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I’m not directly involved in either project beyond reporting bugs and suggesting features yet, but I follow both projects closely. My sense is that the Mbin community is prioritizing collaboration around UX improvements while Kbin is focusing on scaling/performance issues… which makes sense as kbin.social is more than 10x the size of fedia.io (https://fedidb.org/network/instance/kbin.social vs https://fedidb.org/network). I opened a bug about the UI for altering link images at https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1365. When I tested the same steps in Mbin, the issue i was seeing in Kbin had already been solved in Mbin.

Kbin is a great PHP implementation of ActivityPub for reddit-like communities, but requiring all major changes to be made/reviewed by a single person is a real bottle neck.

It would be great if Kbin could figure out some form of goverance/delegation that would allow more contributors, but there doesn’t seem to be much interest in that type of change so for now we have 2 project with different priorities and governance models… and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

actual, verifiable digital ownership… using a distributed database technology that is designed to require a massive amount of computing resources to update.

I think where some of us who work in spaces using databases to verify something in critical business processes get stuck in accepting that blockchain has value is that our jobs have always been to verify “ownership” as quickly and efficiently as possible. We typically do this by defining a canonical source of truth and our success is judged on how many milliseconds transactions take and the datacener or cloud costs.

Saying that everything about blockchain is “dumb” isn’t a very nuanced analysis… but it’s a understandable reaction to hearing the hype that blockchain is going to change everything for years.

I’ve never seen anyone argue that the massively distributed nature or the public read access of blockchain technologies aren’t interesting. It’s the tradeoff that has to be made in speed and costs that make it hard for many of us to see any value in the approach for most applications.

So are Europeans just more honest and ethical than Americans? Or do all gas stations have better theft prevention systems? In the US, there is often 1 cashier managing 12 pumps AND ringing up vice sales (cigarettes, lottery tickets, junk food). In some states there a pumps with no human on site at all.

What’s to stop someone from driving off after filling up in the EU?

They prefer a more polished UI? I know there are several mobile apps that improve on the default browser experience of visiting https://lemmy.world/, but you have to admit that the initial UX of Lemmy leaves room for improvement. This is the same reason many open-source projects gave up on IRC. The die-hard FOSS advocates raised the “but Slack isn’t an open standard” argument only to be shouted down by a larger part of the community with “IRC’s UX sucks and is a barrier to new contributors”.

https://kbin.social/ has a lot of issues (like calling communities magazines and general performance/stability), but the UI/UX is so much better than Lemmy.

which shouldn’t be difficult as the “rest of his life” will likely be just a few days

I appreciate the effort, but this version ends with…

took his children to protect them from the occupation’s missiles, but

But what?

I think the best way to deal with the issue includes education, digital skills, and parental oversight of Internet use including the use of personal filters or blocking tools if desired.

As a someone who works in technology and is a parent to 2 kids < 10, I’m already aware of what a niave statement that is.

I keep my kids’ iPad locked down and have a router with some basic parental control features, but as the number devices in our lives that are able to browse the web increases along with the number of wireless networks my kids can connect to, trying to police this myself is futile.

And I’m not even concerned about them occasionally seeing “normal” porn. As a former Reddit user, I’ve seen some things I wish I hadn’t. Things I’m not able to fully process as an adult.

I can handle the conversation about…

“you know how people drive in Fast and Furious isn’t how people drive in real life? That’s what porn sex is like compared to the sex you are going to have.”

I cannot explain some of the darker corners of Reddit.

If you applied Geist’s logic to alcohol, it would be up to parents to keep kids from going to liquor stores. Sure I can stop my kids from drinking the alcohol I have in my own home, but I rely on laws to make it very difficult for them to do something as a community we’ve agreed they aren’t mature enough to make good decisions about.

Why can’t we apply the same policies on to internet services?

This YouTube video show some screenplay from Mouse, an upcoming noir based FPS game. The game will take full advantage of the public’s right to reuse1920s era cartoons, particularly Steam Boat Willy, in new and innovative ways.

https://youtu.be/kNad1vG1QG4?si=QywRxIhPpQpq6GPM

Is there a list of magazines with great, custom CSS? I’m not sure if it’s how I use KBin, but I haven’t noticed many customized magazines.

Adam Frisch came within 600 votes of defeating Boebert without this much money to spend. The money is likely given freely now by people who hate Boebert more than they like Frisch. They never want to hear about this trashier version of Sarah Palin again and donate make sure he wins, but if the donations are primarily coming from outside his conservative district, this election could still be decided by Trump’s ability to motivate people who would still enthusiasticly vote Boebert to show up at the polls. If that happens and true conservatives just sit this one out rather than voting for “the other side”, CO may end up sending this train wreck back to DC.

The legal representation of the voting machine companies are a box of pupies compared to the big pharma lawyers. IANAL, but this sounds like textbook defamation.