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@SparkIT@kbin.social

Microblogging accounts:

Mastodon: @sparkit
Catodon: @SparkIT

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Oh, I didn't know about the bot. So I guess that's Piped (https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped) which is a frontend like invidious (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious) and usually when it doesn't work switching instance should do the job.

Newpipe is a different project: https://newpipe.net/

On desktop you can also use FreeTube: https://freetubeapp.io/

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I have the same problem. I also tried installing the languages in troubleshoot mode but I got the same message.

It seems like it doesn't even try to connect, the message appears instantly when I click on install.

No problem with Firefox.

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It's also a fedi software, so pixelfed accounts show up in the microblog tab here on kbin if they are federated.

Please help with the basics of subscribing to remote communities. (Many ways to do it wrong, included)

Alright I really thought I had cracked this nut, but some of these are still eluding me. I went on a run of subscribing to a bunch of remote communities and felt like I had really mastered the fediverse in theory and in execution... then I was humbled....

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You have to search with an @ instead of the !

Here you go: https://kbin.social/m/pennsylvania@lemmy.world

For the time being, the "owner" of new remote communities is always @ernest because he is the instance admin.

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Aaand I've searched "best blender" and I found out it's... THE SOFTWARE!

Now that's a fedi answer 😎👍

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TIL Reddit users have bios /s

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That works for lemmy but it doesn't seem to be available on kbin yet.

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also, is it possible to move the community/magazine description to the top of the page rather than the bottom, as infinite scrolling makes it a bit tedious to unsubscribe or subscribe to communities

Not sure if it works for everybody but on mobile a tap on the top left kbin logo opens the sidebar so you don't have to scroll all the way down.

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Uh.. that's unfortunate because many will just interpret it as federation being bad and will go back to reddit preaching against fedi.

That being said it could also be a reason for admins to have conversations about how to deal with these migrations and which moderation tools they need.

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So I've created a magazine. How do I decide whether to add an "article" vs a "post"

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@Nepenthe I think on as it looks right now a microblog post could be easily missed if the magazine is very active but the thing is that when federation works they could also go on all the federated microblogging instances and on the home of the followers. This way they could get "points" from favs and boosts and be more visible here as well.

They could also be useful to comment realtime events, even though this will probably be a problem for the rest of the fediverse because here you don't need to put an hashtag and it's not easy for people to selectively mute them so they would probably mute the user.

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When you get the result you should see a "subscribe" button under the avatar/handle

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There's also https://kbin.social/m/kbinDesign

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AFAIK it's because of the federated system.

This instance is still new so it fetches content little by little when users interact with external communities and this is also true for votes. There could be federation issue to fix, though and sometimes it takes time to sync.

In general, to see the real number or all the interactions of a post you can open it in the original instance.

On kbin select "copy url to fediverse" in the "more" menu and on lemmy it should be the icon with the fedi logo.

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I'm no dev or admin but my understanding is that being fully synchronized is not that simple, both because it could be too demanding for small instances and because it's a topic that involves privacy for many that prefer to be less connected but when your instance is pretty active I think the amount of connections should be pretty decent anyway and if it's not you can visit other "federations" and import new stuff.

This is a guide for mastodon but it explains well the concept of federation: https://mastodon.help/en#HowFederationWorksTheory

In una svolta scioccante degli eventi, gli abbonamenti Netflix aumentano dopo la repressione sulla condivisione delle password (www.theverge.com)

Bene, questo potrebbe non essere una sorpresa, ma il giro di vite sulla condivisione delle password di Netflix sembra già funzionare negli Stati Uniti. Secondo la società di analisi dei dati Antenna ( tramite The Wall Street Journal ), Netflix ha registrato un enorme picco di abbonati nei quattro giorni successivi alla...

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Dal titolo sembra un po' che abbiano aumentato nuovamente il prezzo ma l'articolo dice nonostante avessero messo le mani avanti su un possibile aumento delle cancellazioni in realtà hanno avuto un sacco di nuove registrazioni.

Immagino che un sacco di persone abbia delle serie da finire xD

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Meta - I'm too old to get this meme without wondering about the reading order Every. Single. Time. xD

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A me non sembra molto diverso da quello che si faceva quando si doveva decidere tra decine di forum tematici (non federati) prima dei social... ora la differenza è che c'è anche la possibilità di interagire ma alla fine penso che chi apre un forum abbia sempre la tendenza ad "arredarlo" come vuole senza farsi troppi problemi, tanto poi gli utenti rispondono anche senza sapere dove sono.

Poi magari verrà migliorata la ricerca con dei filtri più specifici, vedremo come andrà.

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On the top right of the page, near your nickname, there's a menu where you can select Subscribed.

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tip: if you have "Show top bar" selected in the sidebar settings and you are reading a thread you opened quickly without knowing the magazine/community you were in, the name appears as the first one after the dot, in bold.

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I just disabled thumbnails in threads to avoid seeing random Musk pics here and there xD

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Another microblogging post from kbin

but in a magazine from an external lemmy community

Upvote vs like

Graphics/UI and #ux are one side of the project, UX that is combined with functionality and design is a slightly different story. Looking at the project from the beginning I was wondering about the sense of mixing upvotes and likes. Of course, I know that this from the functionality of federated applications, but also in them...

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I'm not sure if this could work with federation but personally I don't care much about favourites/like here... I'm not sure what's the benefit of knowing that a post has been "liked" by N people (in general, but specifically here).

One thing that came to mind is that when I see federated microblogging posts in the random magazine I wish I could "label" them to add them in a specific one so magazines could be curated by the community as well.

If something like this is possible maybe the "like" on the microblogging platform could mean that somebody put your post somewhere because it mattered, just like you can add any reaction on misskey/calckey and on mastodon it's just a like.

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