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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I just took the path of least resistance for my alt and parked it on lemmy.world. We'll see how all this plays out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Many of the lemmy instances have two or more front-ends available. I find https://photon.lemmy.world/ with the dark them and "List" post style looks pretty nice. There's at least one that just simply replicates old reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Not really. I would be curious if other people immersed in SI only have similar issues to yours. Minutes and hours are based off of multiples of 12, and with feet and inches that's already one we deal with regularly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

kbin.social in particular only has the one admin. I keep an eye on the two ghost-town mags that I mod so they don't become spam vectors, but there's only so much we can do without an admin/dev.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I hate to say it, because I've been really pleased with kbin for the most part. I've liked being able to dip my toes into the Mastodon side without yet another account; I like the interface; and my interactions with Ernest have been nothing but pleasant. I certainly hope all is well with him personally. But whether it's legitimate medical issues or undisclosed burnout, the instance and platform are struggling.

The good thing is that everything has been federating and most of us have been interacting with Lemmy and mbin users daily anyway; it's "just" a loss of fake internet points and comment history to move. I'm trying to put that off, but the mobile site/pwa is only okay, API rollout has stalled (meaning app development has stalled as well), admin activities can't happen with Ernest, and technical issues with the instance are becoming more common.

I think the Reddit API mini-exodus last year hit at that exact "sweet" spot, in terms of numbers and point in kbin development, where one dev/admin could almost keep up with it, but not quite. Suddenly this thing he was noodling with to combine Lemmy and Mastodon has thousands of people wanting it to be production ready. I don't begrudge him anything even if it is just burnout, but if that is the case then maybe it's time to bless mbin as a successor and start migrating people off kbin.social or find someone else to admin it and ugrade it to mbin. Ernest has built up a ton of goodwill; if he's done, then he's done (and of course, if he's ill then he's ill). Who among us could stand up a minimum viable product of a reddit clone and admin two instances? Not me, that's for sure.

Edit: I checked, and Ernest's Polish-language instance karab.in is completely down right now.

We have all been very lucky that these open source projects are there as an alternative, and there are ways Ernest can step back if being the sole PM of a sprawling social network project isn't good for him. I just don't want it to happen in a way where people are left with a bad taste in their mouths for the Fediverse or him personally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, but it's a little unusual that one orca was hunting alone, and the shark was a large juvenile. The scientists think that the ecological mess that has resulted in the killer whales pushing out all but the boldest teenager great white sharks could mean that the sharks are going somewhere else, possibly where humans fish or swim or where the local wildlife is not ready for the sharks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Wake me when they REALLY get back to their roots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Girl on the right probably killed a Spanish swordsmith back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think I'd prefer something closer to the current flag.

I think the most common idea is alternating rows of 9 and 8. The circle is especially good for differentiating though, so an in-progress campaign would probably like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There’s also the very nerdy Shakespeare version of the same sentiment: “when troubles come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

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

In English, over time, “I could care less” has come to have the exact same meaning as “I couldn’t care less.”

Some people get wrapped around an axle (i.e. irrationally angry) about it, but i just mentally fill in some context myself: “I could care less… i suppose… if i really tried… but that’s not going to happen.”

There’s no governing body for English. If you communicate the meaning and social cues that you intended, then it’s “right.” Of course, communicating social cues is sometimes where you can get in trouble using newer linguistic constructions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When you're trying to get into DPs, the outside can be slippery and the screw part can be tight! Very dangerous for the workplace.

 

Read it. Just read it. Purple prose blending into faux Hemingway masculine terseness and back again, shallow asides that are tonally off from any of the movies, including ROTS, and beating you over the head with the relationship that AOTC failed to show us. It's trying so very hard, and it's just not good.

The daily hot takes will continue until morale improves... or until I run out of the ones I want to defend. Post news and your own opinions to drown me out! It would be sooooo terrible if we had a multitude of voices inspiring discussion on the Threadiverse.

 

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is ridiculed for dismissing the groundwork of The Force Awakens, but it’s a great sequel that continues the story properly. Here’s why.

I'm on board with this article. If there was, as is famously repeated online, "no plan," then JJ should have conceded that Rian is a better writer and carried his threads forward.

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Hand-wired twins! (media.kbin.social)
 
 

Texas A&M and Duke's Mike Elko, a former Aggies defensive coordinator, have reached an agreement to make him the school's next head coach, sources told ESPN on Sunday, a day after the regular season ended for both teams.

Feel like with the Aggies, I may still be jumping the gun by posting this, but maybe by level-setting with Stoops, they made "younger Stoops with Aggie ties" look like a better get than he's likely to be.

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It has been an honor shitposting with you all this season, pioneers in this strange virtual land. I reckon the overlap between "people who are into college football enough to obsess over it on the internet" and "people who will bail on the top CFB discussion forum for an experiment in non-profit social media" is pretty small, but here we are. Glad to have you around.

Pretty much all of you have absolutely terrible taste in football teams, by the way.

 

It was a low point for the Auburn football program on Saturday following an embarrassing loss to the 28 point underdog New Mexico State Aggies. Auburn fans h...

 
 

EDIT: Baffling journalism professors everywhere, the headline asked a question that could be answered "Yes." Aggies pulled the trigger.

Just happy that at least one fanbase believes they have it worse than mine. I do have to wonder if the 51 points yesterday changes anything, or if that was an undercover "interim bump".

 

Grinch came with Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma but was dismissed after 24 games

Figured this guy was probably toast after the PACCG last year. I haven't seen such terrible attempts at tackling on supposedly well-matched talent before or since, and I watched the CFP title game.

 
 

Why yes, yes I am a Texas resident and Jacksonville Jaguars fan who has finally found the nexus between college football and the Tennessee Titans' ownership being absolute perennial dickbags about the Oilers branding.

 
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