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- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 4 days ago:
reddit was open source as well.
was
- Comment on Community for political discussion 6 days ago:
yes very true, but please don’t do that, lol do it here —> !politicalhumor@lemmy.world
- Comment on Community for political discussion 6 days ago:
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
- Submitted 6 days ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on NEW RULE: added on an appropriate day 6 days ago:
Community for political discussion: !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world , mods please feel free to post this anywhere if you’d like to avoid the political posts :)
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 3 weeks ago:
Most teachers are aware how bad smartphones are, at least from the surveys I’ve seen. They’re more skeptical of them than parents or children. I think this case is kind of an outlier.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 4 weeks ago:
I probably wouldn’t trust airplane mode, but I do believe power off is safe. There is no transmit capability in off correct?
But yeah, leaving phone at home is best knowing tracking sites like these exist.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 4 weeks ago:
Or just hit airplane mode / power off. Or just leave the phone at home, the procedure takes only 5-10 minutes.
People are way to attached to their phones. The world will not collapse in that hour, it is a survivable event, or so I hear from reputable sources.
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
That’s what high beams are for…
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
It seems to me like we didn’t have this problem twenty years ago. If blinding LEDs are the problem, why not just not allow them anymore for headlights? It takes 5 seconds to pop in a new incandescent headlight on cars that have them, and well made ones can last 20+ years depending on the construction. Visibility is good and equivalent to some LEDs with higher end lamps, and it doesn’t create a superbly unnatural light that impairs the other drivers, pedestrians, or nature. It would also reduce light pollution.
On very rare occasion, the progressive step forward, actually looks a lot like the road backwards. It would take a long time to implement, but anything worth doing is worth taking the time to do it right.
Auto sensing technology is going to be more of a glaring headache in 20 years, when you have half of the cars with failing sensors and everyone getting blinded even worse. Adaptive Driving Beams (ADB) are not a solution, it does not properly address the issues of glare, and it will likely only make the problem worse by further removing human interaction from headlight controls.
- Comment on FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users 1 month ago:
Oh you can’t change apathy really. I was just suggesting if privacy friendly tech (ie: Linux) is to go mainstream, that it would have to be “easier” than what is currently out there to gain mainstream popularity.
Desktop linux is almost there, but the general population mostly use mobile devices now, and phone Linux seems to be a dying prospect.
- Comment on FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users 1 month ago:
everytime I tell someone there are alternatives to using Google/Apple/etc their response is, “but it’s just so easy”. I guess you can cal my view of that jaded, but people really don’t care? I mean I’m not trying to be defeatest at all, it’s just trying to accurately appraise people’s apathy to apply a proper resolution to the problem.
The solution has to make it “easy” for people because that is what they expect of technology now.
- Comment on FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users 1 month ago:
No one cares about this stuff but techies/Lemmy. Regular people don’t care, like at all. They know tech companies do this stuff but if convenience>privacy, most people take the former every time to make life easier. Data privacy is not a tangeable thing in most people’s minds.
There would have to be some sort of cataslismic event to wake people up enough for people to do anything meaningful. I don’t know what that would be, but I hope someone figures that out sooner rather than later.
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
I did do a test install (on a virtual machine), and everything seemed to install/configure fine using the python source code and instructions in your repo, but I wasn’t able to see any connections being made in the listener log. Brain is too tired, but I tried all of the addresses/ports listed (Debian/bash/ip addr) and created port exceptions with ufw per the instructions file. Can this work with a virtual box?
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
Very cool. 100% over my technical knowledge level but I’ll take a look at the code and give it a whirl when I get a chance.
I think it would be awesome if it worked. Power to the people! ;)
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
sounds interesting, is the source code on somewhere like codeberg or GitHub?
How does it work?
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
The answer is obviously as everyone has pointed out already is enshittification.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification. (Cory Doctorow)
Profit = enshittification. It’s guaranteed as long as profit is a motive.
An interesting concept is the idea of a distributed social web. It was the concept me, and probably a LOT of other redditors, were looking at last year, but it seems no such thing really exists. The idea that everyone’s home computer (or mobile device nowadays) could act as the client and the server. Perhaps using a firefox addon of some sort.
Do any software devs (ok that’s like 90% of lemmy, lol) know if any existing projects are trying to do this? It does not seem like an unfeasible thing, and it wouldn’t have to grow overnight, it could possibly just be a feature in an existing addon that allows communication directly between users. No centralized servers of any sort. Distributed communication without central control. Is this possible?
The existing social media companies own the world (literally), and they can maintain this control because they can buy out competitors. You can’t buy out 5 billion people though, so if people had the tools available to host their own web; and it was as easy as installing a firefox browser addon, a true democracy could exist like the world has never seen.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
It’s simply tribalism at this point. Most people who still support Trump are simply supporting their tribe, whereas on the left most people still believe in the virtues and merits of democracy.
I still feel like democracy will win the day. Most of Trump supporters are 50/60+ and his message doesn’t seem to resonate as well with younger people.
Feel free to post any political stuff to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world if you’d like. You’re welcome to crosspost this there too if you’d like more discussion on it.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
I think they were just correcting the number in the post text block that should have read about 1 million dead under COVID during the Trump administration in the US alone, rather than only 200k.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
I’d argue it’s because citizens have no voice. The media has there corporate narrative, but the public interest has very few organizations in advocacy of it.
Support local journalism (financially), work to break any media control on the narrative.
The first thing people could start doing is stop providing free labor to the media. It’s all over Lemmy.
Don’t link to a corporate news outlet. Link to an .edu or PBS or NPR or a quality international publicly funded news organization. Or better yet build your own narrative, your own opinions. Discuss your opinions respectfully on !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world . Build momentum and take away the corporate medias control.
Without a public voice advocating for the people, it will be very hard to change any legislation in the peoples favor.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
Excellent points and to add to that support local journalism, the smaller the better. The media is really the fourth branch of government when it comes to checks and balances. If media integrity was restored, they could use there influence to hold Congress accountable to the people.
- Comment on Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome! 2 months ago:
I’d like to try to curtail the personal attacks and bickering with some good rules and guidelines, but I’m not sure it will go anywhere.
Old reddit like <2014 use to be a reasonable place where people all along the political spectrum could discuss policy. That’s really no longer an option because most communities/moderators just don’t want to deal with that, unfortunately that only makes the problem worse…
- Comment on Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome! 2 months ago:
thank you… I will consider that if this doesn’t go anywhere. Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade… it use to be a reasonable place for discussion. I would have thought though that most people that migrated here from Reddit would be slightly more mature since they understand the evil of corporate greed but it seems like lately it’s 50/50 on comments now whether you’re going to get personally insulted for blinking wrong.
- Comment on Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome! 2 months ago:
thank you. I can’t update the main link to that for some reason but added it in the comment box.
- Comment on Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome! 2 months ago:
if you have a global icon/banner suggestion I’m open for it. Honestly I just had a hard time finding something that represented ‘general poltics’
- Comment on Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome! 2 months ago:
well it’s not only for US particularly. I just created it because there actually doesn’t exist a single community (at least on LW, I haven’t searched the entire fediverse) to discuss politics, US or global. /c/politics doesn’t currently allow top level posts for discussion or self posts because it is difficult to keep civility.
- Submitted 2 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
What happens when foreign actors intent on influencing public policy decide to harass everyone critical of their issue? People will just stop being critical of the foreign narrative to stop the harassment, and you’ll wind up with posts that are completely against the public interest and for the foreign narrative.
You can already see this effect to some degree in comments, it’ll only get worse if everything is made public in the UI.
As counterintuitive as it is, regulated secrecy is necessary in all democratic processes, and I would argue that includes online forum debates.
It would actually be nice if community mods had the capability to turn the community to anonymous for comments and posts as well. Is knowing who posts the information more important than the information itself? If it’s worthwhile to share from one person, it’s worthwhile to share from everyone else so identity isn’t all that important.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
The source code for Lemmy is free for all to view and modify, there will be no authoritarianism… And if it were to happen all of Lemmy administrators would either refuse the upgrade and stay retrograde, or quickly fork. The devs don’t really have total control of thousands of servers to have free reign to do stuff like reddit corp does.
I’m all for vote privacy in the UI. There are just too many downsides to public votes, and not as much weight to the positives in my opinion. People should not be afraid of backlash from down voting if a post does not contribute, it’ll only create echo chambers/ unchallenged groupthink.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
Nothing4You commented Aug 14, 2024 •
mods can already see votes in communities they moderate since 0.19.4, so this would be reducing what is visible today:
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Dessalines commented 5 days ago
I’d like to clarify that mods should only be able to see votes for the communities they mod only.
Admins can see all votes.
I dunno, we’re on 0.19.3 so I don’t see it but I guess it’s there.