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Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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I also may boost posts I make with alts, but I'm mainly here so that should be rare.

  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • Using Mastodon, it's a similar behavior there, and equally mildly annoying. Least bad in that sense imo is Misskey, as when the post is a reply, the one it replies to is partially loaded, though Misskey has so much visual noise it is disorienting in other ways.

  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • Ye. Back when I used Feeder (some Android RSS reader), it was a similar struggle as each feed loads their data differently and I would try to find the least bad of the display modes.

  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • Pinned and appears globally, I mean, which after a reload now also appears on mobile:

  • Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts

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  • The Fediverse and WordPress Should Be Better Friends, with Evan Prodromou

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  • I think proposals like Bridgy Fed and Minds.com are better, bridges run by independent groups, instead of changes being forced onto the underlying engine. When the latter is done, devs need to make changes based on the smallest common denominator, slowing or even halting individual development of environments. Bridges at least are developed adjacent to multiple environments instead of having to change fundamentals.

  • Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset

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  • Second that. The person just needs to pull a cable into a cheap second-hand screen he/she bought and it's pretty much done, so I can't see why it wouldn't be common.

  • Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset

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  • Explaining, changes happening too abruptly feel artificial. Wayland's been around for a while, sure, but it was barely adopted and then a lot of people started insisting on it overnight.

  • Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset

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  • This shoehorning of Rust feels more artificial than Wayland's. 🤔

  • Recommend that new users join geographically local instances

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  • When I think a regional community could be good:

    If the user doesn't speak English, or if neither the one recommending nor the one interested know at all what the latter wants.

    And in the second case, a generalist instance like Lemmy.World or Mastodon.Social would be better, I think.

  • Recommend that new users join geographically local instances

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  • If the user likes none of the regional instances he/she knows of, should the user recommend things he/she doesn't like?

    Similarly, some instances have more clear-cut niches. If the user finds such an instance to be a good recommendation to someone interested in the fediverse, should he/she avoid it if it's too far physically from the interested user?

  • Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting

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  • Sending RSS feeds to bots such as @birb@rss-parrot.net or @owner@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com should give a bot profile to follow a given feed's updates. And both should be usable from pretty much any Mastodon instances, making the potential usable instances much broader. Two small things to note however, first the Studio Rafflesia's bot's usage rules are in Japanese so potential language barrier there, and second and confirmed by the author, sending a feed to RSS Parrot through Mbin doesn't work.

    Other than that, and in line with the question, I second !meta@ibbit.at.

  • Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and?

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  • Lemmy.World federates to potentially any platforms as long as they also use ActivityPub and are not defederated/defederating. However, compatibility may vary, and some rather sporadic cases from some tests I did outright wouldn't work.

    And to my knowledge, it's not possible to connect accounts for them to behave like one. What is is having your accounts in different services follow each other.

    Mbin, Peertube, Misskey and Mastodon allow that from my experience. I would presume other microblogging and video platfroms allow that too, though still have to test them.

    And just in case, to clarify, Mbin (software) tries to act as a mix of threads (like Reddit) and microblogging (like Twitter and Facebook). The/Brain/Bin (my main instance) runs on Mbin software. Lemmy is focused as a threads platform, but you can't follow users directly there.

  • Nemi - another top?

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  • Unsure how popular it is in Norway - I'm in another continent and yet to visit there so can't verify easily.

    But about what you'd be missing, from the little I could gather, maybe half the main series, and all the Christimas comics which apparently still release yearly to this day.

  • Nemi - another top?

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  • Finding the original translation version* is pretty hard. Been looking for over a year now, but I fear it'd be easier to book a flight to Oslo or Bergen and look at book shops there.

    (*put "translation" by brain fart)

  • Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon

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  • That's something that's been bothering me on the microblogging side of Mbin too, how replies to posts are presented. There, all replies appear on the feed, and they're also on a parallel code block to the post, so even browser scripts or filters have trouble picking them.

    Your comment gives me some ideas, so will be poking on the Mbin issues tracker later. Thanks! _

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  • Been noticing that for quite a while now, each platform has their own cultures, even when there can be exchange between two or more. If an instance blocks another, I'd imagine it's due to differences in such cultures.

    As an user for some 2 years now, I get an idea of the communities I'd rather avoid, but other than the most extreme examples, haven't seen much openly discussed about specific instances.

    Now, I wouldn't worry about what people from instances x, y or z think if I were you. If you like how your chosen instance is, and people from other instances organize to hunt you down, seek your instance's support if needed, or simply block each and every one pestering you.

  • Commodore offers Windows 10 users an alternative with Linux-based Vision OS

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  • Everyone, including Commodore themselves: "how you're not dead?"

    Commodore: "I don't know! =D "

  • A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities?

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  • That would be easier implemented with microblogging tagging, and the only thread-based platform that uses tags is Mbin afaik. However, even in it you can't still block tags. Maybe poke the devs of Mbin to implement it?