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Masimatutu

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Prototype for new Kbin app: Interstellar (kbin.social)

I've been working for the past week on a new kbin app. At the moment, it's just a prototype and only the "Feed" view has content (you can't sign into an account or post anything yet); you can see threads, thread images, thread comments, thread links, and thread votes/boosts. You can also change the "Theme Mode" and "Instance...

I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you. (kbin.social)

A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...

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ThatOneKirbyMain2568, (edited )
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While that's definitely a notable downside, I think the upsides outweigh it.

For one, being able to see upvotes & downvotes seems to have made a lot of people a bit more thoughtful with handing them out. This obviously isn't the case for everyone — there's still a good bit of downvoting people for disagreeing with the hivemind — but I and others have observed that downvote quality is a lot better here on kbin.social, and I think that vote visibility is a big part of that.

It's also just transparency on kbin.social's part. If votes federate, anyone can set up an instance to view your votes or just go to one that shows them. Someone could literally make a website listing downvotes throughout the fediverse, and there's nothing stopping them. Kbin.social is being transparent about the fact that votes on the fediverse can be accessed by the public, and I have no issue with that.

EDITː Removed a stray asterisk

FaceDeer,
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Same, generally speaking when I'm writing a comment in order to disagree with someone I want that other person's comment to be more visible to other readers. That way they can read it, see my response, and realize how wrong the original comment was and how right I am. :) I save my downvotes for comments that are so wrong they're not worth a response.

I'll even sometimes downvote a comment, ponder for a moment, and then remove my downvote and write a response instead.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Some people really have a way with words.

Others not have way.

wedistribute, to random
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, the federated social events system by Framasoft, is pulling in some big new features. It's also moving out from under the Framasoft umbrella!

https://wedistribute.org/2023/12/five-years-later-mobilizon-reaches-maturity/

hankg, to random

Question for current Relatica testers (or potential future users): on the client side filtering do you think it would be better if the app remembered if you unhid a post/comment?

Screenshot of the post a user toggled to be shown even though filtered.

ZLabe, to random
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The World Meteorological Organization provisional report on the State of the Global Climate in 2023 is out: https://wmo.int/files/provisional-state-of-global-climate-2023

"Greenhouse gas levels are record high. Global temperatures are record high. Sea level rise is record high..." ➡️ https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/2023-shatters-climate-records-major-impacts

sundogplanets, to random
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AMAZING AURORAS happening right now on the prairies!!! WOWWWOOOOWWWWW it's so red!!!

dgar, to random
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I don’t know.

People on Mastodon, in general, seem…

…smarter.

protonmail, to random
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Hi! If you're experiencing any slowness with the email client, please feel free to contact us at https://proton.me/support/contact so we can help you troubleshoot further.

In the meantime, try clearing your browser's cache and cookies, disable any browser extensions or try an incognito/private window, or try another web browser to see if this helps improve the behavior.

gutenberg_org, to random
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British surveyor and geographer George Everest died in 1866.

Everest was largely responsible for surveying the meridian arc from the southernmost point of India north to Nepal, a distance of about 2,400 kilometres, a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. In 1865, the Royal Geographical Society renamed Peak XV – at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak – to Mount Everest in his honour. via @wikipedia

frameworkcomputer, to random
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Framework is hiring. If you have community manager experience, familiarity with Linux and Windows, I would encourage you to toss your hat into the ring.

https://jobs.lever.co/framework/0c2b9cdb-c60a-4cfe-b2a8-392dd35f77e4

dgar, to random
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The opposite of irony is wrinkly.

hankg, to random

The latest beta of the Relatica mobile and desktop Friendica client, version 0.9.0, has just been released. Along with a slew of small bug fixes and tweaks this release now has a mechanism for viewing, filtering, and exporting the log events generated by the software. This will help users interact with developers (well me right now) in diagnosing problems on their system. This release also has the long requested feature of opening up tag searches on the user's home server not the remote server when they are clicked on. This is available for Apple and Google stores for those in the test program (ping me if you want access) and should have approval in the next 24 hours. Direct downloads for Android, Linux, and Windows are available from the install page.
My Social Portal / Relatica · GitLab

wonderofscience, to bugs
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Dragonfly liftoff captured at 5000 frames per second.

Video credit: Joris Schaap / CC BY 3.0
@bugs

video/mp4

TildeGartenzaun, to random
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#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bsky

tommyyum, to random

I heartily agree.

GgDionne, to random
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Reposting a repost. Rerepost? Or perhaps even a rererepost?

notjustbikes, to random
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I gotta say, as an immigrant, I am NOT feeling great about today's election results in the Netherlands.

And as a former resident of the UK, I clearly remember how Brexit was just a stupid joke made by a small party ... until it wasn't.

It's so frustrating to me to see the problems created by right-wing neoliberalism and then having people respond to that by moving further to the right. 😬

https://www.parool.nl/verkiezingen/live-verkiezingen-tweede-kamer-2023-pvv-veruit-de-grootste-in-eerste-exitpoll-met-35-zetels-23-00-uur-eerste-uitslag-amsterdam~bc486cfc/

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