lwgrs

@lwgrs@kbin.social

The best way to protest against reddit is simply to not interact with Reddit

I see a lot of posts about how they uploaded anti-spez stuff onto reddit, or participated in the nsfw spams/john oliver spams. While I get wanting to let it all out, this ultimately keeps up engagement on reddit rather than bringing it down....

lwgrs,

Thanks for this, I feel like there's a lot of black-and-white thinking going on here. It seems like the only options presented are "burn it down!" or "you're a scab".

📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW)

EDIT: GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!: something as simple as "Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks." will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!...

lwgrs,

GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!

Please don't do this. I'm a moderator of a sub (won't say which one). From a personal standpoint I'm happy to use both platforms. Vilify me if you will. But I do not want to see messages from users asking if we're going to migrate. That's pestering and it won't go well if that particular subreddit isn't into it.

lwgrs,

If moderators/subreddits are going to migrate, they're already going to be aware about it and probably thinking about it.

I am a mod as well, I cannot see how someone politely asking if we are thinking about making a community on a diff platform can be perceived as pestering?

Think about it from this side: users can't see what messages the mods are getting. You're asking people to DM moderators - politely doesn't matter. What if 10 people see your message and act on it? Then you've got 10 people saying "Are you guys gonna migrate? Are you migrating? What do you think about migrating?"

It appears this is individual and not every mod will be annoyed and not every mod wont be annoyed.

Very true, but I really don't think unsolicited messages to subreddits asking them to migrate - for YOUR benefit - is a good idea. In any case, forget about migrating. Just create the communities you want to see here, on lemmy/kbin/wherever. You don't need to wait for moderators to do it.

lwgrs,

How long is this likely to stay online? It sounds like it's circumventing paid services (YouTube Music, specifically) - I can't see Google being too happy about people skipping out on paying for their service.

(I'm not saying this is a bad idea, I'm openly wondering about the longevity of the app and slightly nervous about the dev's wallet when it might come to a lawsuit. I don't know if that's a thing that would happen.)

lwgrs,

"Upvote" does nothing

Not exactly - it's technically a "favorite" button. Since I learned exactly what you typed out, I've been using it as a way to save posts I want to read later. However it is correct that it does nothing for reputation.

lwgrs,

"share" is obvious in what it does, and efficient in terms of using space on the website. I like it.

lwgrs, to kbinMeta

Maybe this is just affecting me, but has anyone found kBin kind of unresponsive after installing as a PWA on Android? Some stuff I've noticed since I first used the "install" option - and this has only been in the last couple days. For reference I'm using Firefox

  • Scrolling is sluggish
  • using the "back" gesture doesn't work - and because it's installed as an app I can't use the back/forward browser buttons
  • pressing buttons is not responsive (home, up/down votes)

I ended up uninstalling it and I'm just using it in a normal browser window. I'll probably try installing it again but wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

lwgrs,

Quick update...I re-installed the PWA and it was just as sluggish as before. The only thing I didn't try was maybe clearing the cache / data for the app if that's possible (I don't install a lot of PWAs on my phone).

lwgrs, to kbinMeta

I keep seeing mildly NSFW John Oliver posts, from RedditMigration@kbin.social. I know I can block the magazine, but I'd rather not block the entire thing. I would simply like to filter NSFW stuff from my feed. I know how to do that in Mastodon. Where's this functionality in kbin? Thanks!

lwgrs,

@admin Cool. Yeah I guess I was hoping for both the ability to filter posts marked as NSFW, and also instances of that string in the post. Mastodon is super flexible in that regard.

The internet is great again, thanks to all of you 🙂

I'm 32, I remember using the internet before google was a thing, discovering flashy websites, hanging out on all kinds of internet forums and chatrooms, ebaums world, MySpace, new grounds... I rember when YouTube was just starting off and it was exploding with all kinds of content....

lwgrs,

When I first got online, I used Lynx (an entirely text-based browser).

lwgrs,

(I normally use Reddit's /r/writingprompts but I'm trying to find an alternative here)

I have to do some searching but I like the looks of the community on Beehaw. I think there is one here but I haven't looked around very much (I was waffling between Lemmy and kBin, and have turned back to kBin because of the versatility).

PineTime - a $27 smartwatch that runs open source firmware and software that's easy to flash and easy to modify and tinker with (liliputing.com)

This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the...

lwgrs,

Re: Apple + privacy

I believe most of their intentions about restricting 3rd parties from seeing your data is keeping it for themselves. IIRC Apple plans to (if they haven't already, I'm on the Android platform) release their own ad service using their own proprietary data.

lwgrs,

Driving home today so I'll be catching the Texas radio feed. Hope the bats wake up.

lwgrs,

Oh geez. So I was having fun driving listening to the 6-0 lead. Then the 4th inning happened.

I don't know who the Texas announcers are but after Vlad's misplay one of them called Vlad winning a gold glove last year a joke. 🙄

lwgrs,

Thanks for sharing! Personally I don't like it - but as others have said it's nice to have the option.

lwgrs,

This is semantics...people use a convention of [original content] on reddit, whether it's an official implementation or not. It's like before Twitter got official retweets. I didn't realize there was a flair/badge for this on kbin until just now, but it feels like an extension of that manual function. In spirit, it exists on reddit.

lwgrs,

Ha cool, thanks for the tip on those. I JUST created a new account here. I'm not turned off by the slow load times, but I hope that something similar to mstdn.ca gets set up. I'll keep an eye out, but OP, if you hear of one...let me know!

lwgrs,

Hey! I'm technically not on Beehaw at the moment; I'm posting this from kbin. But I sent in my registration form so we'll see how that goes. I work in media (behind the scenes...but I also have a few podcasts on the go and I blog), I have epilepsy, and I like to talk about all sorts of subjects. I'm doing a poor job summarizing myself so I'll just copy/paste from my Mastodon page (with some redactions):

Writer/podcaster; fan of books, podcasts, hockey, baseball, curling & movies. Regional Traffic Manager for [REDACTED]. Views & opinions are my own.

I was also diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 35 (4 years ago, now). Sometimes I talk about that.

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