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BreadDog

@ BreadDog @kbin.social

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  • 17 years of powertripping mods; solves the problem instantly when it suddenly affects profits rule

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  • A part of me believes they will give some bs reason to keep their "scab" mods immune, but I would love if they didn't and the chaos that would ensue.

  • For reasons no one can fathom, McDonald’s has released a new Game Boy Color game

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  • For reasons no one can fathom

    The ROM hacking community takes this personally.

    ROM hacking and well, just retro development like this is awesome. I think there is something to be said about the creativity that comes with a limited canvas and so on

  • It feels like we’re on the brink of something

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  • To be honest, 2023 has feel relatively calmer than the past few, I guess covid being that all encompassing to life. Of the things on your list I do think AI is probably the first thing that comes to mind when I think of what we are "on the brink of". This leap that happened the past couple years in LLM was shocking enough, wondering what the next couple are going to look like.

  • Fediverse @kbin.social
    BreadDog @kbin.social

    Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works

    beehaw.org /post/567170
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    Permanently Deleted

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  • To be honest, I had such low expectations for the blackout, I'm actually surprised how much impact it did have. This was never going to be the reddit killer. There is a reason why the 1% principle exists. Most people don't care, and most people who do aren't going to actually put in the effort to change their browsing habits. It's part of why being an early member of new sites like these are the best, because the people joining are the people who are actively seeking out new communities.

  • YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content

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  • Yup, exactly. Welcome to the fediverse!

  • I just hopped on today and the site is very unusable right now

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  • There is traction, and in fact already a fix in review.

  • YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content

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  • Ah interesting. I actually see this post over there so it seems replies from kbin are actually federating now. The question is if I will see my own comment.

    Edit: I do! Great news

  • I just hopped on today and the site is very unusable right now

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  • Ironically, still some issues with the federation, so we can see them but they can't see us. We're in the walls.

  • Going back to Reddit feels bad

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  • Ernest might have also gotten up more servers to handle the load, noticing that cloudflare is off and we are federating again (this is a beehaw thread)

  • Reddit @lemmy.ml
    BreadDog @kbin.social

    /r/videos announces that it will be entering it's blackout early - and indefinitely - given recent events

  • uhhh... what do I call the "subreddits"?

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  • Ohh, I like zines as a shortened version

  • After five hours fixing a bug only for the unit tests to all fail

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  • The true fear is when everything passes locally and then suddenly fails on the CICD pipeline.

  • /r/kbinMigration created.... and quickly banned by reddit

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  • I'm just waiting for the real Streisand effect to kick in if they ban /r/redditalternatives

  • Reddit @lemmy.ml
    BreadDog @kbin.social

    /r/kbinMigration created.... and quickly banned by reddit

  • Factorio @lemmy.ml
    BreadDog @kbin.social

    Testing out kbin's microblog feature with this, hopefully the image is here. Just a screenshot of my seablock save. Since this point, added a basic metallurgy setup with temp green science. Now workin

  • Reddit CEO Admits "we are not profitable" right before upcoming IPO

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  • There are so many ways they could have made it viable. Like comically easy. But that was never what they were interested in. The thing that they aren't willing to just come out and say, is that their own app is built to generate advertising revenue. They have absolutely zero interest in fostering a 3rd party community, and the only concessions they are going to make are for things that actually have a chance at saving the spending money (i.e. make sure the free labor they get from moderators stays and make sure other people deal with questions like accessibility).

  • /u/spez finds out

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  • I'm sure there are some people purchasing those, but you also get some for free. Looks like I have 800 worth I could give out.

  • Here we go, the AMA with /u/spez is live

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  • So business as usual for reddit

  • Summary of Reddit CEO u/spez' responses

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  • Steve actually doubled down on the blackmail accusation when we have to recording, my god this is some juicy drama.

  • Factorio @lemmy.ml
    BreadDog @kbin.social

    Which mods have you been playing?

  • Is anyone else beginning to mourn reddit?

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  • Yes and no, as a 12 year vet.

    Reddit is not what it was when I joined. Back in the early 2010's reddit really felt like the internet's evolution from forums. Not going to pretend it was the first, but it really did feel like something was special about it. The community aspect was really important back then. All of the sudden, it felt like you could literally build a community around anything, with little effort, and the "Build it and they will come" factor would kick in.

    But things have spoiled since then. We have over a decade worth of "Eternal Septembers", and being a redditor turned into "being a redditor" has turned into, we'll it's just another part of social media infrastructure. Pretty much everybody I know who has use the site has basically sectioned themselves off from using the site as a a whole and just have their specific subs that they browse. I'm a programmer so I basically just use it for the programming subs and different games I play like OSRS, Factorio, etc.

    And I guess, a last thought, I don't think reddit is going to die from this. I would wager the vast majority of the userbase really doesn't give a shit, and to be honest, that is fine. Like I said, reddit is part of internet social infrastructure at this point. It's probably still going to be useful to prefix google searches with "reddit some product" to find the best human reviews of that product. But for me, I don't really feel the need to keep using it day to day. I'm looking for a community and I can find it elsewhere.

  • I just deleted my Reddit account.

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  • Though this will take some time getting used to.

    I literally just joined. I think the major instances should put some sort of "Reddit Refugee Guide". I just joined on kbin, and I'm pretty technical so I'm naturally interested in how things work and figuring it out myself, but I think the vast majority of people won't be, and will just want to know how they can do the basic social media features.

    CGP Grey's "What is reddit" comes to mind.