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Wanted to share the libredirect Firefox plugin, for abandoning Youtube. (libredirect.github.io)

This is a plugin I found recently and really enjoy. It gives you the opportunity to redirect several webpages to alternatives. For example Youtube to FreeTube or Piped. If I search for youtube in Firefox, FreeTube automatically opens and shows me my feed. I like it, I use it, I can recommend it.

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on android you can enable "share"/"open in external app" and send the link to piped or newpipe or whatever your preferred app is; that's how I do it

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RIP Einar Egilsson

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It is pretty good. It is not doing everything reddit was doing for me. But it took me years to find all the right communities on reddit. No reason to expect a drop in replacement. Overall I was pretty skeptical of threadiverse working out really at all. It could have just been a fad. On that count I am pleasantly surprised.

I have gotten much less stringent on boycotting reddit on search results. At first I was resolved to never go to reddit anymore. Now I prefer other sites if available but I am not going to punish myself by willfully avoiding useful content. I try to get in and get out asap. I am rarely using site:reddit.com/r/subreddit anymore. But once in a while I do.

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Answer 1:

with an old forum like running phpbb, it doesn't matter to the user what the site is running. if it works, it works.

with the fediverse, because it is interacting with other instances in a way forums never even conceived of, it is really important to the end user what software is running. the software is center stage.

Answer 2:

The blossoming of the threadiverse in the past 6 months has prompted/necessitated the creation of a lot of "general purpose" domains.

Your examples are bookclub.phpbulletin.com and metalheads.vbulletin.net. But most lemmy instances are not themed around literature or music or anything else. More apt example would have been phpbbtalk.io or chatvbulletin.xyz. Such sites did start back in the day. But in the absence of federation they were not likely to cohere. So you don't remember them, if you ever found them in the first place.

Find in page clears itself after a few moments (kbin.social)

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....

The Decline of Niche Communities on Lemmy

I’ve been using Lemmy for a couple years now, and unfortunately I’ve noticed a significant decline in the niche communities that were originally active. When I first joined I saw much more variety when browsing the All feed. But over time, the communities I liked have faded as shitposting and meme communities have come to...

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Tbh i thinknthroaways are a better solution. "Hiding" stuff selectively can never 100% work.

The reason i prefered reddit to all the other big socials was how easy pseudonynous activity is. No "real name policy" BS. threadiverse has the same feature so i like it too.

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Should still include "i dont like it" as a reason

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I guess you could use that to make your own private community?

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It is a very (the most?) common reason for downvoting and if you force people to chose a reason but don't include it, they will just lie and the whole exercise will be rendered pointless.

And you know even though it's not your personal preference, I think there are situations where it's really just helpful to know "a lot of people agree" or "a lot of people disagree". Not everything is about having a long debate with many sides. Sometimes the most popular thing is the best thing and the least popular is that way for a reason. Or it can provide useful context to understand the comments. Like if I am posting to ask advice about how to fix something and several options are presented but one of them has 5x the upvotes, I am thinking that might be the best one.

And it can tell you about the community. Like if I go into a community and I see someone says something nasty/dangerous/stupid and it has a similar votecount to other comments, I would think "I guess that sort of thing is acceptable here". Whereas if I see it has lots of downvotes I might think "this comment is not representative of the general community here". Voting based on like/dislike allows the community to express approval/disapproval when things don't meet the threshold of moderator action; especially in very permissive communities where mods do not wish to take a heavy hand.

Further more, agree/disagree votes cut down on identical "me too" type comments. They give people a way to show approval without needing to make a comment and sometimes that is appropriate.

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Still working on making on-topic responses I see. :) you'll get there eventually. just give it a few more moments.

We Distribute is launching a Fediverse-themed podcast, but we don't know what to call it.

Hey! So, TL;DR, we’ve been putting in a lot of work to make a podcast for the Fediverse, to go along with our news articles. There’s just so much cool stuff happening, and we feel that a podcast format can capture aspects of this that regular articles can’t....

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"Fediverse: alternative social media"

Or something

Make it somewhat findable and discernable. Including to the 99.9999999999% of people who dont get the jokes.

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This is the place to ask: https://fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS and check the sidebar links

If you figure it out let me know. I tried and failed.

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it's harder to do than you think. you can tell people about signal because everyone understands messaging. and telling them to use signal is/was good advice!

Trust me you will never even think to get into the differences between wayland and x11. hate systemd? excited about btrfs? it is literally impossible to discuss any of it without shared context.

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I cant follow the convo to tell if this is the actual state of things or just something thst was being discussed but:

16 Maintainers MAY merge incorrect patches from other Contributors with the goals of (a) ending fruitless discussions, (b) capturing toxic patches in the historical record, (c) engaging with the Contributor on improving their patch quality.

What an idea.

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seems like you are saying ernest put thru an intentionally malicious PR to see what would happen? And what happened was exactly what is described? I mean, ya, thats what people will do.

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@melroy I don't think you can really be upset about anyone putting through bad code. According to the philosophy as I understand it, bad code (intentionally so or otherwise) is a useful contribution and you are basically soliciting it. You supposedly have some way other than code review to ensure nothing harmful gets through and it has to do with the reputation of the contributor. Since you already knew @ernest and clearly have a bad opinion of him, how did it happen?

I did not and could not review the PRs themselves. So I am just going on the information as presented here. Sounds like @ernest put through some code (either into kbin or mbin not clear on that) which he knew was not 100% highest quality but which error was not critical or devastating. And that it could easily be found and fixed. Partially he did this to learn more about this governance model. A model which has apparently been developed in direct opposition to his own. Is it approximately accurate?

If so, sounds a bit mischievous at the worst.

I really can't recommend Tyranny of Structurelessness highly enough.

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they don't use github issues?

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Can't make a magazine? https://kbin.run/newMagazine

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How do you know the future?

If you are correct, it is very strange. Why would people who are so passionate about creating a social media platform refuse to use it?

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here we all are talking about it on fediverse@kbin.social which certainly isn't Official Fediverse comm.

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@fr0g I am in substantial agreement with you after reading all this back n forth.

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Your community members ("I do love Mbin") are expressing that they are unhappy with the mediums available for discussion and feel excluded. What is done about it?

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@ernest OP here. I was intending for this thread to be about the mbin fork and its governance, not about kbin. But I guess I kinda got answers to my questions (in so much as they exist) and then some.

I have no particular relationship/loyalty to ernest or to kbin. Like a lot of people, I just got here. I may or may not stick around.

I myself am a person who tends to become intensely excited by new projects. I can come in with lots of ideas and energy feeling like I will be comitted for a long time. But can then loose interest just as quickly. (It's taken a lot of times around the block to learn that.) So I understand why a maintainer of an open source project would have reticence to bring me, or someone like me, into their project in a position of authority without enough time (months -> years) to prove the comitment and to demonstrate competance. In fact I would regard it as poor judgement to just accept a ton of input like that. Just accepting whoever is offering energy can really lead to a lot of problems. I've been on both sides of those problems!

I started this thread to ask questions about mbin because I'd never seen an open source projects described like this. The mbin folks came in not really to provide answers to those questions, but to make insults on how they perceive ernest's personality and moral charecteristics. These based on vague but petty sounding grievances. None of these posts do much to reccomend the project to me. Sounds like waa waa waa babies. If the main grievance is they weren't allowed authority on kbin main, then I agree with that judgment based on the posts here.

Hopefully everyone simmers down. Maybe mbin can define itself in a less reactionary way in the weeks and months to come.

@radek @cacheson @TheVillageGuy @BaldProphet @melroy

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OP here. I was intending for this thread to be about the mbin fork and its governance, not about kbin. But I guess I kinda got answers to my questions (in so much as they exist) and then some.

I have no particular relationship/loyalty to ernest or to kbin. Like a lot of people, I just got here. I may or may not stick around.

I myself am a person who tends to become intensely excited by new projects. I can come in with lots of ideas and energy feeling like I will be comitted for a long time. But can then loose interest just as quickly. (It's taken a lot of times around the block to learn that.) So I understand why a maintainer of an open source project would have reticence to bring me, or someone like me, into their project in a position of authority without enough time (months -> years) to prove the comitment and to demonstrate competance. In fact I would regard it as poor judgement to just accept a ton of input like that. Just accepting whoever is offering energy can really lead to a lot of problems. I've been on both sides of those problems!

I started this thread to ask questions about mbin because I'd never seen an open source projects described like this. The mbin folks came in not really to provide answers to those questions, but to make insults on how they perceive ernest's personality and moral charecteristics. These based on vague but petty sounding grievances. None of these posts do much to reccomend the project to me. Sounds like waa waa waa babies. If the main grievance is they weren't allowed authority on kbin main, then I agree with that judgment based on the posts here.

Hopefully everyone simmers down. Maybe mbin can define itself in a less reactionary way in the weeks and months to come.

@radek @cacheson @TheVillageGuy @BaldProphet @melroy

@radek @cacheson @TheVillageGuy @BaldProphet @melroy @ernest

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@melroy great!

@SamXavia

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No stake in any of this but curious, what info would you find convincing?

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So you want a link to csam or admission from someone thst they seaech for and viewed csam?

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bit.ly for lemmy

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Yes like all the people using rice for food has totslly ruined rice

Dont even get me started on indoor plumbing. Was so much better before it got popular.

Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 (hacks.mozilla.org)

In order to measure the user experience, Firefox collects a wide range of anonymized timing metrics related to page load, responsiveness, startup and other aspects of browser performance. Collecting data while holding ourselves to the highest standards of privacy can be challenging. For example, because we rely on aggregated...

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You can use ffupdater to get updates of various FF forks, including Iceraven, and other browsers.

Fediverser Portal: update to my fediverser project, people now can migrate away from reddit by signing up to the mirror instance directly. (portal.alien.top)

So, I know that my project fediverser has received quite a bit of criticism and its flagship instance alien.top has been quite controversial, but I hope that this update will help people understand the whole project better, which is more than “just yet-another repost bot”....

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I missed whatever drama was associated with alien.top and the URL just 404s now.

This project reminds me of when Cory Doctorow describes adversarial interoperability. Was it inspired by this?

I think adversarial interop is a good explanation for all the permissions required.

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So is this a bit.ly-type url shortener?

We need more / faster moderation (kbin.social)

Ive spent the last week in shock at the lack of moderation because magazines and federated stuff is only moderated by @ernest who I know is busy with development. But the magazines that are on kbin.social and were setup as "Template" magazines are getting trashed either with spam/porn or toxic comments that were reported long...

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ummm i think you are a bit confused.

for example: https://kbin.social/m/firefox@lemmy.ml does in fact identify @ernest as the admin.

however if you visit it at the home instance https://lemmy.ml/c/firefox you will see the actual mod is https://lemmy.ml/u/k_o_t

Here is an issue in the kbin repo related to this: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/223

I think there might be a more comprehensive issue elsewhere.

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if you are a heterosexual, or may at any time in the future have penis-in-vagina type sex, you should learn a little bit more about contraception. that is absolutely not how any IUD works.

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IUDs are hormonal

nope

edit: maybe you are thinking of an IUS

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it only actually works to PM someone on your same instance. other permutations fail, sometimes invisibly

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1051

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as long as you get the right one that can be flashed.

IME most pixels available on the secondary market are bootloader locked.

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And for the curious, but ultimately too lazy to click, there is the top 10ish at this moment.

  1. Support for grouping communities / multi-communities 👍 184
  2. Post tags 👍 91
  3. Allow instance migration for communities and users 👍 72
  4. Instance agnostic links 👍 63
  5. User Flair Feature 👍 44
  6. Dynamically subscribe to other instances communities 👍 26
  7. OAuth (2.0) 👍 25
  8. Add community privacy oriented settings

https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/930215

👍 24
9. Co-hosting communities across instances (e.g. "sharding") 👍 22
10. Add native support for polls 👍 19
11. Local only community 👍 18
12. No ARM Dockerfile available 👍 18

Don't forget to look at a similar list of ✅ closed issues.

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pie

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don't use double quotes " around a url

this is text in square brackets for a linked image in the comments - url exists
https://em-content.zobj.net/source/samsung/161/potato_1f954.png

this is text in square brackets for a linked image in the comments - url doesn't exist
https://kbin.social/m/test/t/499604/%22https://em-content.zobj.net/source/samsung/161/potato_1f954.png%22

"this is text in square brackets for a linked image in the comments" - url exists
https://em-content.zobj.net/source/samsung/161/potato_1f954.png

"this is text in square brackets for a linked image in the comments" - url doesn't exist
https://kbin.social/m/test/t/499604/%22https://em-content.zobj.net/source/samsung/161/potato_1f954.png%22

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