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Compassion >~ Thought
- Comment on do no harm 1 week ago:
So in that case is the pain the remainder… or the divisor?
I sense an amount of recursion about to happen here… (since the latter is itself larger than 10)
- Comment on Aeroplane 1 week ago:
Or simply aim at the ground and miss :-P
- Comment on Aeroplane 1 week ago:
Keep plane in sky, above the ground (unless you meant to), check!✈️
- Comment on do no harm 1 week ago:
Perhaps their pain is so far beyond “10” that it literally is 1,987?
- Comment on Ahm, guys... 1 week ago:
This person has done it…
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 1 week ago:
I wonder if I’ll still be welcome if the best I can manage is 45.8% coherence - sorriez!
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 1 week ago:
… at the same or higher salary, r-r-right?
- Comment on So much... 1 week ago:
Artists can get intimately acquainted with them anytime.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 2 weeks ago:
“disliking” a post isn’t going to do anything
Not true - it seems designed to increase advertising revenue for the CEO:-P. That’s… “something”, technically? 🤪
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 2 weeks ago:
They are focusing on enshittification
It is what they want - for them it is a “feature” to exist surely inside of their echo chambers. MANY Lemmy instances - hexbear.net and Lemmy.ml to name just a couple - are the same, banning people who even remotely disagree with them.
Profit-seeking is not the only cause of enshittification.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 2 weeks ago:
I like the way that PieFed implements this.
“Highly contentious users” i.e. those who are consistently heavily downvoted by “trusted instances” (I don’t know the actual thresholds but imagine someone who receives 10x more downvotes than upvotes - and e.g. hexbear.net can be federated with but not “trusted” so that downvote brigading can be eliminated, unless ofc they use their non-HB alts but while nothing is perfect, every ounce of protection does help:-) are labeled, but there is currently no way that I am aware of to actually remove their content. Still, it helps to see that automatically-applied label as you scroll down, so that you can skip past it or at least realize that a reply is going to fall on deaf ears. People’s reputations precede us irl so why not online as well, where it is so much easier to measure?
Individual content - posts and comments - that are highly contentious, according to user-defined thresholds, can be either automatically collapsed or even hidden. I personally disable both of these, but if someone wants to not see highly contentious content then this makes it happen for them. Similarly there are keyword filters - again nothing will ever be perfect but if you want to see less of e.g. Musk or Trump, then this is a method to help reduce the incoming flood of content related to such.
Communities have access to “community-specific” voting patterns. I know less about this aspect but generally the entire community or perhaps an individual post could be limited to community-specific rules, like a member can vote but a non-member drive-by commentor might be disallowed under certain conditions. Not every community should be this way and I hope most won’t enable these features, but they are necessary sometimes - e.g. a community for and by women needs to exclude all the “don’t you know that I am such a nice man"-splaining that will inevitably arise.
Anyway I love the hierarchy that distributes the work of moderation all the way from instance admins (for e.g. illegal content) through community mods (who have access to software to help them) and ultimately powers the end-users to control their own recipient of content, which they can change over time - e.g. rather than leave social media entirely they could enable some of the contentious user and/or keyword filter controls and thereby attain for themselves a break from the noise and hubub that the entire internet tends to prefer to throw at us all the time.
In contrast, whatever little moderation that Bluesky has is obviously insufficient - the problems of outright monotonization spam and high contentious users seems to have overwhelmed whatever capacity there was to handle such.
PieFed has really high me hope for the entire Fediverse.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 2 weeks ago:
Moderation seems sorely lacking on Bluesky. And did you read the comment in the OP article? It offered “I am such a nice man” vibes, though technically not entirely wrong either, yet failing to consider replies not offered in good faith nor the consent of the recipient to receive such shocks to their systems.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 2 weeks ago:
They want feudalism back. Ngl, the technology available today might make it work for them.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 2 weeks ago:
The number in the exponent is negative, so it’s a very tiny value, whatever the unit.
- Comment on Everyone hide! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
It just gets better and better-er(-est?/-ish?)
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
I stared at the square of the square root of the squared square root for far too long…
that I almost missed the obvious E = / * A. Where would the field of mathematics be without that good old E = / * A? :-D
- Comment on plump pumkins 3 weeks ago:
Naw, all the toxic chemicals would then kill the pumpkins! (see e.g. radioactive Wal-Mart shrimp)
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Eldritch gendered playhouse?
Just… no.
- Comment on aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
I found Saddam! :-P
- Comment on Secondsies 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on snail lyfe 3 weeks ago:
No way - shame begins at home:-D.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
I was trying to think what the funniest part was. I think it’s the b2 - like just take your b2 vitamins bro, it’s worth like squared a regular b.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
Those are questions that mere mortals would ask. Be better: just “vibe solve” it. :-P
- Comment on eel butts 3 weeks ago:
B-b-b-b-but(t)!?⁉️‼️
- Comment on arborholing 4 weeks ago:
Which MOST plants seem to want to avoid… (although for others it has become a necessity, depends on what you are used to I guess)
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 4 weeks ago:
Bots trained from bots, talking to bots, governed by THE ALGORITHM… surely this will end well.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 4 weeks ago:
Worse, you have to provide your own shit! 💩
- Comment on *happy Kenobi dance* 4 weeks ago:
I would say more “how” than “why” though:-D
- Comment on Loops Joins the Fediverse 4 weeks ago:
So… another year then?
