Damn it really persists. Good one

Watched a few episodes of Criminal Minds and The Blacklist. They’re great for sure, but they are episodic. I’m in the mood for a serialized show.

Will check out Bones tonight.

Love it

Looks perfect. Will ask on lemmy as well. Thanks

Google Search has been accusing me of being a robot a lot lately, making me solve a bajillion captchas. So I’ve stopped using search engines entirely. I’ve bookmarked a lot of the sites I regularly visit and have realized I don’t really need Google, apart from for getting the correct links to said websites because I can’t remember their .orgs and .coms.

I think reading up on this has made me more appreciate the profoundness of that Arthur C. Clarke quote

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying

The possibility of being alone is not just terrifying in and of itself. Its horror is also in mulling over why we might be alone.

The second case is infuriating.

Mendonça was 11 years old

A prostitute, Alcina Dias, confirmed that [Afonso Dias] had taken Mendonça to see her on the day he disappeared. [Afonso Dias] allegedly drove up to see her in his car and asked her if she was working. When she assented, he offered to pay her to have sex with Mendonça.

and later

police forces raided alleged members of an international child pornography ring known as the Wonderland Club. The operation was code-named Operation Cathedral and resulted in the confiscation of 750,000 images and videos depicting 1,263 different children. Mendonça was among the few children (16 only) that could be identified. However, his whereabouts remain unknown and police suspect that he was murdered by his abductors after being abused on camera for other members of the paedophile ring.

Top it off with the fact that the police refused to take his disappearance seriously initially and just assumed he was lost or injured and would eventually turn up.

Fucked up.

It’s the same as Lemmy just replace c/ with m/ in the links for kbin instances

lemmy.sdf.org/c/main@rblind.com
kbin.social/m/main@rblind.com

Link from kbin: kbin.social/m/main@rblind.com

kbin prefixes communities (magazines) with m/ instead of c/

Every Noise At Once: Recommend this website to find new music that suits your tastes. Play around with the options at the top, best way to see what they do.

Boosts are like retweets on twitter. There is no limitation on boosts.

Added to original comment.

What terminology do I need to know?

This should suffice for now:
Fediverse: Basically a set of individual websites, the content of any one of which can be accessed through any other website from this set of websites. Read on for the ‘how?’
Magazine: Similar to a subreddit.
Thread: Similar to a Reddit post.
Microblog: Similar to a tweet on Twitter.
Post: A microblog posted in a magazine.

Find the navigation menu on kbin, which is at the top of the webpage if you are on PC or tap the trigram on the top left of the web page if you are on mobile. You should see items named ‘Threads’, ‘Microblog’, ‘People’ and ‘Magazines’ in the navigation bar.

How do I subscribe/join/whatever a community?

To browse the list of all magazines or search for specific ones, simply click on ‘Magazines’ on the navigation bar. When you do, you’ll find a search bar to search for magazines and a list of magazines sorted by the most number of subscribers. You can search for a magazine by just typing in a keyword like ‘history’. The search results will bring you magazines from kbin that have the keyword ‘history’ in their names or descriptions. In addition to kbin magazines, you will also find communities from other sites of the fediverse.

Here are the first 5 results I get searching for ‘history’ in the magazine search:

• chess
• Etymology
• historymemes@lemmy.ml
• history
• askhistorians@lemmygrad.ml

The magazines of kbin appear with just their name, as in the case of the chess, Etymology and history magazines. The communities analogous to kbin magazines on another fediverse site, lemmy.ml appear as you see in the case of historymemes@lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml is a different website from kbin.social, but you can access and interact with the content from lemmy.ml through kbin.social and using your kbin.social account. Click on the magazine name and you’ll find the option to subscribe on the right side of your screen on PC. On mobile, scroll all the way to the bottom and start scrolling up and you should find it. You can access your feed with content from subscribed magazines by clicking on the list icon to the left of your username on the top right of the web page on both PC and mobile. A dropdown menu will open up with an item called ‘Subscribed’. There you go.

I guess this might post to other websites as well?

You have posted to kbin.social in the RedditMigration magazine. A user of some other fediverse site will only see it if they are browsing RedditMigration@kbin.social from their site. If a user from some other website engages with your post, their user ID will appear here as username@fediversesitename, similar to how yours is username@kbin.social.

How do the points work (agree/disagree, relevant/not relevant, something else…)?

Favorite(up arrow)/Reduce(down arrow). Who favorites/reduces a particular thread/comment is public. Find the ‘more’ option on a comment and click on ‘activity’.

Another form of engagement is boosting (find the ‘boost’ option near the ‘reply’ option on a thread/comment/microblog), which is similar to retweeting on Twitter.

Is there a good overview somewhere?

An overview of fediverse can be found at jointhefediverse.net.