If I’m understanding this right, and this basically an API that lets you pick which app store administers an app, that could be quite helpful, not harmful. I currently have fdroid, play store, and Samsung store, and I assume they try to update apps by the fully qualified name, as multiple stores show and try to update a single app instance, sometimes with weird results.
I did a search from shitjustworks for “reddit die” and did not find lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a “ping” sent out to notify all other federated instances....
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !watchredditdie, !watchredditdie
As a middle-ground, I think it’s enough to only sync the community name and user count and maybe the description. More isn’t shown in the search anyway and those 3 data points shouldn’t take too much storage.
Syncing name solves the problem of communities not showing up. The problem with only being shown posts in a community someone on the instance has already subscribed to is more difficult, as you wrote.
Thing is, it’s not in the mods or admins’ best interest to leave it up in the name of “user choice” and “free speech”, these platforms host the content on them and the people hosting it are liable for it, plus making people be able to opt-out of moderation actions would attract unwanted people to the community, the kind of people who would seek that violating content and interact only with that.
Lemmy is NOT a “free speech” or “user choice”, nor are the majority of fediverse platforms. I think that’s one of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to the fediverse, it’s that people think it’s that. Really Federation is ultimately the same as a centralized site, that is self hostable, but with the added benefit of these different self-hosted sites communicating and cross-posting to each other. While this would be considered decentralized at the end of the day the site owners are the ones calling the shots, the can delete anything they want, ban anyone they want, or sever connections to servers if they want. They are within their right because they own the site and pay hosting and/or maintain the servers. Why should they put themselves at risk for the sake of “user choice” or “free speech” when they don’t owe you the user anything?
With Nostr it’s different because operators can purge whatever data they want off a relay, but your account isn’t bound to a relay and information doesn’t need to be copied to every relay like with Fediverse’s ActivityPub. It offers the “user choice” and “free speech” experience by cryptographically isolating the user from the relays and by using them as… well… relays instead of instances.
In short the reason they don’t do it is because the way the Fediverse is built isn’t really suited for it, due to both liability, and the function.
One could make a tool like Reveddit or Unddit for Lemmy though that fetches the removed comments from the modlog and puts them back in the thread, but that wouldn’t be like bypassing or disabling moderation.
A judge has ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of photos of legal documents that were allegedly taken during an unannounced raid on the home of an attorney for a Black Lives Matter activist...
IANAL, but some states specifically state you can refuse entry unless they present the warrant. Other states advise you to let them do whatever or risk facing charges (obstruction, etc).
In any event, get their names and badge numbers so you can sue. ALSO, the warrant should state what it is they’re looking for, which should in theory limit their search. For instance, if the warrant is to search your home looking for a stolen motorcycle (or whatever) they cannot look in your kitchen cabinets, bedside table, etc, because no motorcycle could possibly fit in those spaces. “Hey we found a pound of cocaine in a shoe box while looking for a motorcycle” would be thrown out of court. Doesn’t keep them from getting a new warrant and coming back, though.
This is referencing the constellation of the eagle, or aquila in Latin. The names of the stars in each constellation are referred to by a Greek letter plus the genitive (possessive) form of the constellation name, in the order of apparent brightness. Thus, the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila is Alpha Aquilae, or “alpha [star] of the eagle” (but it is also known by its Arabic name, Altair). The brightest in the constellation of Taurus (the bull) is Alpha Tauri, which also bears the Arabic name Aldebaran.
Without anything for it to modify, aquilae is also the nominative plural form of the word (i.e., eagles).
The same word is also found in the taxonomic names of some eagle species. The Golden Eagle, for instance, is Aquila chrysaetos. The first word, the genus, is just Latin for eagle. The second part, the species, is classical Greek for “golden eagle”. The “golden” part (chrys-) is also responsible for the name of the chrysanthemum, Greek for “golden flower”.
<p>Scientists have started to examine whether virtual reality can help teenagers with developmental language disorders improve their social skills and emotional understanding. In a recent study published in <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/13591045231220694" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry</a></em>, his innovative approach, trialed in the Netherlands, demonstrated high levels of participant engagement and appreciation, though the results varied among individuals.</p>
<p>The motivation for this research stemmed from the unique challenges faced by adolescents with developmental language disorders. These individuals often struggle with socio-emotional problems, such as increased levels of shyness, fewer positive peer relations, and a greater risk of social isolation and depression. Traditional methods for improving socio-emotional functioning, which typically involve reflecting on hypothetical scenarios, have proven less effective for these adolescents due to their heavy reliance on language skills.</p>
<p>Recognizing the gap in effective training methods, the researchers turned to virtual reality technology as a potential solution. Virtual reality, with its immersive and interactive capabilities, offers a more behaviorally focused approach, potentially bypassing the linguistic barriers inherent in traditional methods.</p>
<p>“We were interested in this topic because adolescents with developmental language experience many challenges with socio-emotional functioning. However, practicing these skills seems difficult to achieve within practical and ethical boundaries (i.e. history of bullying and social isolation). Virtual reality appears to be a suitable method to practice socio-emotional functioning in a safe, controllable and realistic context,” said study author Elke Arts of the the <a href="https://www.ru.nl/en/bsi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Behavioural Science Institute</a> at Radboud University.</p>
<p>The study involved nine adolescents, recruited from two secondary schools in the Netherlands specializing in education for children with communication problems. To be included in the study, participants had to meet specific criteria, such as being between 12 and 18 years old, having a confirmed diagnosis of developmental language disorder, and not having a history of epilepsy.</p>
<p>Each participant underwent a comprehensive diagnostic process to confirm their developmental language disorder, involving several language tests to assess different aspects like speech, grammar, and vocabulary. The actual study spanned over six weeks, with each participant attending a 50-minute session once a week. These sessions were divided into completing questionnaires, discussing and practicing skills, and participating in the InterAction virtual reality training.</p>
<p>The VR training itself, named InterAction, was conducted in a structured manner. It included activities like discussing target skills, watching and analyzing role-play videos, practicing skills verbally, and finally, engaging in the virtual reality environment to apply these skills. Different virtual environments, such as schoolyards and parks, were used to provide varied social scenarios. The experimenter, who was trained in VR technology, facilitated the sessions and controlled the virtual peers that the participants interacted with.</p>
<p>The virtual reality training was found to be feasible and suitable in a school setting. Although minor technical issues were encountered, these were easily resolved, and no negative effects of VR on the participants were reported. Participants showed high levels of appreciation for the VR training. Almost all adolescents rated their enjoyment and anticipation for future sessions highly. They also rated the virtual reality world as realistic, indicating a high sense of presence and engagement during the training.</p>
<p>“The pilot study has demonstrated that adolescents find virtual reality to be an immensely enjoyable way to practice socio-emotional functioning,” Arts told PsyPost.</p>
<p>The results, however, were not uniform across all participants. While some showed clear improvement in certain socio-emotional skills, others displayed less convincing progress. This variability was seen both between different participants and within the same participant across different sessions.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>“The pilot study utilized a Single Case Design (SCD), where adolescents self-assessed their progress to the trained skills once a week during the training period. To our surprise, not all adolescents reported improvement in the trained skills,” Arts said. “Some adolescents rated themselves lower to the trained skill at the end of the training, compared to the start of the training.</p>
<p>“However, upon inquiry, it was revealed that these adolescents had initially overestimated their abilities at the start. They became aware of this overestimation during the training, when they experienced more difficulty performing the skills than previously expected. This situation emphasizes the importance of an adequate baseline period (when using a SCD) to improve the adolescent’s reflective capacity.”</p>
<p>While the results are promising, the study was focused on exploring the feasibility of virtual reality for adolescents with developmental language disorders. In other words, the research primarily aimed to determine whether virtual reality could be a practical and effective tool in a real-world educational setting for this specific group. The study was not designed to definitively prove the efficacy of VR training in improving socio-emotional skills, but rather to assess whether such an approach is suitable and well-received by its intended audience.</p>
<p>The small sample size and the absence of a control group limit the generalizability of the findings. To better assess effectiveness, future research in this area could involve larger participant groups, include control conditions, and use a mix of self-reported and observational measures to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the VR training’s effectiveness.</p>
<p>“This small-sample study was not designed to examine statistical significance of changes over time,” Arts said. “Because of this, no statistical tests were conducted. Currently, we are conducting the VR training with a larger group of adolescents (approximately 30) to assess whether the VR training can significantly improve the socio-emotional functioning of these adolescents.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13591045231220694" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interactive virtual reality training to improve socio-emotional functioning in adolescents with developmental language disorders: A feasibility study</a>“, was authored by Elke Arts, Bram O De Castro, Ellen Luteijn, Ben Elsendoorn, and Constance TWM Vissers.</p>
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Nostr and Mastodon have both positioned themselves as “twitter alternatives” and both offer some degree of federation. I have done quite a bit of reading and testing with both and am writing this in case you are curious about which one may work best for you....
I said it all inside title, I once found & visited a lemmy community with only stock photos of really (really) silly illustrations of network/softwares, bitcoin or people working in computer but you can see using a screwdriver on graphic card won’t help ahah....
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Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday....
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I know that a lot of what Nix does is working around its break from FHS, but I can imagine there are still things that seep through. Are there any unsolvable problems due to this?...
Nix installs derivations into separate folders. A derivation can be a package, but can also be other things like configuration files, scripts or sources for packages. Nix doesn’t distinguish between these derivations by a name but rather by a hash created from their build instructions.
For example two instances of the same package with a different version are two different derivations and thus nix can have both package versions installed without them interfering with each other. But this goes beyond just a package version. It is e.g. possible to have the same package with the same version but different patches applied, or relying on different versions of dependencies. Since their build instructions differ both can be installed simultaneously.
This approach grants a variety of advantages. For example upgrading your NixOS system just installs new derivations of packages and configuration files that have changed, while keeping previous derivations until they’re garbage collected at a later time. This allows you to switch freely between both iterations of your system, for example if an update causes issues you can just revert back to before an update easily. Another advantage is that an unprivileged user can install packages they need without interfering with the rest of the system, for example an older python version or a newer one, or some software they want but the system does not provide.
The price of having this kind of isolation between packages is that nixos cannot install binaries and libraries into common locations. Effectively /usr/bin only contains the env binary. If you’re familiar with shell scripting you might have run into lines such as #!/usr/bin/env bash. This env util will essentially search bash in your PATH variable and start it. Lines like #!/bin/bash however will not work, because there’s no bash installed in that location.
Another case where a missing fhs is a problem is when using pre-compiled binaries. In contrast to binaries built through nix, which have their required libraries hardcoded as absolute paths, pre-compiled binaries you download usually only contain the name of the library they need, which works in a conventional fhs environment, because these libraries tend to be found in /libor /usr/lib. On NixOS neither of those are present. There two solutions to this. Either you create an fhs environment by listing the set of derivations to be symlinked into a chroot environment which mimics an FHS. Or you can install github.com/Mic92/nix-ld which automatically finds the required libraries the nix way if you start such a binary. There’s also steam-run which installs an fhs with most of the dependencies necessary to start Linux games from Steam.
you typed [www.myvote.wi.gov](www.myvote.wi.gov) in your comment’s source. for it to register as a URL you have to put https before the link inside the parentheses: [www.myvote.wi.gov](https://www.myvote.wi.gov).
in your comment’s source it is written www.myvote.wi.gov, which shouldn’t behave like this. looks like a lemmy bug maybe?
i have two theories:
the bug is related to typing a link directly, as in pasting a link in the comment, like example.com (i typed it without brackets for a name or parentheses for a URL)
or
it’s related to links explicitly starting with www, such as what you linked.
you can report lemmy issues at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues. i searched on there to see if it was already reported but couldn’t find anything, though if you want to i’d recommend searching.
If we were to rework how federation works between platforms, how would it be handled for things already in communication? Would existing instances be able to change it up easily?
There’s so much we can improve, but I worry if some projects have already painted themselves into a corner. It’s a pain to try and rebuild an existing community
Kinda like how you can’t use the same domain name again
<p>In the fascinating world of human cognition, there’s a peculiar phenomenon that stands out, not just for its intrigue but also for the profound questions it raises about memory and reality. It’s known as the Mandela Effect. This term might sound like it’s plucked straight from a science fiction novel, but it’s a very real and deeply intriguing concept that has captured the imagination of psychologists and laypeople alike.</p>
<h4>Origins of the Name</h4>
<p>Let’s start with a bit of a backstory. The Mandela Effect gets its name from Nelson Mandela, the renowned anti-apartheid revolutionary and former president of South Africa. The term was coined by Fiona Broome, a paranormal researcher, who discovered that she, along with many others, remembered Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s during his imprisonment. However, in reality, Mandela was released in 1990 and passed away in 2013. This discrepancy between collective memory and historical fact sparked the conversation around what is now known as the Mandela Effect.</p>
<h4>What Exactly is the Mandela Effect?</h4>
<p>At its core, the Mandela Effect refers to a situation where a large group of people remembers an event or detail differently than how it occurred in reality. It’s like a glitch in the matrix of collective memory, where our recollections don’t align with the factual record. This phenomenon extends beyond just historical events. It includes misquotations from movies, misconceptions about logos, and even altered recollections of book titles and character names.</p>
<h4>Fascinating Examples</h4>
<p>Some classic examples of the Mandela Effect include the collective misremembering of the famous line from the movie “Star Wars,” where many recall Darth Vader saying, “Luke, I am your father,” when the actual line is, “No, I am your father.” Another example is the children’s book series “The Berenstain Bears.” Many recall it being spelled as “The Berenstein Bears,” creating a widespread sense of bewildered nostalgia.</p>
<h4>Exploring the Causes</h4>
<p>So, what causes this bizarre phenomenon? While the exact reasons are still debated, several theories offer explanations:</p>
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<li><strong>False Memories</strong>: This theory suggests that the Mandela Effect is a form of false memory, where inaccuracies in our memory systems lead to distorted recollections. Human memory is not a perfect recorder of events but rather a reconstructive process, prone to errors and influenced by biases and suggestions.</li>
<li><strong>Confabulation</strong>: Related to false memories, confabulation refers to the creation of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories, without the intention to deceive. It often fills in the gaps in one’s memory with what feels true or plausible.</li>
<li><strong>Social and Cognitive Factors</strong>: Memory is also influenced by social dynamics. The way information is presented, discussed, and reinforced in a group can lead to collective misremembering. Our cognitive biases, like the confirmation bias, where we favor information that confirms our preexisting beliefs, play a role too.</li>
<li><strong>Parallel Universes (A More Speculative Theory)</strong>: On the fringe, some suggest the Mandela Effect might be evidence of parallel universes or alternate realities. While this theory is more popular in science fiction than in scientific circles, it adds an intriguing, if speculative, dimension to the conversation.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Implications and Conclusions</h4>
<p>The Mandela Effect is more than just a curiosity; it has profound implications. It challenges our understanding of memory, reminding us that our recollections are not always as reliable as we believe. This has important implications in various fields, from legal (eyewitness testimonies) to psychological (understanding how memory works).</p>
<p>In conclusion, the Mandela Effect serves as a fascinating reminder of the complexities of the human mind. It’s a blend of psychology, culture, and perhaps a sprinkle of mystery, inviting us to question and explore the intriguing pathways of our memories and perceptions. Whether it’s a simple case of misremembering or something more profound, the Mandela Effect continues to be a captivating topic for both scientists and the public alike.</p>
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If you have to be dragged kicking and screaming by public outcry before you cancel Nazis, you support Nazis.
If the only way you can say that Cloudflare actively supported nazis was because they didn’t cancel them, it sounds to me like Cloudflare didn’t actively support nazis. Why is it so hard to say “Cloudflare didn’t cancel nazis” instead of lying and saying they “actively supported” them?
But you know what happened as well as I do, so your framing of events that way is interesting…
Yes, I do, which is why I’m confused as to why any reasonable person would think that Cloudflare’s actions here are in any way problematic.
Cloudflare considers themselves to be akin to a public utility. Do you think that public utilities should be able to refuse to provide their services to law-abiding nazis? I’m talking phone lines, electricity, gas for heat, water, etc… If so, why? Should it be limited to nazis? How do you ensure that only nazis are prevented from having running water and electricity?
Because ultimately this comes down to a company treating themselves as a public utility, and structuring their processes for determining if they would offer services to a company or individual under that basis, and then, having an established process, being resistant to making an exception to that process to refuse service to a group of nazis. Cloudflare said that there was a huge uptick in the amount of takedown requests that they received after they took down 8chan and The Daily Stormer. If their process were amended to prohibit certain kinds of legal speech, they would face increased pressure to take down even more sites, and not just sites belonging to nazis.
Again, this is all about the ability to have a website on the internet and not about being able to have a platform on social media, Youtube, Spotify, etc… The sites, effectively, are buildings, but the internet is like the land. I’m not saying anyone should be required to let a nazi in their building. Criticizing Facebook for not de-platforming nazis is fine. This is about access to what are effectively essential public services.
I see being able to run a website as an extension of the right to free speech. Because hosting a website on the internet requires the involvement of companies - domain name registrars, DNS hosting services, ISPs and the network, etc. - if you are consistently refused one of these services by these companies, you’re effectively denied this right. If you try to go start up your own domain registrar, you still have to deal with a company - the domain name registry. If you try to start up your own domain name registry, you still have to deal with a company - ICANN. The assets of these companies are protected by the government, and if you were to try to force your site onto the internet, the government would stop you. This probably isn’t technically government censorship, but it serves that same effective purpose. No, it isn’t government directed, but being directed by the market is just as bad, and in some cases, worse.
If you’re fine with a company refusing service in this instance, with the rationale being because they fundamentally disagree with the site’s content, it follows that it should be fine for such a company to refuse service to sites of politicians they don’t like (or who are in a race with one of their bigger customers or donors), anti-fascist forums, far-left and far-right forums, sites providing information on abortions, sites dedicated to open source projects that they or one of their stakeholders don’t like, storefronts for products they dislike, etc…
Maybe you think that would all be fine? I don’t. I think that sounds like something out of a dystopian late stage capitalism short story, and I want nothing to do with it.
If you’re not at least in agreement that it wouldn’t be fine, then I don’t know what to say. Why do you disagree?
If you are in agreement: it follows that access to internet services should generally be treated like access to public utilities, even if the companies aren’t technically considered to be public utilities. Legally prohibiting such companies from refusing service without actually classifying the companies as public utilities would itself be a violation of free speech. But it is still reasonable for them to behave like public utilities.
And given that this is reasonable, saying “Cloudflare supports nazis because they behaved like a public utility and didn’t ban these sites run by nazis, even though there was a huge public outcry” is a nonsensical statement. It’s basically “Cloudflare supports nazis because they did something reasonable, even when nazis were involved.” By that logic, “Cloudflare supports Hillary Clinton because they provide services to her site” is a reasonable statement. Does Cloudflare support every site that they provide services to? No, obviously not. Do they support every site that they’ve refused to honor a takedown request against? Again, no. Why is that answer different when nazis are involved?
I was looking for a quote from the EFF and found this article that covers the topic from Cloudflare’s perspective: www.wired.com/…/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/ - it’s worth a read, IMO.
Anyway, here’s the EFF bit:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has taken a stand that what it calls “intermediaries”—services like Cloudflare and GoDaddy that do not generate the content themselves—should not be adjudicating what speech is acceptable. The EFF has a strong presumption that most speech, even vile speech, should be allowed, but when illegal activity, like inciting violence or defamation, occurs, the proper channel to deal with it is the legal system. “It seems to me that the last thing we should be doing is having intermediaries deputizing themselves to make decisions about what’s OK,” says Corynne McSherry, legal director of the EFF. “What law enforcement will tell you is that it’s better for them to be able to keep track of potentially dangerous groups if they’re not pushed down into the dark web.” She adds: “I want my Nazis where I can see them.”
Another topic the article covers - not in EFF’s words, but in the CEO of Cloudflare’s - is that beyond just the “intermediaries” like Cloudflare making these calls, you have vigilante cyberattackers who DDOS the sites of people they don’t agree with:
Prince spoke about the peril posed by DDoS attacks. We might all agree, Prince argued, that content like the Daily Stormer shouldn’t be online, but the mechanism for silencing those voices should not be vigilante hackers.
I agree with this, as well as with the EFF’s take, and as far as I can tell there simply isn’t a rational criticism of Cloudflare’s resistance to banning The Daily Stormer that doesn’t literally require accepting that free speech isn’t all that important.
My takeaway is that it’s only original Rogue fans that care about the delineation of the terms. Is there a modern (i.e. post 2000s game) that matches the definition of a roguelike as given in the article?
Well, a lot of that boils down to actually “putting in the effort” to have sane-ish distinctions (the bar is low). You’ll see similar arguments from the milsim crowd, for example. Same with a lot of flight sims where there are generally pretty well understood criteria for the different subtypes (even if it is a mess to find a way to refer to stuff like “Lock-On” that is not “arcadey”…). This isn’t “Well, it has a level up animation so I guess it is an RPG”. This is “It meets criteria X, Y, and Z so it is a roguelike. It meets only x and y, so it is a roguelike. Why do you keep bringing up Operation Flashpoint?”
Contrast that with something like FPSes where you can vaguely distinguish the different eras but there is a lot more bleedover to the point of (fucking stupid and borderline offensive name aside…) not actually being sure if DOOM 2016 is a “boomer shooter” because of the design decisions… even though DOOM is the gold standard for both 2016 and stuff like Dusk (actually Quake was, but DOOM markets better).
Like, I assume most of the crowd are too young to remember but there were actually REALLY big arguments over “MMO” back in the day. Maybe we all remember the question of “So… is Destiny an MMO?”. But there were a LOT of arguments over Guild Wars 1. Because it looked like an MMO and it even progressed like an MMO but… it was Diablo 2 with a fancy skin for the IRC chat room between instances. And a lot of people (kind of rightfully…) blame Guild Wars 1 for the mess that has resulted in “Diablo 4 is my favorite MMO”.
Which, getting back to Roguelikes/lites… as long as you listen to WHY something is not a roguelike, it is a really good distinction. If the reason involves progression mechanics then you almost immediately know if you care. And if it becomes one about aesthetics, you know nobody, not even the person bringing it up, really cares.
When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.
From what I understand due to the way that Lemmy handles federation, it doesn't (currently?) have a way to handle an instance changing its domain name and still being able to communicate or even an individual user changing their instance and retaining their comments/votes/etc... (this might be more ActivityPub limited since the way Mastodon does it still seems pretty hacky and just a work around for underlying issues).
From a website perspective, yeah, just change some settings and you're good to go and accessible on the web, but that doesn't mean that anything regarding Lemmy is going to actually work.
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Is it always weird on new instances, I’m seeing posts from a random amount of days ago, no votes and no comments. Also, is it possible to federate with communities automatically or do I have to search for them all one at a time to add them to my instance?
I remember there was a tool so you can download your lemmy subscriptions then upload it to your new Lemmy instance so in that way it will federate with those you are interested in. I don’t exactly remember the name but if I find it will comment back here.
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Literally spoken as a leftist who has gotten bans for not being a Maoist bootlicker. My accounts with this name across multiple instances are the on a short leash for daring to question ML dogma.
I 100% agree that what you suggest could be a valid usecase. However, from my subjective point of view, people are not using it that way. Let me present an example.
There are 12 communities dedicated to Bitcoin in general. I can’t imagine 12 different points of view to discuss this topic from. Lemmy.ml somehow has 3, but 2 of them are completely empty.
All of these are mere duplicates of each other. Let’s put the technical difficulties aside, and imagine we have a global namespace, and each instance just has it’s own mod team to which users would auto-subscribe (with an option to opt-out, or use a different list). Now we have more users seeing each other and being able to react to each other. Sure, that would put more strain on the individual mod teams, but, there could be a system in place to make it easier for them to cooperate. Two or more mod teams flagged a comment? Let’s auto-suggest it for the review to the rest.
TLDR; More users, more mods, more fruitful discussion.
Then, there are more niche communities. 1 dedicated just to the lightning network, 1 dedicated just to the markets, 1 probably dedicated to trolling and memes, 1 dedicated to bitcoin from the point of view of the united kingdom.
Google's annoying 'update ownership' sideload warning spreads to more apps and phones (www.androidpolice.com)
Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance.
I did a search from shitjustworks for “reddit die” and did not find lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a “ping” sent out to notify all other federated instances....
After LA police raid home of Black Lives Matter attorney, a judge orders photographs destroyed (www.independent.co.uk)
A judge has ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of photos of legal documents that were allegedly taken during an unannounced raid on the home of an attorney for a Black Lives Matter activist...
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Nostr vs Mastodon and why I'm using both
Nostr and Mastodon have both positioned themselves as “twitter alternatives” and both offer some degree of federation. I have done quite a bit of reading and testing with both and am writing this in case you are curious about which one may work best for you....
can't find this it/computer shutterstock community
I said it all inside title, I once found & visited a lemmy community with only stock photos of really (really) silly illustrations of network/softwares, bitcoin or people working in computer but you can see using a screwdriver on graphic card won’t help ahah....
Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood (apnews.com)
Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday....
Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?
cross-posted from: hachyderm.io/users/maegul/…/111820598712013429...
Does Nix's break from FHS cause problems?
I know that a lot of what Nix does is working around its break from FHS, but I can imagine there are still things that seep through. Are there any unsolvable problems due to this?...
More Gen Z Americans identify as LGBTQ than as Republican (www.thepinknews.com)
let’s gooo
Proposed better Mastodon + Lemmy parity | Attachments (github.com)
Suggested for better post viewing inside Mastodon
Why does everyone hate Cloudflare?
They get shit on a lot here. Why? What do they do and how is that different from other companies that offer similar services?...
Roguelike vs Roguelite - what's the difference? (whatnerd.com)
My takeaway is that it’s only original Rogue fans that care about the delineation of the terms. Is there a modern (i.e. post 2000s game) that matches the definition of a roguelike as given in the article?
Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban (wedistribute.org)
When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.
Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban (wedistribute.org)
When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.
Managed to set up an instance using Lemmy-Easy-Deploy but federation is being a bit weird
Is it always weird on new instances, I’m seeing posts from a random amount of days ago, no votes and no comments. Also, is it possible to federate with communities automatically or do I have to search for them all one at a time to add them to my instance?
DNA Nano-Engine (www.techbriefs.com)
Nature Nanotechnology.
Lemmy is a perfect reddit replacement in terms of saving a post "for later" and never coming back to it
Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)
I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.