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I’m guessing the content offering algorithms are looking at your IP, browser profile, etc. and throwing stuff at you that it assumes you and “people in your area” want to see. Even with brand new accounts, they always try to figure this stuff out. It often gets it wrong, but that never stops them from trying.

I thought communing with Satan is how we get pregnant. But, I admit I didn’t pay much attention in Communism class.

I worry this sort of news could push voters towards Republicans. The Republicans will make things much worse for low-income and middle class voters, of course. But for some reason, a lot of Americans buy into the ancient lie that Republican policies are “good for jobs and the economy”.

This post is helpful. But anyone commenting, please remember we don’t seek medical advice in this community.

By permitting advertising.

Reaches for pitchfork.

TL;DR: be careful what you wish for.

Puts pitchfork down, embarrassed cough.

More people would be great, especially for niche communities.

I don’t see #2 as that big of a problem. Do we want people who won’t expend any effort to join? I guess everyone sees the line between accessible and “dumbed down” a little bit differently. I’m not saying #2 is great. I recognize it is an obstacle. But it’s also kind of the point of Lemmy…in the sense that this is not a monolithic corporate one-size-fits-all kind of endeavor. In a way, the obstacle also serves as a teaching moment, if you will, of how this thing even works.

Item 4 seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me. But my guess is, not being able to find those communities isn’t nearly as big of a problem as those communities not having any content / participants. I can see the argument that one causes the other, but I haven’t found it very challenging to find those empty places. It’s just not much fun to hang out there by yourself.

Probably. With the text centered it’s a little ambiguous. Could be a button or a textbox.

“Go with the flow.”

Divorce noises.

“I’m tall and have great hair, and I feel my thralls really need to see that.”

Assuming this is real: Some people are incorrectly declared dead and it becomes a gigantic bureacratic hassle to deal with. I could see those poor bastards needing to get a copy of the certificate for themselves to try to clear it up.

Because in this Boring Dystopia, “computer says dead” is going to make it impossible to do almost anything. However, for some brave adventureres, I suppose it could be a brand new start.

Too much protein can be hard on the kidneys, especially long term. Balance and moderation. Not saying your point is bad. But there are a lot of protein bros out there.

I’m with you on this one. There’s still a ways to go, and AI development will have a lot of ups, downs, setbacks, and scary leaps forward. But over time the general trend will be advancement. It’s like climate vs weather.

Here’s a little bit of good news on this subject:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/10/business/brands-avoid-term-customers/index.html

I love that.

True, but I’ve also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they “it works, and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

The CADT model…that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people’s code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a “maintenance programmer” which was something of an insult, but I didn’t mind.

Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else’s code, think others’ code is “garbage” (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it’s a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

Spez in sunglasses and hat.

Well said, and it is Lemmy’s greatest strength. Hopefully the devs can implement some kind of automated instance replication, or mirroring, or migration…for those scenarios where a beleaguered admin wants out.

It is very US politics heavy. And for many people, that is understandably tedious.

We also don’t have a large enough user base to fill out the niche communities, which is creating a lot of little voids that feels like one big void.

IMO, a very noticeable percentage of our users are also arrogant jerks. The kind of users who only reply with snark or criticism, and never add anything positive. You look at their history, and its just comment after comment crapping on others. I have blocked several of these sniping assholes.

The jerks aren’t surprising. Guessing many are jerks who got banned over on reddit, so they feel like Dennis Reynolds unleashed over here. A crowd like that can scare people off, though. Social media has a known problem of filtering assholes in instead of out.

Fortunately, there are enough decent people that I still have hope that Lemmy is not a lost cause. It’s slowly growing, and some of the new people are pitching in and posting useful / interesting things. Reddit will continue to get worse with its unhinged greed and exploitation. So I hope for future influxes of more people.

Thank you for posting this. I have the “big three” frozen, it’s good to know about this one, too.

Agree. Weighted arithmetic mean would help. And/or breaking it up by net worth or income.

The article does link to a longer transunion report with more quarterly detail.