Image shows screenshot of XCOM2: War of The Chosen: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Terms of Service, with an added Mandatory Arbitration clause in Section 15....
Yeah, I miserably failed at that part. Tried to add the alt text, but looks like I did it the wrong way so it didn’t work.
mention what you actually are trying to say or ask
Just wanting to let people know about another instance of Mandatory Arbitration. After hitting Post, I did realise that I should have included the game’s name, which I missed because I first posted this to an XCOM2 sub.
Sure, I can probably dig it up if you're interested. Like I said, it wasn't a spat, it was just you telling me not to reply to your comments.
I'm a bit of a film fan and was pleasantly surprised when Spielberg of all people said something vaguely against killing civilians in Gaza (half of Hollywood seem to be wildly pro genocide), so I posted it in a movie sub.
Emotive subject, might explain it. Also I get lazy about deleting tags. Maybe when you see it again you'll remember how annoying I am and block me this time!
Anyway here it is, I can't seem to format it for other instances but here it is viewed through kbin.
It took me months to delete all my content, as the API tools I was using (power delete suite) can’t access subs that are still dark. It took a bunch of manual deletions, additional scans with the tools and occasional googling of my username but I think I’ve got it all now.
I came to Reddit initially for the human conversation. The fediverse will benefit in that it’s never going to be a commercial product and so the human conversation will be the number one priority. Even as corporate entities like meta try to join, users can just tune them out by blocking threads.net on their account, or switching to instances that have defed from them.
How is the size of Lemmy’s userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?...
I think admins curating the feed is… Interesting but also kind of dangerous
just letting the admins set defaults would be better than forcing these choices upon their users, which I think is was the above user was suggesting, which is kinda what Reddit does with having default subs
The active sort still showing 2 days old posts is not ideal.
why not? if they’re getting new comments then they’re still active
Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score [of the post] and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
it’s like something inbetween Hot and classic forums-style sorting (New Comments sort in Lemmy)
but I do not think that should be the default sort method, instance admins can already adjust what the default sort method is
I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...
I‘m on another patient gamers sub, and the games sub on lemmy.world. The biggest weakness of Lemmy IMO is how fractured communities can become due to very similar subs on different instances - which this is now an example of, I suppose, since I had no idea about the ones you mentioned lol
I‘ll check them out later, although it obviously doesn‘t help this sub specifically
I‘m on another patient gamers sub, and the games sub on lemmy.world.
Heh, fair enough.
I had no idea about the ones you mentioned lol
If you hit lemmyverse.net, they’ve got a “search all instances by communities by name” feature, which I think is probably currently the most-realistic way to find communities across all of the Threadiverse.
Note that their kbin indexing isn’t great – you need to explicitly choose “kbin magazines” from the upper-right hamburger menu; it doesn’t combine kbin and lemmy results. And they don’t currently index at least kbin.social, which is the largest kbin instance.
The biggest weakness of Lemmy IMO is how fractured communities can become due to very similar subs on different instances
Agreed, and also why I think Lemmy will never progress past a niche audience despite being capable of doing so. It’d be nice if there was a feature that allowed instances to merge all like-named communities into a singular one. I know cross posting was meant to help address the problem, but that’s a manual process that falls quite short in resolving the core issue.
Yeah I would advise throwing the 3 tanky instances on your Blocklist (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, lemmy.ml) and find alternative communities if you subbed to any on these instances (mostly .ml communities).
Then you can block maybe the 10 users you start to recognize for their extremist or depressing views. And you’re golden.
I personally used my client to also mute the Gaza crisis with a small list because that is also just slapfests and verbal diarrhea.
It actually would be a good thing. Pariah instances are how the fediverse will have to moderate itself, and these people have shown themselves to be incapable of playing well with others. I purposely avoided joining any of their subs because I saw how toxic their influence was on reddit.
If you look at peertube, there’s one instance that hosts Steven Crowder and Alex Jones and like two other people who I assume are lesser demons of some kind. I would avoid any instance that doesn’t have the good sense to defederate from that one. This is a similar thing. I doubt the tankies are going to be on the popular side of the schism if it happens, they would have an echo chamber and we would be rid of them.
The thing about an echo chamber like that is that thanks to the public nature of federation status, it would be obvious who the pariah instances are, so anyone still there would be made aware that they are the minority, not the voice of the people in any way. That’s something that takes longer to notice in a forum like truth social. The numbers might be there for people to see, but it’s a different platform so you can say there’s a slow adoption rate or something, like you can say about Lemmy. With pariah instances there is a direct and obvious comparison, and people have left because your instance fucked up. That’s going to drive all but the most hardcore folks away to other instances.
Is Lemmy.world a cover for Liberalism, because it’s run by liberals? Is db0 a cover for Anarchism and Libertarian Socialism, because db0 is a Libertarian Socialist?
Liberals and libertarian socialists are usually pretty open about what they believe, so there’s no cover needed. They’re not covert ideologies like tankies have.
However neoliberalism is a fairly hated ideology. If the people who ran lemmy.world were literally the same people running a neoliberalism sub on that instance and they also ran thatcher.love or whatever, and they banned people for saying neoliberalism was trash, then yeah, it would be a reasonable inference that lemmy.world was some sort of entryist ploy.
It is the existence of lemmygrad combined with the behaviour of the people running lemmy.ml that makes the case to defederate. If that happens and you don’t like it, you could always migrate your account, unless you like it there, in which case you’re probably not the normie you first appeared to be.
I tried to give that instance the benefit of the doubt at first, but I just block all lemmy.ml communities when I see them now. There's just too much user and ideology overlap with lemmygrad and hexbear. The worldnews sub was especially bad though. Disinformation & insults everywhere, but they're never removed despite reports, because they're part of their side & agenda. It's basically lemmygrad in disguise.
How the fuck can you live with yourself? Like, how do you wake up, think any of the awful shit that how’s through your head, and not immediately rush to a gun store and blow your brains out? I want to see down this abyss. If you have enough self awareness to shed any light on it.
You wrote that. Not only is it not talking about the actual topic, I’m also pretty sure it’s straight up against the sub and instance rules. Then again, you also wrote
If Theres ever a genocide against a group I know includes you,I’m going to laugh at it so hard.
Yeah I’m not gonna look totally cracked and it’s gonna be all your fault, I hope it occurs to you to feel bad about making me laugh at such an inappropriate time while you’re starving to death, because it was not a nice thing to do.
If you don’t have any actual arguments or wish to discuss, it’s easier to just say so.
I am interested in checking out the historical growth of a particular community. Lemmy Explorer crawls for data about the Lemmyverse every 24 hours or something, and that data is made available on their website. But I can only find where to download the latest data. Is there somewhere that I can find historical data? Does Lemmy...
Yeah, but the community started before the bot at !trendingcommunities did, lemmy.world had a broken API for much of August (hence the jump), and the subscriber count never changes that much otherwise, but here's what I have:
day
subs
2023-07-24
70
2023-07-26
71
2023-07-28
75
2023-08-03
76
2023-08-05
77
2023-09-03
86
2023-09-04
87
2023-09-05
88
2023-09-11
89
2023-09-29
90
2023-10-08
89
2023-10-14
90
2023-10-15
91
2023-10-18
92
2023-10-21
93
2023-10-22
94
2023-11-12
93
2023-11-17
96
2023-11-19
97
2023-11-20
96
2023-12-15
97
2024-01-05
98
2024-01-10
99
2024-03-08
100
2024-03-10
101
2024-03-11
102
2024-03-15
103
2024-03-22
104
2024-04-04
105
Incidentally, if you want to know how broken the Fediverse is right now, lemmy.ml is the only version that has both of your comments. piefed.social (my instance) has 1, lemmy.one (OP's instance) had the other one, and lemmy.world (where this community is hosted) had none (edit: this was before I made this comment, which has forced a bit of a re-sync).
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
Same account different servers would mimic discord. So you have one app, but the communities or ‘discord server’ can be their own instance. If it’s mimicking discord it will keep all the message boards private to users like discord, but it could still benefit from Lemmy/Mastodon integration. Many communities have a discord and a sub Reddit having the same account on both may be valuable to some people.
I don’t know the state of voice and video calls in the fediverse, it seems to be the main benefit of discord. Otherwise discord is just a terrible closed version of forums/subreddit/communities.
FlyingSquid seems fine for the most part, but OP here has routinely pushed some crazy right wing stuff in past comments. This seems like what happened at reddit with certain subs being taken over in an organized way to silence certain viewpoints/content in favor of others.
At least here we can create identical communities on other instances, so we’ll have to wait and see how things turn out.
Imagine you have a large circular area of native forest. All the populations living there are essentially homogenous, some species might form small groups but overall they can all interact directly, share the same resources, and mix genetic information.
Now humans come in, and instead of one continuous piece of land, you have segments of native forest surrounded by roads or semi-urban pathways. You can then imagine the populations as segmented bubbles.
This model of bubbles of native land surrounded by human landmarks is a tool ecology can use to predict how populations develop and interact. There are a lot of different permutations depending on size, biome, types of obstacles, and so on. But one of the most basic analysis you can do is detect bubbles that act as “sources” and bubbles that act as “drains” or “sinks”. A source is a bubble with an excess of individuals, those are likely to cross the obstacles in their way and find themselves into other bubbles, supplying new individuals. Drains are bubbles where due to insufficient numbers, human activity or other factors, a species can’t sustain a good number of individuals by themselves - they need immigrants from other bubbles.
This dynamic between sources providing new individuals and drains is fundamental for a metapopulation to exist even when the area is severely degraded by human activity. Imagine your well kept backyard providing bees to your neighbor with a sub-optimal one, for instance. This new metapopulation of bees is stable, even though the environment isn’t ideal.
<p>A study investigating the relationship between air pollution, specifically PM2.5 particles, and dementia rates in the United States found that individuals residing in areas with higher levels of this type of air pollution were marginally more likely to develop dementia. PM2.5 particle concentrations originating from agriculture and wildfires showed the most significant correlation with increased dementia rates. The findings were published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.3300"><em>JAMA Internal Medicine</em></a>.</p>
<p>PM2.5 particles, or fine particulate matter, are microscopic airborne particles measuring 2.5 micrometers or smaller in diameter. These particles are so small that they can penetrate deep into the lungs and even enter the bloodstream. Sources of PM2.5 include coal-fired power plants, agricultural activities, vehicle emissions, industrial processes, residential heating, wildfires, and natural occurrences like dust storms and volcanic eruptions.</p>
<p>Research has linked PM2.5 exposure to various health issues. Short-term exposure can cause irritation to the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs, leading to symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath. Long-term exposure is associated with more severe health problems, including an increased risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases like asthma, heart attacks, and strokes, as well as a heightened risk of premature death, especially among older adults and those with pre-existing conditions. Due to their significant impact on human health, monitoring and regulating PM2.5 levels is essential for public health efforts worldwide.</p>
<p>Study author Boya Zhang and her team noted that PM2.5 exposure has also been linked to cognitive health problems. However, PM2.5 can originate from various sources, and particles from different sources possess distinct chemical and physical characteristics. For instance, PM2.5 from traffic tends to contain nitrates and black carbon, while particles from agricultural activities are more likely to contain ammonium. The question of whether PM2.5 from all sources affects the brain in the same way, or if different types of particles have varied effects on brain health, remains unanswered.</p>
<p>To address this knowledge gap, the study authors analyzed data from the Environmental Predictors of Cognitive Health and Aging (EPOCH) study, which combined biennial survey data from 1998 to 2016 of participants in the Health and Retirement Study with estimates of PM2.5 particle concentrations at the participants’ residences.</p>
<p>The study included data from 27,857 individuals over 50 years old who did not have dementia at the beginning of the study. The average age of the participants was 61 years, and 56.5% were female. Over the study period, 4,105 participants developed or began to show signs of developing dementia.</p>
<p>PM2.5 levels were estimated based on over 300 characteristics, including nearby transportation, land use and cover, population density, emission sources, and vegetation, allowing the researchers to derive annual mean PM2.5 particle concentration estimates for each survey respondent between 1990 and 1999. This methodology produced estimates of both total particle concentrations and concentrations of PM2.5 particles from specific sources.</p>
<p>The results indicated that the median concentration of PM2.5 particles during the study period was 11.2 μg/m^3. Particle concentrations from agriculture, traffic, energy production, and other industrial sectors were generally higher in the Midwest and lower in the West of the U.S. Conversely, concentrations of particles from wildfires and windblown dust were higher in the West and Southwest. The concentrations tended to be higher in areas where older participants, those with less formal education, lower wealth, and non-Hispanic Blacks resided, except for particles from wildfires and windblown dust.</p>
<p>The study found that individuals living in areas with higher concentrations of PM2.5 particles were slightly more likely to develop dementia, with an 8% increase in risk per interquartile range increase in PM2.5 concentrations, compared to those in areas with lower concentrations. The greatest increase in risk was associated with PM2.5 particles from agricultural activities (17% increase per interquartile range), while PM2.5 particles from windblown dust were not linked to an increased risk of developing dementia. Following agriculture, PM2.5 particles from traffic also showed a significant association with increased dementia risk, whereas the links between PM2.5 particles from wildfires and coal combustion and dementia risk were less pronounced.</p>
<p>“Our cohort study suggests that reducing PM<sub>2.5 </sub>and perhaps selectively targeting certain sources for policy interventions might be effective strategies to reduce the burden of dementia at the population level, although more research is needed to confirm our findings,” the study authors concluded.</p>
<p>The study makes an important contribution to the scientific understanding of links between air pollution and cognitive health. However, it should be noted that all the observed associations are weak and the associated increases in risk are only slight. Additionally, the study design does not allow for any cause-and-effect conclusions to be drawn from the results. While it is possible that air pollution leads to dementia it might also be that individuals prone to dementia are for some reason slightly more likely to live in areas with higher air pollution. There are other possibilities as well.</p>
<p>The paper, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.3300">Comparison of Particulate Air Pollution From Different Emission Sources and Incident Dementia in the US,</a>” was authored by Boya Zhang, Jennifer Weuve, Kenneth M. Langa, Jennifer D’Souza, Adam Szpiro, Jessica Faul, Carlos Mendes de Leon, Jiaqi Gao, Joel D. Kaufman, Lianne Sheppard, Jinkook Lee, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Richard Hirth, and Sara D. Adar.</p>
Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of struggling social media platform Truth Social, is began its long-delayed journey as a public company at Tuesday’s opening bell under the ticker symbol “DJT.”...
Hey, I miss WSB style action on Lemmy. There are no subs or instances for this, because we are deathcore communists who would never touch filthy wallets with our soil stained hands.
I have mixed feelings. On one hand, Lemmy seems to be finding its groove, and I genuinely feel like I’m part of a growing community. But there’s definitely something missing, and it’s difficult to put into words.
On Reddit, I tended to frequent specific subs, and rarely doomscrolled the front page. But that’s all I find myself doing on Lemmy. Most of my feed is either politics or memes, and nuanced discussion seems rare. New communities apparently have a hard time getting off the ground, and I think it’s mostly because decentralization makes discovery a hastle.
Reddit’s whole purpose is to aggregate content from other websites, whilst providing a central access point. This is antithetical to the very concept of the Fediverse, which is all about decentralization. I find myself wishing for an easy way to aggregate Fediverse content, so that I could access Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, etc. all in one place, regardless of whether they’re federated. Really, all the drama surrounding instances federating/defederating is obnoxious as an end user.
The apps are certainly better, though, and in general I’m enjoying myself.
stores (or alliances of stores in similar industries) :: instances
inventory items :: posts
counts :: votes
item categories (or entire stores depend on implementation) :: communities
moderators are only allowed to post items to their own community or instance.
comments can still exist (perhaps as item reviews with the same upvote/downvote mechanic).
No actual transactions would be processed over this protocol. It would be solely for inventory broadcast/aggregation (like Shopify in that it houses the inventory of many vendors except without the transaction ability built-in since pub-sub is horrible for that kind of thing).
Edit: if you have any opinions (even “what a stupid idea!”) I’d be open to them. I haven’t even written a single line of code yet and it’s a fresh idea in my head waiting to be shot down by someone less idealistic than myself.
I saw a map of undersea internet cables the other day and it’s crazy how many branches there are. It got me wondering - if I’m (based in the UK) playing an online game from someone in Japan for example, how is the route worked out? Does my ISP know that to get to place X, the data has to be routed via cable 1, cable 2 etc....
we’re on lemmy which is a federated service, essentially the tl;dr is decentralized. Root federation in this context refers to the instance that hosts your account. In my case dbzer0, in your case pawb.
Personally i’ve found it really interesting seeing the sub niche interactions between different federated platforms. It’s a weird look into how humans tend to associate.
Damnatory Arbitration (lemmy.kde.social)
Image shows screenshot of XCOM2: War of The Chosen: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Terms of Service, with an added Mandatory Arbitration clause in Section 15....
Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening. (www.usatoday.com)
The suffering of the Sudanese may be off camera now, but it won't be in a few months when babies are starving en masse.
Fascism everywhere (lemmy.ml)
Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
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Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?
How is the size of Lemmy’s userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?...
How to revitalize this sub?
I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...
Russian State TV Wants Moscow to Conquer Three US States (www.newsweek.com)
Archive Link...
unsure why we are surprised lol (lemmy.cafe)
Hypersensitive tankie mod (lemmy.world)
I know it’s .ml where such things happen but ffs! This guy needs to fucking chill 🤦
Germans: what genocide? (lemmy.world)
Lemmyverse historical data? (data.lemmyverse.net)
I am interested in checking out the historical growth of a particular community. Lemmy Explorer crawls for data about the Lemmyverse every 24 hours or something, and that data is made available on their website. But I can only find where to download the latest data. Is there somewhere that I can find historical data? Does Lemmy...
With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit)
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
On "world" vs. "worldnews":
Hey all! Friendly neighborhood mod here!...
It's not enough to touch grass (feddit.de)
Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of struggling social media platform Truth Social, is began its long-delayed journey as a public company at Tuesday’s opening bell under the ticker symbol “DJT.”...
Lemmy Babies of the Rexodus - it's been 9 months, how has Lemmy changed you?
How does data sent over the internet know where to go?
I saw a map of undersea internet cables the other day and it’s crazy how many branches there are. It got me wondering - if I’m (based in the UK) playing an online game from someone in Japan for example, how is the route worked out? Does my ISP know that to get to place X, the data has to be routed via cable 1, cable 2 etc....