SorteKanin

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As a dane, this explains a lot with all the weird stuff you hear about the US these days.

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

People think consensually drinking your partner’s breast milk is wrong

Wait, they do? Why? What could possibly be wrong with that?

The idea of a consent waiver for post death sex is... A strange, uncomfortable thought. At the same time, I cannot really see any moral problem with that, per se. It's kind of in the same category of being in a relationship with a sibling with no intention of getting children. Strange, slightly uncomfortable to consider, but hard to see any actual moral problem with it.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Have these people actually ever compared the anonymous internet with the named internet? Facebook is flooded with bigots and idiots that readily spout racist and hateful words, with their full name in plain sight. Meanwhile, anonymous places like Reddit are far better moderated (yes, I know we hate on reddit here but it is much better moderated than Facebook). Same applies to most of the fediverse.

I suspect these people haven't actually used these anonymous places on the internet much. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 5 days ago

... until now.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because any normal person would want it upper cased. Most people never type these folder names.

Yes, Linux should appeal to the masses, otherwise we will never get rid of Windows. No, this doesn't apply to anyone on Lemmy cause nobody on Lemmy right now truly qualify as "normal person", statistically speaking.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 6 days ago

Space is pretty big and accidental collisions like that are quite unlikely actually. But of course space debris is a real problem, just not quite in the way you describe I think.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it would do absolutely nothing to the atmosphere

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 6 days ago

That has nothing to do with it. This only affects long exposure photography, you would never notice this with your naked eye.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 1 week ago

Interesting analogy. The future is hard to predict. Hopefully things turn out better than this prediction.

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

Interesting, chat about what? I'm in Denmark and it's rare that anyone says anything to someone they don't know in a shop, unless it's the customary "hi" to the cashier. Where are you where this is more normal?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

in checkout lines

I dunno, is this a good venue? People are there to shop, not to socialise. Most people will likely want to get on with their business and get back home.

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

Would this mean it’s a bad idea to give kids sunglasses?

Well if that is actually the causing effect, yes. I checked the paper and they do actually mention light brightness as a potential cause, as well as the other things but they have nothing on what actually causes the problem for real.

But I mean, clearly we aren't naturally meant to need sunglasses so in a way I'd say yea, don't give your kids sunglasses.

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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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