I believe the scientific name for this whole thing is “clusterfuck” xD
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.
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.
Yeah, I think that’s what happened. We did it Fediverse! :D
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.
At least from my quick test right now, it limits your home page to posts within kbin.social. Not sure if it works the other way around, too, preventing your posts from going out into the fediverse.
I think it’s, like, 50-50. Even with the blackout, I’ve seen a bunch of morons on Reddit trying to usurp moderation by being admin bootlickers and requesting a subreddit. It’s always kinda surprising what people are willing to do for fake internet points, and being “in charge” of something.
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.
So, wait… people who have a competing world view from yours are listening to demons? Now who’s naive? xD