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It looks like they're mostly doing the right thing, by making it opt-in for their non-business customers.

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kbin.social is a Kbin instance, not a Lemmy instance, so it's not stopping lemmy.world from being the biggest Lemmy instance.

Looking for 64-bit RPi4 Server OS Distro suggestions

So I've been running a little 2 node rpi kubernetes cluster for over a year now, bootstrapped with Ansible and Helm (source). I picked Ubuntu Server at the time because I think the official 64-bit Raspbian OS was still young or maybe not even out at the time (can't quite remember) but I've found myself fighting with Ubuntu an...

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Both of the RHEL clones, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, build images for the Raspberry Pi 4. Those should fit your needs nicely if you're looking for something familiar and stable.

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Fallout: New Vegs - a post-apocalyptic farming simulator.

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I'm certainly not trying to karma farm. I haven't seen any total "karma" score on kbin, and don't think that there should be.

There's a ‘reputation’ score, but it's fortunately pretty pointless (it's boosts minus downvotes/reduces, upvotes don't count).

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Yeah, a real priest understands that he is expected to die rather than reveal anything he heard in confession, while this guy was passing everything along to the boss.

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There's a risk here of reputational damage when Ernest or other instance admins show up as the owner for some of the less savory communities out there.

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So far it doesn't look like he's getting away with it. Ad revenue is down 60% compared to last year, it doesn't look like there is enough revenue from subscriptions to make up for that, and they're being evicted from one of their offices.

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Ah, I see. Maybe one of the offices they're actually using and also not paying the rent on next? A man can dream.

Why is the comment form at the bottom of the thread instead of the top?

I can completely understand wanting to differentiate from Reddit, but to me, this is a matter of convenience and priority. Putting right after the article implies commenting on the article is emphasized. Putting it at the bottom of the comment page implies a want to comment on the comments....

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I like that it's at the bottom. That encourages at least skimming the other comments before you add your own, hopefully cutting down on the number of times people comment the exact same thing.

If you want it to be at the top instead, that's one of the options provided by the Kbin enhancement script.

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They've been trying them in US cities for a while too. One got a bit of media attention after telling someone using its emergency call button to ‘step out of the way’ and then wandering off humming a tune.

PSA: There is a chrome and firefox extension called "Reddit Block" that can redirect Reddit to any site of your choosing... including the homepage of your favorite instance!

I mention the extension in particular because it is easy to set up use for those of us who don't want to dig through browser settings to set up a redirect rule

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For a more general solution, that will redirect you from anywhere to anywhere else, check out Redirector. Being more flexible does make it a bit more fiddly, of course.

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Does searching for the URL https://kbin.social/m/science work? That's how I've had to do it the other way around to subscribe to Lemmy communities that hadn't federated yet.

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Way ahead of you. In fact I posted this TWIG in there a day before you did :P

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