Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and is now exploring new vistas in social media.
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If kbin is going down for planned maintenance can the generic ‘ Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure…’ text at least be dated (kbin.social)
It’s impossible to tell if there is an actual server upgrade, or they have just gone down, displaying the message from last time.
Is Ernest still here? (kbin.social)
I don't mind waiting for things to be fixed what with life interfering with things, but I can't find any activity from Ernest lately. He hasn't been, like... hit by a bus or anything terrible like that, has he?
Federation Delays (kbin.social)
Looks like Kbin is running a pretty huge federation backlog, as it's taking several hours for comments to federate out. I'm not knowledgeable about how these servers work, but is it teetering on collapsing or something?
EXIT 0.1.0: Export subscriptions across kbin/mbin instances (kbin.social)
"EXIT" -- Export Across Instances Tool...
Academic journal forced to retract peer-reviewed AI-generated paper after "rat penis" pics go viral (media.kbin.social)
How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse (plasticbag.org)
Last few days are the least functional kbin has been for me since the July exodus. Just me? (kbin.social)
Just curious if it's somehow got to do with anything on my end. I'm generally desktop-only, firefox-only.
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Someone made an account just to harrass me. how do i report it? (kbin.social)
the acccount name is fuckyou and is downvote stalking me , account : https://kbin.social/u/Fuckyouzima
A case for preemptively defederating with Threads (kbin.social)
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you. (kbin.social)
A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...
Admirals in The Orville are much better than Star Trek admirals. (startrek.website)
I finished watching The Orville, it was a masterpiece from the hands of Seth Macfarlane....
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You can be the one to create the kbin page on wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. (also missing!)...
Call out post for a particular karma farmer on kbin.social (kbin.social)
@pollodiabolo - this user is a karma whore of epic proportions and they have made a shit load (10-15+) accounts on kbin that boost and upvote each other while sometimes mass downvoting others that have posts trending towards the top - all to farm karma....
John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
Hey guys, this time I really messed up :/ (kbin.social)
I think you should see something....