That’s fine and all, but I have one question. Why would you want to want to revisit the biggest video game scam in recent memory?

The best possibility is something like I’ve done. I split my social media time between here, Reddit, Facebook, Threads, and a Mastodon instance that doesn’t federate (in addition to being a viewer on YouTube & PeerTube). You can’t hold all the people all the time. It’s just not feasible. So yes, people going back to Reddit is expected. But it’s when they come back and find something they want that’s important.

I’m going to present the opposite opinion to yours here. Kbin represents the best way forward for social media, to me. If we can get a working PeerTube integration after Threads federates, I’m all set. It’s what Google Plus was supposed to be, it’s why I first (as a user) used TweetDeck back in the day. It puts everything in one place again. I was a LiveJournal user back in the day, which was another place like this - communication & community, but individual places for your thoughts. I tried Tumblr for a while and it was close to an LJ replacement.

Everything since then has fractured and fragmented so we have very aggressive echo chambers, but no private places. This might be able to give that back to the users.

I accept that it can feel like drinking from the firehose at the start. It was to me at first too, but I was aware of Lemmy early on, and I was on two Mastodon instances that didn’t cofederate. I knew what I was going in for. I stepped back from Kbin when a known tech issue degraded my experience, and it’s been fixed. I think the thing is that Kbin allows you to curate your own experience, rather than be tied into doing one thing or another all the time.

I think when Kbin is ready for prime time and when the major issues are fixed, there might be a need to look at the first-timer experience, maybe even a tutorial. Because it’s not a beginner focused interface. It’s meant for us who want it all back in one place, and accepted the burden of experience that means.

Isn’t that the core premise of things like Elvira, Svengoolie, and MST3K?

Well, if he doesn’t care, then I just might bother the time and effort to pirate it. But then again, a dismissive creator who’s working with Markiplier isn’t someone I’m really keen on supporting in the first place. I wish him luck, and that he is approximately as successful as I am in financial terms.

Because Threads presents an opportunity to grow the community on ActivityPub services, and because the Fediverse presents the opportunity to extend the community I’m involved in that’s on Threads right now. My hope is that if that group respects what the Fediverse offers, they will also start sharing the podcast on PeerTube

My hand is raised.

I’m getting back into Digimon World: Dawn recently.

kbin finally has notifications not throwing an error every time I try to check them, so that much is nice now. I’ve actually had no problems with the Reddit software on my phone, and I’ve unsubbed from most of the communities I was part of there which moved across to lemmy. That choice has really trimmed my experience down to a more focused one nicely. I’ve also gotten done turning federation back off as I want it to be, and my user block list here is getting pretty long, blocking out the spammers that come across my feed.

Of course, because kbin is still one of the smallest sites related to the ActivityPub protocol, there’s limited content here compared to Reddit, Then again, there’s also less content on all of PeerTube (let alone a single site) than there is on YouTube, and I’d take a shot at saying that even Threads has the largest Mastodon community beat by a country mile, let alone what Twitter still has.

So basically, I guess I’d say I’m not a refugee, I’m just doing as I did with Facebook when it first launched after MySpace and Friendster - keeping my options open and looking around.

How many millions are you paying them? Because unless you’re paying into the business tier or an SLA, you are not their customer.

I’ve been finding Brave a better solution.

Funny, they’re actively making it worse any time I try to lower my shields too. They’ve changed, very recently, from a video hosting platform with ads, to an advertising platform with some minor videos in between.

I think it’s time to shut it down, hard. That’s the start of something that will not end well for human beings.

Always good to see Netflix lose a little money. Hopefully it’s the beginning of a pattern and streaming services start having to shut down.

I have to admit, I never used Twitter much. The changes that made it impossible to use without logging in were the final straw. The availability of local Mastodon groups and the accessibility through KBin have basically rendered it valueless.

When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.

I wonder how well the pirate community will pick this one up.

My main email is still at Yahoo.

Laptops, Chromebook, tablets (iPad and Android), and an android phone. I’ve basically got everything but an actual desktop (which is fair since I don’t have a desk).

I’m glad to see point-and-click gaming coming back.