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  • My thinking re: closing registrations for a time, is that if currently the only person that can action warranted sitewide bans (e.g. users actively using hate-speech in multiple posts in multiple magazines) is ernest, then there may be a point where there’s simply too much to keep on top of, given everything else he has going on.
    These concerns may well be completely unwarranted, and I’m well aware that even if kbin.social were to be defederated from a number of instances, that once “the situation” was under control, they could be re-federeated if agreed with the other instances. It would just be a shame to hamper our own community by being relatively powerless against a potential influx of bad faith users whilst ernest is busy being awesome and actively improving kbin as a whole.



  • lemmy users want to stay on lemmy. they don’t want to come to kbin (even to troll). and I think the few that might end up here will just be drowned out by good faith kbinauts.

    Given the much higher number of Lemmy instances, you may well be 100% correct on that, that is, even trolls may just decide to ‘stick with what they know’ and continue to use a Lemmy based instance.

    if someone has an issue with kbin being open to everyone, then they will naturally block us no matter what we do.

    Also correct, however, I understand that if a post is local to kbin.social, and had comments from lemmy.world users, in addition to kbin.social users, and a beehaw.org use came to the post, they wouldn’t see any of the comments from the defederated users. That is to say, so long as one instance doesn’t federate with another, they will never see posts from that instance, regardless of where they are.

    I’m not saying that won’t still prevent people defederating with kbin.social purely because we’re open / federate with another community they specifically defederated from, but there’s less reason to if kbin.social maintains a quality userbase.

    I think that spirit and culture is far more important than whether or not a few bad apples start getting other instances wanting to defederate.

    If a large amount of “beehaw haters” start flooding kbin and changing the culture to be one of toxicity and vitriol, then I do think we’d start having a problem.

    Another agreement from me here, however, the point of this post is to start a discussion around whether or not we can prevent being overwhelmed with bad apples too early on in the platforms lifespan (although I appreciate we’ve already addressed this above).

    As has been said, at this point, it’s entirely up to @ernest, but I think it’s worth looking at potentially taking a couple more people on to assist with the moderation side of things.



  • I may have missed the mark on my point in the main post to be fair; It’s not about fearing defederation from beehaw.org, it’s more about ensuring we don’t get overran by people with ill-intentions before the dust has settled, and whilst the site doesn’t have the manpower in place to keep things like that under control.
    Currently there’s nothing stopping someone from the communities beehaw has defederated with from signing up here and going on a fullblown hate campaign because they disagree with the ideals of the beehaw admins. Everywhere they go, those local instances are then looking at “ih8beehaw@kbin.social”, and if nothing is done to prevent that, then it colours the rest of kbin.social users in a bad light. The more bad users you get, the more likely you are to experience widespread defederation, and lose out on a lot of what should make the concept of the fediverse great.






  • It looks like it’s get enough From design philosophy from the last decade that it will feel familiar to people that haven’t played any Armored Cores, whilst hopefully still feeling like AC. I’ve only played Gen 1 and 2 myself, but seen a fair bit of footage from Gen’s 4 & 5. It looks like it’s sitting somewhere nicely between the early ACs and the later in terms of combat pace, feeling fast, but still deliberate, if that makes sense.
    The fact that there’s not only hints of the Souls-likes, but also Sekiro has me very excited.
    I hope it doesn’t stray too much from the classic AC formula that it no longer appeals to long time series veterans but I’m personally really, really, pumped for this one.



  • I’m far from an expert on this sort of thing, but I would wager that the only voting data available through Reddit’s API is the current number of up and downvotes, the overall vote score, and whether the account requesting the information has up or down voted, for any given post / comment.
    It can do that because the data is centralised, and every account exists in one place, whereas federation has to say “cavalarrr@kbin.social upvoted this comment, and so did username@beehaw.org”, because there’s nowhere to store that data centrally, other than the post itself.




  • Myself, and a handful of users by the looks of it, disagreed with the content of some of your posts, or thought it wasn’t relevant / contributing to the discussion. I certainly didn’t downvote the entirety of your contribution to that thread, and I don’t intend for you to think it’s a personal attack.

    If you’d like to have a discourse on why I downvoted 4 of your comments, I, like many others aren’t looking for the ‘redditification’ of another site, regardless of how similar the premise might be, and that’s what I felt those comments were promoting, particularly ‘gesundheit’. I understand wanting things to be ‘just as good as they were’, etc., but this is new, things can be better, and I personally don’t want to see the site become reddit 2.0 just because there’s been a big influx of users after the blackout started. You’re entitled to want kbin.social to become something else, of course, and that’s arguably what the voting system is there for.


  • People are allowed to disagree with things, although I understand if someone is just spamming the entirety of a thread with downvotes for no appreciable reason.
    I’m in agreement with @eatmoregreenfood, that displaying your votes should be opt in, if available on the front end at all.
    On a social basis, I don’t think it matters; Whilst it would be preferable that someone explains why they disagree with something (assuming it is actually a disagreement, and not just malicious), I don’t think anyone should be fearful of downvoting because the OP might call them out on it and expect them to explain, or forever see nothing from that user again. Disagreement isn’t inherently negative.




  • Hear hear!
    I never really contributed much to reddit, as usually you had the people that perpetually watched twitter / news sources / new reddit posts getting in first, to the point where there wasn’t a whole lot of point getting involved outside of voting, because someone else has already said whatever you were about to.
    Here though, I’m itching to contribute and get the ball rolling on magazines. Just a shame the performance issues are hampering that, haha!