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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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The link doesn't work for me, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674 might be better

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...

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Several people here are saying that the bulk of it is coming from lemmynsfw. If so then it may well be best to defederate in the short term to buy time for a better solution (like marking everything from there NSFW automatically, either by a lemmy enhancement on their end or a kbin enhancement here)

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To the contrary: defederation from instances in situations like this is very much in the spirit of the the fediverse. Not attaching NSFW tags to NSFW content is a major moderation fail by lemmynsfw, and restricting content from badly-moderated instances until they get things cleaned up is something that frequently happens.

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Yeah really. But, I'm sure he's surrounded by people -- investors, other CEOs who love the precedent of exploiting their volunteers, probably most if not all Reddit high-level staff -- encouraging him and telling him it's going well. Back in the 1990s Microsoft was known as being in a reality distortion field and I've seen similar things happen at other companies as well.

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Mastodon is more Twitter-like; Lemmy is Reddit-like; KBin has elements of both (Magazines and Threads being more Reddit-like, Microblog view being vaguely like Twitter). Mastodon has had a couple of big influxes of people considering leaving Twitter, similar to how Kbin and Lemmy are getting a lot of interest considering leaving Reddit.

What's intriguing is that because they all use the same protocol (ActivityPub), people on Kbin can vote and comment on Lemmy posts, and Mastodon users can comment on Kbin or Lemmy posts. This is called federation, and software that uses ActivityPub is considered part of the "fediverse". There are also dozens of other fediverse software platforms -- Pixelfed is Instagram-like, Bookwyrm is goodreads-like, micro.blog and WriteFreely and others are blogs, etc etc. -- that can all all interact, at least somewhat. Of course the reality's more confusing, sometimes you can't interact between different sites or software, and sometimes interactions are limited (for example you can't vote on Kbin or Lemmy threads from Mastodon).

Here's a post I made a few days ago from a Mastodon account that's also visible in the Lemmy fediverse community, because I tagged the community. It didn't go to Kbin (even though I tagged a Magazine) because federation wasn't working at the time; and some of the replies in on Mastodon went to Lemmy as well, others didn't, who knows why. Oh well. Still, it's amazing when it works!

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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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💯. 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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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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Yikes! That’s a bad bug!

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Thanks for all your hard work!!!!

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Never mind the bollocks
The Clash (the UK version)
Singles going steady (by the Buzzcocks)

Cliche I know!

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....

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Thanks, glad you liked it! And agreed, no matter what Karen’s these next few days, nothing is impossible

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I just talked with the person who's running https://kilioa.org/ and it isn't ready for a major influx of users, please take it off the list for now!

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Fediverse servers are written in all kinds of languages. Mastodon is in Ruby (using Rails), Pleroma, Akkoma, and Bonfire in Elixir, GoToSocial is in Go, Misskey and Calckey in typescript (using Node). Whatever works!

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....

/kbin logotype
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thanks for forwarding!

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The formatting improvements are great!

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Yeah, when I saw this I was thinking of your comment on Lemmy about how the other guides start with federation which isn't what you care about right up front.

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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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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.

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