Especially the new pinned posts, it looks like they might be new Reddit only. I guess we'll have to wait and try it once a few subs implement it
My thoughts:
A handful of these changes are things that Lemmy currently allows, or has Github issues for in the queue. Others (mainly moderation ones), are things that would be nice to have here as well. The temporary traffic spike feature could do wonders here with the spam waves
Reason for posting
- this is the reddit community, so updates about the platform are relevant
- some of these changes could be good for the people who find value in the communities there and are waiting for alternatives here (ex. niche subreddits / those that require a larger userbase, such as medical career communities)
- We can learn from what they did well, talk about what they did bad, and improve our own platforms
The original post quoted below:
--- > > Greetings, mods > > During numerous calls with mods last year, we consistently heard about the difficulties in informing and educating redditors about a community's rules, culture, FAQs, and other important information during key moments. This challenge is particularly pronounced on mobile platforms, where user engagement is high but community identity is less visible. Today, we're thrilled to unveil a suite of new mod tools designed to address this issue by effectively conveying information to users across various areas on Reddit. > > Community Status > > This week we’re launching Community Status, a new feature that will allow mods to set an editable status that shows up next to your subreddit’s name. This status will be visible to all redditors, and they’ll be able to click or tap on the status to view more information. > > Mods can use this status for a variety of reasons, like highlighting live events associated with the community, commemorating cultural moments, incorporating memes and easter eggs, or showcasing specific posts from the community. This status will be visible across the popular/home feeds, post detail pages, and the community page. > > Community Status User Interface > > Community Highlights > > In a call with moderators last year regarding community uniqueness and customization, a significant concern raised was the limited visibility of stickied posts. > > * Stickied posts, especially on mobile, are less visible due to changes that have reduced how clearly they appear in a community. > * Only having the ability to sticky two posts is quite restrictive, and ends up placing mods in difficult compromises on what types of posts to sticky. > > We understand that this has hindered moderators' ability to efficiently communicate and disseminate information within their community. To help remedy this, we’re excited to launch Community Highlights, a new supercharged pinned post experience. Next week mods will be able to do the following with Community Highlights: > > * Pin up to 6 posts. > * Add a ‘label’ that shows up on the highlighted card, depending on what the type of post is. > * Set an ‘expiry timer’ for how long a highlight will stay on the page. > * Highlighted posts show up in this carousel format at the top of the page. > > Used together, we intend for Community Status and Highlights to be a powerful new toolset notifying users about ongoing events within a community and assisting moderators in spotlighting posts they want to emphasize. > > Community Highlights in Compact Mode > > Community Highlights in Card Mode > > Community Highlights Management > > Post Guidance > > After months of trialing Post Guidance, we’re beyond excited to drop the rope, pull the curtain back, and make this feature available to all communities, everywhere. For those unfamiliar with the feature, Post Guidance serves as a more intuitive tool where moderators can migrate and set up their subreddit rules and automoderator configurations. Users will then be preemptively alerted with a custom message that they are breaking a specific direction when trying to craft a post. > > A heartfelt thank you to the 200+ mod teams who took the time to experiment with this new tool, provide us feedback and partner with us on this journey. > > We’re currently building Comment Guidance (Post Guidance, but for Comments), with the goal of testing and launching it in the next couple of months. > > Community Welcome Message > > This July, we look forward to launching The Community Welcome Message. This feature will appear immediately after any user clicks the join button from a subreddit page. After the message is dismissed, it will be discoverable as an easy-to-use community guide on a subreddit’s About page. Mods will be able to add unique community assets and easygoing call-to-actions: > > * Community image > * Short, custom welcome message > * User flair selection > * Resource links such as wiki links, join this welcome thread, and check out this funny post! > > The Community Welcome Message is meant to convey the character of the community by quickly serving up the most relevant and important information to new community members while encouraging engagement. > > Welcome Message User Interface > > Temporary Events > > Occasionally, certain events lead to significant spikes in traffic for communities, posing challenges for moderators to maintain quality and enforce rules. To manage this, moderators may switch their community's status to "Private" or "Restricted" until traffic normalizes. This not only presents challenges for moderators but also restricts and confuses well-intentioned users from participating in the community. > > This July, we'll introduce a new feature called Temporary Events to address these situations. This feature empowers mods to create "temporary events" for both anticipated and unexpected scenarios. When a mod initiates an event, they can choose from various settings to efficiently manage community involvement, inform users about the event, and alert the mod team. Mods will have the flexibility to activate the temporary event as needed or schedule it in advance. Once activated, the specified settings will take effect, overriding the current community settings if necessary. When done, the subreddit will return to its standard settings > > Temporary Event Mod Interface > > If you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions about the features mentioned today, don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments below or via our support channels.
Search engine indexing, rather than search inside Lemmy/threadiverse platforms
That way people come across the good content when searching for things
This browser extension "would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfeeds, which Facebook algorithmically sorts to drive user engagement," the Knight Institute said in a statement.
Interesting, I've been doing that manually for a while now (not Facebook though, I haven't opened that feed in years).
Here's an article from 2021:
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html
Yep, which I think is why it's more important to see what data is being collected and stored, rather than giving up data based on how trustworthy an entity seems
If the tool doesn't collect or log the data to begin with, then there's nothing that can be stolen/taken/demanded
The solution in this case might be for Proton (and the other companies) to list out risks and data collection information along the way.
We need X in order to do Y. Read more on how Y works. Now here are some risks, and how to avoid them:
I did a search on the image for more information, but instead I noticed something cool
This exact post is the third result (I clicked through and checked the comments)
I'd recommend starting with ANKI and looking up guides for that language. You might find add-ons that make it easier to use. While making your own deck is better, you can also download recommended decks to learn vocab. Otherwise there are open access textbooks and courses if you want more structured learning.
As for apps, I saw this one recently: https://simjanos-dev.github.io/LinguaCafeHome/
Other discussions right from the Duolingo community:
My bad, I missed that one
More than 200 people with diabetes have been injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.run/m/world@lemmy.world/t/410267
> More than 200 people with diabetes have been injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
Maybe it could be specific to each user?
Few ideas
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a community for people to post in on their cake day, where they can comment on some aspect of their life that's improved in the last year / something they're grateful for
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if you come across a cake day account, pop into their history and comment on something you find interesting
This is very mildly interesting, cool find!
I would say to just try it out and see how it is! The live USB works nicely and you can decide you don't like a distro and move on rapidly. There are also tools out there that let you load up multiple distros on the USB at once, and then pick which one to use when you boot up.
I went through my own struggles with dual booting Linux some time ago. If you search on Lemmy, you can find those embarrassing posts. It was my fault, I got confident and messed with 'grub' in all the wrong ways, before cutting my losses early and reverting everything because I had other commitments to deal with.
The good thing though is that it's totally possible to put Windows back 100% the way it was before, even after messing up as badly as I did (I couldn't boot into either operating system because the machine couldn't find the boot entry). Once you're ready to replace windows with Linux (or dual boot etc.), make a good backup with something like Macrium Reflect and you should be safe to go for it. I highly doubt you'll make the mistakes I did, the story is to say that you can mess up and be just fine!
As for your use case:
- affinity programs aren't on Linux from what I remember, you might want to experiment and see if you can run it with Wine or if you have an alternative (ex. Dual boot, different programs)
- Not sure about Davinci, comments suggest that it runs ok on Linux. I like KdenLive
As for what people recommended, and what I'm planning to try soon
- Kubuntu (if you want Ubuntu that looks similar to windows)
- Fedora (what I tried last time)
- Linux Mint
I wasn't sure myself honestly, thought I'd check if someone else brought it up first
I think people get super excited to share the good news that it's not a company behind it and all the benefits that come with that
He had tens of thousands of followers and posted regularly about his alleged people smuggling activities, but we found many of his claims didn't add up.
I'm new to OSM as well, but bus_stop=construction might be the right call? Sounds like it's past the planning stage.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dconstruction
Thank you, that was helpful!
What aspects do you like about 9gag? (memes, specific content, interface, etc.)
That might help people guide you to something different. Unfortunately I haven't used 9gag in years so I don't know what it's like now
We discovered a fundamental design problem in VPNs and we're calling it TunnelVision. This problem lets someone see what you're doing online, even if you think you're safely using a VPN.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20720928
We discovered a fundamental design problem in VPNs and we're calling it TunnelVision. This problem lets someone see what you're doing online, even if you think you're safely using a VPN.
Good summary by another user in the crosspost over in !programming@programming.dev:
https://lemmy.ca/post/20720943
RCMP charged three Indian nationals last Friday in the death of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was shot dead last June as he left a temple in Surrey, B.C.
I can't tell if this makes it easier for students to understand, or harder 😄 Specifically where each chromatid/chromosome (kirby eyes) goes
Yea the part I found weird was that it went "mother's sibling" but also "father's sister", rather than "X's sibling" or "X's sister"
Huh so apparently it's because of Latin?
Quoting an old comment
Fish isn't considered meat because English and Latin are slightly different languages. For hundreds of years Catholics were not allowed to eat meat on Friday. But the language of the church is Latin, and what Catholics were not allowed to eat is 'carne' which is the flesh of creatures from the land or the sky. So fish was fine.
At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them. “That may sound impossible, but it’s actually true,” said Richard Kelley,...
It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.
> A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists. > > It is the first time a creature in the wild has been recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant. > > After researchers saw Rakus applying the plant poultice to his face, the wound closed up and healed in a month.
> Hospital leaders say the health system won’t be ready if the avian flu that’s infected American dairy cattle becomes widespread among humans. > > In discussing a hypothetical scenario, the hospitals have struck a different tone than the Biden administration. It says the risk is currently low to most people and that agencies are closely monitoring for any sign of danger to Americans. > > Still, hospital officials told POLITICO they’re dismayed that they don’t feel better prepared, just four years after Covid-19 caught them unawares. They’re not confident that the health care system — including the government agencies that have wound down Covid responses — can avoid the missteps around tests, bed space and communication that plagued the last public health emergency, should this strain of flu, H5N1, become more of a threat.
The study is available for free here, via. cambridge.org:
Abstract:
> Whether powerful media outlets have effects on public opinion has been at the heart of theoretical and empirical discussions about the media’s role in political life. Yet, the effects of media campaigns are difficult to study because citizens self-select into media consumption. Using a quasi-experiment—the 30-year boycott of the most important Eurosceptic tabloid newspaper, The Sun, in Merseyside caused by the Hillsborough soccer disaster—we identify the effects of The Sun boycott on attitudes toward leaving the EU. Difference-in-differences designs using public opinion data spanning three decades, supplemented by referendum results, show that the boycott caused EU attitudes to become more positive in treated areas. This effect is driven by cohorts socialized under the boycott and by working-class voters who stopped reading The Sun. Our findings have implications for our understanding of public opinion, media influence, and ways to counter such influence in contemporary democracies.
There's also a discussion with the authors here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2023/03/23/conversations-with-authors-tabloid-media-campaigns-and-public-opinion/
The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes
China has launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side.
The United Nations says the world hasn’t seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes devastated in Israel’s bombing and ground offensive if the conflict ended today.
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