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TwilightVulpine, 11 months ago

I haven't played Pikmin but when it comes to BotW/TotK I still would prefer if weapons didn't break. Seems to me that it creates grind and it takes away flexibility, because more situational options take the same slots as raw power, and get spent just as quickly. Comes to mind also how XCom 2 insisted on turn limits, and one of the first mods it got was to remove the turn limits.

Sometimes designers insist on certain limits to prevent that players "optimize the fun away" but they don't realize that some players legitimately do have more fun without those limits.

MentalEdge, 11 months ago

Yes you can. You have to trigger the federation by entering the url to it into search (the url from the instance its on, not the kbin.social one it would have) or its exact name in the @[email protected] format. That’s how off-instance content gets federated. Someone needs to tell your server, it exists, and that they want it.

Nepenthe, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Welcome! Microblogs double as kbin's integration with mastodon. On kbin, it's a stronger upvote that boosts its visibility here, but it would come through to mastodon users as a retweet for anyone following you.

Only, kbin is an extremely young platform, so it's still a little awkward. You can follow users wherever but there is no dedicated feed to see what they post and reblog, for example, unless you go to that person's profile and look around under the post and boost headings. Which is a bit time-consuming. All that is still in the works.

That's also what "create new post" means, btw. Threads are kbin/lemmy posts. "Make post" is making a mastodon tweet. It's a thing to get used to.

Since "microblogs" is pulling content from mod-chosen mastodon tags, tweets will show up under the microblog section of any relevant community. But only if the creator thought to enter tags to look for, and only if the community was created on a kbin server. [email protected] has 2339 microblogs, but [email protected] has zero because lemmy currently lacks this functionality.

rafoix, 11 months ago

Microsoft owning Activision Blizzard is like half of the NFL teams being owned by one person. One person that mismanages everything they already have.

Prouvaire, 11 months ago

I don't think there is a way yet, not without starting your own "private" magazine. But it would make sense to have a section in your user profile where you enter a list of tags you want to follow, just as there is a way of adding a list of users that you follow.

Although... it occurs to me... I'm not sure how kbin actually uses that list of users you follow. But wherever/however that is, it would make sense to add followed hashtags also.

abff08f4813c, 11 months ago

There was an issue where lemmy.ml refused connections from kbin instances but the admins of that instance fixed the issue yesterday. At no point did true defederation occur.

Neato, 11 months ago

This is a loss for consumers. Massive consolidation, lack of competition. Get ready for them to pull games from PlayStation as soon as they are contractually allowed to. Get ready for everything to be on Game Pass and possibly not on Steam. Worst case: they disable purchasing some games on Game Pass so you always need a subscription.

brecht, 11 months ago

Brought to you by the company who went to court to stop people from using their own open source code.

Psynthesis, 11 months ago

Yes you can. Here is a little link to help you out.

itsfoss.com/intsall-ubuntu-on-usb/

I didn’t use this method, I have a persistent Linux install on a USB, but at least it’ll point you in the right direction to figure out what you want to do.

ZickZack, 11 months ago

Everything using the activityPub standard has open likes (see https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/ for the standard), and logically it makes sense to do this to allow for verification of "likes":
If you did not do that, a malicious instance could much more easily just shove a bunch of likes onto another instance's post, while, if you have "like authors" it's much easier to do like moderation.
Effectively ActivityPub treats all interactions like comments, where you have a "from" and "to" field just like email does (just imagine you could send messages without having an originator: email would have unusable levels of spam and harassment).
Specfically, here is an example of a simple activity:

POST /outbox/ HTTP/1.1
Host: dustycloud.org
Authorization: Bearer XXXXXXXXXXX
Content-Type: application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"

{
  "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
               {"@language": "en"}],
  "type": "Like",
  "actor": "https://dustycloud.org/chris/",
  "name": "Chris liked 'Minimal ActivityPub update client'",
  "object": "https://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/05/minimal-activitypub",
  "to": ["https://rhiaro.co.uk/#amy",
         "https://dustycloud.org/followers",
         "https://rhiaro.co.uk/followers/"],
  "cc": "https://e14n.com/evan"
}

As you can see this has a very "email like" structure with a sender, receiver, and content. The difference is mostly that you can also publish a "type" that allows for more complex interactions (e.g. if type is comment, then lemmy knows to put it into the comments, if type is like it knows to put it to the likes, etc...).
The actual protocol is a little more complex, but if you replace "ActivityPub" with "typed email" you are correct 99% of the time.

The different services, like lemmy, kbin, mastodon, or peertube are now just specific instantiations of this standard. E.g. a "like" might have slightly different effects on different services (hence also the confusion with "boosting" vs "liking" on kbin)

moon_matter, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

A huge number of users posting on social media are just stealth marketing accounts. They literally make fake accounts with personality profiles (e.g. some guy that's into sports) and they will make regular comments and content. But occasionally they will drop links to promotional content which matches the personality.

I'd much rather they were up front about it. So I really don't get the hate for self-promotion because you're complaining about the one guy being honest in a sea of liars.

ozen, 11 months ago

upper right corner below your username click the little gear icon next to the federation icon. should show themes, font size and a large list of things you can change.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

@Treedrake

Most replies here are correct. To clarify and summarize:

1. The source of truth for a magazine/community is the server name that appears after the magazine name.

e.g. [email protected] <--- the source of truth is kbin.social.
2. ActivityPub and the Fediverse is a "Push" model. What does this mean?

Imagine subscribing to a real-world newspaper or magazine with home delivery(few these days will actually remember this, but try to imagine at least). You will get all new issues delivered to you from the moment you became a subscriber, but you don't get copies of all the newspapers or magazines they have ever printed delivered to you. You only get things moving forward. That's the same with the Fediverse. After you subscribe or follow something, you will get all the new content moving forward, but not what has been created so far.

3. To extend #2, it's a "push once" model. What does that mean? It means that if I create content from my instance (which is not kbin.social) to the magazine [email protected], my content will get pushed to kbin.social. Kbin.social, however, will not "re-push" that content to everyone that kbin.social knows is subscribed to the magazine.

So how does my new content that I created in [email protected] show up on other instances that are not kbin.social? I thought you said your content only gets pushed once?

Correct. However, it's not quite as simple as my instance pushing just to kbin.social. Strictly speaking, (and this is based on experience with other platforms, not specifically how kbin works since I haven't verified this for kbin 100%) when I create the content, my instance will push to kbin.social and all other instances (not users) that my instance knows are also subscribed to specifically [email protected]. So my instance actually knows a subset of the instances that are subscribed to [email protected] and will push the new content to each of those other instances. My instance, however, won't necessarily know all the other instances that are subscribed to [email protected]. As a result, some instances won't see my new content because it wasn't pushed to them.

3. As a result, to let users know about this potential gap, not only does it mean that older content doesn't automatically show up, it also means that not necessarily all new content will show up either.

Note on #3: I haven't fully verified this. This statement is based on how other, non-kbin instances handle federation. This is how "likes" work across platforms like Mastodon, Calckey, etc. I see no evidence (yet) that this is any different for kbin.

dannekrose, 1 year ago

@HamSwagwich

This is a result of the original design. Kbin, up until just before the peak traffic hit, was using boosts as upvotes and favorites/likes were just below the post/thread (where boost sits now). Lemmy does it the way it is now (likes = upvotes) so Ernest changed it to match Lemmy behavior. But just as he changed it, he hadn’t changed the calculation for reputation to match when the server nearly melted down and he has to spend all his time just trying to keep the site alive by himself.