would kill the community
I’m of the opposite belief. I think some communities stay dead bc there’s just one person constantly posting articles with zero input. I avoid these “zombie” communities. Regular dead communities are more enticing to post in for me.
start one, and unsubscribe from the communities you don’t like.
This would create even more fracturing, which is already a big problem here.
Basically all articles end up commented on anyways.
No. Small communities do not get this feature, and it is my belief that they stay small because (a) no one is willing to make the first comment and (b) the feed is just full of new dead posts, or “zombie” posts.
At least that’s in my case. I get this urked feeling and leave the community whenever the feed feels “zombie”. Not the case when it’s just dead.
but I want the community to not die.
I understand this, but
I don’t have anything meaningful to say
Could this not be true for everyone else? Someone needs to start the discussion. Otherwise it will just stay dead. Imo it’s better to either leave it or come up with at least something.
That’s referring to the fediverse.
Pedantic, but this is a rant opinion post so ┐( ˘_˘)┌
Well, you can just not follow the communities you don’t like, and let them be.
I’d have to leave basically all of them, lol. I’m arguing against standard practice.
Psychopathy is a popular catch-all term. “Low-empathy” is better, but I think you’re just a critical person and most people don’t like criticism or self-reflection.
Ok, so I heard a thing a long time ago about information density in languages, and that there’s a specific amount of information conveyed per second which is pretty consistent across languages, even when the number of sounds is higher or lower.
This is true.
Which means that a single word in English, for instance, would convey more information than a single word in Hindi.
I don’t think that’s the right interpretation. There are words in English that would require sentences to be made for each if conveyed in a different language. But the same is true vice-versa.
Have a look at subtitles for movies from one language to any other. Translators struggle conveying what should be paragraph long sentences of context behind a single word for one language. Do not get me started on double speak.
Bulk buys
I haven’t heard of this before. How does it compare to Obsidian or Notion?
How long do you think?
From what I understand:
Hmm… “baka-chefs”. Rolls off the tongue. Thanks for sharing!
I’ll throw in an argument:
Any company owned alternative can be seen as a bad idea. But what about open source alternatives?
Unless you’re using a “bells and whistles” irc client, you probably don’t have chat logging. Replying to older messages isn’t really an implemented feature either. People just say the name of the person they’re responding to, but unless you have the chat history, you will be out of the loop.
Compare that to Matrix which has all of this functionality. They’re close to Discord in design, but open source. A lot more features are built-in the software, server side. All the while not carrying the proprietary baggage of Discord.
These features are not “necessary” for communication, but I find them pretty darn useful. So I’m just stunned that other people are okay not having these features.
I am all for having more people, but being an obscure “site” is a good filter imo.
The Voyager App has some bugs, but for what it is, I’m amazed by the polish.
On Reddit, all I did was look at memes from the top subreddits, spending my day filtering through the vastly unfunny majority. It’s also through memes that I kept up to date with the news.
On Lemmy, I decided to not fall into that sort of doom scrolling again. I blocked all meme communities. I browse through “All” to find any obscure community that peaks my interest, block the ones that don’t and add the ones that do to “Home” or “Favourites”.
This means my feed is much more curated than the slop I was ingesting on Reddit. I still doom scroll sometimes 😅, but it’s better now than it was before, I think.
I’m interested in a long time investment that will grow as I will
As long as you pick up shortcuts from any editor you’re used to and can implement them or something similar in any hackable editor, you’re growing long term.
Emacs and (Neo)Vim have passed the test of time and I honestly don’t think they’ll cease to exist in the upcoming decades
Neovim will exist on account of being a lightweight refresh on Vim that, due to issues with the Vim owner, was able to gain enough momentum to take off.
Emacs I’m not so sure. If you’ve checked the news anytime for Doom Emacs, you can see the maintainer mentioning how it’s become progressively difficult to maintain the project. I’d imagine it’s a similar story for plugins and other derivatives. People have attempted remaking Emacs from scratch, but there was not enough momentum for it, so that went under.
There are a lot of beautiful plugins for both Emacs and Vim that personally, I wish could exist as programs separate from these editors. Have you had a look at the design philosophy behind Kakoune?
“Kakoune is expected to run on a Unix-like system alongside a lot of text-based tools, and should make it easy to interact with these tools. For example, sorting lines should be done using the Unix sort command, not with an internal implementation.”
This would stop so many tears being shed for deprecated plugins if they just focused on being a separate program that can interact with whatever code editor you want, be it VSCode, Vim, Emacs, etc.
I also recommend reading this article here that goes more in-depth on this point and has a comparison of vim, helix and kakoune.
God’s Grace, I can finally unprivate my Steam.
Very simple solution actually. Here I was thinking we’d need AI to solve it.
China-based Sandman which was recently observed using Lua-based malware, believed to be part of a wider shift toward Lua development from Chinese attackers.
Wait lua? Why lua?
Here’s a couple silly reasons why:
I kept asking for supernatural things to happen, or to win something like a small school lottery. The fact nothing happened, let alone a clear punishment, did disappoint me.
When I discovered that Santa was fake was when my faith started to really crumble.
Sometimes listening to the Pastors speak gives me a nice sensation on the back of my neck. I later discovered ASMR. I sometimes still listen to old religious people speak, but I’m not actually paying attention.
Here’s the real reasons why:
Finding too many things I disagreed with or did not understand from the text.
Having a religious preacher fail to explain them to me.
Discovering other religions exist.
Learning what a cult is and making 1:1 comparisons to most religious entities.
Discovering how shitty the real world is.
Science (like, all of it)
History (also, all of it)
Discovering philosophy
If the community is purely about news, sure. Most aren’t though, and I think in that case, the poster should always be the first ones to strike discussion.