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Or full VR experience online eg. Neuromancer. Though even if the tech was available and fully tested and working, there are many pros and cons to all forms of enhancement or out-of-body existence, or a more extended life.

That the shadows are correct is impressive.

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“For a successful technology (or anything man does), reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” - Richard Feynman

"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.’ - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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That eliminates most of the frozen meals section. Before the jump in with “then don’t buy those”, you’re not wrong. It’s easy to point out the many things in society we shouldn’t be doing, but not quite as easy to step back from them all.

NASA thinks it’s a sample of the rock. What if…

Well, enjoy the next three days.

Afterwards we discover that Bennu housed an alien species, far more advanced but peaceful isolationists. Well, until we blew their home up.

For what it’s worth, I’ve heard that there’s a major update coming this month sometime for Kbin, first in a while, so it might get a lot better (with the expected new bugs to chase). On desktop it’s been mostly okay with the occasional glitches, but the real question that is hard to measure is how much is getting in and out from the fediverse properly. Hard to have a baseline when all the software is beta at best.

Maybe Lemmy Explorer will help? You can look at instances stats as well as communities. You can also change to Kbin magazines using the top right menu. It doesn’t have as much info, just number of subscribers.

The internet as most people know it and as companies depend on it isn’t that old.

The difference being discussed here is a single existence vs. potential for redundancy. The best way for something to outlive even the places it’s stored is by repetition. That goes against both how we’ve grown things so far on the internet as well as the talk about competition among instances and the biggest one wins. It’s far better for there to be many groups that share information in some way but are their own entities and aren’t dependent on the rest.

I get the concern, but long term persistence is probably a rarity. The internet is still young. If anything a federated group of communities that are linked somehow will last far longer than a single server of even a large corporation. For the weeks that Lemmy et al have been growing, how to best develop communities that connect and last has been an ongoing question.

It’s different software displaying the content. Like if you used either Outlook, Gmail, or Thunderbird to show email. You can go to kbin.social and compare it to what you’ve got. There’s also a bunch of scripts posted in kbinStyles to further customize the looks (that might be wrapped into later versions of kbin perhaps).

Kbin has the ability to filter out specifics, but it’s simple wildcard matching, not regex.

Lemmyverse includes Kbin instances as well, you just have to select to look for them in the upper right. I suppose there’s a reason we can’t see both at the same time.

There are two things being discussed here. The first is the original suggestion of the account you’d log into and use as a server for pulling information. The other some have mentioned is the location of communities. They both share similar problems in an overloaded or defunct instance situation, but need different solutions.

For the account I think just one main thing needs developing, and that’s the ability to share a profile across different logins. So you can have two or three different logins, but you have the same settings and when people interact with you they see you as the same umbrella/main account. I’m not sure how this could work outside Lemmy, like kbin or even Mastodon without being part of the protocol itself, but maybe that’s a long range idea. There’s also the problem of name collision since there’s enough accounts now that duplication is probably a thing. The choice right now is limited to just making accounts in a few places and see if things are better/same/worse there before you get too invested with customizing your stuff.

For instances - I had seen a suggestion of having a grouping ability between different instances that wanted to share or mirror each others content, basically an automated cross-posting. This would allow multiple instances so if one has some problem, the content still exists. There’s lots of caveats with that I’m sure, but one of the laments from many Redditors is the loss of resources, and that really should be a high priority to make sure that content is both preserved and available. For now the best we can do is make communities in a few places and cross-post the more important things so more people read and respond to it.