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theDoctor

@ theDoctor @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • YSK: Browsing "ALL" at work might get you pulled into an office, even with NSFW off.

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  • If you are on their network they can see what you are doing. At the end of the day, the business will protect itself.

    Do what you want at your own risk. But never assume that any company is on your side.

  • If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

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  • I know this is ancient history at this point, but I wanted to circle back.

    I was not familiar with FODMAPs at all before reading the article. And since the article starts by calling it a ‘diet’ I made what I thought was the reasonable assumption that it was a traditional diet.

    After you responded I looked it up more generally and now understand that it’s less of a traditional ‘diet’ and instead used to help prevent some medical conditions from flaring up.

    That’s on me for not doing full research, and on the article for assuming everyone knows what FODMAPs are and why they are so important to some people.

    Sorry for my ignorance.

  • OpenAI files a trademark for GPT-5

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  • I wonder what the historical timing was between filings for GPT 3 and 4 and their public announcement/release.

  • 'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest

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  • I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The fact that these articles are making fairly large headlines is proof enough that this event is backfiring.

    A couple days of engagement traffic do not outweigh the negative PR and advertising impact from this event.

    If you were a company, you might think twice before advertising on a site that has their users actively, publicly, and loudly trashing on the CEO. It says a lot that it’s happening in the first place. Says even more that they aren’t able to stop it.

    Also, look at the activity numbers here. I’m not trying to trash on Lemmy, but we are a drop on the bucket. It’s far more effective for us to be visible and loud than silent and ignored.

    For clarity sake, I’m not encouraging anyone to go do anything, nor the other way around. But if you want to, ignore the comments, saying that this is going to say, Reddit with traffic and engagement from you if you go. It clearly isn’t, and your loud protest is valuable. 

  • Removed

    Censor-ception! Reddit user's post in r/place about admin censorship, is taken down, so they made a 2nd post about the 1st post being taken down, which was also taken down...

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  • A couple days of traffic scores does not offset the advertising nightmare that this is causing them.

  • US Senate Democrats pursue Supreme Court ethics legislation

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  • Be real for a sec…

    100k is way too low of a number.

  • If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

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  • ~~What in the pseudoscience is this crap? Avoid garlic entirely, but no limit on the foi gras? ~~

    Edit: FODMAP is not a ‘diet’ in the traditional sense, it’s a diet tailored to avoid triggering flare ups of medical conditions such as IBS. Wish the article had been more clear for those without knowledge of what FODMAP is.

  • A 10-day UPS strike could cost the US economy $7.1 billion. That could make it the costliest work stoppage ever in US history, according to an estimate from a Michigan economic research firm that s...

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  • Featured

    New Mods and Rules

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  • I'll add my intro here:

    US based freelance software developer, former network engineer and systems architect. I previously worked for a major US corporation until I got out and have been doing everything I can to stay out. My biggest area of passion with this movement is unionization among high-tech jobs.

  • Reddit kills awards and coins

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  • I saw a post over here earlier today about someone data mining the Reddit app code and finding monetization options for top contributors. Literally paying people to shitpost.

    Hopefully someone not on mobile can link it here. Seems like it’s already set in stone.

  • (Edit: recruitment is closed) I'm looking for 3-5 moderators for this sub!

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  • Mod Application:

    Honestly, I may not be what you are looking for based on your post, but I figured I would offer.

    While I wholeheartedly support the anti-work/work-reform/anti-corporate movement(s) going on, I don't know that I would say that I'm...close to them? I'm not organizing protests or scouring the web for posts. I support it. I'll interact when I have something relevant to say, but I'm not someone that may be able to drive the engagement you are looking for.

    That said, I founded, run, and own a large (20k+) member Discord server built from nothing. I'm a freelance developer including more custom discord bots than I can count. I would be dabbling with automation here, but I have no real drive as of yet. While I'm not active as much as some, I check in to Lemmy fairly often through the day.

    So I may not be your community driver, but I am familiar with moderation to say the least. If you end up needing someone with a very long moderation, community management, back-end planning, and development experience, I would be happy to help. If you find those qualities in other applicants, I happily cede my application to them.

  • Locked

    should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed?

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  • I have no issues with the 90 days in general. I just think this one instance is getting blown out of proportion. The post that was written made sense as to why they wanted to relocate. It didn't seem like a powertrip or of malicious intent. And honestly, it would be a far worse experience to delete the community with essentially no explanation.

    Now if they decide to hoarde it forever, sure, thats a different story. And trying to redirect every possible community to a single is another issue entirely.

    But I think in this case what the mods did makes perfect sense and in general a principle of 'if no activity from mods in X time then Y' also makes sense. Everyone is just a bit jumpy right now.

  • Locked

    should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed?

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  • Nothing says that the !android@lemmy.world will be locked forever. They wrote a well thought out post, pinned it, and encouraged people to move to their new home. No one was strong armed. No one needs to go make new accounts. Everyone needs to take a breath.

    Would you rather they had deleted the community and said nothing? Everyone is up and arms over something that was created DAYS ago.

  • petition: Defederate any instances that federates with threads proactivly , add threads.net on blocklists everywhere.

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  • You hit the nail on the head.

    I purposefully went vague because this won’t be the last. There will always be decisions that need to be made. There will always be a new company looking for a payday.

    And if we are going to say, don’t just ‘Defederate from Meta’, but also ‘Defederate with anyone who hasn’t defederated from Meta too!’ then we have one very steep and slippery slope indeed.

  • petition: Defederate any instances that federates with threads proactivly , add threads.net on blocklists everywhere.

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  • I guess everyone else replying to you doesn’t get what you are saying.

    They aren’t threatening to leave like it matters. They are expressing concern that preemptively defederating with anyone that hasn’t blocked Meta/Facebook/Threads/Insert_Bad_Actor_Here is a horrible idea.

    No one is saying that we shouldn’t defederate with Meta. We are saying not to make the mistake of fracturing a community that, in internet terms, is in its infancy.

    I’m willing to bet most people here don’t like being told that they can’t do something for arbitrary reasons. So why would you care what another instance is doing? If you don’t like your instance, move. If you don’t like another instance personally, block them.

    Defederation is a powerful tool when necessary. It can block toxic communities, stop raids, and remove spam centers. But defederating by association is a drastic step.

    Edit: And the comment of

    this is the kind of stuff that makes me … say “Screw it. … I guess I’ll sign up at Threads” Has no one responding seen all the posts by people confused about Lemmy as is?

    You know how you kill Lemmy, fracture it and make it so difficult to find/understand that the general populace, not early adopters, not techies, normal people give up.

    So if you want this content you have to go here, but they won’t talk to this other place, so if you want that stuff you should get another account and go over here… oh and these guys won’t talk to anyone so you will need another account for them.

    And where will they go? Maybe a place run by a company that they already use. With a shiny new app… AND 30 MILLION PEOPLE that already have it.

    Congratulations, in your attempt to kill Meta you have just alienated the vast majority of potential users and sent them straight to that which you were trying to destroy.