I read a similar article a few weeks ago, and I think your concise summary is better than the article linked in this post.

I think Yanis goes a bit overboard with stating that capitalism kinda no longer exists, since it really is about a new group of rich people simply inserting their companies as evil middlemen who leach money off the whole system.

I’m not sure the solution has to be revolutionary or super complex. I’d think that large countries and groups of countries (e.g. USA, the EU) could implement their own mega marketplaces, leaching off much less money and avoiding the sort of corrupt BS that Amazon etc do to keep prices artificially high, and these governments could also stop allowing the mega platforms to do business in their region. Big countries want to facilitate an economy, and if private industry is proving to be too broken with their current approach, governments could step in to create more functional marketplaces that still work nicely in the internet age and don’t have horrible middlemen crap dragging everything down.

neither. They probably just haven’t implemented default facial expressions yet (but probably have support for them).

Move in w/family members, get on food stamps, run up credit card debt…a variety of ways, really. Usually several combined.

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Wow, really awesome work you and the admins have done.

Would that make you consider me part of the problem?

Not at all. Your situation is completely different. I mostly think it’s problem when a mag duplicates the name of a popular subreddit, yet has no effort put into it, especially if the creator basically is not even a member of the Kbin community. Your mag ‘harmless pranks’ I think is more a case where it’s probably more suited to just being a single thread somewhere, rather than a whole magazine, given the small population of Kbin and the Fediverse overall. If I was you, I might consider deleting the mag at some point, if more people don’t post to it.

You were not trying to game the system or trying to leech off of something popular that existed earlier.

Your jewelry design magazine is what I would hope for and expect from people who create mags. You have a logo, and have personally seeded it with over half a dozen posts. It’s a bit niche, so I’m not surprised that you don’t have many subscribers yet, but you seem to have done your part to establish it. Thanks.

I subbed to your mag Urban Details. Seems right up my alley, and I notice that a couple of folks have also been posting there. That seems promising.

Well, I would be hesitant to post to a mag that had no effort put into it at all, but I wasn’t planning to post on the mag I came across this morning. To help out the Fediverse a bit, I’ve been commenting much more than usual since joining Kbin/the Fediverse, and recently I’ve been posting every couple of days to a community elsewhere (a smaller lemmy instance) to help it grow. I currently don’t have plans to set up or moderate any mags/communities. It seems like there are plenty in the Fediverse already, including tons where the person who set them up seeded them with a few posts to help get them started.

None of the above. I just want a slight improvement to Kbin.

I just think Kbin would seem more functional and positive if the magazines that exist actually had some content

That seems totally fine. Great :)

Good for them! I wish them luck, now that they managed to escape their evil empire and set out on a more positive path.

That would be a totally fine workaround. So I guess the user would create a list of ‘attenuated communities’ or some such, and set a value for each.

I replaced my old, fairly high end pc with a fairly high end Beelink a few months ago, and it’s working out fine. The beelink mini is cheaper, better and faster in every way, and will end up as about 5% of the trash my old PC exists as. I’m not sure I’m going back to full-sized desktop pcs, despite being a game artist/game developer who needs somewhat high specs to do my work.

8, 9 and 10 years: you dislike change, you are incredibly broke or you only have a smartphone in the first place because it’s basically necessary to function in modern society

We live in a mini valley in a rural spot, and don’t get cell reception in our house. Also, I always liked using desktops much more than phones.

It won’t take over Reddit, and doesn’t need to. Reddit will continue on, but be sort of irrelevant to the kind of people hanging out on Kbin.

I think the growth in the last month has shown that the Fediverse is already doing ok, despite it’s much smaller user base than Reddit, Twitter etc.

There is a nice amount of interesting content, plenty of interesting discussions, and a user base that frankly is more informed and thoughtful than most Reddit users. We don’t need massive growth to keep things interesting. Threads with 2k responses are kind of a turn off. I prefer enough chit chat to keep things interesting, while still feeling a bit personal and cozy.

Awesome! This approach seems quite functional and elegant. I don’t want to see hashtags, but having them exist invisibly (unless you click on something to show the hashtags for a post) would be great.

Ah, ok. Still, I agree that a system that shows previous version would be nice for kbin

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Useful information. I didn’t realize reddit’s version can show you the previous versions of a comment. That’s great if you wonder if someone changed a comment in some fundamental way.

I tend to ninja edit comments all the time, but just to make things clearer and improve my writing. With a system that could show anyone the changes I made, I feel like I’ve covered all bases in terms of ‘editing ethics’. And maybe someone will offer me money to become an editor someday!

Block, baby, block. I’ve been blocking tons of communities/magazines I don’t want, and that really helps shape my feed into something I’m not annoyed at.