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Ignacio, 11 months ago

The problem with supermods is not how much communities/magazines they moderate. The problem is that they see themselves as omnipotent gods with lots of influence, at least on Reddit. One example was awkwardtheturtle, but there are more.

matthieu_xyz, 1 year ago

@elouboub Usually on the fediverse, you can copy and paste the url of a post in the search bar to find it.

That doesn’t seem to work on Kbin....

What you can do instead is find the profile page of the person, and scroll down to find the post.

https://kbin.social/u/@QasimRashid@mastodon.social

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/366827/Here-s-some-perspective-Americans-oCancel-student-debt-oCancel-medical-debt-o

Kichae, 1 year ago

As a nitpick about language and terms, I think it's important to recognize that Mastodon and Lemmy, Calckey, Friendica, Akkoma, kbin, PeerTube, PixelFed, etc. are not websites. They're different server types, which come with a web-based front end. These servers run thousands of websites, each of which is its own social networking site.

This is actually an important piece of how the Fediverse fundamentally works. Even if we're not using different server types (Lemmy, Mastodon, etc), we're still largely using different websites.

And while you can install an iFrame or whatnot in a website to serve content from other websites, that's generally not what happens here. Here, you view content on whatever website you've logged into. This means copies of posts are being sent all over the network, and are stored on and hosted from each site that receives them.

What you read is being served from the site you're using. When you post something, that post gets copied to other sites, and other people read those copies.

A common mental model I see people have in the microblogging corner of the Fediverse, following the Twitter migrations, is that "Mastodon" lives out there in a singular place, and people just access it from whatever website they registered on, like it's a mainframe and they're using a terminal to access it. But this is much more like a bunch of independent web forms (or blogs, in the microblog case) where people are actively cross-posting posts and replies, creating copies of discussions.

tojikomori, 1 year ago

Because they're both part of the Fediverse, Lemmy and Kbin do federate with each other. You can follow Lemmy "communities" in Kbin, and Kbin "magazines" in Lemmy, and I believe other Fediverse groups (like Frendica groups) also federate.

I've been leaning into this from Kbin, as a way of dipping into communities on Beehaw and other Lemmy instances while keeping my distance from Lemmy's devs.

I have one concern. As we're seeing with Reddit, it's a huge effort to move internet communities. If Lemmy-the-app becomes untenable even for more reasonably admin'd instances, then the most obvious solution won't be to fork Lemmy (a huge undertaking) but rather to move to an app that's maintained by more reasonable people. That's probably going to involve a messy migration, some data loss, some loss of community, and some dead links.

I'll keep using Kbin as a way of tapping into existing communities, but when it comes to building new ones I'd much rather see it done on kbin.social or other Fediverse instances where there's no long-term dependency on Lemmy's devs.