Whew, at least I am not crazy! 🤣

Strike that, at least that is not just one more reason WHY I am crazy! 🤪

Not for the archive link, immediately below the original Verge one. :-P

No I meant for this Extra Fabulous comic, on Bluesky.

Also: whoosh, I interpreted your comment entirely on a literal basis, derp. 🤪

Except Hillary Clinton (/s btw 🤪)

DuckDuckGo ftw 🦆

How (without an account)?

In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich.

Even if stating the seemingly obvious, this article is a good read.

It’s easy, you just fall but right before you hit the ground, you distract yourself and… miss.

Here is a highly relevant conversation: https://lemmy.ca/comment/21065449. This link is to one comment but also check out the OP that it is in.

Everything comes down to moderation. Lemmy’s moderation abilities are extremely primitive - though notably the upcoming additional functionality to send mod reports to users on different instances than the community will help a bit. People get burnt out and can’t keep up with the flood of negativity, so stop their volunteer moderating activities. Remember that Lemmy itself got started when its devs got kicked out of Reddit for being too toxic - and likewise many of its initial membership. As for the rest of us, this was the choice that we made - even if for some of us, only after Kbin died (forked into Mbin now).

PieFed offers substantially improved moderation abilities - especially those reducing the need for moderation in the first place, by placing more power into the hands of the end-user by democratization of the moderation work itself. Edit: e.g. someone wanting to avoid toxicity could leave enabled the functionality to auto-collapse or even auto-hide comments that are below a certain up-&-downvote threshold, while others who have thicker skins can disable those hand-holding options and decide for ourselves what we want to see - all without the need for moderator intervention, instead using the preferences of the community as a surrogate moderator in that case. However, PieFed as a the software platform lacks a great deal of polish in its UI compared to Lemmy (though 3rd party apps are catching up to support its feature set offered in the API).

PieFed is the only thing giving me hope for the future of the Threadiverse & Fediverse right now.

Maybe people think he is depicting Jesus here? I mean the heart he is pointing at with his left hand is often seen in iconic portraits of Jesus (I am not sure if it also appears in portraits of saints, but that’s not entirely relevant if the point would be whether people THOUGHT that or not)?

Oh who are we kidding, people probably just assume that the animation was generated by AI and so hate it for that reason:-P.

This seems like a potential minefield if implemented naively.

e.g. someone could make an account with your username, implement a troll campaign, then walk into someplace like !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net and cause not only themselves but YOU also to receive hundreds of DMs over the course of WEEKS and WEEKS, with little to no recourse to stop it.

But… admittedly the likelihood of that seems extremely low (for a normal person), so if it would be too much work to try to prevent, then even in that case perhaps that possibility should not stop the rest of us from having features useful to those capable of existing in a more polite society?

“Forgets”, right…

Don’t judge me! 👠

Oh ah, uh, I mean her. 🤪

Yes, specifically nigiri type 🍣

No lie detected.

There are no more colored lines. We have reached Threadi-ception, where we can only talk about talking about things. We had boldly gone where no others had gone before!

THAT’s the one I was thinking of, yes!

Forsooth