[-] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Nature knows how to solve this problem.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A strength and a weakness. The strength, as you say, is being able to move to a different instance. However, the weakness is that Lemmy (the software) requires each instance to keep a copy of every federated post for its users to interact with. This means they have to host (and be legally liable for) data that they can't police beyond blocking the community / instance.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not really - it isn’t prediction, it is early detection. Interpretive AI (finding and interpreting patterns) is way ahead of generative AI.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Don’t know what he’s talking about - it sounded like they were all laughing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Like I said - there is a small vocal group who few that Lemmy as a whole should be boycotted due to the developers’ political views.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You will find that very often the scams, advice, self-help, doctrine, etc that draw these populations have one thing in common: if whatever it is doesn't work, it is because you are doing it wrong, not because the guidance is bad. That's why conservatives will defend the tax rates of people who have 5 orders of magnitude more wealth than they do - they believe that it is their own fault they aren't rich, and that anyone can become rich if they just try hard enough. It is why religious conservatives will still attack birth control in the face of their own kids having unwanted pregnancies. It is why natural medicine people will defend their practices even after it sends them to the hospital. They are more willing to believe that they themselves are at fault than the principles they believe in.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

The Protestant Work Ethic equated Christian values with material success.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I think having a 300 year life span would tend to select for darker skin and possibly other traits that would better survive 300 years of exposure - enough to distinguish it from any existing ethnicity.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Why would a Kbin user want to speak to you, a Lemmy user?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Some people are excessively sensitive to software developer political views.

Lemmy isn’t Kbin and Kbin isn’t Lemmy. Both are software participants in the fediverse. It is like saying nginx isn’t Apache: of course isn’t, but that doesn’t make them any less web servers.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It is a joke. OC said Bernie wasn't stuck in the 50s, and I'm arguing that he's still a 60s hippie. No sense of humor around here.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

His mindset is stuck in the 60s, but whether or not that’s a good thing is a different debate.

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is particularly infuriating:

I’m editing a (often lengthy), and I’ll switch to the browser to look something up or get a link to something I want to reference. When I return to the app, it does a force reload and returns to the home feed, losing not only my place, but the content of what I typed.

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Bot restrictions? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello!

I was wondering if lemmy.world has any bot restrictions / throttling behavior? I have a bot (ported from reddit) that is performing the same activities on lemmy.world and fanaticus.social, but I'm seeing different behavior: on LW posts aren't being featured correctly and comments aren't being added. I'm not seeing any significant configuration differences, and they are running the same code - Is there a server side explanation for this?

If you have any other suggestions for good bot lemmetiquette, I'd definitely like to hear them!

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Feed Requests (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
  • If I select Home/Posts/All/Hot, new posts are appearing every few seconds. These posts don't have any upvotes, so I don't understand how they could be "Hot"
  • Broadly, it isn't ok for new feed items to keep moving around existing feed items. For example, I click on the image preview and I start to look at it, then it moves off my screen because new posts have been added to the top of the feed. When I scroll down to the post, the preview is collapsed.
  • Since top doesn't seem to have the same auto-update issue, I think a top/hour sort would be useful.
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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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