Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. That’s Good Omens

I actually like censored swear words in written text. At least when they are censored enough that you can’t tell what the swearword is, but you know the intention behind it.

Deliberate misspellings are obnoxious though

The king wants everyone to make a ghibly avatar and thank him for it.

I don’t think Lemmy tracks your views. So it can’t exclude them from your feed.

If you sort by hot or hop few hours, you should get more new posts. And stop refreshing the feed.

They are loud. And not really that much better than a broom and a rake

Chocolate eggs? We always hide real eggs. Cooked and painted.

Can I choose the neighbor?

How is chromium “not well known”? It’s a pretty well known fact that most popular browsers (except for safari and Firefox) use chromium

Both. Obviously platforms with attention based algorithms are worse.

But platforms like Lemmy, Ao3 and xkcd are plenty addictive. Oh and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the worst offenders! I don’t think the people that developed any of those want to exploit us.

The instance is the part after the @. They host users and communities. Admins manage the instance.

The community is the thing you subscribe to. Moderators manage the community.

I’m pretty new.

Lemmy is great. It doesn’t have as many active hyper specific communities as reddit. But there are still plenty of active communities.
There is no attention based algorithm. But the more basic sortings work well enough. I already spend too much time here.

I tried mastodon and Twitter a few years back. I still have absolutely no idea how that whole microblogging thing is supposed to work. Am I just supposed to scream into the void? Same thing with pixelfed.

If people link peertube videos from Lemmy, peertube works well. But the feed needs work. I don’t really care about the topic of the video. So the filter by topic isn’t that useful. I’d like to filter by language. And then find well researched videos by someone who is enthusiastic about a topic. Any topic. I don’t know if there simply aren’t that many or if I just can’t find them.

I think attention based algorithms could help retain new users. I think there are many who try fediverse platforms and just don’t stay long. And if we get more users that stay longer, we get more content, and then niches can form.

To not lose current users, and just because of mental health, it would probably be better if the attention based feeds could be turned off in the settings.

Yes. My thoughts and feelings matter. But if it’s simulated with a few shortcuts, your thoughts and feelings might not exist.

Maybe all other humans are only about as well-simulated as current LLMs.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be more complex, if it is infinite.

Just like there are exactly as many rational numbers between 0 and 1 as there are in total. The same works for real numbers.

We don’t know if our universe is infinite. There is reason to believe that spacetime might be discrete. And we don’t know if the universe is infinite, or if the observable universe is all there is, and we just happen to be approximately in the middle of it.

But if the universe is dense, and if the technology was advanced enough, simulating an equally complex should be possible.

The programmers of that simulation could be cheating a bit. For example, they could approximate the movement of particles by using wave fields, and only if the particles are observed, would it actually simulate individual particles.

It would cause some weird effects that shouldn’t be there. For example a light spot in the middle of circular shadows. But most players don’t want 100% perfection. They want to be able to run the game on their device.

Exactly. Because the legislative arm of the government did their job in that case.

I don’t think reddit even has an option for alttexts. Lemmy really encourages it.

Social media networks without attention based algorithms also aren’t quite as addictive.

Usually we teach them from the time they are 3 years old. So basically when they are teens

Breaking in is just what we call the process of fostering trust and getting the horse slowly used to a rider.

They are also supposed to limit freedoms, where they infringe on the freedom of others.

For example the freedom to shoot people infringes on the freedom to be free from physical harm. So it should be limited.