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- Comment on Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Love the words. Once of my early positive impressions of lemmy was coming across longer form comments. It’s so hard to get thoughts across in tweet format especially when we’re all completely anonymous with potentially wildly different perspectives. I’m following your ideas here and I’m rarely opposed to experimentation. I have learned from experience that there’s more to successful implementation than is apparent before you start and even the best plans can’t account for real world testing.
It’s been a couple days now but I think that manipulation of automated processes is sort of what I was alluding to when I didn’t want to commit to an idea. People will figure it out and fuck with it.
I guess my approach is more about patience and subtle changes. What we’re talking about would be a major change in the context of lemmy and it’s too complicated to predict the outcome of something like that. As a fun thought, there is some point in the history of reddit that would have set it onto the path it arrived at today. Maybe awards? The voting system? The composition of moderators? Changes should be done cautiously and gradually. Onboarding is a pressing problem, but I think it could be treated in isolation until a sites-wide solution is more obvious. Lemmy is doing great! Lemmy users are capable of self managing the issue of ideological influences across instances, even if it appears haphazard it seems to work, maybe, for now. Loads of problems to address outside of this as well.
I’m also a fan of sudden chaotic changes. I love the theory of evolution and I think as much as we want to be careful things are going to happen we don’t want and can’t predict and it can be fun to just throw a wrench in the motor and see where it takes us.
- Comment on Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed! 2 weeks ago:
strategic user blocking helps, I dont like that problem either.
- Comment on Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt 3 weeks ago:
The key to every “killer app” on a new system, even ones that start out mimicking the old paradigm, is enabling something that couldn’t be done on the old system.
This makes me think of my biggest gripe with the social media I use and it’s the lack of feeling safe, and I don’t mean that I want to be sheltered or have content hidden from me. I’m tired of living in the giant melting pot.
- Comment on Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure. Maybe I’ll try to spend more time in this community, it doesn’t pop up on my main feed that much but I usually find the topics interesting. I think there are a lot of directions lemmy could go and I don’t want to commit to one idea yet. Categorizing sounds like a big effort even if it’s automated.
- Comment on Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I think my user blocking has been effective since I don’t see content like that coming out of .ml. ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ should be a day 1 block for new users.
I just checked and in the last year I haven’t had to block any instance except nsfw, which is surprising because I never see grad users in my feed. My lemmy experience has been more variable from low effort, snap judgement, or reddit-like comments coming out of .world.
- Comment on Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I still haven’t done that but have noticed a lot of calls to do it. It’s not all bad on .ml, I’d never make it my home instance but it’s no where near lemmygrad levels of CCP loving tankie trash
- Comment on Is lemmy really any different from reddit? 3 weeks ago:
Make good use of the community/user block feature and it cleans up well. It took me a couple times going back and forth but I’m done with reddit at this point, at least for general scrolling ‘all’ sort of content.
- Comment on Is lemmy really any different from reddit? 3 weeks ago:
yes and no
- Comment on Reopening Three Mile Island nuclear plant for Microsoft data centers could cost taxpayers $1.6 billion 1 month ago:
misleading title
- Comment on YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores 1 month ago:
I used to leave aspirin on the canker, that burned it away.
- Comment on YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores 1 month ago:
make more foam when you brush
I always buy a specific brand toothpaste (turns out it is SLS free) but broke from my routine and bought crest or colgate or something. I use a small amount but I have to empty my mouth of foam midway through brushing. I hate it. Gross.
I also have a canker sore but have been brushing my teeth more often thinking it would help. I guess not.
I have another toothpaste (clinipro) which is not foamy enough, I always feel like I’m running out of toothpaste as I’m brushing.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Attractive people get more opportunities in life, it’s baked into our brains. I prefer looking at attractive people. Music is something we hear, but with digital and social media it’s as much seen as it is heard. More artists are coming up through tik tok now than the radio. This relationship shows that being attractive will improve a persons odds of being successful in music. Maybe if personality can shine through in those videos it can overtake appearance.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
That’s not the question. Do you think music nowadays puts more emphasis on the appearance of the artist than before? Idk what it is but I find reactions like this annoying. Like OP makes a good point and then we have to hear a lot of ‘well, actually’ bs.
- Comment on Dormice 1 month ago:
either as a savoury appetizer or as a dessert (dipped in honey and poppy seeds).
- Comment on Dormice 1 month ago:
Now I want to try one but only in that context.
- Comment on Trump Forced To Cancel Rally After Biden Admin Denies Protection 1 month ago:
Protection from… other republicans? Also, why tf is it White House’s job to help this shitstain rally?
- Comment on MKBHD is getting cancelled over $12/month wallpaper app, ad overload, and excessive permissions 1 month ago:
He ate his own feet a long time ago
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
Why don’t we have any lakes this big?
- Comment on Hezbollah hits back with rockets as it declares an 'open-ended battle' with Israel 1 month ago:
I block all these communities. The anti-israel pro-gaza sentiment here is off the charts. Cya ‘interesting global news’ and all the other recent ‘news’ communities.
- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 1 month ago:
Yes. I actually shared it before I started reading, and ya it’s bad.
- Comment on The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse 1 month ago:
I think that until we get regulation it’s better to avoid generating new tokens and asking people to buy into projects. There is an ungodly amount of scamming and financial nonsense right now and small cap tokens would get wrecked over and over and people would lose money. Even DAOs are too young to be used here.
Also people hate cryptocurrency, as you can tell and I wouldn’t taint the fediverse with potential a potential cryptocurrency scam. Nope. I think at best you could host an instance and accept donations from large/reputable tokens.
- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 1 month ago:
Check it out: lemmy.world/post/19946376?scrollToComments=true
- Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors 1 month ago:
Oh ya I’ve made a big mess of this. Oops. Thanks for the correction.
I was reading it as 1500TNT is equivalent to a nuke with a 15KT yield. Totally wrong:
- Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors 2 months ago:
1500T TNT is equivalent to 15KT and then 240KT is 16% of 1500. Comes out to 2.4KT?
- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 2 months ago:
These facilities are expensive, like 20-30B for the big ones. If you’re curious youtube has some good long videos on how these places work. As far as I’ve checked all the gov grants given to companies as incentives (whether chips or energy or other infrastructure projects) only partially cover the costs of construction.
- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 2 months ago:
Ya I think the ship has sailed, maybe one day. Right now it would be a loony toons move.
- Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors 2 months ago:
2.8 earthquake -> 240tons TNT -> 2.4KT nuke
- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 2 months ago:
Yes now it does, it’s beyond soured. But it’s a strange disconnect. Ignoring all the social commentary and looking for the most practical solution for making small pay-per-use payments - it was right there.
- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 2 months ago:
I don’t understand why cryptocurrency isn’t an accepted solution to this. Open firefox, attach wallet, drip $0.25/month/user. It’s good for tiny transactions.
- Comment on Bread 2 months ago:
Slipknots are ok but I think you may as well do a mean twist and tuck unless the bread is travelling. The knot can go back if you share bread with others.