The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking “what is that?” It won’t be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.
I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there…
Just out of curiosity. I’ve been banned from Reddit about 10 times now. I suspect, but it has never been confirmed, that it is because I am able to articulate various logical arguments against “transgenderism” and gender ideology in general.
Is kbin.social a place where I can speak freely or will I be banned here as well?
Still learning kbin, so I’m not sure how to create a thread. Just making a comment here so get a quick answer, if possible.
dw bro, we aint chasin off smart-talkin intellectuals like yerself
On the other hand, people who want to start inflammatory political/sociological arguments in places where they don’t belong - like this thread - will find themselves facing a crowd of people with pitchforks, regardless of whether or not the person is well-spoken or the argument well-articulated.
I’m sure you were banned 10 times cause you “are able to articulate logical arguments against transgenderism” and not being a hateful annoying cunt. I tip my fedora to you. I think some better advice for you is stop obsessing over trans people to such a degree that your comments get you banned from a platform 10 times. But to answer your question there are some instances that will not ban you for that stuff, but most of the big ones are moderated and tend to be left leaning so you probably will be banned for transphobia.
That’s basically how I ended up here. Got exposed enough to the look and feel that I decided it wasn’t too bad and I wanted in on the fun.
Are you having fun yet?
Hm. Generally, yes. I’m on kbin.social. tl;dr: Fantastic and excellent social media alternative, but as someone that’s worked years in ITSec, I have some huge concerns.
Things I found surprising:
- Registration was intuitive and easy.
- There’s already a huge volume of good content readily available without having to “find it” (I had imagined it being more like ““the dark web””, i.e. you have to know what site you’re looking for
- Voting transparency omg holy shit. I remember when Reddit introduced vote fuzzing and it was the dumbest thing. At least on kbin, who upvotes/downvotes something is publicly viewable. So rather than “let’s fuzz the votes to throw off the bots”, simply showing who voted allows you to easily find the troll downvoting everything or a flood of bots or so on. I imagine there’s probably not much tooling around this yet, but there inevitably will be.
Things I’ve found confusing, concerning, or have questions about (feel free to point me in the direction of a good magazine or FAQ as well):
- WTF is boost vs upvote?
- Are usernames unique across the fediverse, or only across instances? (Is there anything preventing me from registering e.g. Cryst@kbin.social , then jumping on this thread and pretending to be you, or vice versa?)
- What happens if an instance closes up shop? Is there any way to migrate everyone’s data over to another instance?
- What happens if I decide I hate kbin.social admins, or you decide you hate lemmy.ca admins - are either of us able to fairly seamlessly move our identities from one server to another? Or would it be “nope, create a new account and start over”?
- On reddit, a lot of good things happen around flairing (users, posts). Does fediverse have an equivalent?
- Sometimes as I’m browsing I find myself on a different server (I think) and the language of the GUI is entirely switched to Arabic or similar. I still haven’t figured out how to fix that or even what’s doing it.
I still need to set up my own instance and play with that too.
I wonder how long it’ll take before Reddit starts shadowdeleting anything containing links to Fediverse websites?
Oh, probably like -5 days. I’m sure they’d just be blacklisting domains, though. Linking to smaller, lesser-known instances that don’t literally have “Lemmy” in their URL might work, though. Especially if you don’t re-use any particular instance too frequently.
But that might also confuse people.
url/link shorting websites that used to be used to hide rickroll links all the time would probably work to get around that
