I created a community on KBin for one of my favorite niche sub Reddits, which just came back from going dark. I shared it with them this morning and my post is getting downvoted to oblivion.

I might be wrong about this, but KBin supports “tags” which can be set at a Magazine level by the mods. This will lump content related to this tags into the Magazine. It won’t be in the feed directly, but will be listed as related content.

Crazy idea, but maybe we just shouldn’t allow big ass companies to buy other big ass companies.

I’m curious though, all federated Magazines also say @ernest is the only moderator. I’m not sure, but it might just default to him if there’s no other moderator. (Though I would hope that /m/politics would have more support)

#Mastodon has a feature where it’ll consolidate all the most linked to URLs in its explore tag. It doesn’t take you too any toots about the discussion, but shows that something similar is possible, even with federation involved.

There is a legitimate concern with one platform on the fediverse becoming the “main” platform. That platform will make all the decisions when it comes to wider fediverse. Much like GMail is now with email.

I’m just honest with myself. I like what I post, so I like my post!

Yeah this seems false. SD cards are unreliable, hard to keep track of, and don’t actually store that much data for the price. I do think they use tapes though to store long term, low traffic data.

1. It forces people to actually read the comments rather than just post their 2 cents that have already been mentioned dozens of time.
2. People have their preferences, not everyone likes infinite scrolling. I believe there’s a setting for this.
3. I agree
4. This site doesn’t need to be an exact copy of Reddit. The “Microblog” section of a “Magazine” is truly unique and has amazing potential. All content related to its magazine from the wider fediverse will be placed in there. I do think it needs a lot of work and in its current state it won’t be engaged that much on Kbin.

I only use it for my #Nextcloud instance. #Snap does make it easy to upgrade or rollback and configure. That said I wouldn’t use it for anything else and would probably use the #docker image next time.

Wifi. I remember when my family got our first wifi capable laptop and asking my father so many times “So, we can like go anywhere and access the internet???” and just saying “Sure. As long as we’re at a Starbucks”.

You make a good point about the blow to creative freedom. Exclusivity doesn’t seem to correlate with innovation anymore (sans Nintendo). Even if you look at Sony, with its massive lead in quality first-party exclusives, the majority are gritty narrative third-person action games. They are easy to market because they have a compelling story, are mechanically simple to appeal to a wider audience, and are relatively short to lower the commitment.

Consolidation will kill creativity in the long term. Just look at the post-Disney MCU/Star Wars film industry. Games will surely follow, given the way things are headed.

Edit:
Disclaimer - Just my opinion and I play on PlayStation/Nintendo/PC.

@NotTheOnlyGamer maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to try and farm internet points. It might make so people engage in actual discussion rather than try to be the internet’s funny man.

Honestly, Bing is unironically good. I started using it because I wanted to play around with Bing Chat back when that was in beta. Before that I was a believer in more privacy focused search. It’s funny, since they limit the chat to Edge I never even use it.

@Otome-chan@kbin.social

@shepherd

Me too! I had no idea that you could view a who instances thread via the /d/ path! Neat little feature! Thank you!

With the way things are headed, #Discord might actually become a viable competitor to platforms like #Twitch.

For real though. I already have an app that does everything, my lovely #FireFox ❤️

What about the Pi makes it a hassle?

I had no idea that # was going to cause so much controversy. I will say that pound is much more efficient than octothorpe.

Please enter your birthday followed by the octothorpe.

It doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Yup! That’s the one. It’s so creative!

Thanks for the write up!

Humanity honestly. That game came out of nowhere and is so clever. The music is also banging.

Outside producing one simple WebPack configuration, I haven't had good experiences using ChatGPT. It often causes me more trouble than it helps. I've tried to use it multiple times to write some BASH script, and every time it gives me know that looks nice but is just broken. It's not syntactically incorrect, it's more like functionally incorrect.

For example, it told me that you could pass arrays as function arguments, which you can't do. Or, it gave me a script that was using variables within a URL string that would be passed into CURL, which won't work since the URL won't be encoded properly.

When I do it, I spend more time trying to fix the code that it gives me. Which, I guess, does have the benefit that it means I got to learn something afterward (both examples above I didn't know about until ChatGPT gave me the bad code).

The thing that ensured me that AI won't take over the programming side of software engineering was when I asked ChatGPT to help me out with some date-time bugs. It just kept making up native JavaScript API functions, couldn't understand how to parse UTC to figure out a date-time's timezone, among other issues. The day that AI is able to solve software issues around date-times or currencies is the day that we'll all be out of a job.

Edit:
I guess you could summarize using ChatGPT is like peer-programming with an overly confident CS grad.

Sony isn’t just a gaming company though. They sell all kinds of home electronics and cameras. They also have their entire film and music divisions, not to mention their banking any insurance subsidiaries. Nintendo is the only platform holder that is just a gaming company.

Not sure if it’s related, but the EU does seem quite interested in the #fediverse. See the EU Commission’s official #Mastodon account: @EU_Commission

You could do that or just write a blog post and then share it on KBin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.

There’s also Write Freely, which is a minimalist federated blogging platform.

• https://writefreely.org/

r/bsg (Battlestar Galactica) -> m/bsg

I use Feeder for everything. Blogs, websites, (formerly) subreddits, and YouTube channels. RSS for YouTube is bigly clutch. My feed is chronological, not filled with random crap, and ad free.

What if Zuck comes out of his lizard hole and utters the word:

FEDIVERSE.

to proclaim that Meta, formally known as Facebook, is now changing their name to Fedi.

They had some really impressive devices in the early 2000s. You had to dock it to your PC and sync all your stuff to it, kinda like an iPod but for emails and documents. Some of them even supported external keyboards!

https://youtu.be/cTMSJ2skMHg

Dude the no build mode is literally the only reason I play it now. I can actually fight with someone whiteout them becoming a 50 story tall skyscraper.

Mastodon’s filter option doesn’t work all that well. I have it turned on and I still get stuff in other languages with the tags that I follow. I don’t mind it much since Mastodon has a translation feature.

In your magazine’s settings page, currently titled “Magazine Panel”, there’s a page called “Tags”. There, you can add any tags that you want associated with your magazine.

I have set up a few custom tags for my magazine, /m/bsg, if you want to see it in action.

Edit:
Some wrote up a nice guide for the moderator features on KBin:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/67825/A-quick-guide-to-creating-and-moderating-magazines

WE ARE LEAVING

Interesting, I haven’t tried it yet, but I did see they have an ARM build on their website. I’ll need to do some more research before I reflash my Pi

I just tried to access it and I get redirection errors. I guess they didn’t account for integration testing during their most recent sprint.