Subs should be able to force sort by controversial for comments and/or posts.
Any damn fool can come up with comments that are universally approved of, or universally hated. They aren't interesting.
The phrase 'trivially true' applies - "This crime was a bad thing, and the people responsible shouldn't have done it! I am very angry at them!" may be emotionally satisfying to say or to cheer on, but it doesn't add a damn thing to the conversation, any more than "hur hur suck it libruls" does.
There isn't a term for the inverse of ragebait, but there needs to be. All the le reddit moments - the tedious meme-chains, forced in-jokes, etc.
For subs where you want interesting discussion, you want to sort both to the bottom. It's the posts that divide opinions that are worth talking about, almost by definition. If a post has a thousand votes but the total is close to zero, well hey, that's probably worth seeing and engaging wth.
Let people vote with their heart, use upvotes/downvotes however the fuck they want to instead of constantly nagging and whining about it - and then use that to detect and de-prioritise mediocrity.
It wouldn't be appropriate for all subs, but for some places, I think it'd be a huge improvement.
Okay, I'm old and tend to overthink this, but I never did get into tinder....
'swiping right' is when your thumb goes to the right, scrolling you to content to your left, yes?
Ever since apple went and changed scroll-wheel direction on us, so you're notionally moving the viewport rather than the cursor, I've lost all certainty in these things.
Like many of you, I woke up this morning to discover that our instance, along with lemmy.world, had been unexpectedly added to the beehaw block list. Although this development initially caught me off guard, the administrators at beehaw made an announcement shedding light on their decision....
I think flexible federation is likely a good thing, and means we can have separate meta-communities with different basic attitudes, so people can be in the kind of spaces they want. My first experience of the fediverse was mastodon, and while the format wasn't really my thing, I loved the amount of individual control it gave users over what they could see.
I wonder if there could be some kind of system to make this simpler, chunkier and less-drama, though.
What if there were:
different individual policies that instances could subscribe to
coalitions based on adoption of specific policy bundles, and allow-lists based on them.
coalition-curated deny-lists of non-compliant instances.
A little bit Schengen area, a little bit NATO.
Ferinstance I can see some instances only wanting to talk to others with curated signup, curated community-creation, no-NSFW, specific political leanings etc - and I can see some instances not wanting those things. Some people may want very safe spaces, others may want in-your-face free speech. Both are reasonable (imho), and there's no reason both sides can't have what they want, without it having to be a big deal.
Possibly this could be layered, I haven't worked out the mechanics yet - but even if you have groups around rules ABCDE, AB, ACE, BCD, etc - it would still help set and stabilise people's expectations, and help them reach consensus, preferably with a bigger granularity than single servers - and reduce the number of nasty surprises down the track.
Probably more a list of dealbreakers than a list of kinks, but effectively that.
Ferinstance where personal relationships are concerned, I imagine there's a big matrix of people who (require | don't care about | despise) (weed | guns | porn), with each combo having a distinctly different character.
Pick some number of more-ideological items, and you'd have a basis for this.
Obviously as the number of dimensions increases you get increasingly more fragmentation of the demographic, and correspondingly smaller pools of matches, so it would behoove people to prioritise and limit their filters carefully to find a good compromise between quality and quantity.
I think it's very likely there'd end up being maybe half a dozen core filtersets that most instances would pick between in order to strike that balance.
People could of course go make their own filterset (with | without) (blackjack | hookers), and if they can draw enough like-minded people to be worth grouping up with, more power to their elbow.
oh yeah, definitely as a first-order thing; I'm thinking down the track with a bajillion instances, people might want to run with a good-enough herd rather than having to evaluate each one individually.
My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it's like for others here on the fediverse.
Baked tofu. It's the blandest substance in the known universe, but it's cripsy and chewy and dense, and your brain is just like fuckyeah, protein.
Yes you can season the outside of it, but that's true for literally any substance. Hey, if you put barbecue sauce on carpet, it becomes barbecue flavour. No kidding.
Well, fair enough I guess. Federation is opt-in, that's the entire point. Possibly a bit silly to have federated in the first place if they wanted a walled garden, but ehh.
It's a bit annoying for the people that were using them via other instances, but them's the breaks. You're going to get islands in the fediverse, and I think that's OK.
We recently had our heater changed to a heat pump and whilst producing the same amount of heat, it's also very energy efficient, using a good chunk less energy than our previous heater....
It's like mopping up water with a sponge, and wringing it out into a bucket.
Gas molecules bounce around in the space they're in - and the more heat energy they have, the faster they go.
The more you compress the gas, the more often they hit the walls - like shrinking the room down on a bunch of angry bees: you're going to be hearing a bunch more thudding noises per second.
And that rate-of-collisions is what we call temperature.
When you bring two things into contact, it's the temperature difference, not the heat difference, that determines which way the energy difference evens out.
So if you squeeze a gas, its temperature rises, and the heat energy leaks out through the sides of the container it's in, until the temperature drops down to match the surroundings. The molecules get slower and slower, until the rate of collision on the inside matches the rate on the outside.
Lots of slow bees in a small room, smaller number of fast bees outside, the rate of thudding noises on either side of the wall will be the same.
If you now decompress that gas, let it out into the original-sized space it was in before - the now slow-moving molecules collide with the walls a whole lot less often than they did before; their temperature is a lot lower.
That low-temperature gas is now really eager to soak up any heat energy that's going.
Pump the gas over here, squeeze it down, heat gets dumped out of it.
Pump the gas over there, un-squeeze it, suck heat back up into it.
Rinse and repeat. Sponge and bucket.
It's more efficient than a heater, for the same reason a bicycle courier can bring you a gigantic feast in 23 minutes: they didn't have to make it, they just carried it. The heat energy isn't coming from the power lines, it's coming from the atmosphere. All the electricity is doing is moving it.
In the past couple of months I have started rereading books I read last in the 1990s and liked a lot then. The surprise and excitement of discovering a new world is less, of course, for I am already familiar with the worlds in those books. What surprised me the most, is that some books still hold up while others have become...
There’s so many books that age incredibly badly, and I’ve always been adamant that I won’t get marooned in an increasingly outdated past. Just because I enjoyed something decades ago, doesn’t mean it’s good now.
For now the best I’ve got is Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crud.
A combination of perspective, experience, and no longer relying on the discount tables at secondhand bookshops makes it a lot easier to pick the raisins out of the oatmeal of mediocrity that we once had to plough through longhand. Those other books were always kind of ehh, but we just read them anyway.
Or perhaps better-aging books pick more-universal themes and anxieties to work with, rather than more novel, topical approaches that are flashy at the time but quickly lose their relevance.
Perhaps people could find some examples from each pile, and we can try to draw out some commonalities.
Evolution is just the gamification of biology
and antlers are therefore karmawhoring.
What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?
Hey! Thanks to the whole Reddit mess, I’ve discovered the fediverse and its increidible wonders and I’m lovin’ it :D...
All that effort for nothing (lemmy.world)
https://www.reddit.com/r/infuriatingasfuck/comments/ytfxg8/now_thats_just_sad/
Swipe-right to go back is a bit unresponsive
This seems to work some of the time, but it's a bit hit and miss. A transitional animation showing that the swipe is registering would help.
Dogowner wants someone to pay to live in their house AND take care of their dog. (lemmy.world)
Ex-Aussie PM admits he hid submarine plot from Macron (www.politico.eu)
Not again.. (lemmy.world)
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What's the law's stance on the trolley problem?
Would pulling the switch be a felony? Would not pulling the switch be one? Would a preservation-of-life defense hold any water?...
Reddit made the mistake of ignoring its core users (www.bloomberg.com)
Beehaw defederating update - sh.itjust.works
Like many of you, I woke up this morning to discover that our instance, along with lemmy.world, had been unexpectedly added to the beehaw block list. Although this development initially caught me off guard, the administrators at beehaw made an announcement shedding light on their decision....
How common is it to fly your country's flag, and how is it seen by others?
My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it's like for others here on the fediverse.
What foods do you enjoy because of the texture rather than flavour?
I love anything squishy like a marshmallow, chalky like musk pencils, or really gummy chewy like Haribo gummy bears.
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How do heat pumps work and how are they so efficient?
We recently had our heater changed to a heat pump and whilst producing the same amount of heat, it's also very energy efficient, using a good chunk less energy than our previous heater....
what's the asshole mitigation plan?
So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something....
Rereading books you read 20 years ago
In the past couple of months I have started rereading books I read last in the 1990s and liked a lot then. The surprise and excitement of discovering a new world is less, of course, for I am already familiar with the worlds in those books. What surprised me the most, is that some books still hold up while others have become...