SPACE! 🚀

Oh the ping didn’t come through for this posts! Love seeing the new stuff now on my desktop, great work. I’m going to implement the @3dmodeling icon immediately.

Us vs. them is as bad as ever. Just use emoji if you want, but don’t overuse them? Live and let live I say.

This whole ‘we need a name and a mascot’ deal has big ‘Stop trying to make Fetch happen’ vibes.

I knew I made a mistake somewhere 😂 I’ll get to it - I’ve been focused on #artemisapp the past weeks, so slowly catching up on my magazines!

@fearout
was replying from mobile - so I’d like to add here… Great work on the texturing! The materials really look like their real life counterparts, perhaps even a bit more edible than supposed to. Which is a good thing.

@fearout
These look great! Just the right amount of detail.
I have created @3dmodeling and @zbrush here, so if you’re interested in sharing these there too I’d personally love that!

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

They behaved as if discussions of other Fedivese microblogs themselves were some sort of existential threat to the Fediverse.

The web keeps evolving, and honestly in the end usability and accessibility will be key. We’re waiting for a project that can lower the bar for the ‘common’ user who wants to click a button and yell into the void. Probably Meta’s intended audience. I expect that this future project will in turn become more of a containment zone than an actual place for discussion, but hey at least the folks who want more than Twitter/Reddit 2.0 will have an entry point to the rest of the fediverse without having to deal with the semantics of it.

Incidentally, where in kbin does it show what type of service other users are using?

Ah, I meant the hostname, not the specific type/kind of instance. Still, to at least be able to differentiate on source rather than claiming everything as its own content, is something I do appreciate. It would either teach me to ignore or value certain contributions more or less, given their origins - i.e. an instance ran by propaganda machines or big business.

Fair points! Glad to have a choice, at least. Even though some people like to think otherwise and astroturf a lot.

Glad to read I was somewhat correct in my assumption.
It’s one of the main reasons I don’t really watch the Dutch news broadcasts anymore, 50% of the content is American drama not relevant to me.

If I recall correctly, the name /kbin originates from linux development, where /sbin relates to essential system binaries. When developing this platform, the term /kbin came from a joke between @ernest and friends. I believe it also refers to a Karabin, a Polish rifle. Ernest is Polish.

I mean, they are using Linux for the Steam Deck, right? Shows they’re open to supporting non-standard platforms, and seeing their potential.

If you build it, they will come. I fear the same regarding corporate, but money does make the world go round. We’re in the wild west!

QRD on Calckey and Misskey? I’m afraid I missed that whole conversation.

Tribalism is a big issue in the social media space, and I hoped the whole ‘connected platforms’ thing would kind of alleviate that. Still, everyone wants to be part of the ‘winning’ team, and folks are less likely to socially invest in a platform without good reason.

As stated, I am glad kbin denotes instance origins. Some folks are just too set in the ‘my team has to win’ mindset, and will dismiss or disrupt any other information received from elsewhere.

@SnowboardBum @kjr

I am presuming @PabloDiscobar means that in general, online spaces gravitate towards American-focused content posted by Americans, for Americans, moderated by Americans. The web is a different place when you’re about 6 hours ahead of the main content generators. Other kinds of views and experiences get posed, but get washed away the moment the East Coast wakes up.

An example is Reddit’s ‘WorldNews’ sub mainly focusing on American issues. As a Dutch person, I would not consider some Texan individual’s issues with city council world news.

I am Dutch, and I personally loathe Dutch content. Seeing the inane ‘gekoloniseerd’ spam any time anything Dutch was mentioned grew tiresome quickly. Add to that that a lot of posted content centers around Randstad issues, this vague sense of holier-than-thou dialogue, and I felt even less compelled to interact with Dutch online spaces. I may be a bit jaded - but Holland is not the Netherlands.

I can read Swedish, French, and German - and those occasionally visible spaces, apart from the meme-focused instances, seem far more mature and focused in their conversations.

@luna @kjr @SpacemanSpiff

a weird name for masses to adapt

Reddit made sense. ‘Read it’. Digg? I ‘dig’ that. ‘Lemmy’ look at the meme. Even TikTok is a decent name for a social media platform.
Most folks here are tech savvy and don’t mind the kbin name, but I don’t expect some of my friends to ‘get’ it. Which is not inherently a bad thing, because it also prevents engagement from certain types of user who are looking for the next place to spam.

*Formatting edit.

I agree on this, too. Kbin is a weird name for masses to adapt, for example. We’re back in the Wild West regarding this form of social media, and the result of that will hopefully be innovation and reiteration of established standards.

Hard agree on the American soft power, too. I was surprised there were so many German instances on the fediverse already. I don’t really want to interact with Dutch posts though, so if those pop up that’s a hard filter from me.

With eyes on the future of the fediverse, I would prefer not ending up with another Facebook-like situation where ‘one place’ is the ‘default’ place - where the ‘default’ place is run by people less trustworthy than Mark Zuckerberg.

Your last line is what I am trying to establish here, however I have noticed hostility from Lemmy supporters. This is what I mean with ‘as kbin users we should prevent this’. Such bad faith posting should be deflated or best nipped in the bud.

The points regarding kbin’s present state I do understand, but in that case I think it’s a matter of managing expectations for new users.