AuDHDer here, I honestly wish Reddit would quit their bullshit and go back on their proposed changes so that I could go back to my normal routine. Of course, they probably won’t, because Reddit doesn’t give a shit. Anyway, I’ve been trying to stay off of there to support the blackout, but old habits die hard for me so I’ve accidentally logged in a few times.

Kbin seems like an OK alternative. Not so sure about other instances though. Thinking I’m gonna stick with Kbin stuff until I figure out what’s what.

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?

It is ironic, but the great thing about Kbin is that since it’s not subject to Reddit’s bullshit API policies, we could see some great third party apps for it in the near future. Meanwhile the way things are going on Reddit, people probably aren’t going to have a choice but to use the official app come July 1st.

Kbin’s got potential. Reddit… not so much.

It’s GPL3 and the source code is available on GitLab, so it’s open source. That’s usually a good sign as far as software safety goes, since it’s harder to sneak nasty things in when your code is out in the open than it is with a closed-source app.

What determines how closely federated one instance is to another?

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

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.