SorteKanin

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The Talos Principle is amazing and the sequel is super good too. Devs recently came out with a remaster of the first game too.

Outer Wilds is a masterpiece, although it's not completely chill at all times (actually can be scary but only rarely and you can disable that too). But it's a really really really good game.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 19 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Doesn't lots of package managers have the exact same problems?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 7 points 2 days ago

The whole prompt is kind of hilarious. It's like some sort of strange pep talk.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

Of course they're allowed - just saying I personally do not like it.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Having a blocklist option is of course perfectly fine. Pre-filling and pre-enabling that list is not the software's job, if you ask me.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So is air cooling actually feasible but we don't do it cause it would make data centers look like nuclear reactors? Or is it just not feasible?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

I think there would be a whole lot of excitement, possibly a lot of religious turmoil.

I'd recommend the movie "Contact" which explores this exact scenario :)

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What do you mean "meet"? The way we would reach contact is by radio signals at first, not by actual physical visits. So at first we would only be communicating with probably a very long light delay as they'd be very far away. Realistically speaking neither would be able to visit the other in any feasible way, unless they have technology that is far, far beyond what we can imagine right now. Interstellar travel is very hard.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 21 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Personally think it's just really not the software's job to handle this or have an opinion on this - it's rather up to the instance admins to decide.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 2 weeks ago

I suppose if you have an instance wide policy against AI moderation, then any mod using AI for moderation is going against the rules. But what anyone "should" do on their own instance is really up to them.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 2 weeks ago

They don't need to federate even, they're probably already scraping everything.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 2 weeks ago

I got one, just keep spamming continue, it will eventually go through!

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I am not the author but I've been looking for a tool like this for a long time! This looks really nice! :D

 

There was recently some discussion on Feddit.dk surrounding the usage of upvotes and downvotes.

Currently in ActivityPub (the underlying protocol powering the fediverse), Lemmy sends "Like" and "Dislike" activities for upvotes and downvotes. Other threadiverse platforms (PieFed, Mbin and maybe even other non-threadiverse platforms?) do the same.

However, the "Like" and "Dislike" activities are meant for... well, "liking" and "disliking" things. They are not necessarily associated with the action of "vote this thing up so more people see it" or "vote this thing down so less people see it".

For instance, on Friendica, you can dislike a post and this sends a Dislike activity. From Friendica's point of view, such a Dislike indicates just that - the user dislikes the content. It doesn't necessarily mean "this should be shown to less users", but Lemmy will interpret the Dislike activity like that.

This leads to strange scenarios with posts that a user finds relevant and interesting (something that the user may reasonably want to upvote) but also something that the user dislikes (i.e. downvote).

As an example, imagine a post with a title like "AI is awful" (I'm sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus "Dislike" it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI. The Friendica user's intent is not to hide the post from other users or make the post be shown to fewer users! They just intend to show their dislike for the topic at hand.

However Lemmy will interpret that Dislike as a downvote, and the post will thus be shown to fewer users and get ranked down in the sorting.

So is Lemmy and co. abusing the Like/Dislike activities? Should the threadiverse instead use a dedicated activity for the acts of "I think this should be shown to more users" and "I think this should be shown to fewer users"? That way, it would not be confused with the Likes and Dislikes from other platforms.

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