in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began.

since that time, there have been various other intrinsic and extrinsic threats. I do not see much panicking about beehaw. did the threadiverse survive beehaw? or is this only a shell of what we might have had otherwise?

When I join threadiverse (summer 2023), soon everyone was talking about Threads and how it was about to destroy the whole thing.

Then nothing came of it and the whole convo kinda vanished.

Why didn't threads destroy threadiverse already?

On desktop kbin is 5x better than vanilla lemmy.

But on mobile I have several FLOSS lemmy clients. They all have their pros n cons. Their development is spread out with different projects. Work and the responsibility are distributed from the main lemmy maintainers.

The kbin webapp is pretty good, but not as good as a native client. There is of course only one.

My feeling is that designing for clients (having an API) imposes some kind of discipline on projects. Like you can't just do whatever willy nilly.

My other feeling is that kbin is setting up to be like iCloud whereas lemmy is more akin to sftp.

Thoughts?

When I Find-in-page for a term using ctrl+f or "find as you type" with "Highlight all" turned on, all results will appear highlighted. But then much of the time several seconds (variable) later it goes away, as though I had hit esc. If I hit ctrl+g for "find again" it starts again at the top. So current place in page is lost.

This happens even if I take my hands away from keyboard/mouse. It is not some kind of input I am doing.

Does this sound framiliar to anyone? Is there a way to make the "find" results stay found?

Or is there an add-on which reliably implements Find?

I have problem on multiple devices, for a long time, and with linux, windows and mac.

hello friends of rblind. I am a sighted person who follows the kbin-core repo. I saw an issue #1143 opened recently regarding the use of alt in markdown. I am having a hard time discerning whether it is a productive request or not.

I understand that rblind is not a free-of-charge accessibility consultation company. But I thought I would point out this issue in case anyone had an interest in contributing to the discussion.

If I am posting in error, please either remove it or notify me so I can remove or edit the post.

Here is the text of the issue:

> > > See this post > > > > Current widespread wisdom is that you should specify alt text with the format ![alt text](url) but this ISN'T behaving as alt text. It's behaving as a label. It needs to be set to the alt text attribute on the image. > > > > True alt text doesn't need to be rendered out. It's a nice feature that apps like pixelfed give you a button to see the alt text, because it can give extra context, but this is a secondary feature. This would be great to add as well, but it's out of scope here. > > > > Labels are meant for things like crediting the photographer. See any well written news articles for examples of this. This one has an image of some sharks as a header. You'll see underneath that it has an explanation and credits NIWA for the image. > > > > There IS a way to specify labels in markdown, and leave the alt text in tact. The correct format is ![alt text](link "label goes here") but this isn't currently recognised by kbin and the label gets completely stripped out. (link) > > > > You can verify this by using something like this plugin. > > > > Notice how all the post images are marked as "Missing alt attribute" > > > > Notice how things like the magazine icon don't render out their alt text "ArtemisAppPlayground Icon" > > > > Further, see codberg's handling of images: > > > > alt text > > > > ![alt text](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg/320px-SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg.png "Label text here") > > > > results in the following html: > <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg/320px-SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg.png" alt="alt text" title="Label text here"> > > > > (codeberg displays labels as tooltips) > > > > I honestly think it's fine to keep using the first [part] as labels, mostly because this syntax is already widely in use, but I think the second (link "this bit") should be set to the image's alt text attribute. > >

I'd like a keyboard shortcut to act in the same way as the toobar button "show sidebars":

• If the sidebar is open, it hides it

• If the sidebar is closed, it opens to the last used sidebar

This page, Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly only describes how to toggle individual sidebars. History, bookmarks etc. So depending what is open you have to use unique shortcuts.

Is it possible?

I \<3 FF but they are really stingy about the keyboard shortcuts.

Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. (also missing!)

At some point, there will be some sort of drama involving kbin. It could be constructive drama or not; who knows.

When it happens, whatever it is, lots of people will direct themselves to wikipedia to learn about what this website is. We all know wikipedia can be very influential. Even in the absence of drama.

I can't believe how fast this addon was developed into something that is super useful.

A month ago I made a list of all the available addons to address this need. There were I think 4-5 of them and I actually didn't end up using any of them because they were too simple and didn't add much for my usecase.

In the intervening days (days!) this project has really fleshed out. I am impressed that you've managed to make an interface that makes sense. I wasn't sure if that would be possible because it is kind of an inherently complex situation.

And on top of that, it works. There are issues with federation which are network wide and not much you can do about that. But as much as the threadiverse is willing to cooperate, this addon smooths the experience.

Thanks, I really appreciate this.

I am not sure what is correct to put in kbin-core/issues without cluttering it up with somewhat speculative requests. I have no idea how to implement this or whether it is possible. So I will post here?

This is a response to issue \#635 - Editor support for autocompletion when a user types /m/, /c/, /u/, or @

@garrettw said:

> > > After all of this I'm left with the distinct impression that a standardized link format is needed across the fediverse for any fediverse content. > >

I keep wishing for UUIDs or hashes or an internal link shortener or permalink something.

These are the same post on different instances:

• https://fedia.io/m/firefox/t/132144 \<- this is the instance where the community lives
• https://lebowski.social/post/12337 \<- this is the poster's home instance
• https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/237162
• https://beehaw.org/post/6759290

It would be nice if it would have a unique ID like e3d14d6c-28d7-11ee-be56-0242ac120002 across the \*verse. I can't be the first person to think of this right? Why is ity either not a good idea, or not a viable idea?

I imagine 2 variations. I am not attached to any of the particulars... Just spitballing. What do you think?

1. /local/uuid ----------

/local/e3d14d6c-28d7-11ee-be56-0242ac120002 - this link would bring the user to the post on the instance where you are viewing it.

So if someone writes in a comment:

``` check out this post!

```

and you are viewing it on beehaw, it renders like this:

``` <p>check out <a href="https://beehaw.org/post/6759290">this post</a>!</p>

```

if you are viewing it on kbin.social, it renders like this:

``` <p>check out <a href="https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/237162">this post</a>!</p>

```

2. /orig/uuid ----------

On the other hand we need a way to link to the particular item as it appears "originally". To do this, you could write:

``` check out this post!

```

And irrespective of where you are looking at it, it will render like this:

``` <p>check out <a href="https://fedia.io/m/firefox/t/132144">this post</a>!</p>

```

I am not 100% sure if the correct behaviour for this is to link to the community home instance or the poster's home instance? I went with community home but maybe there is argument for the other way, or for both.

Im sure theyre going to find the perfect mods

I would like to suggest that developers consider as much flexibility when trying to interact with links/handles from off-instance and off-kbin (e.g. lemmy) as possible. I would like for it to work on lemmy in a similar fashion.

I think that the various "incorrect" ways of doing things should work as redirects assuming this would not cause a technical problem. It could even explain the correct way of doing things if you'd like to discourage it.

Non exhaustive examples:

communities

as an example: https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists

search kbin.social for https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists - finds occasions where people have mentioned the URL in comment/post

Most lemmy instances suggest searching for a group in a way that doesn't work:

search kbin.social for for [email protected] - finds occasions where people have mentioned the handle in comment/post

you need to replace ! with @ to find it:

search kbin.social for for @[email protected] - works as expected

So the kbin.social URL is https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

But what about variations a person could try based on principals of how things work e lsewhere:

https://kbin.social/m/@[email protected]

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

even allowing use of the /c/ instead of the /m/?

profiles

profiles have similar inconsistencies.

I can view this off-instance profile on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/u/@[email protected]

but if I try to drop my own username into the same structure, it doesn't work: https://kbin.social/u/@[email protected]

The only way to see my profile is (I think) https://kbin.social/u/density

Hope this all is intelligible.

/r/Firefox and /r/FirefoxCSS have both moved to fedia.io kbin instance.

from kbin.social I can access Firefox. But I can't access FirefoxCSS. I waited about 90 mins since first trying. Should I just wait longer or is there some other issue?

@[email protected] fedia link: https://fedia.io/m/Firefox from kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] search on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/search?q=Firefox%40fedia.io

@[email protected] fedia link: https://fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] "404 Not found" search on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/search?q=FirefoxCSS%40fedia.io "Empty"

If you ever have the problem of forgetting you were writing something and closing a window, or accidentally navigating away from the page on which you are composing, this is the browser extension to save your ass: Form History Control.

• Documentation: Form History Control (II)

• Git repo: stephanmahieu/formhistorycontrol-2

• [Firefox Addon]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-control/)

• Chrome Web Store

In kbin I especially have this problem as I get logged out constantly for some reason, for example while I am composing even a fairly short comment, and if I submit while logged out the text vanishes. But everything is stored in the extension. It is local to your machine where it will be secure.

I am using it for a year or two now and it has been flawless. It doesn't cause any slowdown in browser performance. It is unnoticeable until that moment you need it.

If you ever have the problem of forgetting you were writing something and closing a window, or accidentally navigating away from the page on which you are composing, this is the browser extension to save your ass: Form History Control.

• Documentation: Form History Control (II)

• Git repo: stephanmahieu/formhistorycontrol-2

• Firefox Addon

• Chrome Web Store

In kbin I especially have this problem as I get logged out constantly for some reason, for example while I am composing even a fairly short comment, and if I submit while logged out the text vanishes. But everything is stored in the extension. It is local to your machine where it will be secure.

I am using it for a year or two now and it has been flawless. It doesn't cause any slowdown in browser performance. It is unnoticeable until that moment you need it.

On desktop, I was trying to figure out how to get from the notifications list ( https://kbin.social/settings/notifications ) to the specific comment.

It just links to the top of the thread and I have to ctrl-F for my handle. Which doesn't work easily on long threads or nested comments.

The link in notifications includes an anchor, for example #entry-comment-612642.

If I find the comment and click more \> share URL, I get the same anchor link, which also just links to the top of the thread, example: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/152720/r-BotDefense-is-shutting-down-I-hope-Reddit-likes-spam-and#entry-comment-612642

If I click more \> copy URL to fediverse, I get a correctly working link on the commenter's home instance: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/768070

Edited out an idea for a workaround which actually doesn't work. And edited the title to remove reference to this.

I am always being logged out of kbin on desktop and mobile PWA.

On desktop, using firefox, if I stop using the site for 10-20 minutes, even if the active tab is open with it, I am logged out. Is this normal expected behavior or might I have some setting or addon which is creating this?

I have given kbin an exception to the rule of purging cookies between sessions in case somehow that was the issue. No change.

Never encountered this before.

Anyone else with same issue? Or no?

> > > 5 and a half years ago EA held an AMA so disastrous that it was unreadable as downvotes pummelling the answering producers and directors to the ground. Back then I made an overview for r/Games. > > > > Due to the high interest and high chance of being a shit show of similar or possibly greater proportion, here's an easily readable overview for the spez AMA. > > > > I will edit as it goes on. > >