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g8phcon2

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my parents didn’t have teeth by the time they were in their 30s either. Americans have a rather out-of-proportion concern about their teeth. I know its a trope that Englishman have bad teeth, but look, dental isn’t covered by British universal health care because most times its primarily cosmetic , even things American dentists say are essential, and not a true health concern.

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I don’t have that much content here anyway, I’ll just need to rejoin the like 40 magazines, just need to decide which of the 5 different kbin instancanes I joined today I’d rather be on.

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certainly not just a Mastodon thing, as Friendica , and I’m pretty sure GNU Social, had it before Mastodon did.

Thanks for the info though

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I may have a user bias, but I think KBin is already started down that path, of actually making a usuable platform for both communities and users. Unlike say Lemmy that doesn’t even really let you follow individual users, and Mastodon, which lets you follow Lemmy Communities, but its hard to follow threads because every post just looks like a Re-Toot by the community “user”

Then again Friendica is pretty nice too, it treats Lemmy communities just as if they are Friendica Forums, and it supports other platforms in addition to ActivityPub, including Diaspora*, and allows for integration with Email, Calendar, etc. with several very different “themes” to choose from, with the default, Firo(?), being a UI ver similar to the world’s most popular social media platform, Facebook.

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The good thing about Free Software is you are never at the mercy of a single provider. If you and your friends like Lemmy, you can always use lemmy. The amount of content might not be what it once was, but you are welcome to use and change, or pay someone else to let you use/change, the service forever. (Like pump.io used to be the whole #Fediverse and now identi.ca is little more than a internet graveyard save me 4 bots, and six people that cross post to Mastodon, but even it may come back now that /u/@evan indicated he’s adding ActivityPub to it now that its all the rage.

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then again, if your phone has “safari browser” you probably are unable to be reasoned with anyway.

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Thers’s plenty of other good reasons not to use non-free closed source “SaaS” like reddit.

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on a related note, hosting images on your server for users on other servers, eats up a lot of resources too. I know some instances have stopped allowing saving of images.

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