egalitarian advocate for men's issues
#maleadvocacy #egalitarianism #education
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This is really fascinating. A company rebuilt Mastodon’s core functions with a new dev technology that flies in comparison to Ruby on Rails. https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/
(EDIT: They may not be open sourcing the dev tech)
Discovery here IS bad, and — I hate to say it — the solution to that is an (entirely optional) algorithm that surfaces potential follows and compelling content right out of the gate.
Algorithms aren’t inherently evil. Hell, “show posts in reverse chronological order” is in itself an algorithm.
What matters are 1) choice and 2) the intention with which the algorithm was designed.
#Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@mimsical/110865836818850808
/kbin project management costs, financing, future plans
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started... #kbin #fediverse #kbinMeta
I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started...
Support #kbin!
So far @ernest has financed kbin through personal funds, and modest donations ($11,320) from buymecoffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin).
After much urging he has set up Patron (https://www.patreon.com/kbin_pub) and Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/kbin).
We can now support kbin on an ongoing basis!
Check out his post >>> https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112
It's astounding. kbin has facilitated #RedditMigration on a shoestring. But he needs our help now.
If you believe in open social media support kbin!
@beforewisdom > Federation is not a must.
Maybe not for you. But it is for me and many others, who consciously chose the Fediverse as a more robust form of social media.
> I've used the Internet since the 90s without it.
So you've never used email or usenet?
> Shooting the shit about the latest news item.
Ah, I see. Squabbles is for shitposting. Yeah, that's not for me.
I *want* something a bit more permanent, as I engage in activism. (Not all the time, but still...)
@maegul @beforewisdom There's the top level microblog which is just a random feed with comments from all federated instances. Then each magazine also has its microblog, which is indeed filtered by hashtag. And each magazine can set its own associated hashtags.
But currently it's not possible to get a feed on Kbin with just comments from the people you follow.
Ernie Smith
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱
ernest
Mastodon Migration