As soon as I joined I feel like I have a limited perception of what is going on, so I'd like to keep myself more up to date. Are there any Discord communities for kbin or lemmy? Is there a general fediverse one? Would make things easier to understand.
I really want to help improve /kbin. I am a experienced TypeScript / React dev and a hobby PHP programmer. How do I contribute to the project. Of course there is the git repo, but there is no info in the repo (like a contribute.md) like there is in many other repos.
I found the API documentation but it seems to be lacking. If someone wanted to create a bot to moderate their magazine, how do they authorize the bot? For example, Reddit had Oauth documentation....
I probably don't know all that much more than you, but I don't think you need an API when you both control the frontend and backend, they can just talk to each other directly.
An API is useful when you want to give out data to third parties, so they can make their apps/services/whatever work without being able to directly access the internals of the software.
Oh man, that doesn't sound ideal.
But kbin has a lot of momentum at the moment with a lot of people possibly willing to support it and some cool concepts, so I really hope there's a chance to make this fly.
So where do you think kbin's best odds lie at the moment? Clone and rewrite it in a different language while it's still early or work with what's there? Get a couple of iterested devs together to do some brainstorming?
There's always the option of lemmy of course, which is written in Rust I think which certainly has a lot of fans, but personally as mostly a user I like kbins approach better in a lots of ways and I would find it hard to actively support and participate in a project from open tankies.
I think regardless of personal views, the project is essentially tainted and should be avoided.
There's of course also the option to simply fork lemmy's current codebase and try to turn it into its separate thing from there. But that might come with its own caveats and the potential to become a fairly messy affair.
If you're not familiar, shift-clicking a web link causes that link to open in a new browser window. It's essential for many people's browsing workflow....
Clicking on the logo doesn't directly take you to the home page in the first place but ooens a sub menu, so of course shift clicking also won't do anything
I'm not sure the reputation system is currently implemented properly. Until a short while ago "upvotes" correlated to fedi-"boosts", but recently it was switched to fedi-"likes". I have a hunch that the reputation system hasn't been changed to account for that and still might count boosts and dislikes or something similar. (Boost my post to help me find out! 😛)
I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...
I've been on Mastodon for a while. Also knew about lemmy for a while and even used it for a bit, but it was still pretty barren back then and I didn't like the high proliferation of tankies.
Then ernest followed me on Masto for whatever reason, lol, and I followed back. Found out about kbin that way, never was aware of it before. Checked it out and liked and still am liking how it works and how it integrates well with both the masto and lemmy side of things.
Manjaro ist relativ berühmt berüchtigt für recht häufige technische Fuckups und mMn keine besonders professionelle, gut entwickelte Distribution. Kann ich persönlich nicht unbedingt empfehlen.
"I don't really have anything to hide, but you never know whether the government might act authoritarian at some point. So best to be safe and use privacy tools."
Hi, I want to help out working on the kbin frontend. Right now it's pretty primitive and buggy in lots of little places. But I don't want to have to create a whole test instance just to work on the frontend....
Google is fairly bad, but a lot of that badness imo stems from them being so ubiquitous and controlling so much of the internet. If Meta, Amazon or TikTok were in that kind of position, I honestly think they would behave even worse.
I have my Masto account set up to auto-delete most of my posts after a while. If Meta connects to the fediverse, I have absolutely zero confidence they will honor those deletion requests.
Not sure how to grapple with that yet, generally speaking I don't think one of the social media giants embracing ActivityPub necessarily has to be a bad thing.
After distro hopping for ages, a while back I found myself giving Tumbleweed a try and I have been here ever since. Really really liking the experience and don't think I'll be hopping anywhere anytime soon. The game changer for me was the btrfs file system, and using snapper to do a rollback due to a bad update, and everything...
openSUSE Tumbleweed is great and all, but have you tried openSUSE Aeon/formerly MicroOS Desktop (based on TW)? Don't really wanna go back to traditional Linux Desktops at this point.
Have only given Silverblue a whirl for a bit, but my general impression is that Silverblue is a bit more solid and mature than Aeon (it also got a lot more devs working on it I think).
Aeon is still a good candidate though imo, because it makes some smart default choices and I personally also like rolling releases better.
Aeon is using the same packages as Tumbleweed, so it's rolling at the exact same pace.
And personally I think immutae systems offer a lot of benefits over traditional system, greater relaiability and stability, potentially greater security at very little cost. If you like to tinker with your system a lot, it's slightly more annoying, but I don't personally. I think it's also more intuitive for newbies as it lends itslf to the "operating system you don't touch + apps from the app store" approach that most modern OSs use.
Well you're right that you're supposed to install most apps through flathub.
The base operating system still gets updated regularly (at the same pace as TW) though and it still uses zypper in the backend to some degree, even if you can't use zypper directly.
Immutable/unchangeable doesn't mean unchangeable forever, but only when the system is running. So if your operating system is a car and the base system is the car's engine, it basically means you can't mess around with the engine while the car is running ( but whenever you update, you get a new, updated engine at your next boot.). You can still install apps and change configs as you please mostly, but you can't interfere with the core of it, while it's running. You can only tell it to do apply updates/changes when it starts up the next time. Which is of course a bit less flexible than your regular linux OS, but it also means that the system critical parts are more reliable and protected.
You can set that up by clicking the little gear icon. Either directly under this thread under the activity bar or by clicking the kbin logo in the top left and then the gear icon that pops up
You can follow kbin users on Mastodon etc (and on kbin itself of course). So in those cases boosts will just work like boosts/retweets, broadcasting a post to your followers. That plus the mentioned bumping it im the active queue.
Still trying to wrap my head around exactly how the fediverse works. I understand it is decentralized. Are kbin and lemmy somehow intermingled? Meaning am I able to view lemmy content here on kbin and interact with it without having to create an account on beehaw or whatever?...
No, that's not gonna work. Just like you can't use your Mastodon app for Lemmy. But if you prefer the Jerboa UI, you can just sign-up for a lemmy server and still participate in all kbin discussions and vice versa, so you wouldn't be missing out on much on that sense
Are there any Discord servers for kbin, lemmy or fediverse in general?
As soon as I joined I feel like I have a limited perception of what is going on, so I'd like to keep myself more up to date. Are there any Discord communities for kbin or lemmy? Is there a general fediverse one? Would make things easier to understand.
How To Contribute
I really want to help improve /kbin. I am a experienced TypeScript / React dev and a hobby PHP programmer. How do I contribute to the project. Of course there is the git repo, but there is no info in the repo (like a contribute.md) like there is in many other repos.
OC I wanna jump and kickstart a mascot for Kbin, I call it "Kitto", I made a rough draft version with my clothes (the ones in my avatar) and one without nothing.
Does kbin allow 3rd party apps / development?
I found the API documentation but it seems to be lacking. If someone wanted to create a bot to moderate their magazine, how do they authorize the bot? For example, Reddit had Oauth documentation....
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The home page logo/button in the top ribbon should allow shift-clicking.
If you're not familiar, shift-clicking a web link causes that link to open in a new browser window. It's essential for many people's browsing workflow....
How do reputation points work in Kbin?
New here: so is it documented anywhere how reputation points work? Do they federate?
OC How did you end up finding kbin? Did you migrate here from Reddit?
I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...
Gibt es eine Linux Distro die "einfach nur funktioniert"? German
Mein erster Post! Weiß nicht ob ich hier richtig bin, sagt notfalls einfach Bescheid....
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France arrested people for being private and using Linux...
Developing for the frontend
Hi, I want to help out working on the kbin frontend. Right now it's pretty primitive and buggy in lots of little places. But I don't want to have to create a whole test instance just to work on the frontend....
Meta will be releasing a Twitter clone/competitor this summer. Will you join? (www.theverge.com)
Here's everything we know about it so far:...
openSUSE Tumbleweed appreciation
After distro hopping for ages, a while back I found myself giving Tumbleweed a try and I have been here ever since. Really really liking the experience and don't think I'll be hopping anywhere anytime soon. The game changer for me was the btrfs file system, and using snapper to do a rollback due to a bad update, and everything...
Is there any possibility to show pictures and videos in the thumbnail of the post and not separately after the actual post like this current implementation?!
Hoping this is correct. Whats a Thread under a magazine, especially vs. a Microblog
And why must I create a new 'article' to make a thread and not a post - which I think makes a new microblog....
New user with a few questions I guess?
Still trying to wrap my head around exactly how the fediverse works. I understand it is decentralized. Are kbin and lemmy somehow intermingled? Meaning am I able to view lemmy content here on kbin and interact with it without having to create an account on beehaw or whatever?...