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I see a lot of this, where it's become a mix of
- bots
- real people that comment like bots
It comes up on the Reddit moderation side where I look into an account assuming it's a spam bot but it's not. There is a certain voice or style that's similar between the two groups of accounts
Looking forward to the sublinks migration, I know a lot of people were looking into it for when it becomes ready!
Core idea is to create a frontend for simple users who do not want to learn about servers and navigation to use a product. So we are starting with curated feed, once we have traffic, we can add features for advanced users to let users pick any community from any server.
Well rather, how will you pick which communities go in that feed? It's not a bad plan, but transparency would encourage your users to use that feed
Understood. Not everyone has to or will agree with what others are doing. I am trying something different. I am only asking for not enforcing undocumented rules too hard until we have some minimum traffic like let's say 100 active users in a month
With how new fediverse tech is, a lot of new rules will be "written" based on what people try. Obfuscating or misleading people on where content is coming from (which is the concern people are expressing here), seems like something people will push back against.
A simple toggle would fix this issue
- show the instances (default)
- simplify my feed (removes the instances)
Again, while others may disagree, but are there rules on what not to do?
Nope, no rules on what not to do. Users and other instances are free to decide which ideas to support.
What I see is that donation approach alone has not generated enough money for any server to be a real competitor. So are others free to try other things?
I don't think any one instance is trying to be the replacement alone? That seems to be a big misunderstanding on what people want from the threadiverse. Despite network effects that limit growth, these instances continue to grow, self sustain from donations and grants, and prove how easy it can be to break away from the model big tech companies have adopted.
My view is that most people chose to use Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks over the established alternatives (ex. Reddit) because they didn't like how those alrernatives were being run.
As such, you might find it easier to build a userbase by avoiding what Reddit has done rather than try to emulate it
That makes sense to me :) The people maintaining it can add in the Lemmy comments as needed
We have a GitHub organization for our instance, I'll see if I can make a public repo and copy in the comments of this post
This could work well!
While I haven't tested these extensively, you could give them a try (both are foss):
- SD Maid SE: App Control > Export App
- Kvaesitso: long tap > 3 dot menu > Share app
First one is designed for managing / cleaning up app storage. Second one is a launcher, so it might be a bit janky if all you need to do is transfer an app
Oh this is interesting, thank you
We could also split this question into two parts to get both
- self-identify what the person thinks is accurate
- a more accurate value based on the new Statscan definition, maybe with a link to a website that can tell people which one applies to them
I'll pass along any of these suggestions while we weigh options. Last year we made sure to turn off any email tracking so at least we (the admins) can't see any additional personal information aside from what is inputted on the census, but I agree that a better option would be ideal
Whatever is easiest for people :)
Some options that come to mind:
- a markdown file on git / GitHub
- a shared Google Docs file
- back and forth comments on Lemmy?
Sounds like they want everyone to download directly from the Play store, and not in a way they can't control?
Same trend as the official OS only apps, overzealous 'Play Protect', etc.
You can still use Files by Google to share Android applications in a similar manner. Under Categories, go to “Apps” and then the overflow menu for what you want to “Share.”
A lot of other apps still support it, including FOSS ones, unless the play app did something extra?
For example
- SD Maid SE:
App Control>Export App - Kvaesitso: long tap > 3 dot menu >
Share app - F-Droid for all of their apps
Yea we picked Google forms for convenience mostly. We want to switch to something better at some point. In my quick look around, there are a few self-hosted options that could work.
Maybe in the future we could collectively make a few templates with the selected questions for that year. That way instances can use whichever method they have the resources to run, but still get the same format of data afterwards
If your team does come across something better, I'd be interested in exploring further
Does it log IP addresses of respondents?
While the survey creator can't see any of those details, I imagine Google may be tracking things on their end.
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Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications
(www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552
Summary from the 404 media newsletter
Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.
Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”
“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.
From the article in the link above:
Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves.
Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).
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Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications
(www.nature.com)
Summary from the 404 media newsletter
Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.
Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”
“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.
From the article in the link above:
Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves.
Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22298719
Image credit in original post :)
I found the screenshot order confusing at first, and it's not OPs fault since the original article got the screenshots backwards too
From the article: