noodlejetski

@noodlejetski@kbin.social

he/him

noodlejetski,

reminder that Invidious and Piped (and LibreTube on Android and Yattee on iOS) are a thing.

noodlejetski,

I prefer to stick to open source solutions. LibreTube lets me keep track of channels I'm interested in without a Google account.

noodlejetski,

only their patches are. it still uses a closed source Youtube app as the base.

noodlejetski, (edited )

maybe use a third party image hosting service instead (like vgy.me), and link to those in your posts? that used to be the norm on reddit for years before they've introduced image upload.

What do you recommend as a good FOSS private and secure chat app on Android that isn't Signal?

I have nothing against Signal. I just don't have access to a phone number right now. I fully intend to use the Signal when I get a number. I know there is no silver bullet, no absolutes in the privacy world but I'm looking for any messengers that are generally considered to be private and secure on Android that I can try to...

noodlejetski,

I've clocked over 660 hours in Apex Legends. recently finished Psychonauts 2. currently playing Valheim with some friends and Witcher 2 on my own. all of that exclusively on Linux.

noodlejetski,

being able to connect to not only another instance, but also another platform. I can use my Mastodon account to follow a Pixelfed account and to reply to a Lemmy thread. that's not something that the mainstream, commercialized internet with its walled-off silos would ever let you do.

noodlejetski,

many of those are imported from the tier0 Fediblock list, which includes all the instances any decent human being would want to block as well. I don't see myself wanting any content from pedo dot school or teenagegirls dot biz.

noodlejetski,

many of those are imported from the tier0 Fediblock list, which includes all the instances any decent human being would want to block as well. I don't see myself wanting any content from pedo dot school or teenagegirls dot biz.

noodlejetski,

"Raddle" ... "Sqwok" ... "Lemmy" ... None of these sound like real things.

I mean, twenty years ago "Facebook" and "Reddit" would've sounded super weird and not like real things either.

noodlejetski,

yes, but there's much more than those three out there.

https://fediverse.info/

noodlejetski,

Misskey (another microblogging platform) has been growing rapidly recently, mostly in Japan, and despite fewer users than mastodon.social, one of its instances has been having more posts recently. PixelFed is getting some traction as well, and the upcoming option for importing Instagram posts will probably help it gain even more users, too.

noodlejetski,

if you press the "More" button and choose "Install", you'll get a shortcut on your homescreen that will open the website in a separate window.

noodlejetski,

Firefox + uBlock Origin

noodlejetski,

sometimes it's just labeled "Add to homescreen". not sure if it's a change on Kbin's end and whether it'll behave the same way or open in a regular tab, though.

noodlejetski,

yeah, I guess something's changed with Kbin's configuration over the past few days, then. I've still got the PWA "installed" and it shows separate from Firefox (you can see Firefox proper on the left side):

https://i.vgy.me/PNfjmX.jpg

Contrary to some of the discourse on rexxit, I don't think the goal should be a "reddit killer" - just to breath life into this corner of the fediverse

This is just sort of a stream of thought from somebody who has been glued to my screen tracking the drama from the past week or so., and also watched the digg exodus happen (although I never used digg, just watched it from reddit's perspective)...

noodlejetski,

given that the reddit blackout starts tomorrow, I'd say things are about to ramp up, not down, for a while.

noodlejetski,

OwnCast will welcome them with open arms!

noodlejetski,

I'm surprised so many of the subreddits don't have any messages set by mods that explains why are they've gone private and have the generic description of the subreddit in there instead.

noodlejetski,

The question is: do we need a reputation?

any kind of score system encourages people to try and game it with low effort content and makes them more focused on numbers than actual discussion. we don't need that here, and I'm saying that as someone who's had over half a million karma on their main reddit account.

OC How did you end up finding kbin? Did you migrate here from Reddit?

I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...

noodlejetski,

I've seen it mentioned a few times on my Mastodon feed a while ago.

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