lusule

@lusule@kbin.social
lusule,

They’re going to complete it and then you bet your arse I’m going to buy it. Whenever it’s released. I can wait.

lusule,

I’m no expert but my understanding is that you don’t, because that’s not exactly how it works.

I believe that you can see what instances it’s not federated with, but it basically federates with any instance where a kbin user has followed an element on that instance. However I think that still only feeds that part of the instance through to kbin, so it’s less ‘kbin federates with that instance and more ‘you can follow elements from any instance you want’

The federated public feed is basically your instance, and anything people from your instance are subscribed to.

You can also block instances privately, or choose to defederate on an individual basis, if you don’t wish to see content from other instances at all.

An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse (blog.ownlifeful.com)

A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...

lusule,

I’d be interested on peoples views on a concern that I’ve had growing for a while; maybe the concern is genuine, or maybe I’m being paranoid. But I feel that some of the more extreme ‘pro-trans’ conversation online feels less ‘pro-trans’ and more ‘anti-terf’ or even ‘anti-everything’ to the extent that it has become impossible to have a discussion about concerns, confusions, genuine ignorance etc, in other words impossible to educate or come up with solutions to genuine problems.

A lot of these extreme trans, conversation destroying comments are so full of hate, so often, that I admit I have become suspicious. If you were deliberately trying to divide a community from potential allies you couldn’t do it better, and I’ve seen one too many ‘as a black woman’ comments accidentally posted from the wrong account by some white as a lily racist extremist man to trust everyone who says ‘as a trans person’ online.

I would like a space where people with genuine curiosity but also genuine concerns (as in, that they have the concern is genuine, it doesn’t mean necessarily that there is a genuine problem that needs resolving) could have an adult discussion to educate and understand each other, in order to find solutions, without having to worry about being cancelled and shut down.

If you’re on the fence and it feels like the only people who listen to you with respect and sympathy are the anti-trans people, well, you’re going to end up hearing a lot more of what they have to say than learning something actually useful.

I understand that the trans community must get frustrated with having to explain themselves all the time, and impatient for the day they don’t, and it sucks that that’s the world we live in right now. But I’m also very concerned that we should be cautious about accepting every hateful or insane sounding ‘as a trans person’ comment we read at face value. Hatred leads to the dark side after all, and that’s where some people want you to be.

That said I’m not trans, or even pretending to be trans, so I can’t speak for the community. I just believe strongly in the adage that the most effective way to win support is to meet hate with love, and I know a growing number of people who should have been trans allies being turned away by the feeling that they are not being listened to or taken seriously. Even if their concerns feel stupid to be people in the community.

Oh also, whilst I think people should be taking genuine concerns seriously, be careful of ‘whataboutism’ so hey, fun tight rope.

That’s my paranoid ramblings for anyone who cares from someone who wants to see tolerance and understanding but is scared we’re going the wrong way.

lusule,

Same, it makes learning languages really hard. For various reasons I speak about 4 languages badly, but only one language well. Whenever I have to speak in one of the other four it ends up as a melange of all four at the same time and it’s a nightmare.

lusule,

Where I am you need a prescription but having ADHD makes you eligible for one. My daughter slept through for the first time in her 8 years of life when we started giving her melatonin. Two years later I would argue that the melatonin made a greater difference than the Ritalin. She’s thriving.

lusule,

I think different people respond in different ways, and to different doses. I use Ritalin as a general term people understand but the specific ones we use are different variants of the same underlying medicine, depending on our individual needs.

It’s not a miracle drug but it has definitely made a significant difference, taking things from overwhelmingly impossible to merely difficult but manageable.

lusule,

For me I used to love Feedbin and subscribed to loads of feeds, but after Google killed off Greader I felt the internet changed. Fewer and fewer people posted quality content that way and I would no longer know how to find it if they did, so eventually I stopped using it and switched to Reddit instead. Now I’ve moved to kbin but it is a good opportunity to rethink things again.

lusule,

No, they went to Belarus so that Lukashenka can feel more secure in his tyranny there and therefore spare more resources for supporting the attempt by Russia to conquer Ukraine

lusule,

I use Apple with no intentions to switch. At first I used Apple because they were the only ones doing what they did, and it was exciting. Then I used Apple because others where doing it but they did it better. Unfortunately I have to admit I can no longer confidently say that is the case. Tim Cook is not as good at steering product design as Steve Jobs was. However another reason it’s no longer as good is something that I think Tom Cook does better than Steve Jobs did, and that brings me on to why I use Apple now.

I trust it more than any other brand or system, it’s that simple. It’s not perfect, but perfection is the enemy of progress and at least they’re trying. I won’t use Samsung, because they are manipulative, corrupt and evil. I won’t use Google because I no longer trust them, and I don’t want to be the product, I want to be the customer.

One of the reasons Apple is no longer as good as the others is simply Tim Cooks ethics. He believes in privacy so much that he’s locked down his system even against his own company, so he doesn’t have access to a lot of the data other companies use to improve your experience. They also sell it for ads and use it for manipulation and lobbying. Apple doesn’t, and can’t, do that, because it doesn’t have access. If the police come looking for you Apple can’t give them your data, even with a warrant (and don’t say ‘but I don’t want to commit any crimes.’ First they came for the Jews, and I said nothing’)

The App Store is, currently, I’ll grant you, a hot mess. It’s a tricky thing to solve if you care about moderation the way Apple does, and their lack of your data means they can’t use algorithms the way Google does but I still think they could do much better even then. The keyboard also drives me nuts daily. Steve Jobs told them not to make it smaller, to pack more in, he explicitly told them people would curse Apple every time they accidentally hit the full stop key, and I do, daily. I hate it. But I would rather deal with that than the constant worry about what Google and Samsung are up to with my data.

I acknowledge that there is a price to pay for Apples quality, ethics and original design. Not everyone can afford to embrace the Apple system and that’s ok. I hate the idea I see a lot that there has to be a ‘perfect’ way of doing things, that if we can just find the one ‘right’ way we can live in Utopia. That’s not how the world works. My priorities are not your priorities. My opportunities are not your opportunities. And a diverse ecosystem is a healthy one. Competition is good. So people who prefer using Android are not wrong for using Android, people who prefer Apple are not wrong for using Apple. But if you value workers rights to a living wage and safe working conditions, and you think that corporations controlling and blackmailing governments are a bad thing, then why the fuck are you using Samsung? If you don’t care about such things though, and you just want good quality cheaply, go for it. But remember it still comes at a cost, you just don’t pay it up front.

lusule,

I like the idea of articles and magazines, microblogs and tags, and collections.

You can build a collection of magazines and tags for whatever reason you choose. Apollo used to allow something similar, I had one for ‘news’ one for ‘Ukraine’ and one for ‘wholesome’ when reading the news or reading about Ukraine got to be too much. It could work well with this system (I’m familiar with kbin you can use whatever terms you like).

You can see a list of articles from all the magazines in the collection in article view, and all the tags in the collection on microblog view. You can choose to have your collection set to private, or you can share it as a public collection.

Other people could then subscribe to your public collection if they didn’t want to build their own collection from scratch.

You wouldn’t be able to post to a collection, and if you replied, the reply would go to whichever magazine article or microblog you replied to. If you wanted to post you’d have to post in the relevant magazine or system.

I don’t like the microblog firehose and I find tags confusing. I wouldn’t want them all muddled up in my nice categorised and indented article feed, but kbin’s ‘articles vs microblogs’ system gives you the best of both worlds by choosing which feed you want to look at separately according to your mood.

lusule,

I hope this magazine is still active, if not, please could someone tell me where the new main DF forum is now? My query: in DFHack, how do I delete unwanted blueprints? Thanks!

lusule,

My fortresses are still early stage, I have not yet managed to progress far enough to learn what all the clown references are about. I keep getting stuck on building the perfect fortress. I’m hoping that learning to use dfhack properly will speed up the early game progress.

lusule,

Mine are always immaculately neat and grid like, I want to do my next one in a more higgledy piggedly organic way, following ore seams and making use of whatever shape that makes. But first I want to reach the hidden fun stuff.

jerry, to random

Y’all: I have been wrestling with kbin on the fedia.io instance, but I want to take a step back and give some perspective. Kbin is new, it’s growing crazy fast, and it really wasn’t in a place to support the migration from Reddit. Despite that, @ernest has been working his tail off knocking down issues and helpings instance admins.

Reddit certainly seems to be tripling down on their position and I think kbin is shaping up to be a worthy alternative. If you like kbin (on whatever instance you use it on) and want to see it grow, may I ask that you throw some money Ernest’s way? (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin)

I want to publicly thank Ernest for kbin and for his contributions to our growing fediverse community.

/back to whatever you were doing.

lusule,

There’s a number of posts covering this in detail but in summary they are different federated platforms that do more or less the same thing, but one of them is apparently built by a tankie who also runs the largest instances and has a history of promoting pro-tankie propaganda and banning or muting people who speak out against it. I’ve read that he is on record as having some pretty extremist views, possibly verging on the genocidal but I can’t verify this, I’m merely regurgitating what I’ve read.

Kbin was built in response to this but wasn’t yet ready for prime time, considering which @ernest has performed miracles.

lusule,

I have to admit that I did have the pleasant enjoyment of lost Americans in mind when I decided to make the jump to get here first.

ELI5: ActivityPub and federation

I'm really excited to jump on the Activitypub/Fediverse train, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it works. Kbin is federated (or its supposed to be, apparently DDoS protection is hampering that?), but I'm not sure how I can sign up with my Mastodon account. I already have one, @ArchieBAntlers , and apparently...

lusule,

I have an account on mastodon, which I’m following from my kbin account so that I can see my mastodon feed and respond to articles from within this platform without having to switch apps. I could also do the reverse if I wished. This probably helps those mastodon articles be more visible to other users on kbin.social. Others are probably doing likewise.

I think that’s how it works anyway.

lusule,

Go to search and put in your full mastodon address (eg @archiehasantlers @mastodon.social but without the space because I couldn’t figure out how to stop it auto formatting it into a link )

That should bring up your mastodon account as a user you can then click on and follow.

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