acedelgado

Gotta say, I'm really excited for the work you're doing on Artemis. Kbin's mobile site is really good especially considering how young it is, but I miss the smoothness of a real app. Thank you for jumping in on it so quickly and enthusiastically!!

Don't forget to buy Ernest a coffee so he can put some finances towards upgrading the server!

• Noise cancelling headphones
• If you have a tablet, bring that for entertainment. Or you can use your phone. All of the bigger subscription services (Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney+) have a download option for movies and shows, so download an array of things you're interested in to your phone or tablet ahead of time. And some airlines have their own library of media for free on their wifi, without having to pay the outside internet fee. Make sure you have the airline's app downloaded.
• The best seats on a plane (outside of 1st class, obviously) are the 2nd exit row seats, if your plane has 2 rows of exit. Most leg-space anywhere, but the 1st row seats can't recline so they won't block the 2nd exit row.
• I can sleep on planes, so I purposefully only get 5-6 hours of sleep the night before and use the plane time to catch back up on sleep.
• Your armrest can fold up, there's a little button underneath it towards the back. Push that in and push up the armrest. Good for when you have an aisle seat for getting in/out, or if you don't have someone sitting next to you.
• If you're in the US and have to fly a few times a year at least, TSA precheck is very much worth it. Even longer Precheck security lines go pretty quick. Your job may even pay the fee for you, or some airlines you can pay for it with miles.

Word is Lemmy and kbin are working to make the process more automated, so if you click a link to a community/magazine your instance want aware of it'll start aggregation without having to manually do the search. Downside of going with a free, open source, decentralized solution is there aren't a bunch of devs dedicated to updating the platforms for a living, so features will roll out slower.

Kbin is newer, so it has less traffic on its magazines than communities on Lemmy do, at least at the moment. Just like in Lemmy or other fediverse instances, to see kbin magazines someone has had to search for them on your Lemmy instance before they'll show up on your instance. So more people searching for Lemmy communities in your insurance rather than kbin's magazines means less will show up on your feed. That's what they have in common.

Kbin itself is a different software backend to access the fediverse. It supports viewing/subscibing/posting to Lemmy communities in other fediverse instances, but also has microblogging support (basically like random Twitter posts) that supports mastodon (fediverse Twitter). It also has a lot of customization options if you go into your kbin settings. Plus I read kbin doesn't rely on Javascript like Lemmy does, so that's a nice security bonus.

Kbin is much newer but I like the direction it's going. They do need to simplify link aggregation to make it a bit easier to view communities, but it's a work in progress that has a lot of potential.

Oh yeah, as soon as reddit fixes the accessibility on their app, all 3rd party ones that exceed their "free tier" API usage are gonna be nixed. And Redreader being called out as a white listed alternative means people will flock to it in the meantime, giving Reddit an easy out once they get their shit in order.

Damn, HBO really needs to pick up Half Life as a live action show.

Can it be called c/GameOfThronesSeasons1-5.5?

Try out kbin, it's geared for Lemmy and mastodon in one place.