So basically, Google realized they fucked up by tightly integrating their browser with their OS, and now they’re doing what they should’ve done in the first place by uncoupling them.

It’d be badass if someone used this opportunity to make a ChromeOS fork based around Firefox.

Here’s hoping that they don’t.

So in other words, we still don’t know yet.

“Them” being Threads or Kbin?

So, is kbin.social not defederating from Threads then? I’ll be really disappointed if that’s the case.

I’m a Linux user, but I like having control over my own hardware, and I don’t want my next PC to be an underpowered thin client designed only to work with a commercial cloud OS. I hope this doesn’t take off any time soon.

As they say, there’s nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.

I like the changes that have been made so far. It’s neat having a positive reputation score for once. 😅

I thought this was going to be a thread debating the merits of the two disc formats, and I’m disappointed that it’s not. :(

I know that particular format war didn’t last very long, but I wonder if there’s anything HD-DVD ended up doing better than Blu-Ray.

As for the actual topic of this thread, I’m not sure if it’s the right analogy. Blu-ray and HD-DVD were incompatible with one another, while Kbin and Lemmy are mostly compatible. I’m not entirely sure what to compare it to, maybe Linux vs. BSD?

It’d be nice to have that as an option to help ease in new users, though I personally prefer having the thread title take me to the thread and not the link.

Interestingly, when I started using Reddit years ago, I had a hard time adjusting to post titles taking me to their links and not their comment sections. I was used to how Slashdot did it, which is identical to how Kbin does it now. IMO, it feels nice going back to the Slashdot way of doing things.

Fuck Meta. We need to vehemently oppose their presence in the Fediverse.

I actually just saw the number, so I know it exists now. It was next to my username.

When you hover over your username, is there a number next to “notifications” that you can see, or do you have to click it before you can see what you have? I don’t see a number, in my case.

When I click it, it shows nothing, but I wonder if it’s just doing that because I’ve already opened my article and seen the new comments.

Strange, I enabled the setting, but I didn’t see that there was a new comment on this article until I saw the comment number go up under this article on my profile page.

EDIT: tbh, I didn’t notice there were links for “notifications” and “messages” until I moused over my username. Would be nice if there was a Reddit-style inbox icon right on the top bar.

I haven’t been getting them, but I just learned that there’s a setting I need to enable that’s disabled by default. ^^;

What determines how closely federated one instance is to another?

Why am I still seeing posts from other instances on my front page when I have federation disabled? Is this a bug, or is it supposed to work that way?