Ah that’s my mistake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics

I don’t want to speak on behalf of Sal, but I would like to point out that I have seen a lot of posts on similar topics on Mander.xyz. I think it’s worth waiting for Sal to comment on this before people get the pitchforks out.

I will also point out this from the sidebar of mander.xyz:

Please keep politics to a minimum. When science is the focus, intersection with politics may be tolerated as long as the discussion is constructive and science remains the focus. As a general rule, political content posted directly to the instance’s local communities is discouraged and may be removed. You can of course engage in political discussions in non-local communities.

This is something that I talked to Sal about before creating !publichealth@mander.xyz, and I was satisfied with the answer at the time. Everything intersects politics at some level, and those intersections are more prominent in some topics. Mander.xyz is an academic focussed instance, and it tries to carve out a space for constructive conversation the communities that are hosted on it. Sometimes it’s not the topic that is the problem, but the quality of the specific article that is being posted.

Also, that particular community is supposed to be about ‘General discussions about “science” itself’, and if you look at the very old posts, they were meta discussions about the scientific method and scientific research. It seems to have taken a new life over the years though.

It’s also possible that the comment section was the concern, and maybe it was easier to remove the post instead of carefully going through all the comments. I think Sal has earned a chance at speaking about this before the pitchforks.

Some other ideas I forgot to add to the other comment

• Have some mechanism for people to suggest which niches get worked on, and then have one person decide on the schedule. Else it gets disorganized

• Shorten the cycles to a few weeks rather than months. I feel like people will get impatient if they need to wait months to get past a niche they don’t care about. Two weeks might be a nicer starting point, and then you can adjust it up or down?

• Do outreach about the project all over the place, and not just in fedigrow. Fedigrow reaches the involved and active people, but not everyone else that might be interested in the theme. For example:

  • Ask people about their favorite communities for the topic of that cycle on !asklemmy@lemmy.world, !ask@piefed.social, etc
  • Memes in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world (see the beans, corn, and similar trends), which are very low effort
  • post lists of that cycle’s relevant communities in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

• While you can prioritize one community, don’t restrict it to that one. It will be easier to find people interested in crafts, compared to say crochet specifically. Also people can have strong feelings about which specific community or instance is best, and some users might refuse to post to an instance they don’t agree with. So if you give a list of which communities you want to grow, it might go over better

I think there are a lot of people who might want to help, but don’t have the time/energy/experience to organize it

I’m supportive of this, and happy to help where appropriate :) Please feel free to tag me in future posts about this, in case I miss it

If you can, I would prefer that you use the existing communities for this project because there’s no need to dilute efforts further. Also, see if you can create a Mastodon account where you post those announcements too, because that’s a large userbase that is already familiar with what this place is and can even post from their accounts

There are browser extensions that auto-redirect links for a number of sites. Libredirect is the one I’m using

It sounds like they are OK with people using the tool, but he wants them to be mindful of how its being used.

But if you’re my colleague and we’re in a Slack discussion and you post a wall of Claude output, then I’m afraid I received a different message than you intended.

The same is true for people’s newsletters and social content. It’s your name on it; are you proud of the prose and weird AI-isms sprinkled throughout it? If so, great. But I can ask Claude directly if I wanted to.

TLDR: Take responsibility for what you send to people, and don’t just ask a chatbot and blindly share the output

While I still don’t really understand it, topological equivalence?

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2625:_Field_Topology

It seems Neetu got carried away by his emotions way too early because the final counting at the end of the result day revealed that he managed to get a total of 856 votes.

Poor guy, glad he got a pleasant surprise after 😄

What do you mean by that?

Which part of the world are you from? I’m in Canada, and we call them green grapes and red grapes

https://www.safeway.com/shop/aisles/fruits-vegetables/fresh-fruits/grapes.html?sort=&page=1&loc=3132

Meanwhile Wikipedia notes ‘“Black” (dark blue) and “white” (light green) table grapes’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape

Or when it spoils a joke or jump scare a few seconds early

“You’re not going to shoot me, you don’t have the…”

Just keep subscribing to things :)

We have this guide for how to do that more easily:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/finding-communities

It does sound like a genuine mistake as opposed to something sneaky.

I’m far from an expert on open source best practices, and I also wouldn’t have known the difference between taking code with a .patch file vs taking code with copy and paste. I probably would have attributed it in some other way, but I’m a bit anxious that way and tend to go even further and overdo things. It takes me forever to publish posts and website updates out for our instance.

Why do developers of open source software have to make shit so difficult?

I think that’s the nature of forks of projects. When someone makes a fork, there is usually some kind of tension between the two developers and so something that feels small to outsiders might feel more significant to those involved.

Assuming that there isn’t a better extension out there for people to switch to, this move might push some people into quitting Facebook completely.

If you’re using uBlock origin, then you won’t see ads anywhere else. Meanwhile on Facebook, every few posts will be an ad.

🚮

That already fell apart, they gave up after the site got overrun with bots. Coincidentally, they were planning to use “AI” to run parts of the site, including moderation

To be fair, I haven’t used Chromecast in a long time. Maybe even 10 years ago now.

I remember having connectivity issues, where I’d go to pause the content and realize it disconnected again. So maybe the battery drain was because of poor connections, or poorly designed apps

Its nice to be able to use it with a remote instead of fumbling around with your phone.

Also performance, decoding support, not burning your phone’s battery, etc

No ads, better performance, customizable

I also tried Projectivy in the past but I don’t remember why I switched away from it. I think there was a performance bug that was causing it to crash. Both may be good options now

The Flintstones ones are very memorable, I wonder if the marketing was helped by the fact that the vitamins look like rocks 😄

That way when they are exposed to the air and begin to discolor (which is harmless from what I understand), it doesn’t become unpalatable to children