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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Combating spam on kbin - some thoughts
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    6 months ago

    Ernest hasn’t posted since last week, so hopefully he’s okay. He’s alluded to having a fever and having to figure out kbin’s finances (and a bit before that, mentioned that he had to take on another job to cover the bills), so I’m guessing life has gotten in the way of kbin. It’s worth bearing in mind that all the threadiverse projects are basically someone’s hobby at the moment.

    Some of us _aspire _ to dwelling in a basement!

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Combating spam on kbin - some thoughts
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    6 months ago

    Magazine moderators have the ability to delete posts in their community (also pin/unpin them) and ban users from their community. I don’t think it would take a huge amount of time as a rule - it’s just a matter of checking in regularly (I suppose ideally several times a day) to see if there are any moderator actions that need to be taken.

    Beyond that, moderators typically play a role in curating content and setting/monitoring community guidelines. But we’ve been talking about people being appointed solely to carry out the more technical/administrative functions in certain magazines to prevent the recent flood of spam. Ie, people have said they’d be happy to ban spam accounts without necessarily taking on the curation of the magazine in question.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialOPto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Combating spam on kbin - some thoughts
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    6 months ago

    Agree, but it’s not a question of him appointing moderators. It’s a question of people stepping up and volunteering to be moderators. There are literally thousands of kbin magazines which are currently abandoned, ie where the moderator of the magazine hasn’t been active on kbin.social. Anyone can volunteer to take over ownership of these magazines by clicking a button, but there isn’t enough interest in the userbase at the moment.

    However, you are correct in that spammers are targeting the bigger magazines like m/fediverse, and because Ernest is owner of these magazines but is active on the site, these magazines don’t appear in the abandoned magazines list. I agree that in order to ease the administrative burden on him, Ernest should call for additional moderators for these most active magazines, and even step down as the owner of these when one or more replacements have been found.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Issue with sort by hot
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    6 months ago

    The “sort by hot” algorithm was probably designed with a larger user base in mind, but I agree with you. For small communities in particular (and the vast majority of Fediverse communities are still tiny) I think even posts with no upvotes (ie no self-upvotes) should be included in the “sort by hot” view. For larger communities, where the threshold for “new” and “hot” may be set higher, so it doesn’t matter so much. (I don’t know what the algorithm is, but it might be something like ‘hot is defined as getting a minimum of X votes, where X scales with the size or activity intensity of the community’.)

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialtoEntertainment@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you watching” Thread || Week of January 7th
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    6 months ago

    Movies:

    • Rebel Moon. If you gave an AI the prompt: “A Star Wars movie written and directed by Zack Snyder but with all Star Wars copyrighted material disguised” this is what you’d get. I know that’s exactly what the movie was, minus the written by AI bit (though I wonder), but it felt almost like a parody of itself.
    • Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Mediocre, except for Patrick Wilson who elevated every soggy line he was given to read. They desperately wanted to recreate the Thor/Loki dynamic to the point where I thought in one scene I actually heard Aquaman call his brother “Loki”.
    • One Life. Schindler’s List if Schindler’s List focused more on the red tape needed to rescue people from the Nazis, and Oskar’s twilight years. Kidding aside, a decent movie, but more on the “worthy” end of the spectrum than the entertaining.
    • Poor Things. The best movie I’ve seen this year. May still be true 51 weeks from now.

    TV:

    • For All Mankind. I enjoyed the “retro” early seasons more, but it’s still a very watchable show, and one I still consider to be a Star Trek prequel if I squint and look at it slightly sideways. They certainly seem to be heading towards a Fundamental Declarations of the Martian colonies scenario this season. One of the few shows I’m watching week-by-week instead of saving up and bingeing.
    • A Murder at the End of the World. Well acted, somewhat slow moving murder mystery. Unfortunately I guessed the identity of the killer after two episodes, and thought both that, and a certain revelation about one of the characters, were overused tropes in the early 2020s.
    • Bodies. Decent crime mini series set across four time periods. I thought the more modern settings and characters were more interesting than the oldey timey (wimey) ones, but the show managed to bring all four storylines together in a pretty satisfying way.
    • Silo. Halfway through. Pretty good, but maybe not as good as I heard it was.
  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Help please: one Fediverse app / social network to follow others + upload bulk keywords?
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    6 months ago

    Fedilab is a Fediverse client for (according to the website) Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, Pleroma, GNU Social and Friendica. You can also follow kbin users (and, I assume lemmy ones as well, though I haven’t tried). The app will allow you to manage several accounts on Mastodon, Peertube and Pleroma instances.

    You can block content by keywords or phrases (either hiding them with a warning or hiding them completely) but I don’t know if you can bulk upload keywords. (You can add several keywords/phrases at a time manually.)

    Unfortunately (for you) the app is currently only available on Android.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialto/kbin meta@kbin.social•Missing search results when looking for federated communities (at Lemmy)
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    8 months ago

    This is one of the biggest issues and barriers to discoverability with the Fediverse in my opinion.

    As I understand it, unless an instance has already subscribed to a community (magazine in kbin parlance), then in order to make that community (magazine) appear in your own instance, you need to:

    • First search for the community (including the community’s home instance) name in the magazine search function.
    • The search will come up blank, but the act of searching for it will trigger a backend request for your instance to start federating content from that community. However there’s no message to tell you that it’s doing that. It just looks like that community doesn’t exist.
    • Further, it may take up to several days (in my experience) for federation to start, ie, you have to repeat the search for the community and only then can you subscribe to (follow) that community
    • And when it does start, it only starts grabbing new content. So first it looks like the community doesn’t exist, then it takes a long time for content to appear, and then it looks like the community is sparsely populated unless you go back to the community’s home instance, rather than staying in your own instance, to catch up on old content.
    • Further pinned posts aren’t federated (at least between lemmy and kbin I believe), so you can’t even rely on a “here’s what you need to know” introductory post to orient new members.

    Contrast this to reddit, where (because it’s a centralised system) searching for a subreddit produces immediate results, you can join a subreddit immediately, and you can immediately see all current and past content for that subreddit. Much more intuitive and useful to users.

    Unfortunately the activitypub protocol that underlies lemmy and kbin doesn’t appear to have been designed for reddit-like communities in mind. Ie communities that tend to feature long-form content, posted relatively sporadically, and where having access to the community’s archive is very useful to members. It works somewhat better for twitter-like communities where it’s easier to jump in “mid-stream” and - because posts tend to be only a few words long - you’re more likely to start seeing new content after only a short delay.

    I wish that this is something that’s addressed at the Fediverse level.

  • Prouvaire@kbin.socialto/kbin meta@kbin.social•What are your thoughts on Microblogs vs threads?
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    8 months ago

    Agree with all of the above.

    Another thing I wish kbin would do, is that while kbin picks up mastodon posts (ie microblogs) - albeit not as seamlessly as would be ideal, as Mr Murdoch points out, it doesn’t go the other way. When I post a thread to kbin I always attach relevant hashtags, but my Mastodon account does not pick these up. Mastodon does have the ability to follow kbin users, but not pick up kbin threads based on the thread’s hashtags.