ArtificialHoldings
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- Comment on In heat 1 day ago:
You are included in my initial assertion
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 1 day ago:
It’s giving Midsommar
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 days ago:
I thought for sure it was fake until I noticed the map was my neighborhood 😂
- Comment on In heat 2 days ago:
Everyone in this post is the annoying IT person who says “why don’t you just run Linux?” to people who don’t know how to install a new OS in the first place.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 2 days ago:
This is routing from LaGuardia, meaning the “walking” route has you taking a subway. Maybe the walking buddy is a local NYC thing meant for people who want assistance navigating the trains.
- Comment on For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing 4 days ago:
I manage a community on discord and see it going down the aggressive monetization route day by day. Also looked at Matrix, but the basic tools to support my community just aren’t there. I’m hoping the next two or so years produces an alternative rich chat/voice/video platform.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
Okay let me rephrase. I’m offering 100% of my work on PeerTube for free. They’re high quality, long-form video essays, and people clearly enjoy watching them. I link my Patreon in case people wish to support, but no other product exists on a subscription basis.
Even if PeerTube were substantially more popular, the lack of recommendation algorithms would keep my content from proliferating nearly as well as YouTube. This translates to fewer Patreon subscribers which means less opportunity and funding to create high quality videos. No self-promotion, just content that can’t perform as well because it doesn’t get recommended.
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 1 week ago:
Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
Not entirely sure how this applies to the discussion, it just came to mind lol
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
I’m so sorry but you really need to reevaluate this because it categorizes like 80% of authentic internet content as ads. Is a graphic artist who works commission posting their art on social media an ad, if they’re doing it to hunt for commission? A streamer who posts their funniest clips on social media to get more paid subscribers? A game dev promo-ing features in their next game patch?
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
I’m not talking about ads. Let’s say I’m a video essayist and I publish my essays on PeerTube. The recommendation algorithms aren’t going to show the free content I make to nearly as many people as if I put them on YouTube or Tiktok. And overall, that translates to fewer Patreon subscribers, FAR fewer.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
From a content creation standpoint, it does kind of suck. There’s no ego about it. The system doesn’t carry your content to nearly as many eyes, even accounting for the reduced audience. Discovery and suggestion algorithms are extremely effective, and if I’m trying to get my stuff to reach as much of my audience as possible, I wouldn’t only be on Mastodon. I’m not just talking about mediocre content either - even extremely motivating stuff in the niche doesn’t generate even a small fraction of engagement as regular social media sites.
For some people, this is a benefit - it’s a poorly commodified system. For small content creators trying to build an audience and generate paid subscribers, it’s not enough. Most creators on Fediverse are contributing as a free or non-profit hobby.
- Comment on what's the best strategy to follow with a new boss who wants me dumbed down? 1 week ago:
How can you certainly know what he saw in you, rather than what you wanted to portray?
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
It’s hard for me to imagine any system as flexible as Lemmy communities NOT operating under centralized control, outside of notional attempts at democratic procedures held by the community owner themselves.
- Comment on what's the best strategy to follow with a new boss who wants me dumbed down? 2 weeks ago:
2 hours after he left an Anesthesiologist I didn’t know came to check some PCAs, so me being me, started asking questions about the device and given that I’m thinking about studying medicine I asked about it and he told me where he studied, what he did afterwards, started showing me the documentation anesthesiologists use.
Are you being considerate of the doctors’ time and attention? They have work to be doing. As in this example, he came in to check PCAs. Sometimes people can even volunteer information (like showing you the documentation anesthesiologists use), but maybe because they feel socially compelled in that moment to do so even when they should be on task.
Another possibility - maybe your boss is trying to maintain cohesion between nurses. You seem to have a fairly low opinion of the other nurses. Separating yourself and trying to speak only with the doctors kinda demonstrates an intentional division with new co workers that is liable to lead to larger problems working together down the line. Maybe he expects you not to respect their judgment calls, or to put doctors in a tough position by saying, “doctor x told me we do things THIS way” when that process is all-but-on-paper owned by nurses.
I know you’re viewing your situation as learning, trying to get smarter, intentional curiosity - but I don’t really think that’s the problem your boss has. Maybe if you accomplished this in a different way, he wouldn’t complain. Your boss definitely doesn’t want you to be dumb.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 weeks ago:
I thought that was the Sims intended playstyle?
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
Completely right OP, and this is worth repeating as MUCH as possible. More than almost any UX or intake changes, Fediverse will only grow if their experience of the community is good.
Unfortunately, some people have never caught a vibe in their life and it shows lol. A single person with a bad attitude can completely tank your experience in a small community, versus a 20,000 person subreddit where usernames are basically indistinguishable.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
Technically anyone can spin up an instance centered on whatever dark and inhumane topic. That’s the reality of an open network. That’s why defederation and whitelisting are such important tools as Fediverse grows. You don’t actually want access to every last bit of information on the network.
- Comment on If I acted like a semi white power douche. On X Meta or whatever. And was a yes man to Elon and promoted the Orange Peel. While using fake photos of myself. Can I bilk them for alot of cash? 3 weeks ago:
You’d be more valuable to the grift as a black lesbian nurse. They are always looking for people with identities that the left claims to protect/empower, who are willing to run interference and act like there’s no need for political protection. That’s why Candace Owens, Milo Yiannopoulos, Dave Rubin, and Blaire White are big names in their circles. All people with “DEI” identities who are willing to decry the left and rationalize every last thing done by the GOP.
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
Ego soothing, peacocking behavior
- Comment on The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up 1 month ago:
When written out like this, it seems simple as - but the most simple version really isn’t what’s at stake. Companies make and trademark specialized tools for their goods, to prevent third parties from providing repairs. Warrantys are written to keep a company from being liable for repair/replacement if a customer attempts to repair a product themselves.
Pretty much every case in the right to repair movement is a challenge to a legally acceptable means of market capture, that just happens to create a stupendously shitty consumer environment.
- Comment on Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies? 1 month ago:
Protocols can be developed and then shared without cost except for the upfront development costs. Hosting a continuous service requires regular income, meaning for profit models will always out-resource non-profit models of hosting. Especially if a platform is looking at hosting more than just text and compressed images. Why do you think Pixelfed’s main host only allows uploads of up to 15MB?
- Comment on Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies? 1 month ago:
Fediverse is open source and decentralized, so any for-profit model could leverage it without asking for anyone’s permission. There are already for-profit companies that build and maintain apps to access Fediverse platforms. Meta Threads and Tumblr are both integrating into ActivityPub as their own hosts. I imagine in a future where Fediverse grows rampantly, the hosts with the best overall user experience will be for-profit. We live in a world of global capitalism, good things cost money most of the time.
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 1 month ago:
There’s nowhere near a reasonable number of users on Fediverse to sustain a geo-local dating app. Tinder already has to rate-limit matches so people don’t swipe through their entire dating pool in one day.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 months ago:
I imagine Lemmy skews WAY to the side of PCs/computers. But the average consumer is almost exclusively using their phone for everything except work and taxes. I’m a digital native and I even find browsing Lemmy to be easier via app than browser.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 months ago:
Not to mention all the domain-specific knowledge you’d need to properly evaluate claims. All the critical thinking skills in the world are worthless if you don’t have contextual knowledge of whatever subject is in the news. It’s just not realistic for everyone to be a policy wonk.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 months ago:
There is too much information to process for any one person to just use their critical thinking skills to fact check a news organization as large as CNN, much less every major news organization. No, it’s not enough to teach critical thinking skills and hope every person is able to discern bias in the media they consume, because you’re asking for extremely domain-specific skills and legwork that a single consumer just isn’t capable of.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 months ago:
Can you expand that last line? I don’t understand clearly what you mean.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
These aren’t global fediverse rules, they’re constraints meant to apply specifically to the new user experience on Lemmy only.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
Personally I’m totally fine with just hand selecting starter instances rather than trying to maintain a facade of neutrality. So many instances defederate with hexbear that it’s a different experience and should probably be an intentional choice for the user.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Very inside baseball opinion. It’s like me describing reddit as “endless drama” because I read every thread on subreddit drama.