gk99

joined 2 years ago
[–] gk99@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno, we've had some trash get popular over the years, but I kinda enjoy the "absurd surrealism" meme culture we've got now where nobody bats an eye at hearing the phrase "shadow money wizard gang," which is in fact a real thing.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Perhaps block the "RedditMigration" magazine if you're not interested in seeing it. It's not like this place was founded out of politeness.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

And considering they're just adding to the Chromium near-monopoly.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

They have a definition, they just won't tell the users because it's not a realistic definition and they plan to pull the rug out later on.

If third-party apps were only 3% of total traffic and reddit was willing to destroy its image and massively increase the viability of its only competitor just before IPO over it, I'm sure they'll have no problem getting rid of whatever percentage of blind people who can't see the ads reddit wants to serve anyway.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Nah, reddit is taking so long with the data requests it'd probably be easier to just ask these guys.

But seriously, this confirmation makes reddit look so much worse right now.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

You’re safe from the big bad scary communists on Lemmy.

Kbin.social doesn't defederate lemmy.ml, so either way we're playing by their "don't say Uyghur genocide because we don't think it's real and we will ban you based on that belief" rules if we accidentally stumble into there.

This is where I would like to see individual-level instance blocking so that it doesn't show up in the home feed, same as how I can block everything that pops up in a language I don't speak.

Edit: Turns out we have that! Just found another thread showing how. On kbin, it's possible to view entire instances separately, and there's a "block" button similar to individual magazines/communities/users. To see lemmy.ml, the link would be

https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml

but replacing the lemmy.ml part with any instance should take people to that instance just the same.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

And vice versa, if someone's on Lemmy and I'm on kbin, we're using the same shared content pool as long as we're federated and thus we don't have to worry about sites "dying." I can't browse reddit without going to reddit, but I can browse lemmy instances with whatever fediverse instance I please.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I'm hoping for a transition from Boost! for Reddit, personally. That was the client I enjoyed using.

My problem is that I'm also using kbin, and kbin's API is disabled so it makes more sense for everyone to make a Lemmy app instead. Don't know if they'll bother to implement kbin support once it's up and running.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Yes they are. Facebook's audience is as many people as possible, because their business is advertising based on collected data. They would ideally want literally everyone on the platform, but this is the real world and lowest common denominator makes more sense from a business standpoint.

Edit: Getting celebrities and influencers on-board is basically a requirement to get the average person to care, because they're not on the platform to follow other average people.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

On the upside, patents have an expiry date. Quite far from now, but if we make it to that, then we'll just have ourselves a single common standard that everyone is free to use.

It just sucks in the meantime.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I mean the funny thing to me is that this guy is just an idiot. This is r/piracy we're talking about, they're pirates. A decentralized and low-key forum like this is exactly where they should want to be, not on one of the world's five biggest websites just posting freely on main.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to use Boost, I stopped when they banned the community showing how to switch to kbin.

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