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PeriodicallyPedantic

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  • What food or item/brand did you use to love, but isn't around anymore?

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  • It was great. Kinda like sunny D, but less cloyingly sweet and more refreshing iirc (it's been a long long time). A mix of fruit juices, but mostly orange.

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    Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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  • I mean, that probably depends on the country, right? Tbf I don't know much about them.

    The point simply is that Canada isn't especially left. We can't be, since we're joined at the hip to the USA.

  • What is the origin of your username/nickname?

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  • Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.

    When i joined the fediverse I decided to make a break from my old usernames.

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  • Canada is just America but 2 election cycles behind. We're very similar politically, most of the left leaning appearance is just lip service, not policy. Look at how we continue to treat indigenous peoples.

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  • I don't think that UBI is the predominant reddit viewpoint either - I think that's just the subs you're in.

    I'm Canadian too, and I certainly don't consider reddit as left of center on average. It's almost like 4chan lite.

    But on that note, if you're looking for Canadian instances, there are a few good ones.The obvious one is lemmy.ca, but the other (bigger?) one is sh.itjust.works which is bilingual and I think is québécois.Presumably a Canadian instance would have relatively Canadian political leanings, although as has been said before, instance doesn't really matter.

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  • The instance you're on only matters in so far as which other instances they've defederated.You can probably find more centerist instances, but it doesn't really matter because your friend is probably just going to be in the same communities anyways.

    I'm not really sure I'd call reddit left of center, though.

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  • Just learned it was made by the Clearly Canadian folks. I suspect that I wouldn't like it as much anymore.

    Beep, however, I imagine I'd still love.

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  • That and Beep are on my list.

    I suspect that I wouldn't actually like Orbitz now that I'm an adult and not impressed by little colorful blobs in my drink

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  • Beep

    Also Orbitz, but I feel like that wouldn't stand the test of time

    Just learned its by the makers of Clearly Canadian, which would be on my list, except it came back as of a couple years ago.

  • I forgot the lyrics to the Old MacDonald song, but It's All Coming Back To Me Now

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  • And on Celine there was a pig

  • Maybe someday

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  • I don't think it could.

    The client doesn't have access to all the videos, it'll have to query the (distributed???) platform to find matching videos. And the platform is gonna need to serve up some kind of metadata for the client to track (are hashtags enough???)And the platform is gonna need to be keeping stats on the videos for the client to match against And what would that query even look like? A gargantuan weighted map of hashtags? I can't imagine hashtags alone would be enough.

  • Creative ideas for a bunch of railroad spikes?

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  • Butt plugs

  • An oldie but a goodie

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  • I gotta pick up smoking so I can get me some of that lucrative asthma

  • An oldie but a goodie

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  • Then I don't think you're worried about the money anymore

  • An oldie but a goodie

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  • Plus you breathe more while you're exercising anyways

  • Fascist App Exodus, where to flock to?

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  • There are some interesting ones that have already been mentioned here. But just be aware that they're ghost towns, when compared to the networks they'd be leaving. Their fav creators probably aren't on them, and neither are most of their friends or family.

    They have a chicken and egg problem where people aren't on them because people aren't yet on them.

  • Maybe someday

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  • I'd love to see the list of communities followed by each of the people who downvoted me. I have some pretty strong suspicions about what they'd look like.

  • Maybe someday

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  • If I understand correctly, that only works with data publicly available (or at least available to 3rd party instances). But there are going to be metrics that fediverse platforms simply don't make public or even track.

    for example: i dont imagine that peertube (or even loops) makes public who viewed which videos, when, for how long. and it'd be a huge privacy issue if they did. Even tracking things like who-liked-what are the kinds of things that a 3rd party probably shouldn't be able to just check.

    without these kinds of insights, it'd be hard to make a good recommendation algorithm, because you can't really tell how an individual is interacting with content.

  • Maybe someday

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  • I was mistaken, it was not opensourced - there was a whitepaper on a recommendation system from tiktok's parent company bytedance, and everyone just assumed it was the tiktok recommendation algorithm when it was published.