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That looks familiar
We have re-invented trains for the 500th time. Good job world.
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That looks familiar
We have re-invented trains for the 500th time. Good job world.
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[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!
I'll let you know in 2 years when it is on sale for at least 50% off.
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What’s the fediverse’s answer to email? And everything else we use?
Email is a federated system. You can host your own email server. Email was the fediverse before the fediverse was cool.
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Why are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?
Your searching on this may be skewed due to Firefox not being the equivalent of Chromium. Firefox is not actually the browser engine. Firefox is based on the browser engine called Gecko which is developed by Mozilla. There are actually a number of other Gecko based browsers they just aren't very popular or are for niche use-cases.
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Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid sitewide discontent
Moderator rewards program? How much money are they going to be paying them?
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‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones
Reply in thread
I'm also convinced these are really just paid for by Apple ads. I've never seen anyone care about such a thing.
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Is Lemmy.World going to do anything about community squatting?
I've been trying to get an active mod to take over on the lemmy.world battlestations community, but despite my efforts posting in the lemmy.world support community which the admins have suggested doing for this exact issue there has been no change. https://lemmy.world/u/mandlar
In general I find it pointless for there to exist a million empty communities even when the creators have good intentions. Most of them are sub communities of a broader category which only serves to unnecessarily split a community while there is barely traffic in the broader topic. You shouldn't make a more specific topiced community unless the subject you want to discuss is getting burried in overwhelming traffic of the broader community.
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Does a cat ever wonder why humans feed them?
I'm pretty sure they think of the person taking care of them as some analogous of a mother. We should be careful not to anthropomorphism their emotions as they are probably not quite as complex as we would like. They certainly have some degree of emotions though.
But they have no concept of "human" or "mother" so I would guess it is more like "thing stops hunger, thing warm, thing safe". Thus they bother you when they are hungry, sit on you when they are cold and come to you when they are afraid.
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COVID And Working From Home Made Starfield Development "Very, Very Slow," Todd Howard Says
People for once not being overworked has made it clear that the scope of modern AAA video games is unsustainable.
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Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way
Put it simply I just hate ads. Anything that puts in ads is terrible. Including Sync for Lemmy who seems to have completely missed the point of getting the hell away from Reddit.
The next terrible thing is automatically generated content and bots, but I guess those are also really just ads.
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Does Lemmy have an “algorithm”? Like if I engage with one community a lot, will that show up more in my feed?
There are only feeds for Subscribed, Local and All. Things can only show up there is they fall under one of those categories. Then the secondary filter determines the order. New is going to be chronological, Hot is some formula of votes per hour, active is some formula of comments per hour, old is probably reverse chronologically. etc..
It won't ever factor in what you visit and engage with on its own.
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Where is this poll?
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What are some "new" rights you'd like to see countries commit to?
Digital privacy. It should be illegal to track and store data on people without their consent.
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The amount of spam texts I get from Republican campaigns
How is this not illegal, but sending spam emails is? What a messed up world.
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Juste received this love letter from reddit's admins
Alright. They can hire some employees to moderate all of Reddit then.
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Meta Threads is going to be Fediverse compatible. Meta taking a shot at Reddit?
More like it is taking a shot at Mastodon, Lemmy and Kbin. They are trying to make a product that nets them financial gain out of the fediverse. So if we are federated with them then they will be able to see everything from other instances except all users of "Threads" will get their data stolen and sold by Facebook for profit.
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Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?
If there is no keyhole to pick then it is probably marginally more secure, but if a burglar wants to get into your home then no door lock is going to stop them. They could just break it or break your windows.
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Woman upgrades house for $12K and gets evicted by landlord
She could have used that $12k as part of a down payment on her own place.. what on earth is she thinking.
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Upvoting a factually incorrect comment because it sounds nice, and downvoting a factually correct comment because it sounds bad.
I've been seeing this a lot lately. Lots of bandwagoning going on. It is what it is though. People are fallible and often just follow the herd instead of thinking.
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What is an addiction many people don’t realize they have?
Internet and screens in general.