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That’s a he btw.

I used it and understood how it works but I think it’s trying to be too much at once and in turn failing at all of it. I’ll try to break it down in case anyone else was confused:

Basically the idea of kbin is to join Twitter and Reddit but also make it federated. You have communities like in reddit (called magazines) where you can post threads/links like you’d expect. And then you have a microblogging section that’s literally just for people to post like on Twitter, but that section is also federated with other Activity Pub software so you can see posts from people on mastodon and stuff (and they can see your posts too) and you can also follow these people to have your own social timeline. Oh and I forgot to mention but each magazine gets its own microblogging tab so there’s no one unified one.

All in all, I understood it and I liked the UI quite a bit but it’s just too much at once. I don’t understand why you’d want to replace both Twitter and Reddit with just one site. When I go onto Lemmy I immediately get what it’s trying to be and how it works. With kbin, even after I understood it I never “clicked” with it because I just couldn’t wrap my head around having these 2 very different services in one. I much prefer having Lemmy for my reddit-like browsing and my misskey for my Twitter-like browsing.

MSG - Make Shit (taste) Good

I hope one day phone aliasing services become more widespread like email aliases because this is getting out of hand.

In theory good because we absolutely need interoperability between services.

In practice I know this is just meta trying to find a way to harvest data on as many users as possible. I hate that if I interact with a user on threads that likely means Facebook is getting my data which sucks because I want the service to be open but I don’t want to subject myself to privacy invasion.

Plus the whole embrace, expand, extinguish thing which I don’t think is overblown at all. It’s literally how these corporations work by design.

Different communities have different needs so I don’t think it’s possible to standardize tags across all of them. Some might not need them, some might not want them.

Not to mention enforcement of said tag system. Burggit is still relatively small and most communities have 1 or 2 mods. It might get stifling to try and enforce a certain tag system site wide as of now. This is why I decided not to enforce one in my community, I don’t want my already small 20 member community to feel annoyed at having to follow certain naming schemes.

What we really need is for Lemmy to have a tag system communities can take advantage of. But that’s an upstream issue.

I was looking for my first Lemmy instance to call home after the reddit debacle because I wanted access to nsfw content without using Reddit’s garbage app.

Initially I went to lemmynsfw so I could make a nsfw community freely in case the type of content I wanted (wink wink c/armpits nudge nudge) didn’t exist already. Then I realized they were really restrictive with content so I searched for an instance (literally googled nsfw Lemmy instance lol) that actually allowed freedom with nsfw content and here we are. I’m happy here with my little niche.