Thought you'd never ask. https://youtu.be/i-jdhorGtQI?t=17
OpticalMoose
joined 2 years ago
My pet peeve is people downvoting in communities they aren't subscribed to about posts they aren't interested in. They just sort by new, and when they see something they don't like, they smash that downvote button without even looking at the post or contents.
Part of it is because we all have unlimited votes; people vote without thinking. It would be different if everyone had a finite number of votes to use. And you get awarded a few votes for making a comment or post. Maybe award extra votes for commenting in small communities.
This would serve 2 purposes. 1.) People would use their votes a lot more thoughtfully. 2.) It would encourage people to comment and post more.
The downside is that someone could set up a bot to spam posts and comments into a dead community just to rack up votes.
"Trying is the first step towards failure." - Homer S.
Most of the people who want to sign up for Lemmy are already here. They are technically oriented and don't mind dealing with the quirks of Federated platforms.
The commenter's concerns are valid. For a "normie" who's only used traditional social media, the Fediverse seems like a train wreck. I enjoy the Fediverse because I like figuring out new things and learning new stuff. Normies don't have time for that.
tl/dr: The average person will be very reluctant to use Lemmy.
Fatal error. I knew I was gonna mess something up.
Wow, I forgot he had that show. I just listened to it and I remember it now.
My apologies to anyone if I left out your favorite show.
Yeah, I realized Knight Rider is in the wrong place. I don't think I can change the pic once its posted.
Edit: nevermind, it let me change it.
I didn't think about that. It probably is localized.
I like to make fun of my home state. It's a pretty conservative place so the idea of a woman with a penis offends them.
Jerk can't keep his hands to himself either. I can't complain to HR cause .. you know.
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Pessimism growing in Trump's inner circle that a hush money guilty verdict is inevitable
(www.rawstory.com)
Apparently, it's rare for lawyers to draw objections during their opening statements, but it happened twice for Trump's team today and the judge sustained both objections.
MSNBC Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XetPGnx0M
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Residents push for renaming of Trump Plaza to disassociate from ex-president
(www.theguardian.com)
As long as I can disable it or opt out of it, I don't mind. I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't want videos recommended to me.
With Youtube, it's not a big deal because I never log in there, I browse in private mode and set firefox to delete cookies. So when I go to Youtube, I just get a blank page with no recommendations.
But with Peertube, I need to login to get full functionality (federated search, etc). So I would need an option to turn off video recommendations or whatever.
As a computer guy, I can appreciate that working with data is cool - there's a lot of neat stuff you can determine from it. As a user, it creeps me out. If I went my favorite restaurant, and the waitress recommended something based on the last 5 times I ate there, I would stop going to that restaurant.