Figuring this thing out

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I don’t love the idea of a neutral vote, because it would necessitate you voting on each and every post for them to stop showing up on your feed, which is actually how the “hide read posts” seems to work right now, but without the neutral vote.

    And fuck it, it may be a hot take here, but I don’t dislike the idea of suggested posts showing up on your feed. It’s a great way to find new communities you wouldn’t have found otherwise, even if Reddit was a bit… heavy-handed in its approach

    But yeah other than that your idea for showing the user the actual weights used for their suggestions algorithm does sound interesting, but I’m not sure how plausible it is (assuming many of these algorithms use machine learning and the weights are basically meaningless to humans)







  • I did, but mostly I just saw that the UI was different, and it had microblogging. So Kbin, practically speaking, is just Mastodon and Lemmy mixed into the same site, but on different tabs? That’s all I’m getting. It calls communities ‘magazines’, but seeing as lemmy communities from other instances are treated as magazines, they’re basically the same? Same with the ‘tweets’?







  • I think the question is more “how many of these hurdles can be overcome, and how many are a fundamental flaw in how Lemmy was created?”. Decentralization is good for many things, but it has many drawbacks.

    And well, people want to find a Reddit alternative, but Lemmy is just not there yet. People will obviously get disheartened when they have to jump through a bunch of hoops just to find the community they wanted, only for them to then find it empty with only a few posts from 2 years ago.

    And honestly, the stock Reddit app may be a shitshow, but it’s certainly way better than the Jerboa alpha. I think most people aren’t as affected by the change, and are doing the protest more out of principle than anything else. Obviously the lack of mod tools will affect everybody, but I think that issue is much more nebulous and we don’t know how bad it’ll actually be yet. All of that makes it way harder for people to commit to the switch.

    ^and yes, if it wasn’t obvious, I’m people^


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    1 year ago

    I always have a case, but no screen protector, the case extrudes enough from the front to protect the screen most of the time.

    I used to have a screen protector, but because it adds extra width it went outside the edge of the case and it broke. And honestly I prefer microscratches over trapped dust particles. The only reason I’d put a screen protector on my phone now would be to replenish the oleophobic coating, and I’d do it, it’s just that idk which brand I could trust to actually have a good one included.