headie_sage

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF

The $360M Man forgot that the season continues past 162 if your team keeps winning. Tough to win when you have a 6'7" hole in the 3-hole of your lineup.

Boone lost Game 1, then conceded the rest by staying with a broken lineup. He needs to go. If you can't have a hard conversation with your highest paid player when he's not performing, you shouldn't be managing a major league team.

Congrats Dodgers fans. I hope Ohtani heals up and you get to see him win a Cy Young next year.

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Beautiful! How old?

Shameless plug for !baseball@fanaticus.social (check out our sidebar for the team-specific communities). We've got the game bots ported over and are working on improving them and adding new features.

I agree with !matt@lemmy.world though, the Venn diagram of sports fans and tech-savvy lemmy pioneers is pretty small. You can help by posting and commenting to attract more users. More content == more users (eventually).

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

!badminton@fanaticus.social enjoy! Let me know if you'd like to be a mod.

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh. Good question. I don't think so. Which one would you like me to create? Wrestling? Can I make you a mod?

We've got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

We've got game day threads at fanaticus! I forked the popular bot from reddit and made it compatible with lemmy.

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Come on over! Everyone's free to start their own community!

I'm pretty sure you can create your own bootstrap theme. If someone makes an old.reddit theme for Lemmy I'll add it to my instance.

PSA: you can choose your default theme in your profile settings. I'm pretty sure the themes available are determined by your home instance's options

 

cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/1955

Hi all, just wanted to get the discussion around mod tools and a pushshift for lemmy started. Sorry if this is a duplicate but I haven't been able to find any discussion about this topic.

If one thing we learned about reddit and third party API is that mod tools are of the utmost important for developing a thriving community. Pushshift is a powerful tool that allows its users to query aggregated data in their workflows.

The data lemmy users create (posts and comments) is valuable. Moderators use it to make informed decisions and improve the experience of their communities; researchers use it to build their own studies; LLM use it for training; internet searchers use it to find answers and opinions written by real people.

I think as admins we need to be clear up-front about the licensing of the content created on our site. I plan on specifying a Creative Commons license for my instance and would like to get some opinions on which would be best for the community.

Once properly licensed, I think it would be in the lemmy community's best interest to provide our community's data in aggregate (scrubbed of PII of course) for all those that need access to it to build tools for the community. People interested in our data will attempt to retrieve it anyway, whether through scraping or direct API access, so it is not only beneficial for our communities to make this data more easily accessible, but also for our servers.

Finally, once we establish our best practices for aggregating our data, we should begin work on building/forking/integrating with pushshift for lemmy. That will allow developers to build the mod tools our communities need to thrive.

TL;DR: establish open license for our content, provide access to PII-scrubbe data in bulk, build pushshift for lemmy, create better mod tools, (don't) profit.

When you say "go down" do you mean what happens if an instance shuts down its servers for good? I think the answer to that is not a technical one. If a sever is owned by an organization (not-for-profit) and it pays it's cloud provider bills, it'll stay up forever.

If you mean what happens if there's a technical issue and the server data is lost, that's a different and solved issue. Create database backups. Easy peasy.

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with most of the other posters, I'm done with reddit. I want the community but I don't want the corporation. It's not that I find admins who run lemmy instances more trustworthy by default, but the decentralized nature make me think it can be more resilient and altogether a better experience.

Boy do I wish we had RIF for lemmy though 😞

IMO, I'm not convinced that your proposed algorithm addresses the discoverability issue and we may need a broader set of functionality to make communities (and posts in those communities) more discoverable. Additionally, consider that you're idea for this algorithm is wrong, and someone comes up with a better (more performant and/or effective) one or one with a completely different set of goals in mind. What would we do then?

I wonder if there is a need to bake this functionality directly into the source code for the lemmy-ui or lemmy backend. Perhaps a better approach would be to allow instances to implement their own sorting algorithms and the lemmy-ui/backend just add the API necessary to do so.

view more: next ›