it was something like:

Lemmy.randomletters
Radical.politics
Jimbos.diy.server
Swearword.motherfuckers
Lemmy.world

Xylight,
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This one post about recursion

mike, to fediverse
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Hello Fediverse. I'm posting this tonight from my federated Flipboard profile! We're now testing our integration starting with my account. You can follow me here to see all the stories I'm curating about things like startups, photography and of course, the . Curious to hear your thoughts on how this is working. We’ll incorporate your feedback as we make more progress on federating Flipboard. Stay tuned for lots more soon.

RTR#32 Further refactoring, debugging voting errors

Today, I continue with code refactoring, getting closer to finishing the most tedious part. I've also improved tools to prevent spam on the instance, which will take effect in a few days, addressing the issue of overloading other instances that have been reported. After today's wave of spam, I've also started working on...

masimatutu, to fediverse en-gb

Mastodon has the responsibility to promote diversity in the Fediverse

I love the Threadiverse. Compared to the microblogging Fediverse’s sea of random thoughts, Lemmy and kbin are so much easier to navigate with the options to sort posts by subscribed, from local instances or everything federated. You can also sort by individual community, and then there are the countless ways to order the posts and comments (which are stored neatly under the main post, by the way). That people can more easily find the right discussions and see where they can contribute also means that the discussions tend to be more focused and productive than elsewhere. Decentralisation also makes a lot of sense, since it is built around different communities. All that’s needed is users.

Things were going quite well for a while when Reddit killed third-party apps, prompting many to leave and find the Threadiverse. However, it is quite difficult to entertain a crowd that has grown accustomed to a constant bombardment of dopamine-inducing or interesting content by tens of millions of users, if you only have a couple hundred thousand people. This is causing some to leave, which of course increases this effect. The active users have more than halved since July, according to FediDB. The mood is also becoming more tense. Maybe the lack of engagement drives some to cause it through hostility, I’m not quite sure. Either way, the Threadiverse becoming a less enjoyable place to be, which is quite sad considering how promising it is.

But what is really frustrating is that we could easily have that userbase. The entire Fediverse has over ten million users, and many Mastodonians clearly want to engage in group-based discussion, looking at Guppe groups. The focused discussions should also be quite attractive. Technically we are federated, so why do Mastodonians interact so little with the Threadiverse? The main reason is that Mastodon simply doesn’t federate post content. I really can’t see why the platform that federates entire Wordpress blogs refuses to federate thread content just because it has a title, and instead just replaces the body with a link to the post. Very unhelpful.

The same goes with PeerTube. There are plenty of videos on there that I am quite sure a lot of Mastodonians would appreciate, yet both views and likes there stay consistently in the tens. Yes, Mastodon’s web interface has a local video player, but in most clients it is the same link shenanigans, may may partly explain the small amount of engagement. This is also quite sad, because Google’s YouTube is one of the worst social network monopolies out there, if not the worst.

And I know some might say that Mastodon is a microblogging platform and that it makes sense only to have microblogging content, but the problem is that Mastodon is the dominant platform on the Fediverse, its users making up close to 80% of all Fedizens. It has gone so far that several Friendica and Hubzilla users have been complaining about complaints from Mastodonians that their posts do not live up to Mastodon customs, and of course, that people frequently use “Mastodon” to refer to the entire Fediverse. This, of course, goes entirely against the idea of the Fediverse, that many diverse platforms live in harmony with and awareness of each other.

The very least that Mastodon could do is to support the content of other platforms. Then I’d wish that they’d improve discoverability, by for instance adding a videos tab in the explore section, improving federation of favourites since it is the dominant sorting mechanism on many other platforms, and making a clear distinction between people (@person) and groups (!group), but I know that that is quite much to ask.

P.S. @feditips , @FediFollows , I know that you are reluctant to promote Lemmy and its communities because of the ideology of its founders, but the fact is firstly that it’s open source and there aren't any individual people who control the entire project, and that the software itself is very apolitical. In fact, most Lemmy users both oppose and are on instances that have rules against such beliefs, so I highly encourage you to at least help raise awareness on the communities. Then, of course, there’s kbin, which isn’t associated with any extremism at all. As a bonus, it has much better integration with the microblogging Fediverse, but it is a lot smaller and younger, and still very much under development.

Anyways, that was a ramble. Thanks for hearing me out.

@fediverse

RTR#30 Monthly recap and planned next steps

Today, I added a box of related/random collections - I must admit that the ones you created are fantastic. Collection names can be repeated since they are user-assigned. I added the option to mark a collection as official - those with the highest number of followers in a given topic and with a specific name can be marked and...

flatearth, to fediverse

Flat earth real life testimony 6/7

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-2dvjjVCY

You can visit and watch the whole 7.
Joyful Christmas in advance! 😀
Joyful Mysteries... 😇

ernest,
ernest avatar

This series will never get old ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdfNuwMhMg4 [english subtitles]

RTR#29 Another boring update: Categories and bug fixes

Today, I wanted to introduce you to Categories - a new feature that is essentially a multi-mags view. A new tab will appear in the user panel where you can create categories (public or private) and then add magazines to them (local or remote). In the magazine listing, there will be another tab that will list public categories...

RTR#28 New homepage options, improved aggregate view, Support Us box

Today, I added new user customization options for the homepage, including the ability to set a new view. The Aggregate view is now featured in the main navigation under "All content," making it easier to navigate. Thanks for all the tips and feedback - great job ;)...

ernest,
ernest avatar

On kbin.social, posts featuring Lemmy posts receive more upvotes, and it defaults to sorting by "Hot content." For a more accurate representation, sorting by "Active" or "Newest" or */sub is recommended. On the other hand, karab.in primarily federates with Polish Mastodon instances, and szmer.info is not as popular, hence the difference.

PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas! (framablog.org)

It's #givingtuesday, so we're giving you PeerTube v6 today! PeerTube is the software we develop for creators, media, institutions, educators... to manage their own video platform, as an alternative to YouTube and Twitch. 🦆 VS 😈: Let's take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our...

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