Bucky

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I realized that if I want more people to engage w/ content, I have to be the change I want to see. I interact w/ content more regularly as a result

Yes, a good rule of thumb is to try and submit at least one good post per day. I don't know how the algorithm works here, but over on the other site, it only feeds one post into the feed of your users if your sub is small.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe you could have a setting where you indicate 2-4 instances you want it to always search. A lot of instances are like mine, just made for one or a few users and aren't going to host a lot of content.

 

There are a couple of browser extensions for the other place that show you what subreddits a given URL are posted to. If you're looking for discussion about a current link/page/site, it's very handy. Also, if you're submitting links, it's helpful to show where a given link has already been submitted and when.

Searching Lemmy instances can be daunting. An extension like this would be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a hard time with this and I could not get lemmy easy deploy to work. I was finally able to install on a Pi 4 with ansible using ubergeek77's images. It was difficult because of the lack of documentation.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

That's the thing many people miss when they look at the right. Republican voters want this because racism is the number one reason that people vote Republican anyway.

Trump is a symptom of the disease, just like Huckabee Sanders is a symptom. The disease is that Republican voters are so weak-minded their media creates fairy tale realities for them to inhabit, because actual reality is too hard.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

To know when a Culture has died, we first need to understand what "Culture" is.

Culture is defined as the customs, arts, social institutions, and intellectual achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.

If you look at the United States, in particular, each one of these things is in a state of rapid, steep decline. Anti-Intellectualism, which has always been a strain in society, has hit a new high point.

Okay, let's examine each of the above attributes in detail.

Art: Writers and Actors are currently on strike because guys making more than $100 million per year don't want to pay them what they're worth. The studio CEOs think those jobs can be done by artificial intelligence. Music: Popular music is largely insipid trash, with each artist copying the last and all of them employing Auto-Tune among other computerized tools to mask their utter lack of talent. The other category of music are songs designed as marketing campaigns, or video game soundtracks. Country Music features many artists openly embracing racism and bigotry. Other forms of art are already being overtaken and subsumed by AI.

Social Institutions:. Facebook and other social media have destroyed nearly all of our social institutions. First, they destroyed our public meeting places and spaces where we formed social bonds. Then they fed misinformation and political disinformation to millions of people, further destroying and eradicating what social bonds still remained. Political institutions are hanging on by a thread due to the damage started by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, et al.

It remains to be seen if society will make it through this neo-fascist period in our history. Many people are more aware now than ever, but in 2020, 74 million Americans voted for Donald Trump for President, even after seeing the job he had done for 4 years. Trump's actions on COVID-19 led to the deaths of thousands, and yet millions of them voted for him and plan to vote for him again.

That last point covers intellectual achievements. There are still some noteworthy achievements, mainly because if they're good enough, you can become fabulously wealthy. And that's the one thing that people seem to want more than anything and are willing to do anything to get there.

Okay, so what should we post in this community? That's easy. Post anything and everything that fits the above, that highlights the corporatization and death of our once vibrant culture.

There's certainly no shortage of examples.

 

c/MurdochAliveCheck takes a Fair and Balanced look at Rupert Murdoch's alive status and whether he still has his thumb on democracy, trying to erase it from the page.

u/MurdochAliveCheckBot will check periodically and report its findings to the subreddit. View the inner workings of the bot here. (I will be moving this off reddit asap.)

Community members are encouraged to add their own link or text posts with relevant updates or their own thoughts and feelings about Rupert Murdoch and his evil media empire.

Joke writers for the bot will be given mod status. Please message me if you have ideas for things for the bot to say.

Please join the community and contribute if so inclined! Thank you.

 

In the next 24 hours, 816 am will establish rules, a coherent css theme, and everything else you need to run a Lemmy instance.

Please standby, the future is so bright I have to wear shades.

 

Please standby while I figure out how to be a sysadmin on my own Lemmy instance. I’ve been really busy with work and will have this gs in better shape tomorrow at this time.

Please be patient while I get the new 816am up and running.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this.

 

Read all about it at the above link. There's way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and results are increasingly becoming unusable, especially in the past few years. I can barely find the things I want to search for,

This is one of the most true statements I've read in the past years. Internet search is unusable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think it should be generated by participation that is upvoted. If you contribute enough quality stuff, you get one gold to give out. And yeah it should just be gold, and multiple golds would have just one icon, with a number;

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Agreed. There is no benefit to the current system, the current behavior for interacting with links on remote instances.

It only leads to confusion and/or a bad user experience.

 

I'm using this to help populate my own instance and I'm having to trigger a search for communities I haven't pulled down before. But when I click 'trigger a search', the search bar is populating wrong. This is what I see:

instance_assistant[email protected]

If I edit the first instance of the name out, the search works fine, but this seems like a bug.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think they mean "the failure to turn a profit as a company."

 

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