OpenStars

Are you trying to say a comment from me, or from anyone? My last comment on Kbin was a week ago, and the one before that was three weeks ago. I will probably keep my Kbin account and just rarely if ever use it, as opposed to before where it was the only account I had.

Or if you mean anyone, the Kbin.social server is back up now, so yes it is functional. The owner does not communicate much but he works hard to keep it that way, it's just that for whatever reason it has major issues, though it is up right now.

Your language... sends odd signals to people. e.g., Kbin.social is running on his own computer, which he bought, with his own money, yes? Maybe he asks for voluntary contributions to defray electricity and ISP costs. The Kbin software is separate from the Kbin.social server that runs it, you see what I mean? Why try to take his own computer away from him? Just build something better and people will flock to it instead. Heck, some people have abandoned the Fediverse entirely bc they could not figure it out, and went back to Reddit. To each their own.

Btw many of us see what is going on - have no fear about that. I personally left Kbin three weeks ago when it was down for just days and days at a time, after a similar incident a few weeks before that, and similar issues ever since the project began. But it was always free for me, I don't believe I have any "ownership" of either the server or the project. And I made my choice for me, but if others want to stay, that's also fine. You are trying to make sure that we know that Mbin exists? We know. Make it better and we might try it out. Give up on Kbin and step out ahead of it, if you want. If you are frustrated by the need to wonder and guess at how he will do things in the future, then bypass him entirely, if you can. He seems to want that too.

Btw check out this announcement. There are many great options, and it is wonderful to have choices, e.g. in how communicative the admins are at the server of your choice. Or any of us at any time can start our own - the sheer beauty of the Fediverse!:-)

Not entirely, but neither is it extraordinarily healthy either. We'll see what develops - e.g. maybe its creator will emerge from a binge of programming and it'll become better than ever.

I still doubt that I'd go back after leaving it though - I waited so very long for it to improve, but it only ever seemed to get worse (performance wise), and it has major structual issues too, e.g. all final-say decisions controlled by a single owner who does not communicate much with the outside world.

In fairness, Kbin was not nearly as advanced as Lemmy when the Reddit protests and migration occurred, so a great deal of catching up was inevitably necessary.

A lot of people are leaving it due to the interruptions in service, but yeah it still exists.

Once bitten twice shy. Except some people refuse to learn entirely so be glad that your attitude allows you to not fall into that camp.

The system works as intended then.

It makes a twisted kind of sense: if you believe that "free speech" = you should be allowed to vote with your dollars, as in you having more dollars than most others (those who you choose to surround yourself with anyway, bc despite the facts of how millionaires are absolutely dwarfed by billionaires, somehow they don't seem to see that) should mean then your votes count more. And thus an enterprising little turd could sit there at the center of it all collecting the toll for all that "free speech". Within that worldview, it's entirely consistent.

It is only when that interfaces with the real world that it breaks down: bc no matter how much Nazis pay Musk to advertise their propaganda, we still don't have to choose to listen.

It's all advertising, all the way down.

If you are a healthy well-adjusted person, possibly never:-). After all, X is a letter not a name, and just about the least-used one at that (except Q, which is also co-opted now by the similar group).

If I were to suddenly declare that my name was now the letter "A", how much arrogance would be required for that, to straight-up steal an entire letter of the alphabet for my own personal use? But then for it to be "X" instead... he knows he doesn't deserve his own letter, he seems just hoping for someone to push back against him, though nobody will.

So it is not just you - his chaotic evil actions affect everyone who uses anything that he touches.

Not directly, but it's balanced by the traffic that talking about it generates?

Musk has been known to say... controversial statements from time to time for this reason.

Making sure that X remains relevant, living rent-free in all of our heads, is a huge benefit, compared to moving on and never looking back.

Edit: though to be clear, I didn't say it was a good plan - most of his plans do not qualify for that word imho:-P.

Bold of you to presume that Musk wanted less celebrity pornography on ~~Twitt~~ X.

The workers in question are employed by RaterLabs, an Appen subsidiary specializing in search engine evaluation. They are responsible for training Google’s search algorithm by testing search queries and rating the accuracy and relevance of the results.

Oh, yeah probably you're right.

Lolz!:-)

There are several women who would be alive today if they had done so...

Stubbornness can be a positively adaptive trait, but obstinacy in the face of facts not so much, and the same with squeezing your eyes shut REALLY tight to avoid knowing what is going on right in front of you.

It is like "even a stopped watch is correct twice a day - but that does not mean that you should trust the time that you see". It is possible, in more ways than one, to be both right yet also very wrong at the same time. :-P