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@ lvxferre @lemmy.ml

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This account is being kept for the posterity, but it won't see further activity past February.

If you want to contact me, I'm at /u/lvxferre@mander.xyz

  • Reddit is so untrustworthy. r/modcoord thread purges all pro-fediverse comments, then r/redditalternatives removes the thread exposing it.

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  • Mods had power because they were united and reddit couldn’t replace all of them at once. Instead, they picked them off one by one.

    My guess is that they decided that the little fictitious power that they had over their communities was worth dealing with an obnoxious administration, that outright belittles them as "landed gentry". As such, they never actually planned any sort of migration out of Reddit, and instead rationalised their decision to stay there as "we're thinking on the users".

  • Reddit is so untrustworthy. r/modcoord thread purges all pro-fediverse comments, then r/redditalternatives removes the thread exposing it.

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  • In a just world, this kind of comment would be grounds for a warrant to search your hard drive for illegal content. They’d probably bust a lot of creeps that way.

    Omega_Haxors, you're free to defend hexbear or any other instance as much as you want. However witch hunting is not to be tolerated, as per rules #1 and #4, and implying that someone must be a criminal (or a "creep") for having a stupid take on hexbear and two governments is witch hunting. Don't do this.

    Further violations of the rules will not be tolerated, specially not if witch hunting is involved.

  • Reddit is so untrustworthy. r/modcoord thread purges all pro-fediverse comments, then r/redditalternatives removes the thread exposing it.

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  • Friendly reminder for everyone here - not just the poster above - that the topic of this community is Reddit. There's lots of leeway for off-topic, but this sort of discussion about instances and geopolitics is bound to create unnecessary conflict here.

  • Moving this community to !linguistics@mander.xyz

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  • Sorry for such a late reply.

    I'm not sure if I'm part of this big exodus or not. I've been toying with the idea of migrating this comm for months, as lemmy.ml is focused on open source and privacy while mander.xyz is focused on sciences. It'll be more discoverable there, it'll be easier to access it across the Fediverse, and it'll be easier to be on the same page as the admins when it comes to the rules.

    The straw that broke the camel's back, for me, was not even politics. Or even which sort of content they allow/deny in their instance. It was how they handled another lemmy.ml community; it shows that they're completely unprepared as a team to handle users in an acceptable way.

  • Deciding the fate of c/snoocalypse - tell me what you think!

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  • kbin.social could be an option, and thankfully I have an account there. I'm not doing it by votes but by the overall "feel" of the community.

    Note that I'm happy moderating a community about Reddit (even if myself don't give a damn about it any more), as long as people retrieve some value from it, and I can do so from a good instance.

  • Deciding the fate of c/snoocalypse - tell me what you think!

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  • Thank you. I'll consider it.

  • Deciding the fate of c/snoocalypse - tell me what you think!

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  • Do you have other accounts with more activity, specially in this community?

  • Moving this community to !linguistics@mander.xyz

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  • I added a link to the language learning comm in the sidebar of the new address. Thank you for the info!

  • Deciding the fate of c/snoocalypse - tell me what you think!

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  • If I close down this comm, I'll do it as you said - disable posting, but keep the content here. One of the roles of this comm was to document the downfall of Reddit, so it doesn't make sense to delete it.

  • Deciding the fate of c/snoocalypse - tell me what you think!

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  • Without going too much into details: I strongly disagree with a few recent decisions of the instance admins, regarding another instance and a community within lemmy.ml, to the point that I feel uncomfortable moderating a community here. As such I'm asking the community here for a few options, on what you guys think that I should do with our comm - get new mods, migrate the comm, close it down, something else?

    I wish that I could be more explicit on this, but talking about the issue in the open might lead to administrative actions, dunno.

  • SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit. @lemmy.ml
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    Deciding the fate of c/snoocalypse - tell me what you think!

  • Linguistics @lemmy.ml
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    Moving this community to !linguistics@mander.xyz

  • Pre-Roman Iberian (left) and Celtic (right) settlements

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  • I have no idea on why your comment only appeared for me today (13/jan), but thank you for pointing this out! I've fixed it.

  • queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban

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  • Damn, that's sad. Thank you for the info.

  • queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban

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  • Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don't think that queerasfu.ck would be registered.

  • queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban

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  • Humans now kill 80 million sharks per year, 25 million of which are threatened species

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  • Why?

    Theoretically for the meat, sold mostly in Brazil, Uruguay, and Latin Europe*, at a comparatively low price for seafood. In practice for the fins, sold mostly in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and China.

    What makes it worse is that Brazilian norms are notoriously sloppy on what you can sell as "cação" (shark or ray meat), including 40 species, quite a few of them vulnerable, and a lot of times the person buying it has no way to know. And if you tell people "only buy cação if the species is listed, otherwise you might be eating a threatened species", they'll usually whine and tell you the equivalent of "I dun unrurrstand, y buy dat one? Dis one is cheaper lol lmao".

    *the link is in Portuguese but I can translate it if anyone so desires.

  • Changes we're making to Google Assistant

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  • It's hard for Google to claim that they're focusing resources (e.g. dev time), given the list of features being removed. As one of the HN comments said, quite a few of them "seem to fall under the umbrella of "features that actually make the assistant an assistant"/connecting the assistant to other apps". In other words, integration - that's core functionality for an assistant and they likely know it.

  • Changes we're making to Google Assistant

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  • Yup. Google consistently gets rid of features or services that it deems unprofitable. And that's fine, really - as long as you don't pretend that you're doing it for the users.

    To be fair in modern phones there are some features that if removed would make the user experience better.

    I hear ya - for example, the SIM toolkit being able to send you pop-ups (phone providers use that to spam the users).

  • Changes we're making to Google Assistant

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  • We’re removing some underutilized features in Google Assistant to focus on delivering the best possible user experience.

    Is this the non sequitur used nowadays to explain removal of features? "We're removing it to give you a better experience"??? That's bloody hilarious.

    Be honest at least dammit. If you don't want to maintain a feature, because it's against your best interests, say so. Users are not stupid, and should not be implied to be stupid with this idiotic "it's for you lol" discourse.

    (I don't even use Botnet Assistant.)

  • The etymology of Soyjak

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  • When I saw this in some mander comm I immediately thought "yeah... it goes into Linguistics humour, folks there will enjoy it".

  • Linguistics Humor @sh.itjust.works
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    The etymology of Soyjak

  • Linguistics @lemmy.ml
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    PNAS

    Systematic testing of three Language Models reveals low language accuracy, absence of response stability, and a yes-response bias

    www.pnas.org /doi/10.1073/pnas.2309583120
  • SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit. @lemmy.ml
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    New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

    medium.com /collapsenews/new-study-at-least-15-of-all-reddit-content-is-corporate-trolls-trying-to-manipulate-public-b249bd42ab42
  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Discussion

    Reddit-like aspects of Lemmy that make no sense in a federation.

  • Linguistics @lemmy.ml
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    Small Discussions #1 (2023/Dec/01)

  • Linguistics @lemmy.ml
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    Language and Poverty

    www.sil.org /blog/language-and-poverty
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    Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO

    techcrunch.com /2023/11/27/reddit-might-once-again-be-flirting-with-an-ipo/
  • Linguistics @lemmy.ml
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    How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them

    news.mit.edu /2023/how-blue-and-green-appeared-language-1102
  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Discussion

    Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep04

  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Discussion

    Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep03

  • SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit. @lemmy.ml
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    Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination

    cointelegraph.com /news/reddit-mods-dumped-tokens-hours-before-blockchain-program-termination
  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Discussion

    Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep02

  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Discussion

    Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep01

  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Discussion

    Saihate no Paladin: Tetsusabi no Yama no Ou - Ep01

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Simple script for PulseAudio, to quickly switch between headphones and speakers

  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou. - Episode 01 - Discussion

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
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    Solved through hack

    Can't login or change password because the current password has less than 10 characters.