About not saying certain things, I think that is normal everywhere and Lemmy definitely leans certain directions depending on the instance.

You are not wrong about the anti state/police stance. I have lived a good chunk of my life surrounded with the opposite belief so I don’t mind. It is nice to hear concepts that are not mainstream even if I sometimes disagree with them.

As far as normies, need I remind you that we are all different in exactly the same way.

To be honest, here I’m also feeling that you can’t say some things if you don’t want to get insulted and downvoted.

I have almost nothing positive to say about Windows so I don’t really mind if only Linux is allowed, but I feel like you have to have an anti-state and anti-police stance here.

I’m none of these and I really understood that it’s difficult to have a different opinion here.

Still, I’m enjoying Lemmy/PieFed, but nuance seems more difficult to have here because it ain’t full of « normies ».

About size, I guess it would be nice to have less dead communities, so probably nice to have more people in these.

@ai6yr Sir, this is my gift to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g5mD5C5X_I

cr: @nyankorooow

@tedmielczarek WIcking humidifiers don't do enough, and ultrasonic humidifiers just make everything soggy. I've been using a hot steam humidifier which helps but remembering to refill it before bed is tricky, and the HomeKit humidity sensor I use to turn it on and off is unreliable.

Godzilla Black Mass: Entity
https://steelneck95.tumblr.com/post/833291340494372864/godzilla-black-mass-the-entity-lil-bit-of
#godzilla #kaiju

@CuriousMagpie @douglasvb @USelaine @sasutina13 @BakerRL75 I do take objection to "do your own electrical work" 🤪

it's not like itch.io gains anything from having a store that's almost solid garbage

they're not publicly traded or anything like that

the only people who care about what games are on itch are the people trying to find games on itch

Ironically, the only professional actor in the documentary is the one who can see through the act.

https://www.jodiecook.com/you-can-see-everything/

Why shouldn’t the ideas and features flow both ways?

why doesn’t @rimu@piefed.social admit that he got the ideas from Mia then? why copy changes from PyLova, and strip attribution, then admit to MrKaplan that he did it so that she wouldn’t be attributed? moth supposes that perhaps he does not want to admit Piefed is inferior to PyLova.

Let’s not pretend like PyLova is breaking new ground here, lmao.

no, but PyLova IS doing most of the dev work for Piefed.

www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1

(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)

Decentralized social media for environmental research

A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12

Abstract

Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.

This is at the Harvard Art Museums!

@CuriousMagpie @ai6yr I don’t think any of the shootings were connected to discos. Mostly young women or young couples walking or in parked cars.

Scary times.