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Nice to meet you. Let's talk :-)

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New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android (blog.mozilla.org)

Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at Mozilla’s AMO Android page. This milestone marks the launch of a new open extension ecosystem on mobile where developers are now free to create and publish extensions and...

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Woohoo!!

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Check out Simple Gestures. Not perfect, but works decently.

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Thanks, maybe I will. It could be a problem on the side of LinkedIn too of course.

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Seems like you have the technical background to further investigate this 🙃.

Good to know it happens on Instagram as well.

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Thanks, good to know.

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Thanks, good to know.

/kbin Road to Release devlog series (kbin.social)

From today, I'm starting a small series of daily devlogs where I'll be describing the changes being implemented before the official release of the first version of /kbin. As I mentioned earlier, I had some minor turbulence in my private life from which I'm slowly emerging. I have partially stabilized my life situation in various...

/kbin current code changes
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Thanks for the updates, @ernest!

Is support for third-party apps (through a Kbin API) something we may expect for this first version?

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Wishing you the best, Ernest. Take your time to get things sorted out. As I've said before, we can wait :)

"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin (kbin.social)

Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...

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The lack of a mobile app doesn't help ... hope API support arrives soon.

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Hi Ernest, just a little message to tell you that we can wait. Give your family issues priority. First things first. Thanks for all the work done.

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Looking forward to test/try the app when the API is ready!

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Start following tags and people, even if you don't know them very well.

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Aka "waterfall" (Blue Origin) vs. "Agile" (SpaceX) 😉

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This script works really beautiful on Firefox mobile 👍

I’m back with several more community icons: check out Artemis (future kbin app), Urban Details, 3D Modeling and some other stuff (kbin.social)

Honestly, I’ve been really enjoying making these, probably the most I’ve been excited to model something for months. So I exchanged some sleep for a faster turnaround :) Previous post here...

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These must be the most beautiful 3D icons I've seen in my whole life. Stunning work!

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Certainly. It's really important to have as many people as possible using a different browser engine (Gecko) in this Chromium-dominated world.
And ... uBlock Origin works the best on Firefox (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox).

What's up with "The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance."? Is this working as intended or is it a bug? (kbin.social)

I've been seeing this for quite a bit, and thought it'd resolve itself once CloudFlare was taken off, but I'm still seeing it on many external communities from e.g. Lemmy. Not all posts or comments are visible from Kbin. Any idea on what's going on?...

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Good question. Magazines that mention this often display a different number of posts compared to the original instance, just as the message says.
I also wonder whether this will be fixed or is there to stay because 100% synchronization is not achievable.

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (privacy.thenexus.today)

I'm changing my stance on the whole Meta/project92 thing after reading this article. I think the entire* fediverse should block project92 by default. Later, some instances can re-evaluate whether to maintain those blocks, once we have a better idea of what the benefits and consequences of federating will be:...

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I also think fear-mongering won't help. There is little we can change about it. Let instances decide for themselves to defederate or not.

Yes, there is a risk Meta applies the "EEE" strategy. We shouldn't be naive about that. But why would you stay on an ad-ridden Meta ActivityPub server if you see there are friendly, ad-free Activity servers on Mastodon and the likes?

For a more positive view and an interesting read on the matter, I recommend:

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Nicely designed, but not particularly a fan of this mascot to be honest.

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