And if it's a user setting, which is my preference, then everyone can decide for themselves whether or not it's enabled.

It's worth pointing out that feeling like you work in a pointless, meaningless job doesn't necessarily make it true. This paper is solely about people's perceptions, not facts.

A light breeze is enough for Google to lock accounts, and they make it nearly impossible to re-access. And they have no reliable customer service you can call or email.

But the final straw for me was when they started this bullshit of saying "tell me your phone number so we can make sure it's you". They never had my number in the first place, so it was clear that this was pure bullshit of them trying to associate real world identities with their accounts.

After that, I said "fuck em", changed to other providers, and haven't look back since.

Go ahead and delete my accounts - your service is pure garbage anyway.

It is if you want the ability to scan down the page and decide what links you're interested in by using the thumbnail.

If you are interested in text posts, it makes sense to scan the titles. If you are interested in images, it makes sense to scan the thumbnails.

Having them blurred adds extra work and is an extra annoyance - and since there is an individual user-level setting for whether or not you want to see NSFW content, it makes no sense to mandate the blurring.

I disagree wholeheartedly.

Having your voting history public also constrains people from participating in the community if the things they support or object to would cause harassment or harm from people who know who they are, which is not always preventable, for example a shared household, using kbin from work (activity monitored), etc...

I could easily see an Amazon worker getting fired because they were logged upvoting pro-union threads. They wouldn't even need to be doing this from a company network - just accessing kbin once on their network for any reason would have their user name associated with them, and then Amazon can simply monitor their activity on kbin even when they are using it from home.

Look at everything Amazon has done to their workers and tell me that this isn't a believable scenario. And that's just one example.

Having votes public can cause real harm to people.

This is not reddit... Lol

You know what, reddit was filled with people who got upset when others tried to help them improve. Let's not take that with us here.

I, for one, am grateful when others point out a mistake because it helps me to become better. That's the mentality we should encourage here.

You won't find that level of detail in typical articles, because they are intended for the general public and are intended to be an overview that a layman can comprehend.

However, the paper itself, which the article links to, has more detail including deformation testing.

This entire topic is about shortening the work week without any loss in pay.

I think the protest crippled reddit considerably. It robbed reddit of a significant number of quality users and moderators, caused an extreme amount of media attention, and created enough of a problem for Google that they had to change course in order to compensate for all the broken links and noticeably poorer search results.

The main reason it looks like it had a much smaller effect is because a lot of missing users have been replaced by bots. And given how hostile those bots are with respect to moderators and the protest, it seems clear that they were put in place by reddit themselves. So don't be fooled by "traffic is normal" announcements and metrics. They mean nothing by themselves.

The protest caused a lot of users to start looking for alternatives and it shed a lot of light on the fediverse, giving it an incredible amount of exposure. People now know that it exists and know that there are alternatives to reddit.

Remember, the worst is yet to come after June 30th when those API changes take effect.

Who actually gives a fuck?

A lot of people do.

What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager's snarky "who cares" attitude doesn't mean that this isn't important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.

I understand, but it also makes it a lot more difficult to quickly make trolling and spam disappear.

I gave up completely on Google accounts after they kept flagging make-believe security issues and made it near impossible to verify that it's yours.

Even if you have a secondary email configured (and this would be what it's for) - but oh, no, that's still not good enough for them.

Then they pulled the utter bullshit of requiring your phone number "so they can make sure it's you" - but since there was never a phone number associated with the account, this is clearly nothing more than a data grab so they can associate real identities with their accounts.

That was the last straw for me, and I decided that their service was utter garbage, completely unreliable, and not worth using anymore.

Have you not been reading articles on this topic? Yes, we are talking about a 32 hour work week with no loss in pay.

There is no reason why blurred thumbnails can't easily be made into a user-selectable feature. That makes everyone happy.

I understand what you're saying. However, echo chambers aside, I found reddit very useful for political discourse. Even for subjects that had a hive mind response, there were often a few comments that presented the other side in a very well thought out way, with details and citations which would give some folks a reason to rethink their knee-jerk response.

In addition, one of the biggest problems in the US is that lack of political engagement by younger folks. So having those news articles and discussions on a popular forum gives them that visibility into the world of governance and allows them to both develop a desire to vote for change as well as having better knowledge of the issues and how different political figures have acted and what they really stand for.

So I welcome that discourse and having political subs.

Hi, ernest!

If this is a known issue that you intend to address, and it's just a matter of priorities, then I'm happy.

Everyone appreciates all the work you've been doing, and I hope you're getting help to ease your burdens.

It's also important to note that individual users can block an entire instance as well.

Just click on the name of the instance in parentheses next to the title of a thread and then click the Block button there.

It'd be awesome to be a classier/more serious version of Reddit.

Those things are not mutually exclusive. You can have higher standards for the serious subs we host as well as having porn related subs as well.

Just subscribe to the ones you want and ignore the others.

It shows 5 if you scan w14.monkrus.ws.

And this is Quttera's analysis here:
https://quttera.com/detailed\_report/w14.monkrus.ws

Whether there is a real problem or not, it might be something the monkrus admins want to look into in order to address it.

But if anyone else has a better understanding of what's going on with their site, I'd love to hear it and it's probably good information for the rest of this sub.

You and everyone else in the fediverse needs to stop with this fanaticism that anything centralized is automatically a bad thing.

If you want forum specific content that is generally considered spicy, go to that forum directly rather than complain that every other forum not handle your need for spicy content in an effective way for all parties.

This has nothing to do with complaining about how other forums handle this.

This is about how kbin handles it, and kbin is designed to incorporate multiple forums from multiple instances. In other words, we're talking about how kbin should be able to do what it's designed to do even better.

A number of years ago, they stopped recommending and teaching tourniquets because they were concerned about people losing limbs unnecessarily if tourniquets were to be applied unnecessarily.

However, then the Boston Marathon bombing occurred and the California nightclub shooting and they realized that they had made a tragic mistake because a lot of people lost their lives when they could have been saved.

So now, tourniquets are once again recommended and taught.

If you think about the OF creators literally posting the same image in 100 different subs, you'll see that there's a practical limit to the number of tabs that will display.

Instead, I'm thinking that a text link-list of all the subs (with instances shown) it's been posted to is easier to manage. Then whichever one you click brings you to the localized comments page for that thread.

If you do it that way, then you can have a user configuration setting as to whether the link list is shown fully on each thread listing or whether there's a "+" button to expand it out.

No, you can click the instance/domain that's in parentheses to the right of the thread title. That brings you to the kbin page for that instance, and you have the block button there.

No one is saying that blurring shouldn't be an option - just that it should either be tied to a user's NSFW setting or that it should be a user-selectable option.

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

Have a good day.

Sequestering is absolutely not bullshit. It's done for very important reasons and judges are very careful about not ordering it unless it's truly necessary.

If you see no reasons why someone would switch accounts, then you just haven't really thought it through. And you do people a serious disservice by painting all of them who use multiple accounts with the same brush.

For one thing, people treat comments by moderators differently then they treat comments by everyone else. So if a moderator wishes to contribute a point of view to their own sub, but don't want people to assign it special weight, it makes sense to post it under a non-moderator account.

And if you don't understand the importance of sex in the human experience, then that's something you'll have to figure out on your own. But consider that without an interest in sex, you would not be alive.

There's nothing wrong with desiring sex and having sexual attraction to others. It's literally the genetic hardwiring that is responsible for the procreation and survival of our species as well as many others.

It's not uncommon for people to have one account configured to show NSFW content and another account used at work that does not - for obvious reasons of professional behavior.

And for those who are NSFW content creators, they have an even more obvious reason to separate that side of themselves from other discussions.

Another reason why someone would have separate accounts is to have one account where they expose their profession in order to be able to contribute as a subject matter expert, and another account where they participate in discussions without that link to their life. So a lawyer might use one account to offer legal opinions and another account to talk about their gaming hobbies without being constantly asked for legal help.

Just because you, personally, don't feel a need to have multiple accounts does not mean that there is no good reason for others to do so.

It also constrains people from participating in the community if the things they support or object to would cause harassment or harm from people who know who they are, which is not always preventable, for example a shared household, using kbin from work (activity monitored), etc...

I could easily see an Amazon worker getting fired because they were logged upvoting pro-union threads. They wouldn't even need to be doing this from a company network - just accessing kbin once on their network for any reason would have their user name associated with them, and then Amazon can simply monitor their activity on kbin even when they are using it from home.

That's an excellent point and very true.

On reddit, one of my favorite communities was r/AskMen. However, one of the biggest complaints was that the reddit mods were too lax about allowing women to answer questions, since at that point, it might as well have been r/AskReddit.

But someone else (not one of the reddit mods) created https://kbin.social/m/AskMen and fixed that problem.

So even though, like many magazines from the reddit migration, it's new and short on content for the moment, I'm really happy that it's here and that it's improved.

I look forward to its growth with this much better community of people.

Oddly enough, they initially mentioned kbin.social directly, but we're not on the list anymore.

We've been replaced by https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list , however, we're not listed there, either.

That's understandable. I was just confused that the site that appears to list kbin instances is missing this one.

However, we appear to be showing up now in that site list, so all is well.

If you have chosen to hide NSFW content, then what do you care if people who have it enabled have it as part of their feed?

What do you think the point is of subscribing to a sub is if it isn't incorporated into your feed? You are literally asking to break how kbin is designed to work.

You have no right to say that the way you, personnally, use kbin is to be forced on everyone else.

Different people have different preferences. Kbin is perfectly capable of addressing both major branches on this issue, so it doesn't make sense to throw away one entire side just because you prefer the other.

The two authors and their editor need to go back to school and re-learn what an order of magnitude is.

What are you imagining would be the title that we see on /all or whatever feed?

Ah, that's an excellent point.

The irony is that the worst cases of shared links are from OF creators - but they bot-blast those links, so they all have the exact same title. That makes it easy - if every duplicate link has the same title, then just use that.

But for cases where they have different titles, you would either have to choose a generic system-generated title or alternatively, use the title of the instance that has the greatest engagement.

All of these questions, however, can be designed to be user-selectable in each of our own settings. That way, a person can decide whether or not they even want to stack duplicates, and if so, how is the title chosen.

You're ignoring the other effects of third party apps - which is to have significantly added to the number of users they have to show ads to in the first place.

Making their API free encouraged active development which increased user engagement. So it absolutely did increase their revenue because it helped to increase the popularity of their site in the first place.

That's a very excellent point and shows the necessary trade-off to make that work.

You're absolutely right that a good politics sub (I don't think I'll ever get used to the term "magazine", but "sub" is nicely generic) requires good moderation.

But if kbin largely consists of reddit's most active users and moderators - the ones who care about the community as well as principles and values, then I think we have an excellent start.