There are some Lemmy instances without downvoting, but none without upvoting. That affects what gets posted. Also it doesn’t matter much what an individual instance does, since a lively community has users from lots of instances contributing. That’s the point of federation, I thought.
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8·1 day agoWhen psychologist Jeff Wine’s daughter was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, he decided to change his entire research program to focus on the disease. Since then, he’s helped foster significant advances in the field.
For algorithms, anything that isn’t a straightforward scrutable way of presenting user content is bad, IMO. Algorithms that promote engagement, monetization, and sycophants are bad.
I would say scrutability in itself doesn’t automatically make an algorithm good. “Demote everything that doesn’t support Trump” is perfectly scrutable but leads to a skewed discussion.
In fact I would say any content boosting algorithm at all leads to skew and what you call sycophancy. That includes upvotes/downvotes that affect what posts users see first. So I would get rid of all that stuff and just show purely chronologically.
I haven’t noticed much difference between instances either, though I haven’t been on many. I moved from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml because .ml has a bit less censorship (e.g. .ml lets me subscribe to [email protected]). They are otherwise about the same, as far as I can tell.
1·2 days agoIt’s gonna take a long time, just deal with it. 12 hours is expected, right? Get some sleep and check it afterwards.
What are you saying here? Lemmy has algorithms too, and while it has some good points, it’s disappointing in lots of ways too.
Added: the article is mostly about Mastodon which is more pleasant than Twitter because it lets you listen to just your own selected coterie, also not entirely good.
2·8 days ago“Federated” and “local” sound like they are at cross purposes, but ok.
Gonna give Trump the Fiendfyre spell to clean up oil slicks? Nothing can go wrong I’m sure.
8·8 days agoReddit’s AI blocking is because they want to charge money for AI scraping. Google paid the money so they are allowed to scrape.
Here’s what I got on google:
tell me about reddit user JohnDarlenHimself
Based on recent Reddit activity as of early 2026, JohnDarlenHimself is an active user who participates in technical and philosophical discussions, often in Portuguese. His activity highlights include: Privacy & Technical Support: He is active in the rethinkdns subreddit, where he has sought assistance with DNS proxy configurations and troubleshooting. Philosophy & Debate: He participates in the FilosofiaBAR subreddit, engaging in deep discussions about human experience, labor, and social structures. Broad Interests: His profile interaction suggests a focus on open-source software, digital privacy (such as the r/degoogle community), and the social impact of technology. Would you like me to look for his specific posts or contributions in a particular subreddit?
5·9 days agoMight be interesting but with the same sources of funding we could also have our own space program. It would be really cool to have interplanetary missions and maybe even interstellar ones. People don’t always realize that the United Federation of Planets began as a fediverse project! Why stop with a newsroom once enough imaginary resources can be deployed?
1·11 days agoI have found gitit easy to install and use though not all that featureful. It uses git as a backing store and there is an apt package for it (apt install gitit).
Just use S expressions. This problem was solved 60 years ago.
I had always heard eyes evolved on multiple separate occasions. An octopus eye is anatomically fairly similar to a human one, but its evolution was on a completely separate path.
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You need to have the hardware set up ahead of time.
Afaik there are plenty of reddit subs where “creators” (I’m guessing you’re referring to Onlyfans sellers) are perfectly welcome and very active. There are other parts of reddit where sellers are resented for invading what had previously been noncommercial social spaces. So it’s a matter of choosing the right subs.
News release is almost totally uninformative. It’s about ratings guru Mark Glickman developing a modified chess rating system that predicts the likelihood of draws as well as wins. Sounds interesting I guess. I haven’t yet read the papers:
Vi Hart is great. She hasn’t made videos in a long while but her old ones are still around.
Someone told me a while back that Rev. Sun Myung Moon was going to give a speech in a stadium near me. My first reaction was to be terrified at the idea of going, because he was likely to speak in Korean. The event might turn into a mass wedding without my even realizing it. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I’ve always thought you were supposed to at least talk to the person before going off on something like that.