[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

Running the title though Google and looking at the discussions around it in various corners of the Internet seems to indicate it's utter bunk.

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 months ago

Survivorship bias, I think

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 122 points 1 year ago

I exclusively surf "top 6 hours" and I've actually noticed an uptick in niche community content, lately. Different kind of growth, maybe a sort of settling into itself, finally.

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

Seconded. I'm a dude in my mid 30s and I love those movies

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

It's good branding. "China," as we think of it, fragmented into states that recombinated into different versions of what they each claimed to be the rightful empire, many, many times. It's like a ship of thesius thought experiment, almost, but sometimes the boat is a pile of wood, sometimes it's a galleon, other times it's a fleet of smaller boats.

And sometimes it's Turkish. (Sorta)

Source: degree in Song Dynasty era Chinese history. (It's a long story)

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

If you want to talk weird, each leg on a horse is actually one really long finger.

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

... Still haven't seen The Wire 🥲

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Gandhi. Seriously. Sleeping habits aside, dude was pro-apartheid.

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 109 points 1 year ago

They could just pay their fucking taxes so we can have trains

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

I call this my "rule of three" - I wait until I've seen "something" three times before deciding on an abstraction. Two isn't enough to get an idea of all the potential angles, and if you don't touch it a third time, it's probably not important enough to warrant the effort and risk of a refactor

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Misread "worm" as "woman" at first, was concerned.

[-] karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

proportional

Maybe they just don't have the actual numbers you'd expect from their outsized presence in the discourse, when they're not being protected, or facilitated, or actively promoted by engagement algorithms or the individuals who own the other platforms.

(I'm pretty sure this is the case, but I'm too lazy to get sources just this minute)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by karmiclychee@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Edit: Shit, I probably should have made the title plural - "Does Lemmy need charters?"

From the great discussion below, some clarifying thoughts:

  • Not advocating for a SINGLE charter, and less of a system and more of a... convention.
  • In my universe, groups of instances could get together and come up with some common governing strategies that set them apart from other instances.
  • Given common strategies, other instances can opt in to get in on that sweet, ethical branding.
  • What I sketched out below was thinking specifically around what a single charter could look like addressing the immediate issues facing Lemmy to date. A prototype for the convention, even.

/Edit

Looooong time r/all lurker here, something like 10+ years on reddit with maybe 10 comments. I've seen a lot go down.

I'm seeing a lot of hand wringing around defederating Meta, Threads, and even handling problematic instances within the Lemmyverse itself.

It's tiring to see these things come into consideration on a case by case basis, completely decontextualized from earlier crises. And the patterns are all too familiar - the big ones lately have been around (to name a few things):

  • Adopt-Extend-Extinguish (https://lemmy.world/post/467454)
  • the corrosion of commercialization
  • the never-ending gyre of "Free Speech" vs The Overton Window (nazis are bad, vaccines are good)

This definitely isn't a new idea, but at in these early days of the Lemmyverse, we can take our collective past experiences, good and bad, on other social media networks, and define some sort of Lemmy charter that sets standards for ethos and quality control. I'll start:

  1. Don't federate with for-profit or commercial institutions
  2. TBD

Because we're done with the for-profit, commercial web, right? In the last couple of days, my brain has taken all the all the Lemmy posts and comments on the subject, mashed it all up, distilled it, and keeps coming back to this idea of non-profit/non-commercial entities.

but y tho?

Because loose, institutional underpinnings could, like a mycelial network, feed the Lemmyverse. And mycelial networks are dope.

Here's a proposed methodology:

  • Initial Core* Lemmy instances define a charter of guidelines about behavior, ethos, standards
  • Lemmy instances that adopt the charter get known as "Charter Instances"
  • Charter instances have a say in the upkeep and development of Charter... things.

*We'd have to think about what that initial "Core" means - maybe the first X instances to have reached Y number of users? Beyond bragging rights that They Were There when the charter was created, no other special status would be conferred.

And because I'm an anarcho-syndicalist:

  • Charter status is basically just a blue checkmark that just says "hey, we're cool, folks"
  • An instance can walk away from the charter, no biggie
  • Charter instances can determine if another instance is violating the charter and take away their status, or choose to update the charter to be inclusive
  • Instances wouldn't be limited to just the charter for guiding principles once adopted, instances can do whatever
  • The charter should probably be Super High Level, descriptive rather than prescriptive, to allow communities decide how to interpret and implement

And because I have ADHD, and this is currently over-stimulating my brain:

  • Different charters developed by different communities! Mix and match! Merge!
  • Creation of a Charter .org non-profit foundation that provides material support to new or struggling instances!
    • and compensation for software maintainers!
    • and legal support when necessary!
    • and maybe maintains the technical specification of what makes a lemmy a lemmy!

Alright, ADHD has run its course. Back to lurking for another 10 years.

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