Dark Souls: should I pick up I or III?
For context, I never got into DS until I played Elder Scrolls, which I've been obsessed with
How are Canada's wildfires "Americans destroying themselves?"
Thinking of people in terms of good and evil will only lead you to oversimplification and dehumanization of others. Your family is not the enemy. Your family is your family. And it sounds like they care about you.
Systemic issues are far more important than individual issues
Agreed. Private-owned AI competing against humans for limited jobs in a capital based market is a nightmare.
Public-owned AI producing and providing for all is not.
AI was trained on the work of millions and is inhuman in its productive capabilities. It has no business being private owned
Can you close lemmy.ml to new users above a certain amount to help direct them to other instances that need to grow?
No application! In a couple days I'll be looking through users who are interested. Just looking at engagement, interactions, age of accounts, etc. So if you have a reddit account you can link to that would be helpful but overall nothing rigorous. We're a small community after all :)
There's controversy over whether VPN + TOR is a good combo. Some say it's an added layer of anonymity, others say it could be decreasing anonymity because your VPN could be logging your traffic. Some also say the two don't mesh well. But honestly the juries out so everyone should probably come to their own conclusion
Made a post linking to r/piracy and r/freemediaheckyeah's backups hosted on NotABug and Rentry. Here. If that's not what you had in mind then all good, I'll just leave it there
Megathread backup from r/piracy:
- Rentry backup
- History of r/piracy wiki on Notabug
Megathread backup from r/freemediaheckyeah:
Oh that's not too bad of a workaround, thank you so much!
r/piracy has a great megathread of resources that we could copy over or borrow from. I just hate to have to go there for such a comprehensive list of resources. And I'd hate it even more to see it all be turned to the wind if Reddit decides to crush it under their heal.
Edit: Went ahead and linked to the r/piracy and r/freemediaheckyeah megathread backups here
Also, how do I safely download from these sites?
I thought there was a mirror on lemmy for r/piracy's spectacular megathread but I don't see it. Rough guides from a semi-noob:
Direct download:
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TOR with Ublock Origin add-on
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After downloading your file, upload it to virustotal.com and scan it. If it passes you're probably pretty safe.
Torrent:
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Find and your file magnet in TOR.
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Turn on VPN.
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Open qbittorrent with your connection bound to your VPN's network.
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Paste your magnet link when it prompts you and download.
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Once it's done downloading, upload it to virustotal to scan it.
The issue is that some instances are having trouble federating. It took me a while to find my small community from lemmy.world - and when I did the upvotes and comments were all incorrect (many not showing up). Checked on beehaw and couldn't even find my community
The blackouts may encourage users to go elsewhere, and going elsewhere may help move the needle on this issue. But, the only thing that's going to stop reddit from going down the path it's on is stopping the IPO. Let's face it, any short-term victories will eventually be overcome by shareholder interests.
Plus, protestors leaving the site might actually help reddit at this point. Redditors are notoriously cantankerous and difficult to advertise to. But, it's becoming less so as mainstream users flock in. As protestors leave the site, the userbase becomes increasingly saturated with apathetic users who are willing to put up with more.
And let's be honest. Reddit has a lot of users who feel entitled to entertainment enough to get angry, but addicted enough to put up with it. Look at just about any fandom
With large communities it can be quite a commitment. But, with smaller communities like this it mainly entails keeping an eye on mod reports (notifications) and enforcing the rules by deleting rule-breaking comments, issuing warnings, blocking unruly users, etc. It can also entail using periodic discussion posts and adding/removing rules to foster more engagement. This might sound like a lot but it's pretty much what you make it.
The main thing is just enforcing community rules and adding/removing rules when necessary. And if it becomes too much for them, individual mods are always welcome to resign
I can't even find the community I'm looking for from lemmy.world . I search for !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml and it says no results
I think we'd all like to see this community come to life. And an important part of a successful community is a good group of well-intended mods.
I've modded just a tiny bit on reddit and I'm pretty new here, and mostly active sporadically throughout weekdays. So, as this community continues to grow it would be nice to have some other mods to help out where they can and want. The workload is practically nonexistent rn, but with any luck this community will one day thrive.
So, comment, ping me, message me, what have you, if you're interested. Lmk any experience you may have on here or reddit (if so, link to your reddit account if you don't mind), or just lmk what makes you want to be a mod of this community. That way we can find great mods for a great community!
Thanks for reading! Keep exploring every impossibility :)
Lemmy will have to learn to hide the sausage-maker if they want laymen to enjoy their sausage. That is to say they'll have to make a way for the everyman to interact without the barrier to entry.
Though, no one says Lemmy has to become a AAA social media site
I don't totally understand the fediverse yet. So an instance is basically just a portion of a website on a certain server, right? And all the instances communicate with each other to create one website?
As the transition from reddit begins I'd really like to see this community come alive like r/worldbuilding. Is moderation here still active, or do we need a new community?
Eh, reddit really isn't much better in this department. It's not uncommon for multiple subs to exist for the same userbase (r/memes vs r/dankmemes, r/christian vs r/truechristian). Over time users figure out which is which, which is the main one, and which is for them
Gonna be honest I don't really understand the Fediverse yet but I'm here cuz it feels cool and reddit kind of annoys me these days
Transitioning this account to @DudePluto@lemmy.world to help with server load