You’re safe from the big bad scary communists on Lemmy.
Kbin.social doesn't defederate lemmy.ml, so either way we're playing by their "don't say Uyghur genocide because we don't think it's real and we will ban you based on that belief" rules if we accidentally stumble into there.
This is where I would like to see individual-level instance blocking so that it doesn't show up in the home feed, same as how I can block everything that pops up in a language I don't speak.
Edit: Turns out we have that! Just found another thread showing how. On kbin, it's possible to view entire instances separately, and there's a "block" button similar to individual magazines/communities/users. To see lemmy.ml, the link would be
They have a definition, they just won't tell the users because it's not a realistic definition and they plan to pull the rug out later on.
If third-party apps were only 3% of total traffic and reddit was willing to destroy its image and massively increase the viability of its only competitor just before IPO over it, I'm sure they'll have no problem getting rid of whatever percentage of blind people who can't see the ads reddit wants to serve anyway.
I want to say that I've been deleting my reddit comments since before the blackout and more keep appearing every time I look at top or controversial. It's a good idea to start a delete script and then keep checking until comments stop showing up or reddit makes an API change that breaks it or whatever.
I don't want "the same reddit experience," because the reddit experience sucks. That's why I'm here instead of caving in and using the official reddit app. I wouldn't mind some form of advertising, but annoying advertising I have to manually scroll past is how you get people to use ad-blockers and alternatives.
Edit: Like, I see sites change their backgrounds to ads, and that, to me, is perfectly fine because it doesn't affect my experience. Ads like that would be much nicer.
No, the developers of Lemmy themselves are of the strong belief that anti-China and anti-Russia news is all U.S.-led propaganda and will ban users for even stating different beliefs on lemmy.ml, which they run.
Top comment here is what informed me, and appears to have been updated with even more info:
Edit: I can't confirm this because it's hearsay, but I was told somewhere that lemmy and lemmygrad both "resolve to the same IP," which some assumptions could be made about if true.
The first time I went to make a Lemmy account, I found the "join lemmy" page and ended up confused and just decided to deal with it later. I then heard that the founders of lemmy were "genocide deniers" and "tankies" and whatever, then the same day I heard that reddit had just banned a community that existed to help people move to kbin.
So I immediately went to kbin, clicked "sign in with Google," and it was that easy.
I know I already posted it in the other thread, but here's another link to the list of evidence:
I've only made two posts so far, but everyone has given legitimate and intelligent responses to both. It's made me realize how not used to that I had become. It's an overwhelming positive feeling to not be nervous about sharing with this community. Thank you to all of you
And vice versa, if someone's on Lemmy and I'm on kbin, we're using the same shared content pool as long as we're federated and thus we don't have to worry about sites "dying." I can't browse reddit without going to reddit, but I can browse lemmy instances with whatever fediverse instance I please.
Minecraft. If I had to pick a song specifically, I'm gonna say Subwoofer Lullaby. It just really captures the calm, familiar feeling of "living" in Minecraft. Farming, renovating, adventuring, spelunking, etc. Whenever I'm working on something, ranging from just building the first rendition of a house in a new world to developing an automatic redstone-powered bamboo farm to supply a mass smelting furnace at the bottom of the world that uses water elevators for access, the soundtrack is unmatched.
It also just helps that it's an iconic game for people my age and I've spent years on and off playing it since alpha.
You don't need the latest and greatest in either case. If you were to slap any recent budget GPU into a Dell Optiplex or similar that can be found for cheap, then pick up an Xbox Series S for $300 or less, you'd have a PC for eSports titles, older games, checking out free game giveaways like on Epic and GOG, plenty of Prime Gaming games if a Prime member, and anything with lower system requirements, then a box that'll get games for the next ~7 years, can do game emulation when in the $20 developer mode, and has a $15/mo gaming Netflix subscription that is regularly updated and hundreds of titles strong.
That's a lot of value, and with the prices I've seen it'd come out to about $700 or less before any subscriptions come into play, which have also gotten way less necessary recently thanks to the rise of F2P titles.
Yes they are. Facebook's audience is as many people as possible, because their business is advertising based on collected data. They would ideally want literally everyone on the platform, but this is the real world and lowest common denominator makes more sense from a business standpoint.
Edit: Getting celebrities and influencers on-board is basically a requirement to get the average person to care, because they're not on the platform to follow other average people.
Imagine complaining about which interface people choose to interact with the same content pool with. That's like the main reason the fediverse has exploded in popularity over these last few weeks. Sheesh.
I'm hoping for a transition from Boost! for Reddit, personally. That was the client I enjoyed using.
My problem is that I'm also using kbin, and kbin's API is disabled so it makes more sense for everyone to make a Lemmy app instead. Don't know if they'll bother to implement kbin support once it's up and running.
That's what I'm hoping for. I don't want a bunch of accounts depending on what device I'm using, I want to have one account on a platform that I like and have good interfaces for using it.
That's why I left reddit, they removed my ability to do that by killing Boost.
On the upside, patents have an expiry date. Quite far from now, but if we make it to that, then we'll just have ourselves a single common standard that everyone is free to use.
Because currently, it seems like the only thing it's recording are downvotes. Meanwhile upvotes are completely ignored, leading to pretty much every profile I see having a negative reputation....
Without downvotes, you end up with Twitter-tier garbage discourse and arguments because there's no way for the community to vote to remove an idiot's platform, just clap-backs and ratios.
The up/downvote system is far from perfect, but I'd really rather not lose it as the fediverse draws more people in. I would much rather have my opinion hidden on occasion because I pissed off a wasp hive than have the content I consume be filled with toxic bait that can only be hidden if a moderator gets involved.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Adblock Plus is the one that will let ads through so long as they're paid to do so. Wouldn't touch Chrome since Google, as an ad business, has the motive to kill ad blockers and is already making steps toward doing so.
The only manned submersible that could reach the missing Titan is owned by Steam's Gabe Newell (wegotthiscovered.com)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)
The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
/r/blind community migrates to Lemmy (lemmy.one)
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Reddit confirms BlackCat ransomware gang stole its data (www.theregister.com)
📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW) (kbin.social)
How does lemmy.ca or any instance plan to support it self?
Just curious as this is all fun and open till it scales to expensive. What is the lemmy.ca plan to sustain / fund it self?...
My post on /r/pics blew up.
I find it kinda funny that my most upvoted post is John Oliver. It shows how much he is a symbol for the protest against the api.
Some subreddits are now filled with porn to protest Reddit (www.theverge.com)
Can't wait to buy pro again!
Sync was always my favorite reddit app, glad to see I'll be able to keep supporting it here 😁
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I just wanted to say that I love this place
I've only made two posts so far, but everyone has given legitimate and intelligent responses to both. It's made me realize how not used to that I had become. It's an overwhelming positive feeling to not be nervous about sharing with this community. Thank you to all of you
Favourite game music?
Ok continuing on from my last thread, he's a different question....
Study: 47% of gamers play on multiple platforms (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Mark Zuckerberg goes in for the kill as Elon Musk’s Twitter bleeds ad dollars (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Brands fed up with the instability at Twitter may flock to Meta's new offering...
Finally made an account
it has become second nature to open Jerboa instead of Infinity and I love that
(not because of Infinity obv, it's an amazing reddit app)
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app (www.reddit.com)
New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community...
Rivian is the next automaker to adopt Tesla’s charging plugs | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Can someone explain to me how kbins reputation system works?
Because currently, it seems like the only thing it's recording are downvotes. Meanwhile upvotes are completely ignored, leading to pretty much every profile I see having a negative reputation....
No bicycles/skates? Fine. (i.imgur.com)
Advice after potentially downloading something.
As the title suggest, I may have installed some malicious software called Adventurous Clotth Tool from a company called Adventurous Cloth LLC....