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Cake day: August 10th, 2022
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15·4 days agoForbidden loofah
Love the label
SMART SOLUTION
And when it doesn’t work, they ram it HARDER
and then people wonder how porn stereotypes can be harmful
alt text is added, cheers
a tech illiterate old friend of mine in his 60s got tasked with changing his simcard for new one. But the network just didn’t appear. Long story short after 3 hrs of headbashing I asked him to send me the photo of simcard itself
that was a valuable afternoon for my humility
alt text: nano-simcard rotated 90 degrees forcefully inserted into standard size simcard frame which is missing micro size simcard frame
note the right side of simcard frame bulging out
for confused in terminology
I enjoyed this vid and as a contribution I’ll spare y’all loading 20 MB of youtube JS
imgur embed
joke explanation
it’s a response to colleagues putting skill of nocode / zerocode platforms in their CV and demanding onpar compensation
“subzero” here plays a double duty bc it’s a cool character and also bc code, you wrote but was never used, should be counted as negative work i.e. subzero code
52·10 months agoFolks, can we simply uncheck option “[x] Show Bot Accounts” in new user profiles by default? (same as with “[x] Show NSFW”)
Firstly, I totally understand people who find reposts annoying and I have blocked few of those because they’re simply irrelevant to me
lemmit online / hackernews reposts
- those help drive inspiration for post making: I can snatch best ideas and post my own version on lemmy
It’s especially helpful when you’re maintaining inactive community where you’re the only poster – since inactive subs are seen as dead ones. - not my use case, but I see those instances as ability to combat FOMO for the users who just switched over to lemmy and getting used to its quirks. No need to snoop to reddit if its content is in your feed either way
- mastodon got almost a dozen of such repost instances from twitter and it’s enormous bonus in transition from birdsite
- if you see lemmit online posts then someone on your instance wants this content/subscribed to it – it doesn’t appear out of nowhere
controversial opinion
tbh I wish each lemmy sub would have its own bot to post content stolen from other places of internet. Almost all popular websites have ones and they do bring large audiences. Be it just memes, science news or animal photos: people stick with a website because they can regularly get their dopamine hit. “Normal people” i.e. lurkers usually don’t care about post originality. People simply want enough good quality content
QoL bots
- tldr bots are generally helpful for long reads\vids and I wish they would be available as option on post creation page
- bots for linking to invidious instances / archive.ph nonpaywalled articles: just saves time
P.S. as a bonus here’s a page about bots that wikipedia uses to streamline and automate work Wikipedia bots - Wikipedia
- those help drive inspiration for post making: I can snatch best ideas and post my own version on lemmy
User of those bots here:
I think this whole problem stems from the lack of tools to configure bot experience. On mastodon, for example, bots can post “unlisted” posts – which don’t show up in the main feed. Only subscribed people receive their posts. On Lemmy there’s no such privacy toggle and admins are forced to shoot a fly with cruise missiles – by defederating instances
I’d understand if you folks decide to defederate from bot instances however I’d urge you to escalate this discussion upstream to LemmyNet github for following features
- post privacy i.e. intended reach
- moderation tools to handle bots activity en masse
This would be far more lasting impact on quality of global fediverse feed and efficient use of admins’ time IMO
The number of times I got asked if import/export can be used instead of sync