The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
@Sh4d0w_H34rt I think you might be misinterpreting that section. They aren't scraping your data, your instance is actively pushing all that information out to Threads in order for federation to happen. It's all necessary for your posts, replies, followers, likes, and even profile to be visible to users on other instances. That's just the nature of ActivityPub, it wouldn't function without it and every instance is already doing it.
@ErikUden XMPP is brought up a lot as an analogy to Threads implementing ActivityPub, but I don't think it works. Google dropping XMPP support didn't destroy it, XMPP still exists today. It still had all the same users it did before Google joined the network after Google left. People don't still use XMPP today like they used to because it didn't adapt to the features people wanted in a modern chat platform. That's why we have Matrix now instead.
I think ActivityPub does have the features people want though, at least right now, and it seems very flexible to the addition of new ones.
I noticed yesterday there seemed to be fewer and fewer thumbnail images appearing on the front page, and today there seems to be almost none at all. The ones I have seen so far seem to be from posts on this instance only, but I can't confirm that with certainty yet....
@ayo I believe kbin's magazines function exactly like this, where each one has it's own separate timeline of microblog posts. Posts can be made directly to a magazine from kbin or collected from elsewhere in the fediverse based on a list of hashtags the magazine's moderator curates.
A few days ago clicking on the little photo-film media preview button for image links was able to display an embedded imgur image from inside kbin, but now that no longer seems to work. Thumbnail images for imgur link posts also seem to be broken, only showing the little chat bubble as if the link is actually a text post now. I...
I've been having an issue with my Fold 4 recently where the cover screen will randomly stop recognizing touch input. The display still works fine, no flickering or odd artifacts, just the touch won't work....
Kbin's API is almost done and the developer is submitting for review (kbin.social)
Hopefully this means it would be possible to use Sync to sign into Kbin as well in the future?
Did thumbnal images disappear for anyone else?
I noticed yesterday there seemed to be fewer and fewer thumbnail images appearing on the front page, and today there seems to be almost none at all. The ones I have seen so far seem to be from posts on this instance only, but I can't confirm that with certainty yet....
N-no... you can't do this to me...
Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)
It's Minecruleft time again
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Pepper looking dapper in his bell collar
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m/Railgun has CSS now! I have no idea how any of this works, but ooh pretty magazine
I opened a box of Triplet Beat recently, here's what I got!
Tried my hand at creating a shadowbox display! Some of the cuts are a little rough looking, but here's my Snom!
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Did imgur image embedding break?
A few days ago clicking on the little photo-film media preview button for image links was able to display an embedded imgur image from inside kbin, but now that no longer seems to work. Thumbnail images for imgur link posts also seem to be broken, only showing the little chat bubble as if the link is actually a text post now. I...
One of the more interesting parts of my vinyl collection: Flash Gordon, the movie, on vinyl
Looks like we're getting another McDonald's PokemonTCG promotion according to PokeBeach leaks (www.pokebeach.com)
It's been just about a year since the last one, so it makes sense we'd have another coming up.
Cover screen touch not working?
I've been having an issue with my Fold 4 recently where the cover screen will randomly stop recognizing touch input. The display still works fine, no flickering or odd artifacts, just the touch won't work....
My first secret rare card, Azumarill!
My local game shop was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale on Paldea Evolved today so I picked up 3 packs and here's the pulls!
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Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality (www.theverge.com)
What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II
It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?...