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What do badges do? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Catch42@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

I have no idea what this field is for. I thought it might my like reddit flairs, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'd like to encourage more upvoting and boosting too! I like leaving comments, but I know not everyone does. The points from upvoting themselves don't mean anything, but it lets me know if my post is appreciated or if someone else's post is worth reading past the headline.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's another site in fediverse. It's a link aggregator like Lemmy is. I'm replying to your comment from kbin :)

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Forgot to switch to your alt?

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This one always confused me (media.kbin.social)
[-] Catch42@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

For posts I upvote and boost. For comments I upvote, unless the person I'm responding to hasn't upvoted their own comment.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I don't recall us defederating from them. Maybe try moving to beehaw.org, the definitely defederated from lemmy.ml and they have stricter moderation standards overall.

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For images that aren't rectangular, the update adds a softly blurred version of the image to the background. In general this looks great, I love it. However, for .png images with clear backgrounds this ruins the image. For example, here's a post I made a few days ago. Is there a way to toggle these soft backgrounds?

Otherwise I'm I'm absolutely digging this update. I immediately switched to Tokyo night, this theme is my jam.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I upvote my own posts too, I do try to avoid boosting my own posts. We're from kbin though, I think on Lemmy self-upvotes are automatic.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm imagining him planning his vacation but making sure not to do anything that would make a good video. People who know him are suggesting off the beaten path attractions, ands just like no - I'm going to disney world.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

If you build a linguistics magazine I will join :) I think the thing to do is pick the subject you're most passionate about/ most knowledgable about and create a magazine for it. Post things regularly and people will start to notice it. That's what I've done! https://kbin.social/m/Otomegames (@Otomegames@kbin.social for my federated gals)

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

"Another employee question in the companywide meeting asked if Google can more easily surface “authentic discussion” since the “Reddit blackout” was making it harder to find such content.

CEO Sundar Pichai chimed in to to say that users don’t want “blue links” as much as they want “more comprehensive answers.”

No I'm pretty sure people really are looking for authentic discussion, twisting that to say that we want more comprehensive answers is clearly Pichai trying to make the situation fit what he already wants to do: implement generative AI in response to searches to keep people on the site.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

As the others have pointed out, this is a kbin thread. Since your account is on an instance that's federated, all the content comes to you, you don't have to do anything special.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I'm having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen

Oh I don't know maybe it has something to do with Sam Bankman-Fried swindling $8 billion.

[-] Catch42@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I only have so many interesting things to say. I don't really want to post for the sake of generating content, so making 5-10 posts right off the bat seems like the wrong way to go about it. I think it'd be better to make one post a day or one every other day or so that anyone who comes in can see that it's recently active.

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