I swear, a bunch of rich people were bored, got in a room, and decided to see who could kill a social media site
The best freedom was realizing the armor wasn't doing that much to help me and it was just more fun to figure out the silliest outfit to kill bosses in.
I think there is probably a mix of things going on.
First, the angriest people already did leave.
Second, people suck at protesting. I mean, the entire reason it was a 2-day protest instead of defaulting to indefinite is because the idea of sacrificing your own habits in a protest blows people's minds. There is a reason "slacktivism" is a thing.
Third, there is probably a segment of the user base who basically got their addiction checked. Social media is addicting, and reddit is not exception, I mean, even I've kept habitually opening the site this whole week just cause that has been my browsing habit for over a decade. It's just how I've check ed news.
And then lastly, the protest reached the more casual core of people who may have not even known about the protest before hand or understood the extent of it, and they are angry that this thing that didn't affect them took away all their content.
A part of me believes they will give some bs reason to keep their "scab" mods immune, but I would love if they didn't and the chaos that would ensue.
Ostensibly they don't wish to scale at the expense of the quality of their community.
Its both a value add and a negative. For those more focused on their own community (Like beehaw) it's an obvious positive. But for many users, losing access to certain communities on your own instance of choice is going to be a negative. I personally don't blame Beehaw for favoring the former. I think improved moderation tools and more granular federation would at least make the move less of a blow to users.
For reasons no one can fathom
The ROM hacking community takes this personally.
ROM hacking and well, just retro development like this is awesome. I think there is something to be said about the creativity that comes with a limited canvas and so on
Certainly so. From a sort of... sociological point I'm wondering what the impacts are of major instances growing independent of each other. I feel like I can already feel it with kbin and lemmy both growing separately during the blackout. I'm wondering if the trend for major instances is going to be where each one has their own unique culture or if they will eventually homogenize.
Only real concern here, although I didn't participate during the mastodon surge last year, I heard that defederation became a bit of an issue with how common there. Granted, I feel like the impact is probably less here with the fact that you are interacting with topics rather than people.
With how chaotic my hotbars are, I could never imagine playing on a gamepad. I'm sure that is probably a great accessibility feature though.
To be honest, I had such low expectations for the blackout, I'm actually surprised how much impact it did have. This was never going to be the reddit killer. There is a reason why the 1% principle exists. Most people don't care, and most people who do aren't going to actually put in the effort to change their browsing habits. It's part of why being an early member of new sites like these are the best, because the people joining are the people who are actively seeking out new communities.
Yup, exactly. Welcome to the fediverse!
There is traction, and in fact already a fix in review.
Ah interesting. I actually see this post over there so it seems replies from kbin are actually federating now. The question is if I will see my own comment.
Edit: I do! Great news
They aren't saying to go to their instance, they are saying to go to a different thread. This is a federated thread from beehaw. This is the thread that they are mentioning, accesible from kbin: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/16497/Megathread-for-Reddit-Blackouts-and-News-Day-3#comments
The curious thing though is that they locked the thread, but we are still posting here. I'm wondering if that is a symptom of the current federation issues or if thread locking isn't a feature that kbin can replicate yet
Ironically, still some issues with the federation, so we can see them but they can't see us. We're in the walls.
Ernest might have also gotten up more servers to handle the load, noticing that cloudflare is off and we are federating again (this is a beehaw thread)
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/173
Existing issue on the topic. If anybody is looking to contribute, this would make a great first issue to pick up.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/83
Popped an issue in the issue tracker for it. I think it should be default to be hidden, especially with the fact that most people coming from reddit would expect the same.
/r/videos announces that it will be entering it's blackout early - and indefinitely - given recent events
Think this case in particular is pretty interesting. Former default subreddit and one of the largest on the site (Top 20 at least).
I think /r/videos is where we'll see how things actually play out with the reddit admins. I'm guessing at some point the admins will step in and replace the mods.
Ohh, I like zines as a shortened version
The true fear is when everything passes locally and then suddenly fails on the CICD pipeline.
/r/kbinMigration created.... and quickly banned by reddit
I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit
Testing out kbin's microblog feature with this, hopefully the image is here. Just a screenshot of my seablock save. Since this point, added a basic metallurgy setup with temp green science. Now workin
Testing out kbin's microblog feature with this, hopefully the image is here. Just a screenshot of my seablock save. Since this point, added a basic metallurgy setup with temp green science. Now working on getting some bean fuel going before making a more serious slurry/science setup
Which mods have you been playing?
Let's get some mod discussion going. Finally launched my first rocket early this year and have discovered the wonderful world of mods.
Personally, I've been playing a lot of seablock. For me, it is the best mod for doing it in small chunks. The lack of biters, the fact that I need to place landfill to start up a new area, it makes everything feel very intentional, I guess you could say. Versus normal factorio where expansion is the default.
Also have small SE and py saves going. SE only have the first few sciences and py only have basic power, so haven't really explored deep at all into those.