Right when we literally need to chill, they keep inventing nonsense that is somehow worse. Crypto is literally just machines wasting energy on purpose to create false scarcity, it was already a worst case scenario for truly pointless excess emissions but by god, they managed to top it, this place is going to be a raisin with dead oceans.
Of course, anyone who does anything less than suck the dick of this AI is a reactionary ignorant peasant, at least with crypto everyone agreed it was lame, now we’re back to the iPhone fuck-you-only-change-allowed-keep-up-granny bullshit that lead to everyone but you knowing everything about you, so they can exploit and even criminalize the behavior your phone tells them about. Never the change we need, though. Just whatever makes your stupid line go up.
I guess. Glad I’m not having kids. That’s the only fucking downward pressure on future emissions that’s happening, on any meaningful scale. I can’t wait to see what sort of shitty boilerplate copy and fake fucking pictures makes all this CO2 worthwhile. I’m sure the problem is me, and my Luddite, unseasoned irrational fear.
I’m sure you get it, but this is kinda for whoever is out of the loop on this.
Yeah, right now the meta for pro-choice women is to delete and remove all period tracking apps under the assumption the apps will snitch directly to the government on you, so that, say, Texas lawmakers will know if your period is overdue, and thus you are expected to be possibly pregnant. Then, if that data leads them to certain conclusions, they assume an abortion has happened, and they want that fully criminalized.
It is not unlikely to expect an incarceration in order to “protect the life of the baby”, even if you have made no move toward abortion, but once the tracker app and its data tell the patriarchy that you might be pregnant, all bets are off.
Even worse is that sometimes a woman’s period is just irregular, or even disappears for a time, especially if she’s on some serious athletics and a tight diet, so there’s a lot of room for false positive “pregnant” results with possible felony charges on the line, over the fucking tracker app on your phone.
The same situation drives the daughter’s actions, doctors will often snitch, and the problem of anti-choice doctors getting you incarcerated because they think you might be pregnant is well known.
Basically this information is now expected to be used to monitor for pregnancy, possibly by law enforcement directly, and it becomes very compromising, especially for a teen girl who already lacks the rights she needs to take herself away from unwanted situations and states. She also likely wants to normalize this behavior for herself, so that others wanting to hide pregnancy do not set off “red flags” when they try to maintain privacy.
i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
I stopped using upvotes/downvotes at all on Reddit. Unless you were on New, exclusively, it didn’t matter how often you got on Reddit, anything you were seeing was at least fifteen hours old. Any conversation was already done. Any up/downvotes you put in wouldn’t matter at all and probably just got ignored by the system. Anything you had to say would only appear to you, in reality it just dropped to the bottom of the sea, never again to be seen. Thousands had already spoken, somehow, and you were just walking through a snapshot of the past, already said and done.
For now, it’s much smaller here. Sometimes I find myself upvoting a post just to let the person know that somebody actually came in here and gave a fuck about what they had to say, that they aren’t talking to themselves in an empty room.
It makes sense to care a bit more, for a lot of reasons. We’ll see how long that vibe can sustain itself.
Japan has no significant lithium deposits, and little oil. They rely on imports for both oil and lithium, creating a national security issue. Like China, they are at latitudes with high climate change impact, so they take that problem seriously, and fossil fuel is out, eventually....
It can be tough to get yourself out of a "human labor" mindset, thinking that some significant resources would need to be poured into all the botting and thus it would have to be worthwhile, and profitable by the standards you are used to.
But once the bot system is already set up, a minimal amount of effort is required to re-target the bots onto anything at all that looks like it has potential. A few button pushes, and they set the things loose, like you turn on a washing machine, then they walk away.
A lot of the heavy traffic is coming from places where a single USD goes a long way, so not only is the botting effortless, the profit motive functions differently. Somebody pulling in $15 a day, converted to oh, rupees, or ruble, or especially won (North Korea) will consider that a much bigger, more motivating score than you might.
So this Lemmy thing is taking off, and there are dollars to be scraped, why not turn the bots upon it, set them loose to do all the work, tirelessly and at scale, for essentially nothing save a bit of electricity? Maybe they supervise the situation on a daily basis. If botting kills the platform that's not their problem.
This logic means that botting up even small communities makes sense.
I am but a conduit for memes now like a green pipe in a Mario game guess who found the 196 honeypot at that dead hellsite which is dancing around pretty hard for a dead body lately should I just tag all these NSFW or nah
The thing that was going around the rest of the internet was niche tech answers, like if you're trying to learn programming, or you have some obscure computer problem. Years and years of answers were all siloed on Reddit, text searchable, and it was indispensable. Lots of people who don't care about Reddit were in a panic during the blackout, so many people became dependent on it.
The only thing that compares is Youtube, now infamous for always having a video about it, but Youtube is obnoxious because video isn't searchable and creators generally title their posts for clicks, not subject matter. Somebody might do an informative video on obscure crucial changes in some software but it will be titled THIS WILL BE A DISASTER. You have to scrub through people's videos hoping to get the one nugget of answer you were after. Meanwhile, Reddit was like StackOverflow's side lounge, and full of the right answers.
The real question is if anybody in this community wants to become that sort of resource. I can only imagine that we're all getting sick of "if you're not paying you're the product". Over and over again, we discover that our input is worth billions and not a penny for us, not even happiness, we're the cattle, so who cares if we moo so long as we produce meat? It gets old.
I'm also hoping that this Reddit situation is the catalyst for the death of unpaid mods. That was a slapped together duck tape solution from 1998, when a web community was a prefab message board stuck on the back of some truly obscure cartoonist's site, with a community size in the hundreds. It was never supposed to be the permanent solution, but you know what they say about temporary solutions becoming permanent.
Either you're expecting nice people to mod their way through the truly horrific shit that gets posted to the average website, for free, which is odious, or you're going to attract people whose motivations are not good, so they don't care if they have to wade through some beheading videos, they've got worse ideas.
It's been one of the most unsustainable situations in the modern internet, and it's going to have to change, somehow.
It's not addiction, it's entitlement. The blackouts hit hard across the internet, a lot of people have gotten used to just dipping into Reddit's knowledge pool when they want an answer. I'm not talking about people you'd really call Redditors. These are the friends who only show up when they want something. When they're with their real friends, they don't have much good to say about you.
So when they lost that for just a couple days, they got pretty fussy. I'm trying to find the right words for somebody who considers themselves pretty Lefty almost but not quite ripping off the mask when they are expected to show solidarity with people they don't really like but have become entitled to as a resource, because that was the vibe.
The only thing I can compare it to is when the Uber drivers tried to strike, and old women were up in their Twitter mentions like, "You better not make me miss work!" Once they rely on you, they expect you as a sort of right, even if your service isn't a right. If you stop being their appliance, they get mad. They never, ever want to place blame where it goes, either.
That's the thing, and that's why Reddit is trying to IPO. There's more to it than just people having a dopamine problem. It's more like you're their Uber driver, and you'd better not mess up their schedule. Fuck your strike and fuck you. Get back to work.
I think a lot of the people who made Reddit what it is and was may have learned their lesson by seeing their needs treated so dismissively, so they'll be pretty gun shy to put themselves in that spot, again. Figure it out yourselves if that's how it is. You mod the fucking thing, then.
I mean, it doesn't really make any sense to keep volunteer-modding over there unless maybe Reddit allows that to be as painless as possible. All the money you SHOULD be paying these people who are the absolute backbone of your entire business model, but AREN'T, should easily justify whatever concessions you care to throw their way, any tools that make the job easier, whatever paltry expense.
But I'm reminded of somebody's tangential advice about toxic workplaces, saying that if the people you work with daily are toxic, well, you can expect that to be part of the company culture that goes all the way to the top. The behavior is designed, encouraged, by leadership. There are none more entitled than Reddit the company. Thus, it's community.
So of course anybody with real adult shit to tend to said "get fucked" because nothing else makes any sense. It doesn't make sense to mod their website with shitty tools for pay, never mind for free. We can expect any competence to go with them. Anybody left over and desperate for mod is pretty suspect, and they're about to lose all the really effective tools, so good fuckin luck bud.
I think Reddit cruises along like ha ha, we win, for another day, but those answers that everyone has been dipping in for were coming from some of the deepest wells of professional competence on the site. People were seriously like, "how do I solve this weird issue I'm having with Rust", and they'd get that answer from a subreddit, not even from official docs, not a Youtube, no, Reddit was THE go-to place. r/Excel has taught more people to use the software than Microsoft has. Somebody literally shows up on the job trying to run some Excel so they don't get fired and r/Excel will sort them right out. It's one of the nicest places on the site, too. It goes on and on like that, as far as subreddits.
The people who provide such answers, for the good of the community, they can price their hourly rate quite nicely. It sure as hell ain't "free". Reddit has been the entire West-coast IT community killing company time, is what it's been. Everything really valuable about the site has been bought with all that downtime that competent administrators have when they need to be at a desk and look busy while their automated processes do the work.
So everyone who's worth a damn just threw in the towel. As the quality of moderation tanks, the casual non-mod users who still brought knowledge to the table will get fed up with problems and find another time sink. Soon enough all that's gonna be left of the place is those miserable hate pits that always climb to the top of r/All. Have fun keeping shareholder value up with that shit.
But I gotta step back from Reddit-posting. Looks like there's a new game in town. Me, I'm a filthy casual, so I'm just trying to hang on Lemmy and be a bro about it.
I was following the shitpost tag on Tumblr for a while since it seemed to be good for a meme or two, but guess who decided to move their asses into that tag like a house when they ditched Reddit? So now I know what to post, but whoever is modding here had better not shoot the messenger cause they ain't fukin around about a joke. Hello am adorable waifu but surprise! I throw baby down stair, type thing
Yeah, I am kinda worried about that. This whole Fediverse thing needed to be an open secret that grew in dribs and drabs, considering that it's basically user-hosted. Explosive growth already caused a lot of grief for Beehaw. Things across the Fediverse stay working for now because a small army of working professional sysadmins are running large instances for kicks.
I was kinda hoping that all the cool kids acting like everything here was dumb would keep the growth sustainable but I get the impression that we're all too old to care what the cool kids think.
We're all thiiiis close to talking about our dividend portfolios n shit. Somebody's gonna fuck around and start a thread about shitty knees and that thing's gonna run for days.
If everyone can be all comfy with letting Twitch streamers have $5 a month just because, then it might be time to cough up for your social media, too. Ain't no VC funding propping the Fediverse up. It's not even propping up Reddit anymore. Jerome say no more free moneys, go buy a bond, and start a business that makes actual profit.
This is probably a good time to bring up that the Fediverse system seems designed around not one central server, but an endless chain of tiny user-hosted servers (instances), all interlinked together to create one community. Like the OLD days, but the software is a lot more seamless. This is what webrings look like now after 20 years of community development.
So if you were ever interested in hosting your own thing, just enough instance for you and 100 buddies, it's something to look into. There's a cottage industry of cloud providers who already understand what you'd be up to, no need to run the server yourself unless you want to. Digital Ocean is the suggestion I got from Byron Miller who is running Universidon. They've been doing well for small Masto instances. Of course Byron is one of those "army of sysadmins" guys so he's rolling his own.
That is the sustainable model for this place, so the more it acts like the commercial socials, concentrating traffic in large instances, the more unsustainable it will get. Things like private instances are okay for a reason.
Posing this on a whim since I tend to be a lurker on Reddit, but I am really struggling to get into Lemmy. Part of it is that I'm used to lurking but now we all have to put a little more work into not lurking in order to start to get the content we want, but also I have yet to find the sort of shitposting content I guess I'm...
eh, just lurk. Look, don't stress it. There's no business model here. We don't need growth. It's nice, it's cool, it makes it all worthwhile, but somewhere a greybeard sysadmin (sup Ruud) is running a server for the fuckin lols at his own expense and THAT is the fediverse. It's just all those people chained together, and we need to spread that load across as many people as possible.
This Fediverse thing does NOT require, but it does accept that someday you might want to bite some hosting fees and do your own little part, just one more instance, one more server, picking up your load and that of a few of your friends. If somebody is hosting an open server, they're already okay with you freeloading, so freeload to your heart's content.
For every one person who is willing to nerd down and host something, we need like 100 people or more to fuck around in the thing being hosted and make it worth doing. It's all set up so that if the person who is paying to host gets exhausted, well, those 100 people aren't screwed. It's set up so hosters can drop in and out at will. The Fediverse expects and plans for the person who is hosting your nonsense on their own dime to say fuck this, and drop out, and yet you have a setup that leaves you whole, you might not even notice. You can at least migrate elsewhere with minimum friction.
Just engage with shit. Updoot it or whatever. Fuck around and be here. Login and poke around. None of us will see it but the person hosting the instance (waddup Ruud) will see it, and that's enough. Your engagement is not the difference between life or death. An exponential growth in users is a requirement for commercial socials to thrive but here? That just makes it more expensive for your gracious host to host you. If another 50,000 people show up tomorrow that will probably kill the whole damn thing, it's why Beehaw is having problems, they were planning on 200 users a month and got 3000 because Reddit.
This whole Fediverse thing is what is left of the Old Way, where places to be online existed because some normal person wanted to put up a server for a forum or whatever and it was running out of a box in their bathroom.
The good news is that all those people are pushing 50 now, they have spouses and children, they aren't crazy people. The deranged bastards who ran a box in the bathroom like they were the Emperor of Fuck Town have all died from probably substance abuse and what is left is sane people running servers out of their bathroom (for cooling purposes) on a remarkably high level because that's their job. They run servers for like, Amazon Web Services or some shit, so running a Fediverse instance is child's play. That is what you're enjoying right now.
Or they've paid cloud hosting fees so that even though they have no idea what the fuck they're doing some greybeard sysadmin is handling every thing that matters. That's the situation. That's why this clown show runs a lot better than it should.
So don't stress lurking. If you were a lurker on Reddit, lurk here. Just hang. We already have a Shitposting subLemmy or whatever, so go post shit, or don't. Don't worry about it. If you don't personally contribute to the exponential growth needed for a commercial social to thrive, nothing bad will happen. You could be here for a year just lurking and then get inspired to post your ass off, that works too. You got options.
Don't worry about working for it. It's not necessary. Welcome to nonprofit social media.
I'm hoping that the overall lack of certain systemic encouragements from commercial socials that everyone has become horrifically used to interacting with will squash a lot of this kind of behavior over time. That is, the bullshit no longer serves the algo that doesn't exist herre, and the lack of positive feedback will either cause them to change their ways or just leave.
I wonder if Lemmy's upvote system overweights the first few upvotes the way Reddit did. That drove people to make high engagement posts since a sudden flurry of comments on a rage-bait post tended to slingshot stuff to the top reliably. If Lemmy doesn't do that, it will help. The lack of eyeballs in Lemmyverse should discourage bots to some degree.
I'm hoping the same for Mastodon. A LOT of the behaviors that people have internalized come down to trying to game the algorithm with hot takes and such, but the limited virality of the Mastodon platform will hopefully discourage all their usual bullshit, or they'll go.
I think the people who just want Reddit will return to it, at least for a while, since Lemmy was just their methadone and the heroin store is back open now. Me, I've been peeling away from both Reddit and Twitter for a long time so I'm ready to move on. There was a distinct culture on the Fediverse before all these sudden surges in users, hopefully once things settle that culture will get a chance to assert itself again.
Seriously, on a daily basis I'll either bump my head or various other body parts, drop stuff and then drop it again, stumble over something and combinations of all of that....
FYI the way you improve proprioception as a daily practice is that you play drums. They all count. Digi drums, rock drums, Djembe drums, any drums, anything that calls itself drums. So long as you trigger the drum sounds with your body, in time (fingers on a sampler counts) we're after the whole body focusing itself around the hands to create precise enough results. Just hands on your belly works. Honestly all of music is good for this. It is actuating the whole of your body in space to achieve a result, and the human body loves it. Proprioception.
Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)
Get rid of them. (lemmy.world)
I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.
i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
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This is my personal take on why Toyota is hung up on hydrogen fuels.
Japan has no significant lithium deposits, and little oil. They rely on imports for both oil and lithium, creating a national security issue. Like China, they are at latitudes with high climate change impact, so they take that problem seriously, and fossil fuel is out, eventually....
Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (lemmy.world)
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7
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I am but a conduit for memes now like a green pipe in a Mario game guess who found the 196 honeypot at that dead hellsite which is dancing around pretty hard for a dead body lately should I just tag all these NSFW or nah
trillion dollars spent wisely (lemmy.world)
Lemmy.world officially has 33k users! 3000 users away from becoming the #1 lemmy instance. (lemmy.world)
The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!...
Why do some people still have hope for Reddit?
After all the BS from /u/spez?
I dunno what the fuck to post, also rule (lemmy.world)
Lemmy reached a user base of 150,000 (discuss.tchncs.de)
The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users....
Struggling to get into Lemmy
Posing this on a whim since I tend to be a lurker on Reddit, but I am really struggling to get into Lemmy. Part of it is that I'm used to lurking but now we all have to put a little more work into not lurking in order to start to get the content we want, but also I have yet to find the sort of shitposting content I guess I'm...
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How do you become less clumsy?
Seriously, on a daily basis I'll either bump my head or various other body parts, drop stuff and then drop it again, stumble over something and combinations of all of that....