Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of...
Ive seen plenty of people share news with me in the form of a tweet with an abbreviated link that goes to an actual source making me wonder why they didnt just send the source(probably because they didnt click the link or felt the abbreviation was helpful).
It’s one of the huge issues the modern web faces. People dont spend time surfing from site to site like they used to , they mostly spend time scrolling a major social media platform(whether that be reddit, facebook, lemmy, twitter, mastodon, google news, etc) and scroll past shared headlines. Often not even clicking the link just scrolling past the headline.
Its one of the reasons many news sites are having a lot of trouble advertising and making money. It’s why we have those controversial protectionist laws like in australia that are penalizing google news, and it’s why web design of website home pages has gone down the toilet. Lots of websites are getting a more generic design on the grounds that most of their traffic doesnt come from someone going to “website.com” and seeing what’s new they come from facebook mostly.
NPR is a little different because it isnt primarily a text based news source they are an audio one. Since theyre mostly radio programming they could keep focusing and producing their bread and butter and were able to transition gracefully into the podcast era. They rely on being in people’s podcast feeds, or on peoples phones on an app more than they do being on x or facebook.
I feel like it’s also a demo issue. I feel like there is a large overlap of people who listen to NPR and people who are like not going to follow Elon as he flushes twitter into the x toilet.
I had an iPhone 3G, then 4, then switched to a Nexus 4, LG G4, LG G5, Pixel 2 and then Pixel 5. Just in case anyone else is thinking of moving from a Pixel, I moved (back) to using an iPhone because:...
I often see people here saying that we should allow them [discriminatory people] in […]
Oh no. I also see people suggest we need to attract users and generate content for Lemmy by any means. In my opinion, there is a good possibility we, as an ‘Reddit alternative’ not only accept people wo look for an alternative, but also the people who got banned there for good reasons, because they’re a-holes. But if that is the way it plays out, we’re going to be the more toxic little sibling of Reddit. I think argumentative people and things like re-post bots will kill engagement, if that’s your way of handling things. It’s a noble thing to want Lemmy to grow. But many people just don’t thing it through, properly.
I get the appeal of a true free speech platform. But I learned about the necessity of moderation during the Covid-times while I was building a small PeerTube instance. After YouTube got a hold of the misinformation, PeerTube got flooded by their fake-news documentaries and the content creators got banned on the large platforms and went to PeerTube, uploading their daily lectures about “the truth”. And the annoying people do yell the loudest. It drowns the regular stuff and it’s a sure way of not attracting normal people ever again.
I can co-exist with all sorts of different people. But my approach of dealing with them on a federated platform would be: I want the biggots confined to their own space and blocked by default. And make it really uncomfortable for them on the rest of the instances/platform.
[…] so she’s assumed to be primitive and dumb in comparison
Yeah, that’s classic prejudice and generally just being an a-hole to an individual you know little about.
internalised prejudice […] broken Italian mixed with broken Brazilian
I’m from Germany. It used to be a thing on the internet to make fun of people from Austria. Not because they speak differently, but because they were a minority on the internet. I don’t think people do that any more. It’s mainly a thing of the past and people learned to be better than that. Idk often there is a dynamic that people want to see someone below them. Especially if you’re not at the top yourself, you ‘need’ someone in the hierarcy below you to re-affirm yourself. I think that’s the main reason why things like that happen. It’s not really hatred or anything against those people. But bad nonetheless. (And some people just don’t know any better or don’t think in the first place. We should strive for that.)
Hunsrik […] Nazi country
Yeah, that’s stupid. Hunsrik isn’t spoken in Germany. And 200 years ago when this seperated, Nazis weren’t a thing.
online services not allowing you to access the service in your native language
Sometimes I get that. English it the lingua franca and people tell other people to speak the language that everyone there can understand. It’s the same thing like when you’re having dinner in a group, 3 people speak a different language. If they start talking amonst themselves in their native language, it kills the conversation and doesn’t allow for participation for the rest of the group. It’s the right thing to agree on a commonly spoken language then. But I also get the other side. If you’re on vacation for weeks and only spoke english to people, it’s kinda nice to meet the only other person speaking your language for once and you start chatting…
On the internet there are also technical reasons on top. To be able to moderate things, you need to be able to understand what is said. If you don’t have moderators for a language, you sadly have to ban that language. Or be happy to have an unmoderated corner on your instance. I don’t see a good way of handling this. (Except for growing a community in that language to a healthy size and have those moderators in place.)
But part of platforms like this is to provide a comfy corner for every niche interest. Providing for niche languages should be a part of that and we have the tools to do so.
it’s the exact same deal elsewhere
I don’t have too much insight about how it feels to be on that side. I live in a part of Germany with a bit of a dialect. Nagging people about how they speak is a thing. But I really appreciate that we have dialects and not every person I meet is exactly the same. I think most of the people I’ve talked to feel the same. And I myself feel attached to my region, maybe more so than to the nation as a whole. …I’d have to think about that, you can’t really compare the two things.
Then there are things like the “Low German” language. And I agree, regional languages and proper dialects are on the decline everywhere. But there is a consensus in society that we need to keep those alive. Many people do. And we even have (very little) regional TV program and some podcasts in low german.
But I have to make a distinction to dialects when talking about written language. You can’t really write in dialect. Just speak. And hence things don’t translate into the online-world.
[the Fediverse] create instances that tie languages with countries
100% agree. The Internet excels at connecting people all around the globe. It would be a shame if we couldn’t broaden our horizon past re-creating the same borders we know from our real-world nations.
To summarize things: Thanks for your perspective. I agree. Judging by my own surroundings, I think most people embrace linguistic diversity. It’s always more difficult to be part of a minority. But lots of people have made up their mind and are aware of that fact. There are people who don’t know any better and there is a certain amount of idiots around. I think the first group of people isn’t really a problem and we should push against discriminatory behaviour and small-mindedness. Platforms like Lemmy are good at connecting people and designed so they can cater for niche groups. We should use that to our advantage.
Threads? I completely forgot about Threads because this is the first time I’ve seen news about it since the week it launched. And I doom scroll Lemmy Everything every night.
struggling to reach escape velocity with this comment, wording it is mentally taxing but the later it gets the slower I think
I can’t speak for anyone or read the thoughts behind people’s words online, but I know people tend to say fucked up things when they are angry and I know people are really fucking angry right now, myself included. That doesn’t mean I feel catharsis watching religious extremists slaughter a village of Israeli settlers or shoot up of a fucking rave — but I feel a kind of enraged grief. Because that kind of barbarism and extremism is the inevitable fucking result of what has been done in Palestine. Extremism like that doesn’t spring up in a vacuum. When you hear things like, half of the people in Gaza are children, and half of those children struggle with suicidal thoughts, and 95% of the fucking water is unsafe to drink, and most of the population is unemployed, and then you turn on the news and all the politicians and media personalities are throwing their unreserved support to the government responsible for it… and then I go on lemmy and I see comments talking about Palestinians like they’re some kind of hive mind, and getting upvotes for it, it just feels like these attitudes are why the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians can continue. And I’m helpless to do anything about it. It’s fucking maddening.
You can always try searching on Trending Communities or New Communities, that’s where I’ve found many new interesting communities to follow and I have both of them on my RSS feed to ensure I don’t miss any news. In related topics, the main Wordpress.com site is finally enabling ActivityPub so expect many blogs to start interacting with the Fediverse and, who knows, directly cross-posting to Lemmy.
Right now, this feature is client specific. Some have it ( like Sync ), most dont.
The happy news is , a serverside option to block an instance is already merged and will be available in next (big) Lemmy upgrade 19.0. After that, the client apps will easily be able to implement it ( Now, i guess they are just filtering posts client side if from that instance )
Is it your own story, like a real experience you personally had? Or taken from the news?
If the former, I get it. There was a couple of relevant subs on Reddit for things like this but I haven’t seen anything close to that here on Lemmy, except maybe 2 Sentence Horror, which this obviously doesn’t fit exactly. A “Real Life Horror” or general story-telling community would be pretty cool, tho.
Sorry if this has been asked before, but every time I try to create a post it seems like Lemmy will accept one or the other, not both. Yet other posts do this. What’s the process to include an image when I post a link?
There’s only one URL field for posts, and it can either be to an image or a website.
Posts with images and links are usually to news or other websites that provide a thumbnail image. Lemmy backend will pull the link’s metadata and save the returned thumbnail image if it has one. That’s how article links with the headline image show both an image and url.
TL;DR: The thumbnail image for link posts is generated by Lemmy itself and you can’t provide both.
It worked with an ABC News link, but not with an Axios link. Also: It doesn’t look like the thumbnail is visible when creating a post (after entering the article link).
My posts would look better on a feed if I could also choose a thumbnail. But I still like Lemmy.
It’s also, like other social media, easily and continuously manipulated to social engineer your worldview. Please try to avoid getting your news from social media, especially tik tok, but also Facebook, reddit, Instagram, Lemmy, Twitter or mastodon, etc.
Lemmy automatically marks comments from mods as mod comments. This isn’t Reddit. I’m not talking as a mod, I’m just talking as me.
But it’s not IDF propaganda. It’s been confirmed by dozens of news outlets now. It happened. Stop carrying water for people who would do that. Hamas isn’t Palestine.
I hope you stay strong. Outside of terrible news I’ve had to take breaks from lemmy because of the “Floridians deserve this” sentiment I’ve seen around a lot.
It’s not possible for a moderator to delete a post without it showing up in the modlog. Admins with direct access to the filesystem and databases could theoretically do that, but that’s unheard of for any well run and organized instances.
More likely, you didn’t post it to Lemmy World, but to a community on some other instance and it was removed by mods of that other instance community for cause.
Lemmy.ml also has a big and popular world news community, I checked their modlog, and sure enough there are two recent posts of yours removed from c/[email protected]. They were removed for violating the community rule of posting links to articles that are more than two weeks old.
Either its no concern for the Lemmy community, then it should stay because it may be an issue for the fediverse in whole or its a concern then it shouldn’t be deleted.
The only thing I use it for so far is to follow ARS Technica as they don’t have a mobile app, so I just subscribe to their news feed through Mastadon. I was never a Twitter user really so I only do it to support the platform.
Since the protest, I’ve really cut back on social media anyway so that’s good. But Lemmy fits as much as I need this stuff.
I have said as much many times but because I dont add ‘kill all the jews’, this is where the downvotes come,
Hmmmm, not sure how our instances differ, but honestly I don’t see why anyone would upvote something like ‘kill all the jews’. I haven’t seen this on lemmy at all. Seems to me like it’s quite the opposite actually. I think a lot of the pushback you are getting is not because of that.
Third, tankie, is a derrogatory term for someone who is a bit of an armchair leninist, plenty around here.
Thanks. This is not what I think about when I hear ‘tankie’. Your definition differs from that of many on the internet
From memory you also asked about ‘Cooker’ yesterday. In australia, we refer to antivax, conspiracy nuts as ‘cookers’ (meaning their brain is cooked). Think of them like MAGA people in america if that helps. Thanks for explaining. I went to the urban dictionary when you said this word twice, and the definitions were too many to be able to pinpoint which one you meant. Please keep in mind that not everyone understands Australian-specific words. That’s why I asked.
Have a good night/day Hope you get some rest, the news can be overwhelming at times.
Israel’s Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism...
These are tankies? From looking at comments on a few news stories, I just assumed that most people on Lemmy hated Israeles (remember, you can disagree with a government without cheering when any of the governed get murdered).
I thought it might be relevant since they are both fairly popular artists that joined Mastodon and now Lemmy, with the hope that other popular artists follow along. At the same time I’m pretty excited about the news, so I’ll take down the post if people think it’s inappropriate
People still on Reddit: How is the narrative of the Israeli/Palestine conflict playing out?
Just curious what the hive mind over there is thinking. I used to lurk Reddit before I switched to Lemmy during the mass exodus....
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports (niemanreports.org)
Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of...
Moved from Pixel 5 to iPhone 15 Pro - my reasons/experiences…
I had an iPhone 3G, then 4, then switched to a Nexus 4, LG G4, LG G5, Pixel 2 and then Pixel 5. Just in case anyone else is thinking of moving from a Pixel, I moved (back) to using an iPhone because:...
Companion community for a new gaming blog
1 Up Games is a new gaming blog focused on reviews and opinion pieces....
Popularization of Lemmy among non-english speaking users
What ways do you know to attract users?...
People Want Threads to Be Old Twitter. Threads Would Prefer Not To. (gizmodo.com)
Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml
Hello World,...
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore (www.newyorker.com)
Block Entire Instance?
Perhaps I’m missing the option, but is there a way to block/filter entire instances? Thanks.
In Gaza, where nearly half of the population is under 18, a children's rights crisis is unfolding (www.insider.com)
Kidnap for Dowry.
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/4578562...
How do I create a post with a link AND a picture
Sorry if this has been asked before, but every time I try to create a post it seems like Lemmy will accept one or the other, not both. Yet other posts do this. What’s the process to include an image when I post a link?
Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts (apnews.com)
Mia Khalifa fired from Playboy for her pro-Hamas posts after the Israel attack (www.businesstoday.in)
Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’ (www.indiewire.com)
Elon Musk allegedly came to Amber Heard‘s defense amid talks his former partner would be fired from “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.”...
It’s okay to take a break from the anti-trans news cycle (xtramagazine.com)
Post deleted twice with no explanation
Hello, I posted an article to world news which was deleted. I was not told why. Not posted in modlog
Why was the post about that weird lemmy contributor removed?
Either its no concern for the Lemmy community, then it should stay because it may be an issue for the fediverse in whole or its a concern then it shouldn’t be deleted.
Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought (techcrunch.com)
Senior Israeli source: Gaza will not be Hamastan; ‘roof knocking’ policy no longer norm (www.timesofisrael.com)
Israeli minister: 'We are fighting human animals' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Israel’s Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism...
Tankies encouraging violence against civilians (sh.itjust.works)
Context is the attack and rape on Rave attendees by Hamas forces
Creators of 'Loading Artist' and 'Extra Ordinary' comics have made communities on Lemmy!
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/6763331...