Lemmy is already struggling with many of the same issues as Reddit; poor and / or objectionable moderation or moderators, bots and bot activity, politically motivated disinformation, groupthink, brigading, and censorship.

Scale makes the problems more noticeable because it makes them happen more frequently but it doesn’t create the problems. It’s the same with Commercialization, it’s doesn’t create those problems it simply highlights them.

@octothorpe Humans have an instinctive aversion to things that are almost, but not quite, Human. This is because qlippoth (empty, demonic shells) like them once hunted us in caveman times.

you realize that’s like a whole fetish thing right?

@CoMaps @streetcomplete I like the idea, but I can’t answer the first one I looked at because it doesn’t have the right answer. The answer should be yes. Is there a way to say “none of the above”?

We've launched in the USA today!

We cannot overstate how excited we are to have made it to this point. Preparing maps, friends that have helped contribute to data collection, training our model to detect most player's swings/putts has been a journey.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dewy-golf-auto-scorekeeper/id6754344522

@fesshole I often recruit idiots with about ten years of experience or more. Why? Because There are a lot of them. One such example are those who would make the singular assumption, which has about as much chance of being true as someone picking the exact reason out of a million reasons every single time, that someone's email address which contains numbers was a decision made of them by a given email system, or that the person is unrecruitable simply due to this fact. But you do you.

The rapid decline in recent years of local content on the mediumwave bands has considerably reduced the romantic mystery of tuning around and seeing what you find. It's mostly now a sterile mix of mass-produced, syndicated right wing talk, sports, and so on. But there are still a handful of stubbornly local stations producing their own programming.

@shauna Please keep updating. We are fascinated.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117599177441247154

I hope someone is washing those $500M, it’s been everywhere by now

If you fancy the second half of this gig of 4 musos on top form... https://www.youtube.com/live/wfvl5q3rvic

hey

AM broadcast is a technically interesting and somewhat endangered medium. The low frequencies mean that signals routinely travel well beyond their local coverage areas, especially overnight in winter. So there's a bit of mystery in tuning around the dial late at night; you never know what you might pick up.

Sadly, industry consolidation and the growth of higher bandwidth media (FM, satellite, podcasts) has greatly reduced the variety and local focus of programming. But it somehow hangs on.

@arstechnica Yep, looks like full Realm & Conquest mode alright.

@maryjane thanks for the #websummit video . Here is a related article for more context. https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/11/10/housing-crisis-anger-the-dominant-emotion-in-lisbon-as-web-summit-rolls-into-town/

The antenna field is in the final approach and takeoff flightpath for SFO airport's runways 28L/R (and 10L/R), and so the site has special markings to warn pilots of a collision hazard. In addition to the usual tower lights and red/white paint, 3-dimensional "HAZ" warnings were installed around the field. These are easily visible in areal photos; see, e.g., https://earth.google.com/web/@37.5471204,-122.23429544,0.73120256a,577.14725587d,35y,0.01179999h,0t,0r/data=CgRCAggBQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA

Nerds with battling facebooks groups are squabbling about this at the moment.

@ginaintheburg @SrRochardBunson

No comment from the Pentagon.

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