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.

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

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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.

Inspired by this bit about Anakin and Podracing…

I’d like to see a show that is comprised of low stakes single episode plots. Each episode would feature different characters and take place during those periods of time the movies skip over. They’d largely be about character development, world building, comedy, or just following up on untold stories.

Some Examples:

• Luke’s life before he met obiwan (blasting wampa rats etc)

• C3P0 & R2 working for Leia between episodes 3 & 4

• Jar Jar Getting exiled and living on his own

• Anakins previous podraces & sebulba

• The alluded to past adventures of Anakin as Obiwans Padewan

• Leia becoming a leader in the rebel alliance

• Chewbacca and Han meeting / having adventures

• Yoda training child Obiwan / Ashoka / Qui Gon

• Hoth/Yavin prior to the Empire’s discovery

East Coast is finally getting a taste of what West Coast summers have been like for the past decade(s).

I wonder if we’d be taking climate change more seriously if it was the other way around; considering there’s 10x as many people on the eastern states/provinces.

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.

Wait is that some kid IRL? Or we talking about gpt speaking as a child?

Fuuuuuuck… Imagine if chat GPT started amending its results with… “EDIT: wElL tHiS bLeW uP oVeRnIgHt… tHaNkS fOr ThE gOlD kInD ReDdiToR”

That’d be so damn annoying haha

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.

What’s even more annoying than google populating half the first page with ads is that the links don’t even work half the time these days.

If AI art is just ripping off IRL artists than it’s safe to assume chat GPT’s training was >50% reddit & Wikipedia content.

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.