justdoit

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Half of Twitter Blue subscribers have less than 1,000 followers in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m going door to door trying to gather pledges from all technology subscribers.

Will YOU downvote all Musk posts in this community until people post them in their proper place (c/enoughmuskspam)?

Sore throat, then congestion: Common Covid symptoms follow a pattern now, doctors say in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The “old idea” is actually baked into one of the parameters of the new model. It’s why I said the old hypothesis “was not in line with observation” rather than being “wrong”. It predicted some trends correctly, but failed to predict many others. Like all science, it needed to update as we gathered more info.

The “new” hypothesis also isn’t perfectly predictive of viral evolution, but it’s more accurate with the observed spread of other diseases. Like all models, it’ll get replaced eventually by something more powerful. Likely sooner rather than later specifically because COVID put a spotlight on a lot of holes in the idea.

Sore throat, then congestion: Common Covid symptoms follow a pattern now, doctors say in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Just a very small correction- as with all biology, natural selection will drive a virus to replicate more effectively, that’s it. This does NOT mean a virus will automatically become less lethal over time. That’s an older hypothesis that scientists found was not in line with observation.

The newer hypothesis is known as “virulence-transmission trade-off”. The oversimplification of the idea is that if a mutation increases both transmission and virulence, it will also tend to be selected for. COVID is inconsistent with both hypotheses in certain ways though, so really predicting its virulence in the short or long term has proven difficult. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10066022/

X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Are we referring to Musk as a glitch now?

Insight: Conservative think tank emerges as force behind DeSantis campaign in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We should really have another name other than “think tank” because I’m not convinced there’s a lot of thinking going on here.

Suggestions?

Watch and play Flash with ruffle.rs on the Internet Archive in c/rust@programming.dev
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeing this image on my feed is like stumbling on a cave painting

Asteroid the size of 100 hot dogs to pass Earth on Monday - NASA in c/space@beehaw.org
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can someone convert the measurement to bratwurst for the Europeans?

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There was that one guy that always had his tweets posted to Reddit that always started with "holy fucking shit" (lemm.ee)
 

I do not miss you, holy-fucking-shit man, but I imagine I’ll be seeing you again here soon anyway.

What Reddit-ism is gonna make its way here next?

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Why are people saying that Lemmy is free of corporate interest? (lemm.ee)
 

Can’t a corporation just enter the space whenever they want to? Can’t they start or even buy out larger instances? Even if Lemmy does take off, wouldn’t this inevitably happen anyway if the space gets popular enough?

Can we keep this community global? in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] justdoit@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I totally agree that climate is a worldwide topic, not sure what you think the options are here…

If the majority of users submit and upvote US based stories, that’s what will appear in the community.

If the majority upvote more global stories, that’s what’ll appear.

The only other option I can think of would be adding a rule prohibiting US stories, but that feels like it’s going too far the other direction, no?

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Don't federated instances just exacerbate already existing problems with places like Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter? Specifically admin/mod abuse, excessive reposting/cross-posting, server lag/issues? (lemm.ee)
 

So considering there’s a substantial push to get away from places like Reddit and Twitter, as an outsider I’m wondering how the fediverse is going to actually provide solutions to some already bad problems within higher resource platforms:

ADMIN/MOD ABUSE: Redditors are no strangers to mods/admins nuking comments, astroturfing, signal boosting/silencing, and so on. Doesn’t that problem just become worse in a federated system? As an example, a subreddit mod may ban users for whatever reason, but a lemmy instance admin could drag all their communities into their own drama if they choose to defederate, no? Losing access to entire instances instead of just one community/subreddit based on a power-tripping admin seems a big flaw. Am I missing something?

REPOSTING/X-POSTING: Reddit was already just the same tweets posted to like forty different subreddits, recycled weekly. On lemmy, there are now a handful of instances that contain virtually the same communities too. The lemmy.world/c/memes and lemm.ee/c/memes communities will post virtually the same content. And that’s just one. Aren’t feeds going to be overrun by duplicate posts in /All?

PRIVACY: I have no clue about this… are there extra security or privacy issues with something like lemmy?

SERVER ISSUES: This kinda goes without saying, but a small instance will already struggle to host even their own local users as traffic increases. Communicating across more and more instances is going to be extremely taxing. Access issues/desyncs seem like they’ll be inevitable. Doesn’t a federated system have more trouble scaling up than a centralized one because of this? How could small independently run servers keep up with exponential processing costs? Won’t this just squeeze out smaller instances? Add this to issues when instances choose to defederate, and you have two competing incentives: spreading out users to keep server stress low, and centralizing users to keep local engagement high. Isn’t this kind of a big hurdle?

Sorry for the wall of text- excited about lemmy in general but really have no idea about whether these are issues.