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IMO would be a cool feature.
Because I often get posts I don’t have a clue about because I’m not subscribed to that community, take like 15 secs to understand what the hell is on my screen, and then the for you algorithm starts pushing that community even more because I stayed on it a while.
Maybe I have settings wrong or something. But is it possible to get a for you feed with only my subscribed communities?
It was down for a couple hours half a day ago
For mine and a lot of niches there is :).
I don’t know.
I use microblogging platforms to connect with people who have my disability, which includes lots of cognitive problems.
So the current customisation and exploration effort it takes to set up a working mastodon account is too much for most people with my illness.
An optional algorithm would help.
It’s similar in JP.
The discover feed isn’t anywhere near the “for you feed” on X, so the experience isn’t super personalised and gravitates towards us politics, as that’s the most popular thing on the platform (similarly to lemmy).
Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.
Despite the predictable dumpster fire of a comment section sharing this would inevitably lead too, I’m glad you shared it, it was a pleasant read.
Europe should sell ukraine energy at discounted prices.
It’s not like other services. Books are only a couple mb so it’s really easy to reupload the entire website.
Check out the piracy lemmy community megathread.
Yeah it’s got loads of domains. It’s never been gone.
Interesting anecdote. Though to judge by your username, it seems you may have an agenda yourself.
This wasn’t the ME/CFS article (the illness I am personally disabled by) and anyways all this happened before I became disabled.
Anyways my ban is over now, but I can’t get myself to edit wikipedia anymore. It was a pretty shitty experience and I don’t wanna go back.
And it wasn’t the only one. So much NPOV-violating stuff on most the fringe articles and whenever you edit to make more neutral tone or you remove something unsupported by citations you end up in an insufferable straw man argument chain on the talk page.
The main fun part is filling out abandoned articles and making new articles yourself. But anything showing problems in other people’s work becomes really tiring really quick with all the talk page nonsense and endless reverts.
It definitely has, just not to as large a scale.
In practice it’s ran like a heirarchical aristocracy, where a admins control articles they care about and are very picky about the changes they allow.
One article about an illness contains false information related to alternative medicine “treatments” and I edited it, this was removed by the person who made most of the page. I got into an argument with them, and turns out they have the same username and come from the same country as an account on other platforms selling alternative medicine products, which are subtly advertised on the page they control. They also are a wikipedia admin.
Anyways I reported this to the admin team, and my report was immediately deleted by the admin I was reporting, and I got a three year ban. Mind you I have over a thousand wikipedia edits and have made some big contributions so this was quite annoying.
And this is far from the only incident. The people who are most likely to edit wikipedia pages are those who really care about, or could really benefit from the topic. So you end up having situations where companies hire agencies to improve their image by changing the wikipedia article about them and their products, same thing for celebrities.
read my post, not just the title.
Honestly for some specific use cases where the computer being very light is needed, this is great, but the fact every mac has this now is a little crazy.
To add to this using these two features has really helped remove a lot of the threads that were taking a toll on my mental health from my feed.
FWIW the “die” is probably more coming from german and dutch posts than english
Yep I just tried and got “people, good, people, good, good, good, die”
People make up the system.
I can hate the system’s structures and want to change it. Hate the elite that designed a system, but I wont hate a person for simply existing within the system.