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
Towards Intersectional Moderation: An Alternative Model of Moderation Built on Care and Power (arxiv.org)
By Sarah Gilbert, May 2023:...
Beehaw's mod tool needs (Useful for KBin as well) - Discuss Online (discuss.online)
Beehaw's moderators have a good post listing the tooling needs -- all of which make a lot of sense to me. Definitely worth looking at these for kbin as well!
Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media (papers.ssrn.com)
Current approaches to content moderation generally assume the continued dominance of “walled gardens”: social media platforms that control who can use their ser
Spam and porn are flooding kbin already
There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (www.theverge.com)
“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.” Or so he says. Also:...
Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, calls them 'landed gentry' (www.nbcnews.com)
It’s almost like he wants to piss people off. Calling moderators running his site for free and upset ally what’s happening “landed gentry”?!
Signs of the Reddit Migration Numbers - Top 20 Fastest Growing Servers on the Fediverse
Beehaw is defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, two large lemmy instances
See Beehaw's Post to find out why
Have encountered racism, hate speech or homophobia on the fediverse yet?
If so, do you consistently report it and get the feeling that it gets dealt with? Of course there are instances dedicated solely to being human trash
Daily traffic visits to the top two #Kbin and #Lemmy servers over the last 28 days, up until June 11th.
kbin.social is.. fast again?
been using it in and out and now it's... much faster? on both mobile and desktop :O am i just crazy or did @ernest bless us with a miracle
What were the first three albums that really got you into punk rock?
My first three that I can recall were:...
Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon (privacy.thenexus.today)
The fediverse has always grown in waves and we're at the start of one. It's worth looking at what tactics worked well in the past, to use them again or adapt them and build on them. It's also valuable to look at what went wrong or didn't work out as well in the past, to see if there are ways to do better....
Question: best #kbin server to recommend to users tomorrow?
Love it here on this flagship server for #Kbin, but question: maybe we should find two other well-run, well-hosted servers to recommend to #Reddit users tomorrow and the next few days to avoid a crush of traffic on this one?...
Take a bow, developers of kbin.social
Hats off, guys. I can't even imagine how hard it must have been for you guys to keep kbin.social up and running since yesterday....
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....