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@lowqualityfacts Thank you for the confirmation of what I suspected, that I only narrowly averted you getting me with this one.
(After living through the Satanic Panic, I wasn't completely sure it was a LQF. 😅)
Different times calls for different leadership. The status quo and conventional ways of thinking have no place now.
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I am being uncharitable, but BotW is 100 hours of game with maybe 30 hours of bespoke content. OoT is 20 hours of game but nearly all of it is bespoke, so it hits harder and faster
@averyfinecat I remember thinking when it came out, I wanted this AND games like Ocarina, not this OR games like Ocarina.
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@FranceskaMann Good. We will keep working for those things, but now is not the time for purity politics. We have one shot right now. Either we fight for this or we hand power over to Schumer and his billionaire corporate backers. This is not the time for perfectionist dithering.
purity politics?
That's what you say when we hold Democrats accountable?
Instant block.
Ok, I could not, not comment, on Doug Ford’s “naïve” slander of protesting students.
Listen up, Doug.
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@chris Populist governments target the uneducated. Their "shtick" doesn't work on educated people.
When China/Asia emerged as an economic power, it was said that north America could still thrive despite loss of manufacturing because of higher education could lead to innovation (computer chips , programming , science etc).
We are seeing a devolution back to jobs that require less education, despite inability compete against Asia.
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A lot of the problems with Lemmy boil down ultimately to overall lack of moderation. Many people were banned from Reddit for many reasons, among them including an extreme level of toxicity, so the need for such is dire - that is, assuming that our goal is not to provide a safe space for everyone to vent their feelings, and instead to offer a space welcoming to newcomers. The recent thread in the Fediverse community praising the devs of many Fediverse platforms is a great example: it became highly toxic, ultimately being locked.
So (1) we need to identify what we are. Some places, like dbzero and anarchist nexus will choose to become more like 4chan, with the admins themselves literally flinging actual death threats against admins of other instances. Others, like PieFed.Social, will become more actively hostile against such trolling and tankie (and tankie-supporting) behaviors. So there will never be a solution to this step that involves all of us getting onto the same page.
The problem here comes from lack of transparency. Hexbear’s Chapotraphouse is fairly open about what it is… though many 3rd-party apps bury the sidebar quote deep into their menus, especially if you encounter a post on All and so you will basically never see it. I do decry the right of places such as Chapotraphouse to exist, but I do think that they need to be labeled properly, with a warning label, so that non-extremist mainstream normal folks do not encounter them unawares, and by virtue of their inclusion and lack of distinction from any other content here, think that the entire Threadiverse is a tankie haven, full of extremists who support genocide and the violent, bloody overthrow of the entire Western civilization.
PieFed made huge strides towards this regard. Most 3rd-party apps barely support any PieFed features that differ from base Lemmy, but at least the browser UX is somewhat better, in some ways.
However, PieFed advancement in this regard seems to have ground to a halt before picking up speed in the opposite direction. But to focus on the former for a moment, e.g. the instance picker (the last time I checked) was very confusing and came nowhere close to explaining what individual users could expect when signing up to an instance. Fortunately PyLova has picked up the slack here and advanced that cause significantly forward. Unfortunately, PieFed seems to be continually actively working against this goal now, making the options more opaque rather than transparent - e.g. any PieFed community on an instance that does not explicitly disable the downvote feature (and which ones have done that? how is anyone supposed to know!?) is shadow-censoring contributions offered from many different software platforms (Lemmy, Mbin, nodeBB, Friendica, Mastodon, etc.), without disclosure of that fact. However, I see no acknowledgement of that fact at e.g. feddit.online/auth/instance_chooser, where for PieFed.Social the closest item of explanation offered seems to be “Newbie friendly: yes”.
Only after someone has been guided into picking an instance does the futher steps matter, like (2) picking a 3rd-party app (sigh… I guess to most Redditors, this is mandatory?), and (3) helping them sign up to discover new content (this PieFed excels at, at least at the software level even though many instances like PieFed.World do not take full advantage by fleshing out the Topic Areas). Though then comes (4) retaining people, which is where most of our exceedingly poor reputation seems to stem from, as people who jumped through all of the prior hurdles flee this toxic shithole, which simultaneously barely has any content and yet what content it does offer to people unfortunately turns people away due to how toxic it all is. I do think that Rimu had the right idea behind a lot of his social credit features - e.g. if someone is extremely often downvoted, by let’s say “like-minded” instances (however that might be defined - e.g. it could be anti-genocide, or it could even be the opposite of pro-genocide, or neutral, or whatever), then their account name begins to come with a warning ⚠️ label, so that people do not stumble into a conversation completely unawares. Not everyone wants this space to be even more like 4chan than it already is - some do, but mainstream normal folks have spoken, and they refuse to come here because it is already too much like it for their tastes.
People demand freedom. Which ultimately means some restrictions must be placed, so as to protect others, e.g. people must not be free to say whatever they want, even against the wishes of the recipients, or else we have no freedom here at all. Voat & nostr already proved that: even the spaces that reputedly values “free speech” the most ended up as wastelands where nobody wanted to venture into, due to having no freedom to not listen to such vitriol literally 100% of the time (without any recourse to block it even for a moment, except to flee entirely).
So now it’s a cache-22 where we won’t get more content without more people, who refuse to come here. And also they demand 3rd-party apps, whose devs look to me to be tired on working to support new features, especially for PieFed. PyLova might be the single best hope the entire Threadiverse has to grow. We’ll see what happens!
A lot of the problems with Lemmy boil down ultimately to overall lack of moderation.
Yeah, I would say we are definitely at a “work-in-progress” level, with a ways to go.
The recent thread in the Fediverse community praising the devs of many Fediverse platforms is a great example: it became highly toxic, ultimately being locked.
I saw the post originally. Going back it looks like FiniteBanjo went to pick a fight. I’m not trying make any judgement on their comments, just that they appear, to me, to wanted to start an argument ("Well, not all of them. Some of them are a stain on this earth."). Not surprised it was locked at that point.
… with the admins themselves literally flinging actual death threats against admins of other instances.
My recollection and understanding of that situation was that it was an inferred threat, that, when confronted, was immediately rescinded and that admin stepped down due to their actions. So, I think, it’s a bit disingenuous to use that as a negative against them. To me, they responded appropriately when confronted with how their message was taken (clarification that’s not how it was intended and then stepping down from their position of authority).
I believe soon after the .world admins faked “evidence” that the anarchist admins were really fascists trying to sow discord or something (I don’t recall the exact allegation, but I remember the evidence being shown and confirmed to be fake). My recollection is Rimu backed the .world admins even after their evidence had been shown to be faked. I want to say that is when Rimu introduced the instance “silencing” feature, to reduce anarchist influence after his and the .world admins’ attempts to expel the anarchists with the faked evidence failed.
So there will never be a solution to this step that involves all of us getting onto the same page.
Decentralization. There doesn’t need to be, in my eyes.
I do decry the right of places such as Chapotraphouse to exist, but I do think that they need to be labeled properly, with a warning label …
… the instance picker (the last time I checked) was very confusing and came nowhere close to explaining what individual users could expect when signing up to an instance.
… as people who jumped through all of the prior hurdles flee this toxic shithole …
On-boarding is a huge gap in my mind. From my view, we basically throw everyone in the deep-end and hope they learn to swim and aren’t too concerned with fixing the issue, because we all learned to swim, so why can’t they.
I could see an on-boarding that quickly explains the structure (like 2 sentences about decentralization/email-analogy and identifying a users name and instance. Then go into a quick questionnaire (for determining best host instance for them) about what kind of posts they want to see (one of those could be a quoted .ml account, to see if the new user wants to see “triad” content). From there some, basic filtering/block list yes/nos (block-list for spam accounts: yes/no, agentic accounts: yes/no, bot accounts: yes/no, etc.) and interested topics (software, cats, art, etc.). I think that would go a long way in helping get an easier and more welcoming environment (may only be fully possible via Pylova features at the moment (block-lists)).
Unfortunately, PieFed seems to be continually actively working against this goal now, making the options more opaque rather than transparent - e.g. any PieFed community on an instance that does not explicitly disable the downvote feature (and which ones have done that? how is anyone supposed to know!?) is shadow-censoring contributions offered from many different software platforms (Lemmy, Mbin, nodeBB, Friendica, Mastodon, etc.), without disclosure of that fact.
That’s a good point I hadn’t thought of before. I’m not sure how an instance could keep a user informed without keeping a larger database of community and instance settings. Alternatively, sending that info for each load or interaction the user makes. The larger database sounds much more reasonable, but still daunting and not easily implemented and probably with a significant compute cost.
… whose devs look to me to be tired on working to support new features, especially for PieFed.
This isn’t surprising to me. Piefed has 20% of the users Lemmy has (and that increase to 20% is relatively recent) and developer generally want to get paid for their work (especially if they don’t have a main corporate job).
PyLova might be the single best hope the entire Threadiverse has to grow. We’ll see what happens!
Yeah, definitely looks to be the brightest hope we have right now. Hopefully, they can keep up a sustainable pace and don’t burn out.
What's the good word?
English: For
Me: Yeah this is easy
Spanish: Por, Para
Me: This is actually kind of hard but I can handle it
Chinese: 给，对，为
Me: *Beginning to get very nervous*
@aurynn I can't believe Jensen Huang said that
@cyberquixote He's said a lot of things, I suspect
you ever like... try a new mass-produced canned / jarred thing like idk... canned soup expecting it to taste bad only to get surprised with how good it actually tastes on its own?
having your expectations subverted like that is peak
@francis I just found out today that I like Greek yogurt now
who uses microsecond-based timestamps anyway
you don't need to track time that closely. it's vain to do so
@foone My Stratum 1 GPS-backed NTP server has a margin of error of +/- ~65 ns. In antiquity, I would be worshipped as a god. But no, it's just a computer the size of a pack of playing cards, wearing a funny hat.
this is being used to track database entry expiry.
for a process that runs /daily/
a DATE would have been fine here, seconds would have been overkill, milliseconds would have been extravagant, MICROSECONDS is just going way, way too far
nanoseconds would just be taking the piss
Do you need a labor union mech?
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