Yeah, it’s a 100% self-imposed moratorium just because I don’t want to appear to have a modding bias. There was a period where I was trying to enliven the community by posting a few articles each day, especially from sources not submitted to our mirror community on lemmyworld, but then my real life job was draining my soul for 3 straight months, so that endeavor fell by the wayside. Also, unless it’s an article dumping on one key player, our user base doesn’t tend to comment on news articles. It’s a weird phenomenon I’ve observed.

I will add though that my hobby communities that I belong to never make it to my feed, which seems to imply that those communities are stagnant, too. I would probably comment more in those spaces, but it’s rare that new threads are created, I guess.

Ah - yikes. I was really not anticipating you seeing my mini pity party here, ernest. I know you and the team have been really working hard on kbin and I’ve seen massive changes with the modding panel and functions as a result of the latest instance update. I have a ton of respect for what you all are accomplishing on the fediverse and I was originally a very vocal early adopter after the first reddit migration in June. I trust that you all are shouldering a major responsibility with this instance, and I’m grateful for the fediverse at the very least. I hope when you read this you didn’t get the sense that I had any criticisms of kbin as the particular user interface I use for the fediverse - just that even across the federated instances (mostly lemmyworld), my ability to doom scroll for hours a day outpaces the userbase.

I think I feel a personal sense of failure(?) or disappointment(?) that I wasn’t able to usher in a similar sense of community and activity to the sub I moderate compared to reddit. I think moving over here, it felt like my sub would be the natural beneficiary of inheriting the volume of users and content that existed on reddit, but our mirror community on lemmyworld got the lion’s share and it isn’t even scratching former reddit heyday numbers. Also, the people in their community are… suspect. I don’t care for the comments section.

I hope you didn’t take umbrage to my comment. I’m eager to see what new features the kbin dev team will roll out.

Haven’t even directed my browser to reddit since migrating to kbin in June, but it’s never fulfilled the same dopamine hit for me. I’ve supplanted my online addiction with YouTube now, which because of what I flit past and what I actually pay attention to has been extremely educational because of the algorithm!

Pretty early on, I ended up becoming the head moderator for a magazine on kbin, which then made me feel an ethical sort of guilt about commenting there anymore, so really the only place I wanted to be part of the dialogue is now gone for me here on kbin. Our magazine has a much larger mirror community on lemmyworld, so our magazine is barely holding on by a thread even after an initial burst of new subscribers. Discussion is almost non-existent in the magazine, and I’m not sure if it’s because we tried to instate common-sense community guidelines early, or if because we missed the momentum of growing userbase after the rexxit since most people migrated to lemmyworld instead of kbin.

I’m not even sure why I keep my account. (I know I sound like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh in this post.)

I saw an ADHD influencer recommend wearing ear plugs in public to block out environmental noise to keep conversation directed at you still audible.

I get distracted in public when my ears pick up conversation around me - especially people who are fighting or gossiping and I find it very entertaining compared to the discussion I’m in - so this is something I’d like to try the next time I have a dinner out at a busy restaurant with others.

Editing to add: I just listened to about a minute of the femtanyl song you linked and I realized that I also get in the zone productive with some types of music in which I can’t understand the lyrics. I listen to a Pandora station built around Sigur Ros because I can’t understand the language lol

This is funny, but not true. The federal government turns off servers and electronics after business hours in accordance with power-saving measures enacted by President Jimmy Carter.

Carter installed solar panels onto the White House in the late 70s, early 80s. Reagan came in and dismantled them.

I am glad I left Texas when I did. The disgust I have for this entire ilk of people would have me choking on my bile 24 hours a day. My stomach is turning thinking that some people make a living or heaven forbid are prospering off augmenting the suffering of hundreds of thousands.

Someone remind me if Ken Starr is alive or dead…

This is an interesting insight. I have a degree in philosophy but tap danced around the Nietzsche class to go to the phenomenology & existentialism course instead lol

If you pick up this book, I highly recommend another book written by the same author - Michael Ende - called Momo.

The fantasy parts of the NES sometimes feel like allegory but mostly feel like folly. But Momo is ostensibly an allegory from the beginning. It also feels like waking up your inner child.

The parts of the NES that were not adapted into the films are absolutely whimsical and amazing. It’s a true wonder why some details were used in the film and not others. It’s a lot of fun!

Just like a big brother to put his butt in the little brother’s face lol

I liked the episode!

But I was going into it with expectations that it was going to be kind of mid like the first season of Disenchanted. I was very pleasantly surprised that there was like a legitimate plot line, even though it was kind of silly. It seem like the same level of incredulous shenanigans that Futurama has always gotten itself into.

They’re catering to the fact that their core audience is getting older and harder to understand fast-paced speech lolol (said by one of those people who is starting to get old)

In the article, one source stated that their work has become more intense. This isn’t something I anticipated, but it seems the logical conclusion: if you utilize AI for all the easiest parts of your job, then all that remains are the hard parts, which now dominate your workday because you knocked out all the easy things quickly.

Gets me thinking about how I need some of the easy things to be a release valve for my workflow. I need the sense of accomplishment from those easier/smaller tasks to keep up my morale and energy for the larger projects.

What is it about this photo that makes me look at this cat’s face and instantly know it is indeed a bullshitter?

This reminds me of when I started a rewatch of King of the Hill when I was in graduate school for media analysis. It struck me that nearly every conflict in the first few seasons is based on insider/outsider identities. Sometimes Hank and other main characters learn and grow from it, but there are several times in which the Other is shouted down for just not getting it.

• Something with either Bobby or Luann gets the attention of the hippy dippy school counselor (characterized by really west coast or PNW sensibilities) who starts poking around in the home as a stand in for CPS trying to impose more modern approaches to child rearing: the outsider who gets shouted down at the end

• The new neighbor is Laotian and bickers with Hank until they find common ground: the outsider embraced

• Hank throws his back out and workers comp will only pay for yoga classes, to which Hank turns up his nose for being too different. Eventually his pain drives him to giving it a chance and he not only gets better but vehemently defends it afterward: the outsider embraced

• A Native American recurring character named John Redcorn is always received by Dale as just having such a mysterious and ancient mystical presence by virtue of being Native even though Dale and John Redcorn had the same kind of upbringing together: the outsider always held at arm’s length

• ETA: I almost forgot my favorite story line! Hank Hill learns about growers co-ops promoting a natural food movement, which he associates with hippy dippy communism until he starts buying produce there and it’s so fresh and flavorful, Peggy Hill delivers my favorite punchline of all time. Hank becomes a convert and sees this as a return to the land for country folk and starts volunteering at the co-op: the outsider embraced

There are so many ways that this theme of the big city (usually in the form of white characters) or the racial minority (usually representing the larger world) encroaching on their little suburb of Arlen, Texas, is the source of conflict. I don’t think Mike Judge pulled that out of thin air.

Tagging @ernest in case instance owners don’t have a larger community in which they share news like this with each other.

Hi! I’m a magazine owner on kbin.social and ran into this same problem. I’m not sure if Lemmy and kbin have the same submission forms but I’m willing to try to help.

If you’re open to it, you can direct message me and maybe we can set up a quick screen share on discord or zoom?

Possibly dumb question, but are you u/PoppinKream???

There is a single user who is posting dozens of times a day in my magazine (for which I am a moderator). Another mod on my team has raised the alarm about the user, like surely they’re going through a personal crisis to be so terminally online and posting so frequently.

I’m realizing now they might be a bot. The sources of articles are varied, and quality of article is like 30/70 serious/bullshit. The user occasionally comments on the submissions and I’m realizing the comments are generic rabble rousing instead of being complex language or referencing complex details from the articles shared.

Could anyone speak more to how to identify bot accounts? Many thanks!

Oh good. Millennials are due for another world calamity. We’ve had one plague. Why not a second plague?