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How do you determine the date of a webpage?
Not sure how long this manual honors-system style thing will work, but I'm not sure of a reliable way to automate this.
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Really? You can't go 10 minutes in many LGBT spaces without hearing someone using the f-slur in an affectionate way. Also banned is "b!tch", which is not really considered that offensive in most of the US between female friends, as well as "pu!sy", which is maybe vulgar but not an offensive term at all (I notice "dick" didn't make cut). Maybe for a site like Hacker News those terms aren't usually appropriate, but I s…
Next challenge: Write a regexp to check whether the post was written by an African-American or not, so you know whether to censor the n-word.
What a cool idea! Now, how about somethimg where only content can be shared if it's only 500+ years old?
I'm not really sure what problem this is supposed to solve. Hysteria is not a new phenomenon (Satanic Panic, witch trials). Disagreements and politics are not new; what if someone posts about the start of the Iraq War? Ignoring the present doesn't do anyone any good.
Recognizing the dubious assumptions upon which the Iraq war started should provide perspective to people debating the merits of modern wars and their motivations.
This project is not meant to encourage people to ignore the present...it's meant to provide additional perspective for understanding the present from the past.
FYI, there is a subreddit for 10 years old news. It doesn't receive much traffic https://www.reddit.com/r/TenYearsAgo/
/r/Stuck10YearsBehind is more popular https://www.reddit.com/r/Stuck10YearsBehind/
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Interesting - reminds me of the "Delayed Gratification" magazine I just started subscribing to; it's a less ambitious timeframe, but by being deliberately 1-2 quarters behind, it does avoid a lot of churn and puts in a lot of perspective. (FWIW: I find I enjoy the magazine, but I find it also spends a bulk of it in discussing interesting but marginal items from 6 months ago, whereas I would've expected a benefit-of-r…
If you don't mind, is it nicely laid out, typeset, nice paper, presented nicely on arrival etc.? i.e. is it a good gift, or is it 'just' a good magazine? I've thought about 'Lapham's Quarterly' before, it's just international shipping enough to put me off.
I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted. I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media product…
I love the concept, but I don't know if 5 years is even enough time for people to have gotten over current events. If you made it 20+ years, I suspect that would work better. In any case, good luck, and I hope I'm wrong. :-)
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Does lemmy still do the thing where they censor certain words and don't include a way to configure the censorship to try and discourage certain groups from using it?
Looks like it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/master/server/lemmy_u... That's the most offensive Regex I've ever seen.
This reminds me of an idea I’ve had for a restaurant, but know I will never actually build myself. Standard “Sports Bar” setup with TVs everywhere, but all of the TVs are playing the live broadcast from exactly 8 years ago. (I picked 8 years so that the news would match up with the US Political cycle, the Olympics, and most of the time the leap year cycle.) I always thought that it would be fun to watch the breathles…