I like both the piped bot and the tldr bot for the same reason: I don’t need to visit a horribly bloated, ads and scripts ridden web site, which most news sites are. So I take the bot as a really good service. Also consider that without it I’d say most will just read the title and may make conclusions based on that. I’d say that’s a bigger advantage than the downsides you mention.

(Yes I use adblocks and stuff. Most news sites are still a drag to visit and difficult to read.)

I think the bot is fine in principle. The YouTube web site is fucking terrible and it’s nice to introduce people who don’t use automatic redirects or 3rd party clients to an alternative.

My problem is that it would offer only piped.video links. We don’t know how long the piped.video instance will work, but well that’s the case for any instance. Ideally a bot would provide at least two links - piped and invidious, and maybe cycle or randomly choose instances. Perhaps under a spoiler tag.

Of course it’s up to community mods to choose, but I think bots like this or the tldr bot provide value even if they can cause that “Reddit moment”.

The greatest DYKWIA I’ve ever seen

Ok and then you find that half of those connected conspiracies are actually true, and someone will rant about it or claim it’s not true, and that’s why I don’t like politics.

Lemmy: I don’t know, but I wouldn’t trust any bike helmet that I can’t compile myself from source. It’s best to just stay home behind (real) firewalls so the Big Bike doesn’t target you for your striped Linux socks.

Well since they’re constant by tracking every device at all times and all the other devices and networks as well, might as well put that to good use.

Yes I know, I just wish they were more diversified. When I was starting, I wasn’t expecting Lemmy to take off like this, so I didn’t care much at the time. Now it sucks especially due to the server downtimes.

I’m really not a fan of the lw admins just blocking communities. It’s not the first time either. It’s even worse than defederating, because there’s no record of it.

I signed up to lw on its almost first day, but with some of these policies, and constant downtimes, looks like I’ll be moving. It’s a bummer I’ve created all the communities here before lw became so big.

Honestly I feel like transferring to shit.

Waaaait you telling me Hobbes is a stuffy?

Yes, that’s why they’re designed that way, to be compatible both ways.

Same goes for mono jacks in stereo socket and vice versa.

The only problem was over 10 years ago when there were two standards of TRRS, with one of the two connections swapped (so maybe the other one was TRSR or something, I don’t remember anymore). So if you used earphones with the other standard, they’d only play sound when you pressed down the button. That thing has been looong abandoned tho, and I think Sony Ericsson was the only major brand using them anyway.

I was a tech journalist in the early 00’s and I remember writing about that story or one like that.

A similar thing happened with Microsoft, who either delivered or was served the full documentation of some office format printed out. It’s a pretty popular form of malicious compliance, also paying people in bags of coins.

Why is every comment just about the US? Skin color, school shooter drills, actor president, support for Russians by US politicians…

Lemmy try something more international:

France and Germany have founded the European Union.

First Japan, and now China (and Taiwan) and Korea are the technological superpowers.

Car industry in the UK basically doesn’t exist anymore.

Cuba is still communist af and yet looks like a chill place.

Czechoslovakia has split. (Funny how even 30 years after the fact some people don’t believe it, so I can imagine it being inconceivable before.)

There are 8 billon people.

We still don’t have nuclear-powered flying cars.

Certain search engine company was a badly managed, bureaucratic slog of an ads-driven soulless corporation for way longer than people think.

There’s a whole https://fanaticus.social/ instance for sports

The biggest c/gaming was on beehaw, but that’s defederated. Maybe nobody else wanted to do it again and just stuck to smalller communities based on particular systems.

I don’t think it goes away, but it’s just a display issue, you’re subscribed.

Some of the communities I’ve started are becoming more popular, and I have less time. Even tho everyone is 100% chill for now (only two reports and both false alarms), I guess I should add some mods.

My question is, do all mods have the same rights? In particular, can a mod remove another mod, especially myself? Or add new ones?

How to check other mods’ work, e.g. whether they don’t ban someone inappropriately?

What moderation tools are there? I only see removal and ban, is there anything else? I guess one can send a warning through a message?

I don’t wanna be some dictator or anything, in fact I find it important to keep the atmosphere cool and let people express themselves even if they are upset or make a mistake. How to coordinate such an atmosphere?

A lot of people have weird experiences with Reddit mods that would ban you for nothing and were overall drama queens. I’d prefer to avoid that, if that makes sense.

2 weeks ago: Lemmy is so amazing, create an account anywhere and you can access everything! It’s like forums but better!

Now: defederate >:(

Ugh. I get the concern in scenarios like this, but in the last couple of days every instance has calls to defederate from this or that. Eventually it’s just gonna be small islands of “very compatible” instances.

Well, guess it’s back to making separate accounts for everything!