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tchambers

@tchambers@kbin.social

Technologist, writer, admin of indieweb.social. Fascinated by how new politics impacts technology and vice versa.

Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)

"He added that he plans to make changes to moderator policies so users can vote them out. Currently, a higher-ranking moderator — or the company — can boot out moderators. Incidentally, a r/Apple moderator posted on Twitter (via 9to5Mac) that Reddit was threatening to remove moderators who are staging an indefinite...

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Great idea. On it.

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I voted for "Artemis" but YMMV...

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would be a good idea to make a tag or an alert featured on the magazine if it appears no mod has logged in in over X days, with a link to apply to become one. Not sure who would approve that takeover tho... but a tag alone would be a warning to users that it was functionally unmoderated.

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Fully agree with every word.

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More about this launch here: https://mastodon.social/@spreadmastodon/110554132079617918

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the source code here is all open and we encourage others like Kbin to use to make their own "SpreadKbin" onboarding portal.

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Andreas, Did you see this? This is where we are building for, would appreciate any notes to this idea and if it would alleviate your concerns about centralization: our goal would be to swap out one sever and swap in new ones over time to spread out far beyond four overall. And Mastodon.social staff are not involved and would not have any say over the four.

https://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/round-robin

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Our goal: to be a better place for new users to onboard, and to be an organizing hub or those looking to spread Mastodon and the Fediverse. Opening up all the source code so any Fediverse portal can reuse. For example a SpreadKbin site could modify and use.

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You can see them all here: https://fedidb.org/ mid way down on the left.

Chrome extension to add a "search" link when browsing logged out Lemmy instances (github.com)

I've been annoyed by the "copy !communityname to your instance's search" aspect of joining new communities. To make this more streamlined I created this extension to add a "Search on [myhomeinstance]" button on community pages. It's currently submitted for approval in the chrome web store, which could take a few days, but you...

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Can you describe to me how after the plugin is active, it should work for a Firefox user with a Kbin account browsing a Lemmy site? Is there any visual difference after the plugin is working? Or just links now go to your local Kbin server?

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A visit is an individual going to any of these sites in one session. And the total is cumulative as to total visits by individuals.

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Will almost certainly treat it like any other big federation server. Trust, but if it proves to be unmoderated, harassing and violating my servers TOS repeatedly despite reporting from us on those issues, then would Fediblock. But that is a nuclear option and always a last resort to protect my folks.

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I could be very wrong, but FediDB is the source of this bot, and the developer there thinks that the Stats number at the footer of Kbin includes remote followers from the Fediverse, but the number he gets from the API counts local users. Would love someone who knows the tech of how Kbin defines stats on the lower footer to confirm.

What is your favorite Mastodon client?

Hey everyone, super excited to be exploring the fediverse both here on kbin and elsewhere. Looking for a Mastodon client primarily for iOS, great to see the main app is open-source, but there seems to be quite a few options out there. Feel free to share non-iOS clients for others' benefit as well....

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Ivory by Tapbots. Mona a close second, Mammoth a third.

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Love this, talked it up over here:

https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110533958559577546

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