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Seriously, we love that shit, it's like pet treats.
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We've put a ton of effort into making sure the Web doesn't fragment at the protocol/interop level, but the most important part of the entire Fediverse exercise is how that interop level empowers people and communities to make their own choices.
I think that a Balkanized fedi is the best, healthiest possible outcome.
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The future of academic publishing - Nature Human Behaviour
Academic publishing is the backbone of science dissemination –– but is the current system fit for purpose? We asked a diverse group of scientists to comment on the future of publishing.Nature
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Reddit perma-banning account promoting Lemmy has Streisand effect
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Now there are things that will turn away users. There's obviously a strong leftist culture here, there are less users so less content, and obviously federation is a stumbling block for many people.
But I really think that's ok similar to what people are saying in that Hacker News thread. I wouldn't want all of Reddit to come over, and I think it's better for the culture and growth here to get a self selected trickle/stream of users instead of a deluge.
I don't think Lemmy will necessarily have the same issues as Mastodon because Twitter/Mastodon requires you to know people or know accounts to follow to be useful. Lemmy just requires communities you're interested in and a critical mass of users to drive posting and engagement. We're already seeing greater activity as more users arrive
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I think it is a feature, and the same is true for Mastodon and the Fediverse as a whole, imho.
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The internet used to be small, but expansive. It became big, but concentrated.
I liked the former. I know many people like the latter. Those people are welcome to their corporate slums.
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I liked the former. I know many people like the latter. Those people are welcome to their corporate slums.
You've worded it well. I think the technical nature of it is to its benefit, and many server may not want to make the signup process easier, for the reasons you mentioned.
It's actually pretty great, all of this.
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They didn't want to create their own space in the new place, and they didn't want to integrate with those who were already there. They just kind of wanted to ignore the fact that anything was happening, while still, I guess, engaging in slacktivism.
Very open to learning that this isn't true, if it isn't.
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Creating a instance can be difficult, but it's a good way when you don't like what you're offered, and it can help other people to find their home.
BTW, these ifs I'm using aren't rhetoric devices. I'm not stating this as fact. There seems to be indicators of concern- Is what I'm saying.
If you decide to stay here for a while you might form the same impression.
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https://raddle.me/f/lobby/88428/so-the-dengist-who-made-lemmy-has-announced-raddle-isn-t-an
https://raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
https://raddle.me/wiki/history
https://raddle.me/wiki/QnA_with_Emma
https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm3wbj/radical-leftists-built-their-own-reddit-after-it-banned-them
The first two points are not in contention, but I haven't, personally, been able to verify the third.
Now, lemmygrad is absolutely a trollish, auth-left hellscape. And I say that with... well, not respect, but not specific derision, either. That genuinely seems to be the aesthetic they're going for. They're not here to make friends with anyone but themselves, and they'll play apologetics for China, North Korea, and Stalin's takeover of the Soviet Republic all day long.
But even if the project leads are genuinely involved in that, it doesn't really change the fact that the project is not inextricably tied to them. It's an open source project. It can be forked, and forked again. No one actually needs lemmygrad or lemmy.ml. Or lemmy, for that matter. Everyone can hop over to Friendica and still access all of the same communities.
Shit, they're accessible from Mastodon and Calckey.
And besides, it's not like people avoid using software when it's made by white supremacist capitalist techbros. In those cases, we all basically just go "yeah, but I'm not a white supremacist capitalist techbro" and carry on with our day. And those products generally can't be wrenched from their control or oversight.
Most people chose Elon over learning that multiple websites exist...
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https://raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
https://raddle.me/wiki/history
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm3wbj/radical-leftists-built-their-own-reddit-after-it-banned-them
Not exactly what I would call reputable sources. I'm not DENYING what you're saying, I just don't see any specific evidence to support your claim. Just... Be mindful of what you're using as "source material" when you claim there's evidence.
I'd like to read more on this, if true
https://raddle.me/f/lobby/88428/so-the-dengist-who-made-lemmy-has-announced-raddle-isn-t-an
https://raddle.me/wiki/why_raddle
https://raddle.me/wiki/history
https://raddle.me/wiki/QnA_with_Emma
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Edit: The lemmy.ml admin was removing my posts critical of the Chinese State, so it seems true.
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Very open to learning that this isn’t true, if it isn’t.
That's not how this works. If you're going to make serous accusations like that, the onus is on you to provide evidence to support them.
FWIW, I have no particular loyalty to lemmy.ml, I just joined the first instance I saw.
There's obviously a strong leftist culture here
That depends on what instance you create an user on. For example, Lemmygrad.ml and Lemmy.ml are not the same thing, despite both belonging to Lemmy. The issues I see are having a tankie culture, and not having more points of view.
There are less users so less content
That's something we can help with, although it's not so easy. I mean, the users that are already here, we can create more content and interact more with each other, so eventually more users will come. It can be boring and tiring, but it's not impossible.
Federation is a stumbling block for many people
That's something absolutely new for the vast majority of people. I felt myself confused the first time I joined the fediverse too. But after some time, I felt myself less confused. Some clarifications, tutorials and support can do the real trick.
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Edit: Seems this is unfortunately unlikely as the lemmy.ml instance appears to be moderated by a genocide denier and authoritarian.
Who has reportedly been banning people for calling out said genocide denial and authoritarianism.
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So are we seeing the end of of an era of massive centralized social media?
God, I hope so.
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The leftist communities are much smaller, easily ignored, and often ridiculed in the mainstream subreddits. The gaming spaces complain about "wokeness" and criticisms of female representations among others. Thinly veiled racism and explicit transphobia abounds.
In contrast, Lemmy is full of anarchists, communists, socialists, and other anti capitalist. It has been and remains a dominantly leftist community.
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Also cross federation logins. I was so confused why my logins weren't working on other servers.
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but the majority will put up with shit
The majority of people in Reddit don't provide any value to conversation ~~of~~or information. We shouldn't really be sad that passive consumers don't follow the migration to Lemmy or more accurately to Fediverse.
I used reddit to get information and read news from active users and to engage in conversations within these topics.
People who won't follow us from Reddit, wouldn't have anything good to offer to this platform anyway so I don't think we should care to be honest.
Nothing of value was lost.
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If the server is up all day then I think you'd see much larger adoption.
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Reddit and the top media brought it on themselves.
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These people have ZERO self awareness. Never mind understanding about the legacy of their forums.
@humanetech
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the "useless", as one guy said (not on here) when i mentioned lemmy: "Another sh*tty reddit ripoff? Useless"
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I just chuckled because the longer they stay away, the better the fediverse will be (for me).
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Reddit just got worse the more people used it.
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"Swiss billionaire jailed over asbestos-related deaths in Italian town
Stephan Schmidheiny found guilty of causing deaths of 392 people in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont"
12 years in jail for a 73-year-old, Italy isn't messing around
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/08/stephan-schmidheiny-swiss-billionaire-jailed-over-asbestos-related-deaths-piedmont-italy
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https://blenderartists.org/t/curator-animated-short-film/1466805
#b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity
CURATOR - Animated Short Film
A short film I made over the course of a couple of months. It’s the first time I’ve attempted something of this size and learned a lot in the process. The texturing is all shader to RGB stuff in eevee along with freestyle for the outlines.Blender Artists Community
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Our Exec Director @jim marks the anniversary of the revelations: what they told us then and where we are now.
#surveillance #snowden #NSA
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/snowden-revelations-ten-years-on/
Snowden Revelations: Ten Years On
Ten years ago, the first revelations about US mass surveillance were published in the UK and USA.Open Rights Group
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⚠️ Edit: A hotfix was released as v14.0.0-rc2b! Please update to that!
So... this took a while. But without further ado, here are the:
v14.0.0-rc2 Release Notes
We are thrilled to announce a major release, including over 900 commits from various contributors, featuring an array of enhancements and new features.
Major changes:
Post Editing: 🧪 You asked, and we've delivered. Now you can view post edits from other Fediverse platforms and edit your own posts, making it easier than ever to correct mistakes or make updates. The ability to view post history is coming soon. @supakaity@blahaj.zone@april@calckey.social
Post Imports: 🧪 We've reintroduced the ability to import posts from other Misskey and Calckey instances, as well as Mastodon and Pleroma/Akkoma instances. Twitter archive import is coming soon... @april@calckey.social
Expanded Post Design: Introducing an improved and expanded post design, now with the added feature of tabs, making distinguishing between different interactions on posts seamless. @freeplay@calckey.social
New Header Design: Our sleek, new header design gives you more options for engagement, makes navigation easier, and just overall looks better. Centered icons ftw! @freeplay@calckey.social
Accessibility: We've taken big strides to make our platform more inclusive. Expect improved navigation with focus trapping, comprehensive aria labels, accessible form inputs, more control over UI animations, and much more. @freeplay@calckey.social
Server Silences: No longer do you have to choose between only federating and purely blocking another server. Admins can now silence misbehaving but non-harmful instances. @nmkj@calckey.jp
Modmail System: Moderators will appreciate this: mods can now send anonymous messages to users with moderation notes. This feature is still early in development, and may change in the near future.
New MFM effects: We've introduced two new MFM effects:
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and $[crop ]
(and the new .delay
modifier for all animated effects), and people are already doing really cool things with it! @Kiko@calckey.social@freeplay@calckey.socialPerformance upgrades everywhere: with more Rust on the backend and heavy optimizations on the frontend, Calckey feels snappier than ever!
MeiliSearch: Servers with more resources can enjoy a faster search engine with filters! @privateger@plasmatrap.com
Channel Search: Discover new channels with our new channel search feature. It's often frustrating to not be able to find channels on large servers, and this should make it easier. Even better channel discovery is coming soon. @naskya@post.naskya.net
More Translations: We've added more translations in over 10 languages, all with the help of people like you. If you know a non-English language, we accept community translations over at our weblate.
Dev Server Template: We've revamped our server template for developers, making the development process more intuitive. @pyrox@social.pyrox.dev
Improved System Emails: We've refined our system emails to be more informative and user-friendly.
Numerous Bug Fixes: We've dedicated significant effort to squash many bugs in this update, enhancing the overall performance and user experience.
cuid2 IDs: the old ID generation methods have all been deprecated in favor of cuid2, which leads to better security and less chances of errors. @nmkj@calckey.jp
Notes:
Full changelog: https://codeberg.org/calckey/calckey/src/branch/develop/CHANGELOG.md#14-0-0-rc2-2023-06-06
Upgrade instructions:
git pull --ff
git checkout beta
pnpm clean-all && pnpm i
NODE_ENV=production pnpm run build && pnpm run migrate
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#FantasyArt #CreatureDesign #Mermaid #Merfolk
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Concept Art Tutorial: Creating an Organic Creature with Digital Painting
Let's design and render a creepy organic creature. I'll go through my process of using value edges to create believable musculature, skin and all kinds of fl...YouTube
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https://popularresistance.org/new-report-1-1-trillion-or-62-of-the-federal-discretionary-budget-was-spent-on-militarism-and-war-last-year/
New Report: $1.1 Trillion Was Spent On Militarism And War Last Year
Washington, D.C. – On May 24, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies released a critical new analysis of the militarized budget in the United States, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises our Welfare…Christopher Johnson (PopularResistance.Org)
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This is that proof.
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Where the Rich Use Public Transportation…
I ran across this quote while reading about what makes Tokyo work as a city: A developed country is not a place where the poor hakottke.org
It's a quote I use often.
Good to see it in that form; where is it?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-03/a-love-letter-to-the-delhi-metro
A Love Letter to the Delhi Metro
A warm reminder of just how well the international citizenship of public transit translates.Bloomberg
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The expertise of UX designers is unfortunately still often undervalued, so we will try to share her work and show you all the things an experienced designer sees that we often miss or don't even think about.
She will work on making educational content more accessible, interactive, and interesting.
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https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/5/simplex-chat-5-1-has-been-released-with-message-reactions-and-self-destruct-passcode/
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Meet the Writers Strike’s Secret Weapon: Hollywood Teamster Boss Lindsay Dougherty
“We are the hammer to their pencil”: How a woman who “gives no f--ks” is determined to unite entertainment industry labor.Joy Press (Vanity Fair)
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#onlinesafetybill #uk #cognitivedissonance #infosec
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https://www.blendernation.com/2023/05/23/project-gold-new-blender-open-movie-announced/
#blender #blender3d #b3d
Project Gold: New Blender Open Movie Announced!
The Blender Studio has just announced Project Gold, it's next Blender Open Movie! While the studio is finishing up its current open film, "Pet Projects", this next one seems to be an ambitious project…Mario Hawat (BlenderNation)
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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/social-media-mental-health-anxiety-depression-teens-surgeon-general-rcna85575
The report:
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html
#SocialMedia #MentalHealth
Social media is driving teen mental health crisis, surgeon general warns
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy blames social media for rising rates of anxiety, depression and other mental health struggles among teens and adolescents.Erika Edwards (NBC News)
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Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle
A new report says beverage companies like Coca-Cola must be “held accountable for the supply chain impacts of their plastics.”Joseph Winters (Grist)
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Li…
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-governmen…Goodreads
a particular bugbear of mine.
("basic public infrastructure paid for by taxes", apparently an alien concept ...)
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https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2023-02-21-business-and-motorists-still-receiving-e-tolls-bills-outa-says/
#SANRAL #Gauteng #eToll
Business and motorists still receiving e-tolls bills, Outa says
Organisation calls on Sanral to publish a gazette to end the declaration of the Gauteng freeway network as tolled roadsMotoring Staff (Business Day)
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This may be a problem with multi-jurisdictional systems where users aren't paying the local taxes. (Of course, nobody seems to worry about that problem with public roads!)
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It seems that in the US, they break even at the federal level and usually lose money at the state and city level, suggesting that higher state fuel taxes and a means of distributing some of the revenue to cities would be appropriate.
The least damage you can inflict is with a bike.
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More info: https://librearts.org/2023/05/week-recap-21-may-2023/
Featured #b3d artwork by Gabriel Barral
Weekly recap — 21 May 2023
Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new toolsAlexandre Prokoudine (Libre Arts)
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Animation Audio Rewrite (!1323) · Merge requests · Graphics / Krita · GitLab
Summary This patch attempts to solve long-standing audio-video synchronization issues by replacing our old QtMultimedia based audio system with a new...GitLab
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In other places, I still think a standard tag should be used, although it would be nice to have a language-appropriate tag, such as #publicité on French posts, alongside or instead of a global one.
Hashtags give disclosure and allows filtering. I think they're a pretty good mechanism.
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The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits
It Could Cost $21 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites, Study Finds
Cleanup costs for the state’s oil and gas wells are triple what the industry is expected to make in future profits.ProPublica
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I'm strongly against AI-art, and a SF zine who is publishing one of my stories has a need for HUMAN MADE ART (this is a paying gig), but the deadline is very tight on this. So I'm putting out my feelers to anyone who is an artist or knows someone interested in doing cover art for a SF magazine (deadline: May 28th).
Email me (susankayeq@gmail.com) for details. Thanks for sharing!
(image: some art I commissioned for the Solarpunk Futures expo)
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i'm so fucking happy for them, and also for the possible knock-on effects of some of epic game's holdings unionizing
their full statement - https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-bandcamp-united-release-joint-statement-on-union-vote/
Bandcamp and Bandcamp United Release Joint Statement on Union Vote
Today, a majority of eligible Bandcamp workers voted 31-7 in favor of forming Bandcamp United, a union represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). The vote res…Bandcamp Updates
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Totally agree, that's how the real world works. Representation at the local level, human scale...think "Monkey Sphere"
https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
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