Boaty McBoatFace was NOT a debacle. It was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get kids interested in climate science with programs like “The diary of Boaty McBoatFace” or “Zoom call with a Boaty McBoatScientist” all around the world in classrooms. Hell, even in high school I would’ve taken an elective that was doing actual work if it was Boaty McBoatFace-themed*.

*not to say that I’m young enough to have been in high school at the time, but that it would appeal to kids that old

The debacle was that they were too stuck up to realize what a gift they’d been given and completely squandered it. Boaty McBoatFace was beautiful. For a couple days, the internet cared about science in the absence of technology.

I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think that you’re quite understanding the role of school? In school they teach you one programming language so you can learn many. You might be the most comfortable with Java, but you’ll quickly see why you need to witch. And sure, we were taught how to use a bunch of Mac-only programs, but more than that we were taught how basic UX of programs works, how to use the internet, how to search with keywords, I think a bit later on Google existed and we were taught how to use the advanced search. All of this is very transferable knowledge, even if you feel most at home somewhere.

Also keep in mind most kids in school are not blindly doing what school says to do outside of school and building heavily into the ecosystem they were told to do. Certainly not those who are using APIs.

Anyway I guess my point is, it is much better to learn something than nothing, and foundational knowledge is the point. In this case, it does not matter so much what you learn, and you are best off deep diving into something kids already have a bit of familiarity with, so that they can build onto existing knowledge.

Edit: Although, I would agree with you if this is like, an advanced LLM programming class. In that case for sure an OSS version should be preferred. But this sounds like basic LLM literacy?

I mean, we were all taught to use Macs in the classroom. That didn’t stop my parents from having a Windows machine, and from me preferring Windows my entire life (except for maybe the first 2 years of computer instruction at school or so). Sure it’s not OSS, but the skills are vastly transferrable & will serve you for the next couple decades until we have a new paradigm shift.

I just, can’t imagine running out of tv shows??? I have probably 8 or so on my to-be-watched list, and the list only gets longer. I’ve watched 1 season each of 2 shows (Foundation S1 & Golden Compass S3) this YEAR. Oh and maybe Rings of Power was this year, too.

is artemis.camp going to be a permanent instance for /kbin

That is the plan, yes! I am not sure if it will stay the default way that users browse the app or the workflow will change to having you immediately pick an instance to browse via once the api is fully supported.

Yeah if you look at my profile I’m modding 7 magazines:

• Two I’m posting frequently to, and no one else posts there
• One, I was the owner of on reddit in the first place
• One I was a heavy contributor to on reddit, and I left an open offer to mods to take over
• One I was a heavy contributor to on reddit, but the mods on reddit were inactive so I didn’t leave that notice
• The other two I had nothing to do with, but I was in a discord convo where someone was bemoaning their lack so I said “ok I’ll create them, then you can post” and I’m pretty sure I left a note that subreddit mods are free to take them from me, but yeah if anyone wrote me and said “why are you sitting on TalesFromTechSupport” my first response would be, “do you want it?”

Why would people want to invest time and effort into building up a magazine that’s under control of a name squatter?

I think you (and OP) are rewriting history a little bit. People enthusiastically created many magazines in the first days of the migration so that they would already exist and people would post to them. I do not think many people (if anyone) created magazines because they wanted to own them. In fact, if you look at many of the descriptions they say things like “reddit mods contact me if you want to take this over.”

So yes, post to them.

It only does that to my posts, but not to others, so how is that gamification and clickbait to users?

But this encourages you to strive to make content that gets upvoted rather than content that’s interesting for everyone. And if everyone has these notifications, then it’s the same thing about everyone’s content.

for example if a post gets upvotes to 10, 50, 100, Reddit notifies you

While it may feel nice, in reality this is a really awful gamification tactic that makes a website actively worse because it encourages users to post clickbait content to garner upvotes. I doubt kbin will ever have anything like it, though maybe you could find some third-party app that does this eventually.

There is really no need to use a script for this. You can use one css rule if you install Stylus. Here is the rule for hiding only the random posts section.

section.posts.section {
    display: none;
}

if it were a first-class kbin feature that would be a good solution. but, this is a discussion about Artemis 3rd-party app

also this is only a solution for A, not B.

oh hi

there’s a couple issues to consider with this that come to mind immediately

1. large difference in subscriber count, and intentionality of posting to a smaller community, not wanting larger traffic (e.g. /m/TrueTrueTrueTrueWorldNews doesn’t want the traffic from /m/AnimeTitties or /m/WorldNews or whatever the main one is called)
2. the same link can be posted to different communities for drastically different reasons, e.g. a headline “Alot of new fantasy releases this summer” gets posted to /m/alot for the grammar mistake, /m/fantasy for book reviews, and /m/journalism for critiquing the writing. All three could be similar size (I can only pretend /m/alot is this popular) but no one wants to see grammar purists on /m/fantasy, and no one on /m/journalism actually cares about the book recs themselves, just the article format

edit wow /r/ is a deeply ingrained muscle memory

But, then what ?

Okay so this is the first time I’m actually interested in following a Mastadon account via kbin. Um…this is what microblog is for right? Is there a place I can see posts from just my followers?

OP could you edit your title with an accurate statement? Like: TIL it doesn’t matter if you make your community on Lemmy or kbin, they’re federated and will have equal exposure

That way people will get the right impression even without going to the comments :)

(btw I downvoted your post for now but I upvoted a comment because I felt bad about taking away your karma for asking a totally reasonable question)

1, I realized I do, but its a js snippet to remove magazines’ custom styles. I disabled and tried again and same thing. For reference though, here’s where it’s happening
2. atm my firefox window is slightly wider than 1080 pixels.

Hi! I installed it, and a couple pieces of feedback:

1. when there’s an avatar, this gets kinda overlapped
2. sidebar is way too large when browser is fullscreen on a big monitor, that should get a width constraint

I love this though!

yeahhhhhhh if boost came with like a menu: “Boost to: -Your Personal Microblog -Magazine’s Microblog [pick] -Magazine as Article [pick]”

then the feature would be pretty baller

(actually im not sure if your personal microblog exists so…maybe just the other 2)

Yes absolutely. I miss so many subreddits so dearly, and some of them aren’t leaving reddit and I feel too guilty to go back there even though I’m a PC user. I’m really sad about everything, and I feel really lonely and awful. I’ve been super active in both the /kbin and Artemis communities, and they’re both wonderful, so I’m making new friends, but nothing’s going to fill the void truly.

Everything is not awesome :(

I checked btw, there was already a ticket about it! Although no clue if/when it’ll get addressed. But you can follow it to stay updated.