xapr [he/him]

Yeah, that’s how I do it too. Although some instances don’t seem to block it, you would have to find out which, and that may be difficult to find.

I totally understand why they would do it. I don’t understand why or how they block the NSFW instances without them appearing in the list of blocked instances.

lemmynsfw appears to be blocked secretly on lemm.ee. It’s not listed under blocked instances there, but I can’t see any posts from lemmynsfw there either. There must be some other mechanism that’s available besides blocking instances in the open.

Weird. Then either our instances are secretly blocking it, not through defederation, or there’s some other mysterious technical reason for it.

But also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.

Huh? I don’t see any porn, regardless of what sort I choose. Ah, that’s because there’s a checkbox in your settings to let you choose whether to see NSFW posts or not. I guess turning that off works really well.

Ah, thank you! That’s what I was actually thinking of, but then I thought I was mistaken.

I see. It sounds like it’s deeply ingrained then. I think you’ve more than done your job and it’s all you can do.

I don’t know anything about loops but I use mastodon fairly regularly. Mastodon only has like two basic algorithms: your main feed shows the individual posts of everyone you follow or which contain hashtags you follow. Then there’s another page that will also show you the top posts of the day - I believe that goes by the posts which received the most “boosts” although I’ve seen some people say that it may take into account the number of “favorites” the post receives. It’s a fairly different concept from Lemmy.

I’m hoping that the Fediverse thrives, even at a smaller scale. I’m so done with major corporate social media. Speaking of which, tomorrow is being called a day to switch from the corporate ones to the independent ones, like Reddit -> Lemmy, Twitter -> Mastodon, Instagram -> Pixelfed, etc.

That’s a possibility too, but we’ll never know for sure until the front page subscribed algorithms are improved.

English pronunciation is completely all over the place, so much so that you frequently cannot predict how a word is supposed to be pronounced. I usually don’t pay too much attention to pronunciation errors because of that.

So this brings up an interesting question: when or when not to point people’s error to them. I’d hate to think that someone would keep repeating their error simply because they’ve never been told the correct way.

I feel that this one is slightly pedantic because, strictly speaking, “the proof is in the pudding” is also technically correct. After all, the proof of the pudding is in the pudding. Yes, the more correct form is much more clear as to what it means, but that doesn’t invalidate the mis-phrasing.

Hmmm, I don’t know. Maybe if you could first prove that it was political misinformation. While yes, there is way too much actual political mis/disinformation online nowadays, I also see on a daily basis people online claiming this when it’s really not. In other words, throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I think this thread is evidence that there are enough people for this. The problem for niche communities on Lemmy is still the front page feed algorithms, none of which appear to properly surface interesting posts from your less active subscribed communities. This is not a criticism on Lemmy’s developers, who I am very thankful to for developing it. I think it must just be a difficult algorithm to get right.

Ah, thank you! This one bothers me too. I’ve seen even more blatant misuses in writing, even in professional writing, but unfortunately can’t recall any examples.

I did not know this, thanks!

Just like “voila” you might think is said the French way, like it’s spelled, but a lot of English speakers say “walla”.

Ugh, I can’t agree with this one. I think a lot of English speakers say “walla” because they think it’s spelled “walla”.

Ah, this is very interesting and good to know, thanks. I speak another language where a word very similar to alot is actually a verb.

While the second one is somewhat correct, they don’t mean the same thing.

“The weather can affect your mood.” -> The weather can change your mood, i.e., you had one mood before, and another mood after the weather affected it.

“The weather can effect your mood.” -> The weather can bring your mood into being, i.e., you had no mood before, but you had one after the weather effected it.

I’m only aware of affect as verb or noun and effect as verb or noun. What are the other two?

Edit: Haha, I can see why people get confused now. I just looked at the dictionary page for effect, and it’s hilariously long and complicated: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effect