Gotta start somewhere.

Good bot

Those two summing it up pretty well. Furthermore, it’s the reliance of individuals’ use of cars. Public transportation tends to be praised by that community in contrast from my view, but public transportation is by no means a feasible options in parts of the United States especially outside larger cities.

I’d check out [email protected], I usually just consume memes but they have some articles getting posted as it gains traction.

Car centric infrastructure benefits nobody but car manufacturers and it’s killing communities, climate and us.

I was told it was more about designing the world around not needing them and having walkable cities and/or more public access and use of busses and other public transportation.

But also I see some people are very …uh… “Cars are evil and should all be destroyed and you should walk everywhere! Stop living in the country go find a city house so you can walk everywhere!”

It’s hard to tell which one is the main point anymore.

It’s not literally about hating cars, but about car centric infrastructure being a problem. Which is “fuck car lobbies and the shit they caused in the search of profits go up”

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We sold out our quality of life to the car companies back in the period after WW2. We could have cities like Amsterdam where everyone is biking and walking but instead large swathes of the country spend days out of their lives every month stuck in traffic for their commute.

I personally like cars but also I wish I didn’t need to drive everywhere.

I’m of the opinion I don’t want critical mass. The experience right now with the most technical savvy people in most communities has been my favorite part.

Let’s leave the combative, competitive and bot-riddled users over there. lol

FWIW, in Memmy, the latter is recognized as a URL and clickable, but takes me to a “page not found” page on my home server. The former is not clickable.

Google human!

~ spez, ca. 2023

Imagine disrespecting the people who work their asses off to give you a clean space without expecting anything in return.

I wish your life was better so you didn’t feel compelled to be a jerk to strangers on the internet.

I hope things get better for you.

Yeah, I made a comment about the decline of reddit here on lemmy and that day I was permabanned. You can see it’s the first comment I made here. I had previously run into some other problems and literally all of my alt accounts had already been banned, and I couldn’t make any new accounts. I was pretty outspoken and always ready to have confrontational conversations about fascists and racists, which I guess I was too volatile about. I was also very active on vaporents, which also seems somehow connected to all this as it seems problematic for the IPO. All of this is why I was already pretty miffed at the shithole it was becoming. I think I’ve been pretty anti-reddit for a while, and I guess I was on “thin ice”. Another funny thing is I had also just been interviewed for a small article on boredpanda about the animalsbeingderps subreddit as its creator, and very soon afterwards the other mods over at animalsbeingderps sort of pushed me out at reddit admins’ request to demod mods who don’t mod enough (which was honestly fine as I wasn’t much of a moderator). I had my mod privileges taken away and was relegated to “Alumni” status. My main interaction with the site, other than commenting and posting, was that I would start a sub based on a silly/less silly idea, and then make a ton of posts to kick-start them, then if they grew a bit popular I handed them over to other mod wannabes as I moved on. Anyway, good to finally vomit all this out somewhere.

Edit: Grammar and clarity.

Reading through this again I think it wasn’t clear: I was the top moderator and creator of those subreddits and was permabanned across all my accounts by the admins.

Thank you. You are cool.

They’re different programs that do the same thing and communicate with the same protocol. Some servers run Lemmy, others run kbin. They have slightly different featuresets (afaik kbin integrates some microblogging functionality in addition to threaded comments and link aggregation) but it’s really a matter of preference.

They both talk the same protocol but are different softwares mainly different UI’s really I think

I’m a little lost myself, so take this with a grain of salt, but…

kbin has more complete microblogging integration. I don’t understand what it looks like or feels like, but here on Lemmy, I believe you can only post URLs-to and screenshots-of Mastodon posts. Not the posts themselves.

The ActivityPub protocol underneath Mastodon and Lemmy technically supports that kind of interoperability. That’s why Mastodon users can comment on Lemmy posts and on Lemmy comments. But Lemmy has not yet adopted that feature. As far as I know.

kbin has.

As far as I can tell by reading the Redditor’s guide to how Kbin works (your what/how-to guide) over on reddit, it appears that microblogging posts can be made from within kbin.

Which makes kbin a combination twitter/reddit. And it makes Lemmy a “reddit, but twitter users can find our posts and comment on them using their Twitter account in such a way so that they’re visible even to us Lemmy users, and boost our comments and posts to their followers.”