Why YSK: Searching topcs on reddit was simple matter of entering desired term and prepending or appending keyword reddit. With lemmy's decentralised structure finding particular topic without knowing to which, or rather if even there is community dealing with such topic(s) can be a headache inducing hurdle. So appending simple:...
Wait this doesn't add up. The posted screen shot isn't coercive. It's asking if anyone on the mod team is willing to betray their fellow mods. If not, cool. Sounds like there were one or more mods on the /r/piracy team who chose the "betray" thing.
"We are reaching out to any moderators currently on the mod team who would be willing to take steps to reopen the community"
and
"If you have any question regarding your removal, you can contact the moderator team for /r/Piracy"
I mean, it's pretty obvious one or more mods rolled on you. I'm sorry I'm not trying to be argumentative with you, it's very shitty and Reddit sucks. We wouldn't be discussing this here if I was a friend of reddit.
You're not following what I'm getting at. Reddit wants to have plausible deniability so they reach out to mod teams asking them to Judas on their fellow mods. We don't know how many agreed to turn on you -- maybe it was one, maybe it was 51%, maybe it was all of them.
The mods go to Reddit and say "yes we'll work with you to get the subreddit back up. But we don't have access to demod the head mod." Reddit says "say no more, I got u." They demod you, and say "If you have any questions go speak to your fellow mods. WE didn't make the decision, we were asked to demod you by your fellow mods."
Your fellow mods also have the extra perk that they can deny betraying you. "WE didn't demod you, Reddit did! SEE the mod logs!"
MP3 player was a life changer. I went from a huge CD players not being able to fit in my pocket to a tiny bean that connects to pc with hundreds of songs, and i was blow away!
This is mine as well, but it wasn't on PC that impressed me. It was the first time I called Directory Assistance and at no point in the call a human was involved. Until then every demo of voice recognition had been a goofy parlour trick. Voice recognition software was very niche, and only marketed to secretaries for dictation. To suddenly see it in a practical application to completely replace a human interaction blew my mind.
I've subscribed to a bunch of magazines here on kbin and other lemmy communities across various instances, but I don't see a way to only show posts that I've subscribed to....
Also, is there a way to only see posts here on this (kbin.social) instance?
I don't believe so, anyone in federated instances can reply to or create a post in a magazine on this instance. But by default when you browse (and subscribe to) magazines you're only doing so to ones on this instance.
If you've subscribed to a community on another instance you're probably already aware of it, and you can both identify which ones are outside, and browse individual subscriptions by going to Settings --> Subscriptions. See below that I'm mostly only subscribed to local magazines on this instance, but I'm also subscribed to a Lemmy community and it's very easy to distringuish.https://i.imgur.com/ot7iHJQ.png
Before I joined the Fediverse, it felt like the Internet was composed of only 4-5 social media sites and a bunch of corporate news articles, with only a couple of old remnant sites that looked out of place like a historic church in a business district. All of a sudden, though, it feels like people are creating lots of new sites....
Yup, I went through all those same stages and am loving the Fediverse. I had forgotten how it felt to have to EXPLORE. To find good content, to see something that's (only mildly) outside my comfort zone, to use a tool that's still a WIP. I spent 15 years on Alien Site and it was just the same jokes, the same content, all the same topics, the endless commercialization of every word you say.
No it's not as easy to find content here. No the apps aren't as polished. But it really feel like how I felt back in the BBS or Slashdot days. I hadn't realized how miserable I was with the current state of the internet until I abandoned all the mainstream sites.
Have you noticed how many of us old shits there are in the fediverse? It's a disproportionate number. I think many of us miss the freedom and chaos that the internet once was and are looking to recapture the excitement that the internet lost at least a decade ago.
Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”
You can think whatever you want about the drama, but attacking your volunteer slave labour workforce is a very dumb thing to do from a business perspective. I'm not predicting a good end for Mr. Spaz.
I bought a lift-top coffee table from a big box store almost a decade ago. It's entirely particle board and has seen better days cosmetically, but it's probably my single favorite piece of furniture. It's immensely practical for meals, using a laptop, or just bringing your remote/drink/whatever closer to your hand when laying...
This may not meet your "keeping for years" criterion but never invest in expensive non-stick pans. Don't go super cheap either, but something basic like T-Fal. Non-stick pans wear out over time ALWAYS. So there's no point buying premium ones.
Get something good enough that it's got a flat base and the coating isn't paper-thin, but beyond that save the big $$$ for cookware that doesn't have a non-stick coating. And when they eventually wear out you won't feel bad tossing them in the trash because that what you'll have to do anyway.
I worked for Microsoft for many years and the fact is many companies' marketing and PR departments think their customers are morons. Or perhaps it's that they think their customers don't mind being treated like morons.
The shit they would send flowing down the pipeline that we were supposed to say to our customers just blew me away. "You know our customers aren't STUPID right? I can't talk to them like they're stupid or they'll escort me off premises."
I've said it before, I don't think posts (or users) should have a number associated to them. It promotes karma whoring. And I don't say that in an accusatory way -- I watch the upvote counts with excitement when I submit a post too. It's just human nature.
If a post was rated "Very unpopular", "Somewhat unpopular", "Neutral", "Somewhat popular" and "Very popular" then you could still identify the hot posts but without engaging the reward/addictive centre of the brain.
Same with users. Don't give them an endlessly growing "karma" number that encourages spamming low quality populist posts. Once they hit "Very popular" there's no more incentive to make submissions purely for the seratonin fix.
There's like an urge in my body to squeeze it from the bottom that feels efficient and tidy and it messes my mind up when I use a toothpaste that somebody has squeezed right in the middle. I wanna know people's stance on this, so what kinda squeezer are you?
Does it even matter any more? Tooth paste tubes used to be made of metal so if you squeezed from the bottom they would hold their shape and you could roll them up as you used them.
Now they're all made of plastic and as soon as you put them down they expand to their original shape and the tooth paste flows back into the empty areas. The world is just going to absolute shite! :)
What are some good pixelfed accounts I can follow. I have a few but not as good as some instagram people I follow. I liked Peter McKinnon or Jordi Koalitic. Are there pixelfed alternatives? They don't have to be professional photographers, but some good original content is appreciated.
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 I notice that KBIN and BEEHAW and LEMMY all have duplicate pages dedicated to the same content. Are we as a community going to have to decide which page will be the 'main' page, will we have to subscribe to each magazine for each instance, or will they consolidate eventually?...
100% agree. But we should never try to force things to "one." There should never be just one community for a topic. That's what Reddit is. "This is the videos subreddit, if you don't like it you don't have a choice."
Good communities will rise. Bad communities will fall. Some communities will attract users because they're big and have lots of members. Some communities will attract users because they're small and friendly. Choice is good. Fixating on there only being "one" of anything is bad.
It the admins on one server are assholes, they don't have the power to ruin it for everyone.
Exactly. One of the big issues with the r-site. There's only one community for any one topic and there are more users (and content) than they could possibly use. Ever tried posting to /r/ShowerThoughts? It's virtually impossible to come up with a topic that makes it through the filter. And it won't change because deleting 90% of submissions still leaves more than enough content to fill the page. It's easier for mods to just delete content en masse and ban a user than even engage in a conversation with them.
(I'm not picking on the mods on /r/ShowerThoughts, I've never interacted with them. I'm just using the sub as an example where the community is so big that an individual user is just an annoying gnat in the grand scheme of things).
Happens all the time to me. Kbin is like two months old. It works surprisingly well for how new it is, especially considering the volume that's being driven its way. A few hiccups are only to be expected. I just get back on the bike and start pedaling again.
I too am here to stay and agree about the feeling that I've gone back in time to a happier era on the internet.
I hadn't realized how creepy and icky the EXTREME commercialization of the internet has made me feel. The engagement is so poor quality. The people are so jaded and nasty. The content is so simplistic and superficial. It's just an endless circle-jerk of "me too-ism."
I'm a big believer that if you want change you have to be willing to make sacrifices. Until people start leaving the big commercial sites in protest, no alternatives can arise. And if that's what I expect others to do then I have to start by doing it myself.
You have to accept fundamental compromises for a game to run on console that mean it will never be as good on PC. And I'm not talking about frame rates and graphics. I'm talking primarily about the limitations of not having access to a mouse and keyboard.
I saw a clip on YouTube where a lawyer suggested Trump won't do any time at all even if convicted. His reasoning was that the Secret Service has a legal obligation to provide him lifelong protection and they can't delegate that to anyone else. So he wouldn't be sent to a prison. Maybe house arrest.
I have to admit I'm exceptionally cynical about the American justice system punishing an "elite." I just don't believe it's going to happen.
YSK: Googling for terms on all lemmy domains
Why YSK: Searching topcs on reddit was simple matter of entering desired term and prepending or appending keyword reddit. With lemmy's decentralised structure finding particular topic without knowing to which, or rather if even there is community dealing with such topic(s) can be a headache inducing hurdle. So appending simple:...
Main mod of r/piracy demoded by reddit and forcing the sub to open up again (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555....
What is a technology growing up that when you saw it, it blew your mind?
MP3 player was a life changer. I went from a huge CD players not being able to fit in my pocket to a tiny bean that connects to pc with hundreds of songs, and i was blow away!
How to show only subscribed magazines / communities?
I've subscribed to a bunch of magazines here on kbin and other lemmy communities across various instances, but I don't see a way to only show posts that I've subscribed to....
Does anyone feel like the Internet is alive again?
Before I joined the Fediverse, it felt like the Internet was composed of only 4-5 social media sites and a bunch of corporate news articles, with only a couple of old remnant sites that looked out of place like a historic church in a business district. All of a sudden, though, it feels like people are creating lots of new sites....
Reddit CEO slams protesters as "landed gentry," says he'll change site rules (www.nbcnews.com)
Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”
What's an inexpensive or low-quality item that you ended up loving and keeping for years?
I bought a lift-top coffee table from a big box store almost a decade ago. It's entirely particle board and has seen better days cosmetically, but it's probably my single favorite piece of furniture. It's immensely practical for meals, using a laptop, or just bringing your remote/drink/whatever closer to your hand when laying...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)
Thousands of subreddits are still dark.
Would this instance consider an option for users to hide scores in the UI from ourselves?
I'm not asking for votes to be disabled, just an option to hide the numbers when viewing posts/comments/etc on my own screen....
What kind of toothpaste squeezer are you?
There's like an urge in my body to squeeze it from the bottom that feels efficient and tidy and it messes my mind up when I use a toothpaste that somebody has squeezed right in the middle. I wanna know people's stance on this, so what kinda squeezer are you?
Which Pixelfed accounts to follow for quality content?
What are some good pixelfed accounts I can follow. I have a few but not as good as some instagram people I follow. I liked Peter McKinnon or Jordi Koalitic. Are there pixelfed alternatives? They don't have to be professional photographers, but some good original content is appreciated.
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?...
Duplicate Pages Across Fediverse
So I notice that KBIN and BEEHAW and LEMMY all have duplicate pages dedicated to the same content. Are we as a community going to have to decide which page will be the 'main' page, will we have to subscribe to each magazine for each instance, or will they consolidate eventually?...
Anybody else frequently getting logged out?
I log in and I find an hour later I'm logged out. This affects all of my devices.
A lot subreddits end their blackout tomorrow. Will you go back to Reddit, or continue with kbin and the Fediverse?
I haven't used Reddit at all since the blackout began. Even if they change course, the Fediverse is growing on me, and I think I'll stay here....
Cities: Skylines II Is a Truly Enormous Sequel - and It's Built as Much for Console as PC - Xbox Wire (news.xbox.com)
We speak to the developers behind Cities: Skylines II to talk about building the ultimate sequel
Starbucks Is Banning Pride Decorations, Workers Union Alleges (newrepublic.com)
The unconfirmed allegation is raising concerns that the coffee chain is the latest corporation to cave to far-right attacks on LGBTQ people.
Trump faces serious federal prison time, but forget about a triple-digit term (www.msnbc.com)
The former president, who is approaching 80, could still die in prison if he’s convicted under his latest indictment.