I guess the thing I'm trying to describe is browsing. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5GggiXMaqDE
word clouds will find when a corpus of hashtags is similar in meaning. If you use only hashtags, that's like experiencing a grocery store or farmers market via an ambassador who cannot see the serendipitous shops that are nearby, the things frequently seen together. It's like shopping in an app and never visiting the grocery store itself. Having a precision following list means you can't experience going to a library and browsing shelves until something catches your eye - serendipitous search is fundimentally different from subscribed/reposted delivery, or even keyword search.
computers and digital space don't natively have the metric for which hashtags are closer, so they have to crunch the numbers to help figure out which books are closer to other books. Otherwise it's like entirely separate universes that you'll never ever find, like if you never knew a word that would lead you to a community of much more words and concepts and free thought.
you underestimate how many kinky furry technologists there are on the fediverse ;)
Didn't they file a complaint with the labor board and were reinstated with back pay?
If by panic you mean AI hype, then maybe.
For example, this post is just as sensationalist.
upvoting things on the main lemmy.ml page spins forever.
this is called "meta-moderation" and is a good idea @notbabayaga@lemmy.world :) it's part of the Santa Clara Principles of transparent moderation (https://santaclaraprinciples.org/)
Karma is useful on things like discourse or mattermost as a spam prevention feature, you gradually expose features to people who aren't being spammy. The same thing is true of a user joining a new community on the same site.
Two examples:
when you're browsing your follows on mastodon, and click on their follows, the list is not true to their follows (because your server hasn't fetched them).
and, when you first subscribe to someone's posts, you can't see older posts (say they've got 100, but you see zero).
I'm aware that there are technical reasons (you weren't subscribed), and open source reasons (nobody has the time to volunteer to fix it), but these are insufficient to help an anxious new user who's undecided about the platform.
That's only Mastodon, which has 7 years of refinement. Don't get me started on the litany of federation-related edge cases of Lemmy's UX failings.
Here's a meme about emacs :)
"value of type java. String cannot be converted to JSON object" is basically every 1/3 post.
Heard from folks the app crashes the instant they opened it.
Reuses comments section from previous posts.
Can't differentiate search by content vs search for communities,
Can't just paste a community URL, or paste a post URL into search
I describe signal as a journalism and cybersecurity nerd app. Because everyone who's serious about either of those two things uses it. The other apps don't come close.
You can follow people on kbin, can't follow them on Lemmy "because it would require an overhaul"
In person conversation and online conversation are very different. Just like the mechanics of picking a lock and hacking computers in another country are very different.
Online conversations can be unintentionally published with mistakes (even the best of us make typos or post to the wrong chat), and the blast radius is much worse.
Online conversations are much easier to misinterpret due to lost context.
If it's a public figure or a company doing something shady, yes, it'll end up on Internet archive.
If a user wants to remove their selfie; you let them, because it's their content.
Whether another site violates gdpr and data deletion requests doesn't mean your site can too.
Lemmy and kbin should be respectful to the user and follow deletion logic, just like how you can delete a mastodon post and other servers will respectfully delete it.
Yes, someone might have scraped it, No, that doesn't remove your liability just because it's up on someone else's copy, And even if you aren't under liability you should treat your users well.
It's the right thing to do.
"should we have a 2 cent sales tax to fund schools or a 4 cent one" is politics. "Should trans people exist" is not politics.
Or, rather, don't argue with someone who doesn't think you're a human being. Don't give them a forum.
Okay - Lemmy is cool, and is experiencing a boost...
It would be important (while there's lots of eyes looking on it, especially the folks who will look on June 12-13th) for the instance picker to look presentable.
Something that doesn't look like a monoculture of one political ideology..
Right now, it starts off with Marxist / communist stuff right at the top (if that's your cup of tea, and you won't read, just down vote and move on).
However - I would argue the viability of a reddit alternative is one that starts off as a neutral pallet cleanser: just the tame instance descriptions on page one. If you want a themed instance you'll most certainly pick that tag or category while browsing.
I don't want it vanishing into obscurity because people write it off as a fringe gab-like offshoot that got kicked out of other places.
The software itself shouldn't spiral into only one sort of person using it, while driving away others.
Gotta have some way to slowly turn people socialist :) boiling the frog here, don't go all RMS extreme and be all gross and out of touch.