So, I was thinking that I joined Lemmy.World because Lemmy had more users than MBin. But today I was looking at mbin.cocopoops.com and started seeing MY posts. I knew Mbin could have different instances. I knew Lemmy could have different instances. And I knew they all federated together....
I recently joined WTF and based on the list of the instances this place is federated with, my assumption is that’s the basis for the WTF name. So, maybe something like this could be useful for choosing an instance that’s not 1/2 filled with bat shit insane posts by default rather than requiring significant and immediate curation (i.e. blocking stupid shit like hexbear and ml).
Early in, the Fediverse gained traction with people that were banned from Twitter and others when it had moderation besides for the word “cis” and to suppress leftist viewpoints. Now that Twitter has none, those people have crawled back alongside with the crypto bros, but the bad name generated by gab, truth social, etc. still prevail.
Also people are way too dumb to realize what an instance is (people already have trouble realizing e-mail is not a tech invented by Google for Gmail), defederation dramas, drama around loli, no algorithm “to suggest the users whatever they interested in”, less users, generally fediverse apps being way less addictive, etc.
Have yet to personally block any instances. So far I think the closest I’ve come is blocking a spider community because fuck those hell spawns and a Minecraft community or two.
Edit:
Found out there’s more than I remember being blocked. Multiple mc communities, a cock community (, because that stuff ain’t for me and I remember accidentally clicking on one post from there by accident), a pussy community because I don’t come here for porn, a Sintendo community, some bikinibottomtwitter or something similarly named community (you can guess why), and for some reason an xbox community (couldn’t tell you why).
Also, I noticed for some reason I have someone from a different instance that I cannot remember why I blocked. Some guy from lemmt(dot)tf, so I have absolutely no clue since I have no idea what that instance is like, let alone remember anything about that account.
Instead of just searching the specific name of a sub what if I want to see every sub that’s contained within an instance such as lemmy.world for example no I’m not part of lemmy.world but as part of the instance I’m a part of I can see every sub under it in a neat list can you only do that if you’re part of the instance?
If you see rule #3 of this community, it mentions that support question should be posted at /c/[email protected].
Search depends on what you would like to find: from the web ui, you have to select the type (comments, users, posts), then choose the scope (all, local, subscribed), then choose the sort type (top all time, controversial, new, old, etc).
The rest of the forms (like community, creator) are self-explanatory - community drop-down won’t work if you’re searching for a community, likewise creator drop-down won’t work if you’re searching for a user.
To ping and mention a user, @<user>@<instance>.<domain> (e.g.- @Mantikora ) should work. To just mention them, /u/<user>@<instance>.<domain> (e.g.- /u/[email protected]) should do. To point a specific community, /c/<insert-community-name> (e.g.- /c/[email protected]) should work.
I’m the most active postee there (hello again). I prefer LW’s gaming community for a few reasons, a lot of which are kind of petty but still.
I dislike the shitjustworks domain name, I think it’ll hamper community growth when a casual user base joins and thinks it’s a dumb name
The people there often mirror /r/games posts, there’s nothing wrong with that and I enjoy browsing it, but I enjoy the more quality over quantity of LW’s community
But mostly it’s just reluctance to move away from the largest gaming community in Lemmy. Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is. People are tired of migrating and just want to post and discuss. If having a large instance causes technical issues, that’s more of Lemmy’s problem IMO.
Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is.
Agreed on discoverability, that’s why we now have those threads, and that !newcommunities is featured at the top of LW’s home page.
On the other hand, sometimes it’s a bit frustrating. !movies is now more active and with more content than the LW version, but some people still keep posting to it, while we offered moderation position to anyone who would like to (looking at you, !moviesandtv ), and Lemm.ee is a well established instance with a neutral domain name.
I moved !casualconversation to !casualconversation , left a pinned post there so that people could find the new community, it’s more active now that it used to be on LW.
Anyway, that’s it for me, again thank you for your comment.
Mongolian officials “have the obligation” to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits the country next week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said....
I run my own self-hosted single-user instance (edit: I should add that it's a pyfedi instance and you can learn more about it by visiting the flagship at piefed.social ), and I wanted to do so for free (or at least not spending any additional dollars on it - so not counting the old laptop that I bought ages ago and the internet I already pay for to, I don't know, do gmail and youtube since I already have those anyways) - so I ended up with this funky instance name since srv.us guarantees you a permanent name but you don't really get to choose it. I figured the username should probably match, so...
That issue is not being solved if nobody even realize it’s there or is just being swept under the rug until it comes up with the next wave!?
To me the biggest factor is some of the LW staff “name squatting” a topic rather than agreeing to redirect to active communities on the same topic.
All of us who are already on board can leave for a cutting edge instance. I think it’s a good thing that they want to keep world stable and take their time.
Most of the users are unaware of most of the features. I met a year-long user the other day who had no idea they could import / export their settings. Also, that release has been out for 2 months and a half, 54% of the instances use it (fedidb.org/software/lemmy/versions ), including 7 other instances of the top 10 (fedidb.org/software/lemmy )
What, like automatically transfer subscribers (and hopefully posts at some point) etc? I thought everybody needs to be on board and then do it manually?
No, to be honest having a look at the code I’m not sure we would ever get such a feature. Mastodon does not allow this kind of imports, and they are much more stable and mature than Lemmy. Maybe in 5, 10 years? So in the meantime, we can do it ourselves the way I described above.
As they should be, not just delete some community because some user claimed it was dead and unmoderated (like i saw you do recently with a community which had an active user as admin ;). If they just deleted those communities i guess you’d go at them again with the power trip accusations.
That’s interesting you mention this, because
I never asked anyone to delete any community
I asked to get inactive communities locked, which the LW admins agreed with
If the mod (and not the admin) of that community was that active, they should have unpinned the post saying “looking for mods” as the first post you see you their community (as we are talking, it’s still there)
In the end, even that mod agreed to lock that community up and redirect to another one ( feddit.org/post/2324020 )
I am never in favor of deleting any community, that’s detrimental to the platform.
To add to that topic, I try to get people on Reddit to switch to Lemmy a lot (they are probably the biggest potential users we can get), and the first question they ask is “why are those communities empty? It looks like a ghost town”.
Locking them down, and redirecting to active communities makes Lemmy look more appealing as a whole.
power trip accusations
Power tripping definitely happens, for a lot of mod / admins. It’s sad, but sometimes it’s the main driver to a healthier community / instance, as the meme stated above.
I have a feeling that LW staff would give a different reason for this. As they did with the community that you asked to be locked (not deleted, i misremembered this ;). And yes, that mod agreed and now the community is locked. That’s great! But i won’t hold it against world admins to not listen to people from other instances asking for communities to be locked, when the mods are still active users. If they did that i would have more of a problem with it. I think this turned out perfect? But if a mod doesn’t want to oblige to your requests, then so be it, i think that is just fair.
54% of the instances use it
Oh wow, i would have thought it would be more. I would like to be “up to date” and see all the images i uploaded and maybe delete some but i still i think it is a good idea that they are being cautious and i trust them on their judgement, i don’t believe they refrain from updating for shady reasons or out of spite or whatever.
But i won’t hold it against world admins to not listen to people from other instances asking for communities to be locked, when the mods are still active users.
What does “other instances” mean in a federated context? I can use my LW alt, use it to post everywhere for a few weeks, am I now a local user?
But if a mod doesn’t want to oblige to your requests, then so be it, i think that is just fair.
We discussed on !fedigrow where we could host an alternative dataisbeautiful community, we decided on mander.xyz
I spent some time discussing with the mander.xyz admins, seeing if they would like to have the community on their instance, all the jazz
I open the community, it’s quite active, all good. We kind of solved the paradox of choice issue for people, this community is becoming the default one for this type of content.
From time to time, some LW users go to the LW to post. Then all of a sudden, the paradox of choice is there again, and it’s less clear for everyone as well.
All of this while 2 of the 3 mods haven’t been active for months, and the last one just popped back from a 2 months hiatus, preventing me from requesting the community.
Have a look at that list of communities, and tell me this is not a name squatter.
Oh wow, i would have thought it would be more.
There are a lot of abandoned instances. Actually, it’s the other way around. Having a look at the stats, most of the populated instances are using 0.19.5 except LW, so it’s 18k out of the around 50k monthly users which are held back.
To be honest, I even forgot the picture thing was introduced then.
The only settings i see are these, and if I navigate to my own profile I don’t see any unique setting buttons.
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When it comes to identifying the server, hostname the first thing that counts. lemmy.world or mastodon.social or google.com are three different hostnames. At this point you can basically treat the period as no special character, it’s just part of the funny world. This basically answers your question: those are two different domains, ie. for all purposes, different instances.
However, your computer does not really connect to hostname but to IP address, so the next important thing is to translate the hostname to an IP address.
Aside: a valid hostname does not even have to have period in it. For example, localhost is a valid hostname! But generally hostnames without periods don’t get translated to any useful IP addresses. localhost is probably the only one widely used hostname but your OS will translate it to a special IP address which marks your own device.)
So to translate the hostname to IP address is done using so-called DNS. So before you can connect, your computer already knows an IP address of a DNS server, and asks it to translate the hostname to IP address. Technically, this is still not where the period is strictly important.
Where the period does start to be meaningful is when you think about: so we have billions of IP addresses, billions of hostnames, how do we organize it all? Who is going to maintain the huge massive list?
So it works like this: There are dozens of organizations, each of which is assigned one or more “top level domains” (TLD). Then they are responsible for maintaining lists of all hostnames ending with those domains. Many of these organizations are local to certain states. For example, in Czech Republic, where I live, we have organization called CZ.NIC which maintains all domains ending with .cz. So it’s up to CZ.NIC how it manages permissions and gives out the domains. In this case, basically anyone can register any free domain ending with .cz, and what this registration means is that now they can get a server with an IP address, run whatever they want and have the registered domain name point to that IP address.
Note that other organizations may decide to add additional rules. For example .uk domains are managed with extra rules, where non-government (commercial) entities are normally allowed to register only .co.uk and other .uk names are not handed out easily. I don’t actually know the details about .uk but my point is that if you are going to think about a hostname and how to begin to understand who owns it, first thing that matters is the TLD, and from that point the rules might be slightly different. To be fair, I haven’t seen much variance between this; almost all public TLD’s I’ve seen were either “simple”, meaning myname.tld or this thing that UK does (also New Zealand, from the top of my head).
One almost universal rule is, though, that if I, say, register seznam.cz with CZ.NIC, then I automatically get not only seznam.cz but also any address I can possibly come up which ends with .seznam.cz. foo.seznam.cz, bar.seznam.cz, www.seznam.cz, I can now start organizing my servers using this whole infinite space, with any number of extra periods. I could totally start a business and start promoting my server foo.bar.baz.whatever.cz on billboards, as long as CZ.NIC grants me whatever.cz.
So back to your question: mastodon.social and piefed.social are two completely different domains. All we know that they have in common is that whoever registered them, had to deal with the same organization; that is whoever maintains .social.
So TL;DR: there’s really nothing that suggests that they would be the same instance.
Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.
I appriciate the reply. It’s kind of frustrating the way the fediverse works right now. I feel like we’re in 1994 era of the internet. Back then AOL was trying to BE the internet. URLs existed, but to give you an idea of how overlooked they were, Yahoo at one time in the mid 90s valued the AOL keyword for Yahoo over the URL. There are ads where they DON’T list the URL, but they do say “Visit us at AOL Keyword: Yahoo”.
Everything feels very day 1. Like I can clearly see a future for the fediverse where the common man can be interconnected. Much like I said in 1994 using my libraries technology center to access the internet for the first time. I can remember watching the news and the one anchor was trying to explain the internet to people. Specifically email. He said “Ok, so I just put my name in first, Tom, and then I put the anarchy symbol, and then after the anarchy symbol I put AOL.com”.
Meanwhile today we have shopping, and news, and social media, and videos, and everything else from one end to the other.
I could see all that back in 1994. It was obvious what needed to happen.
And right now, what needs to happen is for all services to operate with each other as if you’re always a local user. Everything in the fediverse needs to 100% play nice. The example I always see stated is that the fediverse is like email. Your email can interact with other emails services, but must always be done from your own inbox. But that’s kind of misleading to a degree. Because email is JUST email. The fediverse is email, video, photos, article sharing, social media, I assume there’s a music based aspect I haven’t found yet. The point is, right now these services are very VERY fragmented. I understand it’s decentralized, but it shouldn’t be this fragmented. It doesn’t have to be, and to grow we are going to need to get to a point where we can go to our instance of choice, log in, but then use any number of these services with one account. I can’t currently log into lemmy.world, and browse peer-tube, yet if I leave my instance, I’m no longer in my account. So you say to just create a peer-tube account. Ok, but now that’s fragmented. There’s two accounts. And then maybe I want to share pictures. Well now I need a pixelfed account. Ok, now that’s 3 accounts for 1 fediverse. And the list only grows. Mastodon? 4 accounts.
You get the idea. You can’t say it’s just like email, because with email it’s just one service, therefore always just one account.
I see a future where you log into 1 account from your instance. From that home page on your instance, you can interact with any service that hasn’t banned you, or defederated from your instance. ANY fediverse service. With one account. You can write mastodon messages, post a video to peertube, check your email, post some pictures, whatever. And all your notifications will be in one place. Organized. A centralized decentralization if you will.
Because right now, it’s kind of looking like a patch blanket, where everybody makes their own one patch…but then none of it makes sense together.
And here’s the other thing. EVERYBODY needs to be included. YES, EVERYBODY. You can personally block someone if you like, but right now Lemmy is very very left leaning. And that’s fine. BUT, I do see how it will play out once Threads starts fully federating. It is going to be a culture clash. And that actually in the long run is fine too. Lemmy.World can be very left leaning. But there might be another instance. Lemmy.Republican and that leans very right. Which is actually good. You can block that instance if you want. Instances SHOULD start developing their own personalities.
We should have major instances, and minor instances. The major ones should be general purpose. They can still lean left or right. This is where you’ll find all the popular topics. And I don’t mean Lemmy popular. I mean real world popular. If we’re going to get every single human on the fediverse, we need to realize that our opinions on everything are NOT going to mesh. So, you have each instance cator to a different audience.
Then there’s minor instances. These will be smaller, but host the niche topics. Maybe you have a hobby for collecting trains. That’s going to be a less popular topic, so you’d find an entire instance just dedicated to collecting trains. Different communities on that instance for different aspects of collecting trains. Smaller but dedicated.
Sorry for the long reply. I just see a world that doesn’t exist, and I want it to hurry up already…but then I see people on Lemmy who are actively opposed to, or confused by the idea of how big the fediverse CAN get. We just need to iron out the kinks. I’m having a nerdy day, and just imagining living in this world where the fediverse isn’t some linux crowd only niche topic…but instead the dominant everything connected universe it could be. Which will completely disrupt the power of these corporations to rule the internet. If we can achieve my dreams of the fediverse, these corporations will be forced to give up huge chunks of their power, or risk losing it all to irrelevancy. The fediverse can put the power back into the hands of the people. We just have to allow it to grow to become bigger than the culture of being linux’s sidekick.
Police in the US use force on at least 300,000 people each year, injuring an estimated 100,000 of them, according to a groundbreaking data analysis on law enforcement encounters....
No one actually knows how many people police, in the US, kill. The 1994 crime bill made reporting all police related killings, to outside agency, mandatory. However, the DOJ has declined to ever enforce it. We know we are missing a large portion of the killings just from people manually mining through ME reports. How much? No clue. Why would they do this if they felt they could continue to justify the situation with the “small amount only” claim? This also goes for misconduct. The same organization you cite below has also said that they regularly see incidences of police violations get out, often due to BWC, or personal recordings from the public, and the police had written it off as justified, until the public got to see that wasn’t the case. Almost all of these include false reports. They also have noted that they are seeing a rapidly growing number of policies, and local laws, that make it hard, if not impossible, to get BWC recordings. When interviewed by and industry rag, the previous head of the largest police union in the US, Patrick Lynch, was asked about this, and further asked how many go unreported. His answer was “most”. What’s with all the secrecy if it would just continue to show that these are, statistically, small problems?
The previously mention organization, as-well-as FIRE, have began working with rights activists, pledging to give them representation, when arrested for doing things that are protected rights. The most well known of these is a man named Jeff Grey. Jeff goes around holding a sign saying “god bless the homeless veterans” and saying it to people as they walk by. He picks locations specifically recognized as traditional fora of free speech. He rarely goes a week without getting arrested for doing something that is, unarguably, a protected activity. You should see what the cops, and the local governments they work for say. He has been told that they don’t give a fuck about his rights so many times that it is now a cliche for his videos. He has been subjected to violence by police for doing this. They falsely claim it is illegal to panhandle, which it isn’t, and try to trespass him. I think he is working through 5 cases as we speak. Most of the time, when his rights aren’t violated, the cops argue with him until they tire, and leave. They don’t carry through, but they demonstrate that they have no idea what most of our rights are. It is a rare instance where they ask what he is doing, then leave when they don’t see him doing anything illegal. Let me repeat that, the times when the police recognize he is not breaking the law are the minority. And no, he doesn’t hide the “good” interaction. If someone, backed by multiple legal orgs, has this much trouble, can you imagine how often actual homeless people have their rights violated?
Then I have the, nearly, 10 years of working with/around police, I have experienced. As part of a project, tacked onto my job doing data analysis for the corrections system, we had to train police, COs, etc on a pilot program to homogenize the terminology used for data entry. The first 4 years doing this we went around, to different departments, and did the training, the last ~5 they came to us. We saw a group for 1-3 days. I never once ended one of those periods of time without hearing police say, or do, illegal, often heinous, shit. Discussing where the night shift will be when the bars get out, so the day shift can drive home, drunk, without being stopped. Bragging about breaking multiple bones in an 80 year old dementia patient because he wouldn’t answer their questions, and “resisted” being cuffed. I can’t tell you how man times I have heard police say they wish they could just arrive at a mental health call and just shoot the person, problem solved. So many times I have listened to cops discuss how someone had a smart mouth, and how “20 years ago he would just have disappeared”. The number of times have I heard them discuss going to court to “testilie”, and the general mannerisms while doing so, made it clear that lying to the court is just the status quo. One of the more common sentiments I heard passed around was that if they could just kill, or imprison, every mentally ill person, ND person, etc. they would just be making the world a better place. I could fill a book on this. All the while all the “good” cops sat around doing nothing. Not that they would be police much longer if they started intervening on what they fellow blue line gang members did. One of the things they made very clear was if you were snitch, you wouldn’t be around long. Not gang behavior at all.
Same is true for JavaScript’s namesake, Java; Object has a toString method, so everything but primitives (int, long, etc.) must have a toString method (and primitives sort of have one too in a roundabout way).
I think JavaScript’s toString also serves another function, namely to have some form of fallback when doing operations on what should be incompatible types. [] + “”, for instance; JavaScript will call toString() to do type conversion when the nearest matching type is a String.
Let’s assume you’re arguing in good faith here so we can understand why land deeds and URLs are completely different.
Deeds are managed by a central authority. There is an agreed-upon way(s) to view and search those deeds. There is a single authority to update or remove deeds. The items the deed refers to also are controlled by a single authority and changing them has a single process.
URLs are registered (loosely) with a central authority but the similarities end there. I can impersonate a URL on a network (even up to large chunks of the internet if I’m able to confuse DNS in a large enough attack). So just because you’ve bought the domain referenced in the blockchain and set up some name servers doesn’t mean any consumer of the blockchain or even the internet is guaranteed to hit your instance of the domain. All a URL is is a reference to something so let’s assume for a minute we can have a global reference. What’s behind it? Again, completely uncontrolled. For now it could be your NFT; what happens if I am your hosting provider and destroy your instance? Move your hardware? What’s to prevent you, the owner of the assumed global reference, to change what that uniform resource locator is actually locating?
Land deeds and URLs are not analogous. Land and the content served at a URL are not analogous. Let’s look at NFTs quickly to see if we can actually do something about this!
Since we have a single-write, read-only database, why not store the full thing in the DB? Well, first you have to agree on a representation. It has to be unchanging so we can’t use a URL. It can’t ever duplicate so realistically hashing is out (unless our hash provides a bijection which is just a fancy way of saying use the fucking object itself). Assuming we’re only talking about digital artifacts (attempting to digitize a physical asset is a form of hashing meaning we get collisions so you can’t prove ownership), we’re now in an arms race for you to register all of your assets and their serialization methods before I brute force everything. Oh and this needs to live everywhere so it can be public so you need peta-many petabyte drives. But wait! Now we’re burning the sun in power just to show you have ownership of 10 and I have ownership of 01. Fuck me that’s dumb.
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TITLE: Study finds little evidence linking violent video games to increased aggression in adolescents
A longitudinal study of a large number of Czech adolescents found that individuals scoring higher on physical aggression tended to play video games that are a bit more violent. This was particularly the case among younger participants. However, the study did not find any evidence that changes in how much one plays violent video games had an impact on future physical aggression. The research was published in Computers in Human Behavior.
Video games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment worldwide. Over the past few decades, they have evolved from simple, pixelated programs into immersive, lifelike experiences, spanning a wide variety of genres. Today, nearly 3 billion people around the globe are active video game players.
From the early days of video gaming, violent video games—those that focus on physical aggression, combat, or other forms of violence as a primary element of gameplay—have attracted significant attention from researchers. Early studies often reported a link between playing violent video games and increased physical aggression in children. This link has raised concerns, particularly given that many of the most popular video games contain violent content. Yet, it remains unclear whether violent video games make players more aggressive or whether individuals who are already more aggressive are simply more drawn to these types of games.
Study author David Lacko and his colleagues sought to investigate this issue further. They conducted a longitudinal study using a special method known as a cross-lagged panel study to examine the relationship between preferences for violent video games and aggressive behavior over time.
In a cross-lagged panel study, researchers assess the same variables at different time points to determine whether one variable is likely the cause of another. The idea is that causes can influence future outcomes but cannot influence past ones. Therefore, if a variable is a cause of another, it will be more strongly associated with future values of that variable than with its past values. Conversely, the consequence will be more strongly associated with past values of its cause than with its future values. The researchers used this design to explore whether physical aggression leads to a preference for violent video games or if it is violent video games that increase aggression in adolescents.
The study involved 3,010 Czech adolescents who reported playing at least one video game during the study period. These participants took part in the first wave of data collection, but only 1,052 continued to participate through the fourth wave. The data were collected over an 18-month period between June 2020 and December 2022.
To measure aggression, the researchers used the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire—Short Form, a widely recognized tool for assessing various forms of aggression, including physical and verbal aggression. Empathy was assessed using the Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy, which evaluates both cognitive empathy (the ability to understand others’ emotions) and affective empathy (the ability to share others’ emotional experiences). To measure exposure to violence in video games, the researchers asked participants to name the three games they played most frequently. The level of violence in these games was then determined using ratings from Common Sense Media, which were used to create a violence score for each participant.
The results showed that the most frequently played games among participants included Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, games from the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and Brawl Stars.
The study’s findings revealed important distinctions between two types of effects: within-person effects and between-person effects. The between-person findings indicated that individuals who played more violent video games tended to score slightly higher on cognitive empathy and verbal aggression. There was also a somewhat stronger—but still relatively weak—tendency for participants who played more violent video games to score higher on physical aggression. Boys were generally found to play more violent video games than girls.
On the other hand, the within-person findings—those looking at how changes in an individual’s gaming habits relate to changes in their behavior over time—were particularly revealing. The researchers did not find that an increase or decrease in the level of violence in the games played by participants over the study period had any significant effect on changes in aggression or empathy. This suggests that violent video games are not a direct cause of increased aggression.
However, there were some nuanced findings. For instance, participants who showed an increase in empathy during the third wave of data collection tended to play fewer violent video games by the fourth wave. This association was not observed in other waves. Similarly, participants who exhibited an increase in physical aggression in the third wave tended to play more violent video games in the fourth wave. Conversely, those who reported higher levels of physical aggression in the first wave tended to play less violent games by the second wave.
While there are some associations between aggression, empathy, and the choice to play violent games, the study suggests that these games do not have a straightforward impact on changing behavior over time. Instead, the relationship appears to be influenced by a combination of individual differences and situational factors.
“These findings challenge the portrayal of VVG [violent video games] as a significant contributor to heightened aggression and decreased empathy in adolescents,” the study authors concluded.
The study sheds light on the nature of the link between video game violence and aggression. However, it should be noted that the study’s authors evaluated game violence based on the overall ratings the games received from a rating agency. This approach might be problematic because the content of a video game is not fixed but is actively shaped by the player and their actions. Consequently, the level of violence in many games can greatly depend on the player and their individual playstyle. While some players may engage in gameplay that includes a lot of violence, others may play the same game with minimal or even no violent content. This is particularly true in open-world sandbox games like Minecraft. Therefore, the validity of violence ratings may be questionable. Additionally, the study had a very high dropout rate, particularly among older participants, which may have influenced the results.
The study, “Does Violence in Video Games Impact Aggression and Empathy? A Longitudinal Study of Czech Adolescents to Differentiate Within- and Between-Person Effects,” was authored by David Lacko, Hana Machackova, and David Smahel.
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Hi there! I recently created !sonicthehedgehog, !metroid, and !slycooper for their respective series. All three of these are series I really enjoy, and it seemed like there wasn’t much in the way of active communities for them....
It makes sense that centralization around a specific instance can be touchy because a lot of us are refugees from another platform whose centralized administration ruined it. I’ll explain for each one of these I mentioned why I didn’t go for it.
I will not be trying to personally revive pawb.social, as I’m not a furry and have no interest in moderating a community whose unifying identity I do not and cannot relate to. That is, I’d want to help foster a community that I’d want to be a part of, which is one about Sonic rather than about how Sonic fits into the context of being a furry. I put that one in there just to address all of the ones I could possibly find. If someone does revive this community, though, I’d be happy to link it in the sidebar for the Lemmy.World one for those looking for that more specific kind of Sonic community.
As for lemm.ee, I decided against getting in contact with the admins and trying to work something out (I’m not unfamiliar with this, as I had to contact one of the administrators of Lemmy.World to work out the Sonic community since it had been previously deleted) predominantly because I felt the 500 kB image upload limit could be detrimental to those wanting to post fan art. That is, I thought it’d give users a better experience all while being easier to create on my home instance, making it a no-brainer to me.
Lastly, although you didn’t bring these ones up, I thought about asking to revive the SDF Sonic community, but I decided against this one just because of the name. I just really, really don’t like using underscores in community names where it’s not actually necessary. The .ml /c/sonic community just has nothing worth salvaging. And the .ml /c/metroid community has three posts that are all a few years old.
I don’t mind putting in the effort to contact moderators or administrators when I believe it will be in the best interest of the community. It’s just that for all of these, I felt like starting fresh on Lemmy.World was a better alternative (barring Sly, of course, who just strangely has nothing anywhere).
The Fediverse is not one enclosed, unified entity under one centralised rule.
It’s a common misconception that “the Fediverse” is a network platform created by whomever, usually Eugen Rochko. And Mastodon, Lemmy, Misskey, Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube etc. are Web UIs for the Fediverse, and Mona, IceCubes, Tusky, Fedilab etc. are mobile UIs for the Fediverse which mimic the functionality of certain Web UIs.
This is complete non-sense. None of this is true.
Instead, the Fediverse is a patchwork of many different things that work together by speaking common languages. And with “work together”, I mean “work together ever so barely” in many cases. Mastodon and Lemmy are not different clients for the same server thing. They connect, but they can hardly interact.
These “apps” aren’t client apps. They’re server applications. They provide a whole slew of very very different server backends.
There is no “Fediverse suite of apps” either. Just about everything in the Fediverse is developed and offered separately from one another.
Mastodon, in particular, ignores the whole rest of the Fediverse and tries to present itself to its users and Fediverse novices as “the Fediverse”. And when Mastodon users discover that Mastodon is, in fact, not “the Fediverse”, Mastodon makes them believe that everything that doesn’t work exactly like Mastodon is broken.
Oh, and no, Eugen Rochko didn’t invent the Fediverse. Evan Prodromou did. In 2008. That was when he took his recently launched Twitter alternative Identi.ca, open-sourced its technology under the name Laconi.ca (later StatusNet, now part of GNU social) and laid its protocol open under the name OpenMicroBlogging (now OStatus).
The Fediverse consisting of multiple different kinds of interacting servers came to exist in 2010 when Mike Macgirvin launched his Facebook alternative named Mistpark (now Friendica). He built it on top of a whole new protocol, but he gave it the ability to speak OpenMicroBlogging as well, thus connecting it to StatusNet. One key feature of Friendica is still to be able to connect to everything that moves and then some.
Mastodon was built on top of OStatus, too. But the intention was not to connect it to already-existing StatusNet, Friendica, Hubzilla (a much more powerful Friendica fork by Mike Macgirvin himself) and Pleroma (which had started out as an alternative UI for StatusNet). The idea was rather that using an already existing protocol was easier for a young and barely experienced coder than designing an all-new protocol from scratch. Mastodon never intended to be interoperable with anything else.
Even when Mastodon introduced ActivityPub as early as September, 2017, it was not to be able to interact with Hubzilla which had it first, two months earlier. By the way, ActivityPub is another one of Evan Prodromou’s creations, but this time, he wasn’t alone.
The idea behind Lemmy seemed to be similar: Build a Reddit clone, but without the hassle of designing a brand-new communication protocol. The difference was that Mastodon was already quite well-known when Lemmy was launched. When Mastodon was launched, StatusNet was considered dead after its only really known instance, Identi.ca had switched from OStatus to pump.io. As for Friendica, Hubzilla and Pleroma, nobody knew they existed, much less that they spoke OStatus. OStatus was there, ready to use, but to most people who came across it, it felt unused. So I guess that when Eugen Rochko created Mastodon, he unironically and sincerely believed that he was now the only one using this protocol, nobody else ever would again, and Mastodon would only ever connect to itself. Mastodon’s whole very concept is to be a “federated walled garden”, decentralised on the inside, but not letting anything else connect.
A Thai court has ordered the dissolution of the reformist party which won the most seats and votes in last year’s election - but was blocked from forming a government....
Okay, so I think we’re largely in agreement except for a little misunderstanding. I’m glad because that means you might be a little more receptive to some of the stuff I might share. I have more links but I’m writing this novella on my phone if you can believe it. I’ll share them later.
My criticism about the professional class being paid by the owning class to justify their wealth was specifically about orthodox economics, like the Chicago School who would literally construct studies to justify whatever you wanted if you paid for it. The yardsale model - that’s a great link by the way, the graph that emerges perfectly mirrors our actual economy - is an example of heterodox economics, which largely stands in opposition to orthodox economics. The opener to that page is very well written. It’ll do a better job than me.
Now, for an example of how completely divorced from reality orthodox economics is, the market convexity concept is perfect. The exceptions you mentioned about veblen and giffen goods aren’t the main problem with convexity. The simple problem of inelastic demand is a much bigger problem. This is all couched in extremely obfuscating language, those articles are impenetrable to anyone who isn’t steeped in economics language.
I assume you know what inelasticity is, it’s something for which demand doesn’t change with price, for instance things like shelter or food. So, to demystify the language, another term for “inelastic demand” is “need”. Basically, if you read between the lines even slightly, the founding, econ 101, highschool level principle of orthodox economics has been forced to admit that it doesn’t work for anything anybody actually needs. And then they go on insisting that this principle should govern our entire society. Got to keep that yardsale going.
Market convexity is an amalgamation of post-hoc justifications for why supply & demand is so hard to find in the real world. When I mentioned the perfectly straight, bisecting, perpendicular lines graph, you admitted that was just an illustration, and I agree, it is a doodle. I know it’s now in vogue to use slightly curved lines, but that’s just because economists are aware of how ridiculous the first illustration was and they put in just the slightest amount of extra effort to hide it.
When I’m asking for the science, let me ask you this: what data constructs the graph? Where did it originate? This is the question I’ve never had answered. Just literally the graph appearing in real world data, just one time.
See, when actual sciences want to “illustrate” a concept, sometimes they idealise, but they almost always have real data and real graphs to show. Their idealised lines pass through data points with error bars. Scientists work hard for their data, and they always, always show it off. Stress-strain curves, electron microscope images, star life-cycle data, red-shifting, animal population surveys, and on and on. Real data is complex and interesting and beautiful and scientists will show you their cool slide and say “you can see such-and-such feature here and this indicates…”, it’s great.
I have looked for the supply & demand version of this and can find nothing but hand-waving excuses.
Also, the convexity article talks about the Nobel Prize in Economics, which is wrongly named. It is the Nobel Memorial Prize. It was named after Nobel, because it’s not a Nobel prize, because the Nobel prize committee rejected the economics category because it isn’t a real science. Some Swiss bank then financed the wish.com version Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
I suspect this isn’t so hard for you to accept since you’ve already come so far in your understanding of heterodox economics. You still seem to have some respect for the orthodox schools, which is strange when you understand so much of where they have led us.
As for the Epstein thing, I don’t have any reason to believe that anything has changed. We know Epstein was part of the trafficking of minors, and absent any evidence about the state of that practice, the idea that removing two people from the network actually fundamentally altered anything seems hopelessly naive. I think the burden of proof lies on anyone who wants to claim the practice has been abolished.
Honestly, I just found this place first, and I don’t remember what I came here for. I didn’t make an account, then I did recently and now get approved. Lets goo. Options are great the advantage of the Fediverse is that you can always create a new server instance every time. Probably always changing your IP every time the server gets taken down and have none of the names associated with it are the same.
What the fediverse needs is....CIRCLES!
So, I was thinking that I joined Lemmy.World because Lemmy had more users than MBin. But today I was looking at mbin.cocopoops.com and started seeing MY posts. I knew Mbin could have different instances. I knew Lemmy could have different instances. And I knew they all federated together....
Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days. (www.theverge.com)
Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days....
meta lemmy cross-instances dissing
How to see every sub under an instance?
Instead of just searching the specific name of a sub what if I want to see every sub that’s contained within an instance such as lemmy.world for example no I’m not part of lemmy.world but as part of the instance I’m a part of I can see every sub under it in a neat list can you only do that if you’re part of the instance?
Where can I find manual on how Lemmy works?
Sorry, I am too lazy to search myself....
Video Games - weekly active communities thread
Active = at least one post since last week
Mongolia obliged to arrest Putin if he visits, International Criminal Court says (www.bbc.com)
Mongolian officials “have the obligation” to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits the country next week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said....
No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?
I’ve noticed that there isn’t a single Lemmy community, Mbin magazine etc. for Fediverse memes....
How are there so many of them (lemmy.world)
If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social?
Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.
US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd: ‘relentless violence’ (www.theguardian.com)
Police in the US use force on at least 300,000 people each year, injuring an estimated 100,000 of them, according to a groundbreaking data analysis on law enforcement encounters....
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“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
A few new communities for game series
Hi there! I recently created !sonicthehedgehog, !metroid, and !slycooper for their respective series. All three of these are series I really enjoy, and it seemed like there wasn’t much in the way of active communities for them....
Where can I access the Fediverse itself?
I am considering using a Fire tablet and a Chromebook and would like to know what OS I need to access the Fediverse suite of apps....
Thai court dissolves reformist party that won election (www.bbc.com)
A Thai court has ordered the dissolution of the reformist party which won the most seats and votes in last year’s election - but was blocked from forming a government....
lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/2881638...