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jdp23, 9 months ago to fediverse in Can the Fediverse Help Stop Bad Internet Bills?

Thanks the thing, when internet folks get riled up we can have a serious impact. Redditors have always been great at this -- Restore the Fourth, the SOPA/PIPA protests in 2011 -- and Lemmy and kbin can be a great vehicle.

jdp23, 10 months ago to AskKbin in Thoughts on doing activism on kbin or Lemmy?

Thanks, totally agreed ... we learn by doing!

jdp23, 10 months ago to technology in A lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data,' including medical records and information about children, to train ChatGPT

They certainly fucked up, but it might well be OpenAI's post too.

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in Call to action - renewed protests starting on July 1st

Two reasons the ongoing Reddit protests are important:

1. the protests keep the pressure on reddit and can lead to ongoing news coverage (which also keeps the pressure on reddit) . Otherwise, reddit will be able to spin the narrative "see? we told you it would just blow over and it did"

2. kbin, Lemmy, and other alternatives aren't yet at the point where they're ready for millions of redditors. For example, the modCoord post makes the important point that a lot of reddit's moderation functionality isn't accessible ... but almost none of this functionality even exists yet on kbin and Lemmy. So most people aren't going to leave yet.

Don't get me wrong, leaving now is also a good option if you can find what you want elsewhere! But not everybody's there yet.

#reddit #kbin #lemmy

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in banning and defederating communities

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jdp23, 10 months ago to kbinMeta in /kbin server update - or how the server didn't blow up

Thanks for the update, thanks everybody who's helping ... and great decision handing off admin support

jdp23, 10 months ago to fediverse in Which Lemmy instances are anti-corporation?

Indeed! https://fedipact.online/

jdp23, 10 months ago to fediverse in Project92 and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web

I prefer Sean Tilley's take: John Gruber Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes

A valid concern -- and a good point on the nested list item!

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in Eight days later: KBin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the "threadiverse" (DRAFT)

thanks!

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in Eight days later: KBin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the "threadiverse" (DRAFT)

I know, it's amazing Ernest is getting any sleep at all!

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes

Agreed, great idea. Maybe a code bounty for this?

Ernest says he's definitely interested in accessbility -- he replied when I originally posted "Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon", which has a section on accessibility. But there are a heck of a lot of other priorities so boosting this would be very helpful.

Here's a post from @weirdwriter noting that kbin's fairly good for accessibility. but I know there are some problems -- here's a bug I filed last week.

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in Eight days later: KBin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the "threadiverse" (DRAFT)

Whoops! Good catch -- thanks!

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in Eight days later: KBin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the "threadiverse" (DRAFT)

Thanks, good catch!

jdp23, 10 months ago to RedditMigration in Eight days later: KBin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the "threadiverse" (DRAFT)

Thank you very much, I didn't know about that and will add it!