Are bots scrapping lemmy the same way they are scrapping reddit? Or is this place safer from scrapping?

I'm seriously confused. More I learn about it more I'm like, what? How do these scenarios and stuff work? What are the rules?

Can someone help me?

Would software engineers ever unionise in future, if the industry keeps getting shit every year due to AI and layoffs?

A counter question to the guy who posted a similar question few hours ago, cause most of the answers weren't helpful for someone like me, who doesn't have much money😅.

Has Gboard gotten worse for y'all? For past year or so it's gotten progressively worse for me. Has it been your experience too?

Title. Well these days I've been feeling lonely, and I feel somewhere male friendships I have aren't that strong. I'll be honest, I don't have many female friends either, but I've been particularly felt disappointed by my male peers, especially when it comes to talking emotionally. What are your experiences?

Hey, so I've created a community to discuss and talk about sortition, a type of governance where leaders and officials are chosen at random. This was practiced by ancient Athens, and is considered to be much better at representation than normal democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Yes. Most probably.

I need to code a super mod that'll handle the process of sortition. Once I get enough applicants, I'll deploy the bot. I haven't coded the bot yet, but I'm giving myself 2 weeks, post which I'll start the cycle.

Tentatively, 14th of next month is when this com will get new mods. And application process would tentatively start around the start of September.

The bot would run on service that'll have my credentials, I'll need to figure how that'll work and how to include that in sortition process without compromising it. Any suggestions on that are welcome.

Till then, I'm the mod of the subreddit.

Sortition is a practice of forming government by choosing people at random. It was practiced in ancient Athens and in modern times is practiced as an advisory committee.

This community is for talking and discussing about sortition.

I mean, I've wanted to talk deep with people, but I realised what I considered talking deep feels stupid talk when you're not in the zone.

Like, people say they wanna talk about space and stuff, but there's scientists already doing that, and in a more meaningful way.

Like, I can't understand what I even want at this point. That feel of talking deep with someone, but when I actually think of talking about it, it sounds like I was high. Like what kinda deep talk can a average guy like me can even have?

And it wasn't just something we realised lately. Even Athen democracy rejected the idea of elections, mainly because rich can just back the candidate they like.

Like every political cycle, huge sums of donation are made by the rich to political parties. I am not just saying America here, it's everywhere. In plenty of parts of the world, majority donations are made by a few, not the masses, and that's kinda the thing, most people don't have enough cash on hand to even support political parties.

Plenty of people across the world still think of donating money to political parties as some vanity expense, while your donation is very much tied to how favorably the party will treat you. Yes there's voting, but money is equally important to them, if not more, for the political campaigns. Yeah the system sucks, but it sucks much much more when millions of people don't even have the money to donate in politics, thus reducing their voice compared to those who spend money here.

Yeah it's cynical but that does happen. People just don't need a living income. To get a decent voice , you need money for political expenses, and you only get that money when you have decent savings for more important stuff like health emergencies and retirement investment.

Yes, votes matter too. It's not that people without money are totally fucked, but their voice isn't as strong as those who donate money.