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Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Russian stand-up comedian jailed for nearly six years over army jokeEnglish
1·1 month agoRussia does a lot of terrible things. Invading countries. Killing POWs and civilians.
Domestically they have assassinated opposition leaders, tortured prisoners to death and persecuted members of the LGBT+ community.
But criminalizing being an asshole? I don’t really care that much.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Russian stand-up comedian jailed for nearly six years over army jokeEnglish
223·1 month agoEven though Russia pretends it isn’t, it is a country at war. Censorship is pretty normal during wartime.
And making fun of disabled people isn’t okay. Whether the country is at war or not. Maybe not quite not-okay enough for prison. But I can’t say that I’m terribly upset
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why Is It Harder To Move People To Open Source - Decentralized Options?
1·1 month agoBoth. Obviously platforms with attention based algorithms are worse.
But platforms like Lemmy, Ao3 and xkcd are plenty addictive. Oh and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the worst offenders! I don’t think the people that developed any of those want to exploit us.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•To those who are new to this whole fediverse/threadiverse/this thing, how has your experience been?
1·1 month agoThe instance is the part after the @. They host users and communities. Admins manage the instance.
The community is the thing you subscribe to. Moderators manage the community.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•To those who are new to this whole fediverse/threadiverse/this thing, how has your experience been?
4·1 month agoI’m pretty new.
Lemmy is great. It doesn’t have as many active hyper specific communities as reddit. But there are still plenty of active communities.
There is no attention based algorithm. But the more basic sortings work well enough. I already spend too much time here.I tried mastodon and Twitter a few years back. I still have absolutely no idea how that whole microblogging thing is supposed to work. Am I just supposed to scream into the void? Same thing with pixelfed.
If people link peertube videos from Lemmy, peertube works well. But the feed needs work. I don’t really care about the topic of the video. So the filter by topic isn’t that useful. I’d like to filter by language. And then find well researched videos by someone who is enthusiastic about a topic. Any topic. I don’t know if there simply aren’t that many or if I just can’t find them.
I think attention based algorithms could help retain new users. I think there are many who try fediverse platforms and just don’t stay long. And if we get more users that stay longer, we get more content, and then niches can form.
To not lose current users, and just because of mental health, it would probably be better if the attention based feeds could be turned off in the settings.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is the role of a government to do the will of the people, or to do whats right for the country?
1·1 month agoExactly. Because the legislative arm of the government did their job in that case.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud servicesEnglish
1·1 month agoAnd perhaps one of our states leaves the country.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why Is It Harder To Move People To Open Source - Decentralized Options?
5·1 month agoI don’t think reddit even has an option for alttexts. Lemmy really encourages it.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why Is It Harder To Move People To Open Source - Decentralized Options?
9·1 month agoSocial media networks without attention based algorithms also aren’t quite as addictive.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If Bill Gates get involved in a scandal, is it now called a Billgate?
3·1 month agoIt’d be the Gategate. It would only be called Billgate if Bill was a woman.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?
2·1 month agoUsually we teach them from the time they are 3 years old. So basically when they are teens
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?
562·1 month agoBreaking in is just what we call the process of fostering trust and getting the horse slowly used to a rider.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•No wonder Reddit has turned to shitEnglish
1·1 month agoEven worse: They are hoping that LLMs in training don’t realize that it’s an ad
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud servicesEnglish
2·1 month agoHosting with close allies shouldn’t be a problem.
Within the EU, I still don’t care in which country the data is hosted
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud servicesEnglish
3·1 month agoI wouldn’t say forever. But it will take a long time to rebuild.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is the role of a government to do the will of the people, or to do whats right for the country?
1·1 month agoThey are also supposed to limit freedoms, where they infringe on the freedom of others.
For example the freedom to shoot people infringes on the freedom to be free from physical harm. So it should be limited.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments.
4·1 month agoFood is at the bottom. With all the other physiological needs that form the foundation for the other, less important, needs.
That’s how pyramids work.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments.
1·1 month agoThen even a well stocked instrument library probably wouldn’t have it

I don’t think Lemmy tracks your views. So it can’t exclude them from your feed.
If you sort by hot or hop few hours, you should get more new posts. And stop refreshing the feed.