The surprising bit is the speed, not that it happened. Knowing about the speed helps with policy proposals, because you can say “with X reduction, you will see Y improvements”

Scientists say they have been “stunned” by how quickly young children’s lungs began to recover and grow after pollution restrictions were brought in where they lived.

Some other ideas I forgot to add to the other comment

• Have some mechanism for people to suggest which niches get worked on, and then have one person decide on the schedule. Else it gets disorganized

• Shorten the cycles to a few weeks rather than months. I feel like people will get impatient if they need to wait months to get past a niche they don’t care about. Two weeks might be a nicer starting point, and then you can adjust it up or down?

• Do outreach about the project all over the place, and not just in fedigrow. Fedigrow reaches the involved and active people, but not everyone else that might be interested in the theme. For example:

  • Ask people about their favorite communities for the topic of that cycle on !asklemmy@lemmy.world, !ask@piefed.social, etc
  • Memes in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world (see the beans, corn, and similar trends), which are very low effort
  • post lists of that cycle’s relevant communities in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

• While you can prioritize one community, don’t restrict it to that one. It will be easier to find people interested in crafts, compared to say crochet specifically. Also people can have strong feelings about which specific community or instance is best, and some users might refuse to post to an instance they don’t agree with. So if you give a list of which communities you want to grow, it might go over better

I think there are a lot of people who might want to help, but don’t have the time/energy/experience to organize it

I’m supportive of this, and happy to help where appropriate :) Please feel free to tag me in future posts about this, in case I miss it

If you can, I would prefer that you use the existing communities for this project because there’s no need to dilute efforts further. Also, see if you can create a Mastodon account where you post those announcements too, because that’s a large userbase that is already familiar with what this place is and can even post from their accounts

It sounds like they are OK with people using the tool, but he wants them to be mindful of how its being used.

But if you’re my colleague and we’re in a Slack discussion and you post a wall of Claude output, then I’m afraid I received a different message than you intended.

The same is true for people’s newsletters and social content. It’s your name on it; are you proud of the prose and weird AI-isms sprinkled throughout it? If so, great. But I can ask Claude directly if I wanted to.

TLDR: Take responsibility for what you send to people, and don’t just ask a chatbot and blindly share the output

I didn’t know about it until I stumbled across that issue. After playing around with it, it is a possible solution but I think we would need the lemmit admins to make that change in order for it to work.

What I’ve learned:

• right now it can be toggled by admins with a CLI command, after Lemmy v1 it will be known as unlisted and it will become a part of the main community visibility settings (public, unlisted, localonlypublic, localonlyprivate, private): https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/db_schema_file/src/enums.rs#L130
• when it is enabled, only users that are subscribed and logged in can see the posts. For everyone else, you can only see the community info and post contents if you get a direct link to it

Since it is a property of the community, trying to override it on our end might lead to federation issues because of the ambiguity.

I’d like to second recursive_recursion, your feedback is still just as appreciated :)

I will test out the hiding option and see if I can come up with a compromise that people will agree with. The general sentiment in this thread seems to be that we should not simply refederate.

If we did this, you would be able to block the whole instance at once. See the blocks tab on: https://lemmy.ca/settings

I will note that since that previous discussion, Lemmy has improved the functionality that lets an individual user block entire instances. So users that don’t want to see this content can block everything by adding lemmit.online to the block list in the user settings.

It might also be possible for us to hide the communities from public feeds, so only subscribed users will see the communities and associated content. We need to explore that some more: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2943#issuecomment-1581485335

• EDIT: I’ve looked into it some more, tldr it might work if lemmit admins make the change on their end: https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850/24859618

I do agree with this reasoning

can use lemmy.ca as my main site with links off to reddit on occassion I don’t need to use reddit anymore to browse but just drop in for a specific post of interest.

When users are migrating off of old social media platforms, letting them see everything from one app reduces a lot of friction. Especially with Reddit taking steps to keep users locked in to their app (ex. Blocking logged out users, limiting old.reddit.com, killing the RSS feeds).

We’ve seen a lot of “mirror content from elsewhere” sites, and lemmit.online was one of the better organized cases. Every post makes it very clear that the post is a mirror / archive, so no one should mistake the bot for a real user looking for help. For example: https://lemmit.online/post/8699035

Assuming that there isn’t a better extension out there for people to switch to, this move might push some people into quitting Facebook completely.

If you’re using uBlock origin, then you won’t see ads anywhere else. Meanwhile on Facebook, every few posts will be an ad.

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That already fell apart, they gave up after the site got overrun with bots. Coincidentally, they were planning to use “AI” to run parts of the site, including moderation

Which book are you reading?

To be fair, I haven’t used Chromecast in a long time. Maybe even 10 years ago now.

I remember having connectivity issues, where I’d go to pause the content and realize it disconnected again. So maybe the battery drain was because of poor connections, or poorly designed apps

Its nice to be able to use it with a remote instead of fumbling around with your phone.

Also performance, decoding support, not burning your phone’s battery, etc

No ads, better performance, customizable

I also tried Projectivy in the past but I don’t remember why I switched away from it. I think there was a performance bug that was causing it to crash. Both may be good options now

Thanks, I didn’t know about them before today and this is probably why

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_cannon

There is no evidence in favor of the effectiveness of these devices. A 2006 review by Jon Wieringa and Iwan Holleman in the journal Meteorologische Zeitschrift summarized a variety of negative and inconclusive scientific measurements, concluding “the use of cannons or explosive rockets is a waste of money and effort”.[7]

There is also reason to doubt the efficacy of hail cannons from a theoretical perspective.[8] For example, thunder is a much more powerful sonic wave, and is usually found in the same storms that generate hail, yet it does not seem to disturb the growth of hailstones. Similarly, hail cannons are placed at ground level, while hail formation occurs at altitudes above 10,000 meters; a device with an effective range of 500 meters, above, would be unlikely to have an impact at an elevation 20 times higher.[9][10][11] Charles Knight, a cloud physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said in a July 10, 2008, newspaper article that “I don’t find anyone in the scientific community who would validate hail cannons, but there are believers in all sorts of things. It would be very hard to prove they don’t work, weather being as unpredictable as it is.”

This feels like a time-traveller changing history scenario. I wonder what the original intent was

BERLIN, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air, potentially preventing an ‌attack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and cargo logistics hub, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.

The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it ​in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.

The drone, which prosecutors said was equipped ​with professional explosives and a detonator, then crashed nearby, Seif, from the governing conservative CDU ⁠party, told journalists.

it looks like this was posted twice around the same time. since the other one has more comments and upvotes, I’ll remove this one

Personally, when I’m reading an article, I skim past the parts that explain climate change, unless it has some new bit of information (ex. updates to historical trends). It’s not because I doubt climate change, but because I’m pretty familiar with the core points already.

I think it is helpful to talk about it in longer articles where you have room to dive into the topic, and put the current topic into a relevant wider context. However, I don’t think we should require it for the sake of mentioning it. It’s not effective at changing minds when its done like that.

I agree that the last article should have included the wider context. I would also be concerned if there is a growing pattern of not mentioning it when it needs to be. On this last point, while it’s more difficult, I would prefer if they analyzed sentiment and phrasing rather than counting mentions.

I agree with the point you are making, that this study shows that there is a risk of people using these systems to generate biological weapons.

However, in this particular study, they created bacteriophages. Those are viruses that attack bacteria, and the focus of that research is usually around creating antibiotic treatments (fight bacterial infections with viruses that kill them). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

No problem!