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chris

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Mastodon: https://oldbytes.space/@confusedbunny

Yes, my Mastodon username mentions bunnies, yet the bunny avatar is on this profile, and the Lemming which might indicate Lemmy (this is Kbin, but I am subbed to Lemmy communities) is over there. Don't question.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #videogames #books #boardgames

Lemmy: https://feddit.uk/u/i_am_not_a_robot

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

chris,
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I realised some time back that my first name backwards made me sound like a knight. I've failed to utilise this in usernames except maybe once.

chris,
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Stuffed Fables, or The Adventures Of Robin Hood (not played the latter but I believe it's a similar adventure gamebook system)

chris,
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Chaos is a brilliant multiplayer turn-based strategy game.
Lemmings is the perfect puzzle game (also shameless plug for https://lemmings.world/c/lemmings)

chris,
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Deep Sea Adventure

chris,
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I strongly suspect it's a timezone bug in kbin. fedia.io is hosted in Germany (I think) which will be GMT+2, which would explain the two hours difference if it isn't converting back to GMT/UTC on the timestamps. Does this happen on kbin.social too? That would help determine if it's a kbin bug or just configuration on fedia.io.

Would a cat-toy laser pointer distract a pilot in broad daylight?

A few months ago I got into an argument on TikTok about this. Some guy posted a video where he pretended to shine a laser pointer at a plane during the day, along with his mugshot and a news story about getting arrested for it. It was clearly a joke/photoshopped because the news story said it happened at midnight....

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Is the pilot a cat?

chris,
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Child of Light https://musique.coeurdepirate.com/album/child-of-light

Monkey Island 2 https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/monkey-island-2-lechuck-s-revenge

Colonization (reminded of this by the above page!) https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/colonization

Wing Commander https://thefatmanandteamfat.bandcamp.com/album/wing-commander-i-complete-original-soundtrack-mt-32-archival-edition

Lemmings https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/album/lemmings

chris,
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That's interesting. Despite being on the dev branch, Fedia doesn't have this yet! @jerry maybe time for another update? 😉

chris,
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All my links appear to have been rewritten there - if you need to copy/paste try these:

[email protected]

@[email protected]
chris,
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Takahē are going to try implementing it too, once Bluesky are ready to federate.

chris,
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I think they just get marked as deleted, and what is supposed to happen is that the deleted comment gets picked up through federation and the destination server should delete their local copy. Sounds like that isn't happening between Lemmy and Mastodon.

chris,
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There's some I haven't used, but Kbin will do Mastodon-style microblogging and Lemmy-style threads, so that's the best of both worlds. I don't think the private messaging function works on it yet though.

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.

chris,
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I like this. It makes sense.

If Lemmy.world doesn't defederate from Threads, Meta and all things Zuck within 24 hours, I will shut down my subs and leave.

I didn’t come to a new service just to see it get taken over by the corporate beasts who ruined the internet in general, and I am sure as hell am not going to use an instance that doesn’t care about its users....

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I think the point was that we don't need to use the sketchy service.

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I find it useful. I follow my Kbin account from Mastodon, anything I boost I then see there - and can boost it to Mastodon easily.

If people followed my Kbin account and I used it as my main for everything, then boost would be useful without the double boosting.

chris,
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I think that would be annoying!

chris,
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You don't really need to, as everything you can do on Mastodon you can do on Kbin - and more.

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Oh dear, he's back to his old ways of hyping things 😕

chris,
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He only got back into it because Commodore mixed his company up with another that had a similar name.

chris,
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"Bot account" identifies the account as being controlled by robots.
"Show bot accounts" says that you want to see those accounts run by robots.

chris,
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To prove you're not a robot, click on all the pictures of robots.

chris,
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Companies can host Mastodon (or Lemmy or whatever) on their own domain. That way they have control over the instance and it implicitly verifies their account as official. Raspberry Pi already do this (raspberrypi.social).

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Keyflower is one of my favourite games!
Lords of Waterdeep is a good pure worker placement.

chris,
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Friendica, apparently. I've never used it.

chris,
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You can interact on both platforms using one account, but the best experience is to have an account on each - Lemmy communities don't work very well on Mastodon, and Mastodon users can't be followed from Lemmy. Kbin is the middle ground which can do both.

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Not yet, but there are a couple coming, eg. https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp

chris,
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Another "Brexit benefit"!

chris,
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feddit.uk is an active one, if you don't have any luck at the café.

chris,
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Go to the settings cog, and toggle the media preview on (or compare the pane in both browsers to see what is different)

chris,
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I assume you didn't specifically mention me with the fedia.io domain... yet here I am. So that appears to be a bug as Kbin notified me.

chris,
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Yeah, there's a bug there then. The georgie you mentioned came through with no domain at all, probably because there's no @georgie
I've raised a bug report: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/597

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The last bit is not strictly true - if you delete a post/comment it will federate the deletion so it will (should) delete everywhere. Any hosts which are off-line or later defederated might still keep a copy of it though, or a user client may have it cached. "Be careful with what you write" is always good advice regardless!

Pamasich, to kbinMeta
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How does following people on kbin work? Do I get shown their activity somewhere? Only boosts or other stuff too? And where?

Does following mastodon or lemmy users work from kbin?

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In theory, anybody you follow you should see their new threads in Threads on the Subscribed view, and their new microblog posts in the Subscribed/Microblogs view. I am not convinced it actually works for Threads - and it may not work for microblogs either.

Certainly following Mastodon users shows their posts under Subs/Microblogs.

Following Lemmy users should show their posts in the Threads view (as above, not sure if this works).

Boosts should show up as a new post "boosted by" in either Threads or Microblogs depending on what it originally was - but this appears to be unimplemented.

stillnotahero, to kbinMeta

Can someone please remind me how to open a Lemmy community in kbin? Maybe this is a bigger issue on mobile.

If I open a federated community I see this in kbin : https://imgur.com/a/oFQnMqj

And if I click the link to ‘Browse more on the original instance’ I’m brought to this screen : https://imgur.com/a/uNCvirP

And there is no option to subscribe without creating an account on that instance.

I think I might have read you need to search with a specific phrase but I can’t find where I saw that.

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That's the correct one, just hit subscribe. The comments won't match as it only counts the ones after somebody first subscribed from your instance (I think). Either way, due to federation the numbers quite often are different, it's best to use them as a guide only. The numbers on the home instance's community should be the correct ones.

Xepp, (edited ) to RedditMigration

Trying to migrate to kbin, but have several small questions after using it for some minutes now.
Can anyone please expain how to ask simple questions within this magazine, like:

How can I ask questions here without posting a new link, photo, article or video?

Questions like:

  • How can I add magazines to my favourites?
  • How can I search a specific magazine (like RedditMigration for those quesions I have...)?

Finally:

  • Is there a more extensive user guide than kbin's user guide on Github?

chris,
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New article is the correct way to post a general new thread.

chris,
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Actually it's "Add new thread", this must have changed very recently.

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@feditips can you help? https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/106956

MerylasFalguard, to kbinMeta
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Sorry for the dumb question, but how do you add an avatar/profile pic in kbin? I haven't been able to find a spot to add one, but it looks like there clearly is a way to since so many people have them. I've searched all through the settings and just... can't find the spot to do it.

chris,
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Click on your username on the top right, select Settings, click on the Profile option in the banner, scroll down.

chris,
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Tried twice, got stuck on the chess notation each time, even though I thought the move I was putting in was pretty good, it obviously wasn't the best.

dandan, to kbinMeta
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Does anyone know of a way to see posts/comments made by people you follow?

chris,
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For posts, you just need to go to subs and then microblog. Unless you mean threads, in which case I think they will show up on the main subs view (although I haven't tested this). Comments I don't think show up in subs - it only shows threads. If you go to their profile you can see them though. Maybe a feature request to add a Comments section to the top header?

chris,
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So you can see what they post and boost! It's possibly more for following Mastodon accounts, so you'll see these in the microblog. Following kbin users from Mastodon works well too, you'll see all threads, posts and comments.

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