Note that it might take a while though, so if anyone wants to get this done before the 30th (so you can use API-based tools to wipe comments), request it ASAP.

I requested…maybe two weeks or so ago? And it only came through today. So get to it y’all

Yeah it’s the lack of vote counting, more than the lack of downvotes, that I really appreciate. (Not to say I really miss downvotes or anything, I just really don’t care either way.)

I’m also on Tildes and they also lack downvotes, but once you’ve been on there a week you get the ability to label things (noise, jokes, malice), which sort of functions as a more nuanced downvote button. But they share the lack of overall karma score, which keeps that same nice non-performative vibe.

Two accounts I believe. It’s like having a gmail and hotmail account with the same name before the @

Even more than that, you have the idea that ‘similar users to yourself buy a lot of alcohol, so you probably will too’. Of course alcoholics, whether attempting recovery or not, are likely to buy alcohol. So if you’re a recovering alcoholic, ‘similar users to yourself’ are gonna be buying more alcohol than usual, and so you’ll see ads for it. Totally heartless and just for-profit.

I see what you mean to an extent, and I also just moved over, but it’s worth remembering that Digg -> Reddit was the same afaik. Like Reddit had been around and established for a decent amount of time before the fall of Digg. (This is second-hand info because I wasn’t around at the time)

I’d be interested to know from someone more tech-savvy whether googling advice, and then clicking on the cached version, still counts as viewing reddit. Because I’d ideally still like to append reddit to my google searches without giving them ad views.

AKA if someone monetises advice given for free, we should be able to freely access it.

There’s also Beehaw’s new writing community which just opened, !writing@beehaw.org

Not specific to writing prompts, but there’s at least one prompt that’s been posted, and there’s discussion about creating a regular writing prompts thread as well.

I like story heavy games so I personally don’t mind unskippable cut scenes… the first time around. What reeeaaaaally annoys me is when it’s a game with multiple endings and I can’t skip the same cut scenes on future playthroughs.

Same when it’s a reading-heavy multiple ending game, but it won’t let me skip text that I’ve seen already.

FED-uh-verse

One exercise that I know people who’ve had success with is to be focusing on simpler scales, which will all have slightly different fingerings for both hands. Just the regular primarily white-key scales.

E.g. C major goes 12312345 for the right hand, and 54321321 for the left hand.

Then once that’s doable at some speed, moving onto the tricker simple scales. And then going into contrary motion (where the right hand goes up and the left hand down). I’ve found that helps people get more used to their hands working independently. Especially because it provides more structure, and just one thing (different fingering) to focus on, rather than adding in differences in tempo etc.

Great comment. I do find the octopus example somewhat puzzling, though, but perhaps that’s just the way the example is set up. I, personally, have never encountered a bear, I’ve only read about them and seen videos. If someone had asked me for bear advice before I’d ever read about them/seen videos, then I wouldn’t know how to respond. I might be able to infer what to do from ‘attacked’ and ‘defend’, but I think that’s possible for an LLM as well. But I’m not sure there’s a salient difference offered by this example between the octopus, and me before I learnt about bears.

Although there’s definitely elements of bullshitting there - I just asked GPT how to defend against a wayfarble with only deens on me, and some of the advice was good (e.g. general advice when being attacked like staying calm and creating distance), and then there was this response which implies some sort of inference:

“6. Use your deens as a distraction: Since you mentioned having deens with you, consider using them as a distraction. Throw the deens away from your position to divert the wayfarble’s attention, giving you an opportunity to escape.”

But then there was this obvious example of bullshittery:

“5. Make noise: Wayfarbles are known to be sensitive to certain sounds. Clap your hands, shout, or use any available tools to create loud noises. This might startle or deter the wayfarble.”

So I’m divided on the octopus example. It seems to me that there’s potential for that kind of inference and that point 5 was really the only bullshit point that stood out to me. Whether that’s something that can be got rid of, I don’t know.

I do understand the complaint about redundant instances, but also disagree with it - nobody looks at social groups IRL and thinks “Hold on, why are you creating a writing group? There’s already one in this city!”

I’m not super over how the fediverse works mechanically; I was under the impression that users could create their own instances and interact with who they choose to?

Note that, depending on how much of a slog you’re finding it, the Pevear/Volokhonsky translations are amazing. They’re a couple, one is a native English speaker who understands Russian, the other is a native Russian speaker who understands English. Their translations are modern, easy to read (well, relatively, given that it’s Dostoevsky lol), and accurate. Can’t recommend them highly enough.

Yeah I totally agree with that! I think it’s a basic side effect of the way the voting algorithm works - namely that early votes count for a hell of a lot, and so memes/pictures get those early votes much earlier than discussion posts do - because it’s much quicker to look at a picture, than it is to read a long text post.

So the good thing about smaller (especially smaller and well-moderated) communities, is that there’s enough space for text posts to breathe, without competing with memes for vote ascension space. But that doesn’t erase the problem of meme/image supremacy in r/all and r/popular.

Sure, when it’s r/all by top. But a massive part of it is subreddits, which then constitute the front page. The majority of my Reddit front page isn’t memes, because my main subscriptions are things like acting, patientgamers, askhistorians, piano, etc. Which don’t have many, if any, memes posted.

Yeah there’s a bunch. See https://join-lemmy.org/instances and there are several there to choose from.