Otter @ otter @lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and ~~stole~~ *found* a computer to use.

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Maybe a separate category above?

That way users can choose which ones to show or collapse. Some people prefer a minimalist experience, and others might want to see everything at once 😄

I don't think it's possible in the default UI, without using some browser extension or user script.

Have you tried one of our other frontends? They have some nice usability features that you might like, and some of them seem to remember which menus you minimized.

In photon.lemmy.ca:

In blorp.lemmy.ca:

Blorp also has the 'recent' menu, which might be another way to do what you're trying to do

They must have been editing the article back and forth. I also only saw "WebRender Layer Compositor", but it's organized nicely now

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IMO vaccine and evolutionary biology is very nuanced, and depends a lot on the individual genetics, type of pathogen, type of vaccine, etc. The net result from people dying off might be moot, and could even be harmful.

Immune science is often taught as an arms race, but that model tends to imply that both sides are constantly gaining beneficial traits. That's true in some cases, like the fever response, which is a beneficial trait we gained at some point, and it continues to be useful.

Meanwhile, other phenotypes are very context dependent for whether they are helpful or harmful. HLA (human leukocyte antigen) for example, that's how our T-cells identify between 'self' and 'foreign' particles. We rely on the tremendous diversity of HLA alleles in the human population in order to survive new diseases. Someone's HLA alleles can be a poor match for a current disease, but very helpful for a future disease. Having them die off now would be a bad thing. Similarly, someone with an HLA combination that makes them more effective against a current disease, may be ineffective against a future disease. Another simpler one is the ABO blood types, where different pathogens (ex. malaria, cholera, smallpox) are better/worse at infecting cells with certain blood types, evidenced by the different proportions of blood types in regions endemic to such diseases.

Evolution is messy, and the evolution of the immune system is messier still. Even if we only look at it from a simplified Darwinian evolution perspective, having genetic diversity might be more important than any shedding of 'weaker' alleles from people dying off because their natural immunity couldn't handle a particular infection.

I think you replied to the wrong comment

This channel is amazing. It's accessible enough for me to send to friends outside of tech, and it ramps up in a way that you can watch only as much as you need to

Does anyone have recommendations on which organizations to donate to? The article mentioned some which I intend to look into

You mentioned being frustrated at Plausible. What did you not like about it?

I haven't tried Plausible, but it seemed popular

Sounds like they joined a large group chat as a member

The FBI, the documents show, gained access to conversations in a “courtwatch” Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.

Cool!

I'll be honest, I didn't recognize the mascot and thought you were a t-shirt selling spammer at first 😄 I'm glad to have been wrong, it's nice!

Where did you get it from?

Now we need a windows compatibility program called "com-plain"

Simplified communication, components, compatibility, whatever makes the backronym work

The articles I've seen say that it was for the past 10 years of work, some amount of which was unpaid

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

With the revamp, Mastodon has the potential to expand its business, product, and mission, without being dependent on a single person’s leadership. It will also give Rochko a break, as he’s been singularly focused on Mastodon for the past 10 years.

Going forward, Rochko will continue contributing to Mastodon as an adviser. He has also been compensated with a one-time payment of €1 million, given that he took less than a fair market salary over the years while building Mastodon.

I don't have insight into the decision making process that went into deciding on that amount, maybe it's less than what he should have been compensated for, maybe it's more. But it sounds like they reached that decision amicably

Hi Sarah,

Sorry for the delay in getting to this. We really appreciate the feedback! We're currently working on an update to our site, and will continue to incorporate feedback over time.

We've iterated over these pages a few times, and while there is definitely more that we can do to improve it, I feel that we need a few different guides for each target demographic or use case. Ideally, someone will find their way to the appropriate resource, depending on the level of detail or transparency that they are looking for. The goal of the two guide pages above were mainly to explain what it is that our non-profit is doing, and how it differs from traditional social media. A lot of alternative social media platforms advertise transparency and a positive user experience, and so the guide pages above were intended for people who want an explanation on how the Fediverse can actually deliver on those promises.

Right now, the page we have for users that simply want to sign up for a platform is here: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms

We can certainly improve the flow for users that want to get to that page, and the page itself. We haven't prioritized that aspect, since we figured that users who are learning about one of the platforms might be going to it directly, instead of through our non-profit's site.

Would you have some suggestions on what a page like that should include, or what you would like to see in the guides instead?

I have students who can help you with this stuff for free. If you’re interested, DM me.

We'd love the help and feedback, especially if it's something that would complement their studies! Thank you for offering :)

Welcome!

I like to share these two guide pages because I find that people like the infographics:

What is the Fediverse (which includes Lemmy) and how it works: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

How Lemmy specifically works (ex. where are the communities, where are the users): https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

Hopefully these guides are helpful, alongside all the other great advice people have shared :)

Good point, I didn't see the list of which instances were still up when making the meme. A number of fairly large instances were still up

It might be cool to put together a list of what each instance depends on, for reference during future outages. CloudFlare, hosting providers, etc.

I appreciate that different teams are doing different things, I'll have to remember to drop by during the next cloudflare outage 😄

We rely on Cloudflare for our instances, so unfortunately lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca were all down during the outage

If anyone is curious, we've discussed why we use Cloudflare here: https://lemmy.ca/post/40252238/15009722

This other post has some discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/55386786

While the downtime was most active, most of the top instances were down. Lemmy.ml, feddit.org, discuss.tchncs.de and behaw.org were all up. You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to browse things and the ones offline all show a “content error” in lemmyverse.

Here is a screenshot that @straycatstrut@discuss.tchncs.de took during the outage