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albinanigans, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

Christ, I'm almost 40 and they're still doing that?!

RheingoldRiver, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

Good for you OP! I stopped standing to pledge around when I was maybe 10 or 11, when I learned it was illegal to make standing for it mandatory & about how the words 'under God' were added later and the pledge violated separation of church and state. I come from a very liberal area and all my teachers were quite proud of me I think, especially my 6th-grade teacher. But a lot of my classmates didn't understand and I got bullied a lot for it. But I refused to do it. My mom was teaching public policy so....that probably influenced it a lot haha

Girlparts, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

I attended a school board meeting recently and they asked everyone stand and recite before the meeting would begin. I got so many dirty looks for refusing.

To watch a room full of adults look and pledge to a flag was comical and disturbing

Ragnell, in Interesting Kbin magazines
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@fediverse and @tech are pretty busy and have interesting articles.

GeekFTW, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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Extra features like (apologies for the run-on sentence) being able to see upvotes and downvotes on threads and comments like lemmy admins can, better integration with mastodon, every community has both a 'reddit-like' section like Lemmy/Reddit, and a 'twitter-like' section which as I mentioned integrates with mastodon via hashtags, we can block users, communities, domains and (soon) instances, we have a wide variety of user-style scripts via Tampermonkey to customize the UI (the base UI is also, subjectively, better).

Given its all federated, you also don't lose anything by using kbin since you have access to lemmy too. Plus the dev is just the nicest, hard working son of a bitch lol.

Only drawback is we dont have an API yet, so for mobile you're stuck with the mobile site, but the mobile site is also really good so eh. Once the API is up tho there's a few apps which have already said they'll support kbin as well, so that's a matter of time.

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GeekFTW,
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Ooooh perfect!

SamXavia,
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Thank you for breaking it down for me, seems like it’s really up to if someone wants better control over things than Lemmy currently does.

jkmooney, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I'm currently trying both out, still deciding.....

SamXavia,
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Same here, so far Lemmy seems to be the better option for me.

jkmooney,
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I'm kind of agreeing with you....but nothing bad against kbin though.

readbeanicecream, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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Came for the UI. Stayed for the granular settings (including turning federation on and off) and the content just seemed higher quality (though that is very subjective)

numbscroll,
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Which UI?

ETA: asking since people will see this across the fediverse, and may not realize where you posted this

readbeanicecream,
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@numbscroll Good point. Kbin.

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Jaywarbs,

Just the mobile website works pretty well by itself. I’m using the Artemis beta now and I like it a lot too.

numbscroll,
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I can’t wait for Artemis!

dandan,
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Hi from Artemis 🫡

It's pretty great.

numbscroll,
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🥹

SamXavia,
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Fair enough, I seem to find it confusing as of the moment but I’ll give it a proper go to see if I prefer it in the end.

HidingCat,

How is it confusing? I've tried both and neither were hard to use, I purely picked Kbin for aesthetics.

readbeanicecream, in microblogs
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@Dreamer_joy I asked a similar question, today. Got a few pretty good answers. See https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/216273/A-crash-course-for-kbin-s-Microblog

bradboimler, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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For me it was the UI. Replies to comments on Lemmy are offset by, like, a single pixel. They're more obvious here. Yup, that was the biggest thing for me.

kglitch,

Yes, that was the first thing I noticed about Lemmy. Why even have nested comments if they're indented so little? Terrible!

Kbin is better but I still needed to make it even bigger before I was satisfied. And add collapsing comments.

jkmooney, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I suspect I will eventually go to just one account. If this "Memmy" app essentially connects the two, that could be a good solution. Do you use your same account for both? I created separate. Here I am on Lemmy
https://sh.itjust.works/u/JK_Mooney

scabrous-leper, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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@SamXavia I have accounts on lemmy, kbin and Mastodon.social, and I've pretty much settled on the masto. Maybe because I never was a twitter user, it is a slightly novel format for me. Anyway, there are plenty of humans there, so lots to share and engage with...

numbscroll, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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Preference: Kbin, because of the UI / UX

But also: I have accounts on kbin, Lemmy and mastadon, my favorite part is switching when I need a different flavor of hot/active, or something’s going on with another server.

Rhaedas, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I had created a Lemmy account at the beginning, not having a clue about things (like so many of us). Then I ran into someone suggesting Kbin - had to search around to figure out where it was and how to get it. The early stock UI for Kbin won me over vs. Lemmy's, even though the content was (more or less) the same. With lots of scripting to customize the looks further and with features those scripts or default that Lemmy users are asking for at the moment, I'm very happy here.

Am I getting the same as any other Lemmy user? I think it comes and goes (it seems to vary between Lemmy instances too), but that's a matter of maturing the federation workings, and I get plenty as it is so it's not like there's nothing to see. Plus when I need more things to look at I can jump over to the microfeed tab and get lots to read as well from Mastadon.

Brkdncr, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?

Federated authentication. UI on mobile was good enough.

TerabyteRex, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?

lemmy never worked for me. kbin has a betyer ui amd i can also see mastadon threads

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