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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out.

    Haven’t been back there and didn’t read the comments…

    But I think I can understand to a degree:

    • Too many choices: Picking an instance can be confusing for folks that are used to only having to remember 1 name. I personally think this is a bit like people trying Linux for the first time and getting confused by all the choices available. Basically, it’s what some people call “analysis paralysis” but add to that the fact that you’ll get 12 different recommendations from every 10 people you all (e.g. there’s no clear consensus on the “best” one bc “best” means something different to each person). I think one list I saw on GitHub literally had over 200 instances… For non-techies, I could see that being a bit confusing
    • UI differences: some things like making a post on kbin are a bit different (IMO not bad but still different enough that I could see some folks getting confused). Doing searches on lemmy for specific topics (not finding communities but searching for something in a community) is done from a different area on lemmy than on Reddit and IMO is kind of a pain in the ass currently. And on kbin, frankly, I’m not even sure we have that feature at all.
    • Missing features: haven’t tried mobile apps (which could again be another point of confusion) but for desktop at least, AFAIK we don’t have anything comparable to RES yet. There’s no analog to multireddits. And we don’t have anything similar to reddit’s Saved feature yet. All valid complaints in my opinion. And someone used to any or all of those, might spend a lot of time looking bc they just don’t know if it’s hidden or does not exist. So, yeah, I could see so confusion there too.

    I think there are a lot of advantages they’re probably missing too. I like that kbin/lemmy we can choose whatever fucking avatar we want instead of being limited to customizing our snoz or wtf Reddit calls their mascot thing. I saw one guy mentioning how there’s no karma bullshit to deal with for new accounts and absolutely agree with that sentiment.

    tealdeer; meh, I like the fediverse and it’s not hard for me but I’m not shitting on people who don’t get it. If they want help, would probably help but not going to push it on people either. It is what it is and that’s good enough for me

  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialtosh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•Beehive: an update to defederating from sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    it’s not “my opinion” though, it’s something Beehaw’s owners have stated multiple times over the past however long have I had an account there.

    Your opinion or theirs. It’s obvious that you agree with it. I’m not trying to persuade you to have a different opinion. I really don’t care.

    I do appreciate you not hiding the fact that you are a member there.

    But my point is that just because they give some rationale that sounds good at first glance, that doesn’t mean that I am incorrect either.

    I think any group that is restricting registration of new users - regardless of their goals or justification - is being elitist because it is restricting to only people some select few in charge deem “worthy” or in some cases, such as tildes random invite drops with extremely short time-windows, are more likely to gather users in particular time zones/regions. Maybe you dislike me using the term “elitist” for this but to my thinking, they are essentially trying to create echo chambers and are considering large segments of the Internet population as undesirables. They can put a marketing spin on that and call it “weeding out racists” or creating a safe space whatever they want but it doesn’t change the underlying facts. I see plenty of sites that avoid these kind of things without resorting to such exclusionary tactics.

    And if this comes across as me trying to pin that solely on beehaw, that’s not my intent. I feel equally so about tildes. Again, you may disagree. That’s fine. I don’t care either way. I am very passionate about free speech, even for those I dislike and disagree with. And it is less that I wish to look down on beehaw/tildes/etc and more that currently, my opinion of them is that they are promoting censored communities, which is something I am opposed to. Perhaps that isn’t actually the case, or maybe they will change things. My opinion isn’t set in stone, and I am happy to revise it if and when new information presents itself. But as things stand now, that is how I see things.

    https://i.vgy.me/WvmUNs.jpg

    Heh good one. Meant it more in the sense that they would probably not allow such a name there but yes, let’s go with me trying to be “edgy” ;-)

    Anyway, as I said in my previous comment, I am not advocating to defederate with them. But if they later get butthurt about something on kbin and decide to defederate us, I doubt that I would even spare it a thought.

    Edit: typos

  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialtosh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•Beehive: an update to defederating from sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I find it a bit ironic how so many people are pointing out how “growing is important to federation” specifically in reference to this… but at the same time, beehaw are one of the few sites that are against growth (as can bee seen by their requiring to get approved in order to join their server… which IMO is no better or worse than tilde’s invite requirement)… and, given the timing, it would seem that they are against hosting reddit refugees in particular.

    Yes, you can claim it is for keeping beehaw’s site stable or curating users or plenty of other more palatable reasons. But at the end of the day, you are still turning users away. I have a lot of respect for kbin not closing its doors to new users, despite the load it is placing on their infrastructure.

    Personally, I wouldn’t mind one bit if kbin/beehaw were defederated from each other (not advocating for it, just saying I wouldn’t care whatsoever if it happened on its own)

  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialOPto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Does kbin have any equivalent to multireddits? If not, I think that should be added to the eventual TODO list.
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    1 year ago

    I think that is probably part of a bigger discussion. For the scope of what I was asking, consider it as only a more advanced “view” functionality (in the database sense) that allows displaying results from a specific subset of magazines.

    I actually think it would be really cool if such a view worked with federation, as that would allow for things such as having similar magazines/communities/whatever mastodon calls their subreddit equivalent from multiple sources displayed in a single feed (e.g. say one or more lemmy linux communities and kbin Linux communities)… as a single url the user could bookmark as simply “Linux”.

    For now though, I would be thrilled to even have this ability for local magazines

  • thatfuckinglinuxguy@kbin.socialOPtolinux master race@kbin.social•how i remember the matrix...
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    1 year ago

    Meme is just a repost so I’m not offended or anything (not that I would be even if it was OC)… but are you maybe seeing “centralization” in the sense of “popularity” instead of “control”? (I agree that the choice of words in the meme could have been better…) - Anyway, even if you are, no worries. I was just curious.

    I think the original creator was probably more pointing out how with snap, it is next to impossible to create another app store because the source code for the backend is closed source.

    While with flatpak it is fully open-source so anyone who wishes to create a new store can do so. Yes, fighting against what’s popular has always been an uphill battle and that would be the case here also. But there would be no technological or legal roadblocks to doing so.

    At least, that’s how I understood it

    Disclaimer: I generally prefer native packages over flatpaks/appimages myself. I pretty much refuse to even consider using snaps, for variety of reasons, unless they both open-source the backend code and make some other changes to address other pet peeves I have with the project. I’m not holding my breath though.