Content ofc, but also I'm on Kbin, and the software here is atrocious. 100% of the time after like a minute goes by while I read a post and read the comments and then want to upvote/boost or write a comment, it asks me to re-login on a mobile Firefox. Also, if I comment on something and someone responds, but then a moderator removes the entire post on another instance, it breaks my entire Notifications - not just that singular one, but the entire process of receiving notifications for anything I say (the good news is that it only breaks the one page that it occurs on, so if I make enough other comments it will eventually fall behind the curve, but that's still a whole page of notifications that I will never be able to see, ever). Also there is no API at all. Also... well, you get the idea.
At this point, I would move to Lemmy except... account migration is a lie. I already asked people to follow me from Reddit to Kbin, and I'm not doing that again.
I think you are missing a big piece of the bigger picture.
Much of the ‘utility’ of the lemmy alternatives is the significantly larger user base, which is what’s necessary for more niche communities to get off the ground and actually be viable. Without that userbase, lemmy is just another alternate place to discuss the basest common topics, that can be discussed anywhere. I mean, technology and news are nice to have, but it’s the variety of the niche community that are what keep people still hooked on reddit.
So in the end, making a place popular for the sake of popularity actually does serve an important purpose.
I came across this news after watching a Virtual Insider video with the clickbait title This VR Game No Longer Exists. The news did come out about a month ago though but I haven’t seen it posted on Lemmy yet. A 47 second trailer for the game can be found here. In it you can see some elements that do exist in the Metro series...
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
I’m in favor of either option, honestly. A whitelist or complete migration to something else.
When I joined, I wasn’t looking for a drop-in reddit replacement. I’d actually deleted my reddit account a few weeks before all the craziness went down because reddit and social news in general has a very bad habit of becoming toxic as shit.
Now, I get that I’m in a minority here. People left reddit and wanted something to replace it, but I don’t know if Beehaw was ever the right instance for that specifically.
While I don’t particularly care one way or the other about federation or the “Fediverse”, what does worry me is whether or not the platform Beehaw migrates to is better maintained than Lemmy.
If moving to something new and relatively untested, there’s a big risk that other, equally as important, development issues might crop up, especially if the dev team is relatively small.
I’m also curious to find out whether UX will be similar (eg. content aggregation with voting and whatnot) or if it’ll be something closer to older forums, though I’m aware you don’t want to really say anything until you’re decided, so I guess answers to that can wait.
Anyway, I’ll be interested to see what happens. Take your time, figure it out, and we’ll see what happens over the next few weeks.
I have created this community despite knowing that there is already a jrpg community on lemmy.world. I have done that so that we have an active moderator here. A lot communities were created while the reddit boom but aren’t active anymore or weren’t active at all. So i hope to get a few franchises here together that...
There is a lot of discussion happening in the background of our project here. We could not anticipate all of the challenges that we were going to face a few years ago. One of the reasons for this was because we had no idea what our choice of a platform would bring....
The Reddit-style presentation of topics and ranking comments isn’t really conducive to lengthy, quality discussions that persist over a period of time. The Reddit-style works for following current events and posting links to new things etc, but as a result, old topics - topics even a couple of days old - falls off the engagement radar. Once it’s gone from the front page, it’s gone from people’s consciousness. This is bad for a small community with few posts that value quality of discussions over blind sharing of links. For instance, say I create a topic called “share your favorite vegan recipes” - I may get some replies in the first couple of days, but then the topic will fall off the frontpage and completely die. This is further exacerbated by the voting system. On Reddit/Lemmy, topics and comments which have a higher number of votes get more visibility, and this creates two issues - one is it encourages group think and creates an echo chamber, the other is that it drowns out less popular topics or comments. This sort of intentional drowning of posts and comments actually may be a good thing - and even necessary - on high-userbase systems like Reddit, where a single thread could have thousands of comments - but it works against low-traffic communities like Beehaw, where every comment is valuable (unless it’s off-topic/spam etc of course).
Whereas in a traditional forum:
A topic gets bumped to the top when someone posts a comment, which encourages threads to live longer
There’s not as much importance given to the “newness” of a post
The lack of votes on a topic would give equal importance to all topics
The lack of votes on comments would encourage people to actually chime in if they agree or disagree with a comment, instead of just blindly voting
Forums also allow you to show a categorized homepage, where you can have several sub-forums appear on the homepage all at once. This is a better approach than blindly unifying the entire feed in one page, because this allows threads in low-traffic subs to keep their visibility and compete against high-traffic subs. For instance, consider a current news sub which may get a lot of posts ever single day, vs a niche sub such as gardening. With a unified feed, you’d almost never see posts from a gardening sub, unless you went into that sub.
With all the above reasons, forums are therefore more conducive for encouraging discussions, over a place which simply acts like a feed aggregator. Traditional forums are the solution to the doomscrolling issues that plague modern social media. Plus, they offer better moderation tools, with better granular permissions granted to mods, so you could grant various levels of access. Also, you can place several restrictions on users to reduce spam, for instance, you could grant a user rights to post a topic only after they’ve read all the rules, and maybe participated in a quiz or something. You could grant additional rights to people who’ve gotten a certain number posts in their bag. You could have a “trusted poster” system where a user could have mod-like abilities. There’s so many ways a forum is a lot more flexible than a system like Lemmy.
So overall, I think Beehaw’s ethos and vision would align better with a traditional forum, over a feed-aggregator style forum like Lemmy.
The wording in the parent comment also seems to imply the Fediverse is just Lemmy/kbin, which is a weird self-centric take I see here (i.e. on Lemmy) a lot.
A lot of the broader fedi that has access to adequate moderation tooling are doing just fine and don’t seem too “ill-suited”. It’s really just Lemmy that’s like this.
I’m not entirely sure I’ll attempt joining “the new Beehaw” wherever it may set up shop (y’all are a bit too serious news-y for my liking, personally), but all the federated interactions I had with the folk from Beehaw had been quite positive, and it’s kinda sad to see y’all go. But I can definitely understand the reasons why, and I do have my own gripes with Lemmy (both the software and the unfortunate community it has picked up) as well.
When questioning your intentions as arrogant, entitled, immature vs confident, moral right, correctness. Or even questioning if the Duning Kruger effect is at play....
Stay intellectually humble. It’s a huge component of wisdom in my observation. Understand you can always make mistakes that can be corrected, and that you have arrived at your opinions through limited information that can always be supplemented, so stay open to both of these possibilities.
You can be confident in your opinions that you arrived upon through spending a lot of effort thinking about them, and you don’t need to have self doubt when challenged on them baselessly. But when someone does point out an error or something you missed, it’s essential you haven’t become closed to accepting it.
Always remember what the basis are for your opinions and how well-founded they really are. For example: how much do you actually know about a thing when you’re relying on something you read in the news? How much do they really know about that thing?
As a check on yourself believing you’ve put a lot of effort into thinking about something, be on the guard for unwarranted confidence. If a professional has put their efforts into something in their field of expertise they’ve spent their whole lives working on, chances are you haven’t thought of something they haven’t in the first five minutes of hearing about their work. That might seem ridiculous, but you see this all the time on Lemmy, where for example commenters seem to think they’ve figured out key errors in scientific papers after reading a single popular science article about an experiment or figured out solutions to incredibly complex problems like fair taxation.
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of artificial intelligence tools, the agency has new means of targeting wealthy people who have “cut corners” on their taxes....
I’m a cpa, and from what I can tell I’m the only one on Lemmy, god help me, so I’ll chime in.
Partnerships with $10 billion assets are no joke so I would imagine they are businesses like real estate holding companies, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, things like that. Probably clients of a Big 4 like PWC Deloitte EY or KPMG.
The thing about entities like that is that they tend to be insanely complicated with TONS of moving parts. They’ll be dealing with complex financial instruments, partners coming in and out, financing structures that aren’t at all straightforward (if you’ve seen Shark Tank Mr Wonderful is infamous for offering complex financing deals rather than straight equity deals) plus international tax complications, book/tax timing differences, and all kinds of other stuff I can’t begin to get into.
Oh, and that’s just the tax side of it all. That’s not even starting to talk about the actual accounting, recording the transactions, balance sheets, income statements, and so on, which is an enormous layer of complexity before we even think about tax. Zillions of moving parts with plenty of room for errors and omissions.
Partnerships don’t pay tax at the business level so the individuals who own them need to report the income and activity on their personal returns and pay tax at that level. It’s not at all easy reporting their share of activity from entities like hedge funds and PE so plenty of mistakes are made, some quite substantial. Im guessing they are going to look at the partnerships first and compare to the biggest owners returns to make sure everything jives.
I find this news great. Our industry often faces challenges due to time constraints, budget limitations, client-provided data quality, logistics, and so on. Unethical behavior is rare among practitioners, but there are some shady ones. Typically, we defer issues, leaving them for others to handle, which seldom result in consequences.
Throughout my career, the IRS has never questioned our filed returns for individuals or businesses. We’ve received notices, mostly related to administrative matters rather than full audits.
A strengthened IRS enhances compliance, but the accounting industry is strained with few professionals and a lack of future talent. We already cut corners for efficiency, so aiming for flawless accuracy could pose a significant problem. It’s just another challenge to add to our list…
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COVID-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise for weeks as summer
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I’m looking to buy an iPhone 15 when it comes out. For those that also have a Pixel, what are some things that each phone does completely better than the other?...
Lots of sketchy places on Lemmy. “In other news” on sh.itjust.works is a textbook example of Horseshoe Theory, right down to banning users who dare to question the propaganda posted by the “liberal” running it. I’m proud to be one of those users.
I’m not for the guy and think he’s done waaay more wrong than good, but wasn’t everyone against him even offering starlink on the first place? Now everyone is mad that they didn’t use more starlink? Honestly just seems like a lose lose situation right now for him. Had he overstepped his bounds and used starlink as an aggressor, instead of defense like he has been doing (which is one thing the US said to Ukraine, defend your land not attack theirs) people would have dragged him through the mud for that instead.
I’m all for being critical when it’s due, especially for a guy trying to role-playing Edison and his shitty tactics, but idk about this one.
Edit: Here’s a link explaining it a lot more clearly about why the news is making this bigger than it was.
We are looking to pick up some more moderators to help out with !games. Things aren’t too hectic moderation-wise; what we really need is those willing to help with some community engagement. Things like helping find relevant news to post, helping construct pinned discussion posts, and the like....
Online privacy: Best privacy related thing I’ve done is use a nickname. If I search my real name on Google, only two results show up (and my Instagram, but I deleted it) from the same site, my place in some school competition. That’s it! But if I search my made-up nickname… Github, Gitlab, Reddit, StackOverflow,...
I can see that if I create several posts with the same link, they are matched as such. The other posts are linked in the «cross published» section at the top (on lemmy-ui)....
I was thinking of creating an anonymous ticketmaster account using public wifi since they block VPNs and just have them email me updates, but they required a phone number for the sign up so I scrapped that idea....
Most of the news stuff is here on Lemmy, but in addition I also use YouTube for specific news I’m interested in.
Practically none of my favorite music artists are coming to Korea on tour so I just gave up on that. Sometimes I just look around on websites which collect events if there is something I’m interested in, but that happens once a year or something.
Lemmy is an open-source, federated link aggregator and discussion platform similar to Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News. The software stack used in Lemmy includes Rust with Actix and Diesel for the backend, and TypeScript with Inferno for the frontend....
I would love, to have Tags in Lemmy. I love them to find posts on the same topic ore news in Mastodon, and I would use them the same way here. For me it would also be a good solution of the “Problem” with dublicated ore unspecific Communities. So if i’m only interested in a subtopic, I can just follow the tag, and get only the content I’m interested in. (For example, if I only want posts about climate news, I can follow a community for climate news, but also the tag #climatenews (ore something) to get posts from for example Worldbews too.
Topics essentially works like this: rather than using cookies to track people around the web and figure out their interests from the sites they visit and the apps they use, websites can ask Chrome directly, via its Topics JavaScript API, what sort of things the user is interested in, and then display ads based on that. Chrome...
Thats also very true in a mobile environment. I have Firefox Focus for clicking random news links on Lemmy, normal Firefox for all the serious stuff, Brave for logging into Google services and Safari for those sites that refuse to work with Firefox.
I think limiting the number of post tags is not a good idea. Of course it’s probably for the better if a community can’t have 200 different tags for “active use”, but for a community with a broad topic (which is common at this time in Lemmy), tags would be useful for the kind or the topic of the post one makes.
With kind I mean “question”, “meme”, “news” and “sale” among others, or also if a kind of post is only allowed on a certain day of the week, a useful rule could be the mandatory use of the corresponding tag on it, so those whom it bothers can filter it out, and the posts are also searchable based on that for those interested. Adding to this, as time goes on and the day-limited topics change, you (as a community moderator) probably don’t want to delete their tags to keep the posts of it searchable, just as it was originally. Archiving tags (like Gitea will do apparently in the next major version) would be a useful feature for this case, to keep them for searchability, but also keep them out of the way of actively used tags for when you tag your new post. It is basically a boolean variable for each tag, and sorting of tags in menus based on its state.
And with topic, it would be a similar use case but for a recently very hot topic, but to be honest I can’t see this one being used by posters, as I imagine these would be very volatile, and as I understand posts can only have tags that were declared by mods for the community.
If we have a limited number of community specific tag, at least make the limit configurable by the server admin.
Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?
Paradox of Hope, a Metro-style VR game, has been removed from the Steam Store following a copyright claim (leminal.space)
I came across this news after watching a Virtual Insider video with the clickbait title This VR Game No Longer Exists. The news did come out about a month ago though but I haven’t seen it posted on Lemmy yet. A 47 second trailer for the game can be found here. In it you can see some elements that do exist in the Metro series...
Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here
Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....
Recommended JRPG Communities on Lemmy
I have created this community despite knowing that there is already a jrpg community on lemmy.world. I have done that so that we have an active moderator here. A lot communities were created while the reddit boom but aren’t active anymore or weren’t active at all. So i hope to get a few franchises here together that...
The Beehaw project is entering some significant challenges
There is a lot of discussion happening in the background of our project here. We could not anticipate all of the challenges that we were going to face a few years ago. One of the reasons for this was because we had no idea what our choice of a platform would bring....
How do you deal with being "sure of yourself"?
When questioning your intentions as arrogant, entitled, immature vs confident, moral right, correctness. Or even questioning if the Duning Kruger effect is at play....
The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes (apnews.com)
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of artificial intelligence tools, the agency has new means of targeting wealthy people who have “cut corners” on their taxes....
Does anyone use both an iPhone and a Pixel with GrapheneOS?
I’m looking to buy an iPhone 15 when it comes out. For those that also have a Pixel, what are some things that each phone does completely better than the other?...
Musk's interference to protect Russia allowed Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, and resulted in the deaths of civilians including children - Zelensky advisor. (sh.itjust.works)
One of many articles: nbcnews.com/…/musk-stopped-ukraine-attack-russian…
Looking for Moderators!
We are looking to pick up some more moderators to help out with !games. Things aren’t too hectic moderation-wise; what we really need is those willing to help with some community engagement. Things like helping find relevant news to post, helping construct pinned discussion posts, and the like....
My privacy journey and privacy questions
Online privacy: Best privacy related thing I’ve done is use a nickname. If I search my real name on Google, only two results show up (and my Instagram, but I deleted it) from the same site, my place in some school competition. That’s it! But if I search my made-up nickname… Github, Gitlab, Reddit, StackOverflow,...
Should I repost / cross publish on several communities and how ?
I can see that if I create several posts with the same link, they are matched as such. The other posts are linked in the «cross published» section at the top (on lemmy-ui)....
People who don't have any social media *besides Lemmy of course* how do you keep up with the news of your favorite music artists going on tour? (Edited)
I was thinking of creating an anonymous ticketmaster account using public wifi since they block VPNs and just have them email me updates, but they required a phone number for the sign up so I scrapped that idea....
What software stack would you have chosen for Lemmy?
Lemmy is an open-source, federated link aggregator and discussion platform similar to Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News. The software stack used in Lemmy includes Rust with Actix and Diesel for the backend, and TypeScript with Inferno for the frontend....
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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Topics essentially works like this: rather than using cookies to track people around the web and figure out their interests from the sites they visit and the apps they use, websites can ask Chrome directly, via its Topics JavaScript API, what sort of things the user is interested in, and then display ads based on that. Chrome...
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What are your favorite news sites?
Regardless of the kind of news. I’m working on a TLDR bot and I’d like it to support the most used sites on Lemmy.