MaximilianKohler

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any communities dedicated to product reviews?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

About the votes, it might have been because of the opinion I quoted above.

Na, I don’t think people on lemmy are that averse to criticisms of the UI, features, etc. And by “astroturfed” I don’t mean “my thread was downvoted”. The thread was flooded with hostile comments making personal attacks, etc., most of which completely ignored the substance of the blog post. Virtually the entire thread was filled with comments along the lines of “How dare you attack reddit, you are [insert random ad hominem]”.

All the comments making personal attacks on me were greatly upvoted, and other reasonable and on-topic comments were downvoted. There was a delay before it occurred, and then all the comments were up/downvoted the same amount, and new ones met the same fate, so there was clearly a group of people who were notified about the thread at some point who then continually monitored it and voted on new comments.

I guess at the time the mods removed your blog post by mistake, because they didn’t expect personal blogs here.

I doubt that. But if that’s the case, that’s horrible moderation that they would allow all the personal, off-topic attacks against me and then “remove the post by mistake because they didn’t expect personal blogs”. They should have removed most of the comments in that thread and banned the users.

I’ve had a better experience with the reddit@lemmy.ml community so far. I’ve seen lots of criticisms of lemmy.ml, and even attempts to [dishonestly] attack the .ml developers. I wonder how much of that is from the same group/type of people who just want to cause problems and make people leave lemmy. I wonder if the reason I experienced it less on the lemmy.ml comm is because those users are banned there, and that’s why they’re spreading FUD about lemmy.ml.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any communities dedicated to product reviews?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I really dislike the bloated UI they’re all using, but it looks like there are solutions on the way.

I’m wondering, is this still your opinion?

I’ve gotten used to it and I like that many instances default to a dark mode. I used to use the old.instance UI, but I think I ran into problems with it and ended up just using the standard Lemmy UI.

Regarding lemmy being complicated, I’ve mostly learned how it works and I definitely think it’s the #1 reddit-alternative at the moment, and the most promising option for the future as well. Along with independent forums of course.

I also set up a Mastodon account, but unfortunately most people are still using Twitter. I also petitioned the Xenforo developers to join the fediverse, and I like that other forum software like Discourse, etc., are joining the fediverse. I definitely think federation is the future.

I’ve been thinking about updating that blog post but I’m not sure where to add the updates.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any communities dedicated to product reviews?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I agree. The best option now is to look for specific sources of trustworthy reviews.

Regarding rtings, the two monitors I purchased myself had completely different results from the monitor RTINGS showed. What does that say? RTINGS is totally unreliable? I got ridiculously unlucky? hardforum.com/threads/…/post-1045814690
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any communities dedicated to product reviews?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I agree about reddit, but unfortunately, I don’t think lemmy is free from astroturfing. Myself and others have noticed that there are many users on lemmy who seem to be purposefully antagonistic towards other lemmy users. The possible reason may be to drive people away from lemmy and hinder its growth.

I’ve experienced pro-reddit astroturfing on lemmy. I posted this criticism of reddit on the reddit@lemmy.world comm, and it was heavily astroturfed and then deleted by the mod for a bogus reason.

A year later, someone used that post to attack me while insinuating purely from the title that I was at fault because the reddit admins would never do something like that (despite all the public information to the contrary).
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I’d like to read this because I think one of the biggest problems with reddit is it’s now basically a free-for-all for disinformation. So I’d like to see their arguments and evidence that decentralized alternatives are superior in this regard. Unfortunately, the article is paywalled.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yep, that was one of them. Do you think that’s a good mechanism to automatically delete all user’s content when they get banned? Those example titles you shared don’t seem like obvious trolling nor obviously worthy of an account ban, and the collateral damage of deleting valid & popular threads seems bad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
How are you supposed to link to a source when it’s completely deleted?

You can see it in my profile though:

@MaximilianKohler to Ask Lemmy Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch? • 5 days ago

This is the link and it looks like it’s been restored lemmy.world/post/17593614

I looked in the mod log lemmy.world/modlog/3106 and it says:

4 hours ago mod Restored Post Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch? reason: restoring post as it was deleted as a result of the user getting instance banned from lemmy.ml

There is no log of why/when it was removed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a lot of effort you’re putting into something that can easily disappear at any point.

That is the point of this thread. You’ve chosen to deceptively magnify one part of it to twist things for your own purpose, which also seems to be a primary purpose of a lot of people on Lemmy – antagonizing other Lemmy users.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Why would you want a lemmy.ml link though?

That’s where the thread is. It was created on lemmy.ml and crossposted to lemmy.world. When crossposting from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world it says “crossposted from lemmy.world”, which is wrong and confusing, and defeats the purpose of crossposting (informing people about similar communities or other instances).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

“My posts keep getting deleted!”

— user looks into public info to find out why your posts might be being deleted —

Nice try, but that’s deceptive. This thread was not about my personal posts. I even gave an example of a recent thread (that I did not make) with hundreds of comments. You’re further proving my point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It sounds like you’re saying it’s impossible, but I’m doubtful of that. Currently there is no fediverse link for the thread, so I think one could be added that links to the lemmy.ml post. I crossposted from lemmy.ml and the crosspost should say so.

If the devs conclude it’s not possible or wanted, that’s fine. But this is my feedback.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s exceedingly bizarre how many people on Lemmy rush to defend Reddit and attack other Lemmy users for anything possible.

This thread had absolutely nothing to do with that, yet you somehow dug through months of mod logs to find the one thread that would allow to you attack me.

“You have a history of being inflammatory towards Reddit on Lemmy! This is not acceptable behavior on Lemmy!”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve never seen “nazi shit” on Lemmy. The threads that have been deleted have all seemed on-topic with normal discussions taking place. The last one was a “what made you leave reddit?” thread with hundreds of comments.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

The “fediverse link” on a post

I’m only seeing those links on comments, not the thread. Has it always been like that?

“The instance of the person who posted it” seems to be reasonable for comments, but not the thread.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

That’s how it’s always worked??? The fediverse button goes to the canonical source

Maybe it didn’t exist on posts but only comments? I see it on your comment but not the OP/thread.
I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where's all the intelligent discussion at?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Exact kind of troll, low-quality comment that poisons most of this website. As is the reply by FuglyDuck.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where's all the intelligent discussion at?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I have the exact same frustration. Reddit has been a complete mess for years. Unfortunately, Lemmy is only slightly better, and still seems to be astroturfed and filled with overconfident, unintelligent people who spread misinformation. I shared the link above on one of the /c/reddit lemmy communities and it was heavily astroturfed and then deleted by a mod for a ridiculous reason.

I posted in various other communities about a completely different topic and the only intelligent response I received was a PM.

I’ve blocked close to a hundred “fluff” (low-quality) communities on Lemmy, so my feed is highly curated. But the fluff/low-quality communities vastly outnumber the high-quality ones.

People keep making threads about this, and speculating that Lemmy might be astroturfed by people who don’t want to see it succeed. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a viable solution. You would need extremely competent and active moderators, or we have to wait until AI becomes advanced enough to neutrally and accurately moderate.

This is one reason I opted to move my Reddit communities to a forum instead of Lemmy. The problem with that is small forums don’t show up on search engines. Some forum software teams are joining the fediverse though, so that should help. But not all forums have intelligent people either, so it’s definitely a struggle to find these days.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
How about a basic Squarespace business website? lemmy.world/post/12989654
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There have been efforts to change the “fecal” part of the wording, but it’s largely been unsuccessful. I personally don’t think it’s the biggest problem to focus on. I’d rather try to educate people that healthy poop is not repugnant. They think it’s gross because their own poop is unhealthy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

There’s a reason sites like Reddit sprang up and grew huge despite forums having already existed.

Yeah, but it comes with many major downsides that have become more apparent in recent years. For example, even lemmy seems to get hit hard by astroturfing, misinformation, disinformation, and toxicity. That’s more rare and easier to prevent on forums I think.

It’ll expose more people to the topic though.

Yeah, I was considering using lemmy instead of creating a forum, but decided on the latter after weighing the pros and cons.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m doubtful that creating a lemmy community would funnel people to the forum. There is a lot to like about the forum format over time-based ones like lemmy. And the lemmy software is much newer and more incomplete/deficient than Xenforo. I think creating a lemmy community might just lead to fracturing of content/discussions, which would be detrimental. Also, unless you host your own instance it’s not super reliable (as we’ve seen with reddit and other reddit-alternatives).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I’m trying to make you realize that it you keep speaking of it as if it is, with only a single biased source, while not admitting the limitations, hurts such a cause greatly.

I think there may be a misunderstanding there. I certainly recognize that FMT and the gut microbiome have limitations.

There is statistically significant evidence that there’s a lot of potential here, but there is yet to be solid evidence that this actually treats most conditions.

That’s all I’ve said as well.

Anyway, you seem to think that FMT’s potential to treat/prevent most types of cancer is something that should be emphasized more. If you have specific suggestions I’m happy to hear them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Speaking of, it also wouldn’t help anyone with an organ transplant either.

FMT may negate the need for most organ transplants. Eg:
Etc.

There is evidence that it would immensely help with preventing nearly all human-cell borne cancers however, and in my opinion, THAT’S something your messaging should focus strongly on.

Human Microbes doesn’t do any specific messaging/advertising. Just the website where it covers the gut microbiome regulating the entire body and playing a major role in virtually every aspect of health & development. I would think that narrowing the focus to one type of cancer for example would be detrimental.

you’re touting this as a cure all, when really it’s a mass preventative (which again, is still extremely important and something really big).

I think the potential for both prevention and treatment exists for most conditions that are currently beyond medical capabilities. And there is a ton of evidence for this in the wiki I shared. Sure, there are some things that FMT won’t be a solution to of course.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There are at least as many spam/bot signups as there are humans, so account approval negates that completely. Forums aren’t time-based like lemmy and reddit, so there is no sense of urgency. Discussions can take place over months/years. It’s possible to turn on the ability to make a post prior to registering, then when your registration is finalized it gets posted, but I’m not sure how dependable that is. I wouldn’t want people losing content they tried to post due to some cache issue.

I haven’t bothered creating anything on Lemmy. I’ve been urging the Xenforo software developers to join the fediverse. Discourse forum software is doing it, so we may soon see discourse forums show up on lemmy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
y’all need some campaign and ad managers

As the blog notes, there is no funding for that.

I don’t see anything wrong with Zelle, and multiple payment options are offered.

I’d be glad to help how I can

That would be great! There are various discussions on the microbiome forum:
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’d automatically assume it’s a scam, spam, or both.

Why?

The email linked to the blog. The question was asked at the end of the blog.

Even if a panacea type microbiome WAS discord, it won’t cure everything. Cancer is one immediate example.

You may be interested in humanmicrobiome.info/cancer/.

It already would be impossible for it to prevent many diseases. Viruses for example that enter through the sinuses, or again, cancers caused by viruses. Heck even then something like norovirus would still wreck you too.

This is not correct. Not everyone gets sick from x virus. The primary reason is differences in their immune system and gut microbiome. Some relevant links for you:
This sounds more like someone who knows some knowledge but isn’t an actual expert in it

No offense, but that describes your comment. The blog should absolutely not sound like that given that it provides citations for its claims.

Not to mention it’s a big ask to strangers who probably don’t even know what a microbiome is.

The 1.2 million people who were sent the email & blog are people who are already familiar with the humanmicrobes.org project. Many of them hold advanced medical & biology degrees.

I agree though that many people are still not familiar with the gut microbiome and FMT. Do you have any suggestion in this regard?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, FMT is super experiemental. The point of the blog/website is not to convince people to buy poop, it’s to find ideal stool donors who may be able to cure a variety of diseases.

Maybe FMT is a good idea, but it’s still too unknown for me to accept it.

It can’t become “more known” unless a highly effective donor can be found. And such a donor can’t be found unless people start helping…

I don’t think FMT is appropriate to regulate as a supplement. The ingredients of supplements are known and standardized. FMT is an extremely complex and dynamic ecosystem. Yogurt is a handful of known microbes in a highly controlled environment. FMT vs yogurt is like the universe vs a zoo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Dr. Alexander Khoruts (University of Minnesota GI, Director, UMN Microbiota Therapeutics Program) made a similar comment. …humanmicrobiome.info/…/designer-hit-panel-discus…

He asks an FDA adviser “Does the FDA care more about profits or people?”, and the response he gets is “one of the missions of the FDA is to protect the interests of commercial developers”. Another question to the advisor: “How much influence does the industry have over the FDA decisions?”, A: “A lot”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Here’s an example of virtually no one out of 1.2 million people caring whatsoever: forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/…/post-760

This is the kind of thing that for me invalidates all those pro-natalism “large population = more chances that one person’s going to do something great” arguments. 8 billion people and a single disabled person is left to do it on their own. Especially when it’s something like this where anyone/everyone can do something to help, and 99.99999% of people just simply can’t be bothered.