Imagine getting to live in someone’s basement for free, and they even give you free lotion every now and then.

Don’t worry. As a little experiment, I’ve found time and time again across a whole range of social media sites over years, that having a username that some people could perceive as aggressive will get you blocked / banned faster than you would believe. The people of Lemmy are not as different/open as they think they are!

You get banned for having the username “catty”? Seriously?

Unfortunately, when I open groups, I get called out that it should be merged with a sort-of-similar group, and then of course, empty groups are hard to start.

I mean is that a bad thing that groups get merged? Lemmy ain’t reddit, and if you wanna follow niche (or even not-so-niche) hobbies here, it’s usually better to have one group with 10 people in it rather than 5 groups with 2 people in it. If you wanna hang around in your 2-person group, no one’s gonna ban you for doing so.

Having to take the effort to block all the politics in the first place mean 90% of people won’t do it and will get tied up with giving their asshole to each post rather than perhaps what they wanted to come here for in the first place. I believe that doesn’t create an overall diverse community.

If you joined an instance where 90% of the default communities offend you, maybe you should consider joining another instance?

Sentiment analysis is an old and established form of ai that would be useful here.

You’d use sentiment analysis how, exactly?

Yeah, sorry, I was being a bit catty with that reply. But algorithmically identifying something as “whinging circle jerk” is really difficult unless you wanna throw away the baby with the bathwater. I think someone elsewhere in the thread recommended creating a second account just for the hobby communities, if you wanna avoid the political memery. If the hobby communities feel quiet, well, you have the power to change that by posting something there.

Since according to you this is an easy coding issue that no one’s bothered to implement, how would you from a technical standpoint implement those improvements?

Shit sorry, the CIA told me not to point outI forgot that all content already automatically carries the political flag if it contradicts OP’s political biases, and thus all we need to do is check for that and censor accordingly.

Not that I entirely disagree, but…

This could be easily fixed in the coding of Lemmy, but… it hasn’t.

I’m not sure how this could be fixed on the software level? Care to elaborate? Or even better, write up an issue + PR which proposes the “easy fix”.

Nice try, boss.

Look at moneybags here, who can afford their own carpet

I didn’t know PNG ever went away. I’m using em all the time.

Kazakhstan, after finally securing access to the oceans: Just according to keikaku.

TIL I’ve been 30 since I was 20. Always hated clubs.

Sorry, I only care about the space aliens that are not people.

Don’t do time, kids; it’s a slippery slope.

If you spend one second, you’ll suddenly find yourself spending another second, and another, and another… And before you know it, you’ve spent a whole minute. And when that’s not enough, you start spending hours, days, weeks, years…

You can’t just open up with that and not share some leptopoma perlucidum facts.

> mfw I live in Walkable city
> want to walk around in it
> walkway is a fucking tiny narrow corridor of concrete
> be forced to walk between congested car traffic and escooters, with no pedestrian crossings anywhere
> get run over by some clueless skateboarder

In a university there was a lab. And in this lab there lived a postdoc. One day in the third month of their the postdoc heard a rap on their door. It was the professor! They said the postdoc would soon be approached by 12 undergrads, and…

<300 pages of worldbuilding later>

“You must take the samples! And throw them into the synchrotron! I am too old and burnt out to do it!” pleaded the old postdoc to the phd student.

<500 pages of more worldbuilding>

“I did the testing, but the results are not meant for me. I must now travel to the West, into the Private Sector.” said the PhD at their graduation party.

I hear they also launched a beagle at Mars about a decadetwo decades oh good I feel old ago, but it died on impact.

#holy #hashtag #batman

So everyone will just get matched with Nicole the fediverse chick? But that’s already happening.

*cockies