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samwise

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Gay lurker whose part of the Reddit exodus. Mostly here for game news and anything rainbow! Might even have an opinion of my own every once in a while 😜

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openstreetmap, to random
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Happy 19th Birthday, OpenStreetMap!

skellener,
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Good! ✊

apemint,
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The entire story surrounding this discovery is a scientific rollercoaster ride, with rogue scientists, updated papers, plus cloudy definitions and process descriptions within the paper that make replication efforts more difficult, and even a Russian soil scientist (and anime catgirl) deconstructing the original Korean paper to unveil the trademark levitation of the Meissner effect over her own kitchen counter.

I can't believe they just dropped all this without any explanation. XD

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
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Ten years on Reddit and over a million karma and I stopped on July 1 and haven’t looked back. Kbin/the fediverse is so much better.

When I read stories about what they’re doing now it’s like watching my ex fuck up their life and it’s quite fun.

e569668,
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You might've already seen this, but just in case other people missed it since not everyone may follow ernest or check the microblog tab, he listed his current priorities here https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/p/1002621/Hi-in-this-and-probably-the-next-week-I-will so hopefully people won't have to deal with this too much longer 🤞

What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing? (www.theverge.com)

One of the weirder phenomena of the low interest rate era in tech was a tendency to see companies primarily as investments. The goal was not to have a functional business, but an exit, often via IPO or acquisition. I have begun to wonder if that explains what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been up to lately....

Chozo,

This has been my experience playing with the microblog section. Somebody please feel free to correct anything I'm wrong about here.

Do I follow mags? How?

The Lemmy magazines you subscribe to will also be subscribed as hashtags on the Mastodon side. So if you're subscribed to /m/technology, you'll see Lemmy threads in the magazine as you normally would, but you'll also see anything posted on Mastodon with the hashtag. From any user. So if I were to go onto a Mastodon server and post something with that hashtag, you should be able to then see it under the microblog section of the /m/technology magazine.

Do I follow people? How?

You can open any user's profile from the microblog as you would from a Lemmy thread. I believe that subscribing will put them into your Hot and All microblog feeds when viewing the microblog tab from the main page.

My feed includes all sorts of items not just who and what I follow. Why?

They're showing up because they posted something with a hashtag that matches a magazine you're subscribed to.

When I post, where does it go? Who can see it?

Your posts go to Kbin's own Mastodon server. This means that the people who will see it are Mastodon/Kbin users who have subscribed directly to your Kbin account, Mastodon/Kbin users who are viewing a hashtag mentioned in your post, or Kbin users browsing the All microblog feed around the time you post (I don't know if Mastodon users can view Kbin's local feed; there's probably a way but I have no idea how that part works). If you post to a magazine's microblog, this is as if you were to write a microblog post using that magazine as a hashtag (although it will be a "hidden" hashtag in the post).

and anything else because I don't know what I don't know.

I've not tested this out, myself, but I believe that if you write a microblog post to a magazine, such as /m/technology, then that "hidden" hashtag is still searchable by Mastodon users. Though I've not tested it.

Also, upvotes in the microblog section act as Favorites in Mastodon, and boosts are still called boosts in Mastodon, but are more of a "retweet" function. So boosting a post will appear to a Mastodon user as if you were retweeting their post. There does not appear to be any equivalent "quote retweet" function, as this was largely used for bullying on Twitter.

Also, some clarification on terms: On Kbin, "microblog" refers to the Mastodon element of the site, tweets/toots are referred to as "posts", whereas Lemmy threads are "threads". "Replies" are replies to microblog/Mastodon "posts", whereas "comments" are replies to "threads". Just in case you're browsing anybody's profile and are confused by the differentiation between these lists.

Graphy,

My grandma had a cockatoo that bit the shit out of just me all the time. It’s name was Oggy

TheOlympian,
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What about Bink?

It's both cute and an anagram of KBin.

Encryption With A Back Door Is NOT Encryption (ktetch.co.uk)

There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept...

lemonflavoured,
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There's an irony in the British government going on about this all the time, while at the same time fighting in court to prevent their WhatsApp messages being turned over to the Covind inquiry because of privacy concerns.

More generally, I think it's a symptom of governments not being at all as tech savvy as they like to think they are.

What I think kbin needs to do to survive, and why I think it has a better chance than any other Reddit alternative I've seen yet. (kbin.social)

I’m a Reddit refugee who was on that platform for 10+ years. I saw not just a tremendous amount of controversies, but attempts at introducing alternatives to Reddit during all of them. The 2015 blackout saw a ton of alternatives suggested, and if you go back and look at them many have either not survived or never achieved...

Rabbithole, (edited )

The truth is most internet communities which found and advertise themselves as an alternative to Reddit die.

To be honest, there were damn good reasons why Voat, etc, died in a massive fire. The Reddit exoduses in question were from huge chunks of the userbase effectively being kicked out for being massive bastards/racists/bigots, etc. The communities that they spawned after leaving were absolutely horrific and nobody else on the internet wanted to go anywhere near them.

The current exodus is made up of actually normal people (at least, normal enough), and the reason we're here isn't just because we're all joined by hatred (weeeelllll... maybe a hatred of u/Spez in a lot of cases, ha!), but because we're genuinely looking for a better forum-space than what's been available recently until now.

Sure, there are similarities, we're still here because we find corporate control over the forum-space to be "oppressive" (just what an incel/racist would say, right?), but it's not because our views aren't tolerated there, it's just because we're really fucking tired of the cost of having somewhere to actually discuss things is that we're endlessly sold as a product, followed by our discussion area being destroyed by corporate greed. Over and over again.

The reasons why this place is getting busy is fundamentally different than the reason why the previous migrations created places like Voat or Parler, etc. We're already in a massively better position due to that alone.

Eventually, we need to get to the place where we’re creating unique meme formats

I agree with what you're saying in general, but I really hope that all of the interesting discussion here doesn't eventually get buried by memes like back on Reddit. Memes can be fun and all, but sorting a lot of otherwise really great niche-subs by top of all time back there was often a case of finding nothing of value at all because there were 50 pages of fucking memes at the top of the list. Personal preference, of course.

Chinook,

Very new to kbin, and the fediverse in general - and I genuinely wondered if this was an appreciation post for Ernest P. Worrell. I'm disappointed but now I am educated about this other Ernest! :)

BlondieBuff,

A lot of people on kbin are here because we don't support reddit anymore, and we are especially displeased with spez holding decades-worth of accumulated knowledge and content for ransom.
Even if they're questions which could be easily found on reddit or with a Google search, I think it's a good idea to ask them here (and on other instances) anyway. It will give those who are boycotting reddit a new space to search for answers, it will foster more content creation on kbin, and it will decentralise the combined niche knowledge and expertise of all netizens, so that it is less likely to be lost or held hostage again.

I think it's also a good starting point for anyone who is usually a lurker, but would like to create quality content here to promote community growth. Ask a question you could easily search (or maybe one you already know the answer to?)
We can come together as a community to ask and answer those questions, rather than each user trying to single-handedly create valuable content from scratch, which is much more daunting.

HidingCat,

It counts boosts but not favouroites (favourites in activitypub are treated as upvotes). A change will be coming at some point to fix this.

ernest,
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Hey, it's not finished completely yet (the timeline table), but I decided to do a quick fix. It's quite annoying ;)

yesdogishere, (edited )

we need population control. a good way is to let people enjoy life fast, work harder, and pass away earlier. hence, processed food, stressful lives, high mortgages etc etc all create a good and compliant workforce. the billionaires need u guys to work for them.

DarkGamer,
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@sinnerman That article is much better, thanks for sharing it! I'd never thought of ultraprocessing as predigestion before.

For a time, Kevin Hall, a nutrition and metabolism scientist at the National Institutes of Health, was also skeptical that ultra-processed foods were harmful.

To test the idea, he designed a study that compared what happened when men and women were recruited to live in a lab and fed different diets. In one phase of the study, the participants ate mostly ultra-processed foods for two weeks. Their daily meals consisted of things like honey nut oat cereal, flavored yogurt, blueberry muffins, canned ravioli, steak strips, mashed potatoes from a packet, baked potato chips, goldfish crackers, diet lemonade and low-fat chocolate milk.

In a second phase of the study, the participants were fed a diet of mostly homemade, unprocessed foods for two weeks that was matched for nutrients like salt, sugar, fat, and fiber. Their meals consisted of foods such as Greek yogurt with walnuts and fruit, spinach salad with grilled chicken, apple slices, bulgur and fresh vinaigrette, and beef tender roast with rice pilaf, steamed vegetables, balsamic vinaigrette, pecans and orange slices.

In both cases, the participants were allowed to eat as much or as little of the foods and snacks as they wanted.

“If it was really about the nutrients — and not about the processing — then there shouldn’t be any major difference in calorie intake between these two diets,” said Hall. “I thought that was going to be the result of the study.”

But, he added, “I was hugely wrong.”

When people ate the ultra-processed diet, they consumed substantially more calories — about 500 more calories a day compared to when they ate the mostly unprocessed diet. The result: They gained weight and body fat.

The researchers also noticed a difference in how quickly the participants consumed their food. They ate the ultra-processed meals significantly faster, at a rate of about 50 calories per minute, compared to just 30 calories per minute on the unprocessed diet.

Fascinating.

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