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e_t_ Admin , in Does kbin strip geotags in images?

I examined an image I uploaded and found all EXIF tags intact. I think I will strip those tags myself before uploading in future.

green_light_stop OP ,
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Thanks for checking. I'll make sure to do the same

I'm sure the majority of users are not aware of this and are putting themselves at risk by uploading.

s6original , in The demographics of Kbin | Survey
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The results button results in a 404.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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I'm going to mess with the settings to see if I can fix it ASAP. For now I see if you don't select anything and press 'Skip' and then vote it takes you to the results. Thanks!

s6original ,
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Yes your workaround works around this. Thank you.

snooggums ,
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I clicked vote a few minutes ago and it took me right to the results successfully.

Using Firefox in case it is a browser thing.

livus ,
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I don't think it is working for me.

I'm in Oceania and the results say no one is in Oceania.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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It is not broken, it just completely stopped tallying. Apparently the free version of supersurvey has a limit of only fucking 25 responses, and of course they do not tell you this until you created an account and already sent out the survey and then asks you to pay $90 a month for this shitty webapp that breaks immediately.

I'm just going to have to make another survey; what a bust...

I'll use a better platform for this survey

livus ,
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That would explain it! I will stay tuned.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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Alright you can check out the new survey :D https://forms.office.com/r/Xadjwmt2Gm

livus , in The demographics of Kbin | Survey
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That question about single married divorced widowed, is that how the US still collects demographic data?

It seems odd, given the choices in other sections reflect modern life more.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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Yes, I was going to add "complicated" and maybe other options, but ultimately I decided not to but maybe I should? This was a generated question so that should answer your question.

I think though if it's of interest of people maybe I should. What do you think?

snooggums ,
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Single, married, divorced, and widowed are legal concepts that cover everything that can without being overcomplicated with a million personal preferences and 'complicated' is meaningless without every single unique person's context.

Or add a separate question about whether they feel their situation is more complicated than that without muddling clear answers on legal status.

livus ,
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I guess this must apply to the society you and @Peacemeal12 live in, for sure. But I was actually talking about legal terms.

Where I live, civil unions and common law (de facto) relationships of more than 2 years have the exact same legal standing as marriage.

So the question usually includes De Facto, and Married or in a Civil Union.

snooggums ,
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If they are the same as marriage then that is a distinction without a difference.

livus ,
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Depends on the purpose of the demographics.

I think collecting the stats on it first is probably a big part of why we slowly changed our laws to give them all the same rights - when we saw how many people were being affected.

livus ,
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@Peacemeal12 I wasn't thinking about "complicated" and stuff like that.

It's just the usual legal category for my relationship in my own country was missing and I was surprised it must be still like that in the US.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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I had to switch platforms for the survey, check it out: https://forms.office.com/r/Xadjwmt2Gm

s6original ,
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I agree with you and I live in the US. I’ve been single for 20 years…but I was married before that so I’m divorced. I guess you can never be single again.

FaceDeer ,
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Perhaps a better option would have been "deflowered."

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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New and better survey link: https://forms.office.com/r/Xadjwmt2Gm

FaceDeer ,
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"Deflowered" isn't an option. :(

livus ,
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Yeah it's weird that you don't get to be single even though you are.

I haven't been single for over 20 years but I'm also not married or divorced or widowed.

s6original ,
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The only way to get rid of the divorce stigma is to get married again. I already used that trick once.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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Catch42 ,
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Yep, though the single option is often written as single/never married so that it's more clear. We don't have common law marriages (except a few states) so those 4 categories cover every situation, though without much detail.

livus ,
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We don't have common law marriages (except a few states)

Is that likely to change? I would have thought it would be big on human rights activists' agendas over there.

Catch42 ,
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I don't think so? I'm struggling to think of how it would enhance human rights. Isn't it the same as regular marriage without the trip to the local court? I always thought other countries had it as a penalty so that couples couldn't use cohabitating but not getting married as a tax loophole.

livus ,
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It's a human rights issue because of things like property law, adoption, next of kin rights. Sometimes people (often women) can be left financially vulnerable, especially if children are involved, if their relationship is not recognised under the law.

Couples don't get tax advantages over single people where I live either, so that part's a non issue.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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I had a updated the survey to a better platform, and included more options. :) https://forms.office.com/r/Xadjwmt2Gm

Tarte OP , in Kbin doesn't respect my subscription feed anymore or I don't understand it.
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Solution: I had somehow subscribed to the DOMAIN kbin.social by mistake. I didn’t even know this was possible. This took a long time figuring out because domain subscriptions can only be seen from the settings page, not from the public facing profile page.

Rhaedas ,
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That makes sense now. Glad you figured it out. The question is how you did that to begin with, mainly for reference to avoid others from doing it, unless they want that. But it sort of nullifies the idea of subscriptions. At least if I or other readers of this see someone ever pop up with a similar problem we know where to point them to look.

Tarte OP ,
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Fully agreed, and thanks for taking the time to respond to my post. I don't remember how I did it. I think I wanted to subscribe to the magazin kbin and ended up subscribing to the whole domain, too (the timing fits).

While the mistake is certainly on my part, from a usability point of view it would have helped if the two separate subscription lists profile>subscriptions (some features) and settings>subscriptions (all features) would be consolidated into one single list.

EmptyRadar , in So much spam

I, personally, have been blocking the users submitting the spam. This isn't a good solution, but it does clear my feed out and make it so that I forget the spam is there until I see another user I need to block.

The other thing I have been doing is submitting content to my favorite magazines - if we actively engage the mags, we can force the spam down.

ignirtoq ,

I do this, too, and I've been wishing there were a setting I could set where kbin would just auto-hide content submitted by accounts that have been blocked by at least X other accounts.

Yprum OP ,

Yeah I am blocking too but wanted to help remove the accounts by reporting if I can. I should become more active but after years of inactivity in social networks it's hard to start again.

cacheson , in Is there a way to save links and threads on Kbin?
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The "boost" feature works well for this

BlondieBuff , in Can we please be able to open link without going to thread first?

I only use mobile so idk if it's different on pc, but the little image icon underneath the username will open the posted image underneath the post for you

eliza ,

Thank you!! I hadn’t noticed it

MxM111 OP ,
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Thank you, but it does not work for links, and it open image in the same page. On mobile most of the times I want image in full screen mode, where I can zoom, rotate phone, and then go back to the same place in thread list.

DarkNightoftheSoul , in So much spam
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I take a perverse sort of a pleasure in sorting by new and playing spambot whak-a-mole.

Yprum OP ,

I would be lying if I said I don't get some pleasure of downvoting every post on those accounts with spam :)

Montagge , in A reminder that kbin is still violating the zlib license of Postmill (the software that powers Raddle)
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What an absolute non-issue

TheVillageGuy ,
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I would like more information, please. if I am running software on a public server which breaches any license or law I would like to at least be made aware of that

FirstSeaLord , (edited ) in The demographics of Kbin | Survey
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I feel like separating gay and lesbian instead of just saying homosexual is cluttering things up. And idk, bisexuality is a thing?

Edit: also, political leanings become somewhat nefarious when I don't know if you're speaking in "American terms" or not.

Peacemeal12 OP ,
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Sorry I rushed it out after the first poll locked out. I had bisexual before so I'll add it as soon as I can. I wanted gay and lesbian so people who wish to see the divide can do so I was hoping it wouldn't clutter too much and that's also another issue. I knew making this people would question the western and English speaking biases and whatnot but understand I struggle to reconciliate all the considerations while maintaining the data interesting and useful to look at/ digest

Roundcat , in The demographics of Kbin | Survey
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I love how the biggest divider between reddit and kbin demographics is that we seem to actually like Pineapple on pizza.

Flag ,
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Whoa slow down, we aint monolithic!

Norgur , in Unmoderated and now extremely delayed federation - is it time to move?

any migration tools from kbin to mbin?

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speck , in Unmoderated and now extremely delayed federation - is it time to move?

What's the difference between mbin and fedia?

Seraph OP ,

Mbin is a software "fork". Meaning they took a snapshot of Kbin code and made their own improvements from then on.

Fedia is an instance, or a federated portal, and one of the ways you can use Mbin code. This is the largest Mbin instance - it has the most users.

speck ,

Great clarification, thank you!

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski , in where are kbin admins?

I think it's the niche communities that are more actively moderated, while the large ones (the ones that were big on Reddit and were taken in the early day of the migration by users who saw an opportunity to mod a big community) were abandoned to their luck)

livus , (edited ) in So much spam
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They seem to only be in very specific mags like fediverse, tech, and science. All of which have many subscribers but only have @ernest as their mod (I think science has another but they're absent).

I think the short-term solution is a) to get a few more mods on these

and b) for now I subscribe to technology instead of tech and something on another instance called fediverse_press instead of fediverse

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Yprum OP ,

Yes I was noticing that trend with the specific mags, but was also wondering if it was just the ones I'm following and others have it but I don't see it

livus ,
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@Yprum I don't think so, because I sort by All/new fairly regularly (which is when I see these ones).

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