@punah sickkkkk!!! I almost have it finished in the official app. You're doing a stellar job ❤️

We are on Lemmy, so yeah, they are here. Just take a look at how many people are defending Russia invading its neighboring country and murdering the people there. Or try calling Xi Jingping a dictator who is doing a genocide on the Uighurs.

I have never seen anyone claim that Putin or Xi are faultless. I have seen people claim and i agree with them that they are no worse than western leaders. Every imperial project has blood on its hands, be it Rome, Spain, Netherlands, Great Britain, USA, USSR or China, or even India for that matter.

@molly0xfff The sweater is gorgeous, and I love the colour for the new project.

Also, no, we never learn. I look at my stash sometimes and wonder what the heck I was thinking.

#KnittersOfMastodon

Are these Russian bots in the room with us?

no it was before commercializaton, IPO crisis. it was when they started leaning on political/news content so much that any talk of politics that is easily misconstrued , i mean very easy to do, you get a ban. turns out political engagment, especially with russian bots increases traffic to the site. than 2023 happened, and then the ban purges happened, reddit is pretty much in self-destructive mode right now. the more they placate to the gop, conservative censorship, the smaller reddit gets as a platform for discussing anything.

@dthompson maybe this will motivate me to get to the office on time 🤪

stoic oaks endure
with naked limbs in winter
envious of pines

#DailyHaikuPrompt

Yesterday I streamed for a little over an hour and played several #lispgamejam entries: Assisted 15 puzzle, What is goodness?, Ultra Bible Golf DX, and ToGATHER.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2925894220

I'm gonna stream again today around 11am US Eastern time.

https://www.twitch.tv/davexunit

We’re going to have two splendid, sunny days ahead of the weekend, when we may see some fairly widespread showers on Sunday across the Houston region.

And while it’s way too early to forecast for the week of Thanksgiving, we’re giving it a shot! 🦃

https://spacecityweather.com/heres-our-way-way-too-early-forecast-for-thanksgiving-week-chilly-maybe/

#houwx

Winnie the Pooh didn't rock crop tops our whole childhood to watch us become unconfident about our bodies

Elaborate on “ultra leftist”? Literally where are you on the compass if Reddit moderators are “too leftist” for you?

Reddit basically has fucked over their voluntary mods. If you have a bigger subreddit with several millions of users modding that is nearly impossible. You’ll get all those trolls, crazy people, nazis and fanatics with too much time. You’ll have to deal with astroturfing campaigns from companies with millions of dollars of budget and state sponsored desinfo campaings. You also will have do deal with all that cultural war bullshit. You subreddit can be about cute baby cats, but you will have to deal with MAGA bullshit, somebody will bring the war in Gaza into your place or post Putin with a cat. Karmafarming bots. Users will really insult you and accuse you of powertripping and being a Nazi.

You will have to do everything in your free time. Reddit will not pay you. Reddit will not really support you. You are alone responsible to build a mod team. You can’t pay them either. Spez will laught at you while earning millions. He will insult you if you speak up. You can’t close your sub. And then you will get burned out and leave. The sub will then be overrun by absolute trash.

Myers Briggs Tarot

@jeffjarvis I think we trust Willi on this.

@jk He doesn’t know how to use the three oystercards

@davidgerard This is the problem with scam emails these days. There's no craft to them anymore. Just let an agent troll youtube looking for anyone with "AI" in their tags, then pump out a personalized pitch message to them via an LLM

Back in the day you had to craft a single message that would go out to a pool of millions in the hopes of snagging one well-heeled idiot. Where's the art of the con in this mass-produced sludge?

@ololduck

Federate ticket and patch discussions as ActivityPub conversations

How discussions are federated?

I am curious what you think about implementing issue trackers as FEP-1b12 groups: https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed/issues/324

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

TODAY: Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan stops by to tell us about making history in Minnesota, Democrats’ people-powered mandate, why she opposes a coronation of Chuck Schumer, and more.

Join Leah, Ezra, and Peggy this afternoon: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/874938/?utm_source=mastodon

@newsmast You love to see it 🚀