ShittyKopper [they/them]

Right now I’m using a custom ROM, ~10 magisk modules, 2 Xposed modules and a handful of other things that require root… My phone is almost 5 years old and I am on the latest Android version with no signs of community support stopping. Half my apps are open source, and the paid, proprietary ones are actually affordable hobby projects (and not VC backed startups) with one time payments and worth the price.

I can load up a non-Android Linux distro on it and everything except the camera will work. Mainline kernel, too.

And I didn’t need to take out a loan to buy it.

You write a book telling people how to be successful.

Why pretend to be a cat when you can be the cat?

The entire instance blanket bans kbin.

Not by itself, no.

My current replacements for reddit are:

1. A kbin account for serious-posting
2. This Lemmy account for the shitposting (and for communities on lemmy.ml which blanket bans all kbin instances)
3. Tildes.net for the extra-serious-posting
4. (Eventually) an RSS reader
5. Libreddit and a redirector extension for search results

I personally prefer to keep my shitposting from my serious-posting and I also wanted to see what kbin was like, so it kinda worked out well enough (aside from .ml)

Right now I don’t think there’s anything of that sort. And I’m not sure if there ever will (or should) be one in the future.

The more Mastodon-y parts of fedi heavily look down on this sort of global search, as microblogging of that sort is generally a lot more personal compared to the community oriented focus of Lemmy/kbin. And it’s going to be pretty difficult to handle that in a way that both parts of the fediverse will be happy about, without giving abuse tools to people in the more “channy” corners of fedi.

Assuming they use Mastodon terminology it likely means the same thing as a retweet.

(For anyone confused, OP’s using kbin, not Lemmy)

Because the software is open-source - people could fork it before the change. It’s out there already. People can totally make their own little variants of Lemmy with added features, if that’s something they wanted to do. You can modify the code yourself and then self-host the modified version. No matter what Lemmy’s devs do… they have no power on your instance. A fork means you own the code.

People are already doing so, right now. AFAIK Lemmy by default doesn’t have the ability to disable downvoting, yet Beehaw and the instance I’m on (among others, probably) do have downvoting disabled.

mastodon already has botsin.space, depending on how well lemmy & masto interoperate (in theory they’ll be fine because AP, but these kinda things tend to mess up in practice. lemmy still doesn’t do authorized fetch afaik) hosting bots there & calling them from lemmy should work.