As others have said, one’s view of Lemmy is highly dependent upon the instances and communities that one frequents. As someone who isn’t a habitué of politics, news, sport or meme communities, I’ve found my fellow lemmings to be pleasant, but I also believe that that is due to trying to be helpful and polite myself and being willing to apologize when warranted.

Same here! My mind struggled to align the image of kebab production with the concept of artificial spiritual guidance…

Well put. Since we’ve co-opted this comment section with meta-commentary, I’ll also say that since LLMs came on the scene, I feel as if my sixth sense for AI text slop has become very refined; I can usually identify generative text within a few sentences, and stop reading.

Thank you!

Wow, how does that work? Does the font selector program generate a custom font file which gets deployed on each system? How does this work with printers?

I am at risk of becoming Lemmy’s resident curmudgeon with my protestations against clickbait headlines, and now a distaste for lazy and unappealing generative AI images in articles, which disincentivize reading the material. Not the poster’s fault, of course.

Fascinating! Really enjoyed learning about this.

I subscribed. Happy to support another homelab / self host community!

One of my very favorite albums.

Accurate. Are you a summarization bot?

Perhaps it’s time to bring back the amenity that Singapore Airlines devised to handle this situation on their ultra-long-haul flights in the Airbus 340-500 – the corpse cupboard: https://simpleflying.com/singapore-airlines-airbus-a340-500-corpse-cupboards-history/

Perhaps a second wave will be incoming, per this post about a coming Reddit paywall for some content: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32792815

Kagi user chiming in here. Have been incredibly happy with the service in terms of search quality and overall usefulness since subscribing. Feels like Google in the early, early days (I was there) before they lost their soul. Their changelog page is instructive; – https://kagi.com/changelog

Ah, of course! Thanks for jogging my memory. Despite the growth in users, many of the communities on Lemmy remind me of the old days of BBSes and web foraa. Hopefully the Fediverse will maintain its friendliness and usefulness as it expands.

Is that correlated with students getting out of school for the summer and joining, or a different event? I have noticed a lower quality of conversation in a number of communities recently.

My pleasure. I agree!

Thank you!

Hi HellsBelle,

Firstly, sorry for my overly snarky response. I know that the “don’t change the headline” rule was strictly enforced in many subreddits, but I wasn’t aware that this applied here as well. Is this a rule for this particular community or the entire Lemmy instance it’s on? Would you be kind enough to share a pointer to the rule list?

You don’t have to repeat the clickbait headline. Write your own!

Thank you, Slatlun. It’s a pet peeve of mine. I read somewhere that not rewriting article headlines is a holdover from some subreddits who prohibited the practice.