Discussion
Last Podcast on the Left finally got around to doing a series on the infamous quack "goat gland doctor" John Brinkley.
If you are curious why you might be interested in Brinkley, here is a screenshot of a long-ago post I made trying to explain it
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Testing & Feedback
Custom Feeds: Filter by Keyword
Right now, Custom Feeds in Bonfire have a number of ways to organize, aggregate, sort, and filter posts. Right now, post content filtering is limited to hashtags, but I wonder if we could instead allow people to filter by text strings? Not everybody in the Fediverse uses hashtags, but certain keywords like ActivityPub or Fediverse come up all the time in public conversations.
Buut, before that, I need to fix another thing.
I have one type currently in iocaine-recipe that has a normal name, SearchPath. Need to find a good name for that.
AI companies crack down on 'reverse engineer anything.'
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Fediverse
size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
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Fediverse
I didn’t know about this sub but now am horrified and unsurprised.
you realize that’s like a whole fetish thing right?
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Fediverse
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.
@joandelatitagran quan ho he vist no m’ho creia! boníssim! 😂
OpenAI’s personal finance features for ChatGPT expands to Mac app https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/11/openais-personal-finance-features-for-chatgpt-expands-to-mac-app/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
iCloud+ has new perk in iOS 27 if you pay for more storage https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/11/icloud-has-new-perk-in-ios-27-if-you-pay-for-more-storage/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
«Autumn Forest» is complete!
324 marks, placed one at a time.
A new canvas has started.
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🎹 #Cinematic piece of #music for your #indiegames or other projects 🎶
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Fediverse
i dont see any goofy self promotion videos on lemmy the way reddit has them. there is just less HailCorporate crap here. and the fixed-by-the-duet garbage that is just really uninteresting except WHEN LOUDLY YELLED AT YOU.
Pobre el treballador de TV3 quan Salvador Illa vegi que s’ha colat en la captura d’un tuit seu una resposta no massa a favor d’ell. 😂
In these times of <gestures at everything around>, something as simple and ordinary as a new bill wurtz video is most welcome: https://youtu.be/nYxC9j1Bnrw
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