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We're free!

Modern social media: Feed algorithm bots curating and serving up bot-created content for other bots to create fake engagement on so that advertising bots can find the real humans that still exist in the desolate wastelands and market them bot-created ads.

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Lemmur discontinued for "political differences"

Several folks hold the opinion (here's a recent one) that the Lemmy devs, acting as primary moderators for the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances, have ignored moderation of pro-CCP, pro-communist discussion threads on those instances. This ends up being detrimental for Lemmy's reputation overall, as:

  1. Those instances have some of the highest membership numbers, and as word-of-mouth spreads will mean a lot of newcomers to Lemmy will land into those large instances
  2. If the devs don't moderate their instances a certain way, what are their motives that might bleed into the development direction that Lemmy itself will take? e.g. The devs' opinion on how to implement a slur filter

My own personal opinion here is that as long as the devs aren't building anything malicious or overly political into Lemmy, I don't really care what their personal beliefs are. I work with devs all the time that have different ideological or political beliefs, that doesn't change the quality of the code. Open-source software can be forked and modified if the Lemmy devs cross the line, and by design each instance can run their own version of the underlying software. How the Lemmy devs moderate their instances is only a reflection of their ability to act as effective moderators, which is why (again, by design) choosing your "home" instance is the most important aspect of engaging on Lemmy and the wider Fediverse.

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You do understand that when someone discusses their beliefs, and those beliefs are hateful, then they have actually caused harm and damage to others, right? They took the action of espousing those beliefs, and they should be accepting of the consequences of doing so.

Reading between the lines of your comment, you seem to be trying to bait others into saying something like "I want censorship of beliefs", in an attempt to then turn around and feel justified in your beliefs because others "want to censor you". If you are truly trying to do this, please have some dignity and stop. You are arguing like a child.

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Letter: Stop the 'madness' of universal washrooms in Burnaby schools

IMHO, another example of entitled selfishness. Just look at the language used: "I am sickened, furious and scared for my children and the students that I keep safe." I guess it's all about "my children" and everyone else can go to hell.

First off, can anyone actually cite some real examples and not "what-if"s or "what-about"s where gender-neutral washrooms have definitively caused harm? Because all I'm hearing here is this person is upset that they as a parent actually have to do their damn job of raising their kids to teach them that there are "others" in society that don't walk and talk and look like them.

Look back on history and you'll note that this kind of rhetoric is a direct echo of so-called "concerned parents" when racial integration was in the public zeitgeist.

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What's the best way to sort Lemmy?

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I also prefer "New" and "Top Day", but for different community lists:

  • Local + New for what's going on around lemmy.ca communities
  • Subscribed + Top Day for the wider Fediverse communities I'm subbed to as a sort of "daily digest"
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Why can't I sort communities by subscriber count?

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I was curious about this too, so I did some digging in the source code.

Here is where the sort order of the array of communities that populate the list of communities is currently hardcoded. This is currently TopMonth, aka active users per month, highest first.

Here is a corresponding GitHub issue to request column sorting on the communities list page. During last discussions in that issue, it seems like Lemmy devs don't see this sorting feature as priority.