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lvxferre, 1 year ago

If anyone wants, here's the .SVG. Feel free to edit it to your heart's contents, or to grab chunks of it and use elsewhere.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I'm curious to see what they're going to talk about Apollo in the WWDC. Or how Reddit is killing it.

"Devs: don't bother with Reddit, it's a hostile platform!" would be a big win.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I mentioned this in another discussion, but even if Reddit is trying to milk the people paying to access the API for data models for NLP, this is still a bad move. Even the ones who stay behind in Reddit will be less engaged; and lack of engagement in this case means shorter, decontextualised sentences, conveying almost nothing. It's the difference between a well-thought reply and a "lol".

So the data will quickly become useless, and even the ones who might pay for it at the start will eventually say "why bother? Reddit only adds noise to our models." and stop paying.

And it's a bit off-topic, but about NLP, I think that brute-forcing (feed it more data) is counter-productive in the long run, too. Humans actually learn language (how to use it, not just how to utter grammatically sound but meaningless sentences) with considerably less exposure.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I'm in Lemmy for, like, two years? Mostly lurking. I've been looking for alternatives for longer than that though.

I feel like the monsoon is mostly welcome. Content quality may decrease a bit, but the quantity will make up for it. And quantity is what has been missing IMO.

In special I'm hoping for specialised instances about some subjects that I enjoy. I like the Lemmy instance but stuff like anime and conlanging "feels" off-topic here.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I'd be using those instances alongside lemmy.ml. I want to talk about anime, but I don't want to just talk about anime; and here I get some nice tech-related content.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

Yup. I got a few of them, although they're mostly too incomplete to use for conversation. Most of them for a constructed world.

In special I feel like I should be able to help newbies with phonetics and phonology. Not just "how to read the IPA", but also stuff like "how to choose phonemes and allophones that fit the goal of your conlang".

lvxferre, 1 year ago

Note to self: I'll ban anyone from my communities that dares to lie that we're in Spring instead of Autumn. OP wouldn't be banned!

Jokes aside: mods in Lemmy look considerably more chill than in Reddit, as long as you aren't disingenuous. That's just my impression though so YMMV.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

Shameless promotion of my new community: SNOOcalypse. I created it so people can discuss Reddit's downfall, as it's kind of off-topic for /c/opensource, and plus I want to see some activity coming from people who want to get rid of Reddit.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I'm a stubborn guy using Firefox since Firefox 3 times.

I do have a few other browsers installed (Midori, Chromium, Lynx [yup!] ) but I can't recall the last time that I used any of them.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I’m not sure if I understand why certain instances can choose not to federate with other instances. It just seems to limit the content that is accessible to me.

Because certain types of content and users might have negative value in a given environment.

I'll use a mild example to illustrate that. Let's say that you got two instances:

• alicelemmy - it's just a place to shitpost, chill, chat, and throw jokes. Serious discussion is frowned upon.
• boblemmy - serious discussions only; joke posts are banned, you're supposed to quote your sources, all that procedure.

If both instances are federalised you'll see alicelemmy's posters doing shitty jokes in boblemmy, and boblemmy's posters trying to argue the jokes in alicelemmy. Both communities became less useful for their respective users, because now alicelemmy isn't just a place to shitpost and chill, and boblemmy's content has become less serious.

This happens a lot in Reddit, as a consequence of the Fluff Principle and the lack of barrier between subs. However in the Fediverse you can somewhat avoid it, by not federalising instances together.

In the meantime, if you enjoy both shitposting and serious discussions, nothing prevents you from accessing both instances separately.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

inb4 sorry, wall of text. [Also, note: this is my personal take.]

I think that communities are not enough because of a few things.

One of them is that most people expect to be able to behave the same way, abide to the same rules, and contribute the exact same way, to have the same level as expertise, as long as they're in the same site. Sometimes this is not of the best interests of the group.

You see this a lot in Reddit, and I believe to be one of the main factors behind large subreddits going downhill, no matter the best efforts of their mod teams. r/linguistics is a good example of that - the sub was supposed to be for people at least familiar with Linguistics, sharing information, but most posts and comments there nowadays are from laymen assuming shit out of nowhere, because that's how your average redditor behaves.

You could follow the local rules, sure; but most people will not. Unless there's a higher degree of separation between both group.

Across instances however it's clearer that you're in a different site, with different rules, that you may need to behave in a different way. And that a contribution that may be welcome in one instance might be harmful for another.

Another is that different instances host different demographics. My example is too mild to show it, but imagine the following two instances instead:

• charlielemmy - intended as a safe space for trans people. Mostly so they can chill together, shitpost together, nothing too serious.
• danlemmy - intended for people who have a really dark sense of humour, and who'd gladly poke fun at everyone, including trans people. Definitively unsafe.

If you're the admin of one of the instances you definitively do not want people from the other instance. In charlielemmy this would make the environment unsafe for its target userbase; for danlemmy it means that you're going to get people pissed at the dark jokes, and potentially starting arguments.

after all, a user could want to participate in both

Federation makes it easier to handle: register in both alicelemmy and boblemmy.