It’s been a wild week for the open social web (dev.to)
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Small list of userscripts that improve the Kbin experience (kbin.social)
I've been trying out several userscripts for Kbin recently, which have made the website way more enjoyable than it already was. I wanted to share them with my fellow Kbin users....
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From the CEO of Mastodon: What to know about Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
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Can we just appreciate the new design (kbin.social)
This new design looks so much cleaner and polished. As a huge fan of the catppuccin theme, I really enjoy the newly added Tokyo Night theme....
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Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds (phys.org)
A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be explained by bad choices among the poor nor by good decisions among the rich. Poor decisions were the same across all income groups,...
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We are launching KBIN fully managed service (elest.io)
Hey dear community, we just launched today our fully managed hosting service of KBIN...
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We need to either rework the the upvote/downvote system or to get rid of it completely. It's not fulfilling its task anymore. (kbin.social)
The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content....
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