Let’s make sure we don’t just automatically believe this is real, until it is verified in some way. It would be very easy to entirely fake this, and Fox has a history of running plenty of unverified everything.
If you recall reddits growth many of their communities evolved as offshoots of a single generic community. This made it easier for people to see discussions they normally would not get involved in, and once the posts in a similar category reached critical mass it moved to a sub Reddit....
I mean, you’re right, but it’s pretty inevitable. There will be a natural wave of creations, inactivity and reclaimings that will take place over the coming couple of years.
For now though, this is wild west internet, so trying to control it would be similar to trying to herd cats with firecrackers.
Honestly no, I’m waiting for it to come to me. I was promised eventual inter-operability with a lot of it from my one account, and I like the simple format of Lemmy, so I’m waiting until I can access stuff like Mastodon content from here.
They’ll cave to pressure eventually. I understand them not prioritizing adding the functionality early in the development, when there are about a billion things potentially more important.
Once those billion things get whittled down though, the situation changes. If they haven’t added it in 3 years, I’ll probably just switch to kbin. Probably along with many others, due to overall integration being pretty integral to the Fediverse as a whole.
So the incentive to make the best spambots won’t just be some project for influence, but an actual financial reward? Truly, reddit will be at the forefront of innovation.
A new ferroelectric polymer that efficiently converts electrical energy into mechanical strain has been developed by Penn State researchers. This material, showing potential for use in medical devices and robotics, overcomes traditional piezoelectric limitations.
Mwwaah! NOW we can make battlemechs. While I fear a future of robotic warfare where human losses have disappeared, and thus the incentive to end the war has too, leading to permanent opportunities for military-industrial powers to rake in money forever…
This is too cool not to appreciate at least briefly.
Missing the bigger point, as usual. If dna editing continues to come down in cost as our techniques refine, and its already something random douchebags can do in their garages, what makes anyone think a government needs to be the one responsible for fucking around and accidentally making a superplague?
Didn’t they say this same thing last week? Maybe the admins are protesting too, and instead of doing their jobs are just looking at porn, memes and John Oliver as much as they can get away with…
I usually criticize these journalists for being a step or two behind the actual news with regards to social media movements. In this case though, at least they clearly state they are simply reviewing the past events.
As a result of that one little disclaimer line, this is actually a decent article and a reasonable bit of reporting. Even managed to be pretty impartial. 8/10.
There’s shitloads of secret communities everywhere. Discord is particularly popular. The reason they exist is that average people are only averagely intelligent and averagely interested in most topics, so if you want a higher level of content than average, you have to go where they can’t find you.
When a dance club is cool, nobody knows about it. When everyone finds out about it, those cool people go somewhere else. Being cool, itself, implies being something different enough from normal to necessitate its own word to differentiate it. Think hipster.
Average people made McDonalds the worlds most successful restaurant. Not everybody wants to live on big macs though. But on the internet, where the users control the content, they find your cool burger place and accidentally turn it into a McDonalds because they don’t know the difference.
In my experience, most people outgrow the secret clubs phase eventually. But I’m sure not everyone does. Who doesn’t like feeling special, no matter how unjustified it is?
Yeah, the Fediverse is pretty much designed to be able to handle stuff like this. They just get their own Instances, and anyone who does not wish to see that content can defederate with them.
You can't keep anyone, at all, not porn, not Zuckerberg, not Nazis, nobody, off the Fediverse. It's actually impossible. All you can do is defederate the things you do not wish to associate with.
This is a non-issue, and hand-wringing about it is largely pointless. If you want to talk about the rightness of defederating different platforms, that's a different story. But that's also up to the communities of each individual Instance.
Reddit did not start getting indexed and commonly delivered in generic results for years and years and years. Don't hold your breath. Eventually, though, it'll happen. So long as we're still here and growing.
Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout (arstechnica.com) en
The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
Detransitioned boy castrated by doctors warns kids about perils of gender ideology: 'Patient for life' (foxnews.com) en
A detransitioned 20-year-old who got a castration surgery says he wants to warn young boys from following in his footsteps.
I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea. (kbin.social) en
If you recall reddits growth many of their communities evolved as offshoots of a single generic community. This made it easier for people to see discussions they normally would not get involved in, and once the posts in a similar category reached critical mass it moved to a sub Reddit....
Reddit's Contributor Program could earn you real money for your Reddit karma (androidauthority.com) en
Reddit could be working on a Contributor program, letting top contributors earn real-world money from the gold and karma they receive.
Artificial Muscles Flex for the First Time: Ferroelectric Polymer Innovation in Robotics (scitechdaily.com) en
A new ferroelectric polymer that efficiently converts electrical energy into mechanical strain has been developed by Penn State researchers. This material, showing potential for use in medical devices and robotics, overcomes traditional piezoelectric limitations.
Opinion | World War III Will Be Fought With Viruses - WSJ (wsj.com) en
A two-front biological and cyber attack could lead to a U.S. defeat before we know what hit us.
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (theverge.com) en
Article by The Verge, providing details about various subreddits and their mods getting threatened because they are labeled as NSFW
Inside Reddit's path to an IPO, where employees see 'thrash' from constant pivots and say more managers may leave amid a flattening (businessinsider.com) en
Without Paywall: https://archive.fo/L402K
Reddit braces for life after API changes (techcrunch.com) en
Reddit and its communities are preparing for a life after the platform's API changes forced popular third-party apps to shut down.
now that i don't have a reddit account, i guess i can tell you guys about secret communities (kbin.fedi.cr) en
someone on reddit made some secret subreddits for certain acievements:...
Porn Historically Decides Tech Adoption... Fediverse? (kbin.social) en
Historically, porn has organically decided which platform or formats become dominant. It's incredibly anti-censorship, but walks many fine lines....
Reddit blocks /r/spezresign on mobile browser (i.imgur.com) en
Why isn't Lemmy indexed yet? (kbin.fedi.cr)
Are search engines able to index Lemmy?...