sparseMatrix

joined 1 year ago
[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Anomander

This is the second error I described.

However, I was not trying to tell you what error you experienced, only offering my experience for comparison, or to add to the list of things you're hearing about.

Cheers and Good Luck

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Anomander

I've had kbin show me a 500 once or twice, but it was because my ethernet cable had slipped the socket.

I've gotten more complex custom errors of indeterminate type, generally when posting, but typically the error is in error, as the post completes as expected.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@realcaseyrollins

I mean, there's a lot of motivation to not do anything with twitter but stay away from it

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@BackOnMyBS

There’s always the therapist!
J/K, the therapist might not care for that lol 😝

could you be just a little more specific? are talking toothpaste, charmin, downy, ketchup bottle, your significant other? tiny teddy bear? I’m just riffing here, in the absence of guidance.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Pamasich

@djidane535

It's cool, user @djidane535 dropped some truth on me, and it finally soaked in.

I'll probably end up with some user scripts, or a browser extension, but I'm holding back until I know more about the ecosystem, what's useful, etc.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@djidane535

Actually, it took a minute to sink in, but that is very helpful. Thanks for enduring my morning dimness :D

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@djidane535

Interesting but not really helpful. I found something in a recent FAQ that says I should add an article instead of a post, but the option to add an article is not on the menu on my instance, as it is in their screenie

Also I'm a mastodon user, and my account there is the focus of my microblogging activity. The user there follows this account, so my posts here, show up there. The short story is, the microblog here is essentially a right pain in my ass.

At least now I know what it is.

 

How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?

I just tried posting the series of parts to my /mag, they showed up in reverse order in the microblog? WTF?

Please, if there is some advantage to this microblog thing, I'd love to know what is, and also how to make a post in my own magazine that does not feature a link.

'Threads/Microblog/People/Magazines' is where simplicity goes sideways in this webapp. It is not obvious what those things are; the couple of guides I've found don't discuss this focal point of confusion.

#kbinMeta

 

So, I've been using mastodon a long time, several years in fact, and I never really understood all the folks complaining that it was too complicated; I mean, it was just always intuitive to me. Now maybe that's because I never really did the tweeter.

What I have done is a lot of reddit, and I gotta say, why the hell is this so complicated? :P

I'm only half kidding.

One thing that should always taken into consideration by software peeps is that when making a 'replacement' like this (dont tell me it's not a replacement for reddit, there's too much signal in the noise of this mag about 'reddit migration'), is that users that are relocating their operations will need extra handholding and assistance.

Unlike a lot of us, these peeps aren't casually learning how to do a new cool thing, they're typically perceiving some real and or imagined (Hey, both can cause a lot of stress and anxiety!), they're fleeing something, and trying to settle into a new, safer place; or so they hope.

I may sound like I'm 'asking for a friend', and I am, but that friend is me :D

Please, we need some kind of FAQ that says 'this is the reddit thing you want to do' and 'here's how to do it on kbin'. We need the next section to say, 'You can do these things on reddit, and not on kbin' and one more section in the FAQ that says 'These are cool things kbin does that reddit doesn't'.

A HUGE ask would be user style sheets to make it look and act more or less like reddit; really, as far as I can tell, there's only really a couple of big differences. Hell, it might suffice if we just had a FAQ that pointed out the substantive differences.

The biggest problem is, y'all just kinda 'sprung' the whole microblog/People/Threads on us; those single word descriptors are really only useful if you're 'in the know' already.

I've been posting off and on at kbin now for several months, hoping I'd eventually just soak it up; but it hasn't happened. I still keep screwing some things up here and there; just yesterday I was off to the races posting about some things, and managed to editorialize a title when I thought I was using post body to introduce the link. It's been sent to the ether, now.

I'm not in desperation about anything. I'm not a 'migrator' or refugee, or any of that. I do have a couple projects on reddit I'd like to bring here, I think this is the future of social media, and I think I will get a higher quality engagement here. I also have some projects already here that I'd like to get supercharged, and I can't really do stuff until I know the ropes..

So yeah, it would be great if the devs would drop some smooth pdfs or single page html or damn just if they'd 'own' a markdown document that could be loaded off any kbin page or something, that would be bad ass.

In the absence of that though (or something like it) what do y'all have out there, in userland?

Thanks for readin' muh screed.

#kbinMeta

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@readbeanicecream

Great thread y'all ,TYSM.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@gentleman

@blightbow

I too tried to flee reddit for lemmy.ml, over a year ago now - and found it to be a far worse clusterfucked shitstorm than reddit ever was, and I mean that ideologically, philosophically, politically, and morally.

I just didn't go back until the current exodus, mainly because I was trying to see if the account still worked, and it had been lost/purged/banned whatever

fuck those guys and the horse they rode in on, then far as I'm concerned, they can ride it back out of here wet.

Might as well federate with facebook.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Roundcat

Meta is facebook who engaged Cambridge Analytica to purchase our lives.

Not from us, but from them. Facebook literally sold out the world

Facebook nearly destroyed this country for a buck.

Fuck facebook. I don't want to avoid federating because I dont want them around; I want to avoid federating because anything I can do to starve them of every resource for growth that I possibly can is the best thing I can do about facebook.

 

YOWSA, my masto server is on fire https://hackers.radio.

I don't actually know it to be on fire, and I really hope it isn't, it was in the vein of '..fighting fires...' in the old IT-Speak.

It sure ain't workin' thouigh, some IT Type needs to get over there and put out the fire, as it were. ;)

#fediverse

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The main reason M$ stopped doing it is it did not work as intended in the long term. If anything, it hurt them in the long term. Hence c#. Hence their awkward embrasure of linux.

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