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zu testzwecken > this is my favorite alt acc on the fedi

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JonathanMBR, to random
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I really don't understand Abiy Ahmed, he is unpredictable and doesn't have his own stand, FANO was helping his fight against TPLF and today he is fighting against FANO.
We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide In Ethiopia – OpEd – Eurasia Review
https://www.eurasiareview.com/19122023-were-still-breathing-amhara-genocide-in-ethiopia-oped/

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@JonathanMBR
it's the classical kautilyan way > see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra

kalayo, to random
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good morning. can we all take a nap

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@kalayo wot my upvote has not federated

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@ernest
bug report: replying to microblogging posts does not work

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@ThatOneKirbyMain2568

  1. microblog posts: rarely, but once in a while
  2. microblog replies: don't work atm, but i like it!
  3. microblog tab: depending on whether i have to micro-manage or not:
  • kbin's mod tools are buggy, e.g. an account banned from a magazine can still spam the microblogging section > mods better look inside the microblog tab ...
  • otherwise depending on my mood
  1. viewing microblog posts in my home feed: all the time - i like it even more on kbin than on specific microblogging fedi platforms tbh
  2. aggregated view is great! i keep boosting loads of microblog posts via kbin ✨
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@ThatOneKirbyMain2568
i hope so, too!

if mod tools worked better, the microblogging sections could become even more interesting in terms of content, and less of a hassle for moderators 🙏

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@palordrolap
oh, the rhymes are quirky, and filled with joy :)

Like many folks on aggregator sites, I'd create magazines / communities / sub-sites if I didn't mean I then had to manage and moderate them afterwards. (There are many things in life that fit this pattern.)

yes, creating a magazine is the easy part, whereas maintaining a magazine is a matter of discipline

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@ThatOneKirbyMain2568
thank you for your concise and systematic approach - i am very fond of your suggestions!

atm, kbin ui feels a bit cluttered, indeed > page navigation should be easier > is there any navigation tutorial btw?

A case for preemptively defederating with Threads (kbin.social)

With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...

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@ThatOneKirbyMain2568
given the sheer size of threads, most fedi platforms still lack well-developed moderation tools > this is a tough nut to crack, thus preemptive defederation is a must when it comes to threads

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@BiggestBulb
using kbin mostly on mobile devices, i am time and again surprised that kbin works kinda fine > e.g. kbin deals better with bad internet connections than any other fedi software i have come to know so far > given that kbin is still early beta, this is impressive

i think that we should be patient, and keep reporting bugs :)

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@ThatOneKirbyMain2568
defederate!

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@ThatOneKirbyMain2568
thank you!

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@DarkThoughts
yep
@ThatOneKirbyMain2568

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  1. tagging worked out as expected for articles :)
  2. i would like to know what keeps happening to tags placed in the #text #body of comments, so let's get lucky 👀
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i got lucky with my last comment: hashtags placed in the text body of comments do perfectly federate :)

ernest, to kbinMeta
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@testing Can you repeat your tests regarding tags between kbin and other instances? It should be significantly better ;)

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@ernest
thank you! tags from kbin do federate on microblogging fedi - kbin users should use the the tags section rather than the text body though

  1. i also had a look at friendica; sadly, friendica seems not to be capable to pick up tagged posts from kbin > see e.g. https://friendica.opensocial.space/search?tag=kbin > tried my luck at several friendica instances, and every time: no content from kbin
  2. tags in kbin threads do not display on kbin pwa, e.g. https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/692551 > on microblogging fedi platforms, i can see three tags: kbin, fediverse, and kbinDevlog for the magazine > with kbin pwa, neither kbin nor fediverse show up
geraineon, to random
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Saw a comment about hiding long posts under CW on other account... Maybe I'll do that moving forward too. But what is long, really? 🤔

(Something more than a paragraph?)

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@geraineon replying from kbin, i'd like to add that cw's from microblogging fedi are not being displayed on kbin at all

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@geraineon
just noticed that i can see more replies to your post than on sakurajima.social > also my upvote of your post seems to have not federated

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@geraineon
upvotes should be rendered as a star, i.e. upvotes are likes

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@geraineon
oh, now i got it: upvotes from kbin translate to hearts on your instance ❤️

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@geraineon
this seems to be a kbin bug: you tagged me in a reply to the original post, and i received no notification > only saw it after reading your reply above

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@geraineon
had one more look at sakurajima.social, and yes! you are right, and i was wrong, maaf ya ...

on your instance, you can indeed find all replies to your original post - the way they show up is handled differently from kbin where you can see more replies at a glance, without having to open each conversation separately

@geraineon

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@geraineon it is there ♥️

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/3508062/-/reply/5050085

@geraineon

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@geraineon
the backfilling worked though > with all its early beta version bugs, kbin continues to impress me everyday 👀

@geraineon

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@geraineon
yep, this is a drawback!

@geraineon

seanbala, to random
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Wow , thanks for the help! I am genuinely surprised at how close the results were. It looks like the recommendation is to try out the ( and / or ) first - but only by 1.8% over ! Y'all must know that I've been getting frustrated with lately. I also appreciate the recommendations for other things to explore.

Now the question is Kbin or Lemmy? Or both? (any thoughts?)

https://mas.to/@seanbala/111541402571836032

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@seanbala
kbin is your way to go > be prepared for bugs though: still in early beta mode, yet it works surprisingly well

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@seanbala one more thing i really like about kbin: even with bad internet connection, kbin is still usable > when other fedi platforms such as mastodon etc would not work anymore, kbin still does what it is supposed to do :)

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@bogdugg

The solution, however, is not to reduce the number of instances, but rather to provide more tools for instances to group communities together.

kbin collections are grouping together communities, but unfortunately, collections themselves do not federate
@gicagaf805

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@minnieo
ernest's approach is unique in many ways, and
the kbin community is highly responsive to new ideas
@ernest @DarkGamer

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@Masimatutu
i agree, and i also recommend friendica!

@YugiohMaster88

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@YugiohMaster88
not at all tbh

when firefish was still calckey, it was a thing > but for a variety of reasons, the project came to a standstill, and two other misskey forks took the lead: iceshrimp and sharkey > as strange as it seems, firefish has already become some kind of legacy ware

moreover, the *keys have federation issues, especially when it comes to lemmy, but kbin is also heavily affected
@hellfire103

RTR#32 Further refactoring, debugging voting errors (kbin.social)

Today, I continue with code refactoring, getting closer to finishing the most tedious part. I've also improved tools to prevent spam on the instance, which will take effect in a few days, addressing the issue of overloading other instances that have been reported. After today's wave of spam, I've also started working on...

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@ernest
RTR#32 Voting Bug Report:

  • upvoting any post in the microblogging section of the random magazine does not work
masimatutu, to fediverse en-gb

Mastodon has the responsibility to promote diversity in the Fediverse

I love the Threadiverse. Compared to the microblogging Fediverse’s sea of random thoughts, Lemmy and kbin are so much easier to navigate with the options to sort posts by subscribed, from local instances or everything federated. You can also sort by individual community, and then there are the countless ways to order the posts and comments (which are stored neatly under the main post, by the way). That people can more easily find the right discussions and see where they can contribute also means that the discussions tend to be more focused and productive than elsewhere. Decentralisation also makes a lot of sense, since it is built around different communities. All that’s needed is users.

Things were going quite well for a while when Reddit killed third-party apps, prompting many to leave and find the Threadiverse. However, it is quite difficult to entertain a crowd that has grown accustomed to a constant bombardment of dopamine-inducing or interesting content by tens of millions of users, if you only have a couple hundred thousand people. This is causing some to leave, which of course increases this effect. The active users have more than halved since July, according to FediDB. The mood is also becoming more tense. Maybe the lack of engagement drives some to cause it through hostility, I’m not quite sure. Either way, the Threadiverse becoming a less enjoyable place to be, which is quite sad considering how promising it is.

But what is really frustrating is that we could easily have that userbase. The entire Fediverse has over ten million users, and many Mastodonians clearly want to engage in group-based discussion, looking at Guppe groups. The focused discussions should also be quite attractive. Technically we are federated, so why do Mastodonians interact so little with the Threadiverse? The main reason is that Mastodon simply doesn’t federate post content. I really can’t see why the platform that federates entire Wordpress blogs refuses to federate thread content just because it has a title, and instead just replaces the body with a link to the post. Very unhelpful.

The same goes with PeerTube. There are plenty of videos on there that I am quite sure a lot of Mastodonians would appreciate, yet both views and likes there stay consistently in the tens. Yes, Mastodon’s web interface has a local video player, but in most clients it is the same link shenanigans, may may partly explain the small amount of engagement. This is also quite sad, because Google’s YouTube is one of the worst social network monopolies out there, if not the worst.

And I know some might say that Mastodon is a microblogging platform and that it makes sense only to have microblogging content, but the problem is that Mastodon is the dominant platform on the Fediverse, its users making up close to 80% of all Fedizens. It has gone so far that several Friendica and Hubzilla users have been complaining about complaints from Mastodonians that their posts do not live up to Mastodon customs, and of course, that people frequently use “Mastodon” to refer to the entire Fediverse. This, of course, goes entirely against the idea of the Fediverse, that many diverse platforms live in harmony with and awareness of each other.

The very least that Mastodon could do is to support the content of other platforms. Then I’d wish that they’d improve discoverability, by for instance adding a videos tab in the explore section, improving federation of favourites since it is the dominant sorting mechanism on many other platforms, and making a clear distinction between people (@person) and groups (!group), but I know that that is quite much to ask.

P.S. @feditips , @FediFollows , I know that you are reluctant to promote Lemmy and its communities because of the ideology of its founders, but the fact is firstly that it’s open source and there aren't any individual people who control the entire project, and that the software itself is very apolitical. In fact, most Lemmy users both oppose and are on instances that have rules against such beliefs, so I highly encourage you to at least help raise awareness on the communities. Then, of course, there’s kbin, which isn’t associated with any extremism at all. As a bonus, it has much better integration with the microblogging Fediverse, but it is a lot smaller and younger, and still very much under development.

Anyways, that was a ramble. Thanks for hearing me out.

@fediverse

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@skullgiver
when it comes to creativity, mastodon ui is a pre-emptive strike against creativity > vanilla mastodon does not support emoji reactions, and damn!!!!!!! mastodon ui hides that there are other platforms on the fedi than mastodon > mastodon is perfectly fine for all those who want to see mastodon content, and nothing else > creativity? no! creativity starts with openness, and mastodon surely has a rather isolating approach

@feditips @fediverse @FediFollows @mention @masimatutu @HamSwagwich

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@minnieo
can't remember that image posts ever worked tbh

@Eggyhead

RTR#29 Another boring update: Categories and bug fixes (kbin.social)

Today, I wanted to introduce you to Categories - a new feature that is essentially a multi-mags view. A new tab will appear in the user panel where you can create categories (public or private) and then add magazines to them (local or remote). In the magazine listing, there will be another tab that will list public categories...

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@ernest
you are so fast! how do you do that?

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@daredevil

it would be pretty cool if the aggregate view will allow one to combine magazines in the future.

that's a great idea!

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@ernest

https://kbin.social/*/sub

this is massive, could lead to addiction ;)

liaizon, to random
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wait is there markdown support here these days?

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@liaizon
i guess that this is also partly true for posts from kbin

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Marjane Satrapi Releases ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Book With Fellow Illustrators (kayhanlife.com)

Seventeen Iranian and non-Iranian illustrators including Marjane Satrapi have released a book titled “Woman, Life, Freedom.” The book, originally published in French, has been translated into English and other languages, with Satrapi coordinating the project. The Persian version of the book is freely accessible online.

Eles, to random Spanish
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No estaba muerta pero tampoco estaba de parranda, apenas tengo un poco de ánimos para interactuar.
Me dió Dengue y es horrible amigos cuidense y usen repelente de moscos 😭😞

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@Eles get well soon 🙏

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re: last boost > i hate ufofeed > ufofeed keeps spamming the microblogging section of the kbin history magazine on kbin.social, although i have already blocked that acc

so i have resorted to manually deleting their nonsense > today, i accidentally hit the wrong button and boosted that rubbish > i sincerely ask for forgiveness > i'll be more careful from now on

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analyzing dutch elections is not worth the pain: dutch elections are quite similar to netherlands vs gibraltar football games: https://africa.espn.com/football/report/_/gameId/655476

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@indigojasper
wholeheartedly agree!

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