Law nerd in BC

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  • I will add that many of us who work remotely using publicly accessible wifi also use VPNs, and Imgur actively blocks IPs from multiple commercial VPN providers. If you want those users to see the image you’re sharing, Imgur is not the way to go.

    Pixelfed works well with other Fediverse services like Kbin and Lemmy. Try hosting there!















  • Lemmy federates with Kbin, so yeah, it can access the same content for sure. I just mean that, given the length of time Lemmy has been around, there was an existing community of regulars who were already posting heavily on Lemmy servers by the time Kbin started taking off. But yeah, thanks to federation, it doesn’t really matter where the content is originally shared as long as Lemmy and Kbin can both access it.


  • I feel like the UI for Kbin is cleaner, though not without its problems. And I can access Lemmy communities from Kbin as well (this works a lot better than I expected it would), so I’m not really missing out if I choose it over Lemmy.

    I’m also giving an answer to the other thread on Lemmy, since I think there are good reasons to use that one as well. They’re both solid, and I’m using both regularly–often viewing posts from one service on the other. For me, it’s “yes AND,” not “no BUT.”


  • I feel like Lemmy has more content, probably because it’s been around longer, so it’s a good base to build from.

    I’m also giving an answer to the other thread on Kbin, since I think there are good reasons to use that one as well. They’re both solid, and I’m using both regularly–often viewing posts from one service on the other. For me, it’s “yes AND,” not “no BUT.”


  • The money quote IMO is at the end:

    Reddit, like any commercial platform, is only a community until its owners need it to be something else.

    That’s a good reason to be mindful of what we’re building here on Kbin, Lemmy, and other federated networks. We’re not just trying to build a Reddit methadone, to help us down from our high after quitting cold-turkey. We are, I hope, aiming to build (or rebuild) a community – one not dependent on the monetizing whims of a private owner.

    The author is right: Spez lost site of the community aspect. Here’s an opportunity to show them that the idea still means something to a lot of us.








  • I think you may have intended your comment as a top-level one rather than a reply to mine. But in case there’s any confusion, there isn’t a single thing about my comment above that suggests anyone should be “disrespectful” to police or anyone else.

    Nor was disrespect at issue in article I linked. A guy demanded an attorney, as he was permitted to do under the US Constitution; he was denied that right; and a Louisiana Supreme Court justice articulated a frivolous reason for excusing that denial. Even if he had been disrespectful (and there’s no indication he was), that should not be acceptable.

    Some hypothetical about individual disrespect has no bearing on a systemic abuse like that. Which is why I assume you didn’t mean your comment as a reply to mine.