used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo

See, that’s a great example!

RAW processing (at least in that context) hasn’t really changed in 10 years. It’s probably the same code doing all the heavy lifting.

But most software doesn’t have that benefit.

You’d (as moderator of /c/television) have no moderation power over their community, but you would have full control over which of their submissions are visible in yours. You control default visibility within your community, but can’t take down their posts. They’d be subject to whatever the global rules of /c/television are (which are distict from “local” rules for /c/television), and if there’s some unresolvable dispute, the “subcommunity” could leave, or you could kick them out. Mutual consent is required.

Perhaps (to help small-community mods with sheer volume of moderation) “parent” communities could optionally moderate sub communities? But this wouldn’t be default. Ideally moderation permissions would be granular and configurable.

though the “initial structure” of the community could be set up by admins I suppose.

By this I just mean that, practically, instance admins should probably set up some default heirarchy for the most prominant subs, for an “initial” structure to their preference, and let mods work it out from there.

I’ve been meaning to make git issues, but in a nutshell, one is “community taxononony”

Instead of being pigeon-holed into a single community, every community would be part of an inherited hierarchy, like a class system in programming. /c/thelastairbender might be part of /c/animation, or /c/television; perhaps both?

Organization would be mutual. Moderators of each have to approve to join and remain in the hierarchy, though the “initial structure” of the community could be set up by admins I suppose. The sub community inherits “global” rules from their parent communities, but can have their own rules as well.

And what’s the point of all this, you ask? Well, way I see it, Lemmy has a “niche” discoverability/attention issue, where big engaging communities like politics crowd out smaller niches. But being a sub community would show all its posts in the communities up the hierarchy as well, getting them the visibility of a “big” community while remaining in the niche. It would allow focused communities to exist, but users browsing bigger communities to see them as an appropriate topical thing. This aggregation is user configurable, of course, but I think it’s very important that this visibility be the default.

And in terms of programming, I think it would be feasible? Admittedly I don’t know the architecture, but it seems like it would fit with existing paradigms.

Another idea I have is a replica of Twitter’s “community notes” feature. Perhaps if a comment gets enough upvotes and is flagged by the comment writer as a “community correction,” and fits certain criteria (like being below a word count, maybe a certain percentage of upvotes being from the host instance), it’s automatically displayed below the original post’s title.

This would allow, for example, clickbait or questionable sources to be called out, or misleading titles to be clarified. Or perhaps the source of original reporting can be hyperlinked.

Theoretically this is a mod’s job, but I feel that:

• Mods don’t want to be heavy-handed

• They’re often overworked/short on time.

• And frankly, let a lot of clickbait/ragebait posts slide anyway.

And for all of Twitter’s failures, this particular feature is a good idea.

Again, it ties into the idea of “attention control,” to try and give information hygiene a chance over people’s impulses.

Mind you, these are very rough ideas. They probably need to be peeled apart, but I do feel strongly about the gist of what they are trying to correct.

That Lemmys’s not too different from Reddit.

Clickbait/ragebait gets upvoted to the top if it makes people feel good; hardly anyone even checks the source. Getting called out in the comments hardly affects it.

Niche content gets absolutely smothered by this, too, and the niche posters eventually give up.

These are structural problems Lemmy/Piefed software can improve, but that doesn’t seem to be the development priority :/.

I’d argue this is a larger issue of the Fediverse, too. Devs are unintentionally copying structural issues, prioritizing other things when unhealthy attention patterns could kill the whole system. Like it has for previous social media alternatives. Lemmy feels more and more like Voat to me, which has got me really worried.

Your country going to war, as the belligerent, should be more than just “news.”

We are in a hot war with Iran.

I get it, I can see how it’s missed, but I think that shows just how screwed up the system is here.

+1

Take anything said here with a grain of salt, as we don’t know you, nor these two guys.

Is Lemmy getting bots?

I’m seeing more and more posts where OP posts some kind of engagement bait, yet hardly comments in any of the discussion. Yet I don’t know why that would be; karma isn’t used to gate posting like Reddit.

It’s not! Use SonoBus; it’s dead simple, and superior to Discord. It’s far lower latency, with customizable filters, peer-to-peer; and totally free.

Now if you want emojis and video and rambling channels and stuff, you will have to go elsewhere.

Camera equipment.

All the mirrorless makers price gouge the daylight out of their stuff.

It’s very cool, but not cheap. If your goal is to save cash by extending the hardware’s life, TBH it’d make way more financial sense to just invest that cash instead.

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I see lots of “brush it, it’s fine” posts, but if you want to dunk your components, that’s a whole different story. Alcohol is certainly going to dissolve something like TIM or thermal pads; that might not be a problem.

But it might?

One thing very oldschool PC builders did is submerge their PCs in mineral oil for cooling. This liquid is more innocuous, AFAIK.

So you could get some in a plastic tray and dunk your components in it. I have no advice for getting the oil off though.

It’s the strategy!

It’s the 2020s. There’s no such thing as bad attention.

I got shadowbanned! And I don’t even know what I did.

99.9% of my posting was in two places: technical testing in localllama and fandom geeking in thelastairbender, in spite of brain drain in both subs. I never even raised my voice in a post.

I did post a Lemmy link, but that was well after my first shadowban I believe.

Anyway, it feels like tons of technical and lore intelligence drained from these subs, so I feel like I’m not the only one who got shut out.

Getting randomly shadowbanned. Seemingly IP shadowbanned.

Yeah, I’m not against the idea philosophically. Especially for security. I love the idea of containerized isolation.

But in reality, I can see exactly how much disk space and RAM and CPU and bandwidth they take, heh. Maintainers just can’t help themselves.

I find the overhead of docker crazy, especially for simpler apps. Like, do I really need 150GB of hard drive space, an extensive poorly documented config, and a whole nested computer running just because some project refuses to fix their dependency hell?

Yet it’s so common. It does feel like usability has gone on the back burner, at least in some sectors of software. And it’s such a relief when I read that some project consolidated dependencies down to C++ or Rust, and it will just run and give me feedback without shipping a whole subcomputer.

You put that a bit abrasively, but yeah.

Don’t forget human civilization’s light horizon being a tiny blip, even within our own galaxy. We have about 24,000 years until the galactic core sees Jesus.

No Linux client for that either, though it seems to be planned.

Eh. Firefox is fine.

The only FF fork I’ve ever used for some time is Cachy Browser, as it shipped with my distro and was ostensibly amore optimized. But even they depreciated it in lieu of vanilla Firefox.

And Firefox gets faster security patches anyway.

I’m more interested in Chrome forks because it’s Google spyware. And, as much as I don’t like it, I find Chromium-based browsers to be faster. That doesn’t matter so much on desktop, but the difference is pretty dramatic on Android.