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sab, hace 6 meses

Not sure if this is a known bug, but any time I'm signed in and try to enter the "all content" view (on any page) i get the "We are working on resolving the issues" error.

If I sign out of kbin it works fine, so it seems related to the fact that I'm signed in as me.

Sorry for reporting bugs here - I realize it's a bit lazy and not ideal!

sab, hace 7 meses

This is already supported in kbin! Press your icon in the top right corner and enter the settings, and select the languages you're interested in under the "Filter languages of threads and posts" setting (somewhat counter-intuitively under the "Appearance" heading). Seems to be working great for me at least :)

sab, hace 7 meses

I used to like it, now I avoid it at all cost. The problem is that the algorithm is never neutral, even if it's made with good intentions it can be gamed and manipulated, and it traps you in a spiral where what you interact with is what it shows you is what you interact with is what it shows you...

I never really used Twitter or any similar service, so I never had this happen to information shaping my opinions. I did, however, feel that the music I was listening to became shaped by the Spotify algorithm, and that I ended up listening to less rather than more diverse music than when I was sticking to vinyl. That's absurd - you have all the music in the world at your fingertips, and you end up limiting yourself more. That was my experience of course, other people probably have different ones. Anyway, I cancelled my subscription.

If there's a risk for music streaming services narrowing your field of vision, platforms shaping your opinions are downright scary. Algorithms can be tricked into showing you content, which is what russian troll farms excelled at. Tech bros tend to believe the solution is in adding more and more complexity to the point where nobody understands how it works - this is the opposite of how I want the content that helps informing me about the world to be curated.

I'm obviously not diagonally opposed to algorithms. The choose your own algorithm approach might have some merit, and I look forward to seeing more experimentation with this in the fediverse. But I do not trust corporate interests with any of this - nor do I trust a bunch of tech-optimistic rich man's sons.

sab, hace 7 meses

I quite disagree. Of course interoperability is not going to be a perfect one to one - that's in the nature of these being different services. You don't want threads from a link aggregater taking over your microblogging feed.

Yet it's normal for Mastodon users to join in on the conversation here. From their perspective they never left Mastodon - from my perspective, I never left kbin - and you, for your part, think it's all happening within Lemmy. But it's really not. So these things happen all the time, it's just that you don't necessarily notice unless you check the domain of the person you're responding to. Mastodon users of course often leave in the @-tags, making them a bit easier to identify.

Lemmy is a bit more isolated than Kbin, as it is not integrating microblogs at all. That's a decision on the side of the developers, not a weakness of the ActivityPub protocol.

sab, hace 7 meses

What do you mean kbin doesn't really support microblogging?

The only real issue I can think of right now is that it does not display videos or polls yet, but for being an early version of a software developed primarily by one guy as a hobby project those are pretty minor omissions.

sab, hace 7 meses

The option to keep followed users and subscribed communities separate in the feed will be great!
Really impressed by the pace of progress lately - it's very much appreciated. You're building something special here. :)

sab, hace 7 meses

Very excited that there is progress towards enabling the API! @hariette has done a great job with her Artemis app, will be great to be able to use it properly. :)

sab, hace 7 meses

She mentioned earlier that she had been struggling with muscle pains but eager to return to working on the fediverse, so it seems like it might be physical health issues rather than burn-out.

No matter what it is it's normal that people's engagement in largely unpaid projects fluctuate over time. That said I hope we'll get to enjoy the product of her hard work, and more importantly of course that she is getting better and is distracted by fun rather than awful things.

sab, hace 11 meses

I quite enjoy how microblogging is integrated in kbin.social at the moment. It brings life to smaller communities, and connects us with the Fediverse at large.

For example, /m/gardening only has 12 threads at the moment, but since the microblog follows #gardening there are hundreds of posts in the microblog; several of which are from the last hour.

It's not perfect yet (if you open gardening@kbin.social from another kbin instance you won't see microblogs using the hashtag) and it's not for everyone, but to me at least it's a great bridge between kbin and the microblogging universe. :)

sab, hace 11 meses

I would love it if we just went all early 1990s and started saying "hello Internet!" or something beautifully corny like that.

In the end activitypub is a standard recognized by the W3C, so it would be kind of accurate.