It’s actually recommended by a lot of profs now where I am, which is really nice

They overhauled the UI recently and it looks nice and modern too

I found it to be more than I needed. I still have it installed, but use localsend more often

I end up using some blog post when that happens because the forums make no sense

I believe you can also look at the instance modlog and filter by community. Maybe try that?

Was it !politics@lemmy.world ?

does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

even with upvote counts, it might be upvoted for being a funny joke response

there’s also no way to click on a user’s profile to check if the activity is genuine, or if the user is experienced in the topic they are commenting about

Unfortunately that seems to be the case for a handful of Foss apps. Fdroid might not be a priority for them yet

I found this

https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/4909

they seem to be leaning into the AI stuff, anyone try it out recently?

What is the material like, does it get hot inside? Is there a brand that you recommend?

It does help set a good precedent. When companies try to do the same thing, further hurting smaller artists, we can point to this case

Unless it’s at the bottom of a bag you haven’t used in months.

Might be good still, but it’s likely smushed

Why doesn’t a defibrillator work?

In movies (and mostly cartoons), it’s often used as a solution to any ‘death’, so it’s more just misleading

• For the heart to pump blood, the muscles need to contract in a specific pattern. This is coordinated by a part of the heart using a form of electricity.
• When these contractions get out of sync and blood stops being pumped (ex. certain types of heart attacks), we can use a defibrillator/AED to get everything in sync again.
• If that is not the cause of the cause of the problem, the defibrillator wont’ work.

Thanks! Saved :)

1. The platform needs an incentive to get rid of bots.

Bots on Reddit pump out an advertiser friendly firehose of “content” that they can pretend is real to their investors, while keeping people scrolling longer. On Fediverse platforms there isn’t a need for profit or growth. Low quality spam just becomes added server load we need to pay for.

I’ve mentioned it before, but we ban bots very fast here. People report them fast and we remove them fast. Searching the same scam link on Reddit brought up accounts that have been posting the same garbage for months.

Twitter and Reddit benefit from bot activity, and don’t have an incentive to stop it.

2. We need tools to detect the bots so we can remove them.

Public vote counts should help a lot towards catching manipulation on the fediverse. Any action that can affect visibility (upvotes and comments) can be pulled by researchers through federation to study/catch inorganic behavior.

Since the platforms are open source, instances could even set up tools that look for patterns locally, before it gets out.

It’ll be an arm’s race, but it wouldn’t be impossible.

An older but related article:

Why freemium software has no place in our classrooms

What is something Linux related that you’ve learned recently?

As a meta question, could this work as an additional (or alternate) recurring discussion question? It felt similar in intent, to encourage people to keep learning / asking questions and chances are that if someone learned something then others will benefit from the information (or correct them)

Memories are weird. Combinations of random circumstances might cause you to remember the last time when you are the item, and how it made you feel afterwards

An indirect form of this should work

• When you need more X, you might feel certain symptoms. Eating more of X will make you feel better
• Over time you associate the two things together, even if you don’t understand the science of why

Yup, cats can’t taste sweetness for that reason, while birds don’t have receptors for spice and can eat chillies easily.

That’s just the taste buds themselves, additionally:

• A large part of our taste response is tied to smell. This is why food tastes different when sick. It’s also hard to try yourself because you can “smell” through the back of your throat too
• the air around us will affect taste perception, which is why some foods taste better or worse on a plane
• genetic factors exist, such as how some people taste cilantro/parsley as soapy

A slight modification, it could be implemented as a suggested action where the admins (or mods) can ask for a second opinion when they feel it’s appropriate.

That way urgent actions can happen right away, and potentially controversial actions can be discussed. It should solve the problem without forcing a specific workflow

That brings up another side of this, the academic discussion side. It’s good if the moderation policies allow discussion, since that’s how we can talk about new research and changing science. We are a discussion forum afterall

If a group accounts seem to be pushing a certain viewpoint or moderating in bad faith, then that’s a related but possibly separate issue