ParkingPsychology

@ParkingPsychology@kbin.social

What's the point of having another router?

I once bought a router to use for my internet when I moved into my new house just to find out that it "wasn't compatible" with Verizon's service. I still have it (because I'm terrible about returning things). Is there any point in keeping it? Is there anything fun or interesting that I could do with it?

ParkingPsychology,

I run double firewalls.

I just don't fully trust the ISP router, so I disabled the wifi and hooked it up to my own router. If the ISP router gets hacked, my internal network doesn't get exposed.

Port forwarding is a bit harder, but you probably aren't even doing that at all (and it still works anyway, it's just an extra step).

ParkingPsychology,

Oh yeah, I've got a whole bunch from both beehaw and lemmy on my kbin.

ParkingPsychology,

You can tell by looking at the magazine name or hovering on the user. Dave is apparently from sh.itjust.works.

ParkingPsychology,

Was? My front page is completely obliterated. I'm here now, because none of the subs I'm interested in have opened up again. It's all permanently closed.

ParkingPsychology,

Interoperability. You pick what site you like, but you can subscribe and interact with communities on the federated sites.

If one of the sites pulls a reddit or a digg, you simply move to a different one.

ParkingPsychology,

I assume he'll be able to stall the judicial process and if he ends up elected, he will pardon himself. Or that's what he's probably going for anyway.

Is there a way to create Super Communities?

I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list....

ParkingPsychology,

Keep in mind that even on reddit it doesn't work like that. For anything popular you generally end up with 2 or 3 large subs and then a smattering of smaller spin offs/specializations.

So here it's basically the same, except that you end up with several with the exact same name on multiple servers. They don't have to be on popular instances and there will likely be a number of specialized instances around a specific topic.

ParkingPsychology,

It's not very intuitive to see what instance it's posted on if you're on kbin. Understandable mistake if you're new.

ParkingPsychology,

As a mod, I use userflairs to restrict certain people from posting, which cuts down on offtopic posts. And yes people can intentionally incorrectly flair themselves, but in general they won't do that (most rule breaking offtopic posts aren't done intentionally, they just never read the rules).

So it's an easy way to manage a space.

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