Catch42

Hi, thank you for your contributions!

I find myself wondering how many people we need to have a self-sustaining community. I’ve been making and stockpiling memes and discussion ideas so I can post regularly, but ideally there’d be enough people so that my posts aren’t the majority.

Why not try starting a magazine with a very similar name? I think the magazines are case sensitive so maybe m/Hardware

Yes, but I’ve forgotten it now

I think that’s true for some niche topics, but other ones are better served by having dedicated communities from the start.

When I joined I made 2 magazines. One of them was about collecting Nintendo games and I quickly realized that I would have better discussions if I just joined the Nintendo magazine. I’ve basically abandoned it. The other I made, m/Otomegames I think is needed. We could post in the general gaming magazines, but there’s a whole bunch conventions and inside jokes that people who don’t play otome games wouldn’t understand.

Now for my shameless plug: do you like otome games? Do you not know what otome games are, but romance/adventure games made for women sounds intriguing? Come join us <- direct link. “@Otomegames @kbin.social” <- remove the space for federated peeps

Forgot to switch to your alt?

They do? That sucks. I’ve only had iPhones and have gotten the battery replaced in both of them. It’s increased the lifespan of my phones by a couple of years, but it doesn’t double it. I usually start to sick of my hardware after about 5 years.

Sooo, literally everything. Are there even any categories left out? That seems pretty comprehensive.

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)

"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.

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.

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.

He likes what Elon has done to twitter? Reddit’s screwed. He thinks Elon made good financial decisions with twitter? Huffman’s screwed too. Elon is so rich that we might never know how much financial damage he’s done to twitter. Huffman doesn’t have that safety net.

I agree that the UI needs work. I want to point out that you can see a list of all your subscribed communities. On your profile, where it says Overview, threads, comments, etc, these are on a scroll bar. scroll over and there’s a tab labeled subscriptions, and there you can see all your subscribed magazines and how long you’ve been subscribed to them.

This exactly. Before this whole thing, I had no idea that social media could be open source. Now that I do, it’s what I need.