the impression I got from that documentary about him was that he was quite ambivalent about reddit and had nothing to do with starting it. he was declared co founder in some symbolic way after the fact. IIRC his arm was twisted in some business deal and he didnāt take any satisfaction from it. he immediately set about actively doing everything he could think of to make himself annoying in the hopes of being released from the obligation.
Is this wrong? If I am on the right track, I think itās kind of shitty to use the memory of a dead person who really did some good things to make a point about how scuzzy reddit is. Which we are all quite aware of. Reddit sucks case closed. IMHO it would be worse if they put his picture on every page and talked about him all the time. Reddit should keep his out of its mouth.
Aaron Schwartz did a bunch of cool things and reddit wasnāt one of them. He helped develop RSS which unlike reddit we all still love when he was like 14. He made a browser extension to automatically share public domain legal documents the state was hoarding for money. And he set up a laptop in a closet at MIT to download all of JSTOR one article at a time because that shit belongs to all humanity. Among other things. Please have some respect for this person and stop belittling him in this way.
Containers has this weird problem where itās impossible to delete them once you FF sync themā¦ you will always get new copies of very old containers over and over again. Itās a giant mess. So I got discouraged from using them. Every year or 2 I have another look to see if anyone has solved the problem without having to make a new FF sync account which I donāt want to do. Maybe I will have another look at the state of things because I have been wishing to have this ability recently with the threadiverse. Just warning you: do not sync the containers! You will regret it.
Mobile is sort of easier because you can repeatedly āinstallā the PWAs and they seem to have separate sessions. Itās not as slick as using one of the reddit clients that allowed changing identities on a per-comment basis but also not bad. I guess they are using some sort of containers implementation which is hidden from the user. If I would get around to jumping through the hoops to install addons on FF mobile, I wonder if your addon would work and if the configurations would also be uniquely stored in the PWA sessions. Iāve hardly used addon in mobile. If it did function that way, itād be like >60% of the way to a kbin client. Which doesnāt otherwise exist AFAIK, but I could have missed something. And a lemmy client of course.
If it was possible to direct a āshareā in android to a specific PWA it might be a close enough to switching per-comment. You could share the location to the other PWA and pick it up from there. But that sounds like something that wouldnāt be allowed. If it would even be theoretically possible. About which I have no idea.
What is Connect? I have KDE Connect and there is something called Mozilla Connect but I guess you are referring to something different.
Archive team has been downloading it so itll be available
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You might have better luck posting the kbin link to this kbin community. it is https://kbin.social/m/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml/t/183970/Loss-of-niche-and-technical-information
I donāt know if anyone here has anything as constructive as what they should have done, having reached this point in history. If I was suddenly dropped into spezās body, I do not have a clue what I would do other than completely back track the past 2 months and eat a literal hat with a fork and knife. Donāt know if even that would work.
Well there are 49 subscribed people on patreon totaling $170/month. Lots of people probably already have accounts set up which makes it a very low threshold to join.
Meanwhile on librepay, arguably more philosophically suitable, there are 11 subscribers totaling $13/month.
Man, considering how many people I have seen saying how great it is to be able to pay, and asserting they are making donations, those are very low numbers.
I really appreciate your work!
I would really like the option to choose between multiple instances (even accounts on same instance??), which I think is the very last line of your post. :)
On reddit I was very grateful to the RES account switcher, and mobile app that let you easily switch accounts. I would probably never have actually gotten into reddit without those. It let me use completely different parts of reddit to express and explore different interests I think one of the things that made reddit the best social media platform was how pseudonymous it was. Total opposite of facebook āreal name policyā attitude.
In the lemmy/kbin situation I am not sure how the interface would be. Need 1) some kind of persistent switching interface, 2) reminders of what account you are in. In RES it showed you your account name at the top of the page in the selector, and optionally above every comment box so you didnāt accidentally post as the wrong account.
In the meantime I guess I will eventually install every available extension that does this and assign each one an account lol. Or pick one and make several local forks and install separately. hmm
If I deleted my account I would never again get that special feeling of conducting a websearch to solve some problem and finding a hit from a person who looks like they are having exactly the same issue as me, only to find it was me posting 2 years ago and there are no useful responses.
Makes me wonder how identifiable I am by my āaccentā onlineā¦ I must phrase things in unusual ways. And I spend a lot of time trying to solve problems that are either unsolvable or over my headā¦
I always find this situation crushing, demoralizing and very funny and until lemmy has better search indexing I donāt want to give it up.
Also I wrote things I think were useful too. But I donāt stumble no them.
Hi I installed via greasemonkey and it took me a while of switching on/off to discern a ny difference.
All I can see is that for thread pages, top level comments, at the bottom, there is a link toggle replies (x) (x = # of replies) which hides comments below.
I disabled any other plugin/userstyle/userscript that might be acting on lemmy/kbin.
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as far as I am aware there is no work around to avoid community guidelines or whatever by using ā/sā on lemmy. some of the instances have strong moderation so donāt expect you can just do whatever you want and be welcomed everywhere.