JubilantJaguar
@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Euro Cobra - The VFW Fokker/Westland P277 was a concept attack helicopter. In the same way that the AH-1 Cobra used a lot of the Huey "off-the-shelf" gear, this one used engines, rotor, and other comp 16 hours ago:
Nice, though all the aviation jargon straight off the bat is probably going to be meaningless to the handful of normies here.
- Comment on photos in the park 16 hours ago:
This is great but perhaps there’s some other more appropriate community to put it.
- Comment on Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress? 4 days ago:
Some general thoughts. I have done multiple CMS transfers of large sites involving Wordpress, Drupal and Discourse. No matter what plugin you find that supposedly will do the job, in my experience it is always a PITA that ends up involving a lot of programming. That’s why the simplest option would be to stay as close to Wordpress as possible, using a fork for example to fix to the ethical problems you perceive. Otherwise you’re almost certainly going to find it’s much easier to archive and start afresh, with the compromises that implies.
If you do dump Wordpress, in your position I would go for a database-less static site generator like Hugo. So much simpler and more secure. But that’s just my opinion.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 5 days ago:
This is not a “YSK”, it’s just yet another post about (US…) politics.
Seriously, this problem ruined !showerthoughts@lemmy.world and it’s ruining this community too.
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 1 week ago:
A spicier take still: I personally have found DDG’s AI summaries useful even without further clicking. When one’s query is purely technical (vs politics or whatever), I don’t see any need to click dutifully.
- Comment on How to follow just tech, international etc. (No sports) 1 week ago:
This is what RSS was invented for. Sigh.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And we were told Cancel Culture had peaked.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 1 week ago:
Finally, a YSK which is actually a YSK.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 week ago:
this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly.
Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted.
So true, and so sad. This has been such a disappointment to me, and even a bit of a surprise. I just didn’t realize how badly most people respond to seeing viewpoints they don’t fully share. Personally I don’t get the point of discussion where everyone agrees, but apparently that is quite a rare attitude. So I share your pessimism, but with one glimmer of hope. There is at least one forum which has cracked this problem: Hacker News. The issue being that it’s frequented by exactly the kind of techie Spock-like personalities that aren’t representative of the general population.
- Comment on Lemmy now (partially) federates with Bluesky via Bridgyfed 1 week ago:
That’s fair. The R-site does not have any ATProto clone yet, is that correct? Lemmy is still mostly a ghost town for non-techie discussion. As I understand it, Bluesky is already a moderately successful replacement for Twitter. My general point is that we cannot afford a 3-way struggle between corporate social media, ATProto and the fediverse (i.e. ActivityPub). There just isn’t enough attention to go round.
- Comment on Lemmy now (partially) federates with Bluesky via Bridgyfed 1 week ago:
Great news. What would be useful: a quick primer on what exactly the end user needs to do in order to interact with Bluesky (AKA Twitter 2.0) from a fediverse account.
Disclaimer: IMO Bluesky has eaten part of the fediverse’s lunch and there’s now no beating it entirely, we’ll need to compromise and join forces.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
I’m trying to think of something to say in riposte in order to boost the comment count.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. This seems like the lowest hanging fruit, the absolute minimal solution.
Given the emergence of Bluesky and the parallel rightwing echo chambers, the fediverse does not have the luxury of splittism IMO.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
This is my analysis too. And why, instead of just upvoting posts that interest me, I try to think of something to say about them too. The dreaded “0 comments” is never a good look no matter how we much we tell ourselves that it doesn’t matter.
For this reason I tend to believe that many communities just have too much primary content. Too many posts and not enough comments.
Thought experiment. 2 communities:
- /c/one has 15 posts per day, 5 of them with 3 comments, the other 10 with none
- /c/two has 3 posts per day with 5 comments each
Which is the healthier community?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
So you’re saying that (you think the data says) most people here are not blanket-downvoting anything that gives them marginally bad vibes, and that the damage is being done by a busy few? Interesting if true. I too basically never downvote, on the principle that it’s toxic and hostile and just not something that has a polite equivalent in person. I had assumed I was a massive outlier.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
All decent advice. Here’s a thought experiment.
Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about [etc]
By the same token it would be bad to stop such a discussion, right? Right.
Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits
Therefore it would be bad to *destroy" such communities, right? Indeed.
Upvote the things you like
So, it would be bad to downvote the things you - personally, subjectively - don’t like - right? It wouldn’t? Why so?
Don’t downvote other people’s good-faith opinions. It’s petty, it’s juvenile, it’s toxic. Even if you don’t see it that way. It’s precisely what will discourage the participation we all want to see.
- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 2 months ago:
As I recall, a major reason it didn’t take off was very simple: the new “Sunday” only came every 10 days instead of 7!
The best bit about it was the definitely the evocative month names.
- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 2 months ago:
13! A prime number indivisible into anything. Ugh!
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 2 months ago:
I’m mortified :( It’s never been my goal to make others feel bad online. I had a quibble with the wording on a meme and clumsily worded my idea of “Our differences shouldn’t be minimized because they make us special” was seen as transphobia/TERF rhetoric.
Try not to take it personally. You waded into a subject which has become a sort of rationality-free zone. Perhaps more so even than Israel-Palestine, or immigration in Europe. On these topics there is almost nobody left who is interested in nuanced debate, it’s now only a question of identifying which “side” one’s interlocutor is on, and then unloading on them (or downvoting, or deleting, or blocking, or banning) as appropriate. You stumbled into sterile trench warfare, basically.
Soon after I joined Lemmy I was banned from a (somewhat serious) community for making the same mistake you made. I learned my lesson. With certain topics, genuine debate - open-minded, good faith discussion - is just not possible. I see it as a failure of Lemmy, yes, but mainly of the whole medium of text-based social media. It’s certainly not your fault.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
Since when did I claim to be “passionate” about anything? My proposal concerns new users, it’s in the title. I’m not a new user any more and I have a bunch of post and comments to my virtual name (not that it’s important, sure). But I now see that it would have been better if I had been pushed to another server when I signed up. Hence the proposal.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
You’re an argumentative fellow! I’m still not sure exactly what it is you’re disagreeing with. My proposal is pretty boring and inoffensive. Everything’s in the post. But if you disagree, that’s fine.
Servers are communities.
No they’re not. Communities have “c/” in front of their name. I’m sure you know that already.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
You’re just saying I should practice what I preach and get off LW, is that it? Can’t be bothered, but fair enough. My proposal here concerns new users.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
Everyone can do what they like. I just believe we have a small opportunity to strengthen our offline communities, and we should take that opportunity.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
Seems to be a misunderstanding. My proposal concerns servers, not communities. It would do no more than responsibilize users (“your virtual home here has people who may be your neighbors”) and encourage them to join local communities where they might discuss local issues (rather than, say, US politics).
What youre asking for, IMO, is for the fediverse to work more like facebook and twitter, which HEAVILY bias their feeds towards local matters. The US would not have been so easy to turn into a xenophobic ball of angry people if their social media were MORE international.
Corporate social media is only biased towards local if you count the whole USA as “local”. Again, seems to be a misunderstanding. In the US case “local” would mean state or town.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
Since when am I proposing a utopia? I’m proposing that people talk to people in their physical communities. Nothing more ambitious than that.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
People not wanting to see hate speech or propaganda does not mean they are in echo chambers.
You know that bad guys are now calling your ideas “hate speech” and “propaganda”, right? And they believe it as much as you do. How do you propose to get out of this mess if not by talking?
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
That’s exactly what they’re saying - and believing - about you. Meanwhile they have the power. Good luck.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
Well, if the true nature of the fediverse is to encourage people to silo themselves into echo chambers where they never have to deal with others who don’t already share all their values and opinions - if that’s truly the point of this thing - then yes, apparently I’m wasting my time here. I still hope there’s a better way.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
This - IMO - is the kind of thinking that has got US politics into the state it’s in today.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 2 months ago:
Yes and I answered that argument