Pamasich

Pamasich, 7 months ago

I'm not using the most popular one (I use Adblock Plus, which iirc most people hate) and I can also freely use Youtube with it turned on. So it's not about ublock.

Pamasich, 7 months ago

Fully blocking only if you aren't using uBlock Origin

Not even that, I use Adblock Plus and have no trouble accessing Youtube and watching videos. Didn't even need to update any filters, it just keeps working as-is.

Pamasich, 7 months ago

This seems to already be implemented and probably coming once Ernest is able to finish the update. You might be able to find other instances that are already featuring this.

Like, I saw strings regarding this when contributing to translations yesterday. Some setting in the sidebar's gear menu to toggle the position.

Pamasich, 7 months ago

Not surprising, given they were the only ones serious about advertising. We got so many leaflets from them at work and home and I even saw them on Reddit, yet nothing at all on those distribution channels from any other parties. I've seen some billboards by others, but it feels like 80% of the ones I've seen were SVP.

I personally hate them and didn't vote for them, but I don't think it's surprising they have such a big following.

Pamasich, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

kbin.social's admin (and kbin currently only supports one admin per instance) is also the main dev.

As I understand it, the sudden unexpected popularity of kbin caused infrastructure issues and made fixing bugs and limitations more important, while he still has to reach his feature goals to secure funding so he can actually continue working on kbin full-time. Additionally, real life had a lot of negative surprises in store he had to deal with.

All in all, he hasn't had much time at all to properly moderate the instance, And the past two weeks he's been gone entirely for real life reasons, leaving the instance unmoderated.

It's not an issue with the software itself, just with kbin.social (and of course other badly moderated instances) specifically.

Pamasich, 7 months ago

Have you blocked anyone? There's a bug that causes certain threads, including your own, to not be visible to you outside your profile. It's caused by you blocking anyone at all iirc. Or maybe it's about blocking domains, I forgot the specifics, but try removing any and all blocks and see if that solved it.

It's fixed in the latest code iirc, but there's not been a stable release yet that incorporates the change.

Additionally, and I have no idea if this is related, I cannot send direct messages to anyone outside of kbin.social

This is correct, direct messages only work on the same instance currently. If I remember the previous discussions about it correctly, this is intentional for some undisclosed (or lost to time?) reason currently. Like, the developer has specifically added code to cause this behavior, I assume because there were worse issues with it.

Pamasich, 7 months ago

lemmy.ml still sometimes showed in the feed

In what way?

Even if lemmy.ml is blocked or even defederated, its communities should remain, just not threads and comments made by lemmy.ml users. But you might still see @lemmy.ml communities show up in your feed if someone from lemmy.world or kbin.social made a thread there.

Pamasich, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Ernest linked Patreon and Liberapay on a previous thread. I think both support Paypal.

Pamasich, 7 months ago

Worth noting you can also post it as a markdown link, like this.

[like this](https://matrix.to/#/#kbin-space:matrix.org)

Then it's clickable even on kbin.

Pamasich, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Oh, it seems to support PayPal only when the recipient uses PayPal as the payment processor. Is what the FAQ says. In which case PayPal is required, not just an option. TIL

Pamasich, 8 months ago

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Pamasich, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Loved this first episode, perfect adaption imo.

I can see all the girls up to Rin in the visual, except for the next one after the ones announced to be in this season (aka the fifth girlfriend). If they're hiding her from us, could that mean we'll actually get her this season? Not going to say names since I don't want to spoil anyone, but manga readers should know whom I mean.

Pamasich, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

It wasn't like that until a few years ago, and people disliked the change.

Pamasich, 8 months ago

It used to be possible on Reddit, and people didn't like the change to how it is now. Because of how it can be (and is being) abused.

Pamasich, 8 months ago

I've never been blocked, so I might be wrong there. But the last word problem was the main reason I've seen people hate the move to the current blocking system, so I assumed it didn't exist before.

Edit: Reddit's official announcement for the new system does explicitly mention they're changing it so you can't interact with users that blocked you anymore. Which implies you could before.

Pamasich, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Maybe there's been another change. In the original system I meant, blocking was one-sided only.

To quote Reddit themselves:

We will be evolving the blocking experience so that it not only removes a blocked user’s content from your experience, but also removes your content from their experience—i.e., a user you have blocked can’t see or interact with you.

Previously, if I blocked u/IAmABlockedUser, I would not see their content, but they would see mine. With the updated blocking experience, I won’t see u/IAmABlockedUser’s content and they won’t see mine either.

Like I've said in the other comment, not entirely sure on whether replying was possible since I've never been blocked myself.

To clarify, a few years ago, the blocked user could not see the message either.

But this is definitely false.

Pamasich, 8 months ago

What you're saying makes sense, but I think the big issue here is that blocking as it currently works on Reddit is harmful because it's too easy to abuse. If the only reason for the change is familiarity, then you'll just make the platform worse for actual users just to lessen the barrier of entry.

So, why does any platform even need this, besides familiarity? If you don't want to see a user, hiding them from you will achieve that perfectly.

I really can only think of malicious reasons. Shutting down an argument or badmouthing someone without giving them a means to respond or defend themselves.

Like, if it's to avoid stalkers, this would do literally nothing to achieve that. They can just log out and continue doing what they were doing.

I don't think kbin should be blindly adopting bad ideas even if everyone else does them. If it was actually beneficial, sure, have kbin go for it. But this doesn't seem to solve a problem, nor does it actually improve our quality of life. Rather, it does the opposite. It introduces a problem we could just do without by keeping what we have currently.

Pamasich, 8 months ago

Thanks for the writeup, it helped me see things from your perspective. I don't fully agree, but I get now why you're asking for this.

What I'm wondering now is, does the fediverse actually support the kind of block that's being asked for here? Like, is there precedent on this being implemented on other platforms like Mastodon or Lemmy? The issue here is that kbin isn't in control of who sees your posts, I wonder if it's actually possible to implement this in the first place.

This will do a lot to prevent stalkers, because even if the stalkers realize they need to log out to stalk the user, they now lose every "follow" function, every logged-in function, and have to stalk the user manually.

If you actually believe this, you're a bit shortsighted. This is the fediverse, people can just jump onto a different instance. And even on Reddit multiple accounts for the same person were allowed.

People can also run their own personal instance which doesn't honor those blocks.

Pamasich, 8 months ago

Is this issue being actively fixed right now?

I doubt it. They've had more important stuff to work on and probably forgot about that issue in the meanwhile. That said, best would be to just comment on it asking what's up with it. That'll bump it up in visibility.

Pamasich, 8 months ago

Does it have an issue on codeberg?

If not, I recommend bringing it up there. If you only bring it up here, you rely on ernest or another contributor writing it down and remembering it, which probably isn't too reliable. Better to put it on the issue tracker.

Pamasich, 8 months ago

You probably won't see this, but I've sent you a private message. Hopefully that one arrives.

I assume it's the blocking bug, which is getting fixed this update I think.

Pamasich, 7 months ago

So, I made a new thread asking about the status and ernest responded to it.

It seems there's been some unexpected irl issues that have prevented ernest from properly working on the update.

However, I'm almost ready to continue on this journey, so you can expect that in the near future, there will be a banner with information and the update date of the instance and release. After that, we will work on avoiding such longer development downtimes in case of my absence.