Like for example, how someone thinks because you work in IT you can fix their TV, or how if you're into music you must be able to play any random instrument....
I've worked closely with people selling B2B IT Consulting services for years. If they didn't have a basic command of project management and what the solutions were capable of, they'd never be hired. If they didn't know those things like the back of their hand, they'd never succeed. Most of them still had a lot of drive and need to be persuasive, and it could be annoying, but for that kind of sales, there are many more important factors: mastery of product, communicating legitimate advantages (including downplaying minor objections and knowing when the product was a bad fit that would leave everyone unhappy), and maybe above all (except basic, baseline competence) relationship building.
I guess my question then is this: if an instance, kbin.social for example, is running slowly because it's got too much traffic, is there any benefit to living on another instance when I want the content from the more popular instance? Are people on fedia.io getting a better experience trying to read this specific thread from @kbinMeta than we are? Or, is it about the same for any content from kbin.social, and they're just having a more responsive experience as they get used to the UI, local magazines, etc?
You're just about right, at least as I understand it. You are @massacre (at massacre at kbin.social) to the rest of the fediverse. They would be @massacre (at massacre at lemmy.world) or whatever. The UI just obfuscates that a bit.
Right. If you have a sort of automagic multireddit aggregation, then losing 80% of your aggregated content still leaves the 20% cohesive, and that becomes all the more important with the 80% being gone. If instances aren't coalescing around interests or ideologies, but instead around availability and bandwidth, then I think it makes a lot of sense to aggregate more elegantly.
Agreed. I think if tightly-knit communities were starting instances and getting all their other interests outside their niche that it might be more like that. For instance (LOL, I crack me up), if kbin.rocknroll.social were an instance hosting a thousand refugees from /r/music, /r/classicrock, and /r/grunge, but they only really participated in a few local magazines/communities and tended to consume their news from lemmy.world, their dog pics from beehaw, and their basketball news from some other instance, they'd have less on the line if their instance crashed or was overrun by people they didn't want to associate with. It would be even more pronounced the other way around, with the people visiting kbin.rocknroll.social only losing some music content if they felt a need to block or their instance felt a need to defederate.
It could also work, as with the tankies' instances on Lemmy, if an instance, however broad-based, had a cohesive ideology and the "residents" and visitors alike knew what they were in for and what they'd be giving up if they avoided it or were banned/defederated.
But I don't think that's what is happening, at least right now. As it is, people are more just signing up wherever there seems to be inertia at the moment they're ready to try something knew, and either trying to build something local or just using their new home as a window onto the most popular instances.
On the other hand, I guess in the end, it is what it is and you can certainly have a wonderful experience on a federated site, even if the integration is exaggerated. The need to leave for another instance would still be a giant pain and much could be lost, but to a refugee (or an outlaw) there is value to having a someplace halfway familiar to go, and the barriers to entry are lower if a popular instance goes bad.
The software is open source. The instance that everyone has been talking about is centralized and privately managed by the dev. They're basically creating a carefully curated space, and sort of letting other people read the resulting content.
The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating...
Not log in, but just browse and add their magazines and contribute from here by searching and appending the domain name. This is where the clunky email analogies come from. Like, here's one that was federated before we all invaded from reddit (it's probably out of date now, but the concept should hold): https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org
You're still completely on kbin.social, but the content originates from, and your posts will be posted back to, beehaw.
Given how people actually seem to be using Lemmy/Kbin, I think this would be super helpful. Like things just sort of automagically get richer as the server stabilizes and the admins make the philosophical choice to federate.
Once I sort of accepted that Becky Chambers' Galactic Commons stuff was not trying to tell THE story, but rather just sort of soaking in the world-building, personal struggles, and small character moments like a warm bath, I was able to enjoy them a lot more. "A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" is a bit of a bait and switch on that front, as it seems like it's going to be more than it is, plot-wise, but most of the plot points that would send other books into a tension-filled, galaxy-altering final act just sort of work themselves out.
I think in genre fiction we also get used to following the same characters long after their sell-by dates, and she can be merciless on that front, not killing them off, oh goodness no, but just sending them back on their way to live their lives in the stars without us watching over their shoulders.
I was running to get my train. For a reason i still can't explain, in the station entrance hatch, i turned right instead of continue right and hit the glass with my face. I have now a scar near the eyebrow.
Was using a cheap fly-cutter, basically a large drill-bit with two counter-weighted knives on a drill press. One, this is usually a bad way to cut circles. Two, if you are determined to use one, it should be a high quality one. Three, if you use one, the drill press must be at its LOWEST speed.
I had forgot and had it at damn-near its highest speed, and within a couple of seconds one of the cutters flung off right into my wrist. Fortunately, between luck and physics it was the weight and not the knife that smacked directly into my wrist, but I had to get a tetanus booster, and I have a pair of horseshoe shaped scars where the thing crumpled up my skin like the Roadrunner stopping suddenly on a desert highway.
I'm a cheap fella who likes MOAR CLICKY. Right now I have three keyboards plugged in, two used every day:
Work computer is an FL-ESPORTS FL980 98-key with Kailh box Navy and some XDA Matcha knockoffs.
Home desktop is a quirky little E-Yooso (the Z-19) 94-key with tape mod, Outemu dustproof Greens, and some soft-edged OEM-like keycaps that I'm pretty sure are surplus or knockoffs from Keychron's molds.
My former TV streaming box that is now a little Armbian system has my hand-wired custom ortho keyboard. Imagine an MIT Planck with a column of three keys (1u, 2u Enter, 1u) tacked onto the right side. It has some Gateron KS3 Blues and low-profile XVX keycaps, and it runs KMK on a Pi Pico. I admit I don't use this one as much, but it was a fun project and I just kinda like having it around.
It seems better than it was earlier today. It was pretty much unusable for several hours, but now it's just a bit slow and I get a cloudflare check every 20-30 minutes. For where we are in the development and the massive traffic bump, I'd say it's doing okay.
By comparison, Squabbles had been stable for most of the day, but it's starting to have its own growing pains at 11k users, and the trolls seem to have decided to say hello since there's no way for individuals to block each other yet.
I think my Charcoal Safari circa 2002 still has some ink in it, as does my new little Pelikan Jazz that I paid 5 EUR too much for in Athens, but I didn’t care because the shop owner gave my daughter a pair of 5-cent dice and made her feel like the most important girl in the world.
Still awaiting cleaning are my old Sheaffer from the 40s and Cross Solo from the 90s.
ROTJ was the first film I recall seeing in theaters. It stuck with me as my favorite, and honestly the tripartite battle in the last act is pretty awesome, and while derivative in many ways it's still got a cast that knows their characters like the back of their hands and is a lot of fun.
This B12 fan is still hoping to crack open the PAC, purely as a form of self-preservation. Love the west coast bros, but I don't want to be wondering where my Frogs stand in the next round of "Super-2" expansion.
As a Gator (married to a Frog and living in Texas for almost 20 years), I know I should tell you to rot in the ACC, but it would be actively nice to convert the rivalry into a conference game, and the ACC blowing up while the B12 is in a good spot would be very helpful for the Frogs’ stability, so welcome aboard!
Looking into getting my first mechanical keyboard and want to dip my toes in the pool. Just wanted your guys perspective. I might swap the switches for some gaterons since they are hotswappable.
My VERY cheap board is a weird little e-yooso Z19 with aliexpress switches and keycaps, and a quick tape mod. It has the outemu socket style hotswaps, which made it distinctly unpleasant to change out, but it was indeed hotswappable for about $22. I am an edge case in that I type heavy and like things clicky and loud, so I don't need to lube everything. I used Auto-hotkey to tweak the layout a bit on the single PC that I use it with, and made sure I got keycaps that had a tactile bump on the arrow cluster. So I was all in on a 94-key board (it has a weird but functional numpad in the footprint of a "ten-keyless" 80% board) to my liking for under $50.
My "nicer" board is for work and is still a value board, an FL-Esports FL980, an "1800" style with a compressed but complete numpad. I told myself I was going to sell the Kailh box white switches after I changed them out (much nicer on "normal" hotswap sockets, btw) for Box Navy, but... hobbies happen by accident sometimes. I wanted that one to have a proper numpad and not to need any software to do what I wanted, and I found it on Warehouse deals for $43. The stock keycaps would have been fine, but I had an unused XDA set lying around from a previous evening on AliExpress.
I also have an ortholinear with 50 keys that I handwired and configured using KMK, but to date that one has not forced its way into daily use. There are also a couple of the aforementioned gamerboards floating around my home office. They're not half-bad if you change the keycaps and turn down the LEDs :-)
I don't personally have one, but back on /r/budgetkeebs they were considered a perfectly reasonable brand for first keyboards and modding candidates. Reasonable build quality for the price, many of them hot-swappable (though double check that hotswap socket type before buying your new switches). What you won't get is QMK levels of customizability or meticulous attention to detail in regards to sound or build quality.
Honestly, even a no-name FIlco-knockoff 104-key gamerboard with rainbow LED and generic blue or brown switches is a step up from most membrane keyboards; the bigger issue with a Red Dragon is that you won't stop there. :-)
For today's prompt, Coach Prime. Polarizing to put it mildly. There's a certain kind of "dishonest honesty" with his in your face self-promotion and discarding of norms. Not my cup of tea at all, and frankly I think he's a flawed messenger even for this particular brand of change. I kinda hope it doesn't work, but if it does...
Gotta figure he'll talent his way into more than Dorrell had, but I will be interested to see (1) how he and the roster handle not getting to 5 or 6, should that happen, and (2) how year two goes. He's certainly set himself up as a boom or bust kinda deal.
True, but most do that with a track record of winning or by selling the program. His choice of how to stand out is certainly divisive, and his attitudes on roster building are extreme in degree if not in type. It could absolutely work; lord knows I'm in no place to judge what appeals to teenaged athletes. It is clearly attracting more talent than CU would have otherwise, but will it come together in the face of the higher level of competition in the P5?
I would also say to look up Prime Prep if you're not already familiar. It's like an extra helping of poop on top of the garbage sandwich that composes the personality and priorities of your average P5 coach.
Matt Hayes explains the biggest reason Nick Saban sounded so cranky at the Spring meetings. Plus: Ranking every SEC team's QB room, how to fix Georgia's culture problem and more.
I will be extremely surprised if, by the end of the season, there are 8 teams who are viewed as having better "complete package" QBs than Bama, regardless of the preseason hype. There is a tendency to take the uncertainty of college programs cycling through players and exaggerating the doom and gloom. It is hard to predict anything in a sport that by definition rotates through its roster in 3-5 years, but that doesn't mean you lean into predicting negative outcomes. Then you're just the sourpuss version of a delusional homer on Finebaum.
That said, this very much could be the year the Tide go three years without a Natty; it just doesn't say much about the overall health of their program. I'm also cringing for my fellow Gator in the article's comment section. I like to pretend we don't have those idiotic takes flying around.
What's an innocent misconception about your hobby/profession that drives you up the wall?
Like for example, how someone thinks because you work in IT you can fix their TV, or how if you're into music you must be able to play any random instrument....
kbin.social is getting the hug of death right now, consider signing up for another instance
Hey Reddit refugees! You may have noticed that kbin.social is taking forever to load because of all of the traffic it's getting....
Any good mobile apps to access kbin?
Obviously this migration is all about 3rd party apps. Do any even exist yet for kbin?
OC The branding for kbin is perfect
The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating...
OC Share you favourite Sci-Fi books and what you loved about them
I've been getting through more and more sci-fi books and would love recommendations on the books you've all enjoyed....
What's the dumbest way you hurt yourself ?
I was running to get my train. For a reason i still can't explain, in the station entrance hatch, i turned right instead of continue right and hit the glass with my face. I have now a scar near the eyebrow.
Which keyboard(s) are you currently using?
Hello there! Thought I'd kick this community off with a question....
Lag
Am I the only one facing constant lagging when moving between different pages?
What Pens Do You Have Inked Currently?
Hi everyone, let's get this party started!...
What's your favorite Star Wars movie? Or show?
What's your favorite Star Wars-- thing? Cartoon, live action series, movie, what is it and why?
So, /m/cfb, where do we stand on conference realignment?
This B12 fan is still hoping to crack open the PAC, purely as a form of self-preservation. Love the west coast bros, but I don't want to be wondering where my Frogs stand in the next round of "Super-2" expansion.
Anyone have experience with Redragon mechanical keyboards?
Looking into getting my first mechanical keyboard and want to dip my toes in the pool. Just wanted your guys perspective. I might swap the switches for some gaterons since they are hotswappable.
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And how about Deion?
For today's prompt, Coach Prime. Polarizing to put it mildly. There's a certain kind of "dishonest honesty" with his in your face self-promotion and discarding of norms. Not my cup of tea at all, and frankly I think he's a flawed messenger even for this particular brand of change. I kinda hope it doesn't work, but if it does...
First and 10: The truth is, there might be 8 teams with better QBs than Alabama this year (www.saturdaydownsouth.com)
Matt Hayes explains the biggest reason Nick Saban sounded so cranky at the Spring meetings. Plus: Ranking every SEC team's QB room, how to fix Georgia's culture problem and more.
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