Hope you feel better soon!
I have to say that I agree with others there are significant structural issues with the benevolent dictatorship type governance model. A team of people with diverse skills, strengths, weaknesses, commitments and all that is needed to bring a project like this to its potential.
Establishing a committee of some sort to share the work is really going to allow your efforts to shine to a greater degree and highlight your contributions, not diminish them. Perhaps getting in touch with some organization like Software Freedom Conservancy for advice? They exist to help with this sort of thing:
Conservancy assists FLOSS project leaders by handling all matters other than software development and documentation, so the developers can focus on what they do best: improving the software for the public good.
for myself I find the existing android clients far from adequate. if you have filters, folders, identities etc it is a fuck tonne of set up. last time i tried i just gave up.
Idk anything about this person in specific but my guess is that @ferralcat is referring to "legacy students". If you search for that term alone or in combination with "Standford" you can read all about what those words mean. The words have very well-understood meanings. For example:
Nearly 18% of Class of 2023 are legacy students or relatives of donors, report reveals
https://github.com/hackjutsu/Lepton ? I do not follow how this is relevant?
working hard and nepotism aren't mutually exclusive
almost dinner
actually what you said was
any opinion
it's not a crime. but you know lemmy isn't a court of law right? you sound like an asshole.
whether it deserves a ban I guess that depends on the context.
sorry but that's like the dumbest thing anyone ever said. have you heard of intagram facebook tiktok linkedin grindr tindr and every other APP
it's like going to a party and then just hanging out in the kitchen. or spending the whole night out on the porch smokin cigs.
madness
are people still all riled up about beehaw?
in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began.
since that time, there have been various other intrinsic and extrinsic threats. I do not see much panicking about beehaw. did the threadiverse survive beehaw? or is this only a shell of what we might have had otherwise?
well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.
If this isn't Github already, what is?
Maybe this is why the data set was chosen. But does anyone else notice the huge jump between the last and second-last items?
136.@pixelfed Pixelfed 19.5K 2 22 pixelfed.social Jun 2018
137. @Mediapart Mediapart 2.8K 302 15.7K mastodon.social Apr 2017
Once you get past the george takei / neil gaimen top 5-10 zone it is a pretty smooth descent til this very sharp drop.
PS @BentiGorlich this post is tagged as being german language on kbin.
they're famous to @outerspec
As a workaround, if you go to your notifications inbox page, near the top right of the content area there is a little "feed" icon. It is a link to a private RSS feed to your notifications. You can use an RSS reader like a standalone application or a browser plugin to monitor. You can get a notification that way.
Above instructions are for the default lemmy interface as it appears on desktop. You can't find the link in some other interfaces. And kbin doesn't have notification inbox at all that I can find.
It's a bit weird to only be on discord don't you think?
do they just post their code in a chat or something?
@melroy Dude, you need to reign in your street team. This post and all the others like it are harassment done on behalf of you and your project. And you are here posting in support, condoning it.
Tracking a person's online activity is fucked up stalker behavior. It doesn't matter what role they play in what project. It is harassment and obviously intended to menace. No matter what OP says, everyone can see this is the case. Look at the comments on the page. Do you see comments like this about any other open source project?
It's really likely this will escalate. Nothing good is going to come of this. Kbin won't be developed any faster. Mbin's reputation will deteriorate, attract fewer users/contributors than it otherwise might have and specifically repel friendly helpful people who don't appreciate this kind of thing. Your instances may be de-federated for failing to stop harassment. OP will sink further and further into whatever miserable spiral they are in. You personally will be associated with all of it because as a community leader you come here to encourage OP in this unhinged behavior. Find a way to redirect this energy into something that is useful for your project, or disassociate from it.
who is the judge of the server side code? what about the terrible green on white default lemmy color scheme? who is the judge of https? who is the judge of the physical infrastructure of the internet? who is the judge of wifi6?
omg it goes so deep judges everywhere judging me!!!!!!!
global blocklists
good thing nobody suggested that..... And if they did it would be completely unenforceable.
Imagining for a second that I had the technical ability to do so. The thought of running a lemmy server and letting random people make accounts sounds scary to me. Especially a "general purpose" one. I would feel responsible for the crappy stuff posted by users. How do people cope with that.
Also would not be able to conduct the "investigations" required to determine if an instance was csam etc. Because that means you have to go and check it out! we can't have a system where every admin is basically required to view CSAM. that's crazy.
So far, not a problem that I have noticed or even seen discussed.
Moderation is very light compared to reddit. I hope it will become more mature as moderators can really make special contributions.
Quickly scanned your post history and it's a bunch of nasty nonconstructive comments with a similar tone to the above. If you experience problems with mods everywhere you go, it's probably due to your own behavior.
how did we survive threads earlier this year?
When I join threadiverse (summer 2023), soon everyone was talking about Threads and how it was about to destroy the whole thing.
Then nothing came of it and the whole convo kinda vanished.
Why didn't threads destroy threadiverse already?
clients are the libre future; I hope kbin catches up
On desktop kbin is 5x better than vanilla lemmy.
But on mobile I have several FLOSS lemmy clients. They all have their pros n cons. Their development is spread out with different projects. Work and the responsibility are distributed from the main lemmy maintainers.
The kbin webapp is pretty good, but not as good as a native client. There is of course only one.
My feeling is that designing for clients (having an API) imposes some kind of discipline on projects. Like you can't just do whatever willy nilly.
My other feeling is that kbin is setting up to be like iCloud whereas lemmy is more akin to sftp.
Thoughts?
Find in page clears itself after a few moments
When I Find-in-page for a term using ctrl+f or "find as you type" with "Highlight all" turned on, all results will appear highlighted. But then much of the time several seconds (variable) later it goes away, as though I had hit esc. If I hit ctrl+g for "find again" it starts again at the top. So current place in page is lost.
This happens even if I take my hands away from keyboard/mouse. It is not some kind of input I am doing.
Does this sound framiliar to anyone? Is there a way to make the "find" results stay found?
Or is there an add-on which reliably implements Find?
I have problem on multiple devices, for a long time, and with linux, windows and mac.
Towards the fediverse as a repository of knowledge like how reddit used to be
One of the extremely useful things about reddit was that content was somewhat organized by URL. Each post was created in a subreddit. So you could do websearch like keyword site:reddit.com/r/subreddit
This is more difficult/impossible on the threadiverse.
I am not sure to what extent it is configurable on either platform, but quickly looking I see URLs like this:
https://lemmyinstance.tld/post/0000000; no community/magazine context is present https://kbininstance.tld/m/magazinename/t/00000/the-title-of-the-post-is-optionally-included I like the kbin way of doing this because it provides the possibility of searching as with reddit.
Are there any potential solutions to this problem? I haven't even mentioned various other hurdles inherent to the distributed nature of the fediverse content. So feel free to enumerate those.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to want this feature. What is the status of it?
Mbin: A kbin fork that promises to never review PRs before merging them
Somebody who was previously active on the kbin codeberg repo has left that to make a fork of kbin called mbin.
repo: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
In the readme it says:
Important: Mbin is focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo member. Discussions take place on Matrix then consensus has to be reached by the community. If approved by the community, no additional reviews are required on the PR. It's built entirely on trust.
As a person who hangs around in repos but isn't a developer that sounds totally insane. Couldn't someone easily slip malicious, or just bad, code in? Like you could just describe one cool feature but make a PR of something totally different. Obviously that could happen to any project at any time but my understanding of "code review" is to at least have some due diligence.
I don't think I would want to use any kind of software with a dev structure like this. Is it a normal way of
Allow for true alt text to be specified in markdown
See [this post](https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisAppPlayground/t/467262/Testing-alt-text) Current widespread wisdom is that you should specify alt text with the format `` but this ISN'T behaving as alt text. It's behaving as a label. It needs to be set to the alt text attribute on the i...
hello friends of rblind. I am a sighted person who follows the kbin-core repo. I saw an issue #1143 opened recently regarding the use of alt in markdown. I am having a hard time discerning whether it is a productive request or not.
I understand that rblind is not a free-of-charge accessibility consultation company. But I thought I would point out this issue in case anyone had an interest in contributing to the discussion.
If I am posting in error, please either remove it or notify me so I can remove or edit the post.
Here is the text of the issue:
See this post
Current widespread wisdom is that you should specify alt text with the format
but this ISN'T behaving as alt text. It's behaving as a label. It needs to be set to the alt text attribute on the image.True alt text doesn't need to be rendered
eza: community fork of exa (exa: modern replacement for ls)
A modern, maintained replacement for ls. Contribute to eza-community/eza development by creating an account on GitHub.
I just learned:
https://github.com/ogham/exa the ls replacement has been replaced by https://github.com/eza-community/eza
the exa repo says:
exa is unmaintained, use the fork eza instead.
(This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable).
For the curious, looks like the story, contributor deliberations and conversations are here: [Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa
hope everyone involved is OK & on to other projects
both projects are MIT licensed and written in rust.
eza: community fork of exa (exa: modern replacement for ls)
I just learned:
https://github.com/ogham/exa the ls replacement has been replaced by https://github.com/eza-community/eza
the exa repo says:
exa is unmaintained, use the fork eza instead.
(This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable).
I didn't read it all, but for the curious, looks like the story is here: [Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa
hope everyone involved is OK, on to other projects
eza: community fork of exa (exa: modern replacement for ls)
I just learned:
https://github.com/ogham/exa the ls replacement has been replaced by https://github.com/eza-community/eza
the exa repo says:
exa is unmaintained, use the fork eza instead.
(This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable).
I didn't read it all, but for the curious, looks like the story is here: [Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa
hope everyone involved is OK, on to other projects
You can be the one to create the kbin page on wikipedia
Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. (also missing!)
At some point, there will be some sort of drama involving kbin. It could be constructive drama or not; who knows.
When it happens, whatever it is, lots of people will direct themselves to wikipedia to learn about what this website is. We all know wikipedia can be very influential. Even in the absence of drama.
Instance Assistant - Browser extension to help make Lemmy & Kbin easier to use
Links: * Firefox [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/] * Chrome [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/mbblbalkjcikhpladidpimlfiapdffdh] * Edge [https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcao...
Links:
For questions / support: https://lemmy.ca/c/instanceassistant (alternate: lemmy.ca/c/instanceassistant)
What does the federation status sidebar item do? Does anyone have anything after "Instances:"?
make URLs for communities, users etc as flexible as possible
I would like to suggest that developers consider as much flexibility when trying to interact with links/handles from off-instance and off-kbin (e.g. lemmy) as possible. I would like for it to work on lemmy in a similar fashion.
I think that the various "incorrect" ways of doing things should work as redirects assuming this would not cause a technical problem. It could even explain the correct way of doing things if you'd like to discourage it.
Non exhaustive examples:
communities
as an example: https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists
search kbin.social for https://lemmy.ca/c/wowthislemmyexists - finds occasions where people have mentioned the URL in comment/post
Most lemmy instances suggest searching for a group in a way that doesn't work:
search kbin.social for
for `!wowthislemmyexists@lem
can't get to fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS via kbin.social
/r/Firefox and /r/FirefoxCSS have both moved to fedia.io kbin instance.
from kbin.social I can access Firefox. But I can't access FirefoxCSS. I waited about 90 mins since first trying. Should I just wait longer or is there some other issue?
@[email protected]
fedia link: https://fedia.io/m/Firefox
from kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
search on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/search?q=Firefox%40fedia.io
@[email protected]
fedia link: https://fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS
kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] "404 Not found"
search on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/search?q=FirefoxCSS%40fedia.io "Empty"
idea for discussion: federation of individual communities across instance
I was thinking about how there are similar communities on different instances. In some cases that is desirable/ok but maybe it would be cool to have another option.
Say there are 3 separate communities on different instances for amateur cobbling (DIY shoes). None are big enough to really get going. Interested users trickle in here and there but there isn't enough to engage them. People try cross posting but that just breaks up discussion and leads to a "spam" feeling for those subbed to all of them. Everyone likes one another and they basically want one unified forum.
Would it be possible to automatically duplicate content posted to each instance to the other 2 instances? Including comments, mentions, etc.
Not like a multi reddit because would also share sidebar, mods, posting rules, other aspects. More like a mirror? or a repost bot?
But I don't know if it would mean
symlinks How to automatically save posts & comments as draft (firefox/chrome plugin)
If you ever have the problem of forgetting you were writing something and closing a window, or accidentally navigating away from the page on which you are composing, this is the browser extension to save your ass: Form History Control.
In kbin I especially have this problem as I get logged out constantly for some reason, for example while I am composing even a fairly short comment, and if I submit while logged out the text vanishes. But everything is stored in the extension. It is local to your machine where it will be secure.
I am using it for a year or two now and it
CEO spez AMA Overview | r/Save3rdPartyApps
Removed in protest against the Reddit API changes and their behaviour following the protests.
5 and a half years ago EA held an AMA so disastrous that it was unreadable as downvotes pummelling the answering producers and directors to the ground. Back then I made an overview for r/Games.
Due to the high interest and high chance of being a shit show of similar or possibly greater proportion, here's an easily readable overview for the spez AMA.
I will edit as it goes on.