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[–] [email protected] 325 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Argh, why make 2 communities? >_< Pick one damnit :D

I'm going to the blahaj one

Anyway well done for recognizing the ship is rapidly disintegrating.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was thinking the same thing, it's counterintuitive to the whole point of Lemmy lol

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's kind of a massive part of Lemmys design, so I would disagree.

We're going to end up with duplicate instances all over the place. That's just the reality of things. Some of them will become the more popular versions and others will be abandoned, but there's little point to complaining about it.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

it's counterintuitive to the whole point of Lemmy lol

Actually no, it is not. Having multiple smaller communities works to the benefit of users in the Fediverse. One server might be down, and people in those communities can find another community on a different instance to continue discussion until the community of their instance choice comes back up.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I got a response from them on Reddit:

We didn't know which platform would take off, and we were nervous that because Kbin and Lemmy are so similar one platform might shut down in some sort of consolidation down the road. Also when we made them, each had very serious drawbacks for our media (Lemmy needs a lot of clicking to access the media, while kbin turned any media that wasn't in a 3:4 aspect ratio into a funhouse mirror.) So each of us took a community and somewhere down the line we'll re-evaluate.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given that one of those resignations talks about Beehaw like it's a separate platform entirely, I think it's just some good old fashioned misunderstanding. Looks like they've set up separate user accounts on Lemmy and Kbin too.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now setting up separate user accounts isn’t a terrible idea…

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, kind of a strange choice to split like that. Are they intending to start crossposting to both communities?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they didn't realize lemmy and kbin can all visit the same community?

I subscribed yesterday. Will have to check which one it is!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is most likely it. They sound like 2 different sites before you get here and realize how interconnected everything is.

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[–] [email protected] 212 points 1 year ago (7 children)

For everyone who told us that they’d never taken a single art class and they could mod this place better with their eyes closed… Well, consider this a golden opportunity! It’s going to be tricky doing it with your eyes closed ever since Reddit’s painfully botched rollout of “disability friendly” mod tools in their disasterpiece of a mobile app has caused nothing but crashes and bugs, but you seemed so confident in the many (many, many, many) times you’ve expressed this opinion that we can only assume you know something about modding that we don’t!

Is such a fun line.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

test comment.
edit of test comment
edit from culprit browser
edit with only one add-on deactivated

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Oh my god that was annoying! But yes. Now, I am okay.

Firefox wasn't letting me comment, reply to comments, or edit my comments. I even dragged my home instance's moderator into helping me debug which I feel terrible about. (Especially because I originally described it as a federation error, only later realizing that the glitch was happening on reddthat as well as federated instances.)

After various debugging attempts, he told me to deactivate my extensions... which I hadn't tried for some reason... and it worked instantly. My Bionic Reader Firefox extension in particular turned out being the source of the problem. And now I feel like I've wasted my mod's time trying to debug something that he had no control over, but other than that? I'm okay.

Thanks for asking.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

I mean.. Idk why.. but I love it.. imagining you pulling your hair out trying to troubleshoot this.. haha..

Been there done that..

Cheers mate!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's problem solving, so he looks fine.

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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I love this bot

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[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

This is the sort of action I love to see. Reddit thinks they own the moderators who are working for free. They want slaves. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (7 children)

From the very start, ever subreddit should have challenged Reddit and called their bluff. Go ahead, replace the mods for thousands of subreddits. If a few dozen are changed, that's no problem. Whatever. But thousands? Good luck.

The whole protest seemed so half-hearted from the start. You don't go on strike with a set end-date in mind. You go on strike indefinitely until demands are met or a satisfactory compromise is made.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I will say that the short blackout was enough to get me onto the Fediverse. I didn't even use the apps that would be affected by the API shutdown, so I never would have noticed the controversy without the blackout.

But once the blackout was announced, I recognized how far reddit was willing to go in service of harvesting its users' data. And after that point, I just didn't feel good on the site anymore. (Granted, I first created an account on Mastodon because the people calling for blackouts never mentioned Lemmy. But still!)

Between Facebook's notification system repeatedly failing to direct me to comment replies, Twitter DDoSing itself, and reddit turning into the Eye of Sauron (which, again, I would not have even noticed happening were it not for the short protest), it seemed like the perfect time to exit the sinking ship of corporate social media.

Meaning they did something. Maybe they didn't avert the reddit apocalypse, but they still did something.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There was never a chance for compromise. This was about money; a premature, over blown, knee jerk, pie-in-the-sky hope to cash in on free expert input based on decades of good will interactions performed for free by people who cared about their subject matter.

I deleted every comment I'd ever made and left pretty much immediately. They can eat their own shit.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Oh damn, that's us!!

We'd wondered where the nearly 1.9k subscribers came from completely out of nowhere!

So, yeah, a lot of people are hating on us for creating one of Kbin and one on Lemmy, but we had our reasons: Basically, neither handled images very well and we saw that these two services did basically the same thing and that typically leads to the weaker project getting cancelled down the line, so we decided our safest bet was just to make one of each, just in case. Better safe than sorry.

We might consolidate them later, but for now just pick whichever you like best. :)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just want to say, "it's been swell, but the swelling's gone down" is a fantastic turn of phrase that I will be stealing

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

[email protected] for us lemmy folks

...why did they make two comms though when kbin and lemmy work together?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Maybe because, like me, they don't understand the difference

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

For your reference: for all intents and purposes there isn’t one. Lemmy accounts can interact and follow kbin communities and vice versa. You don’t need accounts on both, though you can if you choose.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's pretty daring of them to do, they're risking their severance package by so publicly making their former employer look so bad. Oh wait...

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (29 children)

I'm so happy to see this community join us here, especially not being a mega-community with the same icon. We know the one on here.

I feel the more niche communities migrations will have a bigger impact. That something like politics or whatnot wouldn't. Like even Fuckcars is here, because Fuck cars.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Welcome to LemmyVille it’s nice here we have

  • dietary advice
  • antique meme
  • screenshot
  • bean

I love accidental renaissance one of my favourite subs x

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (9 children)

For those of you browsing from lemmy.world here is how to access it and stay logged in:

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

If you drop the first half, the web version and most apps will open the community in your instance.

/c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Okay, those are some mods I can respect.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Feel kind of honored. One of the posts that the founding mod pulled over was a pic of my dog.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/564838

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish every single subreddit would follow suit.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their heart was at the right place... But they didn't really understand federation huh. Splitting their communities like that is asking for less engagement and more user confusion. Just create it on Lemmy, interact with it using your Kbin user, and then it will federate and you can still provide the Kbin link if you so desire.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was intentional. They didn't 100% like either site so they made a community on both. They are seeing which they prefer after some use and development.

Everyone here is acting like they're idiots who don't understand the internet. They were high level mods.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is blahaj.zone getting hugged to death? Link don't work

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This has been awesome. I’m finding out about communities I’ve never known about but starting with Lemmy to follow. Thanks Reddit for making all of the worst decisions all at once.

I REALLY like it here the most. After a couple weeks, I’m barely missing it over there (I really miss Apollo, not Reddit, thank you to Voyager for providing a similar experience).

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Test

😂 You all are funny

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

{ 200: OK }

Comment came in loud and clear

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (21 children)

It’s clear that people prefer Lemmy over Kbin, for some reason. Over 2k users in the Lemmy community vs. only 900 on Kbin.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good on them, I was subscribed to that subreddit for the longest time and I'm glad to see they've made the transition. I'd love to see r/AskHistorians make the transition too, as that's an amazing subreddit with great information.

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