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What do you NOT want to see replicated on kbin? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Or the fediverse in general.

I wanted to ask everyone their personal least favorite communities on reddit.

Whic subreddits do you absolutely not (personally of course) want to see recreated as magazines here on kbin, or as fediverse communities in general?

My pet peeve is CMV. I always felt while the idea seemed doable on the surface, the implementation within that particular subreddit with the delta system, the requirement for the top level comments to oppose the OP even if the "view" is an established expert consensus on something like climate change made it impossible to have meaningful conversations.

I haven't checked if we have a CMV magazine here, but as soon as I see one, I know I'm blocking it.

What is your "instant block" community?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you telling me he didn't create them? Only enabled them to be seen via kbin?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

kbin by default pulls data from any instance kbin users subscribe to. It's called "federation". Unless he manually blocks an instance completely, which is called "defederating", the communities will show up here on kbin. When a community on an instance outside of kbin gets pulled here, a copy of it is created which syncs with the original on the instance hosting it, and those copies show as created by the site admin, who's @ernest.

So, he didn't enable them manually, nor did he create them. His site kbin, pulls data and creates copies of federated communities automatically, and due to the quirks of how federation works, they appear under his name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so complicated! Thanks for clearing it up for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No problem, happy to help!

Also, it's not as difficult to get used to as it looks at first. There's quite a bit of concepts to learn, but it's definitely not endless. In a week or so, especially if you keep engaging and asking questions, you'll run out of things to learn about the mechanics of the "fediverse".