People in the instance have more varying viewpoints since its oriented towards a niche/content category (+ same is true for other niche instances). People interacting in the instance can be managed but its difficult for people interacting outside to be moderated to make sure theyre actually following our rules since admins dont get reports of people in their instance being reported, only the instances of where they interact in do.
Politics communities (aka communities that only talk about politics rather than something like a hobby (and lgbtq+ isnt politics)) are now hidden by default on the instance though hence why you probably havent noticed the two are federated still since people dont stumble in and need to explicitly choose to see the content (leading to less people arguing on different politics communities since they just sub to the one they want and then sees that one as normal)
So apparently there are two editors inspired by vim, but built from the ground up (as opposed to neovim, a vim fork that seeks to improve on top of vim)....
Yes, the default bindings can be remapped, but Helix’s bindings rely less on chording OOB. In both of these projects, the defaults are important, as they are unstable and both frequently break backwards-compatability.
I’m not sure you could easily configure Kakoune to work like Helix. For instance, many of those chorded are modes in Helix. For example, word selection in kak is (IIRC) Alt-Shift-W. In Helix, it’s “m”, then “s” , then “w”. Each key press gets you into a multiple-choice selection mode, and they can be pressed as fast or slow in sequence as you like, and none involves also holding another key whilst pressing it. It’s truly modal, whereas kak’s modality is mostly confined to “insert” or “command” mode.
Helix has prompts for sub-modes, so the infrequently used functions that never become part of muscle memory are still accessible without digging into a readme.
A lot of people like chording. For me, it makes my hands hurt, and I find it requires a lot more memorization of key combinations. I found it much more vim-like, which floats my boat.
The people in charge at Unity can’t just take over their customers project and boot the Devs out if they protest like Reddit did with Subreddits they protested for too long where they just banned the mods and took over the subs that had gone dark.
There’s way more control in the Devs hands in this instance but Unity seem to be trying to rely on the fact that it’s a massive pain in the ass to switch to a different engine mid development but that’s definitely not stopping some people from making the migration still.
As a moderator of a Lemmy instance, you currently have two options to take: pushing users first to your local content or content from all instances you federate with. These options come with the costs seen in the picture. The moderator of another instance has the same choice. However, in this scenario, they will both always...
Mastodon solved this with an Explore-Feed, which consolidates the Local- and All-Feed
Can you please explain what that means for non-mastodon users. As far as I know about lemmy, which granted isn't much, local posts are not hidden from all, meaning it already is a consolidated local and all feed.
Personally, I didn't agree with your previous post and I don't agree with this. I believe instance owners can run their instance however they wish, they're the ones paying and maintaining it. If it's not suited to your tastes, there are other places to look at. If an instance wants to federate with no one or hide all remote posts or anything, that is their choice to run the software that way. People aren't locked in jail cells making decisions with no information of the outside world. Nor are the defaults they set locked either, I just bookmark "hot" and "sub" and go to those every time, regardless of what the homepage has set.
OG comment claimed that “dumb Karen” is one of the reasons why internet went downhill, followed by a reply of “incels” being responsible. Within this reply, a mention of r/beatingwomen is put besides r/jailbait, basically signalling that the replier wanted the conversation to shift to a binary gender war, to which I replied that a counterpart to the incel subreddits exists, and is not shutdown or criticised the same way incel subs are, and that both must be shutdown if censorship is going to be weaponised to destroy cultural hate.
Misandry is a counterpart to misogyny, and both fuel each other. This is the basic concept of hatred. Hate fuels hate, and love (not selective) fuels love.
Whataboutism claims are a good sign of pseudo intellectuals dog whistling to attract mob attention, usually a last resort card played by people when they never have good discussion or argument skills. And apparently, I never imagined in my wildest imaginations that it will be used as a reply to a Hexbear user, considering I support the leftist instance (just like Lemmygrad) overwhelmingly.
One thing I would like is the easy option to browse another instance’s local content without being in that instance.
For example, I like my instance (mander.xyz) for being very science focused, but I might like to browse all subs in programming.dev if I want to browse some dev-focused content.
The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed...
I think the all feed doesn’t have all the subs, just the ones that have been subscribed to by anyone on the instance. local is a little more intuitive in that it’s just the local hosted subs to the instance.
Last month marked the official end of the Reddit protests. Any subreddit that had changed its rules or gone dark — or forced its users to post exclusively about John Oliver — has now gone back to normal. On the surface, it seems like a complete victory for Reddit, but things aren’t so simple when a major element of that...
In my experience, they're split between the Mastodon side of the Fediverse and the Lemmy side. On Kbin, which bridges both, and where you can follow users, you end up with a pretty rich feed if you follow enough people and places - I've got about 100 communities subbed and 300+ users and my feed is better than Reddit's ever was.
Another thing to note is that your instance benefits from your discovery - it doesn't start indexing posts from another instance until someone from the first instance subscribes to it. This means a lot of smaller instances get lost in the shuffle, but they're out there - you just have to find them. I've noted that this is much more difficult to do on my Lemmy account than my accounts with other software, so you might benefit from an instance jump if things feel dry on your current account.
It was from a simpler time ( reddit post / archived blog post) … “reddit is vast. Unfathomably, mindbogglingly vast. There were over 71 million unique visitors last month. Yesterday, there were 5,487 active subreddits.”
On old reddit, if you had the left sidebar enabled, they showed up there. I’ve got quite a few private ones that I set up there that group my interests. old.reddit.com/r/multihub/
On new reddit, with the left sidebar showing, there’s “custom feeds” where you can do similar things, however its discoverability is much reduced. It’s only really visible if you favorite it so it shows up near the top of some lists / drop downs. If you still have a reddit account, and create a custom feed, you can create one, adds subs to it, make it public.
However, the difficulty with this is two part… discoverability (again) and the single ownership. The French subreddit that is a directory of other French subs is shared ownership. You’ll note with the multireddit its one person who maintains it… and that leads to abandonment.
A way to solve that (on reddit… yea, I know, talking about the other place here) is to have the shared ownership of the directory subreddit then drive scripts that update a bot account that publishes the public multireddit. You can see similar efforts with shared ownership and scripts hub.docker.com/u/redditopenttd (it doesn’t update a multi, but there’s no reason why it couldn’t).
Similar problems would need to be solved on Lemmy (including discovery and ownership) for the “how would you do an aggregation of multiple /c/ across multiple instances into one “bundle” and how / who maintains or curates it?”
Well half the things I’ve tried to sub to say ‘pending’ then never get added to my feeds so that needs to be fixed. I don’t think it’s a jerboa issue because I’ve had it on desktop too.
I don’t really know what’s happening there, am I waiting for permission to subscribe? Waiting for it to sync between local and remote instances? For my local client to communicate with the instance I’m on or the the community is on?
Either way there should be an intermediary step where is stored locally soi I can find it again
No it never changes and the community never gets added to my list, it’s only when trying to sub to communities from other instances as far as I can tell
I haven’t been on this sub for a while. It was once my go-to for just memes.
If this is truly the top of recent week, the the sub has gone downhill in both moderation and content, which is sad to see.
Also thanks for proving my point. You somehow forced gardening into a political topic. A childhood prank into a political topic. We are truly master of politicing the most inane things.
The other topics I cannot say. Existing in a society is political. Breathing is political.
I just wish to see a place where a meme about gardening is met with conversation how things are for others. Ex: ‘This is how I do gardening in [location], I dream of having a nice field of [local species] to support the bees.’
And not have it devolve into political us-vs-them tribalism and hostilitites. Ex: ‘Those lawns are a product of American liberal colonialism! I hate you and you should feel ashamed!’
That these images are hosted on lemmygrad.ml is very telling and just supports the general feel that users interacting from there are just interacting to create hostility and dissonance.
Not everybody, sure, I had conversations that were pleasant. I even read Marx summarised work as a suggestion from one from the lemmygrad-instance. And someon corrected me on a misconception I had from it.
Edit: last but crossed out. Was stuck in primary response. I recognise that threads reviewed also has a lot of inate hostility for the ‘us’-camp. And hostility breeds hostility.
Hijacking this because I have exactly the same complaints.
It says to change instances, but with no clue how to easily do that.
it just means signup again on a different domain name
That is not an easy way to solve that problem. Possibly there isn’t an easy one. It was enough difficult to get this account, I don’t see why I need several. I don’t want to have five different accounts with five different signon passwords etc. and the apps I’ve found so far all only support one sign on method, and none are very reliable.
Also, a lot of the posts are weird. Political.
I browse by Subscribed, I’m always surprised how many people browse All
That’s the default unfortunately. It’s often difficult to reset it to Subscribed again and Subscribed again and Subscribed again every time I click on anything interesting. I see the All stuff all too often, even if it’s just in passing.
When I end up on the front page, some days it’s the same stuff I read hours before.
sort by Top 6 Hours
I wish that worked. Probably does if you’re subscribed to much. But the turnover is just so tiny I guess.
Man I miss all the cat subs full of pics of cats. I didn’t realise how they buffered the more doomy posts until they went away.
Reddit cat subs are tightly knit with people suggesting other related subs for some content. Being able to say “aww, cute angry black cat - this would fit on /r/stealthbombers” that sort of interconnection is difficult on Lemmy making the tangent discovery, reposting and niche cat subs more difficult.
Without the fairly consistent cross posting (and thus part of the discovery), such niche subs are going to be harder to grow a community for.
It might be a bit more feasible if there was a “cats and only cats” lemmy instance where all things cats are posted (compare programming.dev and startrek.website which are two single topic instances and browsing communities on each makes targeted discovery more feasible).
The other part is that those niche cat subs are filled with “normal” people. There usage stats show most people used new.reddit.com or the official mobile app - even before the api changes. Most of those people didn’t leave Reddit (with the exception of a few mods where /r/cathostage is restricted but /r/cathostages which was created in response has even more activity).
This also gets to a “there aren’t enough fun things on Lemmy”. The flairs of /r/cathostages are fun.
If you look at /r/leagalcatadvice you will see that most of its activity is from crossposted (not by original poster either) into the sub and then people are having fun there.
The software supporting fun (flairs, easy cross posting) and culture are currently working against Lemmy for niche cat subs. Consider that !cat has 84 users per day and fewer posts per day than /r/oneorangebraincell - it might not be able to support the range of niche cat subs that Reddit is able to.
I’d also point out that Lemmy’s 40,000 active users and 400k total accounts is comparable to the subscriber base of /r/oneorangebraincell that shows 442k accounts… just for pictures of orange cats that share the one brain cell.
given that at least some redditfugees left as Reddit Inc. was showing a middle finger to its blind users.
Many of them headed over to !main though it only has one community on it and rather low activity overall (the most recent comment on the site was left 5 days ago). Glancing at all on that instance, not many people subscribed externally and the reddit continues to have more activity today than rblind has had this month (based on number of posts and comments).
Part of this, I believe, is a mismatch between what Lemmy offers (and while some things are more accessible than Reddit, others aren’t) and what different communities need. startrek did quite well with startrek.website… but /r/blind and rblind seem to be more of an sync chat… and Lemmy does that poorly compared to other offerings.
If you look at the tail end of many communities ( for example programming.dev/communities?listingType=Local&… ) you can see a bunch of “lift and shift” attempts of a community on Reddit that just didn’t do it. !boardgamedeals was one were the mod closed the sub on Reddit for a while and said “go here” … but the problem was that the mod wasn’t the one creating the content and so it kind of sputtered out.
And so part of the difficulty of the reddit exodus - it wasn’t the content creators and power users that moved over here with the expectations of great amounts of new content, but rather the mods and the dissatisfied. Those who were able to find an existing community here tended to do reasonably well. Those who tried to start one from scratch (“follow me to the new Lemmy instance”) … that often didn’t work well unless the community wanted to go and a lot of them were grumpy about a mod shutting down the sub.
Which brings us to “just dropping the culture of a reddit sub on a general Lemmy instance (lemmy.world and lemmy.ml vs startrek.website)” tended to be an experience that was overall worse for everyone involved than Reddit.
… And lets face it, the content creators that came to Lemmy aren’t the ones posting neat things in woodworking, but rather the ones making memes.
You might want to move instances. .ml is federated with hexbear, which has a lot of really annoying authoritarian communists. (Tankies) .world and many others are defederated with them, so you could block the subs and users, or move to a different instance.
And cartoons, radio jingles, symphonies, newspapers, pamphlets, clay tablets.
Just like if you procreate, your genes are what benefit. They get passed on and kept ‘alive’. For ideas the staying power of the idea and how is gets passed on is it’s memetic success.
How long someone name is remembered, is a good measure. Tutanchamun for instance is one of the best known pharaohs, just because his grave was found intact. His life was quite short and insignificant, but due to his remains being found almost everyone knows his name.
Sometimes this is deliberate, rich and important people try to do much to ascertain both their genetic and memetic procreation. Sometimes it’s quite accidental as the merchant Ea-nasir, who apparently delivered some sub-par copper ingots and the customer complaint survived: allthatsinteresting.com/first-customer-service-co…
Really? My arch install is idling at 2.8gb. Picom (310mb), XOrg (160mb) and pipewire (140mb) are big chunks, and kitty isn’t cheap either but the rest is mainly sub 50mb services that all add up. I’m not running anything heavy like Gnome or KDE either, just bspwm and 2 polybar instances (one for each monitor).
A seemingly simple wish (i.imgur.com)
(Neo)Vim alternatives: Kakoune is great! I am surprised that Helix is more popular
So apparently there are two editors inspired by vim, but built from the ground up (as opposed to neovim, a vim fork that seeks to improve on top of vim)....
SFF Gaming - A hub for all things Sci-fi and Fantasy gaming, from video games to tabletop and beyond (sffa.community)
SFF Gaming...
How do Germans pirate?
allaboutberlin.com/…/pirating-streaming-movies-in…...
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Unity's Plan Won't Work, but Someone Else's Will | TechnoFeudalism in Games and Beyond (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5196308...
Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality) (lemmy.world)
As a moderator of a Lemmy instance, you currently have two options to take: pushing users first to your local content or content from all instances you federate with. These options come with the costs seen in the picture. The moderator of another instance has the same choice. However, in this scenario, they will both always...
Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.
Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it’s been on my mind and I want to share it with someone....
We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5038153...
We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed (lemmy.world)
The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed...
Are there any IPTV providers that accept gift cards (Amazon, Best Buy, etc.) as a form of payment?
Looking for a service for live sports, but payment methods are always limited.
Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas (www.garbageday.email)
Last month marked the official end of the Reddit protests. Any subreddit that had changed its rules or gone dark — or forced its users to post exclusively about John Oliver — has now gone back to normal. On the surface, it seems like a complete victory for Reddit, but things aren’t so simple when a major element of that...
Some formatting questions
So, I have some questions about formatting on this site:...
Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)
Setting up an instance with OpenStack
Hey all,...
Every third post on Lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”
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If there is one thing you can change about Lemmy, what would it be?
Go through your saved posts on Lemmy, what's something cool that you saved?
Just like with Reddit, I’ve just been saving things to read/watch/review later on and I haven’t been going through it....
Randall spittin' facts (lemmy.world)
Are we using Richard Dawkin's definition of memes here? Is this the meme pool? (lemmygrad.ml)
It either runs on Linux or refund (lemmy.ml)