Sort of off topic but I wish I had a kotatsu in my apartment. And an apartment big enough to have space for a kotatsu.

I tried a lot, but Toot! is the best of the bunch.

To clarify, I meant posts on kbin/Lemmy, so that someone would land on kbin/Lemmy when searching for things, like people do now with Reddit.

I got some bootleg Airpods from Temu that my iPhone recognizes and treats as Airpods. I call them my Airpuds. LOL. But, tbh, the audio quality is on par with my wife’s actual Airpods. The construction isn’t as solid and I wouldn’t sweat on them much, but for 20 bucks, I’m happy with them.

Artemis is supposed to support kbin and Lemmy. If it doesn’t support Lemmy right away, then it wouldn’t help to register on a Lemmy instance, because Artemis still wouldn’t support Lemmy.

You’re right that you can’t sign into a Lemmy instance with your kbin credentials. Each site is it’s own site. If something is posted on lemmy.world, it sends a notice to kbin.social and kbin.social fetches the info and publishes it locally on kbin as well. Comments on the kbin post are sent back to lemmy.world. There’s basically a copy of the post and comments on every server. Not every server will “know” about every other server though, so content could push across the entire federated network slowly sometimes.

Are kbin or Lemmy posts being indexed by search engines? If the content was created, would anyone be able to find it?

I do wish kbin looked a bit better on mobile, though. I have larger font on my iPhone and instead of wrapping, the text just goes off the screen and can’t be viewed.

It’s more fun to publicly comment on, mock, shame, and laugh about a bunch of idiots that died doing something stupid than reflect on the driving forces behind a boat with 700 people on it capsizing in the Mediterranean.

The amount of traffic they drive to the news sites is payment enough.

I work for the military. The only part of that community that regularly gets made fun of and shit on are the transformers. No one cares who’s packing who’s butt or tickling who’s bush. But dicks out in the female latrine is offensive.

The software is open source. No one owns it.

Different instances are run by different people of varying political backgrounds.

Mastodon leans left mostly. Pleroma leans right mostly. Lemmy leans left and even has or had hard coded censorship baked into their software. Misskey is Japanese language mostly, or populated by weebs of all flavors.

Your experience will definitely depend on who’s running the server but the overall integrated platform can’t be shut down by any one person or group. You can always change servers or platforms and reconnect with people.

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This is all good info. I still use a VPN with my private tracker though. You never know.

Cool alternative to a cone. I never knew that existed.

What’s a tankie?

I started using RSS again when I realized that I was done with Twitter. Inoreader has been pretty useful for me. I like that it syncs to my iPhone.

I’ve been using ProtonVPN for torrents for a long time. It’s been really good. No issues with my ISP either.

beehaw has defederated lemmy.world.

Other instances can see you too. And other Fediverse based platforms. This thread is trending on kbin.social for example, which is where I’m posting from.