Not sayin nothin’, but back when I was partaking in that sort of thing, sinvr was pretty amazing. It’s 3d, but it’s also reactive based on your movement rather than just a prerecorded video, so it reacts to you moving your hands around and touching things.
I don’t like listening to background music while reading. I generally prefer silence or white noise. I’m working on an extremely limited attention budget, so adding more things to pay attention to is often a great way to get distracted from the book I’m reading.
If anyone was bothering to listen, we’ve discovered that big tech uses a lot of fraud to make themselves look bigger than they are, especially early on
The reality is that it probably won’t accomplish anything at all, particularly for lemmy users whose fediverse is structured considerably differently than mastodon.
You don’t tend to see people from that side of the fediverse over here.
Unfortunately, the problem is that it’s big, and as reddit shows us, threading won’t fix anything.
The fediverse however can grow in decentralized ways so there’s smaller more tight-knit communities that know each other instead of megacommunities where everyone is just a molecule of water in the stream
I would argue that the current form of Lemmy (and kbin, and lotide) is a lot like a forum, to the point that there’s a phpbb front-end.
I think the key to long-term discussions is going to be having small enough communities that you can recognize the other people you’re talking with.
Once you recognize the person you’re talking with, then the conversation naturally becomes a continuation of the last one.
My soapbox instance is a good example. There’s a number of people that I routinely have discussions with, and because I recognize those people and I know who they are, and I know where they’re coming from, we don’t need to rehash earlier forms of the discussion. Instead, we can keep the conversation going even though the Twitter style conversation thread would suggest that you can’t do that.
One of the things that I think will help in the long term is having profile pictures. Somebody who’s having a conversation with me may not remember my specific name, but the icon next to my message is going to be the same and so they will remember the last time that they had a conversation with me.
I think that that sort of long-term conversation also might help with some mutual tolerance. You see someone, and you know their views and so you end up having a conversation with the person rather than with the class of people that they represent.
I think that’s one of the biggest problems in political discourse online today, is that instead of people having conversations, people have conversations with classes of people as represented by one other person. In that way, there can’t be any nuance because not agreeing with the class that you represent is itself a sort of own, instead of common ground two individuals can agree with.
A short but very nice article, and some good discussion about meta that isn’t just “press the ban button”. It’s important to note that threads and Lemmy probably won’t have much to do with each other since it’s a Twitter clone.
One big thing is what I always say: decentralization is strength. Spread out over different instances and start your own instances or what happened on Twitter will just happen again.
That’s a really good point – you can model a process as an RC where there’s a resistance and a capacitance. A major change to a process such as adding an enclosure that retains heat and reduces draft would change the process RC, so your PID settings would need to be different for optimal control.
I recall a video from one of the 3d printing youtubers that showed that an enclosure could allow plastic printer parts to warp, causing prints to fail. It was really a surprising result to me, since I was considering buying an enclosure for my tevo tornado (which is mostly metal, but not entirely especially after some printer upgrades I printed)
It isn’t even like this is reddit where you have to deal with whatever reddit gives you. Anyone can spin up their own instance and federate from whoever they want or defederate from whoever they want or keep whatever posts they want or delete whatever posts they want.
The thing is, imo it’s about control of others. You can own and operate your instance however you want, but what people really want is to dictate what others get to see and do.
It does. I can vouch for it’s behavior in practice. My servers basically sit with the swap file unused, which isn’t the case when I set swappiness to a non-zedo value