I think it's sad how so many of the comments are sharing strategies about how to game the Youtube algorithm, instead of suggesting ways to avoid interacting with the algorithm at all, and learning to curate content on your own.

The algorithm doesn't actually care that it's promoting right-wing or crazy conspiracy content, it promotes whatever that keeps people's eyeballs on Youtube. The fact is that this will always be the most enraging content. Using "not interested" and "block this channel" buttons doesn't make the algorithm stop trying to advertise this content, you're teaching it to improve its strategy to manipulate you!

The long-term strategy is to get people away from engagement algorithms. Introduce OP's mother to a patched Youtube client that blocks ads and algorithmic feeds (Revanced has this). "Youtube with no ads!" is an easy way to convince non-technical people. Help her subscribe to safe channels and monitor what she watches.

Lemmy: Oldest federated link aggregator, better documentation compared to Kbin, easy to self-deploy, less resource consumption, provides the most similar experience to Reddit

Kbin: Poorer documentation, no API access yet, harder to self-deploy, terminology and UI differences from Reddit can turn people off (I really don't like "magazine" for a community)

Tildes: Centralized, invite-only and elitist. Not comparable to Lemmy and Kbin

Their reasons are much more selfish than that. They insist on only having 4 moderators while never scaling up, and they don't like how federation allows users from other instances to post on their instance because it disrupts their rigid ideal community vibe. According to their suggestions on "improving moderation tooling", the ideal federation setup is that their users can post on other instances, but other instances' users can't post on theirs, so they can save time on moderation work. The moderation work of other instance admins for their users doesn't matter, clearly.

Federated actions are never truly private, including votes. While it's inevitable that some people will abuse the vote viewing function to harass people who downvoted them, public votes are useful to identify bot swarms manipulating discussions.

Ironic that three people downvoted this. But I agree, a "no downvotes" rule is designed to avoid disagreement and conflict, which is impossible on a public forum without extremely restricted expression. If the point is to be always be nice, why not disable open commenting and make users select their replies from a list of canned positive comments. 100% safety and positivity.

Is this like when they made the kilogram some function of the speed of light instead of the weight of a metal ball in a French museum?

Reddit has been that way for a long time, after it lost the reputation of "niche forum for tech-obsessed weirdos" and became the internet's general hub for discussion. The default subreddits are severely astroturfed by marketing and political campaigning groups, and Reddit turns a blind eye to it as long as it's a paid partnership. There was one obvious case where bots in /r/politics accidentally targeted an AutoModerator thread instead of a candidate's promotion thread and filled it with praise for that candidate.

That's why I suggested Revanced with "disable recommendations" patches. It's still Youtube and there is no new platform to learn.

They used to display a bar in the top right of the screen that was "percentage of daily server costs that are covered by Reddit Gold purchases today" and I remember them always hitting the goal. What other costs (besides staff) were they losing so much money on?

Yes, the point of the Fediverse is that everyone is free to associate with groups they choose. There is nothing wrong with creating instances that are very isolated. What Beehaw wants with the "improving moderation tooling", however, is a safe space where the network is restricted from them, but they still have full access to the rest of the network. That suggestion is what I was calling selfish, because this way their users would be parasiting off the content and moderation of other instances while giving nothing back.

"Suddenly"? This has been happening for a long time. If you click on outbound links from built-in Windows apps, they used to always open in Edge unless you used a tool named EdgeDeflector to redirect them to your preferred browser. In 2021, they killed EdgeDeflector by making it impossible to redirect links with the microsoft-edge:// protocol baked in, even if you go deep into the registry settings to change this. They will eventually do this to Outlook and Teams too and get away with it, just like they got away with restricting EdgeDeflector.

Read the article, the problem isn't their online activities but the wifi attracting them to cluster outside the library building. The residents don't want the homeless hanging around outside the library and turning off the wifi would reduce their incentive to be there.

On the internet, Person 2 is more often than not the American. And they get upset when others assume a non-American perspective, even though non-Americans are expected to be considerate. That's what this post is trying to discourage, Americans acting like their country is the default and there must be a "special context" to speak from a non-American perspective. The Tesla example isn't even good because they're sold worldwide.

It's Estonian (.ee is the country code for Estonia) but it's also a cool domain hack and the owner opened it to everyone.

And I'm sure it would also be more convenient to have it all under one roof, just like everything about Germany is under feddit.de, and people from elsewhere can still visit if they like.

I'm trying to advertise my country's instance, feddit.nu (Sweden). feddit.de got a headstart with Germans by having been created before the Reddit migration and providing the first federated community discovery tool.

Instances that were created after the migration started on the other hand? It's frustrating with Redditor behavior, because they expect the Lemmy community to share the same name as the Reddit community (/r/Sweden) and only subscribe to communities that use the same name.

If you don't want your lemmy.world feed to be flooded with languages you can't understand, please make sure to annoy their users about it as much as possible, in English, that they should move to the country-specific instances instead of centralizing on lemmy.world. It's healthier for the Fediverse in general with everyone on many instances, in the long run.

The article or the thread? The article is just a list of who's demanding payment from Twitter and how much Twitter owes each company. The thread explains why Twitter has a confusing system of multiple offices and a brand new expensive building (that they are not paying rent on).

Adding on to what everyone else has said, the "Users per month" counter counts only the users on your home instance (the instance you created your account on) who have posted or commented in the subreddit this month. The total number of active users across all instances can be seen when you view the community from its home instance.

Yes, it started from this terminology change at Twitter in 2020. They're the reason that version control systems call the primary branch 'main' instead of 'master' by default, because 'master' comes from the master/slave terminology that is used in electronics hardware design.

There's a comment here saying that master/slave in hardware design is being replaced by primary/secondary because of the software trend, which I think is stupid. Master/slave works much better in that context because the master device controls the slave device. Primary/secondary implies that the slave device is a fallback of the master device.

It's great that they're going back to traditional, self-hosted forums instead of corporate social media for support and discussions, but damn, I don't miss having to manage hundreds of accounts with unique logins for each forum. I understand that they want more control over forum moderation and the Fediverse's "anyone can post there" system makes it troublesome. It would be great if there was more widespread adoption of decentralized, "one login to access everything" systems.

I like anything that pulls users away from big instances and onto smaller ones. Guys, it's not a DECENTRALIZED system if you're all centralizing on one massive instance.

There's a suggestion (and probably an open issue on Github as well) that the Hot and Active post rankings should take into account the size of a community that a post comes from. A post from a community with 20 subscribers and 50 upvotes is proportionally more "hot" than a post from a community with 5000 subscribers and 200 upvotes.

Seeing the community get destroyed is hard, but seeing the whole company the community relies on being taken over by someone who doesn't care about is okay?! These unpaid janitors seriously need to re-evaluate their priorities.

That's only true if there is a downvote threshold that automatically hides downvoted comments, which I don't think Lemmy has implemented. I agree that downvoting can be used to censor and avoid discussion, but the justification for removing downvotes on Beehaw is something like "keeping a positive environment with no negativity from disliking" rather than making sure users have to voice their disagreements and not just smash the blue red arrow like cowards.

Instances can be scaled across several machines. Here they're using multiple containers as their resource usage isn't high enough to require multiple machines yet, but it proves that it can be done.

I don't understand why these types of people come to the Fediverse if what they want is total control of their community and all interactions within it. Just create a closed message board with restricted sign-ups.

Older than 30 nope, tech enthusiast yes, Linux user sort of, because my self-hosting servers run Linux but my personal daily driver is Windows. Windows native art programs have a lot of responsiveness problems and other random issues when running on Linux, and it's annoying to have to boot up a separate OS to use specific programs.

Taking the extremely tech-unsavvy fanartist community as a reference, it's not that federation and choosing a server is that difficult, that's just a lame excuse. Their usual social media platforms do UI redesigns, A/B testing and introduce weird limitations all the time. They just learn to cope with it.

People who don't care about tech don't think about the websites they use at all. In their minds, websites are just omnipresent things that exist naturally, like the sun. They only care about whether the website is able to connect them to their friends and showcase their posts to other people. They will only pay attention to the website if it introduces a change that affects their daily usage of it negatively, just like how people don't consciously think about the sun unless it inconveniences them.

That's relieving to hear. I know the backstory of Kbin is that Ernest was originally a Lemmy contributor but he and Lemmy's devs got into a disagreement about politics, so he went to start his own project instead. There was no communication about the block from Lemmy's devs for a while so a lot of people, including me, theorized that it was related to the conflict.

Laziness too, ain't nobody got time to painstakingly hand-place and align each glittery Blingee graphic on a page while also making sure it's responsive and user-friendly on all viewports. Just throw in the default TailwindCSS styles and forget about it.

Exactly, if an instance loves to censor others so much they should deal with the consequences of less interaction and visibility. lemmy.ml is also dropping off my feed because their devs have beef with Kbin's dev and they blocked interactions from all Kbin instances.

It's not that we don't care about the news, it's that the current news landscape doesn't offer any options that are trustworthy and accessible. I can't compare sources and alternative perspectives on an article if 90% of the news websites throw up a paywall at me. That leaves the free websites to public service and the most sensationalist junk. That's why I use link aggregation sites a lot, because the news is curated by humans and there will always be nuanced discussion from multiple perspectives in the comments. Of course, this places trust in the link aggregation site to be powered by humans and not advertisers or influencers.

OP is talking about the topics discussed here, since most of the active discussions are about Reddit, tech support for the software and internal Fediverse drama. All of us have to do our part and share content or contribute to discussions that aren't about those things.

Using Piped/Invidious/NewPipe/insert your preferred alternative frontend or patched client here (Youtube legal threats are empty, these are still operational) helps even more to show you only the content you have opted in to.

I watch a ton of videos there, literally hours every single day and basically all my recommendations are about stuff I'm interested in.

The algorithm's goal is to get you addicted to Youtube. It has already succeeded. For the rest of us who watch one video a day, if at all, it employs more heavy-handed strategies.

I am not American so I can't claim to know about the causes of homelessness there, but I think this is because the homeless can generally be sorted into two categories. One is, as you mentioned, the people who unfortunately encountered financial trouble and lost their home. These people are legally homeless but usually invisible, because they move in with their friends and family or live in their car. They are generally able to financially provide for themselves and will eventually have a home again. Society is very empathetic to this group and there is a lot of support for them, but they're not what people think of when homelessness is discussed.

The public perception of homelessness is the second type of visible and persistently homeless people, the ones you see on the streets. They suffer from mental disorders and drug addiction, so they lack a support network, cannot provide for themselves normally and will often turn to crime to survive. It's not unexpected that people see this group as "assaults people in public", "attracts crime", "leaves trash and needles around" and lose empathy for them. Now I'm not an expert on this issue and this categorization is obviously a generalization, but it helps to understand why people hold certain perspectives in this debate.

USB-A is one-sided, unlike USB-C, so you can't do direct data transfers between two devices with USB-A ports. It's much slower too. Electronic waste is not ideal but it has to happen for a large-scale hardware upgrade. I try to reduce it by recycling my USB-A bricks and cables.

I also cannot understand why, unless you use Apple devices exclusively, you would be happy that one company's series of devices has to use a completely unique charging system from every other device in the world. I don't care if Lightning is better when it's proprietary. If Apple "sticks two fingers up" and doesn't integrate USB-C charging into the iPhone 15, I won't be buying another device from them, because I'm tired of having to carry two different cables around - one USB-C for my laptop, Android phone, power bank, speaker and other devices, and one Lightning charger for nothing else but the damn iPhone.

Worse, Reddit implements a "vote fuzzing" algorithm where the upvote count can't be determined reliably. The degree of fuzzing is worse for accounts that are considered untrustworthy based on device fingerprinting, like accounts using the old desktop site and accounts using a VPN.

There should be a patch for it that hides the "recommended" feed in the homepage. I'm not certain because I never use Youtube with an account or the official website/app, so I don't get targeted recommendations.

I was a kid when all of the big social media websites except TikTok took off so I never got to have it anywhere else. I wanted the sense of pride and accomplishment of being the first person on my instance to get my name as their username.

That is only for communities on the lemmy.ml instance. Their moderators have no control over the communities on lemmy.world.

You're right that healthy, young working adults without children have very little to gain from socialized systems. I'm going to assume that OP, like me, is an early Gen Z who fits this description, and is about to enter the job market or has just entered it. For our generation, this statement

The state is not here to rob you, but to provide you with a structure to live in that you couldn’t have in the same way on your own.

does not check out mathematically. The taxes we pay today don't get locked away in a box to be spent when we are sick or elderly and need them. They are spent on the sick and elderly we have right now. This means that at the age that we start needing benefits more than we contribute to them, it's not going to be us, but our children's and grandchildren's generation who are footing the bill. But the birth rates across Europe are below replacement level and none of our countries have come up with a system that either raises birth rates above replacement level or successfully introduces foreigners who will be net tax contributors for all their lives. That means that despite paying high taxes and receiving miserable salaries (compared to American salaries) today, we won't even be able to enjoy benefits from the state in the future because there won't be enough tax contributors by the time we need these benefits.

It absolutely feels like getting robbed.