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Despite not being a fan of Twitter, I've actually really enjoyed the microblogging side of Kbin. I have my home feed set to Subscriptions (All Content), so I get a nice mix of threads from my favorite magazines and microblog posts with relevant tags. I also occasionally make microblog posts for things that I feel wouldn't warrant full threads, such as small bits of pixel art or idkbin updates. Unfortunately, these don't seem to federate to other microblogging platforms particularly well, and I ironically get more interaction from Lemmy (which just shoves Kbin microblog posts into its threads feed) than Mastodon.

Something I noticed while watching this video is that it remixes one of my favorite Kurzgesagt tracks: the Universal Journey track. I think it fits extremely well here.

Ooo, that's really cool! If it's any consonant + y, how many of these references would there be? And are there some that tend to get used more than others (e.g., maybe "dy" is what speakers tend to use for the first reference, then using others if needed)?

The instance in general… seems fine? What exactly are the problems there?

All of the people there? They seem fine in my experience.

But the "spam" is no longer the issue, as ever since then, mod requests system has been implemented, allowing many new moderators to takeover communities with inactive moderators, as a result allowing spam to exist within these communities.

This wasn't the issue. The issue was that moderation actions didn't federate from here. ~~I think that this hasn't been fixed and will be once the new ActivityPub stuff is done, though @ernest can feel free to correct me on that.~~

EDIT: Actually, maybe it has been implemented? Looking at @RedditMigration from Lemmy instances, it seems like the spam isn't there. If that's the case, lemmy.world should definitely reopen full federation.

Something neat about my conlang, Hip'alŭk', is how it handles demonstratives (e.g., "this" & "that"). Demonstratives have both a three-way distinction between persons (speaker, addressee, and both) and a three-way distinction between distances (near, slightly far, and far).

This results in 9 different demonstratives (that I haven't nailed down words for yet):

meoproximal DEM.PROX.1 — “this near me”
tuoproximal DEM.PROX.2 — “that near you”
omniproximal DEM.PROX.1+2 — “that near us both”
meomesial DEM.MES.1 — “that slightly far from me”
tuomesial DEM.MES.1 — “that slightly far from you”
omnimesial DEM.MES.1+2 — “that slightly far from us both”
meodistal DEM.DIST.1 — “that far from me”
tuodistal DEM.DIST.2 — “that far from you”
omnidistal DEM.DIST.1+2 — “that far from us both”

You say: The people who are at currently at this point have already gone to Threads. Then you say that if traffic from Threads is subsequently withdrawn, all the people who haven't already gone to Threads will... go to Threads.

Let me clarify. When I say, "The people who are currently at this point…," I mean the people who right now feel that they need to interact Threads. If they do, they're probably there. My issue is that if people are dependent on Threads for the vast majority of microblog activity, more people will feel that they need to keep that interaction with Threads. I'm not seeing how this is some far fetched theory more than it is straight up inevitable. If activity increases by 50x because 98% of the content is now coming from Threads and most of whom people are following are on Threads, more people will feel the need to stay connected. I don't see how it could be otherwise. This means that if an instance wanted to defederate from Threads for any reason or if Threads defederated themselves (which they have tons of incentive to do later down the line), tons of people would leave.

To give you an example, imagine if kbin.social was to defederating from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml due to unhappiness with their moderation. Obviously, defederating from any instance is going to lose you some users, but those two instances harbor a massive portion — probably a large majority — of the content on the threadiverse. Tons of people would leave kbin.social for the simple reason that most all of the activity that they were used to would be gone otherwise.

Now, with Threads, there is some resistance in the fact that Meta is a massive for-profit corporation. Many people won't move to Threads on principle. However, this is countered by the extremely strong pull factor of the sheer percentage of activity Threads would harbor. If people get used to all of that activity based on Threads and are following mostly Threads accounts, tons of those people will leave an instance should that instance defederate later on or jump ship from the fediverse to Threads should Meta cease federation. And among those who don't leave, there will likely be a lot less motivation to post after such a drop in activity and interaction.

I don't see how dependency on Meta for the vast majority microblog content could possibly be a good idea. If Kbin were to implement a silencing feature like what Mastodon apparently has, where Threads content would be invisible outside of Threads users that you've followed, I think that'd be fine. That way, people could intearct with a few Threads accounts they're especially interested in as opposed to the public microblog feeds being 99% Threads and us being dependent on Threads to maintain the activity of those feeds. But just letting them flood our microblogs seems like an extremely dangerous idea that's wholly unnecessary, and I haven't been convinced otherwise.

The names are an edit of the original xkcd comic, where the states are blank.

My phone specifically? Not much.

Now, if we're talking about my PC….

Many residents of Kentessee would love to change the name to Elevennessee, but that's been found extremely exclusive by the former Kentucky residents who were lumped into the state upon its creation.