/kbin has been getting some great updates lately (e.g., improved magazine search, translation improvements, backend stuff that I'm too stupid to understand). But this all has me wondering: when might we see a list of subscribed magazines?...
I am working on Russian translation of Kbin right now and I noticeed that many of Kbin terminology just sounds.. Like a bad translation (Maybe from Polish it was originally written on?..), and I am sure many of you can agree with me...
Changing magazine to community is fine (though I don't really mind magazine).
I think thread should stay as is. Feels much more distinct than post, which could more easily refer to both threads & microblogs.
Link should stay. Makes it very clear what it does.
Post should definitely be changed, but I don't get why it can't just be microblog instead of blog. Makes it immediately clear what it's for since there's a microblogs tab in the header.
Commented is fine. Again, much more clear about what it means.
Badges don't really do anything yet tmk, so I'd hold off on renaming them.
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It's federated with Lemmy, yea, but it has a completely different layout with different features. I can straight up browse and interact with Mastodon from /kbin thanks to its microblog support, but you obviously wouldn't say /kbin is included in Mastodon. I think that the same goes for Lemmy.
Also, /kbin doesn't get a mention but beehaw (a Lemmy instance) does?
I think that this is just for r/place (and even then it's still scummy), but if the Reddit executives have shown us anything, it's that they don't act according to rational thought. I could easily see them keeping this pixel icon as the default, no matter how stupid that might be. Or they might keep coming up with things to make new icons for so you always have to pay if you just want the default original.
Reddit seems to be fully aware what users are likely to do in the current climate. Do they think people who aren’t angry will be louder than everyone else, do they have a plan for protests, or are they just letting the chips fall?
They'd probably just remove that (and would have a good argument for doing so). I suggest either not giving it traffic or drawing links to Reddit alternatives.
Florida's my favorite. The colors are nice (especially that light orange), and I tend to like simpler flag designs more.
The color choice for Pennsylvania seems a bit odd. I don't think red really fits Pennsylvania, though that's very subjective. Yellow, green, & blue (like on the keystone flag) feel more fitting. I myself used yellow & blue for my redesign (which I haven't posted here yet).
I'm not a huge fan of the encircled detailed logo motif that Montana and Minnesota have, but the color choice on those is really nice. I love the magenta on Minnesota's flag!
I'd def be on board with this! More consistent dispenser behavior would help a lot to make redstone easier to use and open the door to a lot of possibilities. I wonder if you could do some sort of 3D printing with dispensers and concrete powder.
The yellow symbolizes goldenrod, Kentucky's state flower. The green, which has a slight blue tint, represents Kentucky being the Bluegrass State.
I wanted to symbolize "United We Stand" without just putting the motto on there, and I settled on a simple saltire. I view the two crossing lines as evoking unity. Even if it's quite the stretch, I think it looks great.
The checkered pattern comes from the checkered "finish" flag and represents the Kentucky Derby.
This seems like the dumbest decision imaginable. Users are flocking to alternatives, many of those who haven't don't trust you, and you're trying to become profitable … so you delete the stuff people paid for without any sort of replacement. What a genius ideaǃ Making the platform less unique and giving the middle finger to the people who give you money in one go!
There's no way a human adult is running this company. It has to be a council of toddlers run by a keyboard-smashing orangutan. At this point, they might as well start encouraging bots and karma farming. Maybe even pay people to do it!
Artemis might use a swipe gesture to visually hint at the relation between upvoting and boosting, as shown in the main animation. Here's a static app mockup with both swipe levels displayed. I'd also imagine that there should be a setting that auto-upvotes posts when boosting.
This looks really cool, but it depicts the boost as a super upvote when that's not what it is. Boosting is like retweeting—sharing something for those that look at your profile. Right now, this is pretty limited—boosted content is in a separate tab on your profile, and you can view some of the stuff someone boosted if you look at their profile from Mastodon—but I don't think it makes sense to pretend the boost is something it isn't, especially if the feature gets improved in the future. Changing the symbol to something more retweet-esque would help a lot.
As far as I know, it really is primarily a share button. While it does give people 2 reputation points (which I don't think people should be caring about), the main purpose of the boost is to be a retweet button, not a super upvote. That's probably why it's set aside on the UI, and it's probably why it has the same name as Mastodon's retweet equivalent. This visual you have looks cool, but I think it changes the UI from unclear to misleading.
I don't think it needs anything super flashy. In the userstyle I made, I made the boost button change color when clicked. Looks much nicer than the underline we currently have.
The potion of rebounding is a new portion that requires an echo shard to brew; this is unique from the other potion types as to observe it's effects you'll have to wait for the effect duration to end....
This is a pretty cool idea! I could see myself using a potion like this while mining or exploring structures, and I imagine this would be very helpful in survival mapmaking.
I don't think echo shards should be the material though. As cool as this effect is, as long as echo shards are rare and nonrenewable, I'm not gonna use them on this potion. This effect should be much more accessible imo.
Rebounding on demand with milk is a really clever interaction, though it might end up being a bit powerful depending on how long it lasts. I'd say the standard 3 minutes (8 if extended) would work. Also, I assume drinking the potion again would create a new save point instead of extending the duration of the current one. Otherwise, that might be a bit OP.
Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on...
It amazes me that people are still insisting on using this platform like everything's fine.
From what I've heard, a bunch of Twitter users have been flocking (pun not intended) to Mastodon. Glad to see that more people are finally ditching Elon Musk's circus show.
Of course, this is a very fair point. Ideally, people would be willing to leave Twitter to join the artists, authors, etc. they follow. But unfortunately, many just won't care enough about Elon's buffoonery to ditch the convenience that Twitter provides.
However, I think there's a middleground between staying on Twitter and moving all operations to Mastodon. People could establish a profile on Mastodon for the people that do care so that those people can move knowing that they'll still be able to see their favorite artists. Unfortunately, I imagine this is more difficult to do with Elon's ban on links to alternatives (unless that's been reversed at some point).
Dark or light. #iOS or #Android. You’ll get theming options to personalize your #Threadiverse experience with #ArtemisApp! Shout out to our designer @lvndr!
Reddit has already showed how much it cares about its users. We've tried going private, we've tried going restricted, we've tried going NSFW, we've tried spamming John Oliver posts, we've tried asking nicely in open letters, and Reddit has consistently given its community the middle finger in every single situation. And now that we've seen the admins change rules, remove mods, ban users, and break privacy laws, the plan is to just do the exact same thing they did before in the hopes that it'll work this time?
If a blackout on the platform was going to get Reddit to change its mind, that would've happened already. The time to induce change was two weeks ago, when the protests had lots of momentum. But it didn't work, and trying to make another stand now is going to be even less effective.
I still think that the best move is to leave Reddit for alternatives like /kbin, Lemmy, and Squabbles. Thankfully, some of the comments on the /r/ModCoord announcement are also saying this. Instead of desperately trying to cling to a platform that doesn't care about you, go somewhere else.
I think there is something to lose though. Aside from being a waste of time, it's a waste of user goodwill. We've already seen how momentum for this stuff wanes over time. If you wait too long before starting the migration process, people just won't be interested. Obviously, it's a gradual thing, but many moderators don't seem to have even started trying.
Which do you think is going to be more effective:
Spamming your sub with John Oliver shitposts, going private occasionally whenever /r/ModCoord says so, and then making plans to migrate when interest has gone down and people have returned to the status quo
I agree: migrating a community is really challenging. I'm a subreddit moderator myself, and when we were initially discussing this stuff, there was a lot of doubt because of how daunting the task is. Mods from other subs see the challenges as reason to not even try. However, I think it's important that people at least make the attempt given the current state of Reddit.
Something that I think people should keep in mind is that this stuff is gradual and doesn't have to happen all at once, especially since the alternatives aren't fully polished yet. Even just establishing a small, active community outside of Reddit (like people have been doing with all these fediverse communities) is a big win.
Some of the best things we can do right now are
providing feedback and suggestions for alternatives
making sure alternatives are approachable (/m/quickstart is great)
simply being active and providing stuff to do here
"Favorites" are actually upvotes on /kbin. However, if you click the menu icon at the top of the page (to the left of your username), you can view posts that you've "favorited" (upvoted).
Alternatively, you could boost a post and then go to the boosts section on your profile page.
I don't think kbin needs a mascot, but if it gets one, this should be it! I really like the design on the left, though I would try adding the white reflection from the one on the right.
A ton of moderators have been making changes to their subreddits' rules (e.g., only allowing certain posts, going NSFW, loosening rules a ton) to protest without getting kicked out. Do you think this strategy of turning a subreddit into shitposts is effective or not?...
While I understand that many moderators want to continue the protest, I just don't think this strategy works. It gets news attention, yes, but as I've mentioned, I imagine it generates plenty of ad revenue for Reddit through the increased activity from everyone wanting to check it out. I don't think Reddit minds all that much—it's not like they mind the press from removing moderators.
Instead, I'd rather see moderators use their position to urge people off Reddit and advertise alternatives like kbin, lemmy, & squabbles. Better yet, they could start making plans to make communities there (like how r/blind has established its own lemmy instance).
The individual users should just be leaving, like (presumably most of) the people in this magazine have done. Moderators don't need to shut down subreddits for people to stop support inconsiderate companies.
Regarding the "what else can they do", I think they should be advertising alternatives and telling people to leave the platform if they still want to boycott. This John Oliver stuff is fun and entertaining, but symbolic protest doesn't really help all that much (especially it's getting more people on the platform you're trying to protest).
This is a fair point. These forms of protest do get people to notice that there's something happening when they wouldn't have otherwise, and I can see the benefit there.
However, I don't think this is necessarily translating to more movement out of Reddit than there is into it. On one hand, some of the people already against the change are being pushed to leave Reddit by the Reddit admins' handling of these symbolic protests. On the other hand, many of the people protesting are sticking around and viewing all the entertaining shitposts, and the news attention seems like it would bring people who weren't on Reddit anyway to come over and check out what's going on. As far as Reddit users who don't care about the changes go, they seem to be more upset at the moderators doing this and are thus going to other subs.
TL;DR: I think these protests are stirring more "this is funny" and "these moderators suck" than "I want to leave Reddit".
It could help in the long term, but I think we'll more likely see Reddit admins or annoyed users get mods to fold. For the time being, I'd like to at least see more subreddits sharing alternatives and pushing protestors to just leave the platform. Some are, which is nice, but many are opting for these funny yet ineffective methods without actually trying to push users to leave.
Sweet. It's good to see that the protests are getting some people off Reddit who wouldn't be otherwise, but I still don't think this is the most effective way to do things. Many of the people upset with these changes are riled up in the "haha funny shitpost" movement and are staying on the platform when moderators could instead be encouraging them to leave. I think this would be more effective at getting migration while also not giving Reddit all the extra activity and ad revenue.
When will a subscriptions list get added? (kbin.social)
/kbin has been getting some great updates lately (e.g., improved magazine search, translation improvements, backend stuff that I'm too stupid to understand). But this all has me wondering: when might we see a list of subscribed magazines?...
Many of Kbin terms dont make sense.. Why not replace them? (kbin.social)
I am working on Russian translation of Kbin right now and I noticeed that many of Kbin terminology just sounds.. Like a bad translation (Maybe from Polish it was originally written on?..), and I am sure many of you can agree with me...
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Yet another article about Reddit vs. Lemmy vs. others: "Discussing Three Reddit Alternatives After Reddit's API Decisions" (kbin.social)
https://hackernoon.com/discussing-three-reddit-alternatives-after-reddits-api-decisions
Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now (www.theverge.com)
The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall....
Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time (www.theverge.com)
Reddit seems to be fully aware what users are likely to do in the current climate. Do they think people who aren’t angry will be louder than everyone else, do they have a plan for protests, or are they just letting the chips fall?
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Dispensers "use" any item, if possible (kbin.social)
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Twitter changed DM settings so users who don't pay for Twitter Blue can't message you (mashable.com)
Elon Musk just turned your DMs into an ad for Twitter Blue. But you can change it back. Here's how.
Artemis now has full picture view mode and link preview in the home page! (lemmy.film)
Also the compact mode is now back to being actually compact.
A redesign I made of Kentucky's state flag! (media.kbin.social)
Sort by newest sends me to an error page in this magazine (kbin.social)
It's only here in /m/kbinMeta. Everywhere else seems to work fine, but here I can't sort by new.
Reddit kills awards and coins (old.reddit.com)
A few pixel art icons I made for fun (media.kbin.social)
A UI idea on how to merge boosting with up/downvote buttons into one unified voting system in a visual way (kbin.social)
Artemis might use a swipe gesture to visually hint at the relation between upvoting and boosting, as shown in the main animation. Here's a static app mockup with both swipe levels displayed. I'd also imagine that there should be a setting that auto-upvotes posts when boosting.
Tf happened to lemmy.world? (kbin.social)
Went there and got some… less than savory images. Do not recommend going there....
About to start rolling out wave 2 of Artemis beta 👀 (kbin.social)
LET'S GO
"Boost" needs a visual rework on kbin (kbin.social)
It is the most unsatisfying feature on kbin....
Artemis Logo v2! Added a bit of ... Thickness. Enjoy! (media.kbin.social)
Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)
Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
Pixel Art Versions of the Artemis App Icon (media.kbin.social)
"Babalisa", my first pixel art character (i.imgur.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1184815...
Potion of rebounding, a new use for echo shards (kbin.social)
The potion of rebounding is a new portion that requires an echo shard to brew; this is unique from the other potion types as to observe it's effects you'll have to wait for the effect duration to end....
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The Magmapod - Molten Mollusc (kbin.social)
A while back, I made a few mobs and then drew them in the mob vote style. Here's one of them!...
It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. (sfba.social)
Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on...
Showing off some of the themes for Artemis (coming soon) (tech.lgbt)
Dark or light. #iOS or #Android. You’ll get theming options to personalize your #Threadiverse experience with #ArtemisApp! Shout out to our designer @lvndr!
Craftable Trims - Steel & Shard! (kbin.social)
Introduction...
Rules (kbin.social)
1 | Be nice and constructive....
Call to action - renewed protests starting on July 1st (www.reddit.com)
The latest from /r/ModCoord.
A guide to kbin.social (kbin.social)
Welcome to kbin.social!...
PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote (kbin.social)
Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don't know...)...
Here's my final idea for a Kbin mascot, I call it the "Kbird" (K = Kakatuá), since someone shared a Fediverse flag resembling a pirate flag I thought a bird mascot would fit. (media.kbin.social)
What do you think of subreddits protesting with rule changes (e.g., only allowing John Oliver)? (kbin.social)
A ton of moderators have been making changes to their subreddits' rules (e.g., only allowing certain posts, going NSFW, loosening rules a ton) to protest without getting kicked out. Do you think this strategy of turning a subreddit into shitposts is effective or not?...