SorteKanin
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- Comment on How We Lost Communication to Entertainment 12 hours ago:
Fediverse platforms are not in competition with each other. In fact, it’s more like symbiosis.
Why do you need a culture shift if anyone can just pick whatever platform they personally prefer? If you want a certain cultural approach, then feel free to use a fediverse platform with that approach, but there’s no need for anyone else to follow the same choice, unless they want to.
- Comment on How We Lost Communication to Entertainment 12 hours ago:
I think the author brings some interesting points, but ultimately I think it’s a faulty premise.
The fediverse is whatever the user wants it to be. That’s the whole point really. If you want a reliable communications platform with zero dropped messages, aka email 2.0, then you can definitely build that on the fediverse and people can join such a platform if that’s what they want.
If that’s not what you want… Well then don’t join such a platform. Join another one. You do you.
We don’t need anyone telling us how to communicate or consume content or whatever we want to do with the fediverse. The whole point of the fediverse is that everyone gets to decide for themselves, so there’s no need to be prescriptive about any one approach.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
From what I’m reading of the series, it sounds like the ending is bad? But it’s super popular. I’m confused, should I watch this?
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 5 days ago:
Google respects “before:2012” for now at least.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 week ago:
I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Kind of weird but suit themselves I guess
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
How come?
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
There’s nothing that can be done to stop it
That’s not true at all. You can definitely do something:
- Make a sign up process that filters out most low effort bots (e.g. applications, invite trees)
- Get more moderators to catch the bots earlier. In a similar vein, encourage users to report bots.
- Defederate from instances that don’t have similar measures and don’t take bot prevention seriously.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
It definitely does. You just defederate from the instances that don’t do something to avoid bots.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
I feel like it is just a matter of time before either:
- The fragmented communities develop more and become distinct, so that they are more unique and shouldn’t merge.
- One of the communities becomes the more popular “default” option, and the other becomes less active as people gather in the more popular one.
Even if that doesn’t happen, redundancy isn’t bad. We’ve seen how hard it is to migrate when there’s only 1 real option and that option disappears or goes bad for some reason (i.e. reddit). If there was another fairly active community with the same focus, that would make it easier to keep going. That’s part of why decentralization is good.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
This is a non issue. Different communities and instances have different rules, norms, cultures etc. There’s no need to smash everyone together in a monoculture.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. This is a non issue and actually a feature.
- Comment on Mastodon features 4 weeks ago:
I mean, just set the limit to a ridiculously high number then? I’m not aware that Lemmy has any in-built limits, but I could be wrong.
I believe that Mastodon instances with limits only link to external posts that exceed the limit, they don’t display the whole post.
Of course you can always run into network limits if you get huge posts, but that applies to everything and doesn’t have anything in particular to do with Mastodon.
- Comment on Mastodon features 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t character limits an instance setting?
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 weeks ago:
No, that’s what I wrote as well. The identity service would not know what sites were visited or ideally not even how many sites were visited.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that is feasible, because in order to trust the answer, I feel the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer. It sounds like you’re imagining a system with many different ID providers? What prevents me from creating my own provider that just answers “Yes”, even for people under 18? If the site asking does not know it is my fake ID service providing the answer, I’m not sure they can trust any answer.
But I won’t pretend to be an expert on this topic, so perhaps it is feasible somehow.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 weeks ago:
In principle it should be possible to do a zero-knowledge proof.
This means that the website asking for age verification asks a yes/no question like “Is this user 18+?” and the age verification service (like a digital ID provided by the government or whatever) answers “yes” or “no” accordingly, but without telling anything else about the user. Also, the verification service should ideally not know who asked for the age verification.
So the site you want to visit only knows the thing they need to know: Whether you are 18+ or not. Nothing else. And the age verification service only knows somebody asked for age verification and provided the answer, but do not know which site you visited.
This is all possible, but I don’t have high hopes this is the intended implementation of any government seeking age verification, so don’t get your hopes up.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 5 weeks ago:
Never meet your heroes. Speaking from very literal experience regarding Stallman.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 month ago:
Tinnitus has no cure and is generally a permanent condition, so my guess is yes.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 1 month ago:
The video posted elsewhere in the thread explained it well
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 1 month ago:
I don’t get 4 to 5
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 1 month ago:
This kinda erodes cultural differences between different communities though. Different communities may have very different approaches on how to talk about a post. I feel like this approach just leads to monoculturism.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 1 month ago:
Finally someone who gets it. This “problem” is in fact a total non-issue. Different groups talk about the same thing all the time. This is good, not bad.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 1 month ago:
the conversations should be combined
Disagree. As OP points out, there is value in separating the discussions as well.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 1 month ago:
The real stupid thing here is that a header has to be added to disable reactions. Why didn’t Microsoft just use a header to enable them? I mean make it opt in instead of opt out. Then they can use that header in all their Outlook shit and everyone else can go on with their day not worrying about it. So stupid, but not sure what I expected from Microsoft.
- Comment on OneShot, a game where the 4th wall isn't broken but simply doesn't exist 2 months ago:
I tried it but wasn’t impressed. It was kinda too slow paced for me and a bit too “artsy”, not sure how else to describe it. I can see how some may like it but it was not for me.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 months ago:
- Shake hands thoroughly after washing to minimise excess water.
- Move hands together as if you’re applying soap while using the dryer. This keeps the water evenly distributed on your hands, to maximise evaporation.
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 2 months ago:
As much as “instance drama” can be a bit tiring, I think it might be an inevitable outcome and shouldn’t necessarily be seen as completely bad. My thinking is that instance drama would not occur if all the instances were similar, and that would be bad. As it is, there are actually differences among the instances and that’s good - some disagreements due to those differences is inevitable.
Now, it would be good if we could agree to disagree and still be friends… but that also moves into the paradox of tolerance. But I would say most instances have nothing strongly against each other, despite any differences in moderation or rules or approach. The Pareto principle applies too… probably 20% of the instances are responsible for 80% of the drama. If you don’t like the drama, try avoiding those 20% of instances 😅.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 months ago:
Would recommend Case of the Golden Idol for a similar detective vibe.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
Ah yes, finally a break from this incessant combat to catch a weird fish.
(Speaking of Hades)