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Cake day: February 15th, 2024

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  • You would love kbin.social.

    It combined posts from Lemmy and Mastodon, allowing to browse and sort both of these like on Reddit. Mastodon toots were matched to respective magazines (like Lemmy/Piefed communities) based on their hashtags. And multireddit-like feature (called Collections there, and recently reimplemented in federated form by PieFed as Feeds) allowed any user to combine several magazines, Lemmy communities and Guppe groups in a single view.

    All of these has been inherited by Mbin (a /kbin fork), outside of Collections/Feeds.

    Largest instances are https://fedia.io/ and https://kbin.earth/. There are much smaller, than flagship /kbin instance have been, though, so both will be aware of less posts…







  • I blame this on an UX blunder.

    Bluesky users are taught not to enter their Bluesky passwords to enter different apps, but rather create a different “app password” for each one. Then Frontpage went OAuth which directs users to Bluesky login page. Bluesky brings us a different login page for OAuth use :/ and obviously does not remember that we are already logged in in the same browser.

    This of course means that we have to enter a Bluesky password to a slightly different-looking website - a somewhat fishy way to authenticate a user…














  • PewDiePie posting on PeerTube will result with many of his videos being viewed on PeerTube. But either:

    • he would make an instance only for himself and majority of his viewers would fail to make a Fediverse account to follow him, or
    • he would open that instance for his viewers to make a account there, but then he would be liable for every comment made by his viewers, or
    • he would make an account on already existing instance, making a great burden of moderating his viewers for existing administration and moderation team.

    An entire network cannot be effectively marketed and accomodate a new users’ wave as well as any centralised website, like YouTube, or Bluesky.