So most of us "old timers" now have been on kbin for almost a month (or more), and kbin has been around for longer. And.... we've started to have an issue and I'm not sure if y'all have noticed: early on some people went around to claim some magazines either with the intent to pass it off later, or simply to squat and ideally...
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.
I heard that votes have been changed to behave closer to how people would expect, and boost is staying here as well. So I had an idea how to bring it all together in the interface....
"And it's important to note that the reason those firms (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) were allowed to grow as large as they have, the reason that state regulators turned such a blind eye, is because states view those firms as potential deputies for their own exercises of power."
They certainly work like deputies whenever an authoritarian pops up.
I was looking at a comment I left earlier today (several hours earlier) and realized I made a typo, and went to edit it. I'm used to Reddit putting a little asterisk next to the comment's timestamp to indicate that it was edited, but I'm not seeing anything like this on Kbin. Is this something that's tracked somewhere for users...
It's definitely tracked, I've taken a look at some of my comments on Lemmy and it has an indicator if I edited them. I think kbin just doesn't have the UI for it yet, but hopefully it can be added.
yo idk if this is the right place to put this, so sorry if it's not. Iv been really trying to figure this place out and honestly it feels like they made things overly complicated. I understand the magazines and the federated stuff I guess, maybe. But what the hell is the difference between posts and threads. Also I have noticed...
As far as I understand, to see the posts you need at least someone from your instance to subscribe to a given community, and only after that you'll see new posts going forward (fediverse pushes content to other instances instead of pulling all the content on request). And you won't see any pre-subscription posts anyway, since it's apparently a lot like actual irl magazine subscriptions — you only get the new stuff once you subscribe.
So, subscribe and wait for a day or two, and you should see new posts appear in your feed.
Hey, a month ago I would have simply pressde the button and not thought too much about it. Now the situation looks completely different. I have bookmarked all the discussions I came across, and next week I will read every single post to have a complete picture. I owe you that.
However, we need to think about additional privacy features, as priorities have drastically changed in recent weeks, and I will have to carefully consider that. Now that I have dealt with infrastructure issues, I will focus on the most important matters.
While I absolutely appreciate the commitment, you do not owe us that. You don't owe us anything really.
If you want to have a discussion, I suggest maybe you could make a thread where it's discussed officially, rather than you having to go through everything that has been written all over the place. We owe that to you. :)
This would also make stuff integrate better with Mastodon, which leans heavily on hashtags.
As for technical hurdles, it could work exactly like kbin already handles tagging people in threads (when enabled). It could automatically populate the tags from the magazine when a post is created, allowing the user to delete them (and maybe reminding them to add more) before posting.
With kbin and various Lemmy instances having multiples of the same magazine/sub, wouldn't it be nice if we could bundle individual ones together to see them all consolidated?...
Federation makes that a challenge, but I do think having some addition to the protocol that allows like-minded or similar communities to group together and share material would go a long way towards people's concerns on being on the "right" instance, and aid in cases where one instance disappears. Such grouping could be moderated and federated just like the instances are, so if one group only wants particular things shared or pulled they could control that too.
I have no idea what effect such a thing would have on the federated infrastructure.
Don't overlook the changes required for electronics that are able to operate in space. Since there'd be no atmospheric sheilding from radiation, the amount of additional silicon for error correction used per unit of compute is much higher. The capacity for cooling is also much lower on the moon, you'd essentially have to slap huge heatsinks on every component since you basically rely on radiation for heat dissipation. You'll also constantly be fighting with the fact that every electrically conductive trace serves as an antenna, so the trace length vs component density for heat dissipation is going to be a constant battle. Then there is the limited availability of power.
It all adds up to an entirely different class of device being able to be deployed in space. On earth we can just chuck high precision components around, throw swathes of power and cooling at it and call it a day. Rain and weather are a footnote compared to the design challenges space deployments represent.
Seizing/Claiming inactive magazines? (kbin.social)
So most of us "old timers" now have been on kbin for almost a month (or more), and kbin has been around for longer. And.... we've started to have an issue and I'm not sure if y'all have noticed: early on some people went around to claim some magazines either with the intent to pass it off later, or simply to squat and ideally...
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.
Assuming boost stays as some sort of a super-upvote/share combo alongside regular up/downvote buttons, here's a UI idea on how to merge it into one unified voting system. App animation + web block mockup (kbin.social)
I heard that votes have been changed to behave closer to how people would expect, and boost is staying here as well. So I had an idea how to bring it all together in the interface....
Let the Platforms Burn by Cory Doctorow (archive.ph)
The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires
Is there any indication for edited comments? (kbin.social)
I was looking at a comment I left earlier today (several hours earlier) and realized I made a typo, and went to edit it. I'm used to Reddit putting a little asterisk next to the comment's timestamp to indicate that it was edited, but I'm not seeing anything like this on Kbin. Is this something that's tracked somewhere for users...
Pixelfed is adding a Sign In with Mastodon option (media.kbin.social)
What is the difference between a post and thread? (kbin.social)
yo idk if this is the right place to put this, so sorry if it's not. Iv been really trying to figure this place out and honestly it feels like they made things overly complicated. I understand the magazines and the federated stuff I guess, maybe. But what the hell is the difference between posts and threads. Also I have noticed...
"Boost" needs a visual rework on kbin (kbin.social)
It is the most unsatisfying feature on kbin....
Are kbin upvotes/downvotes public? (kbin.social)
just wanted to ask this bc lemmy supposedly has public upvotes/downvotes and I don't know if kbin has it too
Why some community's appear empty in kbin while if you go to their instance they have posts? (kbin.social)
Why some community's appear empty in kbin while if you go to their instance they have posts?
Artemis Logo v2! Added a bit of ... Thickness. Enjoy! (media.kbin.social)
It’s been a wild week for the open social web (dev.to)
Could we get a different way of blowing up images? This is confusing. (media.kbin.social)
kbin should correct its "+18" label to be "18+" (kbin.social)
The first few times I saw "+18", I didn't even know what it meant because it was backwards and the threads weren't particularly NSFW.
Kbin.cafe on Blocking Meta's New Threads App (kbin.cafe)
For those who aren't aware, Kbin Cafe is a Kbin instance I run. Cross-posting our stance on Threads for visibility....
Can magazine tags be applied to all the content posted in that magazine? (kbin.social)
As far as I can tell, magazine tags are mainly used when searching for magazines, and maybe for determining related magazines....
Is there any kbin instance that is seriously considering defederating Meta/Threads? (kbin.social)
I've checked the fedipact signatories, but they all seem to be lemmy instances.
Multi-Magazine support (kbin.social)
With kbin and various Lemmy instances having multiples of the same magazine/sub, wouldn't it be nice if we could bundle individual ones together to see them all consolidated?...
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites 'leak' so much radiation that it's hurting radio astronomy, scientists say (www.space.com)
Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.