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@jdp23@kbin.social

Hi!!! I’m a strategist/entrepreneur/software engineer/activist, focusing on the intersection of justice, equity, and software engineering. I've been on the fediverse for a long time and am currently checking out /KBin. @jdp23 is my main account on Mastodon, and I also run @nexusofprivacy

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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.

thenexusofprivacy, to fediverse

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ!

https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

Contents:

  • Two views of the fediverse
  • The case for "Trust but verify"
  • Wait a second. Why should anybody trust Facebook, Instagram, or Meta?
  • Why the Anti-Meta FediPact is good strategy
  • We're here, we're queer, fuck Facebook
  • A few words about digital colonialism
  • Now's a good time for instance admins to discuss with their communities
  • In chaos there is opportunity!

@fediverse @fediverse

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@nev Thanks!

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@MyOpinion Totally agree, there's some discussion at the end of the article on the need to improve moderation tools. Specifically for kbin and lemmy, I also talked about this in the Invest in moderation tools section of Don't tell people "it's easy"

@fediverse @fediverse @thenexusofprivacy

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

/kbin server update - or how the server didn't blow up

Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...

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

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

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thanks!

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Whoops! Good catch -- thanks!

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Thanks, good catch!

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

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

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Thanks! I'm not sure, it could be that he is and I just didn't find the quotes.

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Yes they do! I clicked on the hashtag and it took me to https://kbin.social/tag/mosstadon just as one would hope!

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I know it's on their list, not sure where it'll get prioritized. I shared a link to kbinMeta with beehaw.org's list of needed moderation functionality, which applies to kbin as well, but so far the only comment is "jesus christ, here we go again with all this blocking bullshit". 🤣

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/37130/Beehaw-s-mod-tool-needs-Useful-for-KBin-as-well-Discuss

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Most support it, although not all. They’ve been clear ask asking that they were trying to build a well-moderated space so it aligns With why most people are there - saw one person say that their first post had been hit by right-wing trolls from one of those instances, so if that’s happening then defederation makes sense.

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I strongly disagree. If there are a bunch of magazines here with racist / anti-LGBTQ+ / etc content, the site as a whole will get a reputation for it, other instances will block it, and people who don’t want to deal with that stuff will go elsewhere

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💯. Background radiation is a great framing — @shengokai’ The Whiteness of Mastodon has sent great perspectives on this. And agreed that being on a well-moderated instance — and blocking/reporting whenever necessary — is key to having a good experience

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Yikes! That’s a bad bug!

A small FAQ to hopefully help new users to kbin (kilioa.org)

I wanted to post this here since I want to help as much as I can in my own way to people coming here for the first time. I hope it is useful and helpful! I tried to assume low knowledge with the Fediverse in my responses which I collected here from a different post and assembled into a single article....

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The formatting improvements are great!

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Agreed all around ... although I'd add that the probability that a critical mass of users will leave is quite low in the short term.

/kbin update - upvotes, boosts, languages...

Hi everyone, You may have noticed a small change on the website. From now on, upvotes work just like on Lemmy - they are equivalent to Mastodon's "favourite." You can boost a post using the button that replaced "favourite." Another change is that you can now rate and boost your own posts. Boosting has a one-time effect - it...

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Impressive work!

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yeah really ... I'm flashing!!!!!!

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Thanks for doing that! Yeah, some very obvious errors, so it doesn't look like they've paid a lot of attention to it yet.

/kbin - Sunny June Announcement

Hi everyone, it seems that we have quite a gathering here, and many of you I haven't had the chance to greet yet :) As some of you may know, /kbin is still in its early stages of development. Every day, improvements and new features are being worked on. Unfortunately, this may result in occasional short downtimes. However, the...

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Great progress and more on the way! Thanks to you and everybody else for all your hard work on /kbin!

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