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Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by secondcoming »

ansible wrote: post #636
secondcoming wrote: post #543

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You seem to be describing a meritocracy which, if I understand correctly, is an ideal promoted by white supremacists? Would you mind if I flagged your post?

> You seem to be describing a meritocracy which, if I understand correctly, is an ideal promoted by white supremacists? White supremacists might say they want a meritocracy, but most/all of them actually don't. They just want to create filters slightly more subtle than "no X allowed" signs for their establishments. As I mentioned, if you are going to test, it needs to be fair and accurate, or else it isn't useful. If…

A metriocracy being preferable isn't just the viewpoint of white supremacists. However, anyone expressing that view is labelled as a white supremacist. The game is rigged.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by IgorPartola »

secondcoming wrote: post #651
ansible wrote: post #636

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> You seem to be describing a meritocracy which, if I understand correctly, is an ideal promoted by white supremacists? White supremacists might say they want a meritocracy, but most/all of them actually don't. They just want to create filters slightly more subtle than "no X allowed" signs for their establishments. As I mentioned, if you are going to test, it needs to be fair and accurate, or else it isn't useful. If…

A metriocracy being preferable isn't just the viewpoint of white supremacists. However, anyone expressing that view is labelled as a white supremacist. The game is rigged.

Imma need a big old source on this claim.

It seems like you and the word meritocracy have some issues. I never brought it up and frankly it has nothing to do with my argument. You inserted it into the conversation, then immediately played victim. I can’t tell if you are trolling or legitimately can’t figure out what we are talking about here so trying to switch the subject to your own grievance, but in either case, please stop.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by generatorguy »

u801e wrote: post #394
generatorguy wrote: post #19

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You might be on to something! repackage an nntp server with a web front end in a docker container and away you go

Dejanews did that many years ago. You can still access usenet via Google groups.

yes but undeniably the dejanews or google groups usenet experience was worse than with a proper news client like Forté Agent, except for search.

These days a web based NNTP client could offer an equivalent if not superior experience.

[1] http://www.forteinc.com

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by pelasaco »

harel wrote: post #245
pelasaco wrote: post #176

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I would love to switch to the World from 2008...

I'll take the 90s please... we all wanna go back to some period of time where the memories evoke the strongest feeling...

funny how people used to say that 90s were the worse decade.. Yesterday I was hearing the acoustic from Pearl Jam.. aaah the 90s, best decade <3

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by retpirato »

The fact that Reddit is an echo-chamber is one reason I never joined, & never will, but there are some communities that would be useful like the android & kustom subreddits, the former of which already exists on Lemmy. I'm only holding off with Lemmy because they don't (yet at least) have a privacy policy, which to me is essential especially considering the nature of the site. The fact that they didn't at least put up some sort of template of a privacy policy before the site was ever available to the public when that's a common part of any site that provides accounts, as a way of informing you how they will handle the data you give them, is very troubling to me.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by harel »

pelasaco wrote: post #654
harel wrote: post #245

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I'll take the 90s please... we all wanna go back to some period of time where the memories evoke the strongest feeling...

funny how people used to say that 90s were the worse decade.. Yesterday I was hearing the acoustic from Pearl Jam.. aaah the 90s, best decade <3

I was just the right age to enjoy the 90s to full effect. So much happened (to me) musically and culturally in that decade, that it has to be the best.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by badsectoracula »

aembleton wrote: post #641
badsectoracula wrote: post #365

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I do not maximize some of my applications because i want to have several of them visible at any time when i'm working on more than one. I do maximize some other applications, depending on what i'm doing. I do not maximize the browser because i want to have the content i'm working with/looking at/reading in front of me (especially on the reading aspect since reading long lines is tiresome) and maximizing on a 16:9 mon…

> the tendency of pretty much every site out there to use the window width as a means to differentiate between mobile and desktop sites How would you differentiate them? At least with the width you can use css media queries so no Javascript is needed.

By using some mobile specific pseudo-selector? There are pseudo-selectors for printing, there could be selectors for mobile too.

Not sure, i'm not into web development, i just see using the window width as the wrong way. I keep my window down to that size even when i'm using monitors with larger resolutions (1080p or 1440p), it is a bad idea to assume window width == monitor resolution == device type.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by badsectoracula »

michaelmrose wrote: post #440
badsectoracula wrote: post #365

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I do not maximize some of my applications because i want to have several of them visible at any time when i'm working on more than one. I do maximize some other applications, depending on what i'm doing. I do not maximize the browser because i want to have the content i'm working with/looking at/reading in front of me (especially on the reading aspect since reading long lines is tiresome) and maximizing on a 16:9 mon…

There are better monitors at my local thrift store for 5 dollars. It's like 68ppi the last monitor I had like that had a huge floppy drive and kings quest III. It's time to upgrade.

No there are certainly not better monitors at your thrift store for $5 dollars.

This is a brand new monitor i bought some months ago (late 2019) and the cost was much bigger than 5 dollars. In fact it was the most expensive VA monitor at this resolution (i avoid IPS because i actually want to be able to see dark colors and contrast and every single IPS monitor i've used, regardless of resolution, is garbage when it comes to that with the awful backlight glow), it has a ton of inputs at the back, relatively fast response time (for VA), etc. It is one of the best monitors i ever had.

The resolution was something i explicitly opted for, partly because at the time i had an APU-based system that i wanted to game on and i didn't want the blurry mess that a higher resolution would have and partly because 1366x768 on a monitor (as opposed to laptop) makes for very sharp icons, fonts (after you disable antialiasing) for everything (as opposed to using a hidpi monitor where some apps look crisp and others look either too tiny or blurred from scaling). Also as a (very high) bonus, it looks great when playing older games that often use 1024x768 as a resolution since i have 1:1 mapping there.

Finally 1366x768 is currently by far the most common resolution on PCs (mainly thanks to laptops, but desktops use it too - see mine) according to statcounter and the second most common on gaming PCs according to Steam, so it isn't something you'd only find in obscure old PCs, it is as mainstream as it gets.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by retpirato »

Afforess wrote: post #24

How is lemmy going to avoid the fate of the last reddit alternative (voat)? Voat attracted the communities banned from reddit, e.g the worst of the worst: jailbait, creepshots, beatingwomen, etc. The users most interested in an alternative to reddit are on average, the exact wrong type of user to help with the growth of a healthy community. I don't see any information on how being "federated" solves the hard problem…

To me those interested in an alt-reddit are interested because they want an alternative to the echo-chamber that is reddit. Those you mention could be found on any site & just have to be banned.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by retpirato »

esperent wrote: post #482
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #460

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Their first rule would block most of that and seems to make it pretty clear they don’t want to host those communities: > No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct. Code of conduct links to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUC... Their rules are a lot stricter than Reddit’s. I’m not sure how that in practice works with it being federated, but ass…

They lump porn (presumably also artistic nudity) along with hate speech, racism and so on as banned discourse. You're not even allowed to have a sexual alias. This is not necessarily a bad thing for users - I often wish for a place similar to hacker news but with a wider range of topics - however, it almost certainly means they will never reach Reddit levels of popularity. I do think that Reddit fills an important ni…

they did just remove r/theDonald so obviously not just any topic is open for discussion. Basically you can talk about any color as long as it's blue.
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