Oh, I know what the issue there is. Apparently because Kbin is based on an older version of the ActivityPub protocol, when Kbin magazines are synced into Lemmy, posts from before the magazine was synced don't show up. The only posts that show up on Lemmy are ones made after the magazine is synced, unlike the way it works between Lemmy instances where everything is synced all at once. I'm not sure if there's anything the Lemmy devs can do to fix this. It might take Kbin switching to the latest version of the ActivityPub protocol for this to stop being an issue, but I'm unsure if the Kbin devs are willing to do that. They seem to be focusing on getting their API out right now.
I also found Kbin's interface fairly awkward and all over the place. Lemmy's Reddit-style interface is more to my preference personally. If you're concerned about missing out on content from Kbin communities as I was when I first migrated, you can easily subscribe to Kbin magazines through the Lemmy Explorer, that way you'll still be able to see stuff from Kbin without having to deal with Kbin's UI.
Since no one has posted it yet, this site hosts a massive dump of every RARBG release ever, and you can easily search through it. Games, movies, shows, books, everything RARBG ever released is available there. There's 5 and a half petabytes of data there, it's absurdly large.
the best thing is to try any VPN service for a few days or a week to see whether anything annoying happens in your use case before jumping into a long term contract.
Agreed, that's actually what I did with AirVPN myself before switching to it. Got their 3 day plan and used it the whole way through until I knew the service would work for me. It's too bad not every service offers short plans this way. Fortunately, a lot of them do have 30 day refund policies, so you can just get any plan then cancel and request a refund before the 30 days are out.
Its also possible that the AirVPN servers that you use are not blocked like they are for mine
I think that might be the issue. I almost always connect through Canada servers, since those are always the fastest servers for torrenting and browsing when I sort the servers on the interface by latency vs torrent speeds. I do sometimes connect through their New York servers though, and haven't really noticed any blocking when I do. Maybe they only block some US servers and not others, or I just don't connect through the New York servers often enough to notice any blocking.
I switched to AirVPN a month ago and haven't encountered a single site blocking me from connecting with my VPN so far. I looked up GoDaddy and connected with the VPN on and it didn't block me from going on the site. I connected with servers in Canada and the US. GoDaddy appears to be a site that sells domains, so even if they blocked people connecting to their site, I doubt they could force anyone who buys a domain from them to block VPN connections as well. And if they really are one of bigger domain retailers on the internet, I'm sure I would've encountered a site registered with them by now that's blocking me from connecting.
Other than that, my experience with the VPN has been good so far. Page load times are good, port forwarding works, and download speeds reach the max for my internet plan. They appear to have a good privacy track record as well. I'd recommend it.
Yeah I suppose not all of them will want to commit to supporting Kbin, but some definitely will. Honestly though, so long as it's possible to search for and subscribe to Kbin magazines from Lemmy, that's all I really care about.
Can't really make apps for a site that doesn't have an API. They did announce recently that Kbin's API is nearly done, so soon there'll be a flood of Kbin apps as well, and support for Kbin in all of the Lemmy apps too
Another recent example of a horrible adaptation of a massive franchise is what Paramount did to Halo with their show. I can't understand why they keep hiring writers that actively hate the source material and are only interested in taking existing stories and mangling them into their own shitty "vision". It's like Hollywood either hates writers who have actual passion for the franchises they're adapting, or they can't find them, which can't be the case since these are beloved universes with millions of fans, many of whom are bound to be writers eager to work on an adaptation. They always hire talentless hacks interested in nothing more than a paycheck and doing what they want, not what the fans want. It's infuriating.
The hilarious thing is how their own bungling of the last season cost them the Star Wars gig. Maybe if they'd actually put in some effort instead of half assing it, they'd have gotten the job. But then again, the show was on a downward spiral since the end of Season 4, and Dumb and Dumber's only talent was adapting the books really well (and even then, they still fudged details), so I suppose this was bound to happen.
I looked up "pocket.enabled" in about:config, but there wasn't an entry by that exact name. There was "extensions.pocket.enabled" though. Is that the same?
I actually did find and install the nightly version not long after making that comment. I still have it installed on my phone even now. I'm very satisfied with it so far, and have set github to notify me about new releases on the repo. Thanks for the reply.
I don't think you understood me right. That option is on by default. It only shows upvotes when turned on, not upvotes and downvotes. Jerboa shows both in one place, Liftoff does not, regardless of whether that option is on or off.
So it does. This app also has a very slick UI that looks great, though I'm not a fan of the swipe gestures for everything model, and it appears to be impossible to go to someone's profile from a comment, block the person, get the permalink for the comment, select text, or anything else the other apps can do. Gonna poke around in the settings and see if there's something I'm missing here, but so far it's missing a few too many features to be worth it, imo. Thanks for the suggestion though, always good to try new Lemmy apps.
It does not, at least not front and center the way Jerboa does. I found no option to show downvotes directly when I used it for about a week or so. I reinstalled it just now to see if that changed and it hasn't. Only way to see downvotes is to press the 3 dots on a post or a comment, press "nerd stuff" then press "counts" to see upvotes and downvotes. This is an annoying hassle to have to do on every comment and post, and there's no option to just show it in the UI instead of 3 menus deep.
Is this still a thing? I thought this was mostly popular in the 90s and dropped out of popularity in the last couple decades.