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XiELEd XiELEd @kbin.social
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Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail
  • Chrome is a memory hog compared to Firefox lol

  • Hot take: 18 years of user contributions to reddit will serve as a base model for an AI that generates content and conversations. the reddit experience continues as a simulation, to harvest clicks, sa
  • Considering most of reddit's comments are either one-liners and jokes, it's not that hard to get upvotes as a bot... but how'd you spot one? I'm afraid that I didn't learn the ability to distinguish between bot and human.

  • What do you want to see in this community that differs from other book communities?
  • I don't know how it would have differed from Reddit in this regard, but it would be quite suitable for a forum website to give thorough reviews of books. Some people give reviews of books on Tiktok where they just say the main topic of the book and that it's 'good'... good in what way? And like what other commenters have mentioned, some love too for nonfiction. Maybe we could even have discussions for fanfiction?

  • As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
  • It's almost a relief that I was (relatively) recently introduced to 3rd party apps that it made me care enough to move to Kbin in protest of Reddit's actions. The future there is bleak.

  • Lemmy feeding 4 & 5 day old content on the front page.
  • While the devs try to improve the recommendation feature, "Top Day" seems to be an okay substitute.

  • We need to be able to differentiate between NSFW and porn.
  • So imagine NSFW (or 18+) as a circle and sexual content as a smaller circle within it. Some people look for NSFW (say, combat footage), but not porn. If a post was designated within "sexual content", it would also put it within the realm of NSFW, so it won't show up to someone who doesn't want to see NSFW, but if someone is fine with NSFW but not sexual content, they won't see porn, but will be able to see NSFW.

  • Strange phenomenon while deleting my comments
  • That may be the case, so I think it's a temporary answer to this mystery. Though recently some of my comments ranging from 7 and 10 months ago (update: as of 6/19/23 my 18 days old comments are now reappearing) have been reappearing again, so it's become a kind of a whack-a-mole situation right now.

  • As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty
  • It's funny how he calls the moderators landed gentry, when he is the one benefitting from the mods' unpaid labor, all because they wanted to maintain their community, and then calls them squatters. In my culture, that sort of language means that he's trying to mock the moderators for being squatters "aspiring to be landed gentry"... then if you put his comments about owning slaves in an apocalyptic scenario into perspective... honestly I have no words left.
    And all those "subtle insults" for the community just makes me wonder, why do people even want to benefit him, or be associated with him? This man was the ultimate reason why I left, not even the fact that I was a 3rd party user.

  • Reddit threatens replacing moderators from privated subreddits, citing vandalism and squatting.
  • For me, it's not the app but u/spez. He lies, manipulates and tried to discreetly insult the community. It doesn't feel right for me to remain there.

  • Now that federation works, we need more clarity of source
  • It's not like that, though. Please don't just assume what our intentions are. We just get confused sometimes, especially on mobile, when there are maintenance and update posts for other sites that make it seem like it's going to be implemented here. The only way I distinguish between here and there is whether it's posted by Ernest or somebody else. If we could distinguish between posts by this site and others, we'd be up to date on other sites' development without getting misled.

  • Beehaw* defederated us?
  • I think it's actually Beehaw

  • Going on a 5-6 hour flight. Game recommendation?
  • I like playing through KEMCO games when I'm bored, though they're mostly turn-based JRPG games. My favorite is Asdivine Dios.

  • The fact that Lemmy/Kbin is weird and inaccessible to most normal people actually makes it perfect for Redditors.
  • I'm not sure about lemmy since I'm primarily a kbin user, but the mobile website is already really good to begin with. I just use Hermit to make it even more "app-like" with features like full screen and frameless. I even did the same to the websites of some of my other apps.