atypicaloddity

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This place already feels like home

I think part of the issue is that all the different Lemmy and kbin instances are trying to be Reddit themselves. By which I mean there are a bunch of instances with no focus. They're all "kitchen sink" instances, each with their own Politics, Tech, Cats, etc.

Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin.social, fedia.io. All of them are generic reddit alternatives, but the real reddit alternative is the amalgamation of subscriptions from multiple more focused instances.

Startrek.website is a great example of the opposite: it's an instance focused on one topic, where some people will want to sign up as a user and others will want to just subscribe to one of their three (!) boards from their own instance. They don't need their own Politics topic, users on the site that care about it will subscribe to a politics topic from another instance. The startrek admins and mods only have to care about their one focus.

My ideal fediverse feed would be pulling individual topics from a few dozen more focused instances instead of one generalist instance. I think that's what's going to end up happening.

You don't need more than one account. You just decide which instance you want an account on, then subscribe to all the topics you care about across multiple instances. I just think that generalist instances with thousands of local topics are unnecessary.

Canada has a huge Ukrainian population, we're staunch allies with the US (who is firmly on Ukraine's side now that the Manchurian Candidate is out of office), and Russia is obviously the aggressor in this war. Of course we're going to side with Ukraine.

Russia's only hope was to convince the world that apathy was easier than getting involved. But they did a shit job of it

Don't worry too much about it. There's still going to be people using Reddit. You're never going to convince everybody about everything. My parents still use Facebook.

That's actually pretty funny

I love democracy

That's a great point -- by making public places the only places you can exist while poor, you push all the homeless there and everyone else ends up avoiding it and going to places they have to spend money at. Enforced consumption.

Picnic in the park? Sorry, tent city there. Better go to a restaurant instead.

Baseball at the diamond? Needles and excrement, let's go bowling instead.

Grab some books from the library? Someone's smoking crack in the bathroom, I'll just buy the book from a store. Or Amazon.

Ideally these public spaces would be for everyone, but more and more they're repurposed for social services.

Yes, there's a few of them. fedia.io, for one. But kbin.social is probably the most active one at the moment.

Yeah, I'm viewing and responding to this from kbin.social right now

Each Lemmy instance (or kbin 👋) is like its own Reddit, all connected together. So you're seeing 'subreddits' from multiple instances right now.

Still full time remote here. Actually, I'm in the office today for a going-away party for a coworker, but I generally go in once a month or so for town hall meetings and that's it.

My understanding is that here on kbin, a magazine can set a list of tags and toots using that tag will show up in their microblog feed.

Which is a bit different, but cool

You don't have to sign up on multiple sites, you just subscribe to specific channels you care about from the site you signed up for. For instance, signing up to lemmy.ml's Politics, Lemmy.world's Tech, and fedia.io's Cats.

For instance, here's a link to !startrek@startrek.website that you can interact with and subscribe to from your Lemmy.ml account: https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek@startrek.website

Agreed, that's part of my problem with generalist instances. They're so broad that they serve multiple communities with differing expectations, and it forces admins to take sides.

Professional. I started out with Basic, then QBasic and Java in high school. Made a Geocities site.

Years later, I was bored and decided to learn Python. Had enough fun doing that that I decided to go to school for it.

Now I'm a full-time programmer, mostly doing web app stuff. I spend much, much less time doing programming for fun, but I'm a huge fan of learning new languages.

I recently found pickled radishes at a farmer's market. So good!

Owlboy was better than I expected it to be.

their development on top of ActivityPub will potentially be useful as case-studies of what kinds of UX can feasibly be built on top of ActivityPub

Absolutely. Devs at Facebook, Twitter, etc have built a ton of great things that have been adopted by web devs across the industry. I'm looking forward to what they do with ActivityPub that we get to 'steal'

kbin.social is really new, so it doesn't surprise me that active ≈ total.

I don't think this is a problem right now. I'm in favour of deferring any decision.

Right now, getting more magazines opened is more important than who mods them. Without content, there's no users, and without users, there's no content. If someone wants to create a dozen magazines and get the conversations kick-started, that's a good thing.

If moderation on a new magazine is shit, people will move to a new one. The same thing happened at Reddit. r/gaming was too memy, so people made r/games. You had two large subs in r/relationships and r/relationship_advice.

The only issue in my mind has to do with continuity planning. What do we do in a few months when a hundred magazines have AWOL moderation? Who decides?