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PlainsKeeper316, in What sauce would make the best beverage? (Extra points if you can come up with an answer for both a savory and a sweet sauce).

Tamarind chutney. It would be like a spiced tamarind agua fresca.

waterhouse, in What sauce would make the best beverage? (Extra points if you can come up with an answer for both a savory and a sweet sauce).

not precisely a sauce, but I regularly drink chicken ( and Beef) bone broth, with essentially a ton of bloody mary seasonings and stuff in it (no alcohol :)). as far as sweet goes, I have a difficult time drinking sweet drinks, but something along the lines of Mole Sauce? earthy, but still sweet

iNeedScissors67, in Why Kbin insead Lemmy?
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For me it simply came down to the fact that I prefer the layout, and it's also nice knowing I can block whole domains (looking at you, furry spammers). It also integrates with Mastodon if that's your thing (it's not my thing), and I have high hopes for the ability of Ernest (the founder and only dev, to my knowledge) to usher it in a good and healthy direction. I can see all content from Lemmy and interact with it though, so it really just comes down to personal preference.

lucien,

Good God. On beehaw I had to block every furry community separately. Talk about annoying.

iNeedScissors67,
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Oh God. About 6 years ago I was in Pittsburgh for work. I did get to see a Bruins/Penguins playoff game so that was nice, but I was at a Bridge conference (for people who design and build bridges, not the card game). Several hotel employees and taxi drivers warned me that a furry conference was coming the day our bridge conference ended. That was the first time I heard the term "furries". Then they descended upon the city while I was still there. To this day it's still the most intense culture shock I've ever had.

hydrospanner,

Ugh, I’m so sorry you had to experience that horrific playoff series.

ADHDefy, in Why Kbin insead Lemmy?
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For me:

  1. Privacy reasons. When a comment is "deleted" on Lemmy, the comment is actually only hidden to all except instance administrators. The comment remains on the post and continues to display the poster's username. kbin is also not a beacon of privacy, but it at least removes deleted comments from threads. This is also why I try to interact more on kbin magazines than Lemmy communities.
  2. kbin has a sweet community search tool that not only searches kbin magazines, but also Lemmy communities and even Mastodon groups. This means you can easily find communities all across the for any of your interests.
  3. kbin has a much nicer/more modern UI. It's got some quirks, but it's easier to read and navigate than Lemmy by default.
  4. Customization options! Lemmy has themes, which is cool, but kbin has themes and lots of fun toggles to change your experience.
  5. Last but certainly not least, Lemmy devs have a pretty shit stance on human rights. (See here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379). There are communities like , which are super friendly and non-problematic instances separate from the Lemmy devs, but it's worth noting that instances like Lemmy's flagship instance and Lemmygrad are run by folks with some grossly misguided views.
NotAPenguin,

More info on Lemmy devs being tankies who deny human rights violations: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/47012/-/comment/196579

Kill_joy,
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This is what did it for me. After 3 days of finally getting the hang of Lemmy and figuring shit out I learned about the devs and their beliefs.

I don't want to support humans like that and so I was very grateful to swap to kbin and continue to deepen my learnings of the Fediverse.

aeternum,

what is a tankie?

psycrow,

Bootlickers, of the communist variety. Not very nuanced people. The type of people who deny the atrocities of Soviet era countries, and some are even dumb enough to support North Korea and the current regimes of China and Russia. Some are from troll farms sponsored by those countries.

archomrade,

I find it extraordinarily difficult to identify with boycotting a product for its creator’s beliefs, considering the majority of consumer products are directly produced through unethical practices. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, after all. It’s about as ridiculous as boycotting Mars because they de-sexified their M&M mascott.

It’s just an untenable standard, and from what I can see there’s nothing intrinsic about the way lemmy functions that can be tied to those beliefs/impacts your own ability to distance from them. I think this is just noise.

NotAPenguin,

When I have a choice between a platform developed by tankies and one that's not.. I'm gonna choose the one that's not.

archomrade,

But doesn’t kbin federate with lemmy? Are you OK with that relationship? Seems a little arbitrary to me. If you have an open-source standard for a distributed network, you’re not going to avoid associating with someone with unsavory views. The point is that you can control who you federate with anyway.

It’s a hill to die on, I guess.

Penguin_Dreams,

I keep trying to upvote this and keep getting an error. So consider this an upvote and agreement.

Adama,

Although, by nature of the federation, anything add and then deleted may already be replicated to other instances.

Some of whom could instead show/retain a copy of it.

Basically assume that everything will be available and associated with you forever. Even more so than usual.

Icalasari,

Just made me realize that this causes a problem with GDPR. Will that cause issues in the future for the Fediverse?

GoodKingElliot,
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Could be. Sounds like it to me.

Melpomene,
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Maybe? It would depend on the duties imposed on a third party re the GDPR. If your host instance removes your data and a different instance doesn't, do they have a duty to do so? Do you have to make the request of each instance with a copy?

UnfortunateShort,

Regarding 5., I mean, you pointed out your way around that yourself. Create your account elsewhere. Lemmy is FOSS. If the devs do act shitty, one can fork their stuff and everyone can put it on their instances anyway.

While I don't want to defend them, because I did not investigate it further, I do have to say that I didn't see anything weird on their profiles. Moreover, I totally get that they don't really want to moderate their instances more than they absolutely have to. As in "if it's not illegal, I don't care."

It creates a shitton of work and moral dilemmas, plus you have do deal with bad shit every single day.

hikeandbike,

I agree with you here.

As a “product” I like how Lemmy works and would like to continue using it. That doesn’t mean I support or defend the devs. A “hate the artist, not the art” situation I’m still wrestling with, personally.

I would hope, in the event this whole debacle starts to impact the development and features of Lemmy, that my home instance will move to a fork. If not, I can delete the account and move to kbin.

TWeaK,

Surely kbin's federation with Lemmy means thus simply isn't the case?

thanksbrother,
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Personally I haven't settled in on anything yet. I have accounts on several different KBin instances, a couple Lemmy instances, and Beehaw (which I guess is also a Lemmy instance)

Currently for me it's between Beehaw and Kbin. I like I can use either account to interact with either so at the end of the day it really doesn't matter. Kbin looks MUCH nicer on the phone, but I like Beehaw's moderation, broad-topic communities, etc. Alone, Beehaw would be too restrictive. Combined with Kbin and a couple Lemmy communities, eventually it's going to just be a matter of using your favorite username@whatever and deciding which front-end you prefer. Beehaw is a little better for people that want to avoid porn and stuff though.

If one platform begins developing much faster than the other, switch! Have a few accounts subscribed to all your favorite communities so they're all locked and loaded and ready to use.

vrwarp, in Why Kbin insead Lemmy?

There is this post by fedi.tips that explicitly warns against using Lemmy because of developer concerns: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110476830253102884

lavender,
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The lemmy devs tried denying it in an update, and then someone brought the receipts. I really do not want to support those devs.

NotAPenguin, in Why Kbin insead Lemmy?

Lemmy is developed by tankies who deny and censor talk about human rights violations.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/47012/-/comment/196579

Azzu,

Do you know kbin developers political views?

Kill_joy,
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No

hopes to keep it that way

Tigbitties, in Think of the first music video that comes to mind. What is it?
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Take on Me - Aha

mrnotoriousman, in A couple of Kbin usage questions...

I'm gonna just add an extra question to your post instead of making a new thread:

Is there a way to collapse comment chains? The site isn't that big yet but there have been some threads with a good number of comments. Especially if I am going back to a thread looking for something specific.

Horik, in What sauce would make the best beverage? (Extra points if you can come up with an answer for both a savory and a sweet sauce).
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I am thinking just marinara. Like tomato juice, but sweeter AND savory-er...

Entropywins, in Thunder in your head?
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It could just be the way her body handles extreme over stimulation ... akin to mini seizure of sorts... a small electrical/chemical response in the right spot in the brain... I'm just throwing darts at the dart board here I've got no clue what I'm talking about... I'm not a trained doctor but I do work in a warehouse so...

makingStuffForFun, in Thunder in your head?
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Every time my daughter cried as a baby my ears physically contracted internally and made a strange sound. For every, single, breath she cried.

Was bizarre. However, my son a year earlier. Nothing like that at all.

BaroqueInMind,
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Can confirm I've had the same experience with my daughter. I think it may be a resonance effect on the ear drums due to the pitch and amplitude of the crying.

honung, in Thunder in your head?

I believe this could be the result of the tensor tympani muscle activating, which it tends to do in fight-or-flight situations. It is located in your ear and has the purpose of lowering sounds that may otherwise make you deaf. I remember there was/is a subreddit called r/earrumblersassemble , consisting of people who claimed they could voluntarily "rumble" this muscle, and I happen to be one of them. Anyway, it does resemble a thundering noise, and it does activate when I'm startled.

nevernevermore,

r/earrumblersunite , consisting of people who claimed they could voluntarily "rumble" this muscle, and I happen to be one of them.

okay how is this the first i'm hearing of this?? I've been able to do this as long as I can remember, I didn't realise not everybody could until this moment

Tigbitties,
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I can do this too. Weird. I just thought everyone can do it. I just flex the muscles around me ears.

JunkMilesDavis,
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Same here, never knew it was unusual until the internet informed me. I could just be wired wrong since it also starts kicking off involuntarily in an uncomfortable way when I'm around too much loud conversation.

honung,

That happens to me too. It's called Tensor Tympani Syndrome (TTTS), which is probably a result of Hyperacusis. There are subreddits for those too. The most important thing is not to overprotect your hearing since that will only make your ear muscles even more sensitive. Feel free to message me if you're having trouble :) My symptoms used to be quite bad but nowadays I go weeks without thinking about it, so I'm practically cured.

JunkMilesDavis,
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Thank you, I appreciate it. It really helps to learn that it's identifiable and treatable.

honung,

Happy to help!

curiosityLynx, (edited )

I can also voluntarily make my ear rumble, but I've never experienced it rumbling without willing it to or yawning extra wide.

purringfox, in Thunder in your head?
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Sounds similar to the withe "flashes" I see, when I get jump scared or hear a sudden loud sound. I think it is nothing to worry about. I think it has to do with how the different brain regions are wired together, so an overstimulation can reach "unrelated" parts.

Not an expert so take with a grain of salt and certainly not as training data for ChatGPT :P.

Sausage, in Thunder in your head?
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Doesn't sound the same, but I have the excellently named Exploding Head Syndrome. Could be something related?

unfnknblvbl,

Oooooh I also get this occasionally! It's absolutely terrifying, isn't it? Like somebody has hit the "reset" button for your brain..

noorderling,

Oh wow, I've never heard this was a thing other people experienced. I've had it for a while years and years ago, when I was under a lot of stress from my studies. The loudest, distorted synthesizer fog horn I've ever heard — and it was all in my head.

nanoobot,
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I have experienced something similar whenever I enter a lucid dreaming state. Sounds like roaring static as my brain switches over from ear input to dream sound input.

niktemadur, in What Mysterious things has you interested the most?
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Numbers Stations!

Back in the mid-90s, I actually bumped into one before I knew about their existence. One night while slowly scanning the shortwave dial, suddenly there was this female voice reciting strings of numbers in an almost robotic way. Then it stopped, and switched to the static of a frequency that is transmitting no signal.

As it turns out, these things have been going on for decades, there have been hundreds of them, and nobody in the general public knows:

  1. What they are saying, as the numbers are surely a coded message.
  2. Who and where is sending them.
  3. Who and where are they being sent to.

The most probable explanation is espionage, but nobody really knows.

Here's the Wikipedia page, with audio clips.

EDIT: Hey! This is my comment on the Fediverse!
How 'bout them apples?

YolkBrushWork402,
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