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@ FaceDeer @lemmy.ml

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  • Difference between kbin and lemmy

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  • What might be neat is a user preference that allows one to enable or disable downvoting just for you. If you disable downvoting then you get a different view of the community and comments that only accounts for upvotes.

  • r/unexpected goes dark

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  • This is the number one source of reassurance I give people who object that Lemmy is "overrun by tankies." That was just the earliest niche community that happened to jump ship in this particular direction. Now, even at this early stage, Lemmy is being overrun by everyone else.

  • Reddit announced new ad features on Friday

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  • Older audiences are more likely to dislike the new changes, though. They've been on Reddit for a long time and will be aware of how much better it used to be.

  • Reddit announced new ad features on Friday

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  • The only hope I have for Reddit - and it's a vain one, I fully recognize - is that after shareholders buy it they might put a board of directors in place who go "hey, our userbase is bleeding profusely and Reddit alternatives are flourishing, maybe we should do something to staunch that if we want this thing to retain any value."

    The current owners evidently don't believe that, so an IPO that swaps them out is the only option.

  • r/unexpected goes dark

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  • They're /r/unexpected, so if they were to state one or the other I don't know if that could be trusted anyway.

  • NSFW

    Lemmy NSFW is here!

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  • I am really not into porn that much :)

    Heh. I feel we may have a common attitude here; I'm not particularly into smut but I think it's very important for a free Internet to allow it to flourish for those that want it. The common "No NSFW" restriction on major Lemmy instances is likely to be one of the major hurdles to attracting Reddit refugees, alongside the particular political positions that devs and major instance-runners currently espouse.

    I suspect both of those things will be diluted away quickly as this space evolves, though.

  • Ukraine's Armed Forces advance another 1,400 metres on Bakhmut front

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  • That is the common narrative among Americans and Redditors

    And also reality. Or does Russia still secretly occupy Kherson and Kharkiv? Did they only pretend to launch a major mobilization of new troops and call up prisoners to fill the ranks?

    The day-to-day changes of the control map are less clear, especially now that there's major operational security around the counteroffensive, but I'm speaking of the overall "pattern of the war" here.

  • Sync Dev (ljdawson) is potentially looking into adding Lemmy support

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  • Indeed. I've used RiF forever with Reddit, it has such a nice clean interface and is so well polished. It's such a shame to throw something like that away.

  • NSFW

    Lemmy NSFW is here!

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  • ChatGPT is really good at writing boring boilerplate. Just make sure to read the output thoroughly before you make it actual policy.

  • NSFW

    Lemmy NSFW is here!

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  • Moderation will be important for porn communities, so perhaps just start out with some kind of "meta" community where you can discuss stuff about the instance itself. May be better than throwing down a bunch of communities and ending up "stuck" having to deal with them.

  • [Meta] Since Lemmy allows linking URLs and text together, we should make it a common etiquette to write the tldr or main point of the article in the post

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  • Even better is to post the text of paywalled articles so people without access can still read them.

  • Ukraine's Armed Forces advance another 1,400 metres on Bakhmut front

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  • The overall "pattern of the war" is that Russia took a bunch of Ukrainian territory early on, and then has spent the past year having its meat ground and losing big chunks of occupied territory back to the Ukrainians again. Bakhmut has been notable because it was an exception to this overall pattern. We may now be seeing the pattern reassert itself there, though.

  • Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell

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  • I didn't even see it on my initial read-through of the comment. Quite the whiplash from "how wholesome!" To "wow, partisan much?"

  • Difference between kbin and lemmy

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  • Like features just flew out the door for us at Reddit. :)

  • Brace Yourselves

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  • If the fediverse is going to make the big times it's going to have e to handle porn.

  • lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead

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  • That's how I wound up here too.

  • RedReader granted non-commercial accessibility exemption

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  • How very magnanimous of Reddit. They went way too far, and now they're inching backward to try to find the absolute limit of what they can get away with.

  • How is Lemmy going to make money?

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  • Oh, nice. I was hoping I'd see something like this, it's an open protocol so complete alternative implementations to accomplish Reddit-like functionality is great. Nobody can rest on their laurels or assume that they get to decide what features are allowed.

  • I like this significantly better than Mastodon

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  • Indeed. Most of the subreddits I liked the most were ones with relatively small subscriber counts.

  • Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore.

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  • Interesting. I'm actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it's a "the more the merrier" situation. Much like how I'm not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it's good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.