I believe the scientific name for this whole thing is “clusterfuck” xD
the articles from The Verge seem to be very favorable towards the protestors
Because that’s what’s driving traffic for them right now. Let’s not forget that The Verge is also a soulless corporate entity. Peters has been doing a good job at covering the issues, but he wouldn’t be allowed to be as thorough if the topic and angle wasn’t a good driver of traffic.
That argument doesn’t hold under scrutiny. Reddit employs about 80 people on their iOS development team. And the app blows fucking chunks, compared to Apollo, which was made by one guy.
Too bad they don’t seem to be federating. Just tried signing up to that specific community from Kbin, but it doesn’t show the content. Oh well, gonna keep my eye on it, regardless.
That’s gotta be up there with the best drunk Cup parade speeches of all time, lmao. Love the woman just trying to take his mic away xD
Also, after they took his mic away, Carrier honored his last name and carried him off the stage.
As a Mexican, I am very disturbed by this question. It’s not stupid (that doesn’t exist in this community), it’s just disturbing xD
No, a tamale is not a noodle. Noodles don’t have fillings, are longer, and thinner. It’s like asking if ravioli is a noodle.
Might have to look up that hockey community, because the one on Kbin is kinda quiet.
Same here. I used to have LastPass, but after their privacy fiasco, I moved to Bitwarden, which I find to be rock solid. The fact that it’s open source helps me feel more at ease that they won’t pull any crap as easily as other password managers.
Kbin has my favorite interface from the federated sites I’ve seen, and the developer seems like a decent dude.
It would be nice to not have to sift through so much chaff to find wheat
Isn’t that the nature of social networks, though xD
it should be up to the user to decide what they see for the most part. At least, they should be able to decide what they don’t see.
You can always turn off federation by going into your Kbin sidebar and clicking on the little triangle icon, next to the settings.
Or you can go to https://kbin.social/sub, to view the equivalent of your Reddit home page (i.e. with the communities you’re subscribed to). https://kbin.social/ is more like r/all, where you’ll see stuff from your subscriptions, plus other random stuff.
I mean, there’ll always be way to see that. It’s just not obvious at first glance. But even on Kbin, the URL of the thread you’re in will have the instance after the @ sign.
My point is that we don’t need to make this a dick-measuring contest between instances. If the fediverse grows and gets better, we all win.
That’s a feature, not a bug. If you find a worthwhile discussion, and have something to bring to it, just do it. No need to marry yourself to just the one instance. That’s the beauty of federation, really.
A very deep hole to go into
To add a bit more context, this comment is from a former Reddit dev, who is now the creator and developer of Tildes, one of the Reddit alternatives that’s been gaining traction in the last week:
(I used to work as a backend developer at Reddit - I left 6 years ago but I doubt the way things work has changed much)
I think it’s extremely unlikely that this is deliberate. The way that Reddit builds “mixed” subreddit listings (where you see posts from multiple subreddits, like users’ front pages) is inefficient and strange, and relies heavily on multiple layers of caches. Having so many subreddits private with their posts inaccessible has never happened before, and is probably causing a bunch of issues with this process.
So, wait… people who have a competing world view from yours are listening to demons? Now who’s naive? xD