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@Lazycog@kbin.social

I am but a cog in a machine. A lazy one though.

Mastodon: @Lazycog

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ukraine community over at sopuli is great if you sort by new, just trying to get more traction there in the form of people commenting. Posts for info, comments for fun.

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I bet it is the same reason that I had: can't follow or unfollow tags from official app (or atleast I haven't found a way to do so, please help).

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Yup! Tusky for sure, don't know about the other apps. The official app is great but missing many features still. Give Tusky a go if you decide to try Mastodon again!

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This is possibly in the works I believe. They are currently discussing about the implementation and what additional things it could bring to the table that would make it work even better (for example somehow integrate the idea with Mastodon hashtags).

The link I provided is old, but there is still active discussion and many more contributors, so we could see this happening soon!

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Yup! I'm pretty excited for what's going to happen in the next 2 months! As for the timelines: Could be, there are two threads discussing this. Here is the second one.

Personally I'm up for anything, I'd just like to stop constantly switching between 5 communities that are all the same but on different instances.

What are 2000 employees doing at Reddit?

When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a...

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I didn't know this was a thing... I thought it was just me.

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I am so sorry I did not realize Kbin does that... no wonder I've had issues. I usually post on my lemmy account but have really been liking kbin lately. Seems I don't even have an option to post with "undefined" language.

Now, you put it exactly how I feel about this topic! I got into it from a blog post, checked out the infamous "minimalists" and Marie Kondo, but felt like the message is the same and feels like they are just trying to make a lot of money on the concept of minimalism after the first two paragraphs of text. Be it podcast, netflix show or anything else.

The great thing I got from it all was the mentality against consumerism. I didn't realize how social media conditioned me to follow the latest trends and buy the newest gadgets.

Thanks for your awesome response (and sorry about the post settings).

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I'm so sorry about the post settings... Didn't realize that affects federation!

And I agree, I couldn't read or watch anything related to the topic after realizing it's seen as a goal. I do see it as a great starting point into being more mindful of the life around you.

Thank you for taking the time to rewrite your answer!

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No, it doesn't! I bet many of us had the same experience :)

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Lemmy has been running for 4 years (don't know how long they developed it before releasing the first beta), Kbin barely for 2 months. Just putting that out there! Love both though.

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Oh wow lovely!! So good that I might end up comissioning one too.. thanks for the link to the artist!

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Don't know if you mean that profile pictures hiding should be a magazine specific setting, but you personally can hide profile pictures (and magazine logos) in your side bar settings.

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I personally liked the gold-silver awards, but felt like adding million award options really cluttered the UI. But I agree it's a great way to get some money for server hosting.

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Thats strange.. works for me on latest firefox browser.

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Nevermind, cleared cache and refreshed the page and set them again to display and then hide again - you are right it's broken. Hopefully they fix it soon.

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Looking good! Love the mount coloring.

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Isn't that what the "Federation On | Off" setting basically does?

On your sidebar, next to the settings gear there is the connection-icon and you can turn off federation so that you only see magazines and content only from your local instance.

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Adding a pic (click to enlarge):

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This hasn't been documented (and I haven't tested), but I'm fairly certain that on user level you can't block your comments and posts from getting federated with other instances. That would be instance-admin level settings.

The federation on/off button should only hide federated content from you, but I'm not sure if it even applies to the stuff that has already been loaded into your feed, as I still see some content from other instances if I turn it off, but could be due to other kbin users who have commented on the thread so you'd only see kbin users comments.

Still waiting for bit more documentation on kbin, but I'm sure a lot of it will change as ernest and other contributors work on the code.

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The syntax for @ signed magazines seems to be a bit broken, right click the link and press "open in a new tab" to get there, or alternatively use this link: /m/Tardigrades

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Awhile ago we had this awesome thread going on where people could tell us about their favourite magazines (and some were created on the spot):

https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/13198/Hey-keebinetters-and-fediverse-what-are-your-favourite-kbin-fediverse-magazines

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Me, a code necromancer, to a new hire:

  • Here is my legacy and burden which I leave to you:
    --- 20 year old Visual Basic application
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I know that on lemmy admins of an instance can hand over a community on that instance to another person. Wonder if it is the same on kbin?

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Yeah I understand, I'm bit hesitant to ping ernest since his hands are absolutely full, but maybe the question OP and you have really could use an answer so that we could do something about this. Hey @ernest , if you see this, is it possible to:

  1. Hand down a magazine ownership to another user
  2. give ownership of an instance to another user if the original owner has gone MIA?
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Damn that was a quick answer, appreciate it ernest!

@Shortcake @man0fbass I guess you guys should privately message ernest to resolve these issues.
You can private message by going to his account page and click on the "send a message" on the side bar of that page.

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AFAIK there were trolls commenting and harassing beehaw communities from .world and lemmy (I believe also Kbin) lack proper moderation tools to counter that. Supposedly it's only temporarily blocked until those required tools are implemented.

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Ah sorry I looked at your question again and noticed I misread your question. No idea why that one instance was blocked.

Just found out that DuckDuckGo can be used to search Fediverse sites easily.

If you didn't know, on DuckDuckGo you can search for posts or magazines with site:kbin.social just like you would with Reddit. The same applies to any other Fediverse site like Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.. I was really frustrated because it seems like Google was intentionally suppressing them....

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Hey thanks for the tip! I also felt like fediverse was being suppressed by google, but wasn't sure whether thats the case or does google just need time to properly index these sites.

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Agreed. Wouldn't mind to subscribe on all 3 and get posts to my feed.

Additionally, Lemmy and Kbin are being actively developed, maybe this new wave of people pushes them to create tools so that you can combine magazines and communities into one metafeed/community where you see all the posts to all three communities.

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Not only you, I can't bring up any lemmy.wtf communities through kbin right now

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Some instances of Mastodon have a very large character limit (don't know if there are instances without limits).

Edit: just pointing out, not disagreeing

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You could check out Calckey.social which has a limit of 4000 characters I believe. Maybe that is better for personal blog?

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Wow okay that's a lot! Might have to migrate my mastodon account there. Thanks for the tip!

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Nice setup! Mind linking the background pic? Been looking for a new space background.

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Damn, thank you so much!

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You dropped... no, that was something we used to say in the old world. It's time for a new beginning and new ways. You go, floaty handman.

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It's a slightly different syntax for accessing it from kbin: go to all magazines tab and type ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone to access the the community.

Edit: on kbin we use the @ character instead of lemmy's ! Exclamation character:

@ ttrpgs @ lemmy.blahaj.zone

And write it all together:

@ttrpgs

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Eikä tarvitse edes olla lemmyn puolelle, itse olen kbinillä ja kommentoin täältä. Fediverse ❤️

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That one is also awesome! Made me want a real life one...

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It takes awhile to get into it, but you'll get there!

The biggest difference with syntax is that lemmy uses the !exclamation mark and kbin uses the @at sign to link communities.

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Yiss! I'll post mine as soon as I get home!

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Here we go:

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Yess they are, and I like mine for the same reason as you, speeeeedboy!

And nice race choice for a scrapper 😉

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Nice setup man! I have to ask, is that landline phone?

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That's cool, I really miss the wire and hanging up by placing the phone on to the switch.

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