HarkMahlberg

mbin does federate e.g. @syuilo@misskey.io, the founder/lead developer of misskey. I can at least see the text content of their posts and replies, but not image attachments and reactions.

You may be able to register with a Misskey instance that isn’t Japanese but still federates with misskey.io. For instance, I made an account on misskey.social which is an Italian-based instance. I still see posts from misskey.io, from anybody there that I follow.

Not sure what it looks like as a guest, but when I set my feed filter to “Global”, it is lightning fast. If you set that filter to “Social” you’ll see only who you follow, which will naturally slow it down.

Be warned that misskey.io has a lot of R34 art on it - keep that Sensitive Media blur up and running.

I suppose you mean the limitations per diem on voting is what encouraged the hive mind, but even without those limitations Reddit and Lemmy have developed hive minds of their own, with similarly SOHC behaviors.

I wish Mbin had even a fraction of the childlike whimsy that Misskey has.

I also miss old school PHP bulletin board systems, which had similar emoji style votes where each one had different meanings, probably similar to what the op was talking about.

To be fair to others less knowledgeable, I’ve seen first hand someone admitting they joined .ml because it was the first/largest server they learned about, not knowing it was a marxist-leninist joint, and they were asking how to transfer their account up on outta there. That was a fun thread lol

My point is, just like we can’t judge people based on their national origin, we shouldn’t judge people from their home instance. But as a general rule, yeah .ml reeks lol

Increasingly harder to tell the difference since 2014.

Well you said it best, “it costs more than money.”

I’ve never heard of the site until now. But indeed, there is no such “Register new account” page, it all goes to the stupid “Sign in with the Big 3” modal. What a fucking joke.

It doesn’t help that I learned this site operates on a “gem” economy, and I just do not fucking understand why commercial manga sites do this. Steam charges you cash for games, Amazon and Netflix charge cash for movies and series, even the Google Play Store just uses USD (or whatever local currency). Why do manga sites operate like a fucking pachinko parlor?

Wait what, they don’t run their own accounts?

brain in a box so he doesn’t have to think anymore

Even Chinese SA’s have access to VPN’s, proxies, etc. It’s not like they would tie their own hands behind their backs to spread the good word, ya know?

Russia only needed a small number of inroads to influence the 2016 US election, and now? Pff, they hardly need to do anything, we’re completely self-sufficient in propagandizing ourselves. It’s entirely possible China’s already created their own army of Overseas Useful Idiots.

ML stands for Marxist-Leninist, that’s more or less the Tell. They’re not merely socialist, but authoritarian. Like MAGA, they treat dissent as hostile.

Don’t worry OP, you could always move to a different instance. You’ve already done the hard part, figuring them out lol.

In that sense, I hope they do. I would like to follow official communications from, say, the WHO without needing to type in xcancel every time.

The way I understand the ActivityPyb protocol, it is Publisher/Subscriber paradigm. That means when you federate with another instance, you receive (Subscribe to) the things they Publish, and they subscribe to the things Hexbear publishes. So they don’t “reblog” Hexbear just because they receive Hexbear content. Their users would have to deliberately reshare the content in some way (on Kbin/Mbin, this is done by Boosting, on Mastodon it’s Resharing, etc etc).

Which to be honest? Is totally fine with me. Re-diversifying the Internet is a good thing.

Just checked my blocklist to remind myself and… yep. Yeah that’s a big blindspot for us, the pruning and curating of the space has to be done by hand. New users, and especially younger users, are often used to that being done for them by the platform itself.

The fediverse is like a massive yet untamed garden filled with various species, some beautiful, many poisonous. They don’t see gloves and shears and see opportunity, they see a chore.

Everything you said was spot on, and all of it is by design. The engineers and operators of the fediverse intentionally built their systems to be community-funded, algorithm-free, oriented around the tech-savvy, and otherwise deliberately eschewing the design principles behind corpo social media. None of that was an accident, it was the whole point.

So for people asking “when is the fediverse gonna create a competitor to tik tok” the answer is “never” because it was never its intent to do that. The friction is a feature, not a bug.

Any word on a release date yet?

You might be happy to learn about Misskey, which has a Japanese instance (it’s flagship) in misskey.io and an Italian instance in misskey.social. :)