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Arotrios, hace 8 meses a RedditMigration en Schadenfreude as Reddit becomes Self-Aware

Well, borked picture posting on kbin wouldn't load the picture properly and now it won't let me delete the thread, so here it is until I can manage to get this post to delete.

Arotrios, hace 9 meses a RedditMigration en Looks like Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of personalized advertisements.

They've had issues with CSAM and DDOS attacks - they're probably using Cloudflare to help mitigate that.

Arotrios, hace 9 meses a lemmyworld en Removed Kbin.social communities

Hi - mod of a small kbin.social mag here - @13thFloor - and a lemmy.world user. Is there anything we can do on our end to help mitigate the problem, or make it easier to flag spam that makes its way to Lemmy? I'd be more than willing to include a note to the lemmy.world admins if a spam post is deleted off of a mag I mod here- just need to know who to contact.

Side notes - Ernest (kbin.social) just responded on the spam issue here. The community has been actively working over here to flag and remove spam accounts (I've personally flagged close to 100). According to the most recent news from @ernest earlier last week, we've got a software update incoming, and a magazine cleanup in the works that will hopefully make an impact.

Arotrios, hace 9 meses a RedditMigration en Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas

In my experience, they're split between the Mastodon side of the Fediverse and the Lemmy side. On Kbin, which bridges both, and where you can follow users, you end up with a pretty rich feed if you follow enough people and places - I've got about 100 communities subbed and 300+ users and my feed is better than Reddit's ever was.

Another thing to note is that your instance benefits from your discovery - it doesn't start indexing posts from another instance until someone from the first instance subscribes to it. This means a lot of smaller instances get lost in the shuffle, but they're out there - you just have to find them. I've noted that this is much more difficult to do on my Lemmy account than my accounts with other software, so you might benefit from an instance jump if things feel dry on your current account.

Arotrios, hace 9 meses a random en Is KBIN dying? Srs Question: Is there any further development or support being done for Kbin.Social Keep getting the error page when trying to block users, create posts, view notifications. Been going on for weeks now.

You're doing awesome @ernest - I can't express how much your hard work has made a difference to the Fediverse. This is the only software that really bridges the Lemmy / Mastodon divide, and given how new it is and the fact that Kbin's uptime is better than lemmy.world - that's remarkably impressive. Take care of your family, and pace yourself - take a break if you need to, but don't feel like you need to quit because folks expect one man to do the unpaid work of multiple admin teams. Step back and delegate if you need to, but don't step down - you're an excellent leader and the current success of Kbin is proof of that.

@downpunxx Kbin is definitely not dead. These are just growing pains. I believe the bug you're encountering is related to domain blocking. Try unblocking any domains on your block list and you should see the commenting bug go away - this may fix the notification issue as well.

Arotrios, hace 10 meses a kbinMeta en How's the progress on allowing users to adopt magazines with inactive mods?

The only person who could really answer that is @ernest.

While we wait for him to respond on the topic (which may be awhile, as I'm sure he's got his hands full right now given the lemmy CSAM issues), I'd suggest that if you're looking to become mod of a dead magazine, give it life again. Post and fill it up and become a contributing member so that Ernest has something to go on when reassigning permissions. Otherwise he'll have no indication as to your commitment towards the community in question.

Arotrios, hace 10 meses a RedditMigration en Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path

This is why when a social media site gets past a certain size, the admin team and the moderation need to be clearly defined, and siloed from each other's core responsibilities, so the admin team focuses on running the site and the mod team focuses on making it sing.

Looks like the people actually moderating clearly had a handle on the situation. The admin was clearly overworked and didn't agree with the direction the community was taking, and made a quick decision that was poorly thought out.

The reason admins are admins is because they're good at running machines. You can turn a machine off if it's broken, and change how it runs with the flip of a switch.

A community requires a much different approach, and never, no matter how wise the decision, reacts well to being told how to act. It takes a different skill set to properly moderate and run a community than it does to run a server - in fact most admins I know make notoriously bad moderators (myself included, although I'm no longer an admin).

To be honest, the admin here is acting exactly like your stereotypical libertarian tech-bro computer guy who pays lip service to the left while pocketing the more palatable pieces of the philosophy of the right. I've worked with a lot of them in tech. LGBTQ+ is hard stretch for these guys in general - they'll declare gays have rights but won't march in Pride, use slurs when in like company, and generally see LGBTQ+ as a lifestyle choice and not an inescapable biological state of being.

They don't understand that it's not a switch you can flick on and off.

Just glad I'm on the Fediverse where this particular admin's meltdown doesn't matter too much, but I have a feeling Squabblr's fate is going to be the same as Voat (which was cool for about two weeks before the alt-right overran it).

Arotrios, hace 10 meses a kbinMeta en Kbin Pornbot alert - looks like a number of bot accounts have taken up residence on kbin and are spamming /m/random with porn

@ernest - thanks! Glad I could help - you've built a great space here, and I know what a pain it is to deal with spambots.

Arotrios, hace 10 meses a RedditMigration en thank you, spez

The sun always shines brighter on the day you leave an abusive partner. Welcome to what the internet was like before centralization - a playground of imagination, unfettered thought, and unbridled creativity. Congratulations on becoming part of the renaissance that is the Fediverse and breaking free from the stench of the Spezticle.

Arotrios, hace 11 meses a RedditMigration en Reddit down?

I'm hopeful - we're starting to get a lot of traffic over here from redditfugees. @PoppinKREAM showed up a little while ago, and that's a clear sign that the best content creators are making the move.

Because I like to bag on Reddit, here's what I think is happening:

Supposedly they were taking down /r/place today, in the past that's involved an infrastructure change. They are also getting rid of coins and awards and replacing them with some other bullshit, so that's likely to break the site too. That plus the ongoing API changes and Reddit's history of fractalized spaghetti code plus an angry userbase that includes a lot of anon and 4-chan members...

...well, lemme just say that you couldn't pay me enough to be a Reddit admin right now.

Arotrios, hace 11 meses a RedditMigration en Be wary of spiteful Reddit users

We should reject Reddit toxicity in general, tell them they don't have a place here or anywhere.

Wait, so you're saying we should kick out all ex-Redditors?

First they came for the Redditors, and I said nothing
Then they came for the Facebookers, and still I said nothing
Then they came for the Instagramians, and still I said nothing
Then they came for the Twits, and I laughed and laughed and laughed until I vomited
Then they came for the OnlyFans, and I think they're still coming

Arotrios, hace 11 meses a RedditMigration en Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. - Lemmy.world

Congrats, you get a cookie. Now toddle on kiddo.

Arotrios, hace 11 meses a RedditMigration en Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. - Lemmy.world

To be fair, Aaron wasn't really heavily involved with Reddit. He was involved with Infogami, which failed and was merged with Reddit. Per this post, he got equity in Reddit as a result, but only worked for a few months on the actual site.

After his death and the media portrayal of him as a martyr for free speech, Reddit started claiming him as "co-founder" much more vocally than they had previously. While technically he had that title, his involvement on Reddit was neither starting the company nor working on it for any extended period of time.

That being said, given what Reddit's become, wherever his spirit roams now, I'm sure he's relieved to have his name off the site.

Arotrios, hace 11 meses a RedditMigration en Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

This is like an incel posting on a dating site after calling all women whores.

Arotrios, hace 11 meses a RedditMigration en Reddit has started assigning power mods to subs they took over.

The moment I saw this headline this song popped into my head for some reason...