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Sam_uk

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Chozo, (edited ) to fediverse

I feel like the reason , and the at large, aren't taking off has to do with the fact that they're actually social networks. People don't seem to want a social network, they want content platforms. People aren't using or or to keep up with their friends these days, they're using these apps to entertain themselves. And since and every other platform that used to be a social network began pivoting toward content promotion, I think society has forgotten what a social network is supposed to actually be anymore.

(E: Grammar.)

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@Chozo I wonder if this bodes well for Kbin/Lemmy? Arguably their model is more about content than social relationships.

NSFW content in the sidebar random posts (kbin.social)

Hi, I was just browsing kbin on my work pc which is not signed into my account. While scrolling down there was a very nsfw picture (female genitalia) in the random posts sidebar. This nsfw content was, for some reason, not even blurred. I've seen this a couple times previously and am not sure where a good place to report or...

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@mystphyre AFAIK this is a known issue that the developers have been looking at in the last few days. Hope to have a fix soon

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I'm curious why this recent trend isn't visible in Google Trends? I watched the November exodus unfold in real time there. This time not a glimmer of activity

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Looking for r/menslib equivalent, like mensrights without the toxicity (kbin.social)

Greetings, Kbinners (and anyone else from the 'verse who might be reading this). Back on the platform most of us migrated from, there was/is a subreddit called r/menslib, which was like r/mensrights minus the misogyny and shitting on marginalized groups and minorities. Those of you who subbed will remember it was a great place...

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@Redhotkurt it sounds like maybe you should create it?

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@Redhotkurt https://kbin.social/[email protected]

Sam_uk,
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@tedmustard you may be looking for https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

@realcaseyrollins

Sam_uk,
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@HandsHurtLoL Arguably you're not the magazine owner. The server admin is. That's kind of my point.

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@JonEFive Multi-magazines are certainly desirable and would to some extent mitigate the data loss caused by an individual server going dark.

I guess the larger issue is if your 'home' instance is the one that goes dark, taking your personal account with it. Maybe it's in fact user account portability that's most important to work on. Assuming that multi-magazines happen fairly soon.

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@JonEFive I do run an instance that's just for me https://fledd.it (configured as a news aggregator) it was easy on elest.io. $10/ month is too much for most people though. I don't think this is the route to mass adoption.

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@JonEFive I've been wondering about separating the ID/auth from the app. Someone recently got Keycloak working and that has some possibilities for federation. Not sure if that really helps though. You still have to trust the keycloak admins

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WebauthN maybe? Pretty niche right now, but the threadiverse is quite a techy crowd..

@JonEFive

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https://webauthn.guide/

https://webauthn.io/

@JonEFive

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@JonEFive I think the identity bit is the hard part, as you say most content will be federated/ cached in several locations for retrieval

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Have you read https://nexus.blacksky.network/zine/00000001/confederal-protocols similar themes that we're talking about here.

@JonEFive

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@poVoq yes this sounds sensible. I think the key is the user themselves having more control over their identity.

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@Cat Hmm that doesn't sound correct. Would you be willing to say where in the world you are and provide a screenshot of what you see please?

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@trynn Just looking again it does now seem to work on Kbin. I'll do a bit more testing and maybe edit the list if it works.

@Tygr

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@Tygr Thanks for the tip! Edited.

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@Chickenlambchops does the link work now?

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https://lemmy.world/c/til

@Tygr

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@Cat I wrote a bit more about it here: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/210618/kbin-world

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@LEDZeppelin you can't at the moment

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Yeah, I was thinking that too. I don't think I can do it automatically (yet) but if there was another big spike or kbin.social went down for some reason it could be manually switched to another instance.

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@pgetsos How about now?

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@Ori I'm making the US regional, I forgot to add in a default for areas outside of the covered regions. It should work again now.

Have you had any bad experiences with people on Kbin yet? Can we do better than Reddit culture? (lemmy.world)

However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died....

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@FaceDeer Do we? Or do we have lots of small groups in the same space?

It does seemthat Mastodon culture is different to Threadiverse culture. I'm OK with that, Mastodon is a little earnest for my tastes. It would be nice if we could keep the worst of Reddit out of here with robust moderation

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I wonder if we could/ should enforce moderation ratios in code? You need 1mod per 1k users for example. Your magazine is locked to new users until you add one.

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@rikudou I'd also run into this. I run a bot on Lemmy.world and had to unmark it as a bot before it could interact with my Kbin instance

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Ubuntu

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+1 yeah I should have said that

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The Fedifinder dev seems interested in adding this as a web service https://github.com/lucahammer/fedifinder/issues/236 is using kbin to authorise a third party app possible yet?

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@JoeClu I think the protocol gets a lot right. It's just a shame all the users are alt-right.

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Reminds me of this essay https://nexus.blacksky.network/zine/00000001/confederal-protocols I think Nostr get's much of that right.

@JoeClu

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@plisken Technically I like all this stuff.

These are not my people though, it's all shitcoin hype in the feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE&t=6s

@JoeClu

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@Blaze Thanks! I like this view: https://fledd.it/ but you can't sign up for that instance, so to emulate it you'd have to follow these magazines

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@dismalnow Sure, I didn't write it, but a couple of my feature requests have been implemented. Code & config

@dystop

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I found I had problems initially until I properly sorted out caching. Then I threw a few hundred visitors at it and it's been fine. $10 would be OK for small communities I think, but you're right in that big communities will need big servers.

What problems are you having with federation? The news here is posted from Lemmy.world into fledd.it, then federated back to kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

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It looks like you don't have caching on that site.

In the WebUI go: Security > Nginx config

Uncomment this section, editing the 600s section.

proxy_cache_valid any 600s;
add_header X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status;
proxy_cache my_cache_fledd.it;
proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control;
proxy_cache_methods GET HEAD;
proxy_cache_bypass $cookie_nocache $arg_nocache;
proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout updating http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;

Press the Update & Restart Nginx button. Pages should then load in ~2sec rather than ~4sec

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@ernest have you read this one?

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