Ironically that is exactly how those folks read to me. Pseudo intellectuals that grew up in America and have a pretty rosy and tainted view of how living under authoritarian regimes they purport to support is.
Having traveled to communist and socialist countries and met MANY people both living in those countries and some that managed to escape (and many that don’t want to for various reasons), many of the people I have met would call those folks out if given the freedom.
It’s why I only lasted a few days on that platform too. Given these are the devs of the entire kit, yeah….I don’t see how it’s not going to implode.
The problem I have is they put their politics in the software. In the instances they manage. In the hardcoded slur filter (that they did acquiesce and make available to disable) and even in their documentation and statements.
Frankly anyone that goes to the software is swiftly going to find out their stances and it’s going to be, at best, a lightning rod for opinions and judgements.
So as an individual I find it very hard to reconcile supporting them in any way by advocating for the software, participating in it’s development or running an instance given all of the above. Especially when there are perfectly serviceable alternatives that don’t have such baggage.
Vietnam, Armenia, Azerbaijan, belarus, Lithuania. In Armenia I met and drank with many Iranians as well. Though I cannot go to Iran.
I also grew up in a Cuban household. Many of my friends had family still in Cuba and most of the community surrounding me being Cuban during my formative years.
Absolutely agree on Vietnam. Was one of the best times I have ever had.
Talks on politics in those places can’t be done in public. One of the things about Vietnam is it’s partially free market where if you get big enough you can become a Joint Stock Company. But mainly for the very large companies like Vin, Viettel (which is government). Often if you are smaller and get to large, bad luck can happen.
Interestingly many of the younger folks I met were much more interested in the west and western culture. There were the folks going to Starbucks. And some of the fast food like Jollibe is for kids. Many of the older folks are much less interested in the west.
One of the families I was visiting was fairly well off. They even had central AC. But the government, decided to build a new housing and park development and told him they were acquiring his house. He’s still unsure if they are even going to pay him for the land/house and if so, what. Yet and still though, he would never leave.
The actual government assistance for many is not survivable through. So you often see people selling lottery tickets and the like.
I apologize if this has already been covered, but I’ve seen a lot of people talking about a need for a kbin app. While I agree that a native app would be nice to have eventually, I figured that quite a few people probably aren’t aware of how web apps work. I don’t use Android, so I have no idea if there is an equivalent...
Lemmy seems to have more instances and their onboarding and UI is arguably a bit better, especially searching for communities that arent on your instance.
That said, I find the politics there pretty disagreeable and frankly kinda offputting.
I think, and this was based on the reveal a year or two ago, landing on the planet is a loading screen, similar to entering buildings in Fallout or Cities in Skyrim.
Hey, reddit refugee here. I signed up both here and at lemmy to see which one I liked better but so far I'm preferring lemmy simply because I feel like basic features that are already in lemmy are missing in kbin. Unless I'm missing the obvious, for example, is there a way to search for posts or articles or whatever its called...
Unfortunately the search in kbin is kinda weak. It is better on lemmy, at least at the moment. Be advised there is some politics around the lemmy devs, I’ll leave it at that.
For kbin you can look at other instances like this
Hi there! I've been trying to improve the situation for the past few hours. I managed to disable CF Protection, and as you can see, I'm gradually allowing traffic from the fediverse. There may still be delays in deliveries and posts for some time. If anything is particularly troublesome, please let me know through the contact...
What webserver are you using. I would just reccomend NGINX and certbot/LetsEncrypt. Its dead simple and will reconfigure your site config with everything needed.
Ideally he can add more instances to kbin.pub or something. I dont think there is a way to view all the kbin instances the same way you can at say...join-lemmy.org.
It would be really nice if @earnest added an instances page to kbin.pub that would allow folks to choose instances to join. Even if that means it’s more static/curated instances he trusts etc.
This would be ideal. Heck even a manually curate list of servers and a magazine section to request adding yours if you want it to be advertised would be great.
Frankly kbin is usable in the mobile browser and in iOS I can just open it in safari and hit “add to Home Screen” and that makes it an “app” of sorts. It works well and I have a few sites I do this with, including my personal RSS feed instance.
They basically shifted their price tier of the 4000 series up entirely.
Ie: a 4070 is what a 3080 used to cost. A 4060 equal to 3070 etc etc.
But the performance gains didn’t match and they still skimped on vram I believe. Outside of that new feature they added to the 4000 series (gen 3 ray tracing or something iirc)
I have tried creating an instance on both Debian 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 with both Docker and the manual steps.
I can get the build to work fine. But at best I get 500 errors with no signs of logs as to why, not in postgres, not in nginx, not in redis or rabbitmq or even syslog.
On Docker i have both the kbin_messenger and kbin container boot looping with an error about creating cache directories. But since the containers are restarting I cant even get into bash on them to see why.
I finally said fuck it and ran the compose for "prod" and the containers start but again, 500 errors.
At this point....i give up i feel. I would love to host an instance and I am familiar with some of these modules (ie: NGINX, redis and postgres) but with how this is built, I dont see where the breakpoint is.
Yeah. Kbin install made me eat some humble pie for sure. I think someone called me a normie in a lemmy thread describing my troubles. Lol.
To be fair some of the parts like mercure and rabbitmq im unfamiliar with. But it was a stone cold stumper for me and that’s rare. I’m fairly familiar with Linux admin, and even some of the tooling like docker. But I just couldn’t get it to work in a cohesive way. I ran plenty of Linux servers from Drupal instances, Postgres, nginx for all sorts of shit, etc etc.
My lemmy instance took….45 minutes to roll out. Though I already had an Ansible box sitting in my lab.
Reddit threatens replacing moderators from privated subreddits, citing vandalism and squatting.
OC Difference between kbin and lemmy?
Why do you use one over the other? Also, what's the deal with Calckey?
For iOS users looking for an app, there is a quick and easy solution
I apologize if this has already been covered, but I’ve seen a lot of people talking about a need for a kbin app. While I agree that a native app would be nice to have eventually, I figured that quite a few people probably aren’t aware of how web apps work. I don’t use Android, so I have no idea if there is an equivalent...
Xbox Games Showcase + Starfield Direct reaction thread (www.youtube.com)
Thread to discuss/react to the Xbox Games Showcase!...
Getting lost in the interface
Hey, reddit refugee here. I signed up both here and at lemmy to see which one I liked better but so far I'm preferring lemmy simply because I feel like basic features that are already in lemmy are missing in kbin. Unless I'm missing the obvious, for example, is there a way to search for posts or articles or whatever its called...
Pssst... any ideas for a domain name for the new instance?
Hi there! I've been trying to improve the situation for the past few hours. I managed to disable CF Protection, and as you can see, I'm gradually allowing traffic from the fediverse. There may still be delays in deliveries and posts for some time. If anything is particularly troublesome, please let me know through the contact...
Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO (www.theverge.com)
A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes
Desktop GPU Sales Lowest in Decades: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
/kbin Issues (codeberg.org)