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GeekFTW

@GeekFTW@kbin.social

(He/Him)

Geek. Gamer. Data hoarder. Eldritch Horror hidden in a geeky t-shirt. Canadian. Polite, but says 'cunt' like an Australian. Avid pirate, worships unfathomable space gods that may drive you crazy.

If you see this username on other instances, it's almost certainly me on an alt. Kbin.social is my main home.

Mastodon - https://universeodon.com/@GeekFTW

If I own a magazine you want to own/mod, please dm me! I'm im the process of claiming/deleting old unused mags sitting around kbin.

Este perfil es de un servidor federado y podría estar incompleto. Explorar más contenido en la instancia original.

detalferous,

Consider

old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku

erinnacland, a academicchatter en
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Is academia hostile to families?

"As is the case for many parents in academia, parental leave has played a major part in the trajectories of our lives and scientific careers". In contrast to Canada, "the United States has no federally mandated paid parental leave."

Early career academics are often poorly paid and are required to relocate frequently, causing obvious major challenges for young families.

@academicchatter
https://sites.google.com/view/parental-leave-in-academia
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02544-2

igisho, a random en
@igisho@rockosbasilisk.com avatar

🧬 7 years ago, scientists proved that they can shave a cell down to its most basic elements, creating a life form with the smallest genome that allows it to grow and divide in lab.

Recent study proofs that even simplest self-replicating organisms on earth can adapt.

During 300 days of evolution in the lab (the generational equivalent of 40,000 human years), the "minimal cells" regained all the vitality they had sacrificed.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06288-x

lvxferre,
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The problem with platforms advertising that they’re free speech platforms is that you’ll get a lot of people who gives no flying fucks about freedom of speech, they care about that specific discourse that got them banned from other platforms, and only a few people who actually care about free speech as a principle.

And that backtracks all the way into

  1. The false dichotomy that freedom of speech is binary (either you have it or you don’t). It’s quantitative - you have more or less of it, never full or empty.
  2. That nasty, robotic tendency of plenty social media users to stick to the words themselves, instead of the underlying concepts. Cue to “ackshyually”. In this case “free speech” makes them think about some random law of some random country, what it allows and what it doesn’t, instead of thinking on the principle itself.
  3. The incorrect belief that only people above you in a hierarchy can lower your freedom of speech, when we do it all the time. (For example: specially stupid users reduce the freedom of speech of the others, as they discourage their participation.)

Once you work around those three, you realise that, in a lot of situations, forbidding a discourse actually increases the freedom of speech of some other group; so sometimes you need to do it to maximise the overall freedom of speech of all parties involved.

HipPriest,

I don't know what you were posting but I don't think my odds of having things removed were ever that high, lol

But it is nice to not have that feeling yeah

Be wary of spiteful Reddit users (kbin.social) en

In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...

admiralteal,

This is the Twitter effect.

The more the engaging and respectful leave for greener pastures, the more concentrated the bile left behind is... the more someone trying to be engaging or respectful is compelled to leave.

The only way out of the death spiral for Reddit is to either totally revamp the way they engage the community (not going to happen) or else to completely give up to being a mil-deep platform primarily for advertisers, trolls, and bots.

Arotrios,
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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.

ziggurism,
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You wanna try again with that title salad

abff08f4813c,

kbin is newer and less polished. But yeah I personally recommend kbin over lemmy for exactly the reasons you posted.

ernest,
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I appreciate the concern, and it seems to me that kbin is no longer just one person ;) Currently, kbin is a team of wonderful people who handle development work, devops, project management, and more. Additionally, Piotr helps me with administering kbin.social. There will be significant changes here soon, things are happening quickly. But to be honest, I wasn't fully prepared for such substantial growth, and it will probably take some time before everything stabilizes. But... this is just the beginning ;) What's important is that the snowball starts rolling, regardless of whether kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon gains the most users. We all win in this situation.

ernest,
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Yeah, the pace is still crazy, but it's a completely different mental comfort when you're aware that you're not alone ;)

AnalogyAddict, a RedditMigration en

As a victim of domestic violence who has spent years online trying to help other victims, Reddit's act of undeleting several of my deleted comments just made me have to go through and manually delete. In the process, I had to relive a huge chunk of trauma.

I'm not feeling okay right now.

Pandantic,
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(Worth noting that the vast majority of markdown in the value of Reddit and Discord holdings by Fidelity predominantly occurred last year.)

Oh, that means there’s more room to move down.

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