ghostatnoon

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

When people go to Mastodon, Kbin, Lemmy, Firefish, Misskey, etc., they do so knowing they're going to the fediverse. When people go to Threads, most do so because they have an Instagram account.

This is my main concern.

Personally, I don't care if the fediverse grows. I just care what it grows into. The fediverse has a nice community at the moment because everybody on it made a conscious decision to be here and not somewhere else. Threads users will not have made that decision. Furthermore, they'll outnumber the rest of us enough as to have no incentive to try and fit into the preexisting community here (which isn't helped by the fact that they've already been their own isolated community for awhile).

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

Is the microblog tab actually that important to most people, that the instance could become dependent on Threads for dominating it?

I don't think it could put the entire instance in jeopardy, but personally I think the microblog tab has a lot of potential (there have already been strides to incorporate it more), and I'd feel a lot less positive about its possibilities if it were full of content from Threads.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

And in fact people who who want to interact with the 140million ish Threads users currently have one option - join Threads. With federation I can communicate with Threads users without joining Threads.

What if the defederation happens in the other direction? Defederating an instance is a lot like banning a user, and I'm not sure if there are any mainstream social media sites that I haven't heard abuse their ban system. If other instances start becoming more popular because people want to use them to talk to Threads, that gives Threads a lot of power over which of those instances are allowed to thrive. In the worst case scenario, it could easily kill an instance if too many of their users were there for Threads and Threads decides to cut them off.

A fediverse that is popular because it can talk to a centralized app doesn't sound like a particularly healthy fediverse to me.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

I second all the suggestions except the currently reading/online one: in my experience, seeing "currently reading" statistics just makes dead places feel more dead. It's also not a useful statistic: it doesn't tell you how good a post is, or provide any information about the poster, or even show how popular it is (because you can't really extrapolate about the average engagement from only one datapoint). You can't do anything with the number.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

Yes, you do.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

Currently getting an error trying to block @news_us_politics via the magazines page.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

Now @politics.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

@uspolitics. I'm half suspecting the error might be related to how many requests I've already made to block things recently, since I was having no issues going through the first couple of pages and blocking about half the magazines on them and now suddenly am encountering a bunch of errors? But I have no actual evidence for that.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

Successfully blocked the second two magazines about two minutes after this post but @news_us_politics is still giving me errors. It doesn't seem to be particularly consistent.

ghostatnoon, 6 months ago

You can also connect to non-kbin sites, including Lemmy and Mastodon! They all use the same protocol to be able to talk to each other.

ghostatnoon, 7 months ago

Good to know that microblog posts show up on lemmy, although it's a bit awkward that (if I'm seeing that correctly) they show up as regular threads there. I might mention them in a thread that's not as closely directed to them instead. Thanks for the reply. :)

ghostatnoon, 7 months ago

It's usually easier to search via external sites (https://lemmyverse.net/ and https://browse.feddit.de/ are the ones I've been using). You'll still have to manually copy over the magazine name in order to subscribe for it, but you'll get a wider variety of results without having to go to each instance individually.

ghostatnoon, 7 months ago

The Kbin Usability Pack userscript adds a bookmark feature: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469597-kbin-usability-pack

ghostatnoon, 9 months ago

I've been doing similar; been using Firefox, but Chrome is installed for its browser-wide automatic captioning. Not something I need often, but I rely on it for the occasional remote meeting here and there. I'm sure free automatic captioning applications exist for my operating system, but I'd have to actually test each one to see if they actually work, and it's just been so convenient keeping Google's around.

(Speaking of which, if anybody happens to have recommendations for free automatic captioning software that works on Ubuntu, I seem to be in the market...)

ghostatnoon, 10 months ago

I haven't gotten far enough in my joja run yet to have actually bought the membership (I'm trying to finish a couple of the community bundles) but 1) it's a whole possible path in the game, I have to play it at least once, and 2) autopetters

ghostatnoon, 10 months ago

I'm somewhere around year 8 on my community center save and still haven't found a single autopetter. Apparently I'd need to spend significantly more time in the caverns to get just one autopetter than I had to spend in them to complete the entirety of the perfection tracker. I'm looking forward to being able to buy some from joja.

ghostatnoon, 10 months ago

I'm planning on trying for three autopetters on that save at some point (one for each of my farm buildings) but we'll see how long it takes to get those...

ghostatnoon, 10 months ago

If I had a lemmy account I'd help out! It looks good so far.

ghostatnoon, 10 months ago

I'm sorry but I don't know what that emoticon means lol