AnonymousLlama

I thought the selling point behind most Twitter like services is that it’s focused on negative positioning. E.g. things that are negative focused get more attention and engagement

People hear from others that Lemmy is the place you go and when searched for you end up here. Having registrations closed doesn’t sound like a great idea when most people have no idea about the fediverse

Perfectly fair. People coming from Reddit specifically need to be eased into the fediverse and saying “whoops sorry we’re full / closed” isn’t great.

Ideally if we want things balanced people should be on multiple instances but I’d rather several slower, bigger instances in the meantime until the community expands.

Cheers for the work you guys do!

There’s a mobile app in the works, Artemis. Things will be a bit better when the site gets official API support and more services can connect to it

I’ve found squabbles pretty good for tweet style content. There seems to be a pretty engaged audience who can look at a short sentence or photo and happily engage with a comment

I’m pretty happy with kbin.social. It’s a nice place, with several devs actively looking at making the experience better, it just takes a while being an open source project and all

Yep spot on. I get that people have their own preferences and tolerances, but that’s what it is, thier own, it feels pretty entitled to think everyone else should be affected when you can just block communities and people yourself

OP might find these jokes a little shitty

Whenever I see these threads pop up I always look for this comment. People need learn to block communities and users that you’re not keen on, not reach for the de-federation ban-hammer because you personally don’t want to see the content.

There’s an argument to be made about instances made 100% in bad faith, or where the content is overwhelming stacked, but for most of these situations people need to take care of this themselves

I’ve looked at this for kbin, marking posts as ‘read’ once you’ve interacted with them before (either upvote, downvote or boosting) so that’s way when you come back later in the day you can see things you’ve already interacted with.

It’s one of those things that will probably take a while to get going

Along with what the other old mates have said. Using containers is super handy in web development. You can use Docker Desktop (windows, mac, linux etc) and set up containers, one for PHP, another for postgres (database) and have them all interconnect.

The benefit I’ve found is that once someone has set up a docker file (the thing that says how it all builds and interconnects) you can launch it with a single click.

The Kbin project itself has a docker setup to get up and running, handling most of the connection between the database and Symfony (the framework of the website)

The issue is I’m keen on following the self-hosting / server specific content but generally I’ve got nothing exciting to add. I can offer upvotes and kbin boosts 🚀

This is a strange one. I assumed people wanting this type of service would want to view all the content from the fediverse but not push to the fediverse

E.g. start your own instance of kbin and connect with everyone but turn off your own federation so no one sees your posts.

Wonder if that scenario has been catered to?

How’s the content on Masterdon compared to say Lemmy/kbin? Can always add a new site to my daily doom scrolling, but is it just a collection of people complaining about the smallest slight like on Twitter?

Eventually I’m assuming sites will need to implement some type of auto mod system when they get to scale. It’s only a matter of time before bots and bad actors see these sites as valuable targets

The hardest part is the interactive, especially coming from say for example Reddit where you’d realistically have hundreds of comments on every thread. The overall quality was pretty average but it was nice to see that volume

That’s one of the most glaring issues I see with activityPub. The Reddit style, I’m going to block you because your follow XYZ sub mentally.

I’ve got no solution for it besides hiding which places federate with who, but by looking at the content you’d be about to make an educated guess anyway

Apparently this guy thinks Nazis are everywhere. Almost reminds me of Russian propaganda, Ukraine is full of Nazis we need to go over there and clean house etc.

It sounds like they just don’t like people with differing opinions and anyone who doesn’t toe the line must be a Nazi or Nazi sympathiser 🙄

You can also use third party providers like these guys who can set up an activity pub centric website for you.

That looks like a pretty good starting point for people who have just a moderate understanding of servers and websites

Yeah that’s something I’ve not seen discussed here much. I get that people want control, but getting started with an ActivityPub centric site (like kbin) is now cheaper than ever. Get your own cheap hosting on a VPS and handle some traffic.

People can even create their own instances just to federate with everyone and absorb their content if they’re worried about the rules and regulations or “x server not connecting with y”

Overall I think it’s a pretty good system compared to a single silo like Reddit