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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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From terms of service:

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/kbin has a „reputation” system, measured with boosts.

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On /kbin there is an option to add a badge to new link/article (and separately to add hashtags). However, I don't know if it works. I am summoning @ernest - are badges flair-equivalents?

Mastodon monoculture problem (rys.io)

Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The biggest instance, mastodon.social, is home to over 200.000 active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole Fediverse, on a single instance. Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact...

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After writing that article:

  • Akkoma grew fivefold in Monthly Active Users (from 2 to 10 thousands), with much credit to mycrowd.ca
  • Lemmy and /kbin combined more then doubled, from over 1 thousand to almost 3 thousands
  • FediDB revealed, that the most active fediverse instance (by new post count) is actually misskey.io, not mastodon.social
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Should even /kbin remain a single-server software forever, other /kbin-compatible software will still exist (like Lemmy). Because of it, I don't fear current /kbin quasi-centralisation.

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Indeed a mental shortcut - kbin.social is only public English-language server, but there are 3 Polish servers too - karab.in, nadajnik.org and kopnij.in. Also, @dannekrose started first and (as I am writing these words) only private /kbin instance.

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Exactly what it says on the tin: a software with only one instance. Yes, I made a mental shortcut - I am listing different (but foreign or private) instances in a different comment.

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Microblog is posts from Mastodon, People lists active users of an instance/a magazine, Magazines work exactly like communities on Lemmy (and Lemmy communities are listed along the magazines).
One particular advantage of „native” /kbin magazine is an ability of magazine owner to specify hashtags to automatically classify Mastodon posts to particular magazine. This makes a magazine a useful tool also for following Mastodon discussions by topic.

The time to streamline Lemmy onboaring is now. Let's do it like mastodon did. (blog.joinmastodon.org)

I've seen lots of discussion on reddit of users trying to get others to join Lemmy and the prevailing reply is that it is too difficult to navigate and comprehend. Having to answer multiple questions and wait for manual verification is combersome and is limiting growth at a time when nothing should be standing in Lemmy's way....

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in addition to the concept of groups, posts and comments you now have instances, threads, microblogs and magazines. That's overwhelming and drives people off. The masses don't care how it is technically implemented as long as it's easy to handle.

The only new concepts on /kbin, compared to reddit are: instances and microblogs.
Multiple instances (servers) are the essence of fediverse. Microblogs exist only on /kbin, because Mastodon (as it is much bigger than Lemmy right now).
Groups are subreddits are communities (Lemmy) are magazines (/kbin).
Threads is your regular reddit-style posts and comments. Lemmy is nothing but threads. Same for reddit, innit?

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to be an active part of all those integrated fediverse parts you have to set up several accounts for each part, not only for kbin.

Actually, /kbin is explicitly made to make you able to actively interact both with Mastodon (and other microblogs) and Lemmy.

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I've just found kbin.social and find it has superior signup options. It's just: make an account (email/password), or sign up with Google or Apple. No server talk.

Actually, it is not a superior signup option*. /kbin simply has no other English-language server! (remaining three /kbin servers are Polish-speaking)

*Well, corporate logins being available as an option actually are an advantage - for not-deGoogled users.

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Or /kbin magazine: @LiminalSpace

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!y2kaestethics for Y2K aesthetics
!frutigeraero for Frutiger Aeto
!weirdcore for weirdcore

help me choose my next distro

I'm resetting windows 10 on my Thinkpad T580 for work but would like to create a partition for linux. It's an older laptop and really chugs through games like Minecraft or RuneScape but I enjoy playing relaxing games while I listen to audiobooks at night. I grew up using windows which is why I've mostly used Ubuntu and ZorinOS...

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Or rather go on with Fedora Kinoite (Silverblue but KDE)

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camelCase - as screenreaders pronounce them better.

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Because its default interface (Element, by Matrix developers) looks like Discord

Why is it so annoyingly hard to set up a Fediverse node?

Everyone (and their mother) have been trying to convince me that I should use one of my less loaded servers to be a Fediverse node. However, all Fediverse software packages I checked only support being installed on complicated systemd + Docker machines. My servers don't have either of those, because neither systemd nor Docker...

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PeerTube can be run on OpenBSD
Friendica has no Docker images listed along the releases, requisites
Misskey can be run without systemd nor Docker
or maybe single-user honk or ktistec

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On /kbin you can flag your content as 18+/NSFW when adding it. You can also flag your magazine (equivalent of Lemmy community) the same way, when creating it.

feditips, to fediverse
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If there's the same conversation shown on different kinds of Fediverse server, each server type will display it in its own format.

For example:

In the attached images, you can see a conversation thread in the replies to a PeerTube video post. On Mastodon it will look like a Masto thread, but on PeerTube it will look like comments below the video.

They are both the same thread! It's just displayed differently depending on which kind of server you're looking at it from.

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@jbzfn you may want to check out /kbin.
This thread looks on /kbin like this

@feditips

cody, to kbinDesign
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The first approach to "warehouses", channels, rooms. Personally, I don't like the solutions seen on , but people seem to like them. And yet, the user interface is for people, not for themselves. At least to a large extent.

While reddit's layout isn't fully polished (many subreddit-related modules and pages still use the old layout), I decided to use a drop-down menu that I don't like and redesign it a bit.

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@cody magazyn can be used as a synonym of czasopismo in Polish. The first periodical publication calling itself a magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine named itself after a magazine as warehouse. English language retains "storehouse" meaning of magazine, but only for ammunition.

@narF

Isaac Wilks: The Zoomer Question - American Affairs Journal (americanaffairsjournal.org)

In a time in which generations struggle to understand each other, everyone, young and old, is nevertheless in agreement that something has happened to the young. Young people are now consistently more distressed than our elders, a fact whose daily confirmation through experience is the only thing keeping us from recognizing its...

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Any fitting magazine for this article?

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