common lemmy.ml L. thanks for the heads up though that interacting on lemmy.ml stuff might be broken.

reddit has private messaging and a chat feature as well.

>reddit fucks over users

>hackers fuck over users

why do this?

@corytheboyd Yup there was a lot of drama about it I think related to twitter. because Trump wanted to remove section 230 or something and people were emphasizing how crucial it was to protect social media server hosts from legal liability of the users’ content.

@corytheboyd This is literally what section 230 is about. did everyone suddenly forget that drama? social media platform hosts are not legally liable for user-posted content, provided they follow takedown requests of illegal content when it’s brought to their attention.

I like the gamecube controller the best for using. though because I’m a weirdo who likes the weirdest stuff, I’m super fond of the n64 controller.

I feel like it’s just me posting kbinauts everywhere lol. also I love your assessment on the different communities :)

Yes. keep in mind kbin is really only one month old, and in these past few days went from like 1k users to 30k. things are still WIP, the servers are being hit hard, etc. Give it a while and see if things start working out. Federation is already working much better than it was a few days ago when I first joined.

I actually tried to get my first name but it was already taken on kbin when I joined lol. I ended up using my twitter handle instead (without any numbers and such).

As an ai language model, I’ll have you know that it’s inappropriate to refer to me as a human. /s

Sometimes the federation is quick, and sometimes it’s slow. kbin.social has been wonky with federation ever since I joined haha. it was down entirely the first few days, and now seems to mostly be working (albeit sometimes is slow or misses posts for a while). I think these are mostly just teething issues though, since kbin is very new and just recently scaled massively to a degree that’s unfamiliar to the admin. I’m sure things will be worked out in the future.

But your suggestion of joining the instance that you interact with most is probably a good idea. It lets you be “safer” about losing access due to defederation (see how lemmyworld was blocked by beehaw). it removes federation issues (it’s all native content), and the users there are probably more similar to your own way of thinking/doing things.

I interact with a lot of lemmy.world threads, but I don’t have any intention on migrating there. I like kbin, even if it means missing some lemmy.world threads.

I don’t think there’s any centralized place to go to find that info. and not every instance makes their federation/block lists public.

I think that’s just uniquely a beehaw thing. it’s what results when you have a small number of moderators and a desire for a strict way of engaging and moderating. other instances naturally will grow faster and it’ll be overwhelming, leading to defederation. I think many instances don’t have this philosophy, so they’re not exactly going to defederate each other.

zeronet solved this problem years ago and no one cared lol. how it works is it uses public/private key addressing for addresses, and then uses p2p torrent style filesharing for hosting. it lets the owner of the private key update their content while also having the sites be hosted in a decentralized manner. since the public keys are immutable, the addressing never changes.

it also has a federated system for it’s social media where the frontend/gui for a site is separate from the data storage, and it aggregates the collective data sites that you have downloaded/fetched.

It has it’s problems but it works remarkably well. but unfortunately it’s dead since the dev vanished and people lost interest.

it’s not quite “auto federation”. but if you create/moderate a magazine you can set “tags” in the magazine settings that will automatically pull in microblog posts from elsewhere on the fediverse.

What you need to understand is that “lemmy instances slrpnk, lemmy.fmhy.ml, beehaw.org collectively are reddit” is not correct. The proper analogy is that beehaw.org alone is reddit. And then beehaw.org is linking up with other “reddits”.

The technology communities in those different instances are their own thing. They aren’t “the same one community split fragmented” they’re separate communities.

so while I can post in here on [email protected] it’s very much the case and obvious to me that it’s separate from the magazines we have here on kbin. we have our [email protected] which is our technology community. and this technology on beehaw simply happens to be another technology community that I can see and participate in.

In practice, what results is that people interested in these topics will generally subscribe to all of them if they want to see all of the content. but they aren’t the same thing.

I know y’all here on beehaw have some pretty emphasized posting guidelines that simply don’t exist elsewhere on the fediverse. as a result, whenever I’m in a beehaw community I make sure to not kick the hornets nest (sorry I couldn’t help but make the pun). but on the communities here on kbin? yes I happily participate more comfortably.

tl;dr: they’re different communities, not the same community split among instances.

edit: it’s also worth noting that us kbinauts aren’t even using lemmy, and neither are the mastodon users who sometimes participate in these threads.

we’re not talking about “the first time” though. It’ll be something like, I visit a magazine/community and there’ll be some posts, but the most recent one will be 4 hours ago. I then look at the magazine/community on the original host and it’s most recent stuff was 10 minutes ago, not 4 hours.

@mtorpey kbin is similar but gets the best of both as we have separate thread and microblog sections.

I think it’s just lag. there’s a lot of content to sync so I imagine it can take a while in some cases.

I saw the title and thought “wow this kbinaut’s feeling uncharacteristically edgey today” but then read the post and realized it’s the usual kbinaut W.

Agreed completely. I wouldn’t sign up for lemmygrad, but I haven’t had any issues with them and they seem to be doing the fediverse thing properly. They’re clearly branded so you know what you’re signing up for.