newtosh

newtosh, 10 months ago

Good rant!

newtosh, 10 months ago

Ethereum!

newtosh, 10 months ago

It's basically what Logris was posting occasionally, no? Maybe we can motivate him to do more, and prepare / chip in / contribute. I think understanding the tokenomics / key financial concepts is the main problem with much of DeFi.

newtosh, 10 months ago

Some links on newest developments on the Reddit situation:

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview

Okay, hold on, timeout. You go to the App Store, you type in Reddit, you get two options, right? There’s Apollo. You go to one, it’s my business, and you look at our ads, use our products. That’s 95 percent of our iOS users.

Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

We are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening.

Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

I can confirm a comment I made in r/vmware has been restored. I typically delete my comments after 24 hours. I have a single comment from 20 days ago that was previously deleted now back on my profile.

newtosh, 10 months ago

Yeah, as soon as two severs (and two software-stacks) are involved, there's more things that can go wrong. In theory, kbin could also pull posts from Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc - but I expect a multitude of problems.

As for the federation issue you're mentioning: I could imagine it's still related to server overload. 🤷‍♂️

newtosh, 10 months ago

Gentlemen, announce yourselves!

newtosh, 10 months ago

That's a good idea imho, great for all the lurkers.
You'll need API access to reddit to make it work though.😂

newtosh, 10 months ago

Because we've been talking/using about federated software lately, I wanna show you this: Now that federation is re-enabled on kbin.social, this is how you can see the content on kbin.social via the interface of lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/c/ethfinance@kbin.social

The two servers talk to each other, cross-fetch content, and allow cross-posting comments.

Aaaand this is how to view a community on lemmy.ml from the interface of kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/opensource@lemmy.ml

newtosh, 10 months ago

From my faint memory: When UniSwap v3 launched, I remember it was perceived more as an alternative to v2, not a successor. One reason was that the concept of "concentrated liquidity" wasn't useful for everybody. I remember us discussing that many projects & people kept their liquidity on UniSwap v2 (initially? did it ever change?).

How do we feel about UniSwap v4? Will it lead to another substantial split of liquidity? Do we even care, or are trades with the v2/v3/v4 pools routed through the same interface anyway?

newtosh, 10 months ago

Onchain limit orders

That's huge indeed! 😱

newtosh, 10 months ago

I swear I'm talking to smart people who keep insisting that Ethereum needs to fix "the fee problem". They realize that fees are better on Arbitrum and Optimism, and wonder why Ethereum isn't seeing any of these improvements.

I swear they're smart, but they haven't gotten the crypto-philosophy-indoctrination we've been giving ourselves. They perceive Optimism and Arbitrum as maybe competitors to Ethereum, but certainly not as part of the plan. I'm sure the lack of unified branding/naming is one problem.

newtosh, 10 months ago

I’d check the r/all-equivalent page

Just to make sure I don't misunderstand, the r/all-equivalent page would be https://kbin.social, while our "sub"/magazine would be https://kbin.social/m/ethfinance/, right?

newtosh, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

It is with great pleasure that I discovered that even on kbin you can, in fact, updoot the diddly! 🥳

newtosh, 10 months ago

From the discussions I remember in the EVM Discord, the "unlock period" was supposed to end when certain revenue goals were met. However, Autominter isn't as popular as we believed, and is far away from these revenue goals. I'm sure it's just a reflection of deeper lying problems (unflexible team, bad PR, ...)

newtosh, 10 months ago

Like many third-party apps, Reddit is Fun is gonna be shut off in a few days anyway. So maybe uninstall already?

newtosh, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Random observations & thoughts about kbin.social:

• Unlike Reddit, kbin natively supports posting pics in comments 📸
• How to set an avatar: Click 'your-username' (on the top-right of the page) --> 'Settings' --> 'Profile' (in the appearing horizontal menu). I overlooked the horizontal menu a dozen times.
• Subreddits are called Magazines here
• The ethfinance magazine that @kbrot set up for us lives on the main kbin server, https://kbin.social - if you check its homepage, you'll see posts from other magazines too, such as news, RedditMigration, or unpopularopinion
• The default sorting of our daily thread is "hot" (=nr of upvotes), you gotta switch manually to "newest" every time (sigh) if you prefer that
• Like on reddit, we can upvote threads (updoot the diddly) as well as individual comments/replies
• We're still missing a choo-choo-train or some other banner. Can magazines have banner pictures @kbrot?
• Federation, the hallmark feature of kbin, is switched off temporarily. Check out the kbin-alternative Lemmy to see how it works: The homepage of the lemmy.ml server curently also displays threads originally created on the lemmy servers beehaw.org, lemmy.world, and feddit.de. In the comments of such threads, you see accounts registered on a variety lemmy servers, such as lemmy.one, sh.itjust.works, sopuli.xyz, etc. Federation means the servers talk to each other to enable cross-commenting and cross-viewing.

newtosh, 10 months ago

Just dropping in to say hi! 👋

newtosh, 10 months ago

This website combines the best parts of Twitter, with the best parts of Reddit. [...] This website takes the best of both worlds where you can both follow the people you love, and have great, in-depth conversations with them and others.

Soo... it's like Twitter (=posts) in the left column, and reddit (=discussions) in the right column?

newtosh, 10 months ago

Crossposting my comment from ethfinance:

From what I understand, during the Reddit blackout from June 12th to 14th, you mayfind fellow EthFinanciers here:

• In the EVM Discord, which will be open-for-all for two days
• On the ethfinance "subreddit" that /u/kbrot has set up on kbin.social
• In the Twitter feed of known EVMavericks and EIPandas holders

Go bookmark these links fast, before either this comment gets deleted like others, or ethfinance goes dark tomorrow.

newtosh, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Hi, I just signed up for kbin.social. First impressions:

• Can't I set a profile picture? (edit: found it!)
• This seems a bit slower than lemmy - I guess everything is overloaded right now
• Are you running your own kbin instance @kbrot? Seems like we're just using the main kbin instance right now?

newtosh, 11 months ago

I was having a tough time spinning up the Lemmy instance on a secure site

I wish I had some webmaster skills to set it up myself, or some social skills to pull a community over, but I have neither. 😂 Trying out kbin for a day on the 12th is a good idea, I love it! 👍

newtosh, 11 months ago

Also "bin" sounds like trashcan? Not optimal!