Teppic

Ernest has made a few updates to improve moderation recently e.g.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog/t/615294/kbin-RTR-9-Protection-against-spam-and-several-optimization-improvements
https://kbin.social/m/kbinDevlog

From the comment I’m guessing Canada… but then India is commonwealth too so the logic doesn’t really work.

My read of this is mostly that airlines don’t engage in price fixing and collusion - or more specifically their algorithms are designed so they don’t (directly) create this outcome.

If you use kbin you can even see who has made each upvote, so yes easy to then look for patterns of voting together and also at the profiles to see if the accounts looks like real people etc.

Posts and comments are federated (synchronised). Upvotes are actually a bit of a fudge, they are actually ‘Favourites’ if considered from an activity pub (e.g. Mastodon) perspective, and yes favourites are also federated.
Downvotes don’t exist in activity pub and, as a result, they do not federate between instances.
At least that is my understanding.

And like magic, now it is federating (but there have been no posts since).
https://kbin.social/m/bch@lemmy.world

Kbin allows users to do this (noting kbin isn’t a client it’s a compatible platform).

Thanks for the correction, I read the wrong number! I’ve edited accordingly.

Indeed. Activity pub includes favourites and boosts.
Lemmy uses favourites as an upvote. Kbin does too, but kbin also allows boots and it considers that a boost (which is like a retweet) is a more significant endorsement so sorting and reputation is based more on boosts than on upvotes.

Very much so, and equally possible in theory (interference patterns with light exist, light cancellation could work somewhat like noise cancelling) but also equally impossible to do at anything much above an atomic scale.

Circa 60,000 active users, but whatever…

You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated ‘all’ feed.

Edit: As corrected below it’s about 10k monthly active users, but that’s still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social

Have you tried kbin? Same content in that it’s Lemmy compatible, but slightly different sorting algorithm which (in my view) seems to result in a more rounded/balanced set of posts being promoted.
Yes there a different set of issues - it’s earlier in it’s development phase, but developing fast (collapsibling comments is being worked on, API (and therefore 3rd party apps) is imminent, many other improvements are developed and expecting to go live this month…

I’d like to see it. VBA is actually brilliant, you can make very very portable applications with intuitive user input and output interfaces (i.e. a cell range in Excel, and and version of tables and graphs you like as outputs)… But realistically who wants to use BASIC these days?
I usually say it in jest, but I’m not sure there is actually a better RAD (rapid application development) platform out there than Excel (with a bit of VBA as needed).

Python with a freaking powerful GUI built in. Yes please!

While I don’t necessarily support the decision to invade Iraq, I would dispute “no less criminal”. Iraq invaded Kuwait, the military intervention was at least in part justified, and justifiable on the he grounds of being defence of Kuwait. After that, yes it becomes a bit of a grey area, but there is nothing at all grey, no ounce of justification, for Russia invading Ukraine.

Hariette posted that she thinks #ArtemisApp will be publicly available within a week:
https://tech.lgbt/@hariette/110800032271275199
…but with the caveat that right now it will only work for users subscribed to her kbin instance (this is because she has enabled an API which has been in development, and is now undergoing review).

There are others in development too, but full release of the API and roll out of this to kbin.social is key first.

Actually I don’t think downvotes federate with kbin (I’m not sure about between Lemmy instances?)
Downvotes are not intrinsically part of the ActivityPub standard.
…but yes upvotes federate just fine!

Surely you couldn’t be viewing the post while logged in to upvote if your instance wasn’t federated…

Congratulations, kbin tells me you have a reputation score of 309!
(Noting, as you did, that kbin will only know about a subset of your activity…)

I think it’s we’ll known Lemmy has a problem with bots signing up (in their millions), hence the warning on that measure in my link above.

If we look at another site:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
https://kbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Basically the same stats.
These seem to suggest 120 posts per day per Lemmy user - I’d agree something is off.

But then try looking at a few users in this thread (which lets note is on a Lemmy instance). From my spot checks about half the comments are from kbin users?