This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.
What happens when someone posts to a local version of a community whose home instance no longer exists? I assume local users can see the post, but it doesn't federate to any other instances?
I feel as though federated communities should automatically lock if the home instance closes down. Otherwise, users on other instances can continue posting with no knowledge that their posts aren't being federated.
It wouldn't be pulling in data yet from other instances, but it would enable seeing that their communities were out there
It would have to pull some data, but it could be much less than federating every community.
I think it would be great if, as soon as two servers become aware of each others existence, they automatically federate each others lists of communities, and possibly the sidebar info.
Federating the rest of the data would happen only if someone subscribes to a community from another instance, same as it is now.
This feels like an impossible combination, where your local instance doesn't have data from other instances, but also knows that they are out there
I think they are suggesting a sort of tiered system of federating communities, where local instances store data on the existence of all communities, but not necessarily their entire contents.
In response to Bray’s toot, Evan Prodromou — one of the creators of ActivityPub, who is currently writing an O’Reilly book about the protocol — noted that this “is also the argument for using the ActivityPub API.” He described the API as “an open, extensible API that can handle any kind of activity type — not...
Then you introduce easy account migration so we can offer them greater privacy without losing out of access to their Threads account.
Will this be possible without cooperation from Meta? I assume they would have little incentive to implement a convenient way for users to leave Threads.
Does your instance have a mlmym interface? If not, you should ask your admins to add it.
It's not the full RES, but it at least gives you the "old reddit" format. Most of the large instances have it, like old.lemmy.world and oldsh.itjust.works.
How is the size of Lemmy's userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?...
I'm not quite as pessimistic, but I agree that inclusivity is important to keep in mind.
If people actually want Lemmy in these areas to grow, it is important to be a lot more inclusive, and understand when to not participate in order to foster better community growth.
Android users commenting irrelevant anti-Apple sentiments in Apple Enthusiasts community
I've noticed similar behaviour as well, and it concerns me. There was a related post a few weeks ago on downvoting etiquette which received a surprising amount of pushback (+63/-108).
I think this is a side effect of Lemmy's small platform size pushing users towards browsing by /all. I never browsed /all on Reddit, and I don't think this the best way to regularly use Lemmy either.
Ideally, I think users should mostly stick to their subscribed feeds, and browse /all only occasionally to discover new communities they might want to subscribe to. (I recognize that what I think users "should" do is irrelevant when it comes to actual user behaviour.)
As the platform currently stands, we have a bit of a "chicken or egg" problem. Too many users browsing by /all can stifle the growth of niche communities, and the lack of niche communities can induce users to browse by /all. I'm not sure the best way to fix this, other than to hope that niche communities manage to grow despite uninclusive behaviour.
Do you have any ideas which could help make Lemmy more inclusive?
I agree as well. If I just wanted a bunch news articles and images I could use RSS and Instagram Pixelfed. Comment discussion threads are the best part of platforms like Lemmy.
Haha, I was actually going to message you to ask if you had an instance in mind. I think we want a well managed and widely federated instance which is large, but not the largest. Any of the ones you propose sound good.
Discoverability in this context meaning the ability to more effectively find public communities/people of interest. Alongside improving this however, respecting people's decisions on whether and how they may be found, if at all.
I think algorithms are fine if they're completely transparent and customizable.
I think a focus on user-driven algorithms could make these platforms even more compelling than they already are.
Yeah, algorithms can be a problem when they are optimized for user-retention and profit, but algorithms aren't inherently evil. "New", "Top 24h", "Scaled", and "Hot", are all (simple) algorithms. More sorting and filtering options would be great.
This surprises me too. There is a Nerdfighters Mastodon server, but it is pretty small, and I haven't heard it mentioned on vlogbrothers (though I am a few years behind). The fediverse seems fairly well aligned with nerdfighteria, and I'm surprised there isn't more activity and discussion on it.
How is this article related to the fediverse? It doesn't even mention threads. This just seems like another "Facebook bad" article, which, while it might be true, doesn't seem directly relevant to this sublemmy.
In the months since I deleted my Reddit accounts and joined Lemmy, the lack of user base growth has made it clear that we need some users to stay on Reddit as a means of shepherding more users over on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, Reddit simply got what it wanted: less users who make a fuss about how it manages its platform...
It depends on the subreddit. I think I've had only one comment "Removed by Reddit". The other comments I've had removed were reported by users. I've managed to come to an agreement with some mods who protect my comments mentioning Lemmy in exchange for some useful summaries and links.
Your mileage may vary. See my accounts in both places for details.
Insulated blue light-emitting diodes could banish OLED burn-in for good
News
By Aaron Klotz
published 22 hours ago
This new design change could kill off burn-in, reduce manufacturing complexity, and reduce power consumption in future OLED TVs and monitors.
OLED technology is quickly gaining traction in the PC market and powers some of the best gaming monitors. However, the Achilles heel of OLEDs has always been its burn-in, which inevitably reduces the lifespan of OLED monitors and TVs. No one has been able to fully rectify this issue. However, a new OLED design philosophy created by researchers at the University of Cambridge and reported by Nature has the potential to kill off burn-in for good.
To address this, the University of Cambridge has developed a new OLED design that better controls the light from a blue-light-emitting diode and reduces its power consumption. The blue light-emitting diodes are covalently encapsulated by insulating alkylene straps.
OLED burn-in is generated by the emission of unstable and inefficient light from the blue-light-emitting diode in an OLED display. As a result, putting an insulating material over the blue light diode specifically helps reduce the instability of the blue light protecting the display from potential burn-in issues that could occur.
"Here we introduce a molecular design where ultranarrowband blue emitters are covalently encapsulated by insulating alkylene straps," reads the Cambridge research paper. "Organic light-emitting diodes with simple emissive layers consisting of pristine thermally activated delayed fluorescence hosts doped with encapsulated terminal emitters exhibit negligible external quantum efficiency drops compared with non-doped devices, enabling a maximum external quantum efficiency of 21.5%."
This new "paradigm" shift in OLED technology has several positive knock-on effects that will further simply the manufacturing process of OLED displays. Current OLED displays use several layers of specialized materials to help reduce burn-in effects, but the introduction of insulated blue light-emitting diodes means that many of these layers can be deleted entirely from an OLED display, reducing manufacturing costs. This new design is also more power efficient, which should lead to more power-efficient OLED monitors and TVs in the future.
If this new OLED design change proves successful, OLED displays will finally be free from the burn-in issues the technology has had since its inception. Displays could run practically forever and not succumb to any brightness changes or designs "sticking" to the screen.
However, this technology is still in the research phase, so it will take time before we see this design methodology shift to the manufacturing phase, where OLED displays are manufactured with this new design in mind.
I'm not sure what the best solution would be, but it seems like children should learn to engage with technology in a healthy way, and a ban seems counterproductive towards that goal.
Pensioners in Spain are being given a bonus that many can only dream of.
Millions of older adults - both Spanish and foreigners living in Spain - are eligible for heavily subsidised trips, costing as little as €115 for short breaks and €455 for longer holidays.
One of its top objectives is to facilitate affordable holidays for the elderly in Spain.
The idea is that by helping pensioners to take affordable holidays, their health and quality of life will improve which is, of course, better for social care budgets. It’s hoped their self-sufficiency will increase, too.
Lemmy doesn't have the niche communities that Reddit did, and those come with a larger user base.
Lemmy has plenty of memes, politics, Linux, and anime, but there are many small communities which do not (yet) have active equivalents here.
Here are a few of my own examples, but everyone will have their own unique list: r/wheresthebeef, r/Penderwicks, r/twistypuzzles, r/Cubers, r/fusion, r/legoRockets, r/HarryPotteronHBO, r/anarchycubing, r/deextinction, r/cubinggore.
I would welcome more users if it means more niche communities.
the only reason I ever go back to reddit is that it has some specialized subs we just don’t have here yet. But sometimes you have to start posting to an audience of 0 to get things going.
Same. I've had some success with starting or reviving communities just by posting and commenting regularly, interspersed with a few cross-posts to related communities. Be the change you want to see in the world, and I hope more users will come!
"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"
I feel like a big hurdle is the way you have to type out cross posts.
What typing are you referring to? I just click the cross-post button, which seems to do most of the work of filling in the title and URL fields, quoting the body text, etc.
I do wish that cross-posts were more embedded though, like Reddit cross-posts. It currently seems that if the original post is edited, these changes to not propagate to any cross-posts.
The current state of moderation across various online communities, especially on platforms like Reddit, has been a topic of much debate and dissatisfaction. Users have voiced concerns over issues such as moderator rudeness, abuse, bias, and a failure to adhere to their own guidelines. Moreover, many communities suffer from a...
Could there be a way to protect against this? What if the scores were instance specific? If a user's score is super high on one (or a few) instances and super low on the rest, that could suggest malicious activity.
Squirrels sleeping in their nest ( lemmy.world )
New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) ( codeberg.org )
This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.
Lemmy instances die twice
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."...
Are there ActivityPub servers that can see others without necessarily connecting to them to better enable connections?
By this I sort of mean like, in the case of Lemmy for example, something like a built-in Lemmyverse of sorts....
One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub ( thenewstack.io )
In response to Bray’s toot, Evan Prodromou — one of the creators of ActivityPub, who is currently writing an O’Reilly book about the protocol — noted that this “is also the argument for using the ActivityPub API.” He described the API as “an open, extensible API that can handle any kind of activity type — not...
fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined.
Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns ( www.theguardian.com )
Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?
How is the size of Lemmy's userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?...
The fourth trimester ( lemmy.world )
What's your take on Bluesky?
I recently finished the episode of The Verge's podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky's CEO and it seems a quite interesting project....
What are some ways you think discoverability might be improved across federated platforms?
Discoverability in this context meaning the ability to more effectively find public communities/people of interest. Alongside improving this however, respecting people's decisions on whether and how they may be found, if at all.
Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads ( glaad.org )
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal ( techcrunch.com )
Does Reddit shadowban mentions of Lemmy?
In the months since I deleted my Reddit accounts and joined Lemmy, the lack of user base growth has made it clear that we need some users to stay on Reddit as a means of shepherding more users over on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, Reddit simply got what it wanted: less users who make a fuss about how it manages its platform...
People's Reaction When You Start Speaking Their Language. ( lemmy.world )
Insulated blue light-emitting diodes could banish OLED burn-in for good ( www.tomshardware.com )
Wtf? ( lemmy.world )
Mastodon tries to solve its problem with tracking down other users ( www.yahoo.com )
Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative ( ibis.wiki )
Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature ( news.itsfoss.com )
Ministers confirm plan to ban use of mobile phones in schools in England ( www.theguardian.com )
Teaching unions say guidance includes practices already adopted and most schools already have policies in place
The ability to re-bind any keyboard or mouse shortcuts is major accessibility issue that I think needs more attention ( connect.mozilla.org )
This European country helps pay for its pensioners' holidays ( www.euronews.com )
Even expats can benefit from the bonus.
And don't forget RTFM ( lemmy.world )
YouTube comments like this ( lemm.ee )
Lemmy Active Users looking good ( discuss.tchncs.de )
Source: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse
The current state of moderation across various online communities, especially on platforms like Reddit, has been a topic of much debate and dissatisfaction. Users have voiced concerns over issues such as moderator rudeness, abuse, bias, and a failure to adhere to their own guidelines. Moreover, many communities suffer from a...
It does not get any more USB than this ( files.mastodon.social )