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1 year agoAh understood. Kbin is the KDE binary to access this “lemmy” subreddit on facebook?
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Some social media focus on people, some on subjects.
One type tends to create “influencers” and circle jerking opinion bubbles, the other forces you to interact with different opinions around subjects you like.
I hope Lemmy stays on the second type.
Besides, with the volatility of instances, and user logins not being universal across instances, Lemmy also makes it harder to do that, and as a bonus devalues karma hoarding.
I’m using Jerboa; I’m logged in sh.itjust.works, and commenting from there.
I left slashdot for reddit, and reddit for lemmy. Those were replacements from my point of view.
I’m not sure what you mean with “replace” in general. Taking over their servers and replacing the actual running software? Or maybe using their domain name for a lemmy instance? Transfer all logins and data to a lemmy instance and delete them from their systems?
Those are unlikely.
Becoming mainstream, having more media attention and influence than reddit? Then becoming more interesting for spammers and infested with lower quality content? Hopefully not.
vlemmy is provably lost, but once you resub everything, apparently you can download your setup, then upload to other instance:
And it went down so catastrophically that it closed the admin donation accounts. That was a hell of a crash.
Meh, I had just got asylum coming from reddit, had barely unpacked.
Having learned the volatility of instances, I’ve signed up to a couple of other instances and subscribed to the same communities.
I don’t care for hoarding internet points - if I did, I’d have stayed in reddit as a karma hostage - so I don’t mind switching instances.
Maybe that’s a healthy aspect of lemmy; accumulated points matter less when they are more ephemeral.
vlemmy.net stopped working (or stopped being useable) yesterday.
The domain was showing as parked in a dynamic dns server.
Nobody knows what happened so far.
vlemmy.net stopped working (or stopped being useable) yesterday.
The domain was showing as parked in a dynamic dns server.
Nobody knows what happened so far.
This feature shouldn’t be implemented on the server side or decided by the front end code, as the developers would have to decide which “same names” to merge. It’s the end user who should pick that.
It would better be a front end/app feature: The end user would pick communities from multiple servers (even ones with different names), and group them under whatever name/category they want. The front end would then show all posts/comments from that group as they were from a single community.
Additional feature: Automatically merge comments from cross-posts.
because as OP made very clear, kbin is the same thing as lemmy, they are just two aliases to the same subreddit.