I've heard about this happening once before, though I'm a little fuzzy on the details. I think it had something to with the file getting misinterpreted as an image, and the person was using a userscript that automatically expanded images.
Diablo 4, Path of Exile, and the rest of the ARPG genre has competition in the mega-ambitious Last Epoch, built by its Reddit community and heading towards 1.0.
Sometimes when I upload a link it doesn't load properly, it happens no big deal, but then I can't delete these buggy posts and then I end up unintentionally spamming a bunch of duplicates as I try to post again...
Generally your posts will be successful despite the error, but they'll also end up buried in the default "hot" view. If you switch to "newest" you should see it. Upvoting your own post should make it show up correctly in hot. No idea about the deletion thing though.
I'm looking to add some variety to my kbin subscriptions, so I would like to know: what's your favorite magazine/instance or one you find yourself spending the most time on?
I was trying to support @Animemes when I first got here, but ran out of saved stuff a month ago, and the community is pretty quiet now. I even resubscribed to animemes on reddit recently, but they haven't posted anything worth stealing yet. ._.
There is a user who posted an irrelevant ad on a magazine I follow, so I clicked their profile to see if the rest of what they posted was spam too. It was. However, I didn’t find a report user option on their profile. Is there one anywhere? I know I can go through and report their individual posts, but I’d also like to flag...
This month, the largest update is planned. It's taking a long time because part of the team is returning from vacation, hence the delays. I hope that the update will resolve some of the most pressing issues. I'm also trying to remove spam systematically, but currently, the code is my priority. After implementing the new version, I will seriously address the community.
If there's anything urgent, currently contacting through the form is the quickest option. Cheers!
I'd been vaguely aware of campaigns by tax-prep companies to stop the IRS from offering its own tax-prep software. I was going over some of my old tax info today, and started to wonder if there were any open source tax-prep programs....
This is what really gets me about their brigading nonsense. The fediverse is very heavily leftist already. In large part they're attacking other leftists while claiming to be a "left unity" instance. -_-
They named reddit “stormfront”, to insinuate that for them, reddit is filled with nazis. Though maybe they meant stormfront.org, a place filled with actual nazis.
It's the former. The image with snoo and stormfront is their way of referring to reddit.
It's partly specific to the kbin software, and partly specific to kbin.social. The biggest problem is that the software doesn't currently support having more than one administrator account per instance.
The flagship instance, kbin.social, is administered by ernest, who is also the lead developer of the project. Working on the software seems to keep him plenty busy, to the point where he's not able to keep up with administrator tasks.
Since kbin.social was (I assume) not used by very many people before the reddit migration, almost all the older magazines are owned by ernest, and have no other moderators set. There's also a large number of magazines that were created during the migration, but have since been abandoned by their owners. Reassigning these is a task that currently only ernest can do.
And of course as the most populated instance, kbin.social is a more desirable target for spammers, compared to the other kbin instances.
I recently created an account on a new kbin instance. Is there an easy way to migrate my account to that new instance? I feel like this should be easy to find. As such I suspect that such doesn't exist yet, or I'm an idiot. Both are equally possible.
That means fuck ECOWAS as a tool of the oppressors also. Critical support for every coup in Africa, and for the rights of Africans to demand the French and US militaries leave their country....
That one had me wondering if it was someone parodying a bot. Given the rest of it though, they'd have to be way more dedicated to the bit than is realistic.
Anyway, back to discussions about chainsaws and related topics:
Freedom of movement is an important leftist ideal. If I invite someone into my home, sell them property, or offer them a job, the state should have no say in that.
It's universal among anarchists, to the point of being a litmus test. I had assumed it would be popular among other leftist factions as well, but I don't have any numbers or anything. Pretty sure it's more popular among left-liberals than moderate liberals as well, so that would point to it being more of a leftist ideal.
Blocking isn't working, can't view my notifcations, both get the weird error screen, is anyone at all still working on kbin, is anyone out there to assist in fixing these things?
Are you blocking the individual users, or the domain? I've heard that domain blocking is buggy, so try unblocking any domains and see if it helps. It also isn't supposed to block instances, just posts that link to the blocked domain.
I do not have the time, patience, or thick skin needed to be a moderator. I do have a community or two I’d like to create on Kbin and post to, though. Is it currently possible for this set of steps to happen?...
Kbin doesn't yet have the ability to transfer ownership of a magazine, so you would need to find a person to be the owner first, and have them create it.
Out of curiosity, what magazines are you looking to make?
Conservativism, in the sense of being cautious about change, is an important perspective to have. The problem is that a lot of people that call themselves conservatives are actually reactionaries.
That's a different (and imo less useful) definition of reactionary. Reactionaries in the sense that I'm talking about are those that want to return society to some previous (generally awful) status quo.
Mutualism is a good option. It's a free market, non-capitalist system. Unlike the various flavors of communism, it shouldn't be too alien to those that are used to capitalism.
In general rather than focusing on getting the government to spend money on welfare, we should be removing the elements of the system that transfer wealth from the working class to the capitalist class.
I think we have to consider that the principles of the free software movement, revolutionary though they genuinely were, were also set in the same mindset that latterly saw its founder Richard Stallman spectacularly fall from grace. They are principles that deal in software development and licensing in strict isolation, outside...
The goal of the copyleft movement (which overlaps heavily with the free software movement) is to carve out an intellectual commons that can't be re-enclosed. This commons is important for a number of reasons, including that it tends to be better for end-users of software in the sense that anti-features can't really gain a foothold. It does not automatically solve UX issues, nor does it stop people from using the knowledge of the commons to do bad things.
Much of the strength of the intellectual commons is that it builds on itself, instead of having to re-invent the same things in a dozen or more different proprietary endeavors. If we were to start a "peace software" movement, it would be incompatible with the commons, due to the restrictions it imposes. Peace software can't build on copyleft software, and none of the commons can build on peace software. These sorts of things were considered, and compatibility was deemed more important than pushing more specific values. This isn't a matter of the FSF or OSI standing in the way, it's just that "peace software" would have to go it alone.
Due to this dynamic, those that want to build "anticapitalist software" would be better served by using the GNU AGPL, rather than a license that restricts commercial use. The AGPL fixes the loophole that the GPL leaves open for network services, and should allow us to carve out a new noncommercial online ecosystem. It should even be used for non-network code, as that code may be repurposed or built upon by network services. I'm glad to see lemmy, kbin, and mastodon using it.
Pretty sure we're already defederated from grad. We don't have an instances page yet where we could check, but that's been merged into kbin's code and should be available next time the site gets a version update.
As others have mentioned, hexbear hasn't added us to their list of allowed instances yet. They block everyone by default. I'm definitely in favor of following lemmy.world's lead on this and preemptively defederating them, though.
Kbin does already block lemmygrad, and hexbear is basically just lemmygrad with a vaporwave theme and an even more annoying culture. I imagine this is just a question of when @ernest gets around to blocking them. That could potentially be a while though, so it's probably worth pestering him a bit on this particular issue.
I'm with Andrewism on the whole "left unity" thing. The left never was, never will be, and doesn't need to be unified. We can just collaborate (or not) with those of other political persuasions on a per-project basis.
The reason tankies push "left unity" is because they plan to be in charge of the unified left. Fuck that noise, we don't need it.
To be fair, they do have the one token anarchist that shows up whenever they brigade a community. Any anarchist that would willingly hang out with MLs seems pretty sus to me, though.
Sooooo you're both right. According to MLs, there must be a "transitional socialist state" to guide society to communism, which is supposed to be a stateless society with a gift economy instead of market economy.
Of course in practice they never get past the transitional phase. Anarchists often criticize these countries as being "state capitalist", in the sense that the state takes the place of the previous capitalist class, and continues the business of exploitation as usual.
No, it is in fact likening the person that you're insulting to someone with intellectual disabilities. Sorry goat, you don't have a leg to stand on in this one. Best to just not.
They defeated us in a proper shounen battle, so we're obligated to help (media.kbin.social)
/all keeps downloading some "master.m3u8" file (media.kbin.social)
Meet Diablo 4 and Path of Exile's biggest rival, an ARPG designed and built by Redditors (www.pcgamesn.com)
Diablo 4, Path of Exile, and the rest of the ARPG genre has competition in the mega-ambitious Last Epoch, built by its Reddit community and heading towards 1.0.
Meme moment when talking to my friend about her PC gaming rig (edit to force propagation) (media.kbin.social)
Can't delete bad posts (kbin.social)
Sometimes when I upload a link it doesn't load properly, it happens no big deal, but then I can't delete these buggy posts and then I end up unintentionally spamming a bunch of duplicates as I try to post again...
What's your favorite magazine so far while roaming around the fediverse? (kbin.social)
I'm looking to add some variety to my kbin subscriptions, so I would like to know: what's your favorite magazine/instance or one you find yourself spending the most time on?
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Is there a way to report an individual user?
There is a user who posted an irrelevant ad on a magazine I follow, so I clicked their profile to see if the rest of what they posted was spam too. It was. However, I didn’t find a report user option on their profile. Is there one anywhere? I know I can go through and report their individual posts, but I’d also like to flag...
Anyone used Open Tax Solver to do your taxes? (US) (opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net)
I'd been vaguely aware of campaigns by tax-prep companies to stop the IRS from offering its own tax-prep software. I was going over some of my old tax info today, and started to wonder if there were any open source tax-prep programs....
3000 Dangerous Spider-Tanks Of Allah (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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"why is everyone who immigrated from a communist country to the us a fucking chud?" -- "they moved for a reason. in their home country they (thankfully) cannot spread their reactionary beliefs there" (sh.itjust.works)
A mark of honor: We are as bad as literal nazis! (sh.itjust.works)
Or just reddit normies, I am as confused as to what they mean as they are....
Poor Tankie gets banned from a discord server for being hateful -- Proceeds to say "the kulaks deserved it", and also apparently being anti-authoritarian is not leftism. (sh.itjust.works)
are these periodic infuxes of bots (first porn, and now pharmaceuticals) a kbin-specific problem, or a wider fediverse issue? (kbin.social)
and is there anything we, kbin, or the wider fediverse can do to combat them?...
Migrating Kbin account to new instance (kbin.social)
I recently created an account on a new kbin instance. Is there an easy way to migrate my account to that new instance? I feel like this should be easy to find. As such I suspect that such doesn't exist yet, or I'm an idiot. Both are equally possible.
Fuck French Imperialism Rule (lemmy.tf)
That means fuck ECOWAS as a tool of the oppressors also. Critical support for every coup in Africa, and for the rights of Africans to demand the French and US militaries leave their country....
An old pic, but since Ukraine is about to get another bil from Uncle Sam... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The absolute state of NuReddit (lemmy.world)
Japanese newspaper Gigazine goes over the slow decline of technological freedom up to today. (archive.ph)
The original japanese article....
uwu [notices ur ammo dump] (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
They aren't bigots like MAGAts, they just want you dead, what's wrong with that? (feddit.nl)
feddit.nl/comment/2555047
Blocking not working for users of @hexbear.net (kbin.social)
Blocking isn't working, can't view my notifcations, both get the weird error screen, is anyone at all still working on kbin, is anyone out there to assist in fixing these things?
Can I create a magazine, then step down from a moderator position?
I do not have the time, patience, or thick skin needed to be a moderator. I do have a community or two I’d like to create on Kbin and post to, though. Is it currently possible for this set of steps to happen?...
"To show all the ideological diversity that Hexbear has I think everyone should have to do a polcomp test." -- To no one's surprise, there is no diversity. (hexbear.net)
Preacher learns that screeching into ears is a poor conversion tool (sh.itjust.works)
Really interesting thoughts on whether the creators of free software really want their users to be free (werd.io)
I think we have to consider that the principles of the free software movement, revolutionary though they genuinely were, were also set in the same mindset that latterly saw its founder Richard Stallman spectacularly fall from grace. They are principles that deal in software development and licensing in strict isolation, outside...
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When you're so deep into 'Left Unity' that pigs shitting on their own balls is a valuable asset that must be kept at any cost (kbin.social)
Hexbearian jerking themselves off about how valuable they are to the rest of the fediverse, suggests "performing a coup" (media.kbin.social)