We need enough people to agree on both a vehicle and a direction.

• There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the current government(s) but don’t agree how to create change; be it through the current system, major modifications to the current system, or even more severe changes.

• There are a lot of people who don’t want wide spread poverty/suffering, but don’t agree on how that problem should be dealt with; be it through universal income, massive public projects, or wealth taxation and better competition regulations.

IMO we need a new digital/decentralized/open-source/transparent ‘social media platform’ that can replace the current easily manipulated electoral systems.

We need ideas & policies to be independently actionable from the partisan politics that afaic specifically exist to mitigate change and maintain the influence of money in policy.

I got a cat at 18 for the same reason I don’t want kids lmao. I like kids. I also like dogs. But I like leaving the house for more than 8 hours more and for that you need a cat.

French Revolution: May 5, 1789 – Nov 9, 1799

Invention of ‘Internet’: 1969

Turning off the internet/social-media will only throw gas on the fire grease on the guillotine me thinks.

Than there’s the element of sites going down. Redundant conversations serve as a form of backup.

The admins/mods/community have been pretty united in rejecting toxicity. Any maga/racist posters are usually downvoted to hell such that the only positively ranked posts in their communities are antithetical to maga/trump/racism.

I suspect (/hope lol) a lot of them will just use the reddit official app.

I used to do security at some shelters and the local Ministry for Social Development offices (Welfare office). Through those experiences I learned that there is a big, big difference between calling someone homeless/addict or saying “experiencing homelessness/addiction”

The title says it the correct way, the opening paragraph does not. That being said, “unhoused” doesn’t colloquially imply homeless and could be misconstrued as people being evicted. Regardless, after reading the article I don’t think the author intended to degrade people with their wording.

Anecdotally, I think we do a disservice to the people directly suffering from homelessness/addiction/mental health by misdirecting our frustrations towards the journalists increasing awareness of the problem.

Similarly, I think we do disservice to a lot of victimized and marginalized people by continually ‘improving’ the language surrounding specific issues and subsequently attacking people -who are engaging the topic in good faith- for not adopting the prescribed nomenclature fast enough.

I can’t find the video but basically GPT can only predict the next word it wants to say, or something like that… so things like making a joke with a funny punchline is almost impossible because GPT doesn’t consider what the punchline will be until after the setup has be generated.

This inability to plan ahead results in failure of extremely simple tasks like, shortening a sentence to exactly 10 words

The original video I saw was doing something with lists I think. But yea this inability to think even 2 words ahead imbues some serious limitations.

I say we make them invisible but still keep them for backend. Same with karma.

Besides base thresholds to prevent bots, it could also be used in mod recruitment to make sure mods are active members of a given community. As Lemmy evolves other useful mod tools could also leverage those scores. Perhaps by giving either limited moderator powers or enhanced reporting powers to a communities most active members.

I fully agree that karma/vote-scores are contusive to creating toxic hive mind environments, but I think their visibility is the crux not their existence.

Prizes and awards could maybe stay, not sure

They should be used to fund the servers.

In combination with invisible vote scores and no karma it would be a good way to highlight great content without feeding into dopamine addiction.

Engage content that you enjoy and ride this out.

Right now lemmy’s growth is driven by people pre-emptively leaving reddit even though their choses mobile apps still function. We’ll probably see another influx come July.

But for now all we as a seed community can do is engage the other topics we enjoy and build communities that have substance.

Eventually people will join to engage those topics instead of grip reddits demise.

There you are again… running away because you don’t have an argument to stand on. If this was your community you’d 100% have removed my comment by now. The only reason you continue this façade of engagement is because your persecution-fetish tickles your cognitive bias.

You don’t even know what peer reviewed means so whatever you think you get is most likely debunked by the people you’ve already blanket disregarded as being part of the hive mind.

I hope you get it. Cuz millions of americans are suffering because of the flaccid policies of the leaders you advocate for.

lol that is most certainly not what peer reviewed means. But sure… call everyone and everything you disagree with a hive mind while simultaneously removing more comments in one week than lemmy has in its entire existence. What a hypocrite and bad example of conservative values you are.

Do you bother to read anything outside your safe space?? Or peer reviewed? Either way you called the majority of americans white morons so you’re in violation of your own rules dingis.

So go back to reddit than lol. Your community you moderate is 50% removed comments. You’re a hypocrite and you’re wrong. If you were really open to debate you wouldn’t be desperately trying to insulate yourself from other peoples arguments.

Cognitive dissonance is a hellova drug. Thanks for being bleating proof that reddit’s right wing spaces were nothing but a house of cards for mean kids like you who only pretend to play nice with others.

Is that why you’re aggressively removing comments that don’t conform to your opinions? Everyone see’s through conservative’s fake “debate us” talking point. Ya’ll run the hell away from every single argument that you can’t strawman or whatabout.

Have fun getting your reality check. Outside Reddit/Twitter the majority of people don’t agree with you.

Man it must be jarring leaving reddit and not having an army of bots/trolls re-enforcing your cognitive bias.