As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:...
Well, lemmy in general needs content. A lot of content is news and having bots post the news is not different from hooking up an rss feed to fill the feed. It’s not the bots that are the problem, it’s motivations of those who program them. Are the bots shilling a service/product/viewpoint?
Hi all, Is there a way for me to block a particular domain no matter in which community it finds itself in? There are some news outlets that I just don’t want to be polluted by....
If you use Lemmy Connect, there’s a block keyword feature that could hide some posts from specific news outlets, provided the poster included the outlet’s name in the title; but not everyone does this. But yeah, we’ll have to wait until it’s added to Lemmy proper or one of the apps add the feature. Sync for Lemmy should be coming out soon(maybe by the end of the month?) and I think it’ll have this feature as it was a part of their Reddit app.
Don’t people have any hobbies, passions, or anything better to talk about? Politics and news are such boring conversations, full of intentional outrage and strife. I sure wish that we as an online community could break away from the divisive machinations of the disreputable media.
Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)...
I hear that, yeah the interest-specific communities haven’t caught up yet for sure. A lot of them have only a handful of posts if they do exist.
Definitely a lot of memes, but I feel like I am seeing a good amount of news though? Actually I feel like reddit was getting to be pretty spotty about news, there were a couple weeks I used both and lemmy consistently showed me the headlines much sooner.
I browse in compact mode on memmy and scroll past the memes usually fwiw, so it may just be a matter of my perception
Honestly, I’m fine with Lemmy staying small for a good bit.
For me, Reddit and now Lemmy are time wasters. I come here to laugh at the memes, catch some news, and maybe see some bobs.
Sometimes news articles don’t have any comments, so I’ll just read the article and maybe add a comment, or just upvote and move on. Some more news content would be nice, and hopefully the local provincial/state and even city groups get some traction soon so I can leave reddit entirely instead of lurking local subreddits without signing in.
I am more than happy for reddit to become a lightning rod for bots and shills now that I have a basic understanding of this platform
I’d rather read a handful of genuine comments, discussion, and opinion/insights from real people on Lemmy than hundreds of divisive comments, bad faith arguments, bots, and irrelevant forum sliding jokes/tangential rants that have polluted reddit.
I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me....
Oh do I have some good news for you then. The end of the summer a few platforms are slated to launch an iMessage on Android app.
Sunbird is the big one that is getting a large amount of coverage and sells itself as E2E for iMessage (we’ll see at launch as it’s in beta right now).
Beeper is another one that’s an aggregation messenger similar to what signal originally was, but is also supposed to allow iMessage instead of its own alternative, as well as still being usable for text/RCS messaging.
I’m not working for either of these companies, I just have a significant other with an iPhone who always complains about my messages being green, and so I did some research into ways to fix it a few months ago and found both of these to be the promising fixes that don’t require self hosting a server (funny seeing as this is lemmy, kinda the theme here). I’ve kept it under wraps from them to be a huge surprise when it launchs and all of a sudden they can’t complain/talk about the platform superiority anymore.
It is difficult for me to ascertain when the person I am communicating is using a logical fallacy to trick me into believing him or doubting my judgement, even when I realise it hours after the argument....
A great way to get good at them is watch Fox News and identify them as they come. You can watch other networks and find them, but for a constant stream, Fox is a goldmine.
Honestly a great way to learn them is to argue with people online in places like Lemmy / Kbin. When people argue against you on something you know to be right, it forces you to either a) reconsider your own stance or b) think about why they’re wrong or why their argument is invalid and how to point that out, either way it often leads to logical fallacies, and the more you intentionally try to identify examples of them, the easier they are to intuitively recognize.
I know we pretty much all hated spez for all the shit he pulled, but a few weeks ago the tone towards reddit itself around here was more neutral. People liked it here on Lemmy a lot better, but people weren’t hating on the old place so much....
I do think there are waves of people moving from Reddit to Lemmy for one reason or another, each of them infuriated with Reddit and needing to express it. We had the wave of people that reacted to the news of the API changes, people that moved over after Reddit responded poorly to the protests, people that moved here after their Reddit app of choice stopped working, people after the latest set of third party apps stopped working, people after Reddit removed gold, people after the app icon was changed…
People are at different stages of dealing with Reddit, some of us who left sooner have moved on, some people are moving here currently outraged with Reddit, and some are in between.
I imagine we’ll keep seeing these waves of people for a while, and that’s ok, the best thing we can do is validate their feelings toward Reddit, welcome them, and keep the memes rolling.
@Tygr@herpderpedia Kbin does not support !community links just yet, but it's in the works on some level. Linking to Lemmy communities from here can't really be done without the full URL, which does mean one would have to provide two links - one that works on Kbin, and one that points to the original instance.
In related news, linking to Kbin magazines is currently a bit borked as well, because the only other syntax that works (@magname) is assumed to refer to a user account and not a magazine.
While I agree with what you’re saying in terms of seeing posts, the flip side is wanting to make a post visible to as many users are possible gets tougher.
Say I have a problem with my MicroSonySonic MPZoomPod that’s driving me crazy to figure out, so I figure I’ll post on Lemmy about it and see if anyone else has had that problem and a solution. In the reddit days, I just go to /r/MPZOOMPOD, or I google for “reddit mpzoompod” and find the subreddit. I can now post there knowing I’m hitting the entire community of mpzoompod users, or at least the majority of them. To do that on Lemmy, though, I now have to wonder if instead of a single community with 120k users, I have 12 communities with 10k users. So either I post to a tiny fraction of the communty, and thus have a much lower chance of getting my question answered, or I post the same thing to 12 different communites and have 12 different threads to keep track of for replies.
Obviously this is simplified, cause more likely there will be on big community somewhere, a couple other smaller versions, and then probably a couple completely devoid of posts from when people were first migrating to Lemmy and were excited to start communities.
Anyway, that was kind of a lot, but I think it really comes down to the subject matter. I don’t need 5 versions of showerthoughts, and I don’t care if showerthoughts has 1k subscribers or 1m subscribers, but if I really wanted showerthoughts to grow in popularity, the more people using one copy the better. Alternatively,it would be rad if /c/googlepixel or whatever wasn’t fragmented so I could know I was looking at the most likely source of information.
It’s all kind of an interesting thing to think about, and I can’t decide just yet which way I’d personally prefer. I remember reddit before all the digg people piled in, and I liked how it felt more like a community back then, but I also can’t disregard how incredible reddit has been in recent times for finding answers to specific questions, or getting news, or finding fans of a particular subject just because it became the default website to look for that stuff.
Your account is on the instance lemmy.one. This world news community is on lemmy.ml. If you don’t want to see any of the communities from lemmy.ml, you can make an account on an instance that defederates, or blocks, lemmy.ml. You can look by going to the bottom of the page on whatever instance, and click the “instances” link. Depending on which lemmy version the instance is running, blocked instances will either be on the right side of the page, or all the way at the bottom. If you just don’t like this community, you can block it from your current account. There should be a big red block community button on the right side of this post.
edit: This is for web, it will be different for apps.
Oh big brains with the dictionary definition… Most everyone on here has grown up with the birth and evolution of Internet memes. The term meme has existed longer than the internet. Don’t feed me the patronizing bullshit of the dictionary definition. That’s not what internet memes were, or are.
I don’t read the Sunday memes in the newspaper. I don’t watch comedy memes on TV. Twitter posts are called tweets, not memes. Facebook posts are called posts. News stories are called stories. Normal pictures/photos are called pictures/photos. Puns are puns. Jokes are jokes.
Communities exist for every single one of these. And that’s where each of them should go, especially since all of these communities need traffic and content.
You know damn well what anyone mentioning a meme they saw is referring to, and it ain’t your bullshit dictionary definition. Get off your high horse because I’m not buying your holier-than-thou shit.
If you like garbage dump, catch-all shitfests then go back to reddit. Lemmy communities still have a chance to be better, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit by and watch it happen here too, much less put up with self-righteous assholes who think copy-pasting a dictionary definition gives them a position.
I keep see people complaining about not being able to find active communities that match their interests. So I’ve added a new feature to www.search-lemmy.com that allows you to search posts for a particular topic and then it tells you which communities have the most posts matching your search query....
It’s on my to-do list. Sadly though, in order for something to show in the drop-down for home instances that means I must have previously crawled that site. Because my #1 requirement is that if you click a link it must open in your home instance. Good news is, is that Kbin and Lemmy work nearly identical to each other, so Kbin will be the first non-lemmy type of instances that you can search.
Canada has been left out of a recent expansion of Google’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Bard as the big tech giant continues its fight with the federal government over the Online News Act.
I switched to duck duck go a year ago and honestly I get my news quicker and more reliably from Lemmy, TikTok, and previously Reddit.
It’s actually scary how much I see from 50 different angles on TikTok before any news outlet even covers it, if even. Saw a stabbing in Toronto from multiple angles a few HOURS before I even seen an article about it.
I know Lemmy hates TikTok, but can’t deny it’s great for being up to date ASAP when it comes to news. At least for right now.
I have used Kagi for a few weeks now after hearing about it on Lemmy.
At first I wasn’t that impressed for the price. It is really growing on me the more I use it though. Where it really shines is the customizations. Once you rank up and down to your preferences the results are way better than anywhere else.
One way they rank results is based on how much tracking a website has. You can also see the number of trackers, check the archive or do an ai summary of it without even visiting the website. You find a lot of high quality nonprofit information with the commercial high tracking websites filtered out.
I also made custom redirects for sites like reddit and quora for privacy frontends.
I find myself actually using bangs now that I can customize them. You can also add other search engines so they are one click away if you want a second opinion. Lenses are great, I made some custom ones to search the top 10 websites for forums, tech support, news, etc.
When I don’t feel like sifting through a bunch of results the ai summarizes the results. When it doesn’t come up with a good summary it’s because the results don’t have the answer and you saved a bunch of time.
The free trial wasn’t enough time for me to decide if I liked it. I am glad I paid for the $10 plan. However, I seem to do about 3,000 searches a month. I was able to upgrade to unlimited at a prorated amount. $25 is a lot per month but it is saving me a lot of time and helping me to find better results so I find it worth it.
I’ll be scrolling through lemmy world and occasionally I’ll see comments where a word in them has been replaced with removed. Usually from context it’s early a swear word, normal stuff not slurs....
I already admitted it it’s not the official pronunciation, but it is commonplace western reference. You can see that evident from comments on Lemmy to mainstream news coverage using the CCP abbreviation.
It’s like people calling those in the US Americans, when everyone living in Canada, Mexico, and South America are all technically Americans as well. It’s not technically correct, but it’s acceptable, commonplace, and no one gives a shit. Just like Western reference as CCP.
But here is exactly where I expected you to go, denying Chinese atrocities. The difference between you and I is that I acknowledge my country’s deplorable actions in it’s history, and I will openly call out and condemn our corrupt politicians and shitty government.
But you, you’re living in denial and simping for an authoritarian government committing genocide, forced labor, extreme censorship, eugenics, polluting the planet to shit…
But you’ll just deny history and lie for your dear leader. Good thing blocking users spreading propaganda for piece of shit totalitarian regimes is so easy.
It’s so blatantly obvious for anyone not being spoon-fed what to believe by their government. But I don’t expect you to suddenly have a grip on reality. Instead, I expect you to spread more lies and continue to shill and deny reality. So I’m just going to block you for being the propoganda account you are.
Below is more info on Chinese human rights violations/atrocities. Not that you’ll read them, but maybe it’ll dissuade a gullible user or two who might otherwise fall for your lies and misinformation.
It’s not here, but you can watch the pbs newshour on YouTube for free, or you can stream the audio over your phone (I use spotify, but I’m sure it’s on other platforms too).
Browse lemmy for entertainment, watch the news for information
[META] So... about the bots
As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:...
Can I block a particular domain?
Hi all, Is there a way for me to block a particular domain no matter in which community it finds itself in? There are some news outlets that I just don’t want to be polluted by....
Ex-Facebook Users, What Do You Use Now?
I joined Facebook years ago not long after it took off from its college roots. I also quit it years ago when my feed became full of junk....
The all feeds on Lemmy are so full of politics and news.
Don’t people have any hobbies, passions, or anything better to talk about? Politics and news are such boring conversations, full of intentional outrage and strife. I sure wish that we as an online community could break away from the divisive machinations of the disreputable media.
Well, the new user bump has passed! (lemmy.ca)
Now it’s a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)...
Trump says special counsel told him he’s a target in Jan. 6 probe (archive.is)
Key Points...
C/[email protected] being US only is weird (lemmy.world)
I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me....
Stop he's already dead (lemmy.world)
(No, just keep on. These kinds of regulations were long overdue)
How do I learn to detect logical fallacies in a conversation?
It is difficult for me to ascertain when the person I am communicating is using a logical fallacy to trick me into believing him or doubting my judgement, even when I realise it hours after the argument....
why is his account on sh.itjust.works is the question (startrek.website)
@ralen_jor
Where did all this reddit hatred come from?
I know we pretty much all hated spez for all the shit he pulled, but a few weeks ago the tone towards reddit itself around here was more neutral. People liked it here on Lemmy a lot better, but people weren’t hating on the old place so much....
List of subs people may find familiar (kbin.social)
General...
Do I understand correctly that I have to subscribe to 5 different NoStupidQuestions on 5 different instances?
The content on all the communities seem different....
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This is wrong on so many levels (sh.itjust.works)
Hub Magazine! a hub where magazines owners can subscribe their magazine for ease of finding niche magazines and iterations of it. (kbin.social)
Was inspired to write thread after seeing this post https://lemm.ee/post/1355047 ....
Musicals - for musical theatre / musical theater lovers, performers and creators, Broadway, West End and around the world (kbin.social)
https://kbin.social/m/Musicals - our home instance, containing all older posts...
A new way to search for communities (www.search-lemmy.com)
I keep see people complaining about not being able to find active communities that match their interests. So I’ve added a new feature to www.search-lemmy.com that allows you to search posts for a particular topic and then it tells you which communities have the most posts matching your search query....
Canada excluded from Google's expansion of AI chatbot Bard (www.ctvnews.ca)
Canada has been left out of a recent expansion of Google’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Bard as the big tech giant continues its fight with the federal government over the Online News Act.
Has anyone used Kagi Search (search engine)? (kagi.com)
Basically the title....
Is anyone else seeing swear words censored in comments?
I’ll be scrolling through lemmy world and occasionally I’ll see comments where a word in them has been replaced with removed. Usually from context it’s early a swear word, normal stuff not slurs....
Where do you get your news from?
What websites/apps/whatever do you use to get your news?
How it going here? I'm looking forward to helping fuck up Reddit's IPO.
Done with Reddit’s bullshit, and happy to check this out as it seems to be popular. Any apps that people would recommend for this platform?
Not liking China = hate speech. -- Bonus! Tankies calling for the Tankie developers of Lemmy to shut down Beehaw (sh.itjust.works)