sparseMatrix

joined 2 years ago
[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

@Anomander

This is the second error I described.

However, I was not trying to tell you what error you experienced, only offering my experience for comparison, or to add to the list of things you're hearing about.

Cheers and Good Luck

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@Anomander

I've had kbin show me a 500 once or twice, but it was because my ethernet cable had slipped the socket.

I've gotten more complex custom errors of indeterminate type, generally when posting, but typically the error is in error, as the post completes as expected.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

@realcaseyrollins

I mean, there's a lot of motivation to not do anything with twitter but stay away from it

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

@inkican

Babylon 5 was the show I wanted to like, knew I was supposed to like, was literally made for me by people who's work I freaking loved elsewhere; but as much as I wanted it to, it just never really spoke to me.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

@oforgetaboutit

The Russian Embassy in Sweden, in a rude comment, confirmed the strike on the Swedish company SKF’s plant in Lutsk

So I am told.

That's really not the point though, is it.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I told my wife this morning, I think his lil plan is to go on TV for this press conference, declare the whole thing a witch hunt, claim it's because Jack Smith and all his mean judge friends have a boner for Trump, and everything's fine, it's all a sham.

He'll think this completely absolves him, because he has come out and told 'the truth' and all, and he'll waddle off back to Mar-a-lago, where the Deputies will be waiting for him.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

@BackOnMyBS

There’s always the therapist!
J/K, the therapist might not care for that lol 😝

could you be just a little more specific? are talking toothpaste, charmin, downy, ketchup bottle, your significant other? tiny teddy bear? I’m just riffing here, in the absence of guidance.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

@Haus

Our household video consumption is pretty evenly balanced between broadcast and streaming.

#FuckCable

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

@Pamasich

@djidane535

It's cool, user @djidane535 dropped some truth on me, and it finally soaked in.

I'll probably end up with some user scripts, or a browser extension, but I'm holding back until I know more about the ecosystem, what's useful, etc.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@djidane535

Actually, it took a minute to sink in, but that is very helpful. Thanks for enduring my morning dimness :D

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

@djidane535

Interesting but not really helpful. I found something in a recent FAQ that says I should add an article instead of a post, but the option to add an article is not on the menu on my instance, as it is in their screenie

Also I'm a mastodon user, and my account there is the focus of my microblogging activity. The user there follows this account, so my posts here, show up there. The short story is, the microblog here is essentially a right pain in my ass.

At least now I know what it is.

 

How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?

I just tried posting the series of parts to my /mag, they showed up in reverse order in the microblog? WTF?

Please, if there is some advantage to this microblog thing, I'd love to know what is, and also how to make a post in my own magazine that does not feature a link.

'Threads/Microblog/People/Magazines' is where simplicity goes sideways in this webapp. It is not obvious what those things are; the couple of guides I've found don't discuss this focal point of confusion.

#kbinMeta

 

So, I've been using mastodon a long time, several years in fact, and I never really understood all the folks complaining that it was too complicated; I mean, it was just always intuitive to me. Now maybe that's because I never really did the tweeter.

What I have done is a lot of reddit, and I gotta say, why the hell is this so complicated? :P

I'm only half kidding.

One thing that should always taken into consideration by software peeps is that when making a 'replacement' like this (dont tell me it's not a replacement for reddit, there's too much signal in the noise of this mag about 'reddit migration'), is that users that are relocating their operations will need extra handholding and assistance.

Unlike a lot of us, these peeps aren't casually learning how to do a new cool thing, they're typically perceiving some real and or imagined (Hey, both can cause a lot of stress and anxiety!), they're fleeing something, and trying to settle into a new, safer place; or so they hope.

I may sound like I'm 'asking for a friend', and I am, but that friend is me :D

Please, we need some kind of FAQ that says 'this is the reddit thing you want to do' and 'here's how to do it on kbin'. We need the next section to say, 'You can do these things on reddit, and not on kbin' and one more section in the FAQ that says 'These are cool things kbin does that reddit doesn't'.

A HUGE ask would be user style sheets to make it look and act more or less like reddit; really, as far as I can tell, there's only really a couple of big differences. Hell, it might suffice if we just had a FAQ that pointed out the substantive differences.

The biggest problem is, y'all just kinda 'sprung' the whole microblog/People/Threads on us; those single word descriptors are really only useful if you're 'in the know' already.

I've been posting off and on at kbin now for several months, hoping I'd eventually just soak it up; but it hasn't happened. I still keep screwing some things up here and there; just yesterday I was off to the races posting about some things, and managed to editorialize a title when I thought I was using post body to introduce the link. It's been sent to the ether, now.

I'm not in desperation about anything. I'm not a 'migrator' or refugee, or any of that. I do have a couple projects on reddit I'd like to bring here, I think this is the future of social media, and I think I will get a higher quality engagement here. I also have some projects already here that I'd like to get supercharged, and I can't really do stuff until I know the ropes..

So yeah, it would be great if the devs would drop some smooth pdfs or single page html or damn just if they'd 'own' a markdown document that could be loaded off any kbin page or something, that would be bad ass.

In the absence of that though (or something like it) what do y'all have out there, in userland?

Thanks for readin' muh screed.

#kbinMeta

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