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squaresinger

@ squaresinger @lemmy.world

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  • Yeah, I had the same thought as well...

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  • Exactly. That's why your comments have a ton of downvotes and hardly any upvotes.

    Go back to reddit.

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  • No, you don't get to dictate what everyone else on Lemmy is going to get.

    You are not a savior, you are a spammer.

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  • This is not how Lemmy works. This is not how anything about Lemmy works. Please, look at how ActivityPub works, what instances are, what communities are, when content from a community is copied to another instance and how scaling on Lemmy works.

    Come back to continue the discussion when you have an idea what you are talking about.

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  • Repost communities have been tried before, dozens of times. Literally every two weeks some new user comes along, thinks they are the first one to ever think of this idea, writes a bot and trashes all the feeds with whatever that guy thinks is cool.

    People don't want any content, they want worthwhile content that they can engage with and have meaningful discussions about, not their whole feed spammed full with pure copy paste.

    Imagine you want to sell people on the concept of e-mail. There's not a lot of messages going around, so you come along and say "People want more e-mails" and start spamming like crazy. "Here's a hundred cat videos for you! There's a few dozen chain emails for you! Here, take a few hundred messages from 'hot singles in your area'!"

    Do you not understand the difference between good organic content and spam?

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  • Have you ever looked into the tech behind Lemmy? The way it's set up it is already at a breaking point for non-profit instances.

    If Lemmy had Reddit size, it would literally crash and burn, and the problems are on a concept level, so they could only be fixed by trashing the whole concept and rewriting from scratch.

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  • What do you think is more appealing?

    A subscribed feed with a few dozen posts about various meaningful topics with a few dozen comments, that were shared by an OP who cares about the subject, who replies to comments, and where there's an actual community.

    Or

    A subscribed feed that's flooded with hundreds of reposted memes by an OP who is essentially a bot, who doesn't even know they (re)posted the memes and hardly any comments under the posts, because there are more posts than viewers.

    You don't grow an user base by spamming so much garbage into it that it quenches every chance of a discussion and drowns out any posts about relevant topics.

    If I want an endless stream of copied memes with no community around it, I go to imgur.

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  • Nah, there's just a repost bot spamming my whole feed, making it really hard to find any worthwhile discussion.

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  • Nope. Network effect happens if there's a network. For that you need an adequate amount of eyes per post so that people can start commenting and discussing stuff with one another.

    Dump in hundreds of copy-posted memes without enlarging the user base and it does exactly the opposite of the network effect: With much more posts per viewer, the viewers are spread thin over the posts which means there are never enough people on one post to actually start a meaningful discussion in the comments.

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  • Git is a tool originally developed by Linus Torvalds himself. Github is one platform of many that uses Git. Similar to Gitlab, Bitbucket, Codeberg or Gitea. You can also directly use git without a platform around that.

    As a developer you really should know that. That's basics.

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  • The problem is that Reddit is many orders of magnitude larger than Lemmy. r/comics has 1.5 mio weekly visitors. All of Lemmy combined has just ~50k monthly visitors.

    One repost bot alone can swamp all of Lemmy, totally drowning out everything else. The biggest issue there is that it's dead content. The thing that makes something like Reddit or Lemmy better than just a random webcomics feed is the comments. So if a ton of non-organic content gets reposted, that dilutes the comments too much meaning that people don't actually see eachother's comments any more and thus no discussions happen.

  • "Every great search must come to an end": Ask.com shutdown, ending ask Jeeves.

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  • I had the exact same thought!

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  • Yeah, I've never heard anyone expecting anything positive from PMS.

    That's why it's called a syndrome.

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  • Why are some things that some animals do used as a justification for humans to do the same, while other animals doing something else isn't?

    For example, Wikipedia says this about the topic:

    Territoriality is only shown by a minority of species. More commonly, an individual or a group of animals occupies an area that it habitually uses but does not necessarily defend; this is called its home range. The home ranges of different groups of animals often overlap, and in these overlap areas the groups tend to avoid each other rather than seeking to confront and expel each other.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_(animal)

    It is natural to not have borders, and only a few species do.

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  • Also, I'd like to know why one animal doing one thing is used to justify human behaviour as "natural" while another animal doing something else is not. (Or even the same animal doing something else is not.)

    There are tons of non-territorial animals, for example.

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  • Tbh, the last time I saw someone post Garfield on lemmy was.... no idea, too long ago.

  • Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.

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  • Fair. We Europeans also don't want US refugees who call themselves "ex-pats".

  • INDX Conversion Kits now available to public for Prusa Core One(+).

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  • Yeah... the industry moved far away and left them behind.

    It's pretty ridiculous to think that a Snapmaker U1 is cheaper than a Prusa MK4S. And for just €50 more than the MK4S you get a full enclosure for the U1.

  • xkcd #3237: Husband and Wife

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  • Was Borat before the Will Smith thing? I don't know. The past is such a long and windy place.