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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • This was a cool read, if anyone wants incentive to read it, here is the key bit

    The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is a good example here, displaying levels of intelligence and capabilities far beyond those of other cephalopods and matching that of primates, despite no evolutionary link here. Exactly how octopuses developed this rather unique capability remained a mystery, though recent research by [Rishav Mitra] points at the rather unique ribosomes in these animals.

    Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.

    Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.







  • I’ve actually been playing with the idea for a generic “how could this have been better” community for a while now. It would fill the niche of communities like AITA, but the point would be to see if someone could have done something better in a particular situation rather than figuring out who’s fault something was. Not limited to past events, or personal situations, but it would have rules around keeping the discussion productive.

    It’s hard because I feel that a lot of people who would post in such a community, would also feel emotionally attached to a particular outcome. I’d prefer if the community could build up a wholesome culture rather than a place to vent or get into fights




    • Pixelfed for sharing public content
    • Signal (or a similar messaging platform) for private stories / content intended for specific people

    A “private” instagram account or story was never actually private, but that distinction is still helpful when recommending alternatives IMO

    Then you can use something like libredirect with kittygram to view any Instagram only content in a privacy respecting way, like if you open a link


  • The mod in !selfhosted@lemmy.world has done a good job of updating the rules to deal with those. It seems like some SEO or supply chain scheme.

    The ones mentioned in OP seem to be one user that is spreading their questions around multiple accounts, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if they’re posted at a rate that would be fine with a single account, and if they aren’t using more than one account in a particular thread.

    From what I remember about the deletion pattern, one of the accounts claimed to be doing it for mental health reasons. Whether that is true or not, to me it felt like they were creating bait posts to rile people up. People saw through it most of the time

    We do have bots, but at least some of the weird activity mentioned in this post seems to be from a handful of real people that are using the platform in a weird way









  • Based on the registration applications, I think getting banned is a lot less common than people think. Most people are checking out the fediverse because of other problems on reddit, whether its the ads, bots, monetization related changes, hateful content, privacy concerns, manipulation, trump related concerns, etc

    We do get the occasional “I’m here because I got banned”, but the vast majority is “I’m curious about what this place is like”.

    Now isn’t hard evidence on its own, but I’d also bet that when the first category joins, they’re often looking for a place to vent about their ban. When the second category joins, they rarely announce their newness.