One of the extremely useful things about reddit was that content was somewhat organized by URL. Each post was created in a subreddit. So you could do websearch like keyword site:reddit.com/r/subreddit...
There used to be a handy 'hide' option hiding under the 'more' menu. It seems to have been removed. Any chance of getting it back?
I'd like to save useful comments and posts for giggles and knowledge. This feature exists in reddit and Lemmy....
The ability to 'boost' your own comments/threads has been used by a very small number of users in a way that seriously degrades conversation on the platform. These users constantly move their own contributions to the top of the conversation without regard to their value. If allowed to continue it will likely become standard for...
For me personally this feels very wrong. What do you think about that?
The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
I’d like to help out with decentralization, with users not all gathering in one place, so I don’t want to go to kbin.social or fedia.io. I did look at fedidb.org and the list of instances there, but it doesn’t tell me if the admin is active. I could just visit every instance listed there and check the admin’s profile for...
The California Senate voted on Thursday to grant unemployment benefits to workers who are on strike. The bill passed with a 27-12 vote. The Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA have each expresse…
The former clerk in Rowan County, Ky., was sued by two same-sex couples to whom she refused to grant marriage licenses, claiming it violated her religious beliefs. Her attorney says she will appeal.
Russian president also praises Elon Musk as ‘an outstanding person.’
Highly processed foods resemble drugs of misuse in a number of disturbing ways
I tried to upvote this comment:...
Right now the default sort for threads is "Hot". Can I change the default somehow? I don't know if the option exists or if I'm blind, I can't find it anyhow.
Yesterday, the fedia.io server locked up. I was able to reboot it remotely and it came up clean. After less than an hour, the server froze again. This happened several more times throughout the day. Unfortunately, there were no logs recording what happened, and nothing on the console - just frozen hardware....
A lot of the larger abandoned magazines are just spam pools now. I don't see their posts in my feed, but I don't like that the two sidesbars of random posts and threads are now just spam advertising sidebars. I triedblocking the magazines, but doesn't that prevent the posts from showing in those sidebars....
Looking at the front page of this forum and many others, leads me to conclude that kbin has a ridiculous spam problem....
Over the next few weeks, we're facing another server change. I'm doing everything to optimize costs and prepare the instance for long-term operation. More details are available on the status page I'm currently working on....
Threads’ fediverse plans are coming together.
i created this function to sanitize the input fields on my site, but i need it (the function) to allow the input of some html tags. how can i improve the function to allow this?
