You are literally participating in kbin content right now, commenting on a thread on a kbin magazine posted by a user registered to kbin.

Little guys lapping up right wing propaganda sure make it extremely difficult to fight the elite, tho.

They become merely another instrument of the "up" of suppressing the "down" when you're feeling frustrated, helpless, and hopeless all the time.

Names starting with a capital k feel like they are native KDE apps to me.

I vote Artemis

or other: mooncaKe

If this was reddit, you'd be smothered in replies asking why you haven't left your husband yet.

Looks like it's time to set up shop on lemmy or kbin. Even if some of the pissed off users come over, it should be a vibrant alternative community

On the day of the AMA, I edited all my comments to fuck u/spez, and a r/selfawarewolves mod banned me for "spamming".

Then I complained out of spite and got unbanned immediately, but the mod reminded me how "irresponsible it was of me to put the crosshairs on them".

Hua long dong 6 is a hell of a name tho

I can’t believe in this day and age marijuana is still an object of political influence.

Just legalize the shit, period. What’s with all the conditionals attached to it? You just have to marginalize users one way or the other because god forbid we have fewer things “those people” do to point fingers at.

It also underlines what the OP is saying. The average user doesn't need to do anything or think about anything special to use the platform. Simply making an account and interacting with whatever is on front of you will work.

It's only complicated if you're constantly comparing it to reddit in your head and trying to recreate the exact experience here.

Kbin doesn't currently support saving.
I bookmark things for now on my local browser. Afaik, the feature is in the to do list so I'll save what I can from from the bookmarks manually once that's done.

Better to be a grower than a shower

Preach it.

I recently started studying social psychology, and sadly the main takeaway from my initial venture into the field is a confirmation of how unaware and automated the average person is.

Middle managers, marketers and the average customer are all caught up in a perpetual feedback loop, constantly enabling each other's addictions. It doesn't help that these demographics overlap as managers and marketers are customers of other marketers and managers, turning the feedback loop into a vicious cycle.

Dude is an absolute narcissist. The way he understands the world is in leader-follower hierarchies. He likes the position of power he's in and absolutely can't stand there are other people with power, especially if those people's power is a necessity for maintaining something rather than ruling something.

He can't understand third party app developers do it because they love reddit and want to make it easier and more fun to use. No, they must be doing it because they can't build another reddit and want to feel like they own something they can't. He can't understand moderators are mostly people who are trying to keep the communities they love alive against all sorts of situations which can drive members away. No, they must be doing it because they want to have power over people, and the more their community seems to like them, the more proof it is of how well the moderator manipulated them.

Agreed.

It's kinda similar to what I dislike about CMV but blatant. I think CMV created this whitewashing effect on horrible opinions by presenting them as a discussion against them, while giving them a megaphone into the mainstream.

UnpopularOpinions is similar but a bit more honest, I guess, lol!

Centrists can go suck a fat one. The primary reason we're in this fascistic mess globally is the centrists' aversion to being inconvenienced for the rights of their fellow people and for the future of the planet.

That's what creates dictatorships, that's what starts world wars, in summary, that's what enables fascists.

I, too, agree with the scientists that we're all well and truly fucked.

I'm interested to see how they spin the gun thing.

I'm thinking something like "they only want guns for themselves and want to take ours away!"

I was never a lurker on reddit. I liked commenting, but the community feeling is much more substantial on kbin (and fediverse in general).

I find the engagement here more real than I ever did on reddit for twelve years.

Xitting, pronounced "shitting"

Now that I think about it, Apollo - Artemis is pretty obvious. Would Apollo - Starbuck work or would it be too copyright troubley?

"Spirituality is innate" is such a copout for me. In my opinion, it just means people have an imagination and emotions, but I don't want to admit magic isn't real so I'll call it spirituality.

YSK it's a lot. Alot is a fictional character created to illustrate this point.

I got over leaving reddit for good but I'm a bit worried about the hellhole it's seemingly becoming with all the exposure it's able to give horrible ideas. I won't be surprised if it goes full fascist next week Twatter style.

That ship has sailed, both ways I'm afraid.

Not only reddit made it exceedingly clear that they aren't backtracking, 3rd party developers equally clearly stated they are out.

I don't see this situation reversing.

What, and I can't stress this enough, dafuq is that?

They don't have to behave the same way fortunately, like auto replying to every thread posted.

That's beyond fucked up.

But also very predictable.

I think it's safe to say this fiasco isn't going anywhere without a class action lawsuit or something.

A "Gamer" with an anime avatar, with 6 reputation points. These types don't have the best reputation on the internet. Take their comments with a grain of salt as they might be skewed towards a certain ideology somewhat.

That said, the "we didn't know it would be restricted this much" part strikes me the most.

It's one thing to not read through everything to form informed decisions but why not listen to all those who did read and were shouting from the rooftops that this was exactly what would happen? Why not believe the evangelicals and the state legislators they gerrymandered into office when they say this is their exact intention?

The hubris is palpable.

The answer can be many things if you go into detail but the summary is change is hard.

I checked the first five pages of threads on this mag before posting. If there was a thread there, I wouldn't post it.

Also if we're being like that, your answer doesn't fit the thread. I'm asking about communities. Since when are reposts communities?

The problem here isn't talking to Meta or Meta making a federated platform.

Nobody can prevent Meta from doing that anyway.

The problem is the need to push against the insistence of Meta to keep these meetings off the record. It's against the entire philosophy of something like not only fediverse but FOSS in general.

If Meta wants good faith, they have to show it first.

Notice that in the email, Kev gives his guidance as to the matter. Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you put people first and make a product for the purpose of serving them.

This should be the attitude everyone should have first.

We will accept you as long as you're bringing value to us, not the other way round, got that Meta?

As long as any dev is taking this approach, Meta included, I'm supporting them. If someone is secretive about their intentions about a public service which is not a for profit endeavor inherently, I'll have a hard pass too.

I'm sorry to say this but, they probably restored all of your posts too. It will just say "deleted" as your username but the posts and comments will be in their old place.

I think (and hope) so too. Some pro leniency stances from mastodon bigwigs got me a little worried, that's all.

I swear they can't conceive of people who are independently deciding to do things. It's always leaders and their followers for these fuckwads.

They want people to not be there, at least for long.

Yes but that's only relevant if you're aware of a specific community on a specific instance and expect to be interacting with it on purpose.

It's completely irrelevant if someone just gives you the name of an instance, tells you to make an account on it and start using. You'll be perfectly fine reading and commenting whatever's in your feed.

The only way this breaks is if you're in an instance that is too small to have local traffic while having technical difficulties with federation. If the instance is active enough or it's federating normally, someone completely unaware of the concept of federation will be perfectly fine as long as they understand the interface.

I don't know about smaller lemmy communities but the lemmy world logo looks like Allah written backwards in arabic and throws me off every time I see it, lol

-was the checkmate forced?

-yes, it was a forced checkmate sir.

-the defendent confessed to using force, the prosecution rests your honor.

Read this. You'll understand the issue a little better.

Agreed.

With the submarine story, it's like a film scenario. Every detail is something unusual, and not tragic in itself. Well, depends on who you ask. There are many people who think billionaires existing is a very real tragedy, and rightly so, but I digress.

With billionaires in a comic-book-supervillain submarine lost on their way to see the Titanic wreck, you can laugh at the $30 controller, or wonder where their brains were, or if anybody looked at their financials because this also would work as a movie scenario where 4 billionaires pay someone to disappear them because they didn't pay taxes or something.

Refugee boat sinking is actual tragedy, with the added bonus of the entire western world having some level of guilt in creating. When the average, empathy having person hears about it, they feel complex emotions from sadness to guilty conscience for casually hearing about it from the comfort of their couch... It's difficult to deal with.