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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • There will always be two types of users: people looking to connect and people looking to be entertained. Fedi is better at the former and commercial better at the latter.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Haven't used the command line since installing Kinoite, it's... weird.

  • That's another country's problem

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  • Am I taking crazy pills or does the first panel does not reflect reality whatsoever? In my experience, Americans (the citizenry) regularly, openly, and loudly criticize and/or mock dictators and oppressive regimes, the federal government historically does not allow for normal business or trade to occur with them, and in several cases in recent history (for better or worse) the military physically intervenes.

  • Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives

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  • I did not realize you were OP (or even had a Lemmy account) 😂

  • Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives

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  • Mastodon has more of a flat structure and is designed to be more conversational which is why I think it hasn't caught on amongst celebrities and the pundit class. It's great for conversation but only so-so at self promotion.

  • Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives

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  • @rysiek@mstdn.social's blog is one of my favorites. He really understand the social aspect to a lot of modern technology.

  • The fediverse has a bullying problem

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  • The fediverse has a bullying problem

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  • If Mastodon/Fedi was at the scale those platforms are we would see more harassment, absolutely. It remains to be proven but I think federation enables a lot more eyes on content which implies harassing material can be removed more quickly.

    Federation/decentralization solves a lot of problems over centralized social media, but ultimatley you can't engineer human nature.

  • KDE Proposes New Plasma Login Manager to Replace SDDM

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  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • I had a response typed out but have a question, is this feature pulling in comment feeds from every community the instance is federated with? Or only from communities the individual user is subscribed to?

  • Featured

    List of support/meta communities for each instance

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  • I'm not sure but the instance was started by the reddit mods I will ask and let you know

  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • Don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of Piefed overall. I think you misunderstood my second point a little, I don't want to be "exposed to new things" in my social media per-se, I want to read my chosen subscriptions (with my chosen social groups) and move on.

    I see the "issue" of "divided" communities coming up a lot. But to me, the variety of perspectives and moderation styles on the same topic is a major benefit of the Fediverse (to the point I might describe it as its greatest strength) especially when it come to non-technical or social topics like politics. For example Lemmy.ca users are going to have very different perspectives about US politics than Lemmy.us (hypothetically). I'm not sure that it benefits those users to centralize the discussion (not saying that's what's happening exactly but it is something I see come up a lot).

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  • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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  • The reason behind his weird android haircut is that he thought it looked Caesar-esque.

  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • Two reasons:

    1. There are many steps between "I never wish to see any unmoderated content ever again" and "I wish to see unmoderated content in my feed every day". I don't want to block Lemmy.world communities but I also will go insane if I read those comments every day.

    2. I can't know what those communities are in advance of their being inserted. I don't want the default option for content in my main feed to be "opt out".

  • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • This may be an unpopular opinion, but I kind of hate this? I think most communities are lazily moderated and I don't want to have every goon's unmoderated takes on whatever the topic is forced in front of my eyeballs.

  • AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

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  • Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:

    That means this short reel has been viewed more times than every single article 404 Media has ever published, combined and multiplied tens of times.

    It doesn't shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but "multiplied tens of times"? A recent comment me chuckle:

    "Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore."

    (implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).

  • AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

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  • I think it's interesting how "maximizing for engagement" inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?

  • confused about communities and servers.

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