Because Lemmy is older and already has a lot of established communities. Kbin saw the larger growth rates though (in the context of the recent Reddit drama). Kbin also currently lacks native mobile apps, and a lot of people browse this type of media form their phones.
It wasn't too bad when you started to filter out some specific subreddits. But I feel since they applied a lot more content moderation to /r/all, causing a lot of potentially interesting things to not even show up there, it's been kind of garbage for a while now. Something similar can be said about kbins "all" page at the moment too though. I rather wish they'd give the users the tools to tailor their feeds according to their own preferences instead of interfering themselves. "All" should be all, excluding whatever my personal filters & settings get rid of.
I've probably spent an hour in the past month just trying to login to kbin, clearing site data, refreshing, retrying. I thought the bug was fixed recently but it's worse than ever now....
Nothing, because I never had a use for Twitter in the first place.
But the obvious fediverse alternative would be Mastodon. Decentralized, open source and you can use it even to communicate with kbin.
In an interview Thursday with NBC News, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman praised Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter, and said he had chatted “a handful of times” with Musk on the subject of running an internet platform.
Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow
Most Fediverse software supports image uploads, so there's no reason to use Imgur for image hosting. Hell, even on my small single-user server (atomicpoet.org), image hosting is easy peasy. Not only is Imgur not needed, they're an annoyance for those of us who are used to seeing images natively on the Fediverse....
My instance is quite liberal and not many instances are defederated. But there are some instances I don’t want to see at all, like containing NSFW content....
I suppose.
It does not seem to work properly though. I just got another thread from that furry instance. Guess I have to manually block all communities.
TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit)....
Or when replies to a now removed comment ended up as top level comment, making reading the comments sometimes super confusing. Reddit's backend is probably nothing but spaghetti code. Hence why the redesign & mobile app are both also such piles of garbage. It would likely need a complete rewrite, but they probably don't have any sort of way to do that and maintain all the old legacy content. That's also a good reason to go closed source, especially if you want to become a traded company. Investors are probably not having the hots for garbage code that everyone can look at & criticize.
I'm a bit confused about if I needed a new account here or I could of used my mastodon account? Can we browse lemmy through mastodon and post? Can we see mastodon posts here?
Technically you can view & interact with kbin & Lemmy from Mastodon and vice versa but Mastodon itself is not really made to display kbin & Lemmy in your Reddit-like fashion. If you want to use kbin or Lemmy then I'd get an account on one of the kbin or Lemmy instances and use one of their frontends to view said content.
That being said, I can't seem to see this particular magazine in Mastodon, but I assume if I were to I'd see threads like they were a toot, with replies to it being more toots that reply to the original.
Yes, as a user. If you go into Mastodon and search for Lemmy communities you can typically find them. There's probably not all of them until a forced federation sync happens, which I'm not familiar enough to do as I also don't use Mastodon, but technically it should be possible. I talked to someone posting from Mastodon inside of a kbin thread a while ago. They have to adhere to their limitations so their comments might be shorter and have to post multiple ones if they have more to say but it definitely works.
Kbin itself also supports toots in form of "Microblogs".
I also just got my first reply notification again after several weeks. I hope that means that bug is fixed. :S
So, after EndeavourOS's GRUB comitted suicide, me being too stupid to understand chroot despite wiki "tutorials" and the community rather trolling & gaslighting me instead of helping I decided to give Nobara a go. Usually I am a Plasma KDE guy, but thought since it's been a long time I try it out, especially since you can have...
My goal is to have a functional desktop with good gaming capabilities.
EOS / Arch was that until it nuked itself, something that not even Manjaro managed to do, which, for all its bad reputation, had much less issues in a much longer time frame of use. It's not really about having "that extra 1 FPS in a game", but to ensure actual game compatibility, including for titles that aren't 2 years old.
I'm aware it is not an official project, but I don't think any of GE's changes should affect much of the issues I am facing with it. And seeing this I will have an even harder time to recommend any sort of Gnome distro towards complete newbies trying to make the switch. Imagine this being their first experience with a Linux ecosystem.
Steam can't be closed properly as it ends up sitting unresponsive in the task bar and needs its task to be killed.
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I found out the Firefox spellcheck somehow fetches its dictionaries from "/usr/share/hunspell". How do I make FF fetch the regular dictionaries I added to it through Firefox, or what is the proper way to find dictionaries for that folder (I assume I can just delete the excess English variants)?
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You can just remove the folder in about:config, however it now shows only the US spelling, despite having another language installed...
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Managed to get the other spellcheck dictionary to show up.
Evolution mail client fails at 2 factor authentication. Window just shows "OAuth2 secreot not found" and no matter how many times I try it does not send a verification request to my phone.
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"Files" can't jump to folders starting with letter X because it immediately uses the (still crashy) search function.
Can't drag & drop files from my Firefox download manager (pop up, not extra window) onto a folder without having to manually tab to it. Tabbing starts AFTER the "Files" process though, so you have to tab all the way through. Under KDE I could just drag it onto the file manager in the panel, which would focus the file manager and then drop the files in or onto the folder I wanted.
"Archive Manager (also known as File Roller)" can't even drag & drop files from an archive into a folder. I don't even know how people can use Gnome with it lacking such basic functionalities. What the hell are you doing with your lives?!
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OpenRGB now suddenly works as intended. Not sure if there was an update for it or if that's a temporary oddity but for now I'll take it.
I use btrfs + encryption. The tutorials just state "you have to do this and that", but not exactly what any of that means or how I apply it to my system, since the commands obviously need tinkering to make sense for my specific use case. It's not really a step by step, but a step by step jump to step X for this and then to step Y for that but make sure to do "something you don't understand / know" to be sure that "something you also don't know". It's basically all just a cryptic mess if you don't know any of it beforehand and I don't think the authors have tested their tutorials on people without prior background knowledge.
@FaeDrifter
Tried to install it on my old laptop for testing and the installer just gives me this warning before installing:
"Boot from mbr does not work together with btrfs filesystem ang gpt disk label without bios_grub partition. To fix this issue, - create a bios_grub partition, or - use any Ext filesystem for boot partition, or - do not install stage 1 to MBR."
I really have no idea what it wants. I used the guided partitioning so I would expect it to handle that for me? Also, why do they not have a working live environment to test it before installation? Honestly not a great start.
Edit: Oof. So I just tried to install it on my desktop, first one failed tremendously and didn't boot. Tried again and wiping the partitions proper instead of "on demand" of the garbage installer. Got a system, try to switch down to 1080p and it gives me this super stretched pancake resolution instead. Hell no.
Probably my worst experience yet. Couldn't even change my resolution to 1080p and it would also not install a bootloader on my old test laptop. Idea is nice, but the critical bugs and antique software really speak against it.
Tried KDE Nobara after OpenSUSE and oh boy...
First Dolphin just crashed, always. Trying to report this caused even the crash handler to crash. Apparently there's a bug with encrypted setups and you have to manually create the thumbnail folder to fix this. No idea why this is not patched yet. Or maybe it is, but I can't further update the system anymore because of all packages throwing GPG errors now. This is all cursed to hell.
I booted in bios legacy mode?
What "weird bios options" could an old 2009 laptop bios possibly have, that are used by default on top of that and never caused any sort of issues with any other Linux distro before? The only ones that didn't run on that thing were both Nobara variants, which is likely more of an old gpu issue.
I've had many wayland issues on other distros before, but never this specific one. It's usually the same on every one, like blurry scaling, scaling affecting games, fsync causing frequent few seconds long blackscreens, or just a lot of game specific stuff. The issue here did not fix itself even after a reboot. I really don't care where the issue stems from, I can only say that this was very unique to OpenSUSE.
So what the Suse installer is telling you is that you really should use a /boot partition if installing on a GPT partition table.
Why is it telling ME that when I trusted the partitioning to the installer? I really don't understand how that should be my fault for the partitioner to act faulty. And btw. there's only two options: 1) to erase the disk if needed and 2) erase the entire disk anyway. I selected the second one because the first one didn't even work at all, so from my perspective it should have not used any potential GPT partitions that the previous distro could've potentially created, but erased the entire thing and start from scratch with everything it would need, including a valid boot partition. If OpenSUSE, for some reason, requires me to wipe my drive clean BEFORE I even start the installer, then they should specify that beforehand - or provide a less antique installer that can actually do it itself.
At least ChatGPT is a more polite than the toxic, racist & sexist shit that remains on Reddit. Scrolled through /r/all this morning and was appalled by some of the toxic comments in the various submissions. I also noticed some sockpuppets somehow spewing the same bullshit opinion about certain topics, using the literal same type of phrasing too, just in different comment chains and with different accounts.
Honestly, probably better for my blood pressure to stay away from most of it.
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How do I see what instances kbin.social is federated with? ( kbin.social )
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Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives? ( www.pcmag.com )
Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.
I love kbin but the login bug persists and I can't take it anymore ( kbin.social )
I've probably spent an hour in the past month just trying to login to kbin, clearing site data, refreshing, retrying. I thought the bug was fixed recently but it's worse than ever now....
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Time to ditch Twitter/X, what are you guys switching to? ( kbin.social )
He says X is for freedom of speech, and it is an everything app...
Boost for Lemmy is coming! Same author as Boost for reddit, I double checked just to be sure, it's the same author! ( media.kbin.social )
First fountain pen came in yesterday. ( i.imgur.com )
Left hand Lamy Safari Vista alongside a travelers company notebook in basic brown leather.
Coincidence that Reddit and Twitter are taking the same approaches to monetization? ( lemmy.ml )
Imgur links suck ( kbin.social )
Most Fediverse software supports image uploads, so there's no reason to use Imgur for image hosting. Hell, even on my small single-user server (atomicpoet.org), image hosting is easy peasy. Not only is Imgur not needed, they're an annoyance for those of us who are used to seeing images natively on the Fediverse....
Can I block whole instance instead of single community?
My instance is quite liberal and not many instances are defederated. But there are some instances I don’t want to see at all, like containing NSFW content....
I just found out that not all of my Reddit comments had been deleted despite my profile page showing otherwise. ( kbin.social )
TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit)....
How does Kbin / Lemmy connect to the rest of the fediverse? ( kbin.social )
I'm a bit confused about if I needed a new account here or I could of used my mastodon account? Can we browse lemmy through mastodon and post? Can we see mastodon posts here?
Nobara Gnome is just a terrible experience. ( kbin.social )
So, after EndeavourOS's GRUB comitted suicide, me being too stupid to understand chroot despite wiki "tutorials" and the community rather trolling & gaslighting me instead of helping I decided to give Nobara a go. Usually I am a Plasma KDE guy, but thought since it's been a long time I try it out, especially since you can have...
Reddit seems to be scrambling behind the scenes to try and limit the effects of the migration. Damage control: ChatGPT bots are spamming pro-admin, astroturfed comments ( i.imgur.com )
Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol....
Porn Historically Decides Tech Adoption... Fediverse? ( kbin.social )
Historically, porn has organically decided which platform or formats become dominant. It's incredibly anti-censorship, but walks many fine lines....