Yes, There Is a TweetDeck for Bluesky
Yes, There Is a TweetDeck for Bluesky
Tired of Bluesky's official site/app? There's a TweetDeck-like alternative, and that's just scratching the surface.Pranay Parab (Lifehacker)
April Fools’ joke results in Japanese firm making a beige ’80s throwback PC case
April Fools’ joke results in Japanese firm making a beige ’80s throwback PC case
You can fit lots of modern hardware inside—and prop your monitor on top.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
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First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed
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Oh nice, the Android app is out!
I can give it a try now
Link to download page within the account settings, for those that have been onboarded already: loops.video/dashboard/get-the-…
Edit: it feels very smooth
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Yeah since there is little content I can’t tell if there is an algorithm or not.
Edit; I tried posting myself to see and the “feed” is a “new” feed of posts by everyone. So no sort of algorithm at all or any customisation available atleast on the ios app, as of now.
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i am so happy for you. unfortunately i am still waiting.
update: I am in! hooray!
(app looks clean af as well)
You don't know what you get though, even without an AI driven "engagement" algorithm. If the pace of new videos being uploaded is fast enough there will be no shortage of hours to mindlessly scroll (if that's your goal). It gives everyone an equal chance to be discovered, and from there more popular videos will have their own tabs so you can see what other people like too.
The short video format is plenty addictive without pushing for maximum retention, because there's no reason to - other platforms do it to increase your screen time so they can show you more ads. That's all it is. All it ever was. They don't give a shit about you or your enjoyment(YouTube dislikes?), in fact, one method of raising engagement is to make you angry, they do this a lot. It works, it's a lesson they learned from the effectiveness of rage baits.
It's honestly frustrating how so many people want the same old shit algorithmiclly based feed when we've finally gotten rid of the fucking disease.
The problem with Peertube, IMO, is you can't just "join".
Pick an instance, it's locked down. I get it, hosting others video content is costly and dangerous, but it's also a huge barrier.
It's best use case is self-hosting by established creators funded primarily by patreon subscribers, rather than new creators. But established creators won't abandon the platform with their viewers. So, it's a bit of a jam.
Fediverse platforms also just seem terribly uninterested in supporting creatives' business models, so we get a high minded desert.
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To me, an alternative model would be deep-linking/embedding 3rd party videos that you own.
For instance, sign up at @server, then:
- Connect your YouTube account
- Post Video 1 to YouTube
- You now have a Video 1 in your federated feed with a YouTube embed
- Connect your Vimeo account
- Post Video 1 to Vimeo (same hash and/or title)
- Your feed entry of Video 1 is updated to support both back end videos
This way your "feed" is federated, but the efficiency of centralized video content is used. If a provider goes down, or you choose to leave, you can re-up to another provider and with the connected account/title matching, your feed could be auto-updated.
I wonder about this a lot. The little research I did suggested DigitalOcean is footing the bill for the moment (and also for Pixelfed? would love to hear more about this). Google, Facebook, TikTok, etc.. have all managed to throw enough resources at similar products that people expect a level of performance that is very expensive to maintain. There is some serious hardware and distribution issues ($$$$) with trying to host an "instant and endless stream of short form video".
In a counter point though I think large instances like lemmy.world and lemmy.ml have found ways to survive and thrive and the fediverse generally seems to be supported in a very grassroots sort of fashion. Donations, patrons, people who have the hardware and bandwidth sharing what they can for the greater community. Perhaps loops will go the same way.
YouTube can't even keep up with the amount of 4k and 8k video being fed into it.
what you're seeing with ads is them trying to reduce their burden.
At a guess, bc the timing might seem right with all the controversy surrounding Tiktok? Knowing that this is out there may increasing the number of contributors to the codebase.
Also I recall clicking on a GitHub page at some point for a front-end web UI for this content, so while the sourcecode of the app itself may not be available yet, there is a way for someone to make their own instance to receive the federated content. I think.
In comparison, the Sublinks project garnered so much attention that the Lemmy.World admins seemed ready to jump onto it the moment that it was halfway ready, but now we haven't heard of any progress whatsoever for months and people seem to have given up hope for it. So communication about a project can be quite important as well as the actual coding itself.
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Loops hasn’t yet released its source code or enabled federation, but project lead Dan Supernault has stated that he will do both in the near future.
Buying into promises is a gamble dependant on the crediblity and trustworthiness of the person/entity making them
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First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed
First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed
Over the past few weeks, Loops has opened up its public beta to early adopters and enthusiasts looking to put the platform through its paces. The app is reminiscent of TikTok or Instagram Reels, but iSean Tilley (We Distribute)
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I finally got my account working, it's very nice.
federation isn't there yet but idc I miss vine and byte. loops is basically at parity with those two.
Israeli Settler Leader Says She Scouted a Location for Jewish Settlements in Gaza
Israeli Settler Leader Says She Scouted a Location for Jewish Settlements in Gaza - News From Antiwar.com
Israeli settler activist Daniella Weiss has claimed that she has scouted a location in northern Gaza where she wants to establish Jewish settlements, Haaretz reported on Sunday.News From Antiwar.com
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If there was an "Ugliest Human Alive" competition, Daniella Weiss would have my vote.
She would also be in the running for "most refugees spit on" lifetime award.
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I hope future models will be as replaceable and upgradable as their x86_64 machines.
A Gaza school burned down hours after aid arrived. Witnesses: IDF soldiers responsible
Witnesses said soldiers forced civilians away from the area, preventing them from collecting aid from the first convoy to reach the area in over a month. A video seen on social media, taken by an IDF soldier, showed two Israeli armored vehicles leaving the school as it was engulfed in flames
Staff from the UN World Food Program, which sent the aid, as well as other international sources, said Gazans did not even have time to collect the aid. They said the military launched an attack in the area and soldiers had surrounded the building before the food was distributed.
The convoy, consisting of two trucks and a water tanker, was the first to be approved by the military to enter northern Gaza after a month and a half of siege. The decision followed international pressure over the failure to deliver aid to Gazans.
Witnesses said soldiers forced civilians away from the area, preventing them from collecting the aid, which was later destroyed by the fire. Reports also said civilians had been killed at the site. The soldiers involved belonged to the Rotem Battalion in the Givati Brigade, the reports said.
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More than 100 foreigners executed in Saudi Arabia in 2024
More than 100 foreigners executed in Saudi Arabia in 2024
More than 100 foreigners were executed by Saudi Arabia in 2024, according to a tally by AFP. On Saturday, the official Saudi Press Agency reported the execution of a Yemeni national convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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China-Russia gas pipeline completed, set to power Shanghai by end of 2024
Final section of the east-route natural gas pipeline between China and Russia completed seven months ahead of schedule.Russian gas is expected to power households in Shanghai by the end of the year after Chinese workers finished building the final section of the east-route natural gas pipeline between the two countries, China’s state television said on Monday.
The 5,111km-long gas route, a signature project underscoring tightening economic ties between China and its resource-rich neighbour, would provide “stable natural gas supply” for a combined 130 million households each year, it added.
The project, touted as having the world’s largest single-pipe capacity, would “make important contributions to optimising China’s energy consumption structure, promoting green transformation, and helping to achieve the ‘dual carbon’ goals,” CCTV said.
China has set a target of reaching peak carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.
Chinese construction workers have accelerated the building progress of the southern section, which starts in Hebei province and ends in Shanghai, since it broke ground in 2020, and finished the whole project seven months ahead of schedule, PipeChina official Cui Zong told CCTV.
Energy trade between China and Russia has jumped in recent years as Western economies have boycotted commodities from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Last year, pipeline gas supplies from Russia climbed by 61.7 per cent from a year earlier to US$6.4 billion, making China its second-largest importer after Turkmenistan, according to Russian state agency TASS.
The volume of Russian crude shipped to China also rose by 24 per cent in 2023 from a year earlier to 107.02 million metric tonnes – equivalent to 2.14 million barrels per day – according to China’s General Administration of Customs.
finished the whole project seven months ahead of schedule
Common theme with Chinese infrastructure it seems lol
Polisens ökade uppklarning av gängmord. Enligt en artikel i Aftonbladet klarar polisen upp allt fler mord i gängmiljö. För mord begångna under 2023 beräknas polisen klara upp 72% vilket är en stark förbättring jämfört med 2022.
Aggiornamento a Lemmy 0.19.7
Mercoledì (20 novembre) mattina dovrei riuscire a fare l'aggiornamento a Lemmy 0.19.7, stamattina l'ho fatto sul server di test e sembra funzionare tutto bene.
Ci metterà un po' perché c'è anche un aggiornamento del database e delle tabelle per cui dicevano che potrebbe servire anche mezz'ora se ci sono molti post.
Questo aggiornamento porta un po' di novità e di bug fixing principalmente dovuti alla 0.19.6 mentre la 0.19.7 è una roba molto più leggera: join-lemmy.org/news/2024-11-15…
Trovate tutte le modifiche della 0.19.6 qui: join-lemmy.org/news/2024-11-08…
Alcuni aggiornamenti/miglioramenti
- Miglioramenti alla federazione
- Riduzione dell'utilizzo della CPU per la generazione di anteprime di link
- Passaggio da OpenSSL a rustls
- Aumento della lunghezza massima degli URL dei post a 2000 caratteri
- Aumento della lunghezza massima della biografia degli utenti a 1000 caratteri
- Riduzione della profondità massima dei commenti a 50
- Aggiunta della categoria ai feed RSS
- Possibilità per gli utenti di visualizzare le proprie comunità rimosse o eliminate
- Aggiunta di una verifica di backend per garantire la gerarchia degli amministratori e dei moderatori
- Calcolo del ranking "controverso" con esponenziale invece di moltiplicazione
- Rimozione automatica dei parametri di tracciamento dagli URL
- Miglioramenti all'integrazione con piattaforme di video come Peertube e YouTube (finalmente si vedranno i video embeddati!)
Come al solito spegnerò tutto per un po', backuppo e poi aggiorno.
Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.
No matter which sort you use (except for new), content is recommended to you by activity. Depending on the sort (active, hot, top) it uses a slightly different mixture of votes/comments/time since post to determine the order.
The only exception is scaled, which boosts a little bit midsized communities, but still doesn’t manage to improve visibility of niche ones.
If lemmy is to truly start having active hobbyist communities instead of being 95% lefty US politics, Shitposts, and some tech stuff, it needs a sort that takes into account the user’s engagement.
For example, if I upvote / comment often in a community, there should be an option to have posts from the community be boosted in my feed, even if it’s a tiny community.
Let’s say I’m subscribed to !world@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world because I want to occasionally see news. However, I’m also subscribed to a couple hundred other communities, some of them who don’t manage to get more than a couple upvotes on their biggest posts. And whenever I see them I’m replying/upvoting because I’m passionate about that topic.
My feed shouldn’t be 95% c/news and c/world because those are the most upvoted and commented. I shouldn’t have to scroll down hundreds of posts to find “big” posts in small communities I interact with at any opportunity I get.
That’s why I think it would be beneficial to lemmy if the sort/algorithm took into account your engagement in a way.
It doesn’t have to be complicated, you can have a single number “engagement score” for every community calculated with a basic formula, and that number is used as a boost to the community.
I’m aware that there are some examples of successful niche communities on lemmy. But that’s mainly because either a significant chunk of the lemmy userbase is into that niche (let’s face it the lemmy community is not a representative sample of the world population, we tend to be very similar people), or because the posts on it are simplified image/video type posts which appeal to people who don’t know much about the subject.
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I agree that fediverse needs a personalized "explore" page in general. For example, this is the only plus feature of Bluesky over Mastodon (in terms of technology). It is obvious how big difference it makes.
I generally avoid the evil algorithms found on other social networks, but I hope we see that in Lemmy.
Blackbox echo chamber generators really should be avoided. They add to the angst and anger of the Internet, and of society.
Community search could be improved. And people should learn to actually use it, rather than being spoon fed whatever some programmer they've never met thinks they should eat based on the last 3 things they clicked on.
Community search could be improved.
This isn't a community search problem. I absolutely should NOT have to intentionally visit every single niche community that I am already subscribed too.
The USER needs a way to control their feed, either by throttling large communities or boosting smaller ones.
Leftist kind of-techy here.
I don't do politics on any of my Fediverse accounts and this is not the account for my tech stuff. I throttle all the big communities by just directly subbing to the ones I like. This is my cute animal account. If I stick to subscribed I only see cute animals. Not politics, not tech posts I already saw on another account.
Admittedly I do this purposely to avoid politics. Just because I have beliefs does not mean I want to be provoked into constant rage and despair reinforcing them.
- be open-source for users
- be togglable
- boost engagement boost on positive emotions
- be personalized
- promote niche communities
- promote balanced political debate (probably the hardest)
I'm not so sure how okay I am with balanced political debate given how much I absolutely fucking hate seeing a dismissive
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or some other hurtful one-liner that probably assumes demographics and feelings and expresses the assumption in the most unflattering way possible almost any time I see any discussion of politics online.
as a comment after a well-thought-out, civilly expressed comment with someone sharing their genuine beliefs and why they have them, when it's done in a space that isn't… you know… specifically marked as a vent/safe space for people who have X belief (also known as when it is not some disingenuous, disruptive tactic meant to piss off people and frame yourself as the victim by saying "but I was civil"—when it's actually in an appropriate spot). Balanced political debate is okay if you can keep it civil though.
I think to trying meet all of these without compromises (such as privacy and performance) is basically impossible. How would one boost engagement on positive emotions or personalize without large data mining efforts, model building, and running text classification on every comment or post?
I agree they are good aspirations.
The biggest problem with lemmy for me is the multiple "duplicate" communities.
There should be a feature to combine them at the client level. So the 3 different "privacy" communities could just be viewed as one on my lemmy client
Nah. The different character of the communities and their history makes them unique and special, hiding that for broad appeal is unnecessary.
No need to muddy the waters with weird client-side obfuscations, one big one almost always wins and the other gets reposts, while subscribing to both is trivial if one wishes
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The "duplicate" communities are housed on different websites. Websites that could very well have their own norms, rules, and culture. Lumping them together and treating them as the same thing is just kind of invasive to them, and promotes bad netiquette.
Just pick one that you like best.
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Yeah, but you are still treating them as subsets of a singular whole.
Don't do that. It's actively bad for the ecosystem, and will trend things toward mega-community mono-spaces where people just snipe at each other for karma.
I’m thinking of doing a megathread on the discussion of consolidating communities like with what occurred with !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net successfully becoming the defacto main community to reduce fragmentation.
What do you guys think?
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No matter which sort you use (except for new),
Yes, sorting by new is best. The rest of the post seems irrelevant.
I wish the web ui (and apps) could work like an old fashioned usenet reader, where it would list your subscribed communities and say how many unread posts each one had. I don't like having all the communities jumbled together. That seems fixable.
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When do you start counting it as an algoritm.
The current sorts (except new) are based on formulas, does suddenly adding a personal engagement variable into the formula make it an algorithm?
It's arbitrary but something like SELECT * FROM posts WHERE datePosted < ( currentDay() - 7) ORDER BY upvotes; doesn't feel like an algorithm as it is now used in common parlance to me.
A simple quantitative analysis of an existing metric and (upvotes in the above super simplified example) is just not really the same thing in practice as say: multiple linear regression of hidden backend engagement metrics gathered through things like cursor movements to pick a suggested video that is predicted to optimize the best for watch time and CTR from a list of videos on a balance of personalized and generalized (through tracking trends amongst demographics) favourites topics and other qualities classified and categorised by a whole other black box involving all sorts of classifier models from text to images and so on.
Idk, I didn't take algorithms in CS at uni, so this is just a layman's two cents. I'm happy to be explained to why this isn't a valid perspective.
I did take Algorithms.
The definition we learned (let me know if I am wrong) is that an algorithm is a concrete set of steps to accomplish some goal in a finite amount of time given legitimate inputs.
Although in practice we use this more for stuff with a math formula and/or stuff you code. "Given the input of the world, if your eyes see it is raining outside, grab the umbrella from your closet. If you don't see the umbrella, search for it. If the search takes 5+ minutes, just go to your destination" is an algorithm for trying to not get rained on, but in practice nobody's going to be using that word that way.
I think the definition used online today is "some computer code that I can't reliably determine the input/output of, that is used to my/society's disadvantage in an exploitative way."
Words evolve, and the word you learn in academia sometimes also gets used in real life and its usage changes in real life from what you would use in academia. And sometimes academia keeps using it that way, and real life keeps using it their different way, and so you use the same word while talking about slightly different concepts. And sometimes people in real life use it the academic way, others don't, making things even more confusing… you just have to be aware people are using the same word to talk about two different things (or in this case, one group uses the word to talk about an unpleasant subset of the thing the other group uses the word to talk about) and clear up that misunderstanding.
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Let’s say I’m subscribed to !world@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world because I want to occasionally see news.
I have this exact problem and it's maddening. Fucking "news", which is mostly just political posts about how shitty Republicans are completely drowns out all of my smaller niche communities!
I don't know how to fix the problem but the USER needs some way to control their feed. We either need to be able to throttle the larger communities or boost the smaller ones.
Back before kbin fell off the internet it had a really neat experimental "collections" feature that would let you make named groups of communities. Collections could be used either privately or made public so other people could subscribe to your curated feed on a topic. The owner could update the collection as needed (e.g. adding or removing communities/magazines as they changed over time).
It's one of the kbin features I miss most on lemmy.
Does anyone know if mbin ever got a copy of that? I know they forked off before it was added to kbin, but I don't know if it ever got integrated later. (I don't see it from a quick glance at moist and fedia, but I haven't dug into the dev history.)
I recalled Kbin having that as well, so thought that Mbin surely must, but someone pointed out to me that no it does not, for whatever reason even though Kbin had it.
PieFed does though.
Just replying here with the community link !quiblr@lemmy.world
because it doesn’t seem to be federated with my instance, it will once I subscribe though.
Although there were some proposed solutions for this issue, when scaled sort was implemented, @nutomic@lemmy.ml closed all related issues, even when they weren't being solved by scaled sort. So, it's clear that since there are no longer any open issues about this, no one is going to care about solving it. Therefore, it seems like the only option is to accept this fact and learn to cope with it. At this point, I've come to terms with the fact that Lemmy is mainly a platform for shitposts, while Reddit is for everything else. When I look at the feed, I mostly see memes, US politics, and some tech.
Custom feeds may not be the most efficient solution due to scalability concerns. However, an alternative approach could be to make the metadata about the posts (votes, comments, etc) available through an API call. This would enable users to develop their own algorithms for content discovery and potentially create a more personalized experience. Users could then implement, share and install these algorithms using tools like Tampermonkey or other userscript managers.
By the way we are planning to implement multi-communities.
Hello,
Any (even very rough) idea on when you guys will be able to work on it? Three, six, nine months?
PieFed has some features that I find helpful in this regard.
One is the Categories of Communities. You'll only see News in the News category or in the non-category search methods (standard Subscribed/All/New/etc.).
Another is the ability to follow - and arguably more important unfollow - everything. Including communities, posts, people, etc. I once made the mistake of replying to a comment in ChapoTrapHouse@hexbear.net, and another in Lemmygrad.ml, and the replies kept coming for WEEKS and WEEKS - I almost quit the Fediverse entirely at that point, and I hear that scenario repeated by others as well. But on PieFed, not only can I unfollow any conversation at any time, but unlike Lemmy it also allows a true blocking of all users from any instance you choose (edit: to clarify, I mean without requiring an admin to do it for you and everyone else on the same instance at the same time - a personal defederation that affects nobody else, just like a block, except that Lemmy doesn't allow blocking users from instances, only communities from instances which is nowhere close to being the same thing).
Ofc nothing is perfect - e.g. I decided to unfollow poetry@lemmy.world bc I don't want to read 5 of those in a row every morning, and rather would want to savor just one at a time. Also it would be nice to separate comment replies (that seem more urgent, for the sake of an active conversation) from e.g. a new post that you haven't seen yet? But for a true niche community, with let's say less than a handful of posts every day and you want to be notified about every single one? It seems perfect for that.
The UI for PieFed needs far more polish, especially outside of the narrow range of short comments on posts with few of those in number. e.g. far too often the existing notifications don't work as the reply to your comment got buried away onto some other page entirely, in an effort to streamline reading but then that not interacting well with the newer (unfinished?) notifications feature. But while it lacks much polish that Lemmy's UI and apps have, it also has so many features like those mentioned above that Lemmy lacks as well, and may move faster in its development due to using a more common programming language. It is so nice to have choices to pick from:-).
Otherwise on Lemmy you could make alts, like one subscribed to News communities, another for Memes and Shitposts, etc. Blocking users would get super annoying bc you'd have to do it multiple times. Blocking the largest news communities and the accounts that usually fill them, and then sorting by New can help, but it requires enormous curation efforts to get there and even then falls far short of what you asked - e.g. you also, still have to bookmark or otherwise check each one of your highly active communities one by one (edit: I mean niche ones here, bc the chances of seeing a post there on New can still be slim, if you are concerned about seeing EVERY post there rather than just find something to read from across hundreds of subscribed communities, so different solutions for different workflows).
Lemmy is great for checking memes, reading tech or politics news, and liking Linux - but for everything else it needs improvements to be made to support. I'm not going back to Reddit though:-).
Leftist into tech.
My feed got very overwhelmed by depressing relatable memes that, guess what, had leftist views expressed in the comments, and posts that were not politics but ended up getting into there anyways.
I might be leftist but damn if outrage and despair isn't exhausting, I come to social media for fun, not to be angry and sad and hopeless.
Gave up on All incredibly quickly, only use Subscribed (I explicitly excluded anything political from Subscribed). So much less outrage and despair, so many more cute animals.
You can still use All, if you block the communities that you don't want to see, one by one. It's exhausting and new ones continue to be added, but otherwise it's hard to know about new communities that come along that you might like.
So like I blocked !memes@lemmy.ml bc of its constant (seemingly not-entirely-joking) call for guillotining irl people including average people who simply were born in a capitalist nation, but subscribed to !tech_memes@lemmy.world that I enjoy much more now - the latter created only a few days ago, check it out!
Also !fedimemes@feddit.uk. Really you miss so much only browsing by Subscribed. But do what works for you, bc I get it: the amount of extremist content on Lemmy is extremely high, and as you say depressing in its consistency.
Hi, I created the Lemmy client Quiblr which includes a For You feed which constantly evolves with the types of posts you interact with. 100% private and on-device (i.e. no data leaves your device).
On quiblr, you can use the "For You" sort like any other sort option
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IMO would be a cool feature.
Because I often get posts I don’t have a clue about because I’m not subscribed to that community, take like 15 secs to understand what the hell is on my screen, and then the for you algorithm starts pushing that community even more because I stayed on it a while.
Yup, same. Though you'll still miss the extremely niche ones that way - e.g. I had an account on discuss.online and noticed the community !drpg@discuss.online mentioned in the sidebar featured area. To this day my post offered there remains the single one - even the creator didn't bother making one, probably just squatting the name.
And I noticed !tech_memes@lemmy.world by the creator making a post announcing having created it.
I think browsing by All is helpful but by the time you find good communities there they have already taken off enough to be noticed.
Which is why I really enjoyed browsing by New often - you get the bleeding edge stuff that perhaps few people will ever see or upvote:-). But you also get a LOT of e.g. anime posts that way too, as new communities for them kept popping up.
I realize my wording "Gave up on All" probably came off as if I wanted to use it and was disappointed I couldn't, so I appreciate you trying to give me advice on how I could still use it. I'm happy doing things this way though. I find Subscribed far easier to use than playing whack-a-mole with the many, many meme communities that inevitably have a "haha the world SUCKS" post, and then understandable but still-not-good-for-me-personally vents about the world sucking in the comments. Or news communities (not just politics!) that inevitably post something that could tie into politics, and then all the politics in the comments. You said it's exhausting yourself, and I simply don't have the energy to put quite that much effort into it. If you find it worth it anyways, more power to you, but I really don't mind missing out on something I might like in exchange for missing out on 1) stuff I really don't like and 2) a lot of stuff I'm ambivalent about and would rather just scroll past.
I do look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world, which is good enough for me in my opinion re: discovering new stuff, and although this isn't really the purpose of !fedigrow@lemm.ee, it often tells me about communities I didn't know about. And sometimes I click Communities on an instance and wander through the list.
I'm happy doing things this way though.
Ah, this is indeed the main thing:-).
Fwiw, it also helps to block people. I mean, that sounds obvious, but in a couple cases I started to notice how I may not need to block an entire community since I could get the same effect by blocking the user - plus also not see their posts in other communities as well. Or maybe I'm deluding myself and perhaps I later went on to block the entire community. Some really do just have so many trash articles that it's not worth getting upset about each one individually so much as simply moving onwards to better ones:-).
Isn't that the difference between "active" and "hot?"
One is just upvotes; the other is votes and comments.
I don't think it would help, to be honest. A dead community not being posted to still won't show up on your feed if you sort by engagement.
Just made a Firefox add-on that autoselects your last used language of your Lemmy posts to automatically select it again next time.
Lemmy Language memorizer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Lemmy Language memorizer for Firefox. Remembers your last used language in a lemmy post so you don't have to select it again!addons.mozilla.org
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Looks good. I've always found it annoying that lemmy doesn't do this by default.
I'm not sure about the license though. Creative Commons recommends against using their licenses for software, since it doesn't include terms regarding source code, doesn't handle patents, and it's usually incompatible with free software licenses.
Update! Now should work with any language select in Lemmy, not just post creation!
Add-on even lighter than before! Let's save those bytes~
Wait a few hours for Mozilla to approve it then update to v1.1, or get it now from GitHub releases!
Well, it seems like it's going to be a little more tricky. There's no ID to detect the post sorting selection menu. For the language select, I could look for elements containing the ID language-select but it does not seem to be possible for post sorting.
The best thing I could think of is to add ?sort=Old, ?sort=New to the URL but it does not seem to affect the sorting unless the button is actually clicked or the page fully reloads.
If I could consistently select the elements that allow for filtering (and be careful that it doesn't conflict with other types of filtering on other pages), I could do it, but right now I don't see a solution.
China must now lead global warming fight, UN climate chief says
China must now lead global warming fight, UN climate chief says
The U.S. has traditionally taken a key leadership role, but Donald Trump’s return has thrown that into doubt.Sara Schonhardt (POLITICO)
Absolutely clownish for the US diplomats to take the high-ground over China here. The US has utterly failed to take a leading role in green energy and climate action, and is calling on China to do better? Ludicrous.
Yes, it would certainly be a great thing if both countries do more to speed up the reduction of emissions and converting to green energy, but the US has failed miserably while China has not, so far.
The U.S. has traditionally taken a key leadership role,
That is a freaking arrogant claim. Exxon was the first to discover global warming. Amd shared the data. Was then rapidly reformed and started the global warming denyal fight.
America took the key role in fighting against the reduction of oil use from the early 80s. And as a nation has been little more then green washing ever since.
Preaching to the choir here, but the US has never led on this. Paris was a joke before the ink on the signatures even dried. The bedrock of our economy is fossil fuels and unless someone's willing to do some percussive maintenance on our ruli- I mean, our economy, we're stuck.
It kinda amazes me how thoroughly the dems were able to get away with selling the IRA as a climate investment, and, now that Bad Cop is back in charge, they get to pin the failures of the US to genuinely decarbonize on him.
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing
Simplifying the problem to an earlier problem.Raymond Chen (The Old New Thing)
Sociala medier och klass. Arbetarklassen är extrem underrepresenterad i riksdagen. Lite bättre är det i kommuner och regioner men ändå är arbetarklassen krafigt underrepresenterad. De partier som har högts andel arbetare i riksdagen är Sverigedemokraterna och Vänsterpartiet.
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