albatros

Like a lot of things, it was good at first. Then they made it shitty.

I had small ads that I barely noticed, no need for any crypto account, and it gave me 5~10€/month to automatically send to Wikipedia (or any website I felt like paying).

Now that crypto account is mandatory it’s just useless…

I still use it on a few devices but mainly because I’m too lazy to replace it by something else.

If you get arrested during a protest, they can force you to unlock the phone (it can be a felony to refuse) , so better not to bring it at all.

It was changed recently, now upvote works similar to lemmy/reddit (but also adds things to your favourites)

Boost is more for the microblogging side of kbin, it’s like a retweet. (also adds more reputation points but that’s not really useful for anything right now)

Ernest mentioned it will be changed :

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/49212/How-does-reputation-work-on-kbin#entry-comment-208018

I’m not sure it’s ok in the GDPR rules?

That would probably be related to “right to erasure”.

But even this has limits, since sometimes the data can be necessary for a service (for example, you might be unable to get invoice data erased before X years, as a legal requirement)

Since messages on forums can be considered “needed” to understand a thread, it’s usually advised to make all messages anonymous if a user requests complete deletion.

I guess here it’s a little different, since the messages were removed by users, so it’s not a gdpr request. Not sure how it works in that case.

Other issue is if the messages themselves contain personal information… Someone going through my old reddit profile could probably figure out my identity since I mentioned one of my (very uncommon) previous job a few times.

Best way to figure out how it works here would probably be to contact the gdpr authority for your country… And they might have trouble with it too.

Chip shortage really hit them hard… At some point I even had a Firefox extension that would send me a notification when they were available somewhere.

It’s supposed to get better by the end of the year though.