I’m a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I’ve kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I’ve managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked...
Nine. How much ram do they use? How much disk space? Try running 90, or 900. Currently, on my personal hobby kubernetes cluster, there’s 83 different instances running. Because of the low overhead, I can run even small tools in their own container, completely separate from the rest. If I run say… a postgresql server… spinning one up takes 90mb disk space for the image, and about 15 mb ram.
I worked at a company that did - among other things - hosting, and was using VM’s for easier management and separation between customers. I wasn’t directly involved in that part day to day, but was friend with the main guy there. It was tough to manage. He was experimenting with automatic creating and setting up new VM’s, stripping them for unused services and files, and having different sub-scripts for different services. This was way before docker, but already then admins were looking in that direction.
So aschually, docker is kinda made for people who runs things in VM’s, because that is exactly what they were looking for and duct taping things together for before docker came along.
My Samsung s9+ with Evolver Android 13 custom rom (and duo sim) is still a very good phone. Amoled screen, good camera and battery life still over a day when setting the brightness not too high. Not a scratch on it too. I don't use it daily though as it is a very big phone, but I take it when going out or on holiday because the camera on my iPhone SE is crap and as you mention for gaming.
I have been repairing tons of these phones here in the Netherlands and it is just a very solid phone that is very easy to repair. The s10 for instance comes with a single board instead of sub and mainboard like the s8 and s9 series, so when something is wrong with a USB, like not charging or connecting to PC or the mic doesn't work the board get's scrapped for usable components and these components come back on refurfed boards that we get back from Samsung (those are often a pain in the ass prone to not pass the quality checks after repair).
I still use an iPad 2 for making music and as MIDI controller for the Home Studio, I just dislike to throw away perfectly good hardware, as is my s9+
I’m a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it’s a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world....
Yeah, as big as Reddit’s namespace for subreddits was, Lemmy’s is another dimension bigger because you can have one community per name per instance. This feels daunting and possibly confusing at first. But honestly Reddit wasn’t much better. In fact, I think Lemmy’s approach solves certain issues that Reddit’s approach created, such as:
r/actual_subreddit u/PM_ME_YOUR_GANGLIA registers r/nerves, then neuron enthusiasts come in to talk about the latest in sensory meat, except u/PM_ME_YOUR_GANGLIA is a terrible person who runs the sub like a complete asshole. So u/teh_whizzz opens up r/actual_nerves or r/nerve_tissue or whatever and that becomes the actual place for nervous system affectionados to hang out…until the meme spam becomes excessive and then r/nerve_memes has to split off…you know what I’m talking about.
There’s no reason for that to happen on Lemmy, because if the mods at !nerves won’t quit dipping their infected foreskins in the punch bowl, someone can open !nerves or !nerves. Eventually most traffic will move to the “actual” one that isn’t run by skid marks. Newcomers who think “I wonder if there’s any communities about nerves” will use the search communities feature, then check out the most popular one.
In the big Reddit Exodus 6 months ago, a lot of people joined the platform, created various identical communities on various instances…most of which went on to gain no traffic whatsoever. Everyone searching for communities ended up going with The Popular One for whatever topic.
Or, even if there are simultaneous functioning communities, this means one of two things: folks will end up subscribed to both, maybe the mods maintain slightly different aesthetics or house rules so they’re both useful in different ways, or the same posts get made to both so you only need to be subscribed to one.
Then, what if the instance a popular community was on goes offline? This can, has, and will continue to happen. The community can coalesce again on a different instance and keep right on tranglin.
@PlutoniumAcid first of all, you would go by most active not biggest subscriber numbers (which you can't actually see accurately from within your own instance), and not everyone even does this, let alone joining everything.
Recently I made a multi for news communities so I could get an overview, and it's definitely not all the same people in all the big ones (my instance lets me see the names of upvoters). People join what feels right.
I don’t want to bother posting on all the damn sites.
I don't get what you mean by this. I post all over the fediverse but I do it all from right here on kbin! That said, there's no need. Why not just post in the communities you like most? It's no different to reddit in that regard - you don't feel pressure to post in all the subreddits, do you?
Eg outside my own instance I like the big movies over at .world but when it comes to global news I prefer .ml, but for sciencey stuff I tend to sub on mander.xyz.
but it’s juuust shy of being mainstream enough for the average Joe
True, for now. Full disclosure, I don't particularly want reddit to move here just yet. It was getting too full of people who sound like my racist aunt. The fediverse has a feeling of chill still, people contribute because we're having fun building something new, there's no algorithms, shill armies, or enshittification.
I've been on the internet since the 1990s, so I've seen things rise and fall, and I think the future of social media is federated. I get enthusiastic about it, but of course it's not ready for everyone yet, and realistically most older people may never even get here. But now I've discovered it, I'm never going back. :)
World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....
We read a lot more than we talk, or at least I hope that we do so. Do you think that the content is only valuable if you can interact with it?
Should we just forget about books because it doesn’t have a comment section?
I don’t f*cking care about the size of the Fediverse above a certain threshold, and we have reached that imo.
That can only possibly be true if your niches are so extreme that you and your peers are ostracized by the mainstream channels or if you have no niche interest whatsoever.
Anything in between is completely non-existent in the Fediverse. Take a look at any subreddit after the top 250, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a corresponding Lemmy community, and even if you do manage to find them I’ll give you 100:1 odds they are dead or in a zombie state.
The maker community is non-existent here.
The technology communities have nothing but the usual stream of anti-corporate news that gets a lot of clicks but does not bring any actionable to people.
Same thing for urban planners or those interested in sustainable development. If all you care about is getting shitty memes and having a circlejerk of people saying “look at that asshole because of his big car” then sure !fuckcars will be enough for you. If you want to have a community of people to get organized to see how they can improve their cities and making more human-scale development, you are SOL.
There was an instance for researchers in ML/AL that (I believe) was run by some serious people. The instance seems to be abandoned and the admins is back at posting at Reddit.
they understand and care about the platform’s goals and ethos, not just because it has the biggest potential audience.
This is the same type of gatekeeping that makes sites like lobste.rs completely irrelevant. It may have a higher SNR in relation to something like hackernews, but at the end of the day what matters is the total amount of signal if the noise can be filtered properly.
Answering a post and later realizing it was made by a bot makes you feel tricked and deceived.
Yes, that is indeed a problem and unfortunately I haven’t been able to implement the solution as fast I’d like. But if you know that the post is from a bot who potentially will become a real user (by migrating through the fediverser portal) and that one of the reasons to make it more compelling to them is by having content here that is not available elsewhere, why not write anyway? At the very least, your comment might be helpful to the other “real” users accessing the community. Also, the more real people start participating, the less the feeling of “ghost town” there is.
On the big plan behind it, who the hell would want to or should take over a Lemmy account from an instance that’s widely known to be populated by bots, maybe even blocked or defederated for that reason?
It helps if you stop thinking about them as “bots” in the same sense that we talk about “Twitter bots”. Twitter bots are created by someone with the intent of misinforming or giving the impression that some opinion is shared by a larger group of people. The alien.top “bots” are nothing like that. The content created by them is actually coming from a Reddit user and I am being very diligent about not mirroring anything on the popular subs. A lot of the spam is already filtered by Reddit itself and I honestly am getting less spam reports from alien.top accounts that I got from, e.g, lemmy.blahaj.zone.
The fediverse is so small, but so small, that alien.top has reached top 5 in status count in less than two months. So far, I know of only lemmy.world that decided to defederate with it. If alien.top ever becomes minimally popular, it will be the people on LW that will be in the minority and they will be the ones missing out on content, not the other way around.
I’ve already disabled the bots, but if alien.top gets burned because of some stigma associated with them, I can create another fediverser instance that does only automated subscription to the proper communities, or I can add it to communick.news or any of the other 15 topic-based instances that I am running. I hope that it doesn’t get to that point, but if I have to sacrifice alien.top in order to keep the idea of fediverser and the topic-based instances intact, I will.
Mike McCue - Hello Fediverse. I'm posting this tonight from my federated Flipboard profile! We're now testing our #ActivityPub integration starting with my account. You can follow me here to see all the stories I'm curating about things like startups, photography and of course, the #Fediverse. Curious to hear your thoughts on...
Short answer: yes. But as with most things the exact mechanism depends on where you’re at.
For example most people following my PeerTube account are on Mastodon. Those people see my videos straight in their Mastodon feed and can comment and favourite and boost as normal. Comments and favourites show up on the PeerTube side pretty flawlessly. The videos also show up in a hashtag search from Mastodon servers where I have a follower. Everything just works, it’s great for discoverability.
On Lemmy, you can subscribe to a PeerTube channel (not a whole account, as far as I’m aware), but it doesn’t seem to work as smoothly. For example here’s my channel viewed through my Lemmy instance, lemm.ee. It shows up as a community in my subscriptions list, and new videos show up both in subscriptions feed and in All.
HOWEVER, as you can see there, new videos just sort of stopped federating a month ago. If we view it through lemmy.world instead, there are more recent videos but again not all of them, and some older videos are showing up with more recent dates.
Neither Lemmy server seem to be pulling in comments, just the videos themselves. I’ve not tested whether comments left here actually make it back to PeerTube.
So TLDR there probably is a way to view them on Kbin as well, I’m not sure what the exact mechanism to search for them would be but do bear in mind federation might not be super slick. If you’re on Mastodon though, that’s great for sticking all your PT subs into a list and having it all just right there.
Imagine you are big on some niche community which exists on Reddit (let’s say, e.g, /r/civ)
You want to leave Reddit, you hear about Lemmy.
You sign up.
You go to browse.feddit.de and look for Civilization communities.
You find !civ and !civ, both of which with no activity in the last 3 months, and most posts are more about people trying to figure out what to talk about instead of actually talking about the thing that the community is supposed to be about. Not only this is confusing (do you need to have any relationship to either lemmy.ca and lemm.ee to join? Why are there two separate communities? If these communities are dead, should I create yet-another one?) but don’t you think that the most common reaction would be simply to drop the whole effort and just go back to browsing Reddit?
Now, contrast this with the scenario where fediverser.network has compiled a comprehensive map of all these niche subreddits and can point to at least one lemmy community, and also where the mirroring is using these bots to post relevant content to all of these communities.
Now you can sign up to any instance, and you check what would be the recommended community to replace your favorite subs. You go and !civ (yeah, I just created it). If the alien.top bots were running, the community would already have at least the 14 posts that were created on Reddit today and made to their front page.
And if you decide to join Lemmy by using alien.top itself, all of that could be made automatically. If you had 50 subreddits, you would be automatically subscribed to all the relevant 50 Lemmy communities, you wouldn’t even need to worry about having to figure out which-subreddits-map-to-which-lemmy-communities and your feed would be customized.
I don’t know about you, but to me the second case seems like a much better onboarding experience and I’d be a lot more likely to stick around if that was a reality.
Now you can sign up to any instance, and you check what would be the recommended community to replace your favorite subs. You go and !civ (yeah, I just created it). If the alien.top bots were running, the community would already have at least the 14 posts that were created on Reddit today and made to their front page.
If the posts are from a Reddit community’s few actual posters and none from any of the posters on Lemmy instances, what’s the incentive to switch over to Lemmy? Moreover, if someone’s mainly a poster, aren’t you only encouraging them to stay on Reddit and post as they know there’s someone handling mirroring their posts elsewhere for them?
I’ve read over the discussions around this and I can sort of see where you’re coming from for some of the few folks that want to lurk and browse Reddit stuff via Lemmy apps or the like, but I’m struggling to see how much it really helps different Lemmy instances draw more posters. This may help bring lurkers over, but from what I can tell, there’s not much of a problem with people lurking across Lemmy, but more of a poster problem, in terms of having a greater variety of people posting and commenting.
Absolutely. Arguably already happening with lemmy.world and mastodon.social depending on your values.
But this is where the open protocol, decentralisation and FOSS platforms kick in. The same or similar platforms can form their own networks or sub-networks with a hopefully high degree of flexibility in what connections are and are not made over the network. IE, enshitification can be routed around easily.
That at least is the aim. If you tune into the right people and conversations on the Fedi, there’s a little bit of concern about the place, IMO, that the current implementation of things, including the protocol itself, maybe is t good enough for this to become a reality. The centrality of instances rather than an architecture with more portable entities and data strikes me as an obviously central issue in this regard.
Personally I’m curious to watch for what happens when BlueSky open up next year and in particular how interested developers get in their system and building on top of it. If developers buy in and their system allows for organic innovation and growth while providing a more robust architecture, then it could be a rather interesting development.
Yeah we shouldnt mirror reddit posts. If its not busy enough in a sub instance to foster news and discussion then it isnt busy. Growth should be organic.
Lemmit online is a lemmy instance that mirrors content from some subs from reddit. It seems to be federated and not blocked but when you subscribe to any of its community, you don’t get any new posts in your feed. Any clue about why?
Lemmy is even worse than than Reddit when it comes to sharing a different opinion.
No, it’s better in at least one way, at least for now. On Lemmy, there’s no such thing as ban evasion. If you hurt a mod’s feelings on Lemmy, you might get banned from your current account. But you can make a new account (possibly on the very same instance, but at least on another), and go on, hopefully with more strategically thought out commenting.
On Reddit, if you get a strong enough ban from a sub, it follows you everywhere. Their ban evasion algorithms are pretty good. For instance, I got a ban from r/libertarian (imagine that, yea? I think I criticized a pro-Trump article or something a bit too harshly). I try sometimes to get back there with new accounts, from new IP addresses and new email addresses, but the system detects me every time. Perhaps some fingerprinting that I’m too dumb or unmotivated to properly evade.
On Lemmy, most you get is people bitching at you and downvotes. You can block the people and you can hide the scores.
<p>A study conducted in China found that when mothers are exposed to fine inhalable particles (PM2.5), in the form of air pollutants, during the first trimester of pregnancy, it is associated with lower intelligence scores in their children at the age of six. This association was more pronounced in boys, in children who engaged in less outdoor physical activity, and in those who were breastfed for a shorter duration. The study was published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.114813"><em>Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety</em></a>.</p>
<p>PM2.5, or particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or smaller, consists of tiny particles that are suspended in the air and can be inhaled into the respiratory system. These particles originate from various sources, including combustion processes, vehicle emissions, industrial activities, and natural events like wildfires. They constitute a significant component of air pollution. PM2.5 particles are composed of a mixture of over 50 identified chemical components, with the most common being ammonium, sulfate, nitrate, organic carbon, soil dust, and black carbon.</p>
<p>Due to their small size, PM2.5 particles can bypass the body’s natural defenses and penetrate deep into the lungs, potentially causing or exacerbating respiratory and cardiovascular health issues. The adverse health effects of exposure to PM2.5 include respiratory problems, heart disease, aggravated asthma, and other respiratory or cardiovascular conditions. Studies have indicated that prenatal exposure to PM2.5, especially black carbon, can negatively affect the development of a child’s nervous system by increasing oxidative stress and inflammation.</p>
<p>Xiaowei Sun and her colleagues aimed to investigate the relationship between prenatal exposure to PM2.5 particles and their six main components, and the intelligence levels of children at six years of age. They also examined whether this association was influenced by factors such as the child’s sex, duration of breastfeeding, and level of physical activity. Prior studies suggested that higher levels of physical activity and longer periods of breastfeeding have positive effects on the development of the nervous system. Thus, the researchers hypothesized that these factors might modify the impact of PM2.5 exposure.</p>
<p>The participants in this study were part of the Shanghai-Minhang birth cohort, a longitudinal study that collected information on prenatal exposure to PM2.5 and its primary components. The study included 1292 pregnant women who were recruited during their first prenatal examination between the 12th and 16th week of pregnancy at the Minhang Maternal and Child Health Hospital in 2012. The majority of these women lived in the Minhang, Songjiang, and Xuhui Districts, within 20 kilometers of the hospital. They gave birth to 1225 singleton live babies.</p>
<p>The exposure levels of the participants to PM2.5 particles were estimated using statistical modeling based on satellite measurements of aerosol optical depth. These measurements indicate the concentration and distribution of aerosols in the atmosphere. The researchers cross-validated the satellite data with information from 1000 ground measurement stations. However, precise PM2.5 exposure data was only obtainable for the mothers of 512 children, so the final analyses were based on these results.</p>
<p>To gather data on the mothers and their children, the researchers conducted home visits when the children were 6 months old, and then at 1, 4, and 6 years of age. At the age of 6, children underwent an intelligence assessment using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV). This assessment provided indices of perceptual reasoning, verbal comprehension, and an overall intelligence score. Additionally, data was collected on the parents’ medical history, demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, pregnancy course, levels of outdoor activity after school, and breastfeeding duration.</p>
<p>The results showed that children whose mothers had lower exposure to PM2.5 particles during the first trimester tended to score higher in perceptual reasoning. Higher maternal exposure levels to ammonium and sulfate particles were associated with lower overall intelligence scores in their children. However, exposure to PM2.5 particles during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy did not show a significant association with the children’s intelligence.</p>
<p>An analysis of the results by gender revealed that the negative associations between maternal exposure to PM2.5 particles and children’s intelligence were primarily observed in boys during the first trimester. For girls, the associations were noticeable with overall PM2.5, ammonium, nitrate, organic carbon, and black carbon exposure during the mothers’ third trimester of pregnancy.</p>
<p>“Exposure of PM2.5 and its five constituents in the first trimester were inversely associated with FSIQ [overall intelligence score] and PRI [perceptual reasoning index] in children aged 6 years, and the adverse effects were more pronounced in boys. More physical activity and longer breastfeeding duration may alleviate the detrimental effects of prenatal PM2.5 and several of its main constituents’ exposure. Our results indicated that prenatal exposure to PM2.5 and its main constituents may disrupt cognitive development in children aged 6 years,” the study authors concluded.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>The study makes an important contribution to the scientific knowledge about the effects of air pollution on human health. However, it also has limitations that must be considered. Notably, some participants dropped out during the study, resulting in the final sample being somewhat more educated than the initial sample. Furthermore, the assessment of mothers’ exposure to PM2.5 particles was based on concentrations at their residences during pregnancy, not accounting for exposure at other locations.</p>
<p>The paper, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.114813">Prenatal exposure to ambient PM<sub>2.5 </sub>and its chemical constituents and child intelligence quotient at 6 years of age</a>”, was authored by Xiaowei Sun, Cong Liu, Honglei Ji, Weihua Li, Maohua Miao, Wei Yuan, Zhengwei Yuan, Hong Liang, and Haidong Kan.</p>
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I think you may have misunderstood. I have FOUND communities, but there is not much engagement or activity. I have resorted to discord channels for most of them, but it is not the same.
Some of my most active subreddits were different 3d printing and 3d modeling groups, groups for games like Overwatch, and Payday. Different AI focused groups, but specifically groups like the Stable Diffusion sub, Subreddits that discuss my favorite shows, or styles of music. None of that is active here. It isn’t that they don’t exist on Lemmy, they are just ghost towns. I joined multiple instances and am very active and engaged on multiple accounts, on some of these groups - but there is not response. I was in the top 3% of karma earners on Reddit - and I did that by submitting and commenting a lot. That just doesn’t happen here (yet).
During my early teenage weeb days, I used to be a sub purist, disavowing anyone who preferred dub. I’d refuse to watch an anime with someone if they chose dub. However, I’ve changed a lot since then and now go with whatever sounds better to me. While some dubs are admittedly bad, others put a lot of time and effort into replicating the original Japanese feel, and they do a great job.
I’ve also noticed that certain anime set in specific countries feel odd in Japanese. For instance, when I watched Steamboy, it was bizarre hearing Japanese voices in the cities of Manchester and London. The Japanese voice actors struggling to pronounce English names and words fluently added to the peculiarity.
I don’t buy into sub purists claiming all English dubs sound the same. Truth be told, a lot of Japanese voices also sound similar. There are cliché voices that almost allow you to predict how a character will sound in Japanese just by looking at their design.
These days I’m firmly of the opinion; whatever sounds right to you. I don’t see the point of giving someone shit for choosing to watch a series in whatever language they prefer, as long as they’re enjoying it.
I have watched anime for quite some time now and started watching subbed, when I realized that the animes I liked were way ahead in the original version. Like a couple of hundred episodes for One Piece as an example. I got used to reading the subs in my peripheral vision. There may be some instances where I have to do a double take if there is an unusual word, but that’s very rare. English isn’t my first language, but english subs are more easily available. Outside of anime, I always choose the original version with subs as well because it feels more natural to me and I’m used to reading subs anyway. One good example is Sopranos, where the dub in my language doesn’t have any Italian accent whatsoever. The great mafia atmosphere of the original gets totally lost that way.
That aside I totally get watching the dubbed version. Today in times of simul-dubs you don’t have to wait for years at a time. You can watch dubs as background noise. The voice actors are usually great, even if not as consistently incredible as the originals. I always watch dubs with my family and friends, often shows or movies I already watched subbed. Watching something together for me isn’t about the show alone but more about experiencing it together. Watching subbed would defeat that experience as you couldn’t talk to each other as easily as with the dubbed version in your native language.
TLDR: alone I watch subs for the original experience, with others I watch dubs for the experience of watching together.
I think we’ll collectively figure it out with time and have more specific, yet popular instances, rather than instances trying to be the all-places with communities. Like an instance for memes where communities act as sub-categories or something.
But I maybe wrong, I’m not on oracle or something.
If you smell shit, check the floor. If you constantly smell shit, check your shoe.
Different instances can handle moderation in different ways. If an instance becomes problematic, it can also be quarantined from other instances. These 2 combine to both allow free speech and prevent poisoning of communities simultaneously.
There is nothing to stop you creating a moderation free community. You can even be part of a whole sub-federation of instances with that mindset. The only thing others can take from you is the ability to reach into their communities. It just turns out that most people don’t want to be involved in that sort of community.
Unchecked, unanswerable power corrupts. On lemmy everyone is free to create their own sub. Heck they’re free to create their own instance. That makes the “power” of moderators pretty tame.
Compare that to the power a corporate CEO has over the typical employee. Especially since the 1970s and 1980s redefinition of the primary responsibility of the directors of a corporation to be “maximize shareholder value” instead of “maximize stakeholder value.”
Even in (small d democratic) politics, at least an aggrieved voter can run to replace a corrupt, abusive politician. Not many companies, probably no publicly traded ones, have a mechanism for the workers to replace the management. That’s where major corruption by power can be witnessed.
So much less clickbait and spam on Lemmy/kbin*, and what there is gets called out quickly. On reddit, I would open dozens of tabs a day, hoping for 5 or so articles worth reading and/or relavent comment threads.
Here, sorting through the cruft is much easier, and I end almost every day with zero new tabs left open, because I’m actually reading what I open without exhausting my attention-span or patience for bullshit.
*Although I sort by new and look only at my subbed feed, I am following hundreds of communities. As I picked a Dutch instance, following a few Machinist communities that migrated here, Local is a grab-bag of a few niche things I like, things I can’t read, and/or news that is mostly irrelavent to me to the point I have no context or frame-of-reference for it.
Honestly, I prefer this. I never meant to let reddit content grab as much of my time and attention as it had over the years.
With Artemis development on hold and the corresponding instance down, I started using this account again.
Are there any other mobile apps out there? I ended up experimenting with Lemmy a bit, but I find myself coming back to kbin. The communities I follow seem much more active here.
I miss my local city sub and Detroit Lions, that’s the only thing I can’t seem to replace here on fedi
EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year::The European Union is pulling its advertisements from Elon Musk’s X for now, citing an “alarming increase” in hate speech and disinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
There has been an increase in blatant racism and prejudice. I don’t know if those users eventually get banned. If the right takes any action against blatant hate speech, shitheads like Tim Pool will start crying and denounce the platform as not allowing free speech. If they allow “free speech,” then the shitheads eventually drive all the normal people off the platform. The only good thing is that Twitter already has a left wing population, so as long as they can maintain that, it should avoid turning to shit. It was also a mainstream platform so hopefully that should maintain the normie population.
Sites like Lemmy instances are better at allowing a wider range of “free speech” because as long as the instance population is large enough to keep the shitheads a minority, they can stick to their own subs and generally keep the bullshit quarantined.
Should I move to Docker?
I’m a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I’ve kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I’ve managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked...
Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support (www.reuters.com)
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Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?
I’m a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it’s a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world....
How did Lemmy World become the default instance?
World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....
An alternative perspective on Alien.top and the Fediverser project
Tl:dr: Remember the human, even if the project doesn’t work, it wasn’t as useless as it may seem, resources consumption may be concerning...
Flipboard has begun testing ActivityPub federation of user accounts (flipboard.com)
Mike McCue - Hello Fediverse. I'm posting this tonight from my federated Flipboard profile! We're now testing our #ActivityPub integration starting with my account. You can follow me here to see all the stories I'm curating about things like startups, photography and of course, the #Fediverse. Curious to hear your thoughts on...
alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam
Whoever is in charge of that instance, STOP....
The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4s
First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here....
Anyone getting updates from lemmit.online?
Lemmit online is a lemmy instance that mirrors content from some subs from reddit. It seems to be federated and not blocked but when you subscribe to any of its community, you don’t get any new posts in your feed. Any clue about why?
X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview (arstechnica.com)
Average Lemmy Active Users by Month (lemmy.world)
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=6
subs > dubs (lemmy.zip)
Does anyone else feel like Kurzgesagt is describing the Fediverse in their latest video? (www.youtube.com)
I’m talking about what they say at 8:20:...
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If power corrupts, or power attracts the corrupt, why do we have moderators?
So... it's been a while now since the great exodus. How are you all doing my fellow refugees? (kbin.social)
I made my home here permanently now. It seems like such a friendlier place but how are you all doing?
EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year (www.cnn.com)
EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year::The European Union is pulling its advertisements from Elon Musk’s X for now, citing an “alarming increase” in hate speech and disinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter.