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  • I've tried multiple channels, and I never managed from other software, even though I could find the underlying individual videos that are part of the channels. Can you link an example?

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  • Hello from my Kbin account!

    I agree that this part of the article is not well developed, and I should have probably rewritten it. What I was trying to get at is that Flipboard has a hierarchy that is unique: The Actor owns a Group, with the Actor being the highest level, and the Magazine below it.

    While you could probably map a Flipboard Magazine onto a ActivityPub Group similarly like a Kbin Magazine is a Group, the intended usecase is still quite different, even though they are both link-aggregators. I dont think this is an insurmountable problem per se, but I dont agree that Kbins Magazines are super similar to Flipboards Magazines. If you wanted an fediverse comparison, I think Flipboards Magazines are actually way closer to the Postmarks.

  • Firefish Could Be the Next Big Thing
  • if anything, its gotten worse tbh. the upside is that the move account feature to mastodon works, was a bit concerned about that.

    it doesnt block your old account after a move like mastodon does, so i still have a functional firefish account, just not my followers anymore

    chris stating that hes hesitant to open his new (4 person) firefish server to other people until theyve tested more for stability makes me quite hesitant to recommend the platform for now, if stability issues are this deeply ingrained

  • So, what's the status on the update? (edit: ernest responded)
  • wishing you all the best Ernest!

  • Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 30
  • hey, thanks for letting me know. I think thats cloudflare, as its a pretty standard wordpress blog that I've not actively enabled settings to hide stuff behind captchas etc. Not really sure why it happens, but im taking a look

  • Reddit’s menswear hub is the latest casualty of its battle with moderators | TechCrunch
    techcrunch.com Reddit’s menswear hub is the latest casualty of its battle with moderators | TechCrunch

    Reddit may have won by shutting down the protest against its API changes, but not without lasting damage to its relationship with its users.

    Reddit’s menswear hub is the latest casualty of its battle with moderators | TechCrunch

    Reddit may have won by shutting down the protest against its API changes, but not without lasting damage to its relationship with its users.

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    Only partial federation of hashtagged posts to Kbin microblog?
  • No, the value is in pulling in posts with a hashtag that arent being followed yet. But it feels like that isnt really possible yet, and that someone from kbin.social has to follow the account?

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social laurens @kbin.social
    Only partial federation of hashtagged posts to Kbin microblog?

    I've been looking for a usecase to see where the combination of Threads and Microblog was particularly useful, and with the news around the potential superconductor #LK99 I figured this would be an interesting test case. So I made a magazine on kbin.social for LK99, and added the hashtags to tags in settings.

    But now only some tagged posts show up under microblog. So it does work, because otherwise 0 posts would appear. But if I search on mastodon.social for #LK99, I get way more posts, and only about a third of them show up on Kbin.

    Its probably something to do with federation, but I'm not really sure where it goes wrong. Interestingly, even some posts that are made on mastodon.social that are correctly tagged do not show up on kbin, even though other posts from mastodon.social do. I even made sure to follow this account with my mastodon.social account to guarantee federation between the servers.

    Anyone has an idea how this works? And if there is a way to force more of the posts to show up?

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    National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor
  • So my understanding with this new info is that LK99 is quite likely to be 'something', right? That something certainly does not have to be a superconductor, or anything even remotely impactful.

    But am I understanding it correctly that the explanations of pure fraud or 'cat walked on keyboard during original measurements' can be mostly ruled out?

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    Does anyone know when the Beeper apps will be ready?
  • Yeah invite list sped up quite a lot last few weeks, often 5k a day

  • First International Hacktivist ‘Cyberwar’? Online Conflict & the Kosovo War
    realhackhistory.org First International Hacktivist ‘Cyberwar’? Online Conflict & the Kosovo War

    The Kosovo War lasted from February 1998 through to June 1999. In parallel with the brutal physical conflict was an online battle between hackers from Russia, the US, China, Holland and parts of th…

    First International Hacktivist ‘Cyberwar’? Online Conflict & the Kosovo War

    An account of hackers and hacktivism during the Kosovo war. Absolutely fascinating piece of tech history that I knew nothing about. Via @realhackhistory https://chaos.social/@realhackhistory/110723217013753518

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    Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server
  • The Nordic Council of Ministers set up a Think Tank for digital strategy stuff last year, and they published their recommendations two months ago. They specifically advised all the Nordic governments to go all in on ActivityPub.

    https://social.cloudless.world/@ruben_int/statuses/01GYC9A95YPKQZZJXH8VT27JRA
    https://pub.norden.org/nord2023-004/3-access-to-diverse-and-credible-digital-platforms-and-communities.html

  • The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution
    restofworld.org The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution

    The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

    The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution

    The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

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    Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server
  • hell yeah interop is awesome!

  • Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server
  • soms wel fijn om toch af en toe een klein beetje trots te kunnen zijn op onze overheid

  • Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server

    The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl

    The official announcement post by the State Secretary of Digitalisation: https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685

    In the post she mentions that the government supports 'value-driven' alternatives to social media. In a letter to the house of representatives she describes Mastodon as a Digital Common Good, and that it fits in the larger strategy of the government of using 'open source, unless' (meaning theyll always use open source unless there is a clear explicit reason not to).

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    Mastodon server van overheid vandaag officieel gelanceerd!
    social.overheid.nl Alexandra van Huffelen (@avhuffelen@social.overheid.nl)

    Bijlagen: 1 afbeelding Vandaag lanceren wij onze overheidsserver op Mastodon. In de brief die ik aan de Kamer heb gestuurd over 'Digitale gemeenschapsgoederen' op 22 juni, heb ik aangegeven dat ik twee waardengedreven alternatieven voor social media ondersteun. Een van deze alternatieven is een ...

    Via Alexandra van Huffelen:

    Vandaag lanceren wij onze overheidsserver op Mastodon.

    In de brief die ik aan de Kamer heb gestuurd over 'Digitale gemeenschapsgoederen' op 22 juni, heb ik aangegeven dat ik twee waardengedreven alternatieven voor social media ondersteun.

    Een van deze alternatieven is een 'eigen' Mastodon-server die door overheidsorganisaties gebruikt worden.

    Hiermee zetten we weer een stap in onze Werkagenda Waardengedreven Digitaliseren.

    Algemene informatie over ons ministerie: @minbzk

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    /kbin project management costs, financing, future plans
  • Thank you for the update and thoroughness! That growth from may to june is insane, massive props for keeping this all working and afloat!

  • How is the war going? — Mid July 2023

    An overview of the frontlines and some reflections about Ukraine's summer offensive. The Russian positions have been harder to break through than many expect...

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    Should we be using hashtags and mentions more?
  • yeah I think it would be good to do more. hashtags are clunky and an eyesore, and I would love to see better support of them that mitigates this. But currently they are the main way to signal discoverability on the fediverse. And posts on kbin are (usually) made with the intention that the public can interact with them.

    One thing I would like to see is an extra field when you submit your post where you can add in some hashtags. These can be rendered as Tags in activitypub, which do exactly the same thing as hashtags, except that they are not visible in the main body of the text. The ActivityPub wordpress plugin also does this. I add tags to my posts on wordpress, and when you search for that hashtag, my wordpress blog post shows up, even though you'll not find the hashtag anywhere in the body of the text.

  • Assuming boost stays as some sort of a super-upvote/share combo alongside regular up/downvote buttons, here's a UI idea on how to merge it into one unified voting system. App animation + web block moc
  • yeah, its good to mention that boosts is also really relevant for the microblogging side. I actually found out about this post because i follow ernest on calckey, and he boosted it. Thats for me an important usecase of boosting kbin stuff. This looks really pretty, but it does put boosting too much in the category of 'superlike' for me.

  • Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
  • Germany (social.bund.de) and the EU (social.network.europa.eu) already have it. I think it's very likely that other governments, especially european ones, will start to do this.

    With the internet being so dominated by american voices, I dont think a lot of people have fully appreciated the sentiment change in the higher levels of european governments. Sovereign control over their digital spaces is something that is actually mattering on the level of nation states. Its a way of thinking that is kind of new to most people, as we rarely think about the sovereign powers of nation states, and even less so in the context of the internet. But now were starting to do that again, and it actually matters.

  • Premier Rutte op ramkoers, val kabinet lijkt niet ver weg
    nos.nl Premier Rutte op ramkoers, val kabinet lijkt niet ver weg

    De splijtzwam is een maatregel die het aantal nareizigers moet beperken.

    De splijtzwam is een maatregel die het aantal nareizigers moet beperken.

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  • I think what we learned with the Silicon Valley Bank disaster is that VCs are absolute lemmings that blindly follow each other in a wild panic. Slashing your valuations by almost 50% surely will lead to the other investors also following. Which most likely will lead to further enshittification for Discord and Reddit as well. Very curious when thats going to start for Discord.

  • WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app
    www.theverge.com WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app

    All those government Twitter feeds might start migrating to WhatsApp.

    WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app

    Another sign that the social media landscape is rapidly changing. WhatsApp is coming here for both Telegram, but also to steal more users away from Twitter. I'd expect this to be a popular feature for organisations and governments to broadcast, over time.

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    laurens laurens @kbin.social

    I write the Fediverse Report. This is my public account. fediversereport.com fediversereport@mastodon.social laurenshof@calckey.social

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