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cendawanita

@cendawanita@kbin.social

My main is @cendawanita. this account is all about sharing and boosting stuff from Malaysia and SEA. I started @magASEAN to share all that stuff. Come join. Have a personal one too: @myMOAC - mainly to announce my website updates and also any quick and dirty linking

ubi, to magASEAN
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This morning at Rimba Ilmu Botanic Garden open day. Breakfast was an edible exhibit of Southeast Asian styles of wrapping food in banana leaves. From top clockwise is a pyramid fold, cylinder fold and what I call the rectangle double wrap. The names of the kuih are kuih koci, pulut pangang and lepat pisang.

cendawanita,
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@ubi I've discovered/confirmed a new kbin bug - the alt-text doesn't get imported as well if it's just one photo. D'oh.

cendawanita, (edited )
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@readbeanicecream I've started @magASEAN (direct link: https://kbin.social/m/magASEAN/) for Southeast Asian stuff across the fediverse (especially) - there's still stuff the tag-scanning doesn't pick up well. But it's also shaping up to a more general interest magazine with a regional bent.

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@Tigrezno on your last point, you've hit on something fundamental about federated platforms which may be a deal breaker for you: that's a feature not a bug (the same named community existing across multiple instances). The federation is then you can access them all from where you are.

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@Tigrezno yes you've misunderstood - what i mean to say is that what you're noticing is absolutely a feature of multiple instances/servers being able to speak to each other. You can access their posts, and they can come in their own communities of the same interest. If you mean to say local content as in (for example) gaming @ kbin dot social and you're on that instance but you'd like also read gaming @ lemmy dot ml, then yes. In that case, gaming @ kbin is the local content, and the Lemmy one can be accessed on federated basis. But you can post comments to both. The key thing to understand is in a decentralized system, there's no 'global' version or hub. You're basically visiting branches or chapters of say, the same set of hobbyists.

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@Tigrezno one way what you might be looking for exists is on the microblogging side of the fediverse: over there discoverability is strictly on hashtags only and most protocols (or clients) enables you to track hashtags only and it shows up on your timeline. That's closest to what you're looking for, though dependent on ppl using hashtags.

cendawanita, to magASEAN
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From @skinnylatte, another great Malaysiana snapshot. While this is digital, she's the one to have introduced me to the fedi hashtag - a great tag to follow if you like film photography.

https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/110555322966502932

rakyat, to magASEAN
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I have a fondness for aged, dilapidated commercial buildings in KL. Places like Wisma Central and Wisma Cosway, teetering on the edge of decay, survive thanks to the bustling presence of nearby office workers and blue-collar workers seeking a budget-friendly lunch spot or convenient services like a quick haircut. Within these weathered walls, a charming cyberpunk ambiance lingers and affordable food spots thrive, made possible by the relatively low rent.

A standing bunting showing the very cheap prices of the food.
The self-service counter allows you to choose the food you want and then proceed to the counter to calculate the price for payment.
Nestled within a dilapidated, time-worn commercial space lies the restaurant, as if frozen in the bygone era. The aged structure, with its crumbling facade and forsaken corners, exudes an enigmatic allure reminiscent of a cyberpunk dystopia.

cendawanita,
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@rakyat not only does the food looks good, idk how but even the rendering of the alt-text (it looks like photo captions) on the kbin microblog makes it look real polished, lol.

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@rakyat murni discovery in ss5 is still my regular haunt tho, lol. Nak habiskan the mee raja pun tak larat. am still watching the video - ahhh memories!!

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@polygon I'll be interested to see this happen in the threadiverse side of things (all these link aggregation protocols like L/k right now). In the larger fediverse, this (tracking hashtags) is basically the number one way to do discoverability (i won't get into why but suffice to say straight search isn't fully supported technically and normatively). All the microblogging protocols (masto is one) allows you to follow hashtags (and the contents will show up on your timeline without having to follow accounts), though how it's done is different based on protocol. I'm curious to see why L/k doesn't automatically allow user accounts to do this, perhaps that was the whole point of the comms/mags.

@TerryMathews @Stardust

Spam and porn are flooding kbin already

There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...

cendawanita,
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How do I do that? Under the federation tab and add the instance?

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@aetris thank you! Good enough for me, and it works!

@frasassi

rakyat, to magASEAN
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This tiny tricycle stall selling steamed buns in Sungai Chua, Kajang has been operating for decades, I’ve been enjoying it since I was a kid and am happy to report that it’s still as tasty as my childhood memories.

The buns are made with time-consuming traditional methods that make it taste MUCH better than most of the pau available out there.

Here’s a video about the old uncle who owns the stall:

https://youtu.be/pOJ7ReXXvkQ

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@rakyat question, does my upvote activity here translate into anything on your end? Like, a fave or a like?

cendawanita,
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@rakyat NOICE. then i really wish I can boost posts as-is to a mag instead of my personal stream! *One more thing to add to the wishlist

cendawanita,
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@testing that's why a bit of human manual activity can help it along XD

@rakyat

cendawanita,
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@DerpyPoint I'm trying not to browse too much, my wallet is on a diet lol

cendawanita, to Malaysia
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If you can believe it, i never actually hung out much at reddit unless occassionally linked. What kind of posts would this sub layan, on the threads section? If political commentaries and similar investigative journalism stuff isn't really fitting the vibe here, i can just post it to my regional mag, it's no worries. Thoughts?

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The curve one has been closed for a while now sigh

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Excellent news for RSS users! I'm still thinking about ppl like those like my main fedi account XD who would expect their follows activity to be updated on their timeline

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