I can understand the value of making your community a more tight-knit one with a proactive stance on moderation, that's how Tildes operate and they're doing fine. The thing is I'm not sure I understand why, given this goal, Beehaw is part of the Fediverse in the first place, where there isn't much preventing someone from an outside group coming in. This sounds like a case where a centralized instance makes more sense. Maybe they're trying to see if such a community can exist on the Fediverse, in which case fair enough, but this seems like an uphill road.
I have a few loose ends to tie up before walking away from the explosion as outlined in this comment from a similar thread but at this point, nothing short of the entire chain of decisions that started the API debacle being reversed and anyone involved in the mess, spez included, stepping down and being replaced by competent people would even begin to make me reconsider leaving. Of course, I might as well wish for a meteorite made of solid gold to land into my yard.
Besides, this doesn't fix the underlying issue that led us here in the first place, and the Fediverse might just be the answer to that one.
I love Endless Sky, it's honestly one of my favorite games! I have a pack of cool SciFi art that I found on Nexus and I've been slowly replacing the stock photos for my personal game. I'm also a sucker for TeeWorlds, it is delightfully infuriating and hillarious to play. I know that's baby's first FOSS games but I'm new to open...
Start from Doom. Well, not quite the original release, but rather Doom Legacy. From this base, create a 3D Sonic platformer styled after the Genesis era games. That's Sonic Robo Blast 2 (because yes, it's a sequel from a previous fangame named Sonic Robo Blast from all the way back in 1997).
We're not done yet. Mod it further... into an online kart game. That inherits the same modding abilities Doom Legacy has. You've got Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, sometimes nicknamed MUGEN Kart to the dismay of its developers due to the sheer amount of addons for increasingly weird characters its forum hosts. If you're interested, said forum, hosting both the addons for SRB2, SRB2 Kart and the SRB2 Kart releases themselves can be found here (for some reason the main website is down as I'm writing this. Oops.)
For SRB2 Kart in particular, the thread to get your hands on it is here and you can find its repository here.
The game is wacky, very fun, runs on a stale potato and it's easy to set up a server to subject an unsuspecting community to your specific choice of insane mods among the hundreds if not thousands available.
Perhaps a bit too seamless as there is no indication of which instance users are from unless you go and check their profile. I can see this becoming an issue down the line, so I picked up a userscript that fixes the problem (it has other features, but that's the one I mostly use it for).
We should not let people take advantage of the situation to back stab strikers. We should discourage this behavior, and show anyone who does this that it will not be taken kindly....
Eh, whoever takes up that offer is going to learn in short order why the protest is happening in the first place. As will the rest of the community once the content quality drops into the gutter because the would-be replacement mods can't keep up with getting rid of the garbage. You try moderating a subreddit of any significant size with gimped moderation tools. If anything, this would accelerate Reddit's fall into irrelevance as users start looking elsewhere for a place that isn't overrun by spambots of various flavors.
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....
/r/place is expected to come back on the 23rd of June, which is Reddit's 18th anniversary.
You'll note that this is also conveniently a week before the API changes go into effect, so I'm planning to, as spez would put it, make some more noise by putting a message right on the middle of the canvas highlighting their bad decision. Time will tell if I'm successful in this endeavor. So far, I have dragged a couple of hundred people and some change into this mess of a plan and The Swarm is going to be backing us up as well, in the manner you'd expect from the group behind the appearance of the black void in the previous iterations of /r/place.
#Lemmy now has 135,369 accounts. That is tracking with my expectations.
But while #Kbin had ~7,000 accounts yesterday, it’s just shot up to 30,930 accounts today.
While Lemmy is the 5th most used server software on the Fediverse, Kbin is now in 10th place and it’s growing at a faster rate than Lemmy.
A few days ago, I predicted that the #RedditMigration would result in 150,000-300,000 new accounts being created on the Fediverse. That expectation has already been met.
This #RedditMigration is fundamentally changing the course of the Fediverse. It’s moved the Fediverse from being primarily about microblogging to having more eclectic use cases.
While the #TwitterMigration validated that decentralized social media can appeal to millions of people, the #RedditMigration has validated that decentralized social media has man varied applications – both in the software and use case sense.
@atomicpoet I'm one of the kbin users coming from Reddit and I have fully accepted that we're going to be the crash-test wave. Emphasis on crash. That being said, Ernest has clearly shown that he's doing his hardest to handle this new influx of people and making the platform better, and I hope he'll get the support he needs to achieve that goal. And hopefully, kbin will be better prepared for the next wave that'll undoubtedly come as the API changes go into effect after the end of June. And the ones after that.
Why am I negative in my reputation? I have not made any posts of comments that are negative (accept for maybe a small one or two but it would have been like 4 to 6 or something). Why am I -46 when I have a highly upvoted thread?
Of note is that kbin is also connected to the microblogging (think Twitter, Tumblr) side of the fediverse where the "repost content you like to your page" paradigm is more intuitive.
RedReader's dev, while granted a reprieve from the APIcalypse due to his app handling accessibility better than the first party app ever did, does see the writing on the wall and is planning to expand his app to cover other networks, Lemmy, Tildes and Hacker News being on the list. Maybe kbin as well?
I unfortunately do not, as the ability to generate a given amount of invite codes is occasionally given to existing users, and my account isn't old enough to have been there the last time it happened. You can however send an email to invites@tildes.net to request an invite yourself.
That's probably the best course of action. Kbin seems positioned to welcome about the same kind of content Reddit did, but Tildes is more aimed toward longform, in-depth discussion (so no spamming low effort memes).
Beehive: an update to defederating from sh.itjust.works (sh.itjust.works)
Moderator of c/anarchychess abuses their privileges, this is a conversation where I managed to make them admit it. (imgur.com)
kbin now accessible from lemmy instances?
I am going to try and post this from lemmy.ca...
Reddit may be bringing back deleted comments (lemmy.world)
If you want to further investigate: Link to Reddit post
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Reddit officials forces moderators to reopen subreddits or get overthrown (web.archive.org)
A post from r/apple explaining why they were forced to reopen their subreddit after planning to close indefinitely....
What are you're favorite FOSS games to play and why?
I love Endless Sky, it's honestly one of my favorite games! I have a pack of cool SciFi art that I found on Nexus and I've been slowly replacing the stock photos for my personal game. I'm also a sucker for TeeWorlds, it is delightfully infuriating and hillarious to play. I know that's baby's first FOSS games but I'm new to open...
What is your guys' experience with Lemmy and Kbin interaction
This post comes from Lemmy, so at least we know that part works lmao....
Opinion: anyone who takes over a sub reddit because original mods closed it in protest, should face community outrage
We should not let people take advantage of the situation to back stab strikers. We should discourage this behavior, and show anyone who does this that it will not be taken kindly....
Curious, if you were/are a Reddit user, will you be leaving the platform for good or have you already? CEO has called unpaid moderators' concerns "noise", that will be "passing soon."
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....
Why does this keep happening? (lemmy.world)
I keep noticing three very strange happenings here:...
What's your sleep schedule like?
How well do you guys sleep? My current sleep schedule is the worst it has ever been and I'm not sure how I should go about fixing it.
Reddit comments on every post about the blackouts (i.imgur.com)
I just hopped on today and the site is very unusable right now
EDIT: it seems that this is a known bug and will be fixed in the next release! Thank you guys for letting me know...
Did you reuse your Reddit name or create a new one?
I originally went with the same name but have been using this one now since it's new and the idea of starting fresh appeals to me....
Looks like federation is working again!
I just saw some posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.world, looks like we're back in business!
Question about reputation
Why am I negative in my reputation? I have not made any posts of comments that are negative (accept for maybe a small one or two but it would have been like 4 to 6 or something). Why am I -46 when I have a highly upvoted thread?
We need devs of third-party apps for Reddit to make apps for kbin
In addition to asking devs of third-party apps for Reddit to make one for Lemmy, why wouldn't we ask them the same for kbin?
Popular subreddit alternatives
What are some kbin or Lemmy alternatives to common Reddit subs?...
Any good mobile apps to access kbin?
Obviously this migration is all about 3rd party apps. Do any even exist yet for kbin?