Hello all! As we test out kbin, we are posting the first Ask Anything thread for your reference and use. We will be looking to gauge overall interest in the community and whether or not weekly threads will remain the best option for hosting questions, so your feedback-- as well as your questions-- are quite welcome!
We are currently looking into how to best preserve and host the wiki in the event that the sub remains blacked out for a prolonged period of time or other unforeseen circumstances. Once the data are backed up and we have a resilient solution, we will post more.
Hey, sorry for going quiet. It's been a busy few days as I'm sure you can imagine.
We were looking into several different federated instances and tried to pick up analog and analogcommunity on a few. On this particular kbin instance, despite there not apparently being an analogcommunity magazine, I was unable to reserve that spot.
We're still evaluating whether or not we'll ultimately be moving here or to lemmy.world, as it's dependent somewhat on whether or not kbin is able to stabilize (no shade there, we understand that a sudden influx of users is very hard to deal with), and also on whether people show greater propensity to favor lemmy as well.
As much as a foundational understanding of statistics would go a long way towards making the average citizen substantially better-informed, stuff like this sometimes makes my shoulders sag in despair. Even if you know the basics, the corrections, weighting, and methodologies used to try and tease the/a 'truth' out of a sample are often so arcane that it feels as though you know nothing at all, and are right back to square zero: do I trust these results at all, or no?
What a mess. I really don't want to believe that a slim majority of Americans want us to go the Nixon route, but it's hard to tell where my suspicion of the methods used begins to blend into bias...
The federal effort to expand internet access to every U.S. home has taken a major step forward with the announcement of $930 million in grants to shore up connections in dozens of places where significant connectivity gaps persist. Those places include remote parts of Alaska and rural Texas. The so-called middle mile grants are...
I think it makes a good example for why I liked the idea that the main post copies the headline 1:1, and any opinions of the OP can always be expressed and discussed in the comments. Instead of many top-level comments being about an editorialized headline by the OP, they'd be about the posted article.
Very much agreed. There's a good reason why /r/politics opted ultimately to stick with the headlines for topic titles. Let people draw their own conclusions from reading the actual link rather than trying to color their opinions with some lurid 'summary' with a zinger at the end.
We're considering opening up an alternative to a large subreddit (~2M users) here on kbin and this is a bit of a sticking point for us. Even if only a small number of people move over it's going to be annoying to go back to super primitive mod tools.
My take is that stuff like this counts on traffic being a flash in the pan. At first, it's funny and novel, but as time wears on the hope may be that people stop engaging with funny sexy Oliver photo #93848. Hypothetically this would cause a drop in traffic and engagement, but still leave the mod team strictly in compliance with reddit's demands.
Ask Anything Test Thread - 6/18/23 - 6/25/23
Hello all! As we test out kbin, we are posting the first Ask Anything thread for your reference and use. We will be looking to gauge overall interest in the community and whether or not weekly threads will remain the best option for hosting questions, so your feedback-- as well as your questions-- are quite welcome!
Majority of American Voters Shrug at Trump Indictment. 53 Percent Want Him Pardoned If Convicted (www.rollingstone.com)
Even though most voters say that the case against the former president is “strong,” they don’t want to see him serving jail time
BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data (www.databreaches.net)
Looks like that's not a good month for reddit.
Biden announces $930 million going into ISP pockets in effort to expand internet access to out-of-touch Americans who can't read this headline (apnews.com)
The federal effort to expand internet access to every U.S. home has taken a major step forward with the announcement of $930 million in grants to shore up connections in dozens of places where significant connectivity gaps persist. Those places include remote parts of Alaska and rural Texas. The so-called middle mile grants are...
Henceforth, /r/Pics will feature only images of John Oliver looking sexy. (www.reddit.com)
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RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims that he didn’t want to work with Reddit (www.theverge.com)
“I am willing to work with Reddit.”