I’ve been on the Fediverse for years and I’ve never much encountered this. I curate my timelines very carefully. I don’t look at the Local or Federated timelines in Mastodon, Pixelfed, or Lemmy.
That said, I do the exact same thing with all social media. I don’t go to the subreddits that would have such content, don’t follow users on Twitter who spew this content, etc.
I’m not disputing that it’s there, because of course it is. But it’s also there on every other social media platform, and with far more resources these platforms haven’t been able to do nearly anything about it.
I don’t know what the answer is to this propaganda, and I want to make clear that I think it’s awful. But it’s the fault of social media writ large, not the Fediverse.
In fact, I’ve found the Fediverse to be better about calling it out and encouraging defederating offending instances than I’ve seen on traditional social media, which seems to shrug its shoulders at it at best and actively encourages it at worst.
I love MACtion. That league is so well balanced and it’s fun watching them on a crappy Tuesday night. One of my favorite things about the college football season.
As a Patriots fan, I couldn’t be more frustrated with how things are going.
It’s clear now that by the time the dynasty was over, Brady was the OC and BB was the DC. That arrangement worked well for them and produced incredible, winning seasons.
When Brady left we should have immediately replaced Josh McDaniels with the best OC money could buy. But we rolled with “we’re smarter than everyone else” for a few years and now the entire thing is a disaster.
I think this is in part Bill’s fault and in part the Krafts’ fault. I think they were right to give Bill a little wiggle room to find his footing after Brady left. But the offense has been atrocious for years and the Krafts should have insisted on (and put up the money for) Bill bringing in top tier talent. We just expected the aura of BB to make things all right.
Bill is a great coach, a great defensive mastermind. But this transition was poorly planned for—either Mac is a bust or is getting terrible coaching and we can’t seem to be able to build even the most basic weapons on offense.
Not a bad idea! I think of works like Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilliogy, which has a pretty significant focus in the second book about what a new style of collaborative governance might look like. Narrative is always the most powerful way to convince people of ideas, so I say go for it!
What an interesting idea. As this project scales, how would you think of getting around the Reddit API limit problem? This sounds pretty API intensive. I also wonder if Reddit might see this as a TOS violation (particularly when the bot was posting comments) and killing it without even reaching an API limit.
That said, I applauded you for trying to think of creative ways to increase content on Lemmy. One thing in particular that I miss are the questions on niche subreddits, particularly hobby subreddits. You can learn so much just by reading others’ questions. Lemmy doesn’t have the user base and reach to support stuff like that yet, so I like that you’re trying to think of ways to increase that content here.
If 3 points wouldn’t have made a difference I get trying to pin them in the 5. But by forcing them to go for 7 for the win on their final drive changes the entire dynamic of how you play that final drive defensively.
Switched from the USC/Colorado game to Clemson/Cuse. I wonder if they’ll give up on giving Colorado prime billing after this week. It’s not terribly interesting to watch Colorado perform slightly better than what any sane CFB fan would expect.
Frankly, today’s slate seems really odd. There’s no game that is standing out to me that I have to see no matter what. Yet another Saturday where I wish that ESPN didn’t kill off Goal Line.
In my mind the most valuable part of Game Day is the first 15 minutes when they go over the top games for the day. The rest feels like filler most of the time.
Brady did QB sneaks all the time, and it worked quite well for the Pats. Are QBs more likely to be injured on sneaks? It seems pass plays are the worst for QBs, with potential sacks and hurt knees and ankles trying to get away from the rushers.
I think it’s what makes finding a franchise QB so hard. It’s not easy to evaluate if someone can make that jump. It’s like with Mac: you would think the clear path from Saban to Belechick would be a good sign for his development. But he’s struggled mightily, and I don’t see it getting better.
According to this article this is the banner that was used on the Promenade in DS9. This is a “chair drape” (whatever that is) but maybe you could use it as a flag, convert it to a flag, or have a custom flag made based on this?
I’ve been on the Fediverse for years and I’ve never much encountered this. I curate my timelines very carefully. I don’t look at the Local or Federated timelines in Mastodon, Pixelfed, or Lemmy.
That said, I do the exact same thing with all social media. I don’t go to the subreddits that would have such content, don’t follow users on Twitter who spew this content, etc.
I’m not disputing that it’s there, because of course it is. But it’s also there on every other social media platform, and with far more resources these platforms haven’t been able to do nearly anything about it.
I don’t know what the answer is to this propaganda, and I want to make clear that I think it’s awful. But it’s the fault of social media writ large, not the Fediverse.
In fact, I’ve found the Fediverse to be better about calling it out and encouraging defederating offending instances than I’ve seen on traditional social media, which seems to shrug its shoulders at it at best and actively encourages it at worst.