I’m having the same issues too. I’ve even had the scenario of writing a long comment on a thread and getting error-ed away once I hit “Add comment”. I don’t know why it happened, but it certainly made me stop using kbin for the rest of the day. 😅

It hasn’t fully discouraged me though. I remind myself that it’s early days so it’s going to have a bunch of hiccups along the way.

I mean, AI can be used to design a lot of robust yet efficient structures. In engineering and architecture, with enough data, AI can generate designs for buildings, and parts that are not only sturdy but can be built with less resources along with other design considerations. There’s a really cool nasa video where competitors are trying to 3D print structures for habitation in space.

AI is also used in medicine to come up with new protein structures to create new medicine. It’s also used in environmental sciences, to help predict earthquakes or monitor land use, etc.

There’s a lot of practical uses for AI.

I think it’s a matter of content type. We have a lot of links to interesting articles or pictures of memes with no additional input from the poster. Those make me less inclined to comment. I just tend to upvote/boost and move on.

I think for more discussion/opinions, people need a spring board to jump off of.

Yup. I never used any of the apps (always opened reddit through my mobile browser) so I wasn’t affected that way. I am sympathetic to all the issues brought up, and I do really like the fediverse, but I don’t think the users are here yet.

I like going to reddit to read about opinions or someone more knowledgeable than me talk about things. I find there’s a lack of discussions in the fediverse at the moment for me, and maybe that’s due to me having to curate my experience more. I don’t know. But for now, yes, I still use it.

I wouldn’t say it’s unaffected. The quality of the content has dropped, less people are posting which makes the feeds look and feel stagnant, and some subs are just gone now. Whether or not that stays the same months or years from now, who can say?

I don’t think any censorship is happening though. Reddit is still very much an internet subculture thing and fediverse apps even more niche.

I’m pretty sure you just click on it again. I just tried with your post.

I imagine if the kbin bird gets a name we’d follow along so either, Kibbies/Binks/Kebins?

Ohhhh, I see. So it’s only by the users subscribing to other communities that the instance is populated with content from other instances?

Yeah, I was hoping I could find an old post from him regarding the name, but google just shows me code, and I didn’t want to bother him because I imagine he’s busy. 😅

So… Each instance has a copy of all the other instances’ content? I thought they just had access to each other’s content but not a copy?

If they each have a copy then how would refederation work? I assume they just sync back together. So if instance A has a post with several comment threads on it from other instances, and B defederates, then it gets a copy of the post. If the original author on A decides to delete their post, then their post stays on B’s instance, but if B refederates, does their copy of that post repopulate or does it sync up to be deleted?

That’s tricky because lower back pain can be due to many things.

If it’s related to muscle tenseness, have you tried stretching? Dynamic side stretches first to warm the area up, then more sustained holds. I find a combination of side stretches, sustained cobra pose, child’s pose, some squats and that hamstring stretch one does while lying down can help.