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- Comment on A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech 20 hours ago:
What an interesting read! The food analogy instantly made sense to me, I am wondering if other people had the same experience?
What is the point of all this, you may wonder? Well, reading Postman provided a big eureka moment for me - an understanding of why I struggle so much to convince my friends to abandon commercial social media in favor of the Fediverse. Drum roll: the Fediverse may be missing a clear, cohesive narrative.
Technically the Fediverse has everything one would need to enjoy independent social media, away from the surveillance capitalism that powers Big Tech. What has been difficult is finding a story, a simple narrative anyone could follow that would explain WHY the Fediverse is the most empowering, most ethical technological solution out there for social media.
I have come to see the Fediverse as the equivalent of organic, plant based, home-cooked meals and by contrast I see TikTok, Instagram, X, Threads, Snap and other platforms by Big Tech as the equivalent of Big Food – brands like Coca Cola, McDonalds, Nestlé, that promote ultra-processed, highly addictive foods and beverages, contributing to an epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetes and other diet-related diseases.
- Submitted 1 day ago to technology@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow 4 weeks ago:
The best feeling of my lie? Getting fired after returning from vacations.
- Comment on How do you ask for a haircut? 2 months ago:
I show my hairdresser a picture of my previous haircut (or one I like).
- Comment on Discussions are like a game of telephone; you're converting idea into language and expecting the recipient to flawlessly translate it back into an idea. 2 months ago:
That’s compatible with information theory. You have a piece of information, the moment you encode it (turn your idea into words) that piece of information is transposed to a little different piece of information, then the channel of transportation adds a bit of noise (depends on the environment, most often literal background noise), and then the receiver decodes the to a different piece of information (turn your words into an idea of their own).
Understanding this concept is an important communication skill. Information theory gives a bunch of tools to minimize the difference between the idea in your head and the perception of the idea by your peer.
- You can add redundancy, aka say the same thing twice in a slightly different way.
- Use questions to validate your understanding.
- Have your peer use their own words.
- Comment on Quick-Start Guide to Fediverse Governance Decisions 2 months ago:
For context, I am the top donor at my instance, I recognize that there is a need for funds. BUT, I believe it’s important for the fediverse to be accessible to everyone regardless if they have the funds for that.
- Comment on Quick-Start Guide to Fediverse Governance Decisions 2 months ago:
Dopamine received, initiating hyperfocus protocol!
As a rule of thumb, we’ve observed that a team of 5 trained moderators appears to provide ample coverage and redundancy for servers of about 1,000 active users
That’s a fascinating bit of information. I would expect 5 moderators to provide coverage for more users. I am wondering how they came up with that statistic (will update the comment if I find an answer).
Remember that offliine/IRL community management experience can be just as important as online experience
Interesting idea, wondering what’s the IRL presence of the fediverse…
If you’re building toward participatory or democratic governance, consider establishing a proposal and voting system (some teams we spoke with use Loomio, but multiple options exist) for major policy decisions.
That’s soooo important, I love when communities create polls to decide on policy changes.
Avoid promoting brand-new members unless you already have a pre-existing relationship with them
I have followed some discussion on multi-level hierarchies on the fediverse, wondering if there are any instance implementing that…
Consider charging for accounts or offering paid memberships.
Hell no!
We hope there will be more resources available in the future, particularly tooling around legal compliance. This is one of the big infrastructural gaps we point out in our main report
That’s a big issue, I would be interested in hosting an instance available to other people, but I don’t want to end up in jail and I lack the resources to make sure that won’t happen…
That was an interesting read, it seems there is an in-depth analysis of the report here.
- Comment on Quick-Start Guide to Fediverse Governance Decisions 2 months ago:
Can someone ELI5 so I can get enough dopamine to go read the whole thing?
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
Found this review
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
If you are worried about duplicates, aka a single bot spamming multiple votes, then that’s feasible to mitigate.
If you are worried about multiple bots spamming one vote each, that’s harder to mitigate and it comes down to how the instances handles bot accounts in general. IMO it’s best to ignore the bot problem and instead focus on designing a vote weighting system that favors similar instances.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
While the question is hilarious, the lack of references to in depth guides is a bit alarming…
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
For anyone interested, there are a few papers on cryptographically secure voting, where both voter anonymity and election integrity are preserved.
Most designs consider three separate entities, where if you accumulate the information between those entities you would be able to identify a voter and his vote, but each entity on itself does not hold enough information.
- Comment on How to get discovered on Mastodon? 3 months ago:
Follow people from other instances, if you find them interesting, chances are they will find you interesting and follow back.
Use tags, especially popular ones.
- Comment on If I had a time machine I'd rather go back to the beginning of my vacation and live in that loop 4 months ago:
Also watch palm spring
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
They made meow meow beans?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
They also scare the crap out of my dog, and cause a lot of accidents. Though, they can be beautiful…
- Comment on Where's all the intelligent discussion at? 4 months ago:
Lemmy’s user base is pretty interesting, you will find interesting discussions in pretty much most communities. However, if don’t find something interesting, don’t be afraid to start a discussion on your own. Coming from Reddit I used to be afraid of the harassment, but Lemmy is a safer space ❤️
Some general pointers:
- Beehaw is a good place to look for interesting discussions
- If you find an interesting comment, take a look at the author’s profile, chance is they have more interesting for you to find
- Filter by subscribed and hot/active
- Look for opinion articles
Is this what autism feels like? Sometimes yes, a lot of us feel isolated, struggle with socialization and connecting with others. Othen it helps to find other ND people, they are just as interested in whatever niche topic you are thinking about.
PS Yesterday, I started a post on AskLemmy after pondering about how technology and science is changing at a faster pace than people (mostly professionals) can adapt.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
That sounds a bit misleading, the server implementation is FOSS too, at any time someone could setup their own instance.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
There is Alovoa, it’s open source, still has a small user base, but you don’t have anything to lose…
- Comment on Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board. 6 months ago:
Jack Dorsey, good or bad?
(bonus points if you get the community reference)
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
Hey, I am sure I have it, I rephrased the comment, thanks for bringing that up.
- Comment on The universe runs on capitalism 9 months ago:
wow buddy that shrooms are really hitting you
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
You are not lazy, you probably have ADHD and/or autism. While, accurate numbers are not available, I have seen people estimating that 20% of people working in FAANG are neurodivergent. If coding comes naturally to you but the laundry is your mortal enemy, you should probably educate yourself and see a professional.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
Totally agree, I had the fortune to read Domain Driven Deign by Eric Evans early in my career. While, the book may be outdated, it helped me understand that my job is to turn the unknown or ambiguous into code. I find that much more exciting than being just a coder.
- Comment on How do I convince my company to add tests for FE? 11 months ago:
Just do it, whenever you fix a bug, add a test case for it, the cost is not going to be noticeable. You may choose to not upload the test suite right away, but wait until someone notices and asks you about it.
- Comment on Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers 11 months ago:
Scientist:
That means: Either the clock works quickly or it works precisely – both are not possible at the same time.
Engineer: Explain that to my manager please!
Also, Engineer: Well, what if we accounted for error rate and fixed precision post-processing?
- Comment on The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable 1 year ago:
I kinda agree but you still need money to live and if I was able to work on open source projects while sustaining myself I would choose it anytime.
- Comment on Lemmy Community Boost (LCB) 1 year ago:
Interesting concept, it would be nice to provide instructions for instance admins.
Also, I would suggest adding tags, that way instance admins can select specific tags if they want to. It would help create a better local feed for new instances.
- Comment on I want to study the Fediverse 1 year ago:
To be honest, setting such a goal is scary to me, I have been working on my self-confidence, and I wouldn’t have been able to do it a few years ago. I try to remind myself that I am an autistic with ADHD: if I had food, meds, a bed, a place to study, and the frequent affirmation of a similarly interested peer group I would be happily studying 12 hours a day.
Super Crunchers seems like a good place to start, it’s a book about how quantitiative analysis can be used for social sciences.
- Submitted 1 year ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments