tqgibtngo

@tqgibtngo@kbin.social
0 Post – 16 Comments
Joined 1 years ago

Arguably reddit isn’t even mainstream ...

... with just 0.91% of US social media visits this year in March this year, if this isn't wrong:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265773/market-share-of-the-most-popular-social-media-websites-in-the-us/

FB 53.09%, Twit 16.25%, IG 13.85%, ..., Reddit 0.91% ...

[Edited to fix my error.]

[I have no affiliation with the linked site.]

Although they differ from Twitter Likes, note that Mastodon Favorites are not private. For an example, I'll refer to one of your toots:
https://mastodon.social/@justhach/110696151311920356

Viewing it in the Mastodon web interface, I see an indication that 2 people marked it as a Favorite. I can then click to see those 2 usernames, listed here:
https://mastodon.social/@justhach/110696151311920356/favourites

Such listings are limited though. For example, I'm viewing a toot that you boosted, and I see an indication that it has been marked as a Favorite by 816 users; but when I click to view their names, I see only 40 of them listed.

... for years and nobody complained ...

FWIW, there was a complaint about Google Books
(long ago resolved). Historical interest only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors\_Guild,\_Inc.\_v.\_Google,\_Inc.

As a newcomer, I've visited 3 Lemmy sites: Beehaw. Lemmy.world, and a custom instance. I noticed that they each have page footers that contain: Join Lemmy. If the same is true of many Lemmy instances, I can add Lemmy (or, with quotation marks, "Join Lemmy") in a Google query. — (Note: Top matches might not always be best matches on the originating instance, or sometimes the best matches might be hidden until I click "repeat the search with the omitted results included." And of course sometimes I won't get any match because the target hasn't been indexed by Google.)

Apparently, the error condition might NOT be dependent on idle time (a period of time without any interaction). — Evidence: Periodic clicks on a vote button, scripted at 45-second intervals, did not prevent the error's eventual occurrence.

In another discussion someone mentioned the "wefwef" Apollo-inspired Lemmy client. I haven't looked into it myself, but apparently some users like it, so maybe consider adding it to your list?

[Later Edit: — I see that the list has been updated, and wefwef has been added.]

There is nothing at all being copied but an aesthetic.

Although to me it is interesting that, even without literal copying, a generator might be capable of potentially emulating some key features of a specified source. Can this sometimes arguably extend beyond just "an aesthetic"? We've all seen examples similar to this one (from the SD online demo, default setting, with a familiar public-domain source) — https://i.imgur.com/PUJs3RL.png

YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47jWLMiY

I haven't yet delved into the kbinStyles offerings.

On my Windows laptop, I'm using the Stylus extension with Firefox or Chrome, to apply quick-and-dirty sloppy CSS like:

  article, article * {
    margin: 0 !important;
    padding: 0 !important;
  }
  article {
    border-top: 1px dotted gray !important;
  }

Someone on kbinStyles should have something MUCH better. I haven't yet tried anything from there, but I see titles like: "...replicate old reddit on kbin". Look into things like that. — https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles

Note: I also select the Compact view (in the view menu which is found via one of the buttons in the magazine header).

In the kbin web interface, I click the federation button (triangle icon) in the sidebar and a federation status On/Off option appears, and yes, the initial setting (default) is On.

Thanks for a reminder that I should look into userscripts for kbin. — For now, I'm using the Stylus extension (in desktop Firefox & Chrome) to apply custom CSS. Nothing fancy yet, just simple overrides to remove some margins and padding to make the "compact" view more compact.