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@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)

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PeerTube

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Wikis serve mainly lurkers, and federation of these sites does not matter much for them. The main advantage of wiki federation would be ability to edit several wikis under the same account. However, you can achieve the same effect with OAuth (that is, logging to many sites with the same account on another one).

Will it ever be possible for kbin to federate with PeerTube?

I know this is a silly question, especially as I'm currently focused on local-only feeds, but there's just one part of the Fediverse I wish would get more love: PeerTube. While there aren't a lot of people actively looking for alternative video hosts outside the big guys (Twitch, YouTube, Dailymotion, etc.), it would be nice to...

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PeerTube videos available directly on /kbin will add 50 thousands more users to PeerTube! A great boost of popularity for this platform!

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I have 4 Mastodon accounts, 1 on Vivaldi (as I use this browser), and 3 on Polish servers. My main one is on 101010.pl (largest Polish, can read formatted posts), other ones are on pol.social and mastodon.com.pl. I was also on calckey.pl, but Calckey appararently was not ready for use - the instance is now closing down. I have a Polish /kbin account (on karab.in), and WriteFreely and Mobilizon accounts.

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Forgot about a Lemmy account, on Geddit!

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Not implemented yet.

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This tool has been made by Kiwi Farms.

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Not implemented yet. Ernest is working on moderation tools, though.

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Why use Meta API, when there is DeepL API?

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They are.

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German Federal Government has it too.

Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances?

When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue...

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They do, but only for Mastodon and other microblogging.

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You can also watch PeerTube videos on Fedilab.

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Last time I was this early, it was not even called /kbin. There was only karab.in and it was (well, still it is) in Polish. A polished experience.

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I still remember the times, when /kbin consisted mainly of @ernest's science links and federated Lemmy posts. When /kbin was aimed to become an all-encompassing frontpage of the Fediverse, with all content from Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Mobilizon, Friendica, Pixelfed and other fedi software to become, at a glance. When the most exciting thing was the accessibility of new Fedi content types, on the same app. Semantic Web, but determined by folksonomy and decentralised.

And now, having a community? having to listen to them? being simply a Reddit replacement? Seriously? I did not consent to that! /s

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Well, it does not work now. Some PeerTube channels have been fetched as magazines, but they receive no content.

"Antiwoke" magazin on kbin.social posting bullshit like "how to end Wokeness" and "Time to reject the extrem trans lobby harming our society" How to report ? he is the moderator of that magazin. (calckey.social)

@ernest how do I report a Magazin on kbin.social ? There is a usere called "ps" who is posting to his own "antiwoke" Magazin on kbin.social. Please remove this and dont give them a chance to etablish them self on kbin.social. When I report his stuff it will go to him because he is the moderator of the magazin? Seems like a...

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kbin.social administration controls only what is published on kbin.social, and what content from elsewhere kbin.social users can see. An user banned from kbin.social can make another account, on another site and start recreate there his banned community. kbin.social will be able to ban this remote user and remote community, but this restricts only what kbin.social users can see.

Exactly the same for another /kbin or lemmy site - just replace the domain name accordingly.

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Is it just my bubble, or does the seem to "click" much more with than with ?

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@ainmosni National servers probably make the difference.

Any US-American will have more problems with discovery of content (No search on Mastodon but hashtags). The choice of instances may be intimidating for someone - firehose of any big instance's local feed is too much and a small tematical one will amplify your FOMO. They want to see content tailored to their preferences, but isn't a thematical instance too limiting? (they don't know, that almost every server allows generalist talk).

A language barreer eases the choice. Almost every German state has a server (like Berlin), there are only several Polish instances, and so on. Local timelines are easier to browse on regional servers.

US-Americans have too much social mobility to have this European experience.

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And Europeans are generally more comfortable with "national" social networks. I am writing this from /kbin, appreciated as Reddit-alternative on the Fediverse. However, its developer modelled it actually on wykop.pl - another link aggregator, much more popular in Poland, than Reddit.

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I always get goosebumps when watching opening titles of Polish science magazine Sonda, from the 80s.

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especially on kbin where nearly every community (and nearly every user) is on @kbin.social .

But kbin.social is fully compatible with Lemmy with almost the same number of users and many more communities (dozen of them has more subscribers than most-subscribed /kbin magazine). Maybe /kbin as a platform is much centralised. Threadiverse, not so much.

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fyi, /s is sarcasm switch

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https://lemmy.zip

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kbin.social is in particular situation, as it is the only top 15 server by monthly users, which is not Mastodon. The only Fediverse instances bigger than kbin.social, are:

  • mastodon.social

  • pawoo.net (Japanese, Sujitech)

  • (a lolicon server)

  • (two fake and one sus Russian instances).

Every other Fediverse server has less monthly users.

It tempts to try federation with Meta, mainly to try Threads' handling of the real threading app.
Meta is going to embrace ActivityPub with Threads by Instagram. Are we (free Fediverse users, creators, programmers, etc.) able to extend, and extinguish Meta's app?
Different Fedi software support articles, threading, formatting, fancy formatting (Misskey-Flavoured Markdown), video, events. I doubt, that new Facebook's app would support all of these at once.

How do we deal with illegal content?

I was recently thinking about how amazing it is that with this decentralized community we would have no censorship from big corporations and then I asked myself: what about illegal content? The kind of content that really should not be shared? As an example, what if someone creates a Lemmy instance and starts creating a...

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Dear /kbin admins and users:

Fortunately images and thumbnails uploaded by remote users are hosted on the remote instance, not yours.

True for Lemmy, false for /kbin. Example meme post from lemmy.ml - the image has been fetched and is present on kbin.social's database.

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