I think it's important to note that when the Mastodon migrations really picked up, the software was already 4-5 years old with organized development. Lemmy is only around 3-4 years old and kbin is only a couple years old (with very limited public use). That makes a big difference in what you can expect from them. With the influx of interest in these platforms, you're going to see far more help and contribution to the underlying code alongside better third party app support in the months ahead. These are both very young platforms and have a lot of room to grow in the next while.
Omnivore is the free, open source, read-it-later app for serious readers. I'm looking into setting up this read-it-later service. I have a lot of URLs saved in my browser and need a place to bookmark them as well. Thinking this is a good place to start....
The way it's set up it likes to error out because it takes a while to get the elasticsearch container up and running. If you do docker-compose up again 10-15 seconds later, it should spin up and run the migration script.
There was a post about how beehaw was defederating from shitjustworks and lemmy.world about 6 hours ago. Are we involved in that, as are we a subset of lemmyworld?...
So when beehaw says they're degenerating from sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world, the way that works is that any content from those specific servers will not be ingested into beehaw's view of the fediverse. That includes content and comments. It's identical to how if a Mastodon instance setup for LGBTQ communities and a Mastodon instance set up for far right extremists decided to defederate from each other, they would just never see any content that originated from each other's servers. Since kbin.social is not sh.itjust.works or lemmy.world, we should be fine in sharing back and forth with those communities, and because kbin.social hasn't defederated from those servers, content will flow back and forth between them fine. beehaw users should be able to see content from kbin.social minus any contributions from the defederated servers.
It's a very powerful tool in toolbox for the Fediverse, and one that absolutely brings an eye to the moderation of servers when it's used. I think it's a bit of a bigger deal in this part of the Fediverse right now because there aren't a ton of options yet for federated link aggregators; it's pretty trivial now to move to a different Mastodon server if you disagree with the instances being defederated from the one you're on. That said, it's very much a "with great power comes great responsibility" thing; I think that it's fantastic that servers are able to engage or disengage with whomever they want. Most will get along just fine and it's not really an issue.
I also think that as part of a "community taking back the internet from billionaires" movement, defederation is one of our most powerful tools. If Meta comes into the scene and starts scraping the Fediverse and building marketing profiles and training their AI chatbots on our data, it'll take about 3 minutes until people are maintaining a blocklist on git* for all server administrators to simply block Meta from accessing the majority of the Fediverse. There is a challenge in deciding what the scope of "generally acceptable behaviour" is, but we did it before centralized social media and we can do it again. If anything, I think some of the challenges of the last 10-20 years was this idea that diametrically opposed communities should occupy the same "space" on the internet. Get a big general pool, and give flexibility for communities to push in a direction they want if they want to go outside that space.
Some of these things will iron themselves out as more instances of lemmy or kbin or whatever decides to interoperate with these two spin up. In the end, I think these are tools that allow us to develop healthier communities. In the long game, it won't matter for any one server if they can't access beehaw because good content will be distributed amongst a ton of servers. And if the people from lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works really want that beehaw content, then they can work to address some of the issues that beehaw feels are worth defederating them for!
Oh, definitely understandable. It takes a little while to wrap your head around how all this actually works. I learned most of it with the Twitter exodus when I moved to Mastodon. Once you do get it, though...it's kind of like taking the red pill and realizing how railroaded the internet has actually been for the last 15 years. I genuinely think the Fediverse and ActivityPub will be a massive turning point in how we use the internet, and over time (think a decade time of time-scale) will redefine how social engagement occurs on the internet.
Technology -- and the efforts of open source developers -- got to the point where we can make Facebooks and Reddits and Twitters and GoodReads and Instagrams and more that can run on a server anyone's willing to spin up, and content no longer needs to be gated to one community thanks to the ActivityPub standard.
And think of it this way: a piece of content on kpub is really no different than a piece of content on Pixelfed or Mastodon. They're all embedded within an ActivityPub "container" that has a standard form. All these websites exist now not because you have to be super-specific in how to read the content, but rather to craft experiences that are optimized for different types of content. kbin has microblogs, which is really just Twitter/Mastodon. Some will like it here, others will find the experience that a dedicated microblogging client like Mastodon far more favourable for viewing that kind of content. When sharing a photo on Pixelfed, you can assign licenses, attributions, and locations, which makes sense given its intent to be a photography website. You don't really need that for a lot of images shared here or on Mastodon , but all that info is stored inside the exact same ActivityPub "container" as a link you put on here; nothing is stopping kbin or Mastodon from reading that data, or being able to write it if they wanted to. At the end of the day, it's all the same stuff, and you just need the application you're building to interact with the right parts.
That's why you can do things like follow people from entirely different "platforms" on other Fediverse platforms. For example, here's someone I saw trending on Pixelfed who had some nice pictures: Charlie as viewed from kbin. It may not be ideal following them here -- it might not be the optimal experience for photo sharing -- but you can do it. Likewise, you can boost content from one "platform" into another.
The more I learn about it all, the more I find it impressive how forward-looking and comprehensive the ActivityPub standard was. And I'm sure it will flex and expand as needed heading forward.
Last thing I'll say because I'm way too wordy...one of the things I did when I was learning all this was set up a similar username on multiple accounts. I'm on here, Mastodon, Bookrastinating, and Pixelfed. I put a 💬 after my display name on Mastodon, a 📖 after my display name on Bookrastinating, and a 📷 after my display name on Pixelfed. From my Mastodon account, I followed my Bookrastinating and Pixelfed accounts. Now I post content into the relevant platform that's optimized for it: Mastodon for microblogs, Bookrastinating for reading stuff, and Pixelfed for photos. Those communities naturally develop interest for those specific types of content. But now, if I post a picture on Pixelfed that I really think my followers on Mastodon would like, I can just boost the content into my Mastodon feed. Not a link to the content, but the actual content itself. And it can move on into that community as well. I'm content right now having these different places optimized for different types of content, but on a technology stack that allows that content to seamlessly transition between applications. It's great!
I'm not super-familiar with the inner workings of kbin yet; my gut reaction is that if a magazine only has microblogs, it's because nobody's made threads in it yet? I don't think there's an option to prevent threads in a magazine.
Fallout 76 always seemed to me to be an engine modernization project that the needed a game attached to fund it. It's in an okay spot now, and it was properly derided when it was released, but I don't think most people understand the amount of work it's taken to update the low-level internals of how their engine works. It'll be very interesting to see how Starfield plays.
When my kids were 8, they loved Good Job. It's not strictly a puzzle game or anything, but it combines problem solving with super fun physics and some silliness and destruction. My son and daughter both got a huge kick out of it when they were that age. Lots of laughing as they figured out how to solve the problems and get the jobs done.
I was disappointed when Vegas beat my Winnipeg Jets -- though perhaps it was deserved for our team -- and I ended up watching a lot of Vegas games in what was some sort of Stockholm syndrome. It was pretty easy to see they were going to go the distance. By and large, every team they played against had to fight tooth and nail to play to their level. They had players delivering in every single game and a relentless offence. With Florida fighting hard and struggling for their victories, it really felt like this was Vegas' series to win. And it was; Florida struggled to contain the sheer offensive power of the Knights and Hill played better than Bobrovsky.
We'll leave all the cap shenanigans out of it. I think it's absurd that the NHL drops cap restrictions in the playoffs. But the reality is I think Vegas would have won with or without Stone. A rock-solid team that earned it.
I sold my copy of JotL because it just wasn’t quite for me, but there’s no question that it’s absolutely one of the best deals in board games out there. The amount of game you get for the price is second to none.
Hey everyone, super excited to be exploring the fediverse both here on kbin and elsewhere. Looking for a Mastodon client primarily for iOS, great to see the main app is open-source, but there seems to be quite a few options out there. Feel free to share non-iOS clients for others' benefit as well....
The fediverse has always grown in waves and we're at the start of one. It's worth looking at what tactics worked well in the past, to use them again or adapt them and build on them. It's also valuable to look at what went wrong or didn't work out as well in the past, to see if there are ways to do better....
If you have one on lemmy.ca, why beehaw? Just follow beehaw communities from your lemmy.ca account. Unless you really want the local feed from beehaw (which, if Mastodon is any indication, we may see being able to view any server's local feed possible in apps down the line). Once kbin.social's federation is up and running again, then you wouldn't need a lemmy account at all (you can follow lemmy communities from kbin), unless you really wanted the experience of the lemmy UI.
The check-in feature is the unsung hero of the updates. It won't be the most-used feature they add, but it's a very smart addition. It leverages the privacy controls they've developed over the last several years, along with location-based automation, to provide a basic service that people do every day. The benefit, though, is that it will let people know if something's gone sideways. Because it can be set up beforehand and remain discreet, I imagine there will be a lot of women who welcome the feature, and I'm certain it will, at some point, save lives.
The other stuff is neat and some nice changes, but I really do think check-in could quietly become a key feature that draws some people to the app.
I think the Vision Pro is the most coherent and polished "one of those" ever shown. But I'm still not sold on it. I think there was a very obvious pathway from desktop computing to mobile computing that was clearly desirable by most people, but I still struggle to see that same pathway for "Spatial Computing" as they call it. Not to say some people won't like it, but AR/VR has been around for a long while and struggled to even gain traction in some of the places you can tailor superior experiences. And while I don't doubt the impressiveness of it all, I don't really trust the first impressions much because it was clear for a lot of those people it was one of their first forays into immersive AR/VR. It's incredibly compelling.
We'll see when its out, but Apple will have to really make it both compelling and efficient for it to become something people want to pick up and use. It's cool to watch movies on a virtual movie screen the size of your house, but is it $3,500 USD cool? We'll see. That said, I'm glad they're throwing some money at it because I feel that 5 years of Apple trying the AR/VR space will help really determine if it's the future of computing or a cool niche. I came out of it thinking, "I'd love to try it, I don't think I'd ever want it to be a primary computing interface."
And yeah, for the rest of the stuff, lots of great little changes. I've heard great things about the changes to autocomplete which is unglamorous work but super useful. I use iPad a lot on external monitors, so I'm also very glad for the changes to Stage Manager.
One other thing that caught my eye was the changes to Notes and Reminders. I tried moving into Reminders on a lark last year and was really happy with how it all worked. Seeing that it's getting section headers (like Things) and a column view...I'm very excited for it to be dipping its toes into a more full task manager. If I read it right, tasks might also be getting something equivalent to starting times as well instead of just due dates? I'm not 100% sure. And links to other notes is going to be great.
Apollo is one of the better iOS apps out there, hands down. Just wonderfully crafted. I hope that once Christian gets a break from all this, he investigates shifting it into a Fediverse-based app instead, similar to how Tweetbot and Spring shifted to Ivory and Mona, respectively.
Looking for a Reddit alternative? Lemmy tell you, they currently kinda suck (www.androidauthority.com)
Yeah, this describes my experience so far. I really want to like it here, but so far it's been an effort....
Omnivore a Pocket Alternative (omnivore.app)
Omnivore is the free, open source, read-it-later app for serious readers. I'm looking into setting up this read-it-later service. I have a lot of URLs saved in my browser and need a place to bookmark them as well. Thinking this is a good place to start....
Are we 'Shadowbanned' from beehaw?
There was a post about how beehaw was defederating from shitjustworks and lemmy.world about 6 hours ago. Are we involved in that, as are we a subset of lemmyworld?...
Starfield’s 30fps frame rate is “a choice,” God of War dev says (www.pcgamesn.com)
Looking for switch games that make you think
Ideally, I'd like a game that would be good for logical thinking and appropriate for an 8 year old for a few years? Any ideas?
The Vegas Golden Knights have won the 2023 Stanley Cup, defeating the Florida Panthers in 5 games
The Vegas Golden Knights have won game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals, taking the series with a 9 - 3 win over the Florida Panthers.
OC Cooperative games that are newbie friendly
Hi, i like coop games because I like working together and don't enjoy competitive games....
What is your favorite Mastodon client?
Hey everyone, super excited to be exploring the fediverse both here on kbin and elsewhere. Looking for a Mastodon client primarily for iOS, great to see the main app is open-source, but there seems to be quite a few options out there. Feel free to share non-iOS clients for others' benefit as well....
Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon (privacy.thenexus.today)
The fediverse has always grown in waves and we're at the start of one. It's worth looking at what tactics worked well in the past, to use them again or adapt them and build on them. It's also valuable to look at what went wrong or didn't work out as well in the past, to see if there are ways to do better....
No Man's Sky on Mac - Tech and Performance Review (www.youtube.com)
Hello Games and Apple recently ported No Man’s Sky to Apple M1 and M2 Macs. Let’s take a look!
iOS 17 Messages — 8 biggest changes coming to your iPhone (www.tomsguide.com)
The Messages app on your iPhone is getting some new features with iOS 17
Apollo Is a Work of Art (daringfireball.net)
Found this on r/apple on Reddit. Also a nice exposition: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/09/apollo-reddit-demise.