Just keep clicking through those pages and you’ll see they federated. How come none of you bothered to even check out the instances themselves? This is why fake news spreads…
So, with news of Reddit making deals to sell user data for AI training, I think we should really start organizing ourselves for an effective migration campaign....
I called this happening when whatever his name is, Twitch CEO man, gave the public speech/stream being very, very appreciative of Amazon for their support.
When you do /that/ it means your business model is a failure.
(no clue if this is somehow against some rules or some kind of lemmy instance feud, but heres the thread with my original post)
Anyway, Twitch is quite likely to ultimately basically kill itself with this move, and Amazon will either spin the employees off into existing Amazon sub sections, possibly but not likely do some nonsense like keep the twitch brand name but dramatically re orient the site, or, most likely, just slowly lay off more and more twitch employees and formally pull the plug, while retaining the brand rights and web url, all that kinda stuff.
I give it about 2 years before one of those scenarios comes to fruition. Could be faster if insanity twitch drama gets even more insane than normal.
Star_Trek is a safe harbour for Star Trek fans that may have found themselves on the receiving end of the ban hammer for daring to have an opinion that differed from the power mad mods on Reddit’s Star Trek sub and/or Lemmy’s own StarTrek.website....
Go have a read of the modlog on the communities on the startrek.website instance. You’ll see that almost none are justifiable bans and nearly are all for disagreeing with the mod’s opinions or calling them out for shitty behaviour.
It was the same story on Reddit too. The mods here are the same from the main Trek sub over there. There were rumours that they were Paramount employees as they had some control over the admins too. Getting new Star Trek subs taken down very quickly if they were saying too many negative things about the current shows.
If you see the type of posts and comments on my community you’ll see that they are all very civil and are able to share their true opinions without fear of a ban.
At the moment the community is being promoted as a safe harbour for victims of the mods on the other communities but that’s a necessary evil at the moment and we will develop our own identity over time.
<p>A study from Norway has found that men who use muscle-boosting steroids are more likely to suffer from poor sleep quality. The findings, published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05516-6"><em>BMC Psychiatry</em></a>, suggest that these sleep issues might persist even after steroid use ends, highlighting the need for increased awareness of the side effects associated with these substances.</p>
<p>Anabolic-androgenic steroids, commonly referred to simply as “steroids,” are synthetic substances that mimic the effects of the male sex hormone testosterone. They are used medically to treat conditions like delayed puberty and muscle loss from certain diseases. However, steroids are more commonly known for their use by athletes and bodybuilders to enhance muscle mass, strength, and physical performance.</p>
<p>The motivation for this study stemmed from the observation that steroid hormones naturally present in the body have a profound influence on sleep patterns. Since steroids are derivatives of these natural hormones, there was a scientific interest in understanding whether and how synthetic steroids might affect sleep. Prior evidence suggested that individuals using steroids could experience sleep disturbances, but there was a lack of extensive research exploring this connection.</p>
<p>“Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) and their relations to sleep and psychological distress are areas that still hold many unanswered questions,” said study author Sandra Klonteig of Oslo University Hospital.</p>
<p>“Being a relatively new substance, introduced in the 80s, we are still exploring the long-term effects of AAS. Given the reported sleep problems among men who use AAS and the established relationship between sleep and psychological distress, it was interesting to delve deeper into these relations, in particular how sleep quality varies during on/off periods of AAS use and its relations to psychological distress.”</p>
<p>The study included a sample of 126 adult male weightlifters, with 68 being current or past users of steroids and 58 non-users serving as a control group. Recruitment channels included social media outreach, online forums dedicated to weightlifting and bodybuilding, and direct contact within gyms in the Oslo region. The study sought participants deeply engaged in heavy resistance training, which was quantified by the ability to bench press a minimum of 220 pounds. For the steroid users, a minimum of one year of cumulative steroid use was required for inclusion.</p>
<p>The researchers collected data using detailed questionnaires, which the participants filled out to report on their sleep quality, medication use, and any side effects from steroid use. To measure sleep quality, the study employed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Jenkins Sleep Scale — both established tools in the assessment of sleep issues. Participants’ mental health was also evaluated using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist, a recognized gauge for symptoms of anxiety and depression.</p>
<p>The sleep quality of steroid users, as per the PSQI , was significantly worse than that of the control group. The researchers discovered that nearly all components of the PSQI showed greater disturbance among steroid users, except for sleep latency — the time it takes to fall asleep. This was supported by Jenkins Sleep Scale scores, which also pointed to troubled sleep among steroid users.</p>
<p>Furthermore, a notable proportion of the steroid-using participants, approximately two-thirds, reported experiencing sleep problems as a side effect of their steroid use. This self-reported data provided real-world corroboration of the clinical measurements.</p>
<p>The researchers observed a strong association between poor sleep and psychological distress. Using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist, they found that symptoms of depression and anxiety were not only more prevalent among steroid users but were also closely linked to the poor sleep outcomes measured by the PSQI. Interestingly, while depression seemed to partially mediate the relationship between steroid use and poor sleep, anxiety did not have a significant mediating effect.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>For a more nuanced analysis, a subset of 22 participants was closely observed over approximately 22 weeks, covering periods of active steroid use (“on-cycle”) and abstinence (“off-cycle”). This sub-study aimed to understand the impact of hormonal fluctuations on sleep during and after steroid use.</p>
<p>The findings from this subset reinforced the broader results. It showed that sleep quality fluctuated with the cycles of steroid use. During periods of active steroid use and withdrawal, the participants’ sleep quality was worse than that of the control group, with the withdrawal periods marked by particularly poor sleep. This suggests that the hormonal fluctuations associated with periods of steroid use and cessation may play a significant role in sleep disturbance.</p>
<p>“Our study found that poor sleep quality is a common side effect of AAS use, with 66% of men with current or previous long-term AAS use reporting sleep problems, and 38% reporting use of sleep medications,” Klonteig told PsyPost. “There’s a strong association between poor sleep and psychological distress, but psychological distress does not fully mediate the relationship between AAS use and poor sleep.”</p>
<p>“We found that sleep quality was poorest during withdrawal from AAS, potentially due to anabolic steroid-induced hypogonadism. The link between mental health, AAS use, and sleep underlines the importance of addressing sleep problems when devising treatment strategies for AAS use and mental health issues.”</p>
<p>However, the study wasn’t without its caveats. The cross-sectional nature of the data meant that the researchers couldn’t confirm if steroid use caused the sleep problems, just that there was a connection. The research, focused on a Norwegian male population, may not apply universally. There were also potential lifestyle factors related to steroid use that weren’t fully accounted for, which could influence sleep, such as diet or other substance use.</p>
<p>Despite these limitations, the research paves the way for future studies to delve deeper, perhaps including a wider demographic and employing longitudinal follow-ups with a variety of measurements to better understand the biological and psychological mechanisms at play.</p>
<p>The implications of this study are significant for public health, particularly for those involved in sports and fitness who might consider or are using steroids. It suggests that individuals using steroids could be at risk of not just short-term sleep disturbances but potentially long-term sleep-related and mental health issues. The study underscores the importance of awareness around the side effects of steroid use and provides a strong foundation for further research that might lead to better support and treatment for those affected.</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-024-05516-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sleep pathology and use of anabolic androgen steroids among male weightlifters in Norway</a>,” was authored by Sandra Klonteig, Morgan Scarth, and Astrid Bjørnebekk.</p>
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While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.
No lmao, I tried to upvote his comment and Thunder spat out that error. A few subs have started doing that (or it’s instance-wide but only for certain VPN servers) in the last week or so.
As the title states really. I need to refer to this diverse group of people, who somehow have gotten put in the same box labeled “sexual minorites”....
For my two cents, I find in conversations it’s easiest to refer to it as the “queer community” or “gay community.” If I’m feeling an acronym, the first one I reach for is LGBT. And that’s me speaking as one of those q+ folks.
Now for me, I prefer to use Queer because it’s sort of an umbrella term. For instance, all lesbians are queer, but not all queer people are lesbians. It’s also great for people who don’t like labels, because it doesn’t pigeonhole someone into a specific box.
The term “queer” has a little history behind it too. When I was in middle school, being called queer was like, the ultimate insult. It was used pejoratively, and it felt bad to hear it. Nowadays we’re reclaiming the word, and it loses its evilness. That all said, you can call people “queer,” but don’t call a person “a queer” or else you’re being insulting. It’s to be used like an adjective, not a noun.
Generally speaking, I don’t like an overly verbose acronym. It’s part of why I stop at LGBT or LGBTQ instead of going all the way to LGBTQ+, or as my government seems to want to say, LGBTQ2IA+. In my opinion, the effort to make the community more inclusive by adding more sub-communities to the acronym has the opposite effect.
Lol @ driving a car being simple. That is one of the more complex sensory somatic tasks that humans do. You have to calculate the rate of all vehicles in front of you, assess for collision probabilities, monitor for non-vehicle obstructions (like people, animals, etc.), adjust the accelerator to maintain your own velocity while terrain changes, be alert to any functional changes in your vehicle and be ready to adapt to them, maintain a running inventory of laws which apply to you at the given time and be sure to follow them. Hell, that is not even an exhaustive list for a sunny day under the best conditions. Driving is fucking complicated. We have all just formed strong and deeply connected pathways in our somatosensory and motor cortexes to automate most of the tasks. You might say it is a very well-trained neural network with hundreds to thousands of hours spent refining and perfecting the responses.
The issue that AI has right now is that we are only running 1 to 3 sub-AIs to optimize and calculate results. Once that number goes up, they will be capable of a lot more. For instance: one AI for finding similarities, one for categorizing them, one for mapping them into a use case hierarchy to determine when certain use cases apply, one to analyze structure, one to apply human kineodynamics to the structure and a final one to analyze for effectiveness of the kineodynamic use cases when done by a human. This would be a structure that could be presented an object and told that humans use it and the AI brain could be able to piece together possible uses for the tool and describe them back to the presenter with instructions on how to do so.
I have seen - in multiple subs, across multiple years - evidence where someone will take something like every post or perhaps random ones but it’s especially obvious in megathreads, and just downvote EVERY SINGLE COMMENT inside of it, regardless of content. It becomes really really super obvious when you look at it like 2 hours later, and there are >100 comments all with scores of "0"s or other obvious patterns like an extremely helpful reply that even a day later still has merely a “1”, but then the last 5 replies to the newest comments all have "1"s. And you can see the precise demarkation between them i.e. you can determine roughly what time the bot (or human, whatever) ran. And it goes on for YEARS and YEARS, just this constant background of “noise” that runs behind most conversations across the whole sub, unless they are deeply buried and occur days after the OP.
I also have screenshots of people on Discord asking for precisely this to be done. The people asking were themselves mods iirc. There is a term for this btw, and it is called “brigading”. One time something similar happened to a small sub that I was modding on Reddit, and in that case he was actually banned from the much larger Reddit sub that he was on - by those mods tbc, not Reddit admins - and then we spent the next year trying to get the guy banned each time he spun up a new account, but spoke in the same mannerisms etc. Finally Reddit admins did manage to ban the one guy, confirming as they did that he used at least 3 different accounts. So that’s +1 for Reddit, yay, except it took them a whole year, plus they won’t get up off their butts to do anything about any of the other people that were also doing similar stuff to us.
And the sheer irony, the arrogance, of it all, is that Huffman claims THAT to be the value-add that Reddit provides to people who want to communicate with one another!? Here, if someone is being a big meanie to you, and neither the mods nor the instance admins are helping, you can literally fuck right off and in the worst case, spin up your own entire instance and have full control, or at least find a friendly, like-minded place if that’s not your thing. It takes effort to leave, yeah, and especially to find a new place, but it WORKS, and that makes all the difference in the world.
It’s like hearing a crying baby on an airplane - if you are superman you can just open the door, close it again and fly away:-P, there is simply no need at all to put up with people that literally refuse to control themselves (ofc that case is more understandable, but when the baby in question is 10, 20, 30, 40, even 50+ years old… it becomes far less so:-D).
So pity them - I assure you that like the crying baby example, their own personal life is not at all happy - but yeah also take care of yourself, even/especially if they refuse to:-|.
I’ve been noticing the same sort of behaviour that you’re talking about. And while I don’t know the cause, I don’t think that it’s caused by trolls or bots. Instead I’m guessing a few potential factors:
Demographic concentration in general purpose, lax moderation instances, tailored to attract your typical Reddit user instead of more reasonable people.
Lemmy+Kbin users being proportionally more combative, entitled, petty, and/or whiny, due to how people reached this platform.
“Powerjanny” mentality being inherited from Reddit, specially given the likely higher proportion of former Reddit moderators here.
General lack of mod tools, forcing moderators to take sub-optimal decisions on how to handle users and content.
Normalisation of witch hunting, making people walk on eggs to avoid being confused with witches, and assuming that the ones not walking on eggs fly on a broom.
Normalisation of stupidity, and subsequent normalisation of oversimplifications, assumptions, genetic fallacies, phobia against uncertainty, decontextualisation, etc.; with those things either making the stupid act in a hostile way, or others act in a hostile way towards the stupid.
Natural reinforcement of behaviour in social groups.
This is already a rather large wall of text and I’m trying to be succinct, but feel free to ask further reasoning on any of those points.
Disclaimers to avoid replies to this comment that would exemplify itI’m aware that I’m not exactly “gentle” towards users showing stupidity, thus being part of the problem, and in no moment I even implied to be “above” it. By “stupid” I’m clearly referring to able people who behave in an irrational way. I am not talking about disabled people. In fact “the stupid” is better seen as a set of user behaviours than as a specific group of people.
A lot of it depends on the instance. I think there's a little bit of a smartest bears type of problem going on, with a lot of the bad-faith content coming from just ignorant and abrasive people being sincerely ignorant and abrasive, not anything that's a bot or a deliberate troll.
Personally, I've done some rounds of unsubscribing from tech and politics subs on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, and when I've done that my amount of toxic content and interactions went way down. I think the prevalence of the exact same thing on the tech subs points to it probably being just a bad-person problem in large proportion, although I'm sure deliberate malfeasance is at the root of some of it also.
they seemed to be leaking in from one particular instance I was subbed to. I unsubbed from that instance before coffee this morning and now I can't even remember which one it was, so I'm seeing fewer of them, at least.
It’s still very active seemingly, after making this comment I started a new play through lol.
Basically each sub region starts off as “disconnected from the network”, so your first expedition to a new area you’ll have no help from other players, only what you bring with you. Once you connect the region to the network, that’s when other players items can start appearing in your world and vice versa. Now it’s instanced so you won’t see everything every single player has placed, just a subset. Now there’s also a concept of “bandwidth”. When you first connect an area to the network, the bandwidth is low so only smaller, lower level things will show up in your game. You’ll start to see some conveniently placed ladders and ropes mostly. So you go from being 100% on your own, to having a little help here and there. Which each new completed delivery though, you increase the bandwidth available, and you’ll see more / bigger objects enter your game world. Bridges can that span a river, timefall unbrellas that let you wait out a storm with some music, watchtowers that can give you a Birds Eye view, things of that nature. When you get the bandwidth really high, you’ll start to see bigger structures like sections of floating highways allowing truck travel, and even underground bunkers that function just like private rooms do in the big locations. So the more time you spend in one area completing bigger deliveries that need to be delivered faster, the game very gradually adds more player support to the game. So the game retains its challenge when you’re first entering an unexplored area, but makes it less tedious to deliver follow up deliveries as time goes on. It’s really brilliant in my opinion. Because while it’s fun to man vs wild your way to new places, it wouldn’t be as fun to keep treading the same route the same way over and over. The way they’ve implemented this system keeps things relatively fresh.
Another factor is that the timefall rain will degrade both your and other players structures over time. So without maintenance, things placed down will eventually be destroyed. You can haul resources to both your own structures as well as other players to keep them repaired. Bigger structures require more resources and collaboration to maintain. You can also favorite certain players and then their stuff specifically might show up in your game more so than random players, so you can almost have an asynchronous “friendship” with someone you never see.
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
which seemed like it implied being held to any moderation standard was problematic.
I think that’s more of your interpretation than my intention.
In nearly 3 and a half decades of heavy internet use, admin and mod messages in general are more annoyance than value and I find that my experience is better just filtering them all out. I know that probably applies less here than in most other forums I’ve participated and probably sounds like I’m being personally hostile.
I’m sincerely not, you seem like a pleasant and well written person and we probably align in a lot of our ideals.
But I’d still block you if I had the opportunity, again because of your role, not your person. Keep in mind Lemmy’s blocking doesn’t prevent you replying like reddit’s did so there really should be no implications in me wanting to block admin replies. You can still illustrate to the community what my rules failure is and I can be mercifully free of arbitrary justifications.
Even though I do not have experience at such a large scope, I understand being a mod/admin isn’t easy, I co-modded /r/talesfromtamriel for a few years and even as a niche sub with a positive community, it was still a task to handle all the spam and harassment.
So I want you to know I value your effort and have been very much doing my best to be a contributive member of this instance as I was on early reddit, but I want to make this very clear: I would still block you, and every admin and mod on the instance if I could. And I have that sentiment for every single forum I have been on since AOL chatroom days.
To be clear, the only site I have ever been banned from in my entire time on the internet has been reddit for saying ‘Punching nazis is a moral good’. I am not a rabble rouser or deliberate antagonist (with the exception of auto antagonism towards white nationalists and I will gladly take any ban you want to give me for shouting down nazis) and truly value the good online communities I participate in.
And I like beehaw, and most of the people I’ve spoken to here are quality posters. This feels a lot like old reddit for the most part. I want to be a longtime member and contributed tens of thousands of words a week.
But I don’t really want to see anything from any mod or admin because if it’s positive, fine I don’t need to be aware of it. If it’s negative, then I will find out the results organically. Again I know this will feel like a personal attack but it really isn’t: I am better off not knowing what those roles type because in nearly every circumstance there is an implicit or explicit misuse of authority that will piss me off to no end and cause me to reply in ways that seem to only antagonize the situation.
And you will say ‘But here, we are different. We moderate with a light touch and only when necessary’.
And I have heard that so many, many times before and I can count the number of times that has been true on one hand of a clumsy woodshop teacher.
And you may be correct, and frankly this place has the BEST chance I’ve seen of being true to that maxim, and I am thankful that this place exists because of it.
And I know moderation is necessary, there are truly rancid and destructive people out there that need to have their posts removed, and accounts banned for the betterment of the community.
And I know it is a thankless, no-pay job that exposes you to the worst the internet has to offer (and that is saying something).
That said. I’d still block you if I could. I don’t mean that personally, it just works out better in the long run.
I’m not sure they have technical glitches in the same way lemmy does. Interestingly, the difficulties people have, I think, are because federated social media is actually a bad non-idea technology to use for a twitter clone.
So much either doesn’t work how you’d expect or involves new problems that all together they start to defeat the point for many. For example, replies to a post. The author of the post sees all of the replies. But replies aren’t actually federated unless certain conditions are met based on whether someone on your instance follows the person writing the reply. As a result the author of a post that receives many replies has to manage/tolerate a bunch of replies that have no awareness of the fact that they’re just repeating what has already been said, sometimes many times over. For people replying to a post from a small/niche instance, they basically don’t see any of the other replies, which just makes for bad content for them, but also means they constantly risking being really annoying people which in turn effectively punishes small instances. This is generally referred to as “context collapse”, and yea, it’s something kinda extraordinary when the core feature of a social media platform actively destroys the context of conversations.
Lemmy doesn’t have this problem because its based on groups where the whole premise is that the whole conversation gets federated, and for that reason I think a reddit clone or a forum or a youtube-clone (or anything based on groups, sub-reddits or channels) is a better fit on the fediverse.
The other friction mastodon has is that, as a twitter-clone or microblogging platform, its core mechanic is following people and allowing people to form their own network of connections and friendships. But once you’ve got federation and instances in the mix, where defederation happens, then you have this often completely separate dynamic (ie the relations between instances) capable of completely slicing your personal social network in many destructive ways. Often this happens without people hearing about it (as there aren’t mechanics for notifying people of defederations AFAIU), so that they have to find out after some time to realise that they hadn’t heard anything from a whole bunch of friends and were wondering what had happened. Moreover, what such people can then do to re-connect with those friends is rather non-trivial. It’s probably the major draw back of fedi-drama, that the majority of people affected by it don’t benefit from it and would prefer to just be on the big instance (mastodon.social) that no one really defederates from or just go back to twitter.
EDIT (more ranting):
The way someone I like (as a person on social media) put it, after giving mastodon a good shot, was that mastodon misunderstands what people want from social media, that mastodon puts independence over socialising when people prioritise it the other way around … the whole point is to connect and converse, not to run your own instance and make sure you’ve defederated from everyone who has it coming.
Now there’s the whole issue of making sure someone vulnerable to abuse is able to ensure their own safety and happiness from would-be assholes and abusers and even those eager to voice unwelcome, abrasive and triggering points of view which are generally tolerable because they’re the mainstream. Federation across instances can help with this … but can also make it worse because anyone can talk to you from any instance over which you have no control or information until it’s too late. In many ways, decentralisation isn’t great for these problems and creates new problems that a centralised form of social media simply doesn’t have (not least of which being that the whole thing is about copying you and your posts out to everything on the network). It’s for this reason that BIPOC left mastodon and went back to twitter, because to them, mastodon was the racist/facist place, not twitter. In light of that phenomenon, it’s worth considering the perspective that decentralised social media might be a bit of a weird idea and rightly seen as a bit of a fanatical and even a bit of a right-wing or libertarian movement.
In the case of group-based platforms like lemmy and forums however, I think it makes much more sense. Many independent forums are out there, and have been and hopefully will be for a long time. Why not contribute Open Source software for such things (such as lemmy) and enable them to connect to each other however they wish.
90% of the kind of content you’re talking about can be removed by blocking a couple of domains and a handful of users. I believe that they’ve been defederated from most of the larger instances. You will run into a lot of hot takes on lemmy but that’s not too different from reddit.
I think there’s a few reasons why they may be more prominent on lemmy, though. Communities like r/politics took a while to stabilize and had a large and active moderation team that helped remove the most extreme material, and the community itself was large enough that it was representative of a large swath of the US population. Hot takes would often get downvoted into invisibility, which frustrates people who use forums for trolling, and karma could be used to restrict posting. AFAIK those are not qualities or capabilities currently found on lemmy. I haven’t really read the docs - I prefer to just be a user here - but I have seen discussions that indicate that downvotes don’t get tracked as well as suggestions they be removed altogether.
Also, a new technology - especially one associated with sectors of the FOSS community and anti-centralization - are by their nature going to attract an initial user base that skews in certain directions. I think it was Eric Raymond who observed that hackers, politically, tend to be either socialists or libertarians with very little in between. ESR was being a bit tongue in cheek and the hacker culture back then was different than it is now - or rather computer culture as a whole has expanded so much that the old school hacker types form a much smaller percentage.
I think the most problematic part about lemmy which will ultimately limit its adoption is the chaos that comes in from having dozens of communities across dozens of instances that all cover the same topics. It makes discovery much more challenging than it is on Reddit, and it doesn’t help that many of the clients can make it challenging to identify which topics are actually the most used. One of my favorite clients keeps defaulting to ordering by a most recently created timestamp or something - I’m not really sure. It doesn’t have the support to sort or filter by number of users (although it displays the metric).
The other issue is that I end up having to remain on All rather than just my subscriptions because there’s so few users, so I end up with a ton of random anime, for instance, which I can’t effectively block because they’re all posted in new subs that crop up all the time, and I can’t block using wildcards (which would help a lot).
I do hope that between the lemmy devs and the app devs, they can address those issues.
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....
This. I want to be able to see every community of every instance i‘m federated with with post and sub count. Thats a laughable amount of data. This would boost subscriptions by insane amounts.
I definitely don’t agree. I think this is very problematic. I rely on all to find new communities. I don’t think one newcommunities sub is a valid replacement. It would suffer from the same issue – people would have to spam their post to every single instances’s newcommunities sub, which is ridiculous and not even viable.
Why not? When the person created the sub it would have sent out a ping to all federated instances, and thus when any account on a federated instance searches the keyword they would find that sub. IE: each instance would have a list of subs of all other federated instances. Like a sitemap.
This is not about federation between instances. It’s about how community discovery within federated instances works. Currently it’s definitely sub-par.
Lemmy [All] shows whatever it considers the highest upvoted and trending no matter the community or instance, as long as yours is federated. Switch to Lemmy [subscriptions] or Lemmy [Subs] to see communities you are apart of.
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So, with news of Reddit making deals to sell user data for AI training, I think we should really start organizing ourselves for an effective migration campaign....
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Star_Trek is a safe harbour for Star Trek fans that may have found themselves on the receiving end of the ban hammer for daring to have an opinion that differed from the power mad mods on Reddit’s Star Trek sub and/or Lemmy’s own StarTrek.website....
Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses (arstechnica.com)
While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.
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How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?
As the title states really. I need to refer to this diverse group of people, who somehow have gotten put in the same box labeled “sexual minorites”....
In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness. (lemmy.world)
I think AI is neat.
Enjoy it while it lasts (startrek.website)
Is the bot/troll situation getting worse?
It feels like the amount of both, divisive posts and ghoulish comments is rising again....
(Edit - it's over, for now.) Why are there so many cracked software spam posts in the last few days?
I know spam posts have been around for a while but not like this....
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO (www.bloomberg.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....
The glorious XM7 (sh.itjust.works)