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- Comment on Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon 41 minutes ago:
Yeah, don’t do that.
You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 22 hours ago:
hell yeah
- Comment on Pope slams 'collective failure' of world hunger affecting millions 1 day ago:
Nice one.
Estimates vary but USAID saved roughly 90 million lives over the last 2 decades so going without that money over the next decade could mean 45 million die. Or ’only’ 22.5 million if USAID funding is restored to normal levels in 5 years.
Whatever the exact numbers, it’s pretty easy to blow past the 6 million mark…
- Comment on search engine megathread? 1 day ago:
Me too!
- Comment on Pope slams 'collective failure' of world hunger affecting millions 2 days ago:
Simple maths demonstrates that Trump’s USAID cuts will lead to more deaths than the Holocaust. I wish I could find the blog post that ran the numbers but I can’t.
- Submitted 2 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on At least 64 dead, 65 missing in Mexico floods 4 days ago:
hmm a lot of floods lately, I wonder why
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 6 days ago:
Ask your admins about that - PieFed has that feature but only admins can do it and it’s instance-wide.
I’ve done it to a couple of high volume posters who are fine until they start commenting.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 1 week ago:
That could happen in the future but at the moment and in the past surely we lost more mods as a result of their community being dead than from their community being too active. But we don’t hear from them because they feel rejected and like they failed so they slink away quietly.
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 1 week ago:
99% of communities need more content, not less.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 1 week ago:
Thank you for this counter-weight!
- Comment on Forklift driver who won £1m on rushed to hospital after ‘three months of partying’ 1 week ago:
Around 70% of lottery winners lose it all, with about 1/3 declaring bankruptcy, often within three to five years of winning.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 2 weeks ago:
Cloudflare caching can solve this. Cache based on the user agent.
- Comment on F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project 2 weeks ago:
I never realised that f-droid was compiling from source and assumed the app devs were providing compiled binaries and saying “trust me bro”. That was fine to me and I’ll still want a marketplace app that gives me access to foss apps so I hope they can find an acceptable compromise.
- Comment on Seeking recommendations for federated Q&A forums on Linux and software issues 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been thinking about adding Q&A features to PieFed for a while… Initially just the ability to set a comment as the solution to a post and then give that comment more emphasis in the UI. What else do we need?
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 2 weeks ago:
Install a floppy drive. No one gonna steal a computer with one of those.
- Comment on Politics 2 weeks ago:
Yes there are good arguments to be made for either option. You do you, it’s fine. All this only affects the url, you can change the title and description of a community any time… 95% of people will find the community through a UI that abstracts away the url anyway.
- Comment on Politics 2 weeks ago:
Naah I can’t be policing the naming of communities, really. Seems a bit micro-managing, when it’s somewhat of a grey area.
So while I agree with Blaze I’m not going to enforce anything about it.
IMO politics is generally pretty nationally-focused and most of the time the significance of each turn of the worm is only really obvious to people in that country. e.g. I’m pretty up with the play on all the anglosphere politics but am incompetent when it comes to south african or indian or slovakian politics and that’s fine by me. There is some globally-significant politics news but maybe not enough to sustain a community on it. So a collapse into US politics news is probably inevitable.
How about we have two politics communities, one for US and one for everything else? i.e. Keep the existing one and just change it’s description and make a second one.
Also as Blaze said there are other PieFed instances. I’m a fan of !world@quokk.au but feddit.online or piefed.zip are good homes too.
- Comment on EVE Online 2 weeks ago:
Such a great game. Huuuge time commitment tho.
- Comment on China at UN warns of return to 'Cold War mentality' 3 weeks ago:
Now that’s some a-grade hypocrisy right there.
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
Yes, you’re right. I didn’t fully think through all the implications.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
Federation, it’s magic.
But yeah, this means Lemmy comments would never be boosted or highlighted because it wouldn’t be federating the new data. Bit of a problem!
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
So every comment would have a quote? lol
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
If clients want the get into an adversarial relationship with the project they’re piggybacking off, they will lose.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
JavaScript. Attach a click handler event to the article link, save a cookie with the post id in it.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
The proposed solution assumes a linear relationship between number of votes and number of comments. But depending on the post there might not be much to say. Especially with bad content.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
I have ways
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 3 weeks ago:
Upvotes without reading do suck but comments without reading are worse. I’ve been considering adding a highlight/boost on comments where the author has clicked the link.