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PumpkinDrama

@ PumpkinDrama @reddthat.com

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  • What are some examples where the more you know about the world, the worse it seems?

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  • For me, it’s realizing that Hollywood isn't just a dream factory, but an industry where a bunch of powerful men have historically coerced women into sex in exchange for a chance to appear in a movie.

    Also, learning how the media and political elites push identity politics constantly. It feels like a deliberate attempt to get everybody fighting a culture war so that they are distracted from uniting around a class war against economic exploitation.

    And probably the biggest one is foreign policy. Growing up you hear about America spreading freedom and democracy around the world. The more you learn, the more you realize it's actually about orchestrating coups, destabilizing regions, and stealing resources—all to exploit people and lower costs for corporations.

  • Content Recommendation Algorithms

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  • You can't have a recommendation algorithm on open-source software because it requires a lot of compute to calculate personalized recommendations for each user, which simply isn’t feasible for most instances. Instead, there should be an API endpoint that returns post metadata for the last week, allowing users to implement their own ranking algorithm via a userscript running on their own hardware.

    I also believe there should be a more personalized "All" feed per instance. Each instance could surface different content tuned to the admins or to a subset of long-term users—something stable that doesn't change often but varies from server to server.

  • What are some thematic forums that are still pretty active?

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  • Yeah, I think you are right, the whole internet is going to end up behind a login if bot acitivy keeps increasing.

  • What are some thematic forums that are still pretty active?

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    PumpkinDrama @reddthat.com

    What are some thematic forums that are still pretty active?

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  • You are perfectly demonstrating how authoritarian habits survive by being trivialized at the stage where they’re still “just a timeout,” and if you genuinely believe people wouldn’t kill each other over disagreement the moment consequences disappear, then you must have an extraordinarily optimistic view of human nature.

  • What’s happening with pkgstats.archlinux.de? All packages look like they’ve dropped sharply.

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  • Mind elaborating?

  • PieFed (and the fediverse) is fucking awesome.

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  • As it becomes more popular, bots will pivot here, and it will be harder to block them than in centralized platforms. Even after being banned from one instance, they can move to another and continue. The Reddit-style moderation system puts too much strain in a handful of users making necessary to rely on automods. The automod on lemmy.world banned me instance‑wide for reasons unknown, and as the number of bots increases, the automods will become looser. There will be many false positives and genuine users being banned.

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  • Why AI Music Won't Win

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  • Why would you post a YouTube video here with only 130 views? There are probably AI-generated music videos with millions of views, so whatever this says is likely at odds with reality.

  • How might political bias affect the future of AI-generated content?

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  • I believe that because Reddit is generally left-leaning and the majority of those users are opposed to AI, we may see a disproportionate rise in AI-generated right-wing content, which could influence public opinion. And the pentagon also showed interest in using LLMs to gaslight people.

  • What are fediverse applications you use other than mastodon and lemmy?

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  • I have tried many of them out of curiosity, but this is the only one I use regularly. I still prefer Reddit, though. I think Lemmy fragments communities and has too many memes and too much U.S.-centric news. I expected a federated platform to offer more diversity of thought, but it feels like the same kind of groupthink you see on Reddit.

  • How can I keep track of downloaded files on Linux to avoid downloading them again?

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  • Yeah it has a download to and a download option.

  • How can I keep track of downloaded files on Linux to avoid downloading them again?

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  • Nah I like different folders for the different media types

  • How can I keep track of downloaded files on Linux to avoid downloading them again?

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  • The music was just an example, what about movies, books, etc.

  • What I think Piefed is missing: an outlier filter and a setting to disable downvotes on your own posts.

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  • Yes and that is a pretty bad attitude, tbh. People who do that should have a low attitude score, that’s how we know it’s working. ;-)

    I thought it measured votes received rather than votes given. A tooltip explaining what it means would be nice, and CSS to hide my own attitude as well.

  • What I think Piefed is missing: an outlier filter and a setting to disable downvotes on your own posts.

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  • PieFed scaled sort does seem better. Where can I see the implementation or read how it works in plain english?

    I only have around 50 posts and comments and have used it a handful of times a month for a year. I didn’t like seeing my attitude so low either; that seems like a way to drive people away if they have controversial opinions. People use votes as a like/dislike button, so deriving attitude from votes doesn’t make sense.

  • Lemmy Federation Is Useless If Communities Aren’t Really Decentralized

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  • That just causes fragmentation, in Reddit all the community is in a single place, that's what made it popular otherwise we could go back to using forums. Each person chooses a different one and then we end up with dozens of barely active forums.

  • Lemmy Federation Is Useless If Communities Aren’t Really Decentralized

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  • I like themed instances and would enjoy them more if the All feed were personalized instead of the same for everyone. They are nice for browsing different content, sort of like a multireddit but choosing an instance that fits you best isn't possible, you would need to analyze your votes compared to other users' votes on each instance. Also I may not like tomorrow a topic I like today so choosing an instance based on a theme makes no sense to me.

  • PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters

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  • This should be a user setting. Finding an instance is already hard enough with all the politicking and bans between instances. It shouldn’t be made even harder by turning these into instance-level settings instead of user-level ones.

  • PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters

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  • I think PieFed should allow disabling down-votes. I genuinely dislike seeing down-votes, especially on my own content. I behave very differently on platforms like Bluesky that only have like/repost, compared to Lemmy, where saying something unpopular results in down-votes that feel like a punch in the gut. In real life, if someone disagrees, they either tell you or disengage. On PieFed, down-votes go further, they actively suppress your voice so others don’t see it. That is effectively what down-votes accomplish, and I don’t think it leads to healthier discussion.