I searched for recommendations for parking in a somewhat random area - and turns out there were five other posts with similar questions and about 6 clear cut comments from people who knew the area.
I won’t be active though - so good luck to them with new and interesting content. That’s where I’m here for now and it’s already giving the fix at a beginner stage in development.
Happy Birthday to all fathers - the lore tells a tale of a great migration of tribeless males, hand in hand they walked towards the original all-women tribe of Vaginxanestrogentalia. They were finally ready to mate and progress the species. This was on Jin (olde Engrish for June) 18th, -4209 STE (Starceptor Time E-Slot). This is a time to remember who we are, and, what will become.
For science only, I would like to have the chance to understand wherever you folks seem to get these nfsw content on your main page (or sidebar? I don’t even know where that exists)
Please, please help me avoid such content by telling me where to find it so then I can never go there and only understand better in what framework such content would exist
Honestly, I don’t get any of this on my main (Local) feed
After dealing with lots of bad PR from terrible decisions, Twitch now has to deal with one of its biggest streamers moving to another platform, Kick, with a deal larger than those of most athletes
Not that Twitch chat is a flawless representation of a streamer’s overall value, but just popping in on XQC’s channel - it’s wild how many people are actually engaged and chatting. It seems like a lot of people there are only there for X.
On the flip side I remember times going into Ninja’s (same with Shroud) where there’s 30k viewers or something nuts but the chat might be scrolling slower than a mid-sized streamer’s. Just seems like more people will actually go to Kick (less professional, more “go wild”) than in the former cases with Mixer (more corporate, professional).
Their post announcing it, has comments disabled. I have been going on reddit looking for polls to vote "yes" to continue to participate in the blackout. This was kind of a bummer....
June 30th is the big day, maybe they’ll make another attempt. On an app that’s all about just shooting the shit, and not giving too many shits about others due to anyonmity, Reddit/Spez were counting on the “I don’t give a shit” mentality to stick around on Reddit.
So with that said, I’d rather not give a shit about Reddit and have this just be a catalyst for people who even give a few shits about the internet or just decency, to head here.. then feel better about not giving a shit about a lot of shit except whatever shit you’re into, on a platform that promotes better, less greedy, less out-to-get-you type shit.
There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...
Great reply, thanks for explaining. That’s basically what I’ve gathered and I wasn’t paying close attention even during Tesla’s growth. I think it bewildering enough that your latter ‘optimistic’ take strangely wouldn’t surprise me. Because yeah, it just seems like a total 180 to being all about ‘climate-conscious’ capitalism, then to radical investments, then to free speech, then to kind of appearing to stand for none of the above.. so now he appears to be an asshole who also doesn’t give a shit about anyone else, mocking everyone who stood for any one of his virtue-signals to gain seemingly only more wealth and power.. it will never make sense to me.
I know this will seem sarcastic but I am genuinely shocked. I’m not the most versed in Elon’s biography, although I do know he has treated his employees like shit, acted pompous about subjects and issues he’s not an expert on whatsoever, and just generally seems very egotistical (u/spez, somehow seems even more egotistical to me, as a side note).
The entire Twitter thing does, frankly, blow my mind. I know this community much like Reddit will lean progressive or at least centrist. But I would like to hear from some closeted “Musketeer” or open conservative - why on earth does the “free-speech” promoter seem to love to ban people so much? I thought the whole thing about free-speech was Twitter was banning people too much and he was gonna stop all that.
It really does blow my mind to think people will tout a virtue only for the sake of their own benefit.. is that not the definition of Machiavellian?
The moderated, reasonable stance is that everyone is right! Beehaw probably could have done things differently, including making a stickied post that they don’t want to be the default large instance, and/or acquired a lot more mods to manage the federation of other large instances. On the other hand, Lemmy doesn’t have the same principles as Beehaw and prioritized the growth of their userbase over a filtering system. To you it looks like one is worse than the other, that’s because you want to see content from everywhere and don’t share the principles of the other federation - so you’re probably not a good fit for Beehaw atm (and if anyone is blindsided, I don’t get it.. I could see it written all over Beehaw that they are trying to promote certain principles over growth, I don’t share in those principles but I can respect that they were direct about it).
Everyone on the Fediverse should expect to see instances un/re-federate several times over especially in the growing stages. The critique is fine but it should definitely be tempered with reasonable expectations and not unnecessary ridicule.
The idea that people are missing content on Lemmy/Beehaw/Kbin instances that get defederated are looking at this from a “this should be super convenient” mentality which, convenience is why Reddit expects you’ll go back. Quality of content, genuine community-building, and/or responsible upper management doesn’t have as much value there, it is inherent in them being a VC, convenience is what matters most on Reddit/TikTok/Twitter/etc.
On the Fediverse, the one thing that should be said more is that the instance you join, you should prepare to be involved locally through that instance more than anything else. The idea you can or should just join anywhere was something I wrong wrong about, as was much of the Reddit people saying “join Lemmy it doesn’t matter where, it’s all federated.” I don’t blame them or myself, it’s a newer concept and nuance is lost at the entry- level to anything. If people were coming to the Fediverse for fully federated, more convenient content than they should try Mastadon, because they’re farther along and had their own issues to deal with during the Twitter migration that propelled them much like these instances that are still growing and learning will, in time.
A few questions (well, I have like 20 but I’m just sticking to a few rn..) for a new mobile browser user:
How can I see local only content on kbin? I like the kbin content more rn and am getting a bit overwhelmed with all of the posts & instances/magazines I am not as interested in taking up the main feed. But with it being new to me I don’t wanna just stick to my subscribed magazines since there may be a bunch of new growing ones I’d wanna see on my feed. Any way to do this? Another way to put it, I’d like to unfederate my feed - take me back to yester-night
Is there any way to minimize the post or a comment tree? It’s probably the only feature that I haven’t seen on kbin.social that I really want. it’s taking me soooo long to get through some comment feeds and the posts do take up a bit of space on the main feed.
Is there a way yo subscribe to a post or “save” it? This is something I haven’t seen on any instance and while it’s not a major issue for me, I’d love to see it! I don’t always have the time to read a post but I wanna check back later. Any way to do that or do the people on Reddit who always comment “Commenting so I can save this post for later” finally have a leg up on me?
Thanks! Really enjoying kbin. Love this instance’s chill, community feel.
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has played down the significance of Mercedes’ step forward in Formula 1, saying it's no closer than others have been this year.
I’d love for this to just be banter - Christian would have probably said this either way. I actually like Christian, but at the same time like it even more when he’s wrong (or full of shit!)
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...
Eventually I think migrating communities will be a simple task. I’d love all my favorite sports communties to have an active place on kbin.
Tangent: my feeling rn is anything completely non-political should be on kbin. I’m not bashing Lemmy oe anyone else for their political stance - I probably agree with most of it - but it’s also what a casual user is going to be turned off by and it’s not what I want to be a deciding factor in wether or not a community of [x] fans is united by. Maybe it’s just cuz I’m a casual fan of a lot of sports, and/or I am someone who uses sports as a means to escape the bullshit.
Anyways, a welcome sight to see F1 on Kbin. Now someone get the NFL and Soccer and I’m good.
Does anyone else just feel really, really good just being here? I am brand new and I ain’t going anywhere. Even with less content, or minor interface/web inconveniences (all of which are being addressed and that’s a pleasure to watch too) it feels like a community. Good vibes all around.
I should add, even though Reddit has its niche communities- overall Reddit never felt super connected for me. Always seemed like “Reddit” wasn’t what made it special (over time, it took away imo) but the people who put effort into making it engaging - curious - passionate. Here it has those same people but it’s built intentionally into the way it’s run, more integrity in the Fediverse - with more consideration for authority and less ego. And if I’m wrong so what? We live and learn, as individuals and as a collective. So imma ride the wave, it’s a good vibe right now. Thanks to the smart people who do good, you’re cool.
I’ll be more active over the next few weeks - taking a two week vacay in a few days.. even if this is a ghost town at some point I’m gonna turn this place into my own little bookmarks tab. Every thing I watch and look at Jets related is coming here.
I agree with every single one of these issues you noted - and yet I have a polar opposite overall opinion of kbin.
Somehow, with every issue you just stated, I have enjoyed all of my “wasted” time that I would have spent scrolling Reddit, instead I was here. And in all of that time I found my time was more enriched, more valuable, and more rewarding.
I’m a passionate NYJets fan (if you know, you know) so I probably just have it built into me to be able to deal with annoying and frustrating situations and still somehow love a “team.” To me, the best part about being in a community (sports or otherwise) is being there even when it was a fraction of its potential. Intuition is the only guide to know when shit is ‘trash’ or shit is fertilizer.
I struggle to read novels - it’s hard for me to stay focused and I have minor dyslexia. All the Pretty Horses and the Road are two of my favorite books (I’m sure I’d love his others if/when I get to them, love No Country as a movie) because I can read it like it’s poetry. I don’t have to worry about every detail, Cormac seemed to write in a way that let me read the words like a harmony. I’ve even read from All the Pretty Horses at a spoken word pop-up. RIP to a magical (and yet extremely grounded) author
As a former redditor I am glad to have found a new "home" and I hope I'm not intruding. Nevertheless, we are all a huge migration that is bound to change how kbin works and we're bound to piss off some pre-migration Keebinetters. The fact you guys were here before and not in reddit makes evident you don't want this to become a...
Completely agree - as a post migration Keebineebi.
This reminds me a lot of early Reddit - tbh a lot of Reddit still had this.. what it is to me is: appreciation for the fact that someone took the time out of their day to make a post.
Maybe just the fact this place is federated will get people to understand the real people side of this and not just some place to pop off because who cares it’s all on behalf of a company I don’t even really care about or value.
What youtuber has the most wholesome community that you know of?
The youtube comments can be a very toxic place but if you know where to look there are also very wholesome communities.
kbin is growing on me. you guys are great! I'm staying here. never going back
At Reddit I can save a thread, at Mastodon I can bookmark a post or comment. How do I save a Kbin (or other) 'article', comment, etc?
Yes, I know browser bookmarks exist. But there must be some native functionality that I keep just not noticing - right?
I like to tell dad jokes
Sometimes he even laughs!...
Vote for the name of this new Kbin and Lemmy iOS app under development! (mastodon.social)
Poll: What should be the final name for the #Kmoon app for #kbin and #lemmy? Below some suggestions from the community.
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Can we stop showing NSFW subs on the sidebar?
There's a few NSFW communities who keep getting advertised on the sidebar, showing an inappropriate photo. I don't care to see it.
MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE FOR MODS: Suggestions by Dr.Neurohax
Written by DrNeurohax...
Twitch Star XQC Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform (www.nytimes.com)
After dealing with lots of bad PR from terrible decisions, Twitch now has to deal with one of its biggest streamers moving to another platform, Kick, with a deal larger than those of most athletes
Reddit's largest subreddit, r/funny, has opened back up. (reddark.untone.uk)
Their post announcing it, has comments disabled. I have been going on reddit looking for polls to vote "yes" to continue to participate in the blackout. This was kind of a bummer....
Spam and porn are flooding kbin already
There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...
Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan (www.cnbc.com)
Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."
Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
Red Bull plays down hype over Mercedes F1 upgrade step (www.autosport.com)
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has played down the significance of Mercedes’ step forward in Formula 1, saying it's no closer than others have been this year.
/kbin - a few quick announcements
Good morning! :) Today I want to focus mainly on reviewing the pull requests you've submitted. There are many great things there that will help improve the kbin experience. That's amazing, thank you! I'm also in the final stages of sorting out the infrastructure-related formalities. Soon, the situation with the website's...
Welcome To m/NewYorkJets
I just wanted to get a sub going so we can talk some Jets football around here.
A lot subreddits end their blackout tomorrow. Will you go back to Reddit, or continue with kbin and the Fediverse?
I haven't used Reddit at all since the blackout began. Even if they change course, the Fediverse is growing on me, and I think I'll stay here....
Cormac McCarthy, celebrated US novelist, dies aged 89 (www.theguardian.com)
Author of The Road and No Country For Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announces
Dear pre-migration Keebinetters, how can we NOT ruin kbin for you?
As a former redditor I am glad to have found a new "home" and I hope I'm not intruding. Nevertheless, we are all a huge migration that is bound to change how kbin works and we're bound to piss off some pre-migration Keebinetters. The fact you guys were here before and not in reddit makes evident you don't want this to become a...