Digital bits, one zero
I’ll say one thing about Lemmy as a platform from May 2023 to September 2023. Hate in the HiveMind, hate for Reddit/Spez, Hate for Elon Musk, Hate for Threads and Facebook.
Beehaw is a shining light compared to the waves I experienced. Maybe it will settle down…?
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how's your week going, Beehaw
i am currently munching on a foot long sub and beginning the latest Native map update
People say "The Right Can't Meme", where are Carl Sagan and "Great Seal USA" memes of Founding Fathers quotes, man? Eye too old? /s
IBM suspends ads on X after corporate ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.reuters.com)
Gaza’s Largest Hospitals Close, Premature Babies Taken Out of Incubators, Israeli Forces Reportedly Entered Hospitals and Fired at Patients (www.democracynow.org)
“Five kids in the pediatric [Shifa Hospital] ICU left alone in Rantisi Hospital, and we don’t know what’s going on with them. The communications were lost, so they might be dead or alive,” one of the doctors said....
Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China (www.theverge.com)
China forced Apple to remove any app where the developer isn’t registered in China. Meaning they asked Apple to remove 95% of the apps and games available in the App Store....
Around 100 people killed, 150 injured in a fire at a wedding hall in Iraq (www.nbcnews.com)
As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid' (apnews.com)
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat (www.economist.com)
Instance blocking should replace defederation
Think about it; instead of those in charge or the instances deciding who they don’t want to be federated with and thus restricting content for the users, it would be better if users were able to block entire instances instead....
First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)
Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage (www.kyivpost.com)
20,000 people feared dead in Libyan city destroyed by floods.A precise tally of the rising number of people killed is incredibly difficult (www.nbcnews.com)
All Wilko shops to shut with 12,500 jobs likely to go (www.bbc.co.uk)
2,000 people are feared dead in flooding in eastern Libya after weekend storm, prime minister says (apnews.com)
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....
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Refusing TypeScript is a signal that you don't care about code quality (vitonsky.net)
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....
I'm so tired of the current state of the internet
Everywhere you browse, people have such strong opinions about everything and are so toxic or extremely negative. You start playing a game, want to check the forums or something and most of the posts are people being mean to each other. You open social media to keep in touch with people that you’d like to maintain a certain...
Do you think it's worth building fediverse alternatives for transportation / distribution services?
At some point I was searching for an open source car pooling service. I realized there weren’t any so I started developing one on my free weekends....
Why do I only see 19 posts in this community?
Eternity says that there are 569 posts in this community. When I access it through my sh.itjust.works account I see so much more posts (only old ones though). I don’t even see the admin’s post! I also see much less comments on those 19 posts than how many Eternity is saying there are. Just in general, I feel like I see so...
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New 'old' Beehaw interface (old.beehaw.org)
Do you hate the way Beehaw website looks? Do you long for the days of that other site with the old formatting??...
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Does the threadiverse (Lemmy + Kbin) seem ruder the last few weeks?
I dunno. I just feel less like I’m experiencing a fun new tool for communication the last few weeks. The communities here on Beehaw are still great and fantastic and aren’t what I’m bothered by. It’s just when I venture out in the world (which I often do) that I notice conversations are much more argumentative than I...
How's your week going, Beeple? (beehaw.org)
@alyaza is MIA currently, but this weekly thread has been so awesome to see and keep going; so I am making what would be her typical post for this week. Alyaza; stay safe friend, I hope everything is okay....
So, what led Beehaw to decide to use Lemmy?
Given the approach/philosophy of Beehaw, I’m kind of confused and surprised by the choice of Lemmy for building this community space. Not that I disagree with it, but it undeniably complicates administration/moderation in a variety of ways thanks to federation (as has become apparent with new Lemmy instances & the population...