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HotDogFingies, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
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Roughly 0.01%. Mostly accidentally.

PugJesus, in What claims are just not backed by historical facts?
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To me, it's: That ancient people thought the Earth was flat.

Ancient peoples DID think the Earth was flat.

The conception of a spherical earth was only widely accepted in academic traditions derived from late Greek philosophy and even in those cultures, had a mixed reception in popular conceptions of the earth's shape until the 16th century.

TheArstaInventor,
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The question is not if they did or did not think, but if what they thinked was backed by historical facts at the time.

flatearth,

Yes. It was backed by the oldest book of events at that time.
There were mathematicians that wrote against Galileo, and a notable one, a Dominican I think.
Everything in the past moves to the category of belief.

Gordon_Freeman, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
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only if the magazine rules say I have to use microblogging instead of a normal post

I have no interest in microblogging, I don't see what's the point of it

Chozo, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?

Rarely. I'll use it to upvote the Caturday posts, though. But I mostly use a separate Firefish account for any actual microblogging.

sanguine_artichoke, in What claims are just not backed by historical facts?

It depends which ancient people. That may be what thought in Greece, but what about elsewhere? Also a lot of Greek and Roman knowledge was lost by the dark ages or ever made it to Europe at all.

PugJesus,
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Knowledge of a spherical earth was never lost amongst serious academics in post-Roman Europe.

averyminya, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?

I like it but don’t use it often.

YuzuDrink, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?

I think once I accidentally made a microblog when I meant to start a thread in a magazine? It felt super vague and I basically haven’t bothered making too-level posts since. I just lurk and post snark.

Drusas, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?

I'll sometimes boost a post, put that is the extent of my engagement. However, I have never cared for microblogging in general.

TheArstaInventor, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
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Pretty much only threads as someone who has come from Reddit, I've avoided microblogging, never used Twitter before, hence I don't at all.

Ragemidi, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
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I use it about half and half. It's nice not having to use another instance to post random thoughts yet be able to make threads. That said, microblogging could use some work.

Damaskox, in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
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Wherever I have a question that is not worth of making a full thread of.

3,7% of my input activity consists of (microblog) posts.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, in How should LICENSE relationships be?

Samsung uses open source licenses

insomniac_lemon, (edited ) in How much do you use Kbin for microblogging?
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I've made 4 and replied on them 22 times. I actually haven't made any threads here yet for whatever reason, despite doing so on other forum-like sites before.

Though yeah, the last one I made I noticed the replies weren't getting properly federated to the 2 users (on lesser-known, more mastodon-type instances) I was trying to reply to (they saw it and replied, but I could only see this on their instances).

runefehay, in How should LICENSE relationships be?

Not a lawyer and it has been a while since I studied this, but when one open source project uses another, they aren't really transforming the others code into a new license.

When GNU/FSF says a license is compatible with the GPL, they mean you can legally use the code with the GPL. More or less, the FSF says if you use a GPL code the entire project has to give end users all the freedoms in the GPL. The LGPL is slightly different in that it can be a separate library. They consider even dynamic linking a GPL project to require both projects to be covered under GPL.

This is why proprietary developers call the GPL "viral." GPL code "infects" all other code with its license. This is the deal you make when you use GPL code, and I think it is a fair one. You don't have to use their code.

I suggest you read the licensing bits of the Free Software Foundation's website. fsf.org and gnu.org

ThatOneKirbyMain2568, in How addicted are you to your phone?
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My phone specifically? Not much.

Now, if we're talking about my PC….

NullaFacies,
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Ditto! Phone, nah, I can go a few hours without touching it, but my laptops or desktops? Nope!

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