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- Comment on Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads 2 days ago:
For anyone that has friends that can be convinced to move off snapchat:
- it doesn’t actually delete things after the timer goes out, it just hides it from view. Sometimes the app bugs out and that data will be accessible again
- signal has stories and the same format of disappearing messages
- everything else that’s good about signal
If what they want is the “One weird trick your doctor is hiding from you” style content on the discover page, then I got nothing.
- Comment on SJW upgrade to v19.5 3 days ago:
Thanks for the update :)
- Comment on Release v0.6.9 · AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy 1 week ago:
Unfortunately that seems to be the case for a handful of Foss apps. Fdroid might not be a priority for them yet
I found this
- Comment on Release v0.6.9 · AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy 1 week ago:
they seem to be leaning into the AI stuff, anyone try it out recently?
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN 1 week ago:
Very detailed, thank you for writing it up :)
- Comment on Are there any communities dedicated to product reviews? 1 week ago:
Closest I can think of might be the !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net !buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works communities
- Comment on How to see every sub under an instance? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! That’s much easier
- Comment on How to see every sub under an instance? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 3 weeks ago:
Did you use Twitter much before then? Some people just don’t like the format. I use it to get updates on some things, but I don’t use it as much as Lemmy (or Reddit before that).
If you did use Twitter, perhaps the content you followed back then still didn’t make its way to Mastodon (or it went to bluesky/threads?)
Last thing you could try is following more people. I find that fediverse platforms need you to seek out content more actively, while old profit driven social media platforms were constantly seeking engagement. On top of that there just isn’t as much content on any of the new platforms compared to the older ones.
That all being said, the quality of the content is equal or better every time
- Comment on If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social? 3 weeks ago:
We have our instance on
.cafor example, since we’re a Canadian instance. Other instances might use.eubeing in the EU, or.frfor FranceSome instances pick the TLD (.com, .ca, .org, etc.) to have a fun name. For example, sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 3 weeks ago:
In particular this bit. If you’re on Mastodon and interested in the content:
Glaciologist Ruth Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists’ forum powered by Mastodon -– a crowdfunded, decentralised grouping of social networks founded in 2016.
“It’s really been a revelation in many ways. It’s a much quieter and more thoughtful platform,” she told AFP.
On Mastodon, “I haven’t had any abuse at all or even people questioning climate change. I think we’d become far too used to it on Twitter… I had blocked loads of accounts over on the birdsite (Twitter),” she said.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 137 comments
- Comment on Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess. 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to read more of these stories, if you have time to share them. Maybe !casualconversation@lemm.ee?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Is Firefish gone for good now? Many of the links I had saved are redirecting to other stuff now 4 weeks ago:
Oh so
firefish.iowas related, that’s unfortunate - Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 4 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, admins/employees on Reddit (or any other website) can also see upvote records.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 4 weeks ago:
Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?
I’m not sure if there is a good way to have the content federate anonymously. Even if there was, it would be a vector for spam.
Vote manipulation is a growing problem on Reddit, and it’s only getting worse with all the AI spam bots. They don’t have an incentive to stop it and it’s only going to get worse.
Admins need to know if the votes/likes coming in are legitimate, else they should block them. It’s too easy to abuse anonymous votes to affect how content and ideas are ranked.
I left a long comment in the other thread which I will link in a moment, but I think either
- We keep the current setup, but we put in more effort to make new users aware that vote records are visible to admins/mods
- We make it public for everyone and take steps to deal with the new issues that it could cause
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
Which is a good point, I included it in my longer comment here
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 4 weeks ago:
Another term I seen in the context of healthcare is alert fatigue:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
Alarm fatigue or alert fatigue describes how busy workers (in the case of health care, clinicians) become desensitized to safety alerts, and as a result ignore or fail to respond appropriately to such warnings.[1] Alarm fatigue occurs in many fields, including construction[2] and mining[3] (where vehicle back-up alarms sound so frequently that they often become senseless background noise), healthcare[4] (where electronic monitors tracking clinical information such as vital signs and blood glucose sound alarms so frequently, and often for such minor reasons, that they lose the urgency and attention-grabbing power which they are intended to have), and the nuclear power field. Like crying wolf, such false alarms rob the critical alarms of the importance they deserve. Alarm management and policy are critical to prevent alarm fatigue.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
I think the change would make it accessible to non-admin users
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 weeks ago:
Potential positives:
- it would make it less surprising to users that don’t realize that any admin can review voting activity
- it would make it easier for non-admin users to study voting activity and find abuse
- it would make it consistent with other platforms that we federate with, which can already see votes
Potential downsides:
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People will report voting activity that they don’t like, even if it’s not malicious. Admins will need to set up rules on what is / isn’t ok, and take action against people that spam reports. It would also help to have automated tools to review voting activity since it’s hard to do that manually.
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It’s another
- Comment on Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton 4 weeks ago:
While cool, this is a bit of an old article
Published on June 17, 2024
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think there is an equivalent of Boosting or Sharing on here. Those functions don’t really match the format of these platforms, since content is promoted in feeds/communities with the upvotes (favourites) and posts are placed in communities rather than user profiles
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Do you have a link to more info on how this works? Also hello :)
- Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriberwdwnt.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 5 weeks ago:
Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
Why does this happen? Lemmy doesn’t get mentioned in articles, but Lemmy is still fairly small.
Last I checked, Mastodon is doing well against the competitors
- Comment on "PSA: Update Vaultwarden as soon as possible" 5 weeks ago:
I’ll include a note in the post about making a backup first, sorry about that!
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 25 comments