Despite his famous presence on the $20 bill, he is not, in fact, a dead president.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

A community is a group of people gathering for some shared interest, the community is not relevant for people who do not share that interest.

The goal of a community is to create a space for people who share that interest to have a place to interact freely and openly. Shielding members of a community from external forces that would diminish or prevent free expression in that community is one of the major responsibilities of a community runner.

0. A community means EXCLUDING people who don't share a interest.

This is just the same statement as 'A community is for people sharing a interest', but expressed differently. It is important to be explicit about this logical consequence, as it drives the responsibilities of a community maintainer.

Lemmy currently does not have a way for communities to be opt-in, all content is visible to everyone in ALL. Individuals needs to opt-out of a community by blocking it. This current model isn't ideal - the 1.0 road map does have the opt-in as a feature that is coming.

This does mean for niche communities they can get overwhelmed by incidental negativity by people browsing ALL who don't specifically intend to target the community.

In addition to normal moderation practices (being objective, hands off, ensuring conversations don't go into hostile territory, keeping this on topic), the niche moderators need to keep a eye on participation chilling events.

Example: If a new community member makes a post and gets met by lots of negativity they are unlikely to keep participating (the chilling effect).

What does this look like in practice?

1. People who come to a community with hostile posts or comments are removed (normal moderation)
2. People who spread negative votes on every post in a community are removed (normal moderation)
3. People who only spread negativity when they see the community in the ALL feed are removed (niche moderation)
4. Lurking accounts with no post or comment history who spread negativity are removed (niche moderation)
5. Sockpuppet accounts who only vote in small bursts and don't demonstrate organic activity are removed (niche moderation)

FAQ:

Original Post Here - https://hackertalks.com/post/13655318

Functionally overalls are just pants with a really high waist line (neckline?)

pants that don't stop just become overalls... or a apron with legs.

I was watching two people buy ice cream using their phones today. It occurs that they can only do that because the central bank that controls their phone apps/bank account hasn't frozen their favors.

If money represents personal favors between two people, introducing a third party into money means someone else can show you disfavor (heh)

Fiat money is "controlled" centrally, but not each transaction.

Digital Fiat money is both "controlled" centrally, but each transaction must be approved by a third party (outside of some fringe distributed ledgers).

Like if you were a human rights reporter in a war torn country, and you tried to buy ice cream... maybe you couldn't anymore, all your favors have been expired.

Full Disclosure - I've been influenced by this great book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years

I had this thought in a swimming pool, and not a shower, but a pool is shower adjacent so I thought this might count.

Scenario: this island is cut off from the rest of humanity (magic, war, space alien zoo, etc)

Which island is in the best position to maintain its civilization? Industry? Technology?

Content jacking and top posting other people's content is really bad for Lemmy. It's also just being a dick to other people making content on the platform.

• feed is spammy
• divides conversation
• chills engagement
• makes Lemmy less friendly to posters

This pattern is very common on lemmy, and needs to stop.

This is often used to attack or force migrate conversations from a instance someone doesn't like to another instance they do like. It's offensive by its very nature.

If you want to make a better community, great, do it but not at the expense of other Lemmy posters.

Silent films boomed at the start of film, and quickly got replaced by talkies.

Nowadays people at home are watching a movie, talking to friends, and playing on their phone at the same time. Short format content is often consumed silently. The artform of silent film making is having a resurgence (in 1-5 minute clips)

I've browsed coub, tiktok, youtube shorts, instagram reels... all muted while doing something else

The Talkie days are numbered.

I've been doing daily sauna for a month or two now. Feels great ...

80C for 20m every day...

Now the coating in my glasses is melting and everything is a blur of bright lights.

Need to get the rest of the coating off, or get new glasses.

Sometimes you want to make a post for a community but don't want to reach the ALL audience (niche or controversial communities). Here is a pseudo workaround to achieve this.

• Make a post
• Immediately delete the post
• Wait 12-24 hours
• Undelete the post

The post will appear in the community at the original creation time and not the undelete time. This avoids the bulk of people who browse all by new (since it will be buried 12 hours in the past). Subscribers will still see the post in their feed

So we have A (aussie.zone) H (hackertalks.com) S (slrpnk.net) and D (dubvee.org)

• UserS is banned from dubvee.org but not the community
• UserS respond to a post from H, and H and A see this comment
• D does not see UserS's comment (makes sense, since they were banned).
• S has no community subscribers
• S does not see H, or A's response to UserS's comment

• 2 - Why does A see UserS's comment at all?
• 3 - Why doesn't S see A's response, or H's response to the comment? No local subscribers?

Original introduction - https://lemmy.world/post/28787892

https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/

https://lemvotes.org/

I think this is great tool to identify vote manipulation accounts.

Thanks @[email protected] for making me aware of this.

And thank you @[email protected] for developing it.

Just be aware it lists all downvotes first

I've started to use my gyms sauna. For two weeks now I get into the sauna until I can't stand it anymore then go dip into the pool.

My heat tolerance has improved rapidly, I can now do 80C for 20m.

Ive noticed my sleep dramatically improving on sauna days.

Do you use a sauna? How do you like it?