Also things are a bit harder if you have a niche hobby. I started a community for back country skiing and I am still hoping that we get more content posters.

A bit more historic, but still very relevant. The FBI used surveillance in repeated attempts to discredit Martin Luther King JR. It's chilling how they used the information they gathered to try to get rid of MLK any way they could. They were even trying to use information they gathered to convince him to commit suicide.

Very good response. To see less complaining about Reddit, make more posts about other things. Lemmy will be what we make it. I have spent two weeks posting into the void with the community I started and I'm finally starting to see engagement. These things take time.

Construing their decision as a desire to fracture the community is missing the actual reason they’ve tried to articulate. It’s a temporary stopgap for the 4 admins who just weren’t expecting the sort of volume and associated misbehaving problems they are suddenly getting.

Thanks for this explanation, this makes a lot of sense and makes me less concerned about the whole thing.

Serious question though, if a server defederates, do the communities hosted on other servers just become completely un-moderated? This seems like a serious liability for the overall community.

They usually choose a subset of customers to try UI changes on before rolling it out to everyone. This way they can estimate the general reaction before committing to it. They probably also have a dozen different layouts and text for this dialog that they are testing to see what makes people most likely to click yes. Its all just statistics to them.

Perhaps they validate the passwords client side before hashing. The user could bypass the restrictions pretty easily by modifying the JavaScript of the website, but the password would not be transmitted un-hashed.

It is worth pointing out that nearly any password restriction like this can be made ineffective by the user anyway. Most people who are asked to put a special character in the password just add a ! to the end. I think length is still a good validation though and it runs into the same issue @randombullet@lemmy.world is asking about

The USGS has a much better article.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/potential-geologic-hydrogen-next-generation-energy

It does sound promising, but it looks like there is a fair amount of work to make it economically viable.

I liked the idea more than advertising to be honest. But it felt weird voluntarily giving them money while they were using ads too. Ever since I cancelled my last cable tv in the mid 2000s I refuse to pay for anything with ads.

They are actively working on improving the performance. Large distributed systems aren't the easiest thing to build and scale. E.g. here is where they are working on improving the compute time required to handle upvoting:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3062

Yeah, I am a long time lurker from Reddit as well. Now I started a community for back country skiing !backcountry@lemmy.world . Feel free to come watch me awkwardly post trip pictures trying to get the community going :-)

I created a community based on one of my hobbies to end my lurking habit: https://lemmy.world/c/backcountry

For now, I am just posting about one photo a day from my collection with some text that tries to drive interaction. There are 15 people in the community so I am hoping things start expanding at some point. All it costs me is a few minutes a day to choose and post a photo.

This is part of my complaint against Reddit doing this. Google and Microsoft already have the data, they are just ensuring smaller companies and open source LLMs fail. I am also a little annoyed by the app thing, but I think it's important that we don't let tech giants monopolize this new technology.

I deleted my reddit post history, it's not their data to sell.

I bought a framework laptop for my significant other last year and it's amazing. It feels super solid like a Macbook but is easy to open and change out parts. Nothing has broken but adding some ram was probably the most pleasant experience I have had working on a laptop. Plus, the main PCB can run without the rest of the laptop so perhaps a great home automation server or TV computer if we upgrade.

My next machine is definitely going to be one of these. Way cheaper than Apple if you want more than 8G of RAM and a decent amount of disk space.

Thanks, if the images are blurred I am fine with it. I assumed that it just showed stuff if you checked the NSFW box.

Edit: After trying it, yeah it blurs stuff, but I kinda wish there was a more redacted setting as it doesn't blur that much. But I can live with this for now.

Gadgetbridge looks cool. I wish I had known about this before buying a Fitbit. I wonder how hard it would be to add support.

This especially holds true for niche subjects. I love back country skiing so I created and moderate /c/Backcountry . The mirror community on Reddit is extremely small and dumb crypto spam sits around for days before removal because there is only one mod. He seems like a cool person dedicated to the sport, but he just can't be there all the time. I created the community in the hopes that I can invite and keep a larger mod team.

Mind if I ask where? I would love to see the glow worms some day. I have only seen videos, but it looks amazing.

I mod a community of 14 people and 3 posts. No bots yet :-p

Crossing my fingers things stay tame though, I have no experience being a mod.

Awesome! I was waiting for a community like this.

It probably also depends on the book. I have tons of outdated books on obscure topics within engineering, science, and computing. I doubt anyone would check out my 1995 book on the Vi text editor from a library. Although, if I'm lucky, perhaps it could be a collectors item some day. In reality, I'm probably going to just say "thank you for helping me so many years ago" and respectfully recycle the book.

Its somewhat related, yes. Each time you do something in the web browser like upvote, that gets sent to your instance (e.g. lemmy.world). Then, the instance needs to update the other instances with that action (this is called publishing the action). Meanwhile, it needs to accept actions from other instances (these are actions that the server is subscribed to). All of these actions take server time and network so there is a queue of actions (think of this as each action standing in line waiting for its turn with the network/cpu).

You can optimize this a lot because each time you open a network connection and send something, there is some cpu and network cost above and beyond the action itself. So there are smart ways to group things together. But, the challenge is that such grouping adds delays (e.g. it may take longer for a moderator's removal of an offending comment to propagate to your server).

Yeah, that is a fair point. I am brand new to this moderating thing at the moment so we will see if I can last. Hopefully I can find some other back country skiers/snowboarders who are interested in helping to run the community.

I think it would be good to have a separate summer vs winter community.

Possibly, I don't really know. My other thought is that the back country skiing subreddit was always kinda small and with the smaller number of people on Lemmy, its probably even smaller.

Its hard to get communities going initially so if broadening the topic helps, I'm for it.

I guess the libraries and schools can make the decision and throw out things they don't find useful.

Computer science. However, statistics is more of a hobby than anything. I am just intrigued by the idea of federated social media in general so I have thought a bit on how I would personally make it work. Perhaps I will make some more in depth blog posts about my ideas at some point.

Sorry to hear about the concussion! Hopefully you still enjoy the community.

FYI, the web page itself is a progressive web app. This means you can go to the web page in a mobile browser and click "add to home screen" and a shortcut shows up that behaves like an application. I think Jeroba will eventually be better than the PWA, but it's not there yet in my opinion.

+1 on a Google replacement/enhancement. I used the site:reddit.com trick all the time on Google and it made results so much better. I am hoping that Lemmy can be a high quality open repository of information as Reddit closes things off. Trying my best to help get things going.

Which sub were you thinking about specifically out of curiosity?

I created it to replace the /r/backcountry subreddit which was also skiing and snowborading. Perhaps it makes sense to broaden the scope a bit since the lemmy community is small. I could reasonably moderate hiking and camping stuff as well.

I will make a post over there asking people what they are interested in.

edit:https://lemmy.world/post/135425

Nice! I am glad I'm not the only person trying this strategy. I do need to admit I am completely unfamiliar with the wold of gemstones. Do you just go out and look for the initial stones?

(Btw I think you have a typo in your link? https://lemmy.world/c/faceting )

Ah that would make sense that they need to be mined. Still, that is a cool hobby I have never heard of before! You should make a post explaining the full process. Perhaps I will make a post explaining back country skiing as well for those who have never heard of it.

(edit: subscribed! You got me interested)

I have noticed this for sure, I have not seen any porn or offensive content yet fortunately. But I appreciate the warning, I will be careful using Lemmy in public until this is resolved.

That's amusing, I would have thought they could write a few lines of code to target subs that went private or NSFW within the last month. Keep us posted if they appoint a new moderator, I am curious now.

It would be nice if you could whitelist sites for cookies. That way you can stay logged into things like email.

Spam detectors are pretty opaque by their nature. In contrast, karma is pretty easy to understand: "x number of people upvoted comments or posts from this user". This lets people understand a score even if they don't agree. If a karma replacement behaved like a spam detector, it would probably just annoy people.

Sporting brackets may be a better analogy. They are developed with statistics in mind but are understandable to the average sports fan. I think a karma replacement should have similar properties.

Ah that explains it. Someone posted a cool photo to my community from lemmy.ca but didn't interact further. Looks like my comment didn't even show up on their end.

Anyway, thanks to everyone working on the issue. I know these things aren't easy.

No worries, thanks for the response!

Interesting answer, scanning through the Wikipedia article on kiki/bouba it makes sense that we don't really have solid evidence that it isn't a learned trait. It may be hard to get a population of people who developed language independently of all other humans ever and see if they maintain the strong correlation with naming kiki and bouba.

So I guess that brings up another question I have kinda wondered about. What is the most "isolated" spoken language on the planet? By that, I mean the language that evolved most independently of other spoken languages. Is there anything interesting that can be learned by comparing such a language to the European languages that are dominant among the global population?

In the us it isn't too hard to get a title for a kit car. It needs an inspection and emissions test in most states, but it's certainly possible and people do it regularly.

When you are filling out the web form with your password it's stored plain text in the web browser and accessible via JavaScript. At that point, a JavaScript function checks the requirements like length and then does the salting/hashing/etc and sends the result to the server.

You could probably come up with a convoluted scheme to check requirements server side, but it would weaken the strength of the hash so I doubt anyone does it this way. The down side of the client side checking is that a tenacious user could bypass the password requirements by modifying the JavaScript. But they could also just choose a dumb password within the requirements so it doesn't matter much... "h4xor!h4xor!h4xor!" Fits most password requirements I have seen but is probably tried pretty quickly by password crackers.

Regardless of the other stuff, deputy spam catcher is and extremely valuable contribution to the community. I have requested this of people on Lemmy and been pleasantly surprised by how willing people are to help.