Steve

Mastodon doesn't have Likes at all.

The star you're referring to is Favorite. Those go into your Favorite list. So you can refer back to them more easily.

Maybe you move public perception of a product or political goal.
To push a narrative of some kind. Astroturfing basically.

What it describes isn't a "Wealth Tax" at all!

I get the feeling people are using the term wealth tax for anything that makes the wealthy pay more taxes.

It bugs me when clear specific terms get turned into uselessly ambiguous terms.

There are other options.

I'm just a hobbyist, but I have built a couple websites with a few hundred users.

A stupidly simple and effective option I've been using for several years now, is adding a dummy field to the application form. If you add an address field, and hide it with CSS, users won't see it and leave it blank. Bots on the other hand will see it and fill it in, because they always fill in everything. So any application that has an address can be automatically dropped. Or at least set aside for manual review.

I don't know how long such a simple trick will work on larger sites. But other options are possible.

A unified API and a single login, are two separate things.

A single federated authentication could be a good idea. But the various federated services are different enough that they should have different APIs.

That was me in the early 80s. It's why I took first grade twice.

I was lucky though. My mother just happened to be a remedial reading teacher. So after she tried every other option, she broke down and finally tried phonics. That was the missing piece. it suddenly all made sense to me.

Turns out memorization is my biggest learning disability. It would be impossible for me to memorize thousands of words. But with some work, I could memorize the sounds of a couple dozen letters.

After that I was a reading machine.

Still can't spell for shit though. Been relying on spell check since the 3rd grade.

On Reddit I only ever down voted things that were actually bad advice. Things people shouldn't do.

My tip is: Instead of $3/month, donate $35/year. That way it's only 1 transaction.

Mastodon is organized around individuals. Lemmy is organized around topics.

The Lemmy way is far superior.

I've done it. It does work.

Hold your fob a foot to the side of your head. Back away until it stops working. Take 2 more steps back to be sure. Then put the fob to your forehead. It'll work again.

In my experience, they're thinking 20-30 cents per hour. And yah, that's never enough to change someone's mind. 20-30% that could make a difference, but it's way too much for them to ever concider.

I'm thinking you care too much about the thoughtless reactions of anonymous strangers.
Remember... In this game, the points don't matter.

Lots of people like to collect things. When they move, they want to take their collections with them.

You'd think so.

But it's not flagged as hidden. Instead you use CSS to set display as none. So the bot needs to do more than look at the direct HTML. It needs to fully analyze all the linked HTML, CSS, and even JavaScript files. Basically it needs to be as complex as a whole browser. It can't be a simple script anymore. It becomes impracticality complicated for the not maker.

Advertisements distort the market arrangement. When one uses advertisements to generate revenue, it inherently creates a situation where the advertisers are the actual customers. This incentivizes the site toward the needs of the advertisers instead of the users in any situation where those needs don't align.

So yes, eventually it would be the end of the world. Within a decade or two the site would go to hell. We're seeing it already with most ad based sites. People are complaining Google is getting bad. We already know that Reddit is. That's why most of us are here. News sites go to shit, when they distort themselves for advertisers. Example after example of advertising, making site after site worse over time.

The advertising model, is the original sin of the internet.
We need to find another way.

Generally no.
A few larger companies do.

If you suppress it, letting it fester, you're right. But that's not what they're talking about.

They're describing actually letting it go. Letting the emotions wash over you and dissipate naturally. It may look the same on the outside, but internally it's very different. It's by far the best skill for your mental health.

It's a team effort.

Is there some way to work a limitation into a licence? Something around only being able to present federated content with included algorithms. That would instantly make it unattractive to all the big players who profit off their specific ad driven algorithmic feeds.

Which is why you'd need something else for popular sites worth targeting directly. But there are more options than standard capta's. Replacing them isn't necessarily a bad idea.

That's the most iOS looking app I've ever seen on Android. Not a fan. Sorry

I'd buy a $1M hug from someone I'm very close to. Then offer them a $500K hug.

It doesn't break rule 3 as written.

I'm immediately struck by the contradiction of asking this on Lemmy.

Apple hasn't been for professionals, for like a decade now.

I have no idea where the name came from, but there's CamelCamelCamel.

There is a save feature.

CompuVerse.uk

I'm not sure it'll change much. We already know confessions, lineups, and nearly all "forensic sciences" are unreliable at best; frequently outright false. But they're all still used, and wrongfully ruin peoples lives.

All they need is an "expert" to testify that, "by their judgment" a video is real.

The modern Neoliberal capitalist philosophy of shareholders being the only priority, isn't the only capitalist philosophy.

The Imbeded liberalism after the new deal, worked quite well. Since the employees are making the products, and management is making the decisions, while the shareholders don't directly make anything for the company; People understood that the shareholders were the last priority, in getting profits. It's why worker wages scaled with productivity until the 80s.

That's when the Neoliberal capitalist philosophy took hold and gained power. First the Republicans with Regan, then Democrats with Clinton, then the global economy, since so much of it is driven by the US.

Not really. They'll just raise their rates.

I've got nearly 800 hours into Cyberpunk2077.
It'll probably be my goto game until its sequel comes put in a decade or so.

This is a common question I don't understand at all.

Can something be stolen if it's scattered all over town? Every post and comment on Lemmy is entirely public.

Like most services, direct messages aren't encrypted. The admins can read all your messages.

Don't ever put something on a social media service, you don't want the whole world to see. This goes for everything that isn't open source and end to end zero knowledge encrypted.

Not sure where your getting broadcast aspirations from.

Nebula was created by a bunch of youtubers. Mostly the video essay types. They didn't like that videos got demonotized so easily if they mearly mentioned a controversy. So they created their own system that's subscription funded so they don't have to worry about advertisers.

That title needs a lot of editing. It does end in a question mark, but it's structured like a statement. Even if it is a question, it appears that your asking if it seems that way way to you. How is anyone else supposed to know how it seems to you?

My default is Top6Hours

Or subscription, or freemium, or merch, or raffles. Lots of options beyond that even.

I think the word your looking for is compassion or empathy.

And yes studies have shown an inverse corelate between them.

It's a comforting thought, to believe destroying the world is their goal.

But no. In truth they simply don't think about it. Their path to the power and resources that would save them and theirs from the world's destruction might hasten that destruction. But that doesn't matter. It's easier for them to simply not think about it. They're going to have everything they need to live a comfortable life, no matter the environment it brings about. They're going to be fine.

What happens to the rest of us? It's not even that they don't care. We don't matter enough for them to not care about us. We matter so little, our future doesn't even occur to them.

It's not evil. It's apathy.
I'm not sure which is worse.

Most times I've seen it, permission can be given by any resident. Ownership doesn't play a part at all. So I would guess a land lord can't give permission.

Also I recall one example of permission being required for entering an apartment, but not the building. Though in that case the vampire in question was living in annother apartment in the same building.

Meaningless? Sure. But you can't say they're pointless!