Conscientious spectre experimenting with Kbin.
@tojikomori is my main.
threadiverse
I like this. I keep seeing and saying “Lemmy/Kbin” which is awkward in all sorts of ways.
“Threadiverse” has a good denim feel to it.
We have https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalkeyboards on kbin.
If you’re on a Lemmy instance then the best way to add it is to paste the full URL into search while logged in. It won’t show up right away, but if you wait a few seconds then it’ll appear in the search results. Every now and then it gets stubborn and you have to refresh the search results page to see it.
You can! To subscribe to something on another instance just go to the general search and type <community name>@<hostname>
For example here’s a search for ffxiv@possumpat.io
I tried posting a new (…ish – I’m not exactly up to date on JRPG news!) link, so we’ll see if that helps. 🤞
Would be good to have a clearer idea how to cross-polinate new communities across the fediverse, though. Especially for niche groups it’s going to be hard to find each other otherwise.
Looks like there’s a support thread about this:
https://beehaw.org/post/444366
I’m not sure Kamirose (in that thread) is right, but if so then maybe this URL will work after a while (now that we’ve searched):
https://beehaw.org/c/JRPGs@kbin.social
I have another hunch, but it’s a little more convoluted. For a proper answer, I think we’d need to ask someone who knows Lemmy itself well.
Beehaw’s “creative” community fits that description and looks pretty active:
https://beehaw.org/c/creative
I know you mentioned that you haven’t searched yet, so this may not be the only one out there, but fwiw I noticed the other day that someone set up a JRPG community on the kbin.social instance:
Still in its silent “gathering subscribers” phase since it’s such a new instance.
Makes sense. I’ve unblocked some things so I can help with reporting.
It’s looking a lot better right now, so I think ex-redditor posts are overwhelming and diluting a lot of the problematic content. There were even some things I thought I’d blocked but hadn’t – they just haven’t reached the front page since I created my account a few days ago.
It’s good to know there’s another solution on your radar, though. Thanks!
This is difficult to hear but may be good feedback to share with kbin.social’s admins and kbin’s devs in the kbinMeta magazine. I don’t want to see lemmy.ml defederated at this point, but it’s a risky one to have on the front page. It’s kind of nuanced:
Lemmy’s devs have been running a successful campaign to recruit Redditors to use their app, and many Redditors have chosen lemmy.ml (the instance run by its developers) by default. A few of us have been trying to sound a warning about this, but it’s muted amid the outrage at Reddit.
Lemmy’s developers are often described as “tankies” but the word seems to be acting as a euphemism, as though it’s just an eccentric subculture. The fact is Lemmy’s devs are stooges for the CCP. They actively welcome its propaganda on their instance, and they’ve compiled apologetics for the CCP’s human rights abuses including the Uyghur genocide.
At the same time, lemmy.ml is the primary instance for Lemmy, and an important support resource for instances that run on it. On top of that it’s now home to a lot of Redditors trying to build their own communities there. For those reasons I don’t think it should be defederated, but I think kbin.social might need a way to prevent the instance – or at least some specific communities – from reaching the front page.
For myself, I’ve blocked its china and technology communities, as well as a few specific users that I’ve seen post propaganda pieces there. I’m satisfied with that solution to address my own use, but your own experience makes me realize it still reflects on kbin.social to have that stuff reach our front page.
Starfield backgrounds were obligatory! I remember spending hours in Paint Shop Pro’s pattern mode trying to make sure my white and grey pixels repeated nicely: not so busy as to look like noise, but dense and random enough to hide the repetition.
The first time I stumbled into superbad.com and it clicked with me immediately like art sometimes does. Total recognition in an ineffable language. It’s my first memory of a distinctly internet culture.
alt.fan.pratchett and specifically the sprawling, unending hedgehog song that exhausted every rhyme there is to be made about bestiality. (That man really earned his knighthood.)
The Star Wars Cantina. I hadn’t even seen all the Star Wars films, but I somehow fell into this clunky HTML chat room, and managed to role-play along just well enough to feel part of a community.
Finding music. Discovering bands on mp3.com when that was a thing. Typing odd combinations of words into Napster to discover songs and artists I’d never have been exposed to otherwise and still love today. Buying digital albums for the first time and feeling something so personal and special about not having to go to a store and rely on what they have in stock or order from a website to have shipped in several weeks. Reading eMusic editorials and putting my credits to obscure reissues and international releases I couldn’t possibly have found out about any other way. (Now it feels like every service wants me to listen to music that sounds like music I’ve already listened to. Bandcamp’s editorials are my last oasis.)
Two small ideas:
Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly indie sci-fi & fantasy magazine: short stories, poetry, and essays. I never know what to expect from its stories. They’re often evocative, engaging, and weird, and they make me look at the world in a different way. Don’t read it through. It’s best savored.
Tempeh Lettuce Tomato Sandwich: I recommend these strips if you can find them in your local co-op, they don’t taste anything like bacon but they’re great –but the really important bit is whatever tempeh you get, pan fry it in slices. Pan-fried tempeh has a lovely nutty, almost popcorn-like taste and a satisfying bite to it. A dab of sriracha makes it 👌
I think you’re right. There’s a “Blocked Domains” section to manage blocked hosts in Settings but I don’t see a UI to add domains to it yet. (It’s also unclear if it’d be for blocking instances, link posts, or both.)