shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Yeah, I'm on kbin.social and for some reason we don't accept !community, only @community here. I just always link 'cause it's so hard to find stuff lmao.
One day we'll have truly seamless (non-janky) content conversion.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
It seems like the whole fediverse is having a lot of the same growing pains.
Discovery is still basically an impenetrable jungle. If you already know exactly what you're looking for it's fine. But I basically just wander around and happen upon neat stuff every so often lol.
And sorting content is another type of discovery problem. I'm subscribed to some interesting stuff but I need to remember to actually go check them because none of it shows up in feeds.
I'm not a programmer, so I don't know how long it takes to work out these types of issues. But I do know that I'm only still around because I'm hopeful, not because I'm actually finding it particularly useful or entertaining.
The fediverse currently feels like it might be competitive with webforums from 2010: The platform isn't doing much to help, but it's fine 'cause the people have spirit lol.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Here's that write-up for future readers!
I was about to reply to that write up here but I'll reply in the correct comment section lol.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
We probably should decide how much conflict we want to imagine happening here lol.
Wars from the 1700s-1800s (a couple hundred years ago from today) just aren't thought about much during my regular daily life, but none of those were global catastrophes right.
So if we can manage to avoid major nuclear destruction, then it could be pretty tame after 300 years!
Assuming we don't all destroy each other, then we mostly keep our knowledge base, so we don't need to restart from a basic agrarian culture lol. Someone saved wikipedia right??
There will still be an unbelievable amount of losses from starvation alone, so we're definitely restarting the population from small communities.
But 300 years of repopulation, and 300 years battery research might actually get us to something approaching the early 1900s again! (Around the 1930s is when about half of American households had electricity.) Cities are possible, we start getting back into shipping between countries or continents. If we add internet into this mix, we get even further!
Honestly, if we're talking about hundreds of years (and humans don't self-destruct) then I actually think we don't get set back too far on the grand scheme of things lol.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
There's an About section, saying the instance has just under 1,000 videos, and is using about 250 gigs right now. (If you include federated videos, then it's 63,000 videos though lol.)
I agree with you here, it sure looks like being a new video platform is a very difficult game to play. And asking for people to donate to MakerTube specifically rather than any of the myriad of other peertube platforms seems like a very uphill battle too lol.
I do think that it would be good for all of us to get used to contributing to the operations costs of platforms where the users aren't the product. But yeah, there's definitely going to be growing pains lol.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Incredible results, and I really love seeing the progress pictures! Thank you for sharing!
Is there any advice you would give to someone following your footsteps here?
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Sure! I made an artemis.camp account account lol.
When I'm lounging, I've been opening up kbin.social first always, and when the content runs out I rotate between youtube / instagram / reddit. I'll try out kbin -> artemis -> other for a bit, to give it a solid chance!
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Okay, so I'm here on kbin.social. And I see that it's artemis.camp only until 0.2.1 comes out.
Should I just come back in a bit to use my established account? Or is 0.2.1 going to take like 3-12 months so I might as well just make an artemis.camp account?
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
I loved this book! But it's physically huge and not very commute friendly lol. I ended up switching to the audiobook to get it done.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
I supported a pre-emptive Threads defederation, because I expect them to Embrace-Extend-Extinguish the fediverse for the sake of profit.
For the BBC, I don't feel as overtly opposed. They don't really have the user base to overextend us with, even if they tried to get their audience on mastodon lol. They haven't seemed blatantly profit driven in the past. And they're starting their own instance, using fediverse tech.
Does anyone think this is the BBC's Embrace step? It's not sparking any alarm bells for me, but can I get a sanity check?
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Here's their accounts, for the curious:
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Oooh, I'm excited to try this out! But later, 'cause I'm just on mobile, and kbin doesn't have a save function yet lol.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Ohh, like they're kind of a foam material? That makes sense.
Somehow I was imagining you'd found round sponges hahah. Show us more of your stuff! : )
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Okay, yeah that all seems correct to me lol. It sure does make us sound crazy though!
I'm pretty happy to have non-zero competency in all the systems lol. I'm a regular hobby crafter, and honestly some projects just work better in metric, some are better in imperial.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Wow, I'm pretty impressed with BC for this.
Having font support really legitimizes a language. It's basically impossible to make digital content if you can't type in your language, so this is really unlocking a lot for the readers and writers of all those languages!
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Oooh! What are they made from??
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Lmao that's hilarious. I see the switch, what's he playing??
How much of this is printed vs your conversion? It's really creative lol.
Ohh, just realized you're the guy that posted the yellow meganobz the other week! Okay, I'm gonna plug (!orks/@orks) here 'cause I'd love to see more of your stuff!
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Lol I thought there was a filter on the image before I read about the print lines.
This looks great! I love how much terrain is around, the setting really tells a story. Keep doing what you're doing!
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Just tagging things as Porn or Gore is a great idea! Let's mark stuff as what it is, not where it's... supposedly unsafe? lmao. Yes, you shouldn't be looking at porn while working, but there are plenty of non-work places where it's still not really appropriate.
I think there could be an argument for Gore being called like "Trauma" or something instead. Porn is broad, and I'd like another tag for "Viewer Beware" even if there isn't specifically Gore in it. A Gore tag feels more like a Sex tag, yes porn is sex but there's plenty of porn that isn't specifically sex.
shepherd 1y ago • 100%
Okay, yeah. I do slightly prefer 'website' but I'm having trouble disagreeing with you here lmao. I'm willing to leave 'link' alone, if we make the other ones less ambiguous!
As far as I can tell, magazine tags are mainly used when searching for magazines, and *maybe* for determining related magazines. But I think mag tags should be applied automatically to threads and posts inside each magazine. This would make for a decent multireddit substitute. If I'm looking at the [#tech](https://kbin.social/tag/tech) tag feed, I think that should include a *lot* of content from a lot of different sources that have marked themselves as [#tech](https://kbin.social/tag/tech), not just the individual threads that remembered to actually tag it lol. In the future, being able to make my own customized feeds would effectively allow for a proper multi-feed experience! Like [#tech](https://kbin.social/tag/tech)+[#DIY](https://kbin.social/tag/DIY)+[#raspberrypi](https://kbin.social/tag/raspberrypi) feed, or whatever! Okay, tell me why this is technically difficult, impossible, or otherwise won't work the way that I'm hoping lol.
I'm seeing discussions on other instances about how a "federated" corporate instance should be handled, i.e. Meta, or really any major company. What would kbin.social's stance be towards federating/defederating with a Meta instance? Or what should that stance be?
Hi! Is there a way to filter for different languages? This morning, I started seeing German posts, but I don't speak German. I tried blocking the magazine but there's actually a lot of different German Magazines lol, and I'd rather just filter out the language (until I decide to learn it!) On the other hand, is there a way to *add* other languages? I don't care about specific magazines in English when I'm browsing /all here, and I'd be happy with the same for Spanish or French.
So I've gone with kbin over lemmy for now, folks seem pretty friendly here. **Main question:** I understand that the point of the Fediverse is (relatively) easy access to decentralized communities. **But what happens if the folks in charge of an instance decide they want to close it?** If ernest suddenly decides he wants to close kbin, is all the content just lost? Do we have ways to migrate the content/users/everything? Even the reddit blackout was noticeably "someone else says you can't have this anymore" so I'm a little more sensitive to this than normal lol. I realize we're in the early stages of the Fediverse, so it may just be a matter of patience while the smart people figure it out lol. But instance-death or long-term community-blackout seems like a risk across the whole fediverse! **Followup question:** If I post content, should I be basically spreading it across several instances to ensure my contributions aren't lost when someone else closes up shop?