Pamasich

Pamasich, 11 months ago

I haven't been using Google anyway since Bing got its redesign. It's just so much more useful now than Google.

Pamasich, 11 months ago

In the footer you can find a link to the instance's Terms of Service.

Some examples:

• kbin.social
• fedia.io
• karab.in
• readit.fuzz

Some keep it simple, some go full legalese (only one of these four).

Pamasich, 11 months ago

I can't find out how either, the feature probably hasn't been implemented yet.

Make sure to create an issue if one doesn't exist yet.

Also, my first post here on kbin. I hope I'm not doing this wrong (I'm using "Add new article", which doesn't sound exactly right, but first I tried "Add new post", and "Add new link", which didn't seem to be the right tool either. So I hope sending an "article" isn't the wrong way to start a question thread.)

This is the correct way. Posts are what the stuff on the microblog tab is called.

Pamasich, 11 months ago

I've seen people bring up Youtube blocking adblockers a few times now, but I have yet to see anything myself despite using Youtube daily with an adblocker. What adblocker are you using?

Pamasich, 11 months ago

The first step is completely different from anything else you've ever done

This isn't really true, you already had to do this for email. Never heard of that being a barrier of entry.

My parents prefer to opt for local privacy/security focused email providers, while I go with gmail for the feature set and design. But I used to try out a few different ones to figure out which one works best for me. Still use a hotmail email for my Windows account.

I fail to see how this is different to the situation with lemmy/kbin instances.

Pamasich, 11 months ago

“Magazine” is the biggest offender here. That’s a very unintuitive term.

To be fair, Reddit's variant, "subreddit", isn't very intuitive either, especially if you don't come from a forum background.

Pamasich, 11 months ago

lemmy.ml is blocking kbin requests, meaning kbin instances get an error when trying to retrieve new posts and comments.

It's still unclear why they are doing it, but it seems to be deliberate as they are specifically blocking the kbin user agent (some text kbin uses to identify itself to other fediverse servers).

I assume they're trying to defederate without actually limiting the freedom of their own users. By just blocking requests from kbin instances, their own users can still use kbin magazines as they please, only kbin users are excluded from federation.

Pamasich, 11 months ago

The issue is, it's only "kbinBot" and variations of that that don't work. If you just use "bot" itself, everything works fine. So it's not just an overreaction to the bot problem, unless all bot instances impersonated kbin.

The more likely answer is that lemmy.ml wanted to exclude kbin users from participating, but without actually limiting the freedom of their own users (which defederation would do).

And on a relatively unrelated note, splitting the already minuscule fediverse, will kill any chance for it to become a real alternative.
Even if Lemmy's dev political views can be outrageous to some people, defederating them would be the beginning of the end imo.

The current situation is misleadingly confusing to the average user and kbin moderators can't do their job properly.
I don't see how defederation, especially when temporary until the issue is fixed, harms anyone when we already can't interact properly anyway. I think the current situation is more harmful. Imo this sounds like the kind of situation defederation exists for.

Pamasich, 11 months ago

Iirc I saw formatting for code blocks in the kbin commit history, so we'll likely get something once they finalize a new release and update kbin.social.

Pamasich, 11 months ago

I like GOG for games that are too old to be on Steam, but yeah, any game that's on Steam I'll get there because of the additional features like Steam Workshop.