I’d say no, honestly. It’s just as matter of when Elon finally breaches the Trust Thermocline. That’s when people who had the most invested finally get fed up and leave. Judging by how many people who made Mastodon accounts but decided to start with Twitter are using them today, I’d say if he hasn’t breached it with this, it’s coming sooner rather than later.
I wouldn’t want to identify with something I use in my spare time. I like videogames I’m not a gamer. It is not my job lol. But do whatever you want. I just think it’s unnecessary.
From one of those sites: “The Focus model reduces lens blur caused by missed focus. This is the toughest use case and won’t recover 100% of your photos. When it works, though, it works really well and can completely recover a throwaway image.”
Text is copied to your instance’s database, but any images are hosted on the other instances and simply linked to. Worst case scenario, you get told to delete something that’s illegal in the country in which you host the instance, you comply, and everything’s peachy.
Edit: That being said, I’m currently hosting an instance for myself and a few friends, and it’s been smooth-sailing. Just make sure to require email verification or admin approval for new sign-ups (or disable them entirely) if you don’t want to be overrun with bots.
The main features of the reddit app I used (joey) that I enjoyed:
More condensed/streamlined interface with less wasted space compared to the official app. Also much faster and more resource efficient with imperceptibly short loading times for text posts.
Ability to set custom filters to automatically hide posts with a given keyword in the title or subreddit name from my feeds.
Way better built in image/video viewer compared to the official app.
Option to move the title bar to the bottom
Subscribed subreddits shown as tabs in the title bar with the ability to swipe left and right to switch between them.
The feature I miss the most: anytime you opened a post or followed a subreddit link, you could swipe right to instantly go back to where you were like the back button in a browser. So if I clicked on the subreddit name from a post on the frontpage to open r/aww, opened a post in r/aww, and clicked on a link in the comments to open r/illegallysmolcats, I could then swipe right and be back where I was in the comments, swipe right again and be back where I was in r/aww, then swipe right again and be back where I was in the frontpage. And this stacked indefinitely so you could be 15+ subreddit links deep and still go back to where you started in a few swipes.
It really surprised me how its user base was so small. Highly customizable and really good overall. I used RIF for years, but something was lacking and I kept searching for alternatives. When I tried Joey, I never looked back.
What is interesting, tho, is that it is somehow still working. The dev is inactive on Reddit for weeks, but made a couple “bug fixes” on GitHub the last few weeks.
This is it, one of the downsides of a decentralized network like the fediverse here is that there is no current way to prevent brigading. It seems like this is mainly just one super MAGA dude ranting and a bunch of brigaders responding. I was going to give it some time and see if it mellowed out as it developed.
I mean, completely unfederated instances kinda defeat the point. I get along just fine with real liberals and have plenty of views that bridge both. Limiting participation to a single isolated instance is basically pointless, especially as an actual replacement for reddit. Brigading and hostility to anyone that isn’t part of the circle jerk is just a disadvantage to the solution to admin/CEO-proofing lemmy as a whole.
It's almost as if, people living off big bro, begging for free money and debt forgiveness have plenty of free time to chat on the internet all day.. Meanwhile, conservatives are out in the world trying to hold the damn thing together!
Regarding the matter at hand. I don't agree that it's right to ban people who have opposing views. Most of my comment history here is talking to the leftists about that exact thing. Because yes, this place, as new as it is, is already feeling like a lefty's echo chamber...
Have you actually asked people how they make a living, or are you just assuming?
begging for free money and debt forgiveness
Why is it that it is ok for the airline industry, the banks, corporate AG, etc, can all get these corporate bailouts, but when it is the people themselves that need a bailout, it’s mocked and derrided?
Here is a list of corporations who have gotten govenment bailouts. Have you taken issue with a single one of these? Or do you only ever talk about social programs? Because when I poke my head inside conservative spaces all of the complaints go towards services that help people instead of corporate bail outs.
have plenty of free time to chat on the internet all day…
There are just as many posts on the internet from conservatives as there are from leftists.
Meanwhile, conservatives are out in the world trying to hold the damn thing together!
Conservatives are voting to destroy the environment at every chance:
I'm from Alaska. Everyone I know and their sons either kill millions of salmon every year or works for the oil industry.
You're right that big bro probably shouldn't be bailing out anyone. Unfortunately, truly free markets are hard to advocate for. The college debt topic is an easy target because we're tradesmen who didn't need colleges to begin with and all you silly kids getting degrees for stuff nobody needs is hilarious. Sociology, gender studies, etc etc. News flash, there's only two genders, I and the trillions of people that came before me didn't need a degree to figure that one out.
My statement about conservatives being outnumbered on the internet is anecdotal, obviously. From what I see, reddit, lemmy, kbin, twitter, etc... Mostly leftist echo chambers. If I'm wrong, oh well, NBD. Take yourself for example, a lefty hanging out in a conservative magazine. I fully support your decision to engage in debate BTW.
We aren't voting to destroy the planet, we're voting to keep our careers, livelihoods, traditions, morals, etc. Praying that our traditions and value will continue to have a positive influence on the world who, used to, look up to this country and our freedoms (yes, I'm a full blown ethnocentric and proud!). We also don't vote to discriminate, we vote for a fair and equal opportunity across the board. Regardless of your skin color or the awful choices your parents might have made as the leaders of your life.
Nothing we as a species can do will change the natural course of the planet. Fossil fuels have enabled us to save countless lives from unavoidable, natural disasters. Nothing you vote for will detour third world countries from continuing the path of destruction.
all you silly kids getting degrees for stuff nobody needs is hilarious.
I don’t think they’re anywhere near as silly as you think they are. The top most popular degreese are:
Business - I don’t typically think of these as useful degrees, but if the U.S. is going to stay competitive, then there needs to be people to run our industries and companies.
Health professionals - I would hope that you see this as a valuable type of degree
Social sciences and history - (Ex: Anthropology, criminology, economics, geography, history, legal studies, political science, social work, sociology) - All of which are important for a healthy society.
Biological and Biomedical sciences - Same as above
Psychology - This one is definitely oversaturated, but it isn’t a silly degree, and it’s a very high need given how prevelent our country’s mental health problems go
Communication and Journalism - (Ex: Advertising, editing, marketing, media communication, public relations, technical writing, translation, writing) - These all have varying degrees of importance. The journalism related ones are easily the most important here. The advertising/marketing ones I would like to see disappear, but again, they aren’t exactly silly.
Visual and Performing Arts - A healthy society should have a decent bit of this. I’d rather have a cultured society.
Computer and Information Sciences - Our world is built on computers, so another self evidently valuable set
Education - Same as above
And that makes up the majority of fields/degrees that people are getting. They aren’t silly.
Sociology is important to maintain the health of our society. If we don’t study the ways in which our society is failing people, how can we expect things to get better? And as for gender studies, those fill a similar role.
News flash, there’s only two genders
How do you know this?
We aren’t voting to destroy the planet, we’re voting to keep our careers, livelihoods, traditions, morals, etc.
Conservatives absolutely are doing so. Any time there is any legislation put to vote that would reduce our emission it gets shot down by conservatives. If we continue on this course the end result will be our planet becoming uninhabitable. If you work in a field reliant upon the fossil fuels that are destroying our planet, then you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a job that won’t kill the planet. As for the traditions/morals, any tradition that destroys our planet deserves to die, and it isn’t moral to kill the planet.
Nothing we as a species can do will change the natural course of the planet.
We absolutely can. During the pandemic, global emissions droped like a rock. It is absolutely in our capability to build a society in which we maintain our freedoms while getting rid of fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels have enabled us to save countless lives from unavoidable, natural disasters.
And that was cool for the 1900s, but we need to move past it because they are actively killing us, and it’s only getting worse. Currently, 7 million people a year are dying from reckless pollution. The polluters/fossil fuel industry needs to be held accountable for their actions.
Nothing you vote for will detour third world countries from continuing the path of destruction.
We have clean technologies that we can invest in within third world countries. We absolutely can and should do so to avoid this disaster from getting worse and/or unrecoverable.
While some college degrees are useful, I wasn't addressing all of them specifically, nor are their specifics relevant to the argument. The argument is against sociology and gender studies.
If we don’t study the ways in which our society is failing people, how can we expect things to get better?
Our society is failing because we're shifting a child's dependence from their parents to the government. Adults too who are in desperate need of assistance no longer seek out their neighbors or local religious establishments, they instead depend on the government. Both of these aspects require excessive taxation and social goods to be either bolstered or built from the ground up.
Sociology doesn't provide practical skills that directly translate into specific careers. The job market is very limited, with many graduates failing to find jobs related to their degree. The study of society and human behavior is subjective, theories and findings are influenced by the researcher's perspective, making it difficult to establish definitive truths. These biases are often disconnected from real-world applications.
Almost all the same things can be said about gender studies, because it’s irrelevant to practical applications in the real world.
How do you know this?
Men don’t menstruate and cannot get pregnant. Women cannot produce sperm and don’t have prostate glands. Try all you might, ingesting what you shouldn’t, you’re still going to be bound by the chromosomes you were born with.
Lefties are all about “trust the science, bro” yet when it comes to basic biology, often they’d rather rewrite the literature to fit some asinine ideology. HRT isn’t gender affirming, it is gender contradicting.
Any time there is any legislation put to vote that would reduce our emission it gets shot down by conservatives.
You see emissions, we see livelihoods.
If you work in a field reliant upon the fossil fuels that are destroying our planet, then you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a job that won’t kill the planet.
Simply suggesting that people switch jobs overlooks the economic realities faced by millions of individuals. Are you going to build the businesses that employ all the people who have no jobs? Probably just expect the government to do it.
Drive a car powered by oil drilled by Americans, or drive a car who's resources were mined by child labor and other unethical work forces... The choice is yours.
it isn’t moral to kill the planet
Scientific consensus suggests reversing global warming is impossible. While some tactics might slow down the process, you're just beating a dead horse. The planet will die eventually, with or without human intervention.
Telling coal and wood fired pizza shops in NYC to reduce their emissions isn't going to do anything compared to the military, the over seas shipping industry, the private jets, etc. Beating a dead horse.
You think you’re helping, but you’re just making millions of lives more difficult, both the people you’re telling to get new jobs that don’t exist and the people you’re supporting overseas who have much less ethical employment practices.
During the pandemic, global emissions droped like a rock. It is absolutely in our capability to build a society in which we maintain our freedoms while getting rid of fossil fuels.
Not sure which freedoms you think you still have when you're being told to not leave your house, not get close to people, cover your face to muffle your voice and expressions... But it feels like that just circles back to my original statement regarding chatting on the internet all day... Maybe you're content with interacting with people over video and text chat. Maybe you like sitting at a computer all day doing fuck all. Most people don't.
Gloomy clouds indicate upcoming rain, reducing the number of vehicles on the road improves air quality. Profound.
We have clean technologies that we can invest in within third world countries.
Assessment of a technology's environmental impact should consider its entire life cycle, including the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, operation, and disposal. Large-scale deployment of renewable energy projects lead to habitat destruction and harm to local ecosystems. Similarly, the increased demand for certain raw materials, such as lithium and cobalt for batteries contributes to environmental degradation and human rights issues.
No technology is “clean”, the sooner you face the facts the better off we'll all be.
We absolutely can and should do so to avoid this disaster from getting worse and/or unrecoverable.
You absolutely should do the things that make you feel better about yourself and the impact you have on the world. You absolutely shouldn’t try to infringe on your neighbor by forcing them to follow you. Forcing me and mine through legislation to invest in your capital ventures through taxation is immoral theft.
The argument is against sociology and gender studies.
Then you have even less of an argument to stand on, because those degrees make up a tiny minority of degrees.
Our society is failing because we’re shifting a child’s dependence from their parents to the government.
You can believe whatever you like about the failures of society, that’s a different question.
Men don’t menstruate and cannot get pregnant. Women cannot produce sperm and don’t have prostate glands. Try all you might, ingesting what you shouldn’t, you’re still going to be bound by the chromosomes you were born with.
Those are things related to sex, but the question is about gender, a different concept. So that doesn’t answer the question, how do you know that there are only two genders?
Lefties are all about “trust the science, bro” yet when it comes to basic biology, often they’d rather rewrite the literature to fit some asinine ideology. HRT isn’t gender affirming, it is gender contradicting.
Science always re-writes itself to become more accurate than what it once was. It’s better to change to something less incorrect than to stay bolted down to something that isn’t close to being correct.
As for HRT, it is gender affirming because as I previously said, gender and sex are two different things. You are born with an assigned sex, but gender is performative.
You see emissions, we see livelihoods.
This is just taking a page out of Don’t Look Up.
Simply suggesting that people switch jobs overlooks the economic realities faced by millions of individuals.
Tough tities, maybe you should have thought about that before killing the planet. Your freedom to swing your fists ends at my nose.
Are you going to build the businesses that employ all the people who have no jobs? Probably just expect the government to do it.
I expect both the government and the free market to do so. The government needs to stop giving socialist handouts to the fossil fuel industry and instead put us on an exit path for our use of fossil fuels. The market needs to provide the replacement jobs.
Telling coal and wood fired pizza shops in NYC to reduce their emissions isn’t going to do anything compared to the military, the over seas shipping industry, the private jets, etc. Beating a dead horse.
That’s true. But that doesn’t change the fact that ALL of those sources of emissions need to cut down.
You think you’re helping, but you’re just making millions of lives more difficult, both the people you’re telling to get new jobs that don’t exist and the people you’re supporting overseas who have much less ethical employment practices.
So between:
Reducing emissions - making millions of lives more difficult
Doing fuckall - making billions of lives more difficult, millions more deaths, potential food chain collapse, and possible mass extinction level event
Between those options the second one is somehow the more favorable one? How does that make sense? And I sincerely have no clue what you’re talking about with oversea employment practices. When discussing with people it is best not to just assume what the other person supports.
Not sure which freedoms you think you still have when you’re being told to not leave your house, not get close to people, cover your face to muffle your voice and expressions
The neat part is, all of those things weren’t the source of the reduced emissions. So it is absolutely within our power to replicate the parts that reduce emissions without doing the things you just listed here that hurt people’s freedom.
But it feels like that just circles back to my original statement regarding chatting on the internet all day
I spend maybe a half hour on this at most, over the course of a few days, every few months. It’s nowhere near all day.
Assessment of a technology’s environmental impact should consider its entire life cycle, including the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, operation, and disposal. Large-scale deployment of renewable energy projects lead to habitat destruction and harm to local ecosystems. Similarly, the increased demand for certain raw materials, such as lithium and cobalt for batteries contributes to environmental degradation and human rights issues.
No technology is “clean”, the sooner you face the facts the better off we’ll all be.
The resources our society needs to continue to exist far surpass what is possible to collect without habitat and ecosystem destruction. I am well aware that there is no such thing as perfectly clean technology. But we have technology that is far, far cleaner than fossil fuels. As for the lithium/cobalt mining issues, I don’t think we should be using those kinds of batteries for storage anyways. Hydro electric is clearly the cleanest form of energy storage we have, and should be the primary source of energy storage for electrical grids.
As for cars, we need to drastically reduce our dependence on them and focus on better city planing to reduce the number of long trips. We need that, and better public transportation. And for the times when cars are absolutely needed, electric cars are still overall better for the environment than ICE cars even if they aren’t perfect.
You absolutely shouldn’t try to infringe on your neighbor by forcing them to follow you.
I’m not forcing anybody to follow me. I’m just pointing our how absurd it is that we continue to rely on fossil fuels, and how absurd it is to claim that conservatives are the ones holding everything together. Conservatives are the ones responsible for our planet dying from fossil fuels. And given how much you’ve argued for their continued use, I think you’ve proven my point for me.
Forcing me and mine through legislation to invest in your capital ventures through taxation is immoral theft.
I have no such capital ventures. None of what I have suggested is new technology.
Moderating can only go so far for brigading. Mass downvotes aren’t something moderators have control over. There’s also the risk of what reddit did where tons of subreddits proactively banned people simply for participating in other subreddits without ever posting in the banned subreddit.
The bottom line is that while reddit is super liberal, lemmy is openly hostile to anyone right of center and I don’t see any realistic solution to this. Welcome to the growing pains of a 15+ year old system going down and starting over from scratch.
I guess on Reddit conservative communities just have the critical mass needed to overcome the downvotes?
I suppose there being enough subreddits to distract people to the communities they’re interested keeps them from trolling/brigading/etc the communities they’re not.
I’m actively removing offending posts and banning trolls. Bear with us, moderation tools are lacking, but I promise we’re working behind the scenes to keep discussion on topic.
I don’t think there is any “brigading” going on here… Just to be clear what brigading actually is:
On reddit, there was a time when there were coordinated and organised efforts to “invade” another communities. For example, there were threads on 4Chan where users linked to subreddits or posts with the aim of having a bunch of users post similar stuff at the same time.
There was also brigading within reddit when one sub would make a post where they coordinate users to post specific comments in specific threads or post similar stuff in a specific subreddit.
As far as I can tell, that’s not what is happening here… There is no coordinated group effort here, it’s just that the vast majority of users on lemmy are not conservatives.
If anyone wants to help out, feel free to reach out, but I hope to have something ready to release soon.
The idea with my version is that it’ll search as much of Lemmy / the fediverse as it can and you can select the preferred instance that you want to open any link with.
If Kbin federates with the “seed” Lemmy server it’ll pick up the posts that way, but at the moment you’ll only be able to open links to Lemmy instances.
In the future I hope to have it working with Kbin and others as well.
If you are looking to return relevant, well ranked results based on freeform queries you’d be better indexing into something like elasticsearch. Otherwise you’ll be reinventing solutions to well understood problems, like stemming as a very basic example.
For the initial release the search is still fairly basic, but A LOT better than the built in search here.
Right now I just look for IF the individual words match ANY of the words in the post title or body and then rank based on the number of upvotes that the post has.
Future versions may look at using elastic search, etc… But for MVP it just looks for the number of hits + the score of the post as I assume the higher the score the more trustworthy the post, and obviously the more matches that to your query the more relevant the post is.
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