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  • Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration

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    Too many of the same mods is bad for Fediverse

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  • The magic of the Fediverse is that even if some of the other comments are right and you're the problem, you can go and spin up your own instance with your own rules. Other instances might not federate with you, but that's the whole point. Everyone can federate with the other instances of their choice.

  • How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?

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  • Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse

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  • For anyone not familiar with the Miiverse, what's attractive about it over existing clients?

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  • Another comment explains the moon landing one. It's a hexbear comment and probably not federated to a lot of instances, so copying it here:

    The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

    Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

    Can't really blame people for defederating though. It's a slog to find the treasure in the shit. In this same thread there's both "Death to America" and "kill all honkeys" non-sequiturs. I can see why they drove off their admins in a stupid struggle session recently. I'm just waiting for another struggle session when they discover the etymology of "bad" and have to rename !badposting@hexbear.net:

    It is possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling "effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast," which probably are related to bædan "to defile."

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  • That's exactly what I was wondering. Simple objective, very difficult problem, maybe have to invent new algorithms. Kind of like this:

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  • How could we convince Reddit subs to move over to Lemmy?

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  • Send interesting Lemmy links to people you know. That's how they get interested, and check it out. You won't convince many people by extolling the benefits of the Fediverse, you just have to show them that they'll be entertained, and maybe they'll be somewhat more likely to switch if they know it won't enshittify. I'd say you should send links from instances that don't federate with some of the weirder places like Hexbear though, that's likely to turn people off until they realize how the Fediverse works.

    One thing that we could use more of that draws people in is posts about relationship issues. Entertaining for almost everyone, and pretty much anyone can create them from their own experience.

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    Republicans "stunned and disgusted" as Trump taps Matt Gaetz for AG

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  • Great accelerationist pick, appreciated by both nazis and tankies

  • What are the best e-mail providers out there?

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  • I switched from Tuta to Fastmail. Tuta was mostly fine, but being restricted to only their client was really annoying. I can use Fastmail with Thunderbird/FairEmail/etc just fine.

    I get what Tuta is trying to do with encrypted email, but IMO they're better off joining up with Fastmail on better specs that allow for the things they want to do, instead of limiting what email clients you can use.

  • Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Thanks. The good news is that if I'm right, we both win.

  • Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Organizing in person for change and being loud about it. Part of that is helping people direct their anger in the right place by pointing out the problem. It's a lot easier to effect change when you've got a critical mass of people that are pissed off and want the same change.

  • Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • In a FPTP voting system, one party dicking around and fucking up is equivalent to giving you the other option. It's not fun or cool, but it's true.

  • Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Too lazy to make the meme, but you're literally personifying the Principal Skinner meme. "Am I out of touch? No, it is the voters who are wrong."

    Hate the game all you want, the DNC still failed at convincing people that Trump was worse than their corporatist bullshit, because people are desperate for change

  • Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • The answer is simple. It is not easy. The DNC needs to be replaced ground up with people that push for real change. The hard part is pushing out people in positions of power that don't want to give it up because they benefit from the status quo.

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  • To join in the obligatory reminders:

  • Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Individual people worked hard for that. DNC leadership worked very hard to move to the right and reject progressive/leftist ideals. They proudly touted their endorsements from the Cheneys FFS.

    The people voted for change, which Harris wasn't offering.

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  • Is the DNC so bad that millions of individuals sat on their hands and allowed a wannabe despot get control of the country

    Yes. Did you watch the election?