BitOneZero, 9 months ago

There are outright attacks of putting illegal images that have caused major problems the past few days on the biggest Lemmy instances…

Hating Reddit was not necessarily a great motivation for people to create original content here. Hating Elon Musk and Twitter to x, the introduction of Threads generated more hate. It’s been kind of hate burnout lately.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

I’ve noticed this everywhere on Lemmy

Same here. And it’s been wave after wave of negativity of outside events flocking people. June Reddit API change, then Zuck @ Threads hate, Twitter to X shockwaves, and now Trump back on Twitter. It hasn’t been people seeking out positive as much as it’s been world wide web of anger.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

ok… that’s about as exciting of a cause as … plain oatmeal.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

It’s working for me now, thank you.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

it sounds like he was listing to sell the actual game, not just 45 minutes of footage of the game…

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

I feel like people don’t understand me. If I show even the slightest vulnerability, I get told I’m playing the victim

Sorry to hear. I’m well into several years of trending that direction and facing the realization that I have very little control over it.

I find that big waves of this attitude have been hitting multiple societies, we are told to “pick ourselves up by our own bootstrap” and seek “private personal therapy” - but there is no real weather report about how people are under the influence of many different information systems and outright campaigns to influence attitudes and reactions.

There’s just a deep and profound sadness inside me, and my emotions are so raw that I just curl up like an armadillo.

it’s become a lifestyle for a year for me now, and the couple years before that weren’t much more than a couple people with semi-neighborly contact. It’s not a nice precipice to observe and realize you are folding into.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

starring into the abyss of contempt, chaos, and bigotry… it also makes me sad.

I started experiencing it in 2014 when Cambridge Analytica was building up their pro-Trump stuff. Reddit and Facebook really changed that year, and it’s never gone back.

I really hope that people have a sense of urgency that it took a lot of time to get humanity more towards positive after world war 2, and we could do better, and it really isn’t worth hating each other on this planet.

A world-wide funeral for those we lost in the pandemic would be nice, but it just doesn’t seem to form. Plenty of people with social power who could spread the idea.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

Given how unstable Lemmy’s performance is, adding even more incoming activity is likely to cause more crashes and problems. And it isn’t as if there are aren’t 1200 other Lemmy instances out there who are showing content from Lemmy.world

I remember when Beehaw’s signup code in Lemmy was so broken that there was a huge backlog.

It seems to me that Lemmy overall has slowed down a lot,

That’s helped with the crashes in recent weeks, less data, less crashing. Lemmy.world has over 9000 communities, moderating all those entrances is huge, and the SQL performance problems in Lemmy are aggravated by all that additional data.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

The kind of people who keep calling it an essay are the exact kind of people I don’t want around anyway.

The TLDR behavior and won’t click offsite links and references and want a constant stream of tiny little ideas. There was a time when Reddit wasn’t like that and it became the culture of TLDR and downvote-disagree.

Reddit could have single-handedly taken on clickbait in 2014 or earlier by people replacing news headlines with sincere earnest descriptions. But the clickbait became what people swam in.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

Despite these newly known problems, there have been exactly no improvement whatsoever to the moderation tools. It is honestly unsettling and terrifying.

It’s bewildering how the development team has ignored the problems with data not federating properly and the performance of the app.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

A software problem can often be fixed remotely, a physical problem requires physical access.

makes a difference in asking for help,

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

absent

Edge: …microsoft.com/…/download-the-new-microsoft-edge-…

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

“Essentially, they’re saying you can bake up a sample of this stuff, pop it out of the oven, and just sitting there on your lab bench it will conduct electricity without any resistance.”

From what I have heard, it’s not supposed to be that expensive or even difficult to make. They should have sent actual samples of the material to a dozen different universities from a batch they share their own data measurements about. Save everyone a lot of time about doubts that it’s manufactured correctly.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

The constant crashes of Lemmy from performance issues have really been hard on me, because I just don’t like seeing it happen to people. It’s honestly been the worst web site in terms of stability I’ve used in over a decade.

Lots of good comments here on this discussion.

BitOneZero, 10 months ago

I think this is bullshit.

I think it is exactly how people are behaving. And I can even recall witnessing many people first hand who flip a newspaper to the sports section. Never learning anything about science news, medical news, unless it’s some kind of social column about a diet.

People wanting to cut out and block things they don’t want to read in a newspaper is what I consider the “default behavior” of most of humanity. No surprise they do not care about the news their friends share. An intelligent computer system that filters out (based on topic/content study) what they don’t want to see before-hand is always going to be popular with such people.

“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.” — Marshall McLuhan.

BitOneZero, 11 months ago

This gets it’s own section. Look, the largest issue with Lemmy performance is currently the database. We’ve spent a lot of time attempting to track down why and what it is, and then fixing what we reliably can. However, none of us are rust developers or database admins. We know where Lemmy spends its time in the DB but not why and really don’t know how to fix it in the code. If you’ve complained about why is Lemmy/Beehaw so slow this is it; this is the reason.

There is a dedicated Lemmy community, !lemmyperformance

BitOneZero, 11 months ago

I almost never see someone link to a Discord past conversation on fixing an issue/problem solving. It’s a one-way black hole.

BitOneZero, 1 year ago

Since the 1990's I've known people who ride around in old VW's because they were cool. They are not overbuilt and rust is a real problem, but I don't see people worry when 4 people are in the car. I see 6 people in the back of a pickup truck on a regular basis. People will do very risky things on wheeled transportation with high death rates. But when it comes to airplanes, they are hyper concerned about safety. I think people worry too much about the way they are gong to die or the details of a person's last week alive. Makes them ignore the risks in front of them, like car wrecks.

BitOneZero, 1 year ago

Do you think I'm opening a bug about Beehaw or something?

This is a technology topic. People discuss when Facebook and Reddit and Twitter have major outages.

BitOneZero, 1 year ago

For example on this comment page there are 9 domains trying to connect directly to me according to ublock origin.

ublock origin isn't a firewall. They aren't connecting inbound to your system, you are loading content from those servers.

BitOneZero, 1 year ago

Given the beta status of Lemmy, I don't even think it's a great idea to give the appearance of privacy. I think the core purpose of a webapp like Lemmy is public messages.

I think it's a can of worms for server operators to get into the business of thinking they can safely hold private messages between users/strangers. None of the Lemmy instances I've joined have had a "terms of service" or anything like that on SIgn Up, I really think the message should be sent far and wide that Lemmy is about posting IN PUBLIC and that messages are being FEDERATED to peers, even people that you don't know could be collecting the data for a search engine.

With small-time server operators opening up hundreds of Lemmy instances, without giving away their experience or human identity, how can you have any confidence that someone is properly securing a server they only have part-time job to update and operate? Major corporations are having their database stolen, Valve, Sony, Nintendo, health care companies, mobile network companies (AT&T)... you think a low-budget shoestring server by a hobbyist running Lemmy should be held to the same standards as a corporation who has an entire team and services to defend their data?

BitOneZero, 1 year ago

While yes, we should be able to delete our content if we want, but it’s a bit naive to think there could be true privacy in any decentralised social media platform.

Especially an email or "reddit" threaded conversation systems where quoting of messages is routine. Here I am, quoting you.

You are putting a billboard up in public, on a bulletin board in the center of the Internet, the assumption should be that anyone can photograph it.

BitOneZero, 1 year ago

That’s probably a big part. Web browsers can do ad blocking. Within the official Reddit app that’s way more difficult.