Awesome!

Is there a way to throw money at you yet? Moral support is nice, but cold, hard cash is hopefully also appreciated. If that’s a thing, point me in the right direction and you’ll have a little pick-me-up this weekend.

I’m saying it’s a completely separate concern. Whether Meta scrapes lemmy has nothing to do with whether Meta is federated with lemmy.

Sure, but that’s not the issue at all. The issue is that they’d be linking lemmy content from within Threads, as in using Lemmy content to drive engagement for Threads. Whether it’s used in an LLM is another matter entirely. Without direct API integration, Lemmy posts and comments won’t show up in Threads. That’s my take on why people want to defederate.

Sure, websites could scrape and whatnot, but having actual API integration is a very different thing.

I think the argument is that Meta would hoover up and profit from posts from people who don’t consent to use it. AFAIK, you can’t block an instance from seeing your posts and comments, so the only real option is defederation.

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Perhaps it can be automated then?

Basically:

1. once/week, compile list of communities with no activity for >1 month
2. ping all mods of that community that haven’t been pinged recently (say, once/month)
3. if a mod responds, mark the mod as active
4. ping admins with a report about communities with unresponsive mods and no activity for at least 3 months
5. admins would manually review that list and remove mods/communities as necessary

I’m sure some passionate individual could easily write such a bot. But soliciting feedback from the community in the Agora would be the right starting point to determine the rules, and then the follow-up would be a script or something to make admins’ jobs enforcing that suck less.

Yeah, a set of guidelines would be good. And perhaps some rules for moderation that could result in removal of mod privileges by the admin.

But yeah, discussion here is key. I’m sure a lot of people have opinions here, and many have experience with moderation on other platforms.

Maybe bring this up on the !agora@sh.itjust.works as a discussion to get more feedback.

And yeah, I agree. I needed to message the mods of a community once, and I decided to dig a bit. Only one has any kind of activity within the past few months, so I reached out to the only one with activity and didn’t get a response (granted, my request didn’t need one).

So I agree it’s a real problem. We also need to have a mechanism to identify under-modded communities and encourage finding new mods.

That’s sick. We’re getting a new fiber network in my city and we’ll top out at 10gbit. I’m probably not paying for that (would be >$200/month), but it’s nice to know it exists. Who knows, with the rate of web bloat, maybe I’ll eventually need it…

It is an opinion, but it doesn’t drive additional discussion so it should just be put into the post body.

I would only top comment on a post I made if I’m asking a question and want to provide my own answer for discussion’s sake.

Nothing, but laughing at your own jokes is a bit… odd.

If I comment on my own post, it’s because I have an opinion about it that I want separated from the post to have a separate thread of discussion. This isn’t that.

That also fits for Linux, and Linux often comes with much more capable text editors. If you want an awesome text editor, Linux is your friend.

That said, if you just want a basic text editor (which I’m guessing is 99% of people), Notepad works.

I’ve used it. Just use vim in WSL instead…

I found it useful occasionally for a pretty niche use case. I automated generating documents with a program I wrote, then cleaned it up a bit in Wordpad before sending it on.

That’s about as niche as you can get, but I wonder if it’s not too uncommon. RTF is easy to generate programmatically, and it’s pretty widely supported across various platforms. I have since moved on, but maybe others haven’t.

But will they test for longevity as well? Or just safety?

As long as it’s not going to fry my phone, I’ll probably give it a shot, but it may still be a better deal to pay a bit more somewhere else.

Huh, looks like iOS overtook Android sometime last year…

The second one does, here’s a quote:

More basic items come directly from suppliers to skip the design and conception stage. However, it isn’t as easy as picking out items from a catalog. IKEA works with their world-class buyers to check the quality of the products and negotiate the price.

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This means that they have to keep their shelves stocked with products to keep up with demand, so using both manufacturers and supplies ensures that new products will consistently make a turnaround.

I would assume a USB charger would fall under the “more basic items” part.

I take this to mean that instead of designing a product to be manufactured elsewhere, they sometimes buy products to relabel and put on the shelves, without going through any form of design process (though I’m guessing they do test this stuff).