Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.
I get that some instances use the domain + TLD to make a word, like lemm.ee or to an extent, sh.itjust.works. But I’ve seen so many TLDs I had no idea existed, like .world, .zone, .social, and yes .works as well....
A single app that would be able to show all federated social media content like lemmy,kbin, Mastodon, pixelfed, misskey and perhaps even the coding ones too ( each repo could have a lemmy like community for help, news, updates,etc). Imagine if it only required a single account to interact with all these platforms.
IMO, its a more logical approche to the Fediverse. All platforms easily accessible and intractable with a single app. The burdens to the app developer would be huge but it would revolutionize social media forever.
First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away....
When a particular social media platform is centralized, you can buy yourself a say percentage of stock and have sway over it (cough tencent), or have a useful idiot ruin the platform (cough musk), or another useful idiot to run propaganda you like anyway (cough truth social, cough fox news, cough newsmax…), or yet another that will sell out it’s host country’s citizens for cold hard cash (cough facebook).
But when that social media platform is decentralized? Well, then you’d need to figure out how to poison the well early on to stave off adoption. The Saudi Arabias, UAEs, Chinas definitely don’t like the idea of lemmy, and it’ll be way harder for them to control if critical mass is hit.
Seriously… can we normalize posting the breaker / source of the story rather than rewarding these journalists who repost and reword it? Lemmy has a problem Reddit had but was never willing to fix - this board design rewards bad news sources and sensationalism.
I’m getting tired of Musk, left wing news stories and left wing memes myself
I’ll join these communities simply because lemmy seems so one dimensional looking through my feed.
If there is non-political content here, I’d appreciate it being brought more to the front, at least for my own feed.
I’m hoping for more diverse topics than what seems to hit all day after day. To the point where I’m usually not even logging in as often as I could be.
Like the mobile app is really slow. I can click on a post over and over and it won’t show the comments. Also most images don’t seem to show. It seems like they have serious issues in the back end....
The thing I don’t miss from Reddit is the constant nagging.
Visit a subreddit about skydiving for 5 seconds? Suddenly you get skydiving-related suggestions of communities ALL OF THE TIME. Forever.
No, I don’t want to get notifications so I never miss news from this community /Dismiss popup
New notification? Let’s see who posted something! Oh… It’s just a Reddit feature ad. Yes I got it. /Dismiss fake notification.
And on, and on, and on. You can’t spend a quiet 5 minutes reading things that interest you without your flow getting disrupted by pointless attention-grabbers.
That’s something you don’t get on Lemmy: it’s opt-in, not opt-out: unless I look for something, it won’t suggest anything to me or push anything on me that I have to dismiss.
I love how most of the Lemmy instances are hosted on European servers, yet Europeans still don't have enough population, money, or influence to change the status quo.
US politics does not belong in World News, yet the upvote counts say otherwise. Europeans need to step up the game and encourage more other Europeans to join Kbin/Lemmy. This will never be fixed without the numbers.
Good question, though this was my first comment in the chain, I personally wasn’t complaining (yet).
To be honest, I’ve just checked the “Top Day” sorting of /c/[email protected], and the news are all about non-USA topics. So in hindsight I guess OP was just doing the usual “lol self-centred Americans” dunking. It is a fact that American news have pushed out the other countries’ news from the default news sub on reddit and here (or more likely the system was just replicated on Lemmy by default during the migration), so it’s a sort of folklore reaction… :D
I dunno. As a Euro, I think World news (on Lemmy) is more or less fine as it is. The most important events in the world will be covered in English, and the texts will be formed in an appropriate way - as I’ve said previously it can be difficult to grasp the specific national context for many events, and a good news article will compensate. E. g. if a country has chosen a new president, a foreigner first has to learn if the country has a presidential or parliamentary system, or the info won’t be understood properly.
I guess one could pick out the articles in their native language with more context, or add some context themselves?
I did the same thing. I still am on social media such as lemmy and discord but its mostly to talk to people. And I havent watched the news since I was a child. Important things come your way eventually and I dont see it as being ignorant. Now I only receive information I can actually do something about if I want to.
When I first joined this community I saw it as a respite from reddit where I was free to chill with people without being constantly expected to debate or defend arguments or anything. Just a forum where people are nice....
It’s well-docmented in Aotearoa, Australia, and the UK that low turnout favours the right so some centre-right parties - advised by Crosby Textor - try to create divisive issues because it puts voters off politics and voting altogether.
But, I think there’s often a big difference between engaging politically in your community and society, and debating strangers on social media.
Like @Ignacio, I block things called “politics” on the lemmy and kbin sites because they are mostly catch-alls for well rehearsed/rehashed arguments relevant to America.
I think it’s possible for us to stand in solidarity with Americans without resorting to that, and in other countries their causes tend to come up in social media news so I try to take real world actions based on that, for example writing to our minister of foreign affairs to ask that NZ takes a particular stance or action.
I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days....
I’ve been a lot more productive since I joined lemmy - reddit was too addictive in my opinion. I still add ‘reddit’ to my searches when looking for information, but haven’t felt the urge to go back. I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of news and new techniques for my hobbies, but I also haven’t seen a single repost for months. Worth it
Yes, and no. For me personally, I tended to use Reddit to follow a lot of tech news - whether that be about programming, Linux/Open Source Software, gaming, etc which from what I’ve seen personally, is certainly an abundance in The Fediverse. Otherwise I’ll sometimes discuss some TV shows on Reddit, but most of mine are in their off-season so it hasn’t mattered as much.
That being said, I do recognize that its a problem - but I don’t know how to begin trying to do my part to fix that problem. I participate where I can. I don’t really have many friends who would be interested in The Fediverse and they generally don’t use Reddit (Lemmy) / Twitter (Mastodon/Firefish/Calckey/etc) / Instagram (Pixelfed) either way, aside from on the one off occasion that they’re linked to something. I made my instance public in order to try to contribute, but no one is interested in joining small instances (and it was delisted from the join-lemmy site once they changed their user count requirement, which killed its only chance to organically grow so I don’t think my “effort” will help much there anymore). The only subreddit that I created and moderated was r/moddedmc which I’m still surprised even had people posting on it (since I didn’t ever advertise it, I suspect Modded Minecraft was a big enough subject on Reddit to carry its own discoverability) but a community for that already exists here and I don’t play much Minecraft these days to contribute all that much.
I did a couple of small contributions to the Android Lemmy client Jeroba a few months ago, but my Android development experience is no where near equipped to provide any significant contributions to Jerboa or any of the other (amazing!) Lemmy Android (and from what I’ve seen, but don’t own any devices that run, iOS) apps. Similar story for my knowledge of Rust to be able to contribute to Lemmy’s backend itself… and don’t even get me started on my absolute lack of ability to make anything that looks good on the frontend side of things. I created a small utility and a corresponding Grafana dashboard to allow instance admins to keep track of some stats regarding their instance, I see it has a few stars on GitHub though no one has provided any direct feedback on it so perhaps there are at least a few people getting some use out of it. I stay in the Lemmy Admin Matrix rooms to try to provide support to others where possible, but there are far more people who have way more experience (both professionally and on an instance level) than I do. Then finally, I do try to directly donate to Lemmy itself when I can.
So all in all, I’m at a bit of a loss as to what more I could potentially do to help. I don’t mean for this to come off as a rant by any means, but I do honestly feel bad that no matter what I do that I think would help, it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. There are way better devs out there, way bigger instances, people with larger groups of friends who’d be interested, people with more interesting things to share, people who can probably donate more than the $5 than I get to (and probably more consistently), people with more knowledge on how to help other admins, and people who speak/write anything other than English. I’d say that at least I’m “here”, but as someone who lives in the US based off the things that I do see on the Fediverse sometimes I get the impression that even this itself isn’t well liked. So in the grand scheme of it all it sucks that I really enjoy the Fediverse and I wish more of the internet operated on open standards, and yet I can’t find a meaningful way to give back.
I find Lemmy has plenty of content for my level of use but I didn’t browse tons of communities back on reddit so my feed was fairly stagnant. I like being able to see peoples opinions and conversations about things going on in the world. I can find news topics elsewhere but no where else but reddit and now lemmy really had any worthwhile discourse about them. I don’t mind the same topics showing up in my feed as long as there are new comments that I haven’t read. Reddit was getting pretty hard to use for this though honestly, if there were any serious replies they were way down below the jokes and rage bait comments most of the time.
I just use reddit for basic news on specific products I’m looking forward to, and the occasional time I need to search a specific question on it.
After trying out Lemmy, I used a script to delete mass edit/delete all my stuff in reddit, deleted the account, and never went back. I find no enjoyment in commenting on reddit anymore so it was an easy decision.
I agree Lemmy has a long way to go, but I only see it getting better from here which is enough for me to stick with it.
Now that you mention it though, communities do kinda feel empty. Not as in a lack of users/content, but that theres nothing in them that try to promote discussion like “weekly discussions” you would see on reddit. Its more or less entirely some random post by someone, or a news post.
As someone who only cares about news and the discussion around that news, Lemmy satisfies me pretty well. But for people who want a more social experience (probably most people), Lemmy begins to fall apart quickly.
Right now, I think the memes community is really the only active social one.
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)
Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.
Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs?
I get that some instances use the domain + TLD to make a word, like lemm.ee or to an extent, sh.itjust.works. But I’ve seen so many TLDs I had no idea existed, like .world, .zone, .social, and yes .works as well....
Kaiteki: a comfy cross platform (web app, android, linux, windows) Fediverse client (github.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/3887937
‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan (www.theguardian.com)
First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away....
Where and when did you start your fediverse journey?
I started with @beta on 2022-04-25, what about all y’all?
WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against [email protected]
cross-posted from: jamie.moe/post/113630...
Navy SEAL who claimed to kill Bin Laden arrested in Texas (www.aol.com)
Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie (www.zdnet.com)
People looking for content outside of news, tech, memes and politics, do you know where to find communities?
Asking this to the general audience because that’s a comment I’ve seen quite a lot recently....
The June 4th Incident may be a lot more nuanced than you think
Please hear me out....
Is it me or is Reddit really bad now?
Like the mobile app is really slow. I can click on a post over and over and it won’t show the comments. Also most images don’t seem to show. It seems like they have serious issues in the back end....
Nintendo - A community to keep up to date with Nintendo news. (lemmy.zip)
Yes this isn’t the first Nintendo community on Lemmy but perhaps it is a unique one....
Introducing the Xbox community at lemmy.zip (lemmy.zip)
Yes I know there already are Xbox communities on Lemmy but hear me out....
Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a Fine-Tuned CodeLlama-34B
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3879861...
[OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit (s11.gifyu.com)
Anon is tired (lemmy.ml)
has beehaw gotten more argumentative as of late?
When I first joined this community I saw it as a respite from reddit where I was free to chill with people without being constantly expected to debate or defend arguments or anything. Just a forum where people are nice....
Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
I’m not trying to cause an argument but when Reddit pulled it’s bs - I said that’s enough. I gave up my Reddit addiction and didn’t open it or visit the site for over 30 days....
Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3804525...