Contravariant

Contravariant, 9 months ago

You might want to mark that NSFW. Don’t want to be caught reading some discussion with the word union in it.

Contravariant, 9 months ago

I think we won Lemmy.

We lost reddit though, not the current reddit, but the one that was.

Contravariant, 9 months ago

I think /r/science is misunderstood. The moderators had quite a clear vision on the kind of discussion they wanted and the kind they did not. This caused some friction every time a post reached /r/all but I don’t see that as a bad thing.

If anything that’s an ideal situation. People encounter a new community they’re interested in, break some rules in ignorance, the mods interfere and the violations are rolled back, the new users then either follow the rules or leave.

Not sure how they’re doing with the API changes, pretty sure they had some automation going. Don’t think they’re compatible with reddit’s new view on making communities as interchangeable as possible to stop friction from interfering with ad revenue.

Contravariant, 9 months ago

Word filtering is fairly easy to do if you know your way around uBlock filters.

Contravariant, 9 months ago

Fair. It’s not too hard, but most lemmy UIs make it a bit harder than it needs to be because they want to be a fancy JavaScript-ridden mess of html tags.

On old.lemmy.world it is supremely easy, you just use the element picker tool of uBlock to select all posts, add the ‘magic’ command :contains(reddit) to filter out the word you don’t want (in this case reddit), and you’ve got your filter. This would result in old.lemmy.world##.post:contains(reddit).

On lemmy.world it is trickier because it is the kind of HTML no sane person would write. Doing the above you end up with lemmy.world##div.mt-2.post-listing:contains(reddit) which is messy, and misses a line that is used to divide the posts. With some manual tuning you can first simplify the first part to ##.post-listing:contains(reddit) and then add :xpath(.|following::hr[1]) to get rid of the annoying line. This results in ##.post-listing:contains(reddit):xpath(.|following::hr[1]).

Contravariant, 9 months ago

The extra syntax is just to add some features that aren’t in CSS. Not quite sure where this came from, I think it’s from the Adblock Plus era, but Gorhill perfected it for uBlock origin, which makes it a very powerful tool.

It’s not limited to just hiding the elements either, if you want you can simply restyle them (I’ve used this to redact sports results until I hovered over them).

Contravariant, 10 months ago

Not much you can do about institutions you have no control over, but surely you could go to a different bank?

Assuming there is a bank that doesn’t use this of course.

Contravariant, 10 months ago

You want the EU to go hard because you’ve given up on the rest of the world?

I mean I get where you’re coming from but that’s not even remotely resembling a solution.

Contravariant, 10 months ago

Please don’t add tracking in the name of security, thank you very much.

Contravariant, 10 months ago

I mean, that’s how federation ought to work right?

Though it’s a bit of a shame that moving user accounts doesn’t really seem to be a thing yet.

Contravariant, 10 months ago

People are weird. I mean they’re completely fine with random people at google knowing their exact location what they’re doing and what websites they look at, but as soon as you start following them around in public they get all upset!

Seriously though, I’m guessing that an app just doesn’t feel very ‘threatening’ somehow. It’s just an appliance, in some sense. You don’t care about the toilet seeing your private parts right?

Contravariant, 10 months ago

Hey I can upvote now!

Contravariant, 10 months ago

As far as 2D topology is concerned the number of holes increase when you glue the edges of the rectangle together.

Though in that case you’re basically counting how many boundaries the surface has, which for a straw is 2 distinct circles.

Contravariant, 10 months ago

To settle this argument could you clarify if we’re supposed to be considering the straw as a solid 3D object with a thickness, or as a curved 2D surface? The answer kind of depends on which you pick.

Contravariant, 10 months ago

For some more context, this is probably tied into at least two things. One is that the bubble was starting to be recognized for what it was. The other is that interest rates became positive again, so the bar for a good investment suddenly went from “I’ll be happy if I get my money back” to “I want to be paid back double within 20 years”.

Contravariant, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I like the new layout better, just hope everything keeps working

Contravariant, 11 months ago

The decentralization is what makes it hard to go down entirely, but a key difference between federation and full decentralization is that while lemmy allows the servers to share content they (crucially) don't share users, and sharing can be controlled by each instance. So if there is a group of people who frankly aren't nice to be around they can simply be cut off from the rest.

I'm not quite sure if lemmy allows communities to migrate instances at this point, but even if that is not possible federation is still a way to allow some parts to die while others survive.