I love the fact that federation means we could have a grandma-focused instance that applies all my hypothetical filters by default. It’s possible… but there is currently no desire to become the front page of the internet. We’re a niche, and that just means we aren’t the place to try to advertise for the little guy.
Lemmy suffers from the same discoverability issue… so we aren’t exactly the best place to tell others about obscure websites. From the start we’ve inherited an open-source community that leans liberal, and aside one very large recent shift that means that the community also leans mostly Democrat.
What does that have to do with discoverability? Well, one look at a front page can clue you in. (gosh I hope these screenshots shrink in size for display)
IT, Politics, and Star Trek all over the front page of my instance. Possibly worse on others. Imagine if your 80 year old great-grandma landed on this page. All she knows is what Fox News says. Instant close on the website. Not even going to open one discussion. But let’s say she did open the one about the FBI director being missing:
oh my
Now let’s see a competing website:
Oh, new Chinese food place! Remote work isn’t working? Carrying your dog to pick up food? that’s silly! 2.7 million of wine! She must have really hated that job!
So what is my point? How can Lemmy increase it’s discoverability? I feel like community diversity would be the #1 concern. Well… one obvious action is to sanitize the front page of the popular instances. I’m going to assume that’s a highly unpopular opinion, because then it wouldn’t be Lemmy anymore. Maybe perhaps there is a different frontpage for logged out and logged in users? With politics being an opt-in for active sessions? Or maybe we should just post more cute cats.
What do you guys think? Am I completely wrong about community diversity? What changes would you make to Lemmy? It’s not an easy answer.
right right. Totally agree. The community here hurts it’s discoverability. My criticism is only in the way to the post was worded.
I had this big explanation, but I realized it’s not worth it. I already covered what I wanted to say.
Even if the post is true, it was the worst way to present it. It reads like trolling:
Call out people’s politics with grandiose rhetoric, not backing up any claims with links to evidence.
Declare the other side is unbiased.
I mean, Internet 101 would dictate you downvote and disengage. It’s not going to generate a discussion that would change minds or be constructive. Even now we’re not talking about small website discoverability, but instead downvotes.
EDIT: I’m going to put my money where my mouth is. I’ll try the same post.
Yeah, Microsoft’s patching schedule is so rigid that it’s a meme. Anything outside of Tuesday is a patch for something under active exploit.
I’m just lucky the guy in front of me didn’t have his truck configured to roll coal, giving me a smokescreen in addition to blinding high beam.
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You’d have said goodbye to your head as well, because that lifted truck isn’t going into the rear of the small car… it’s going up and over.
it’s all fun and games until they pull out the real gun.
I called the incident into the police station but it was before I had the dashcam so they just shrugged (and were probably blood related anyway).
Yup… drove a small car back from college and two truck bros decided it’d be fun to sandwich my car between them. One rode my rear bumper with high beams, the other slowed down and rode the middle line so I couldn’t pass. Then he’d start slamming his brakes.
Vizio is likely offering unusually large paperweights without Walmart accounts.
now require a Walmart account for setup and accessing smart TV features
If you are using a network level block, make sure it’s a black hole and not just a DNS filter. I tried a DNS filter with a Roku and found that they bypass it with hardcoded values, even when the DNS server was statically assigned and DHCP assigned.
I can’t believe people still look at Hz and think it’s a sole metric that can be used for performance.
Do you think they look at the 2005 Pentium 4’s 3.8GHz and assume it’s only slightly worse than what Nvidia will put on the market?
I wouldn’t use archive.is anymore. They tampered with the captures.
You aren’t speaking the same language, apparently:
Your title has it a little bit backwards. It doesn’t affect you, until it does. That’s why privacy is so difficult. People are naturally reactive. Their phone number gets leaked, they get spam calls, they suddenly care who has their phone number.
But a license plate capture? There is no immediate affect. If the driver was given a monetary charge for every single license plate capture, there would be rioting in the streets and so many laws would be written and repealed… but there isn’t. So people don’t care because it doesn’t affect them.
I tried explaining this to my parents, and they got the concept in general, but again they are naturally reactive in their habits. They won’t discuss banking details in front of their Alexa microphone, but will happily install a driving tracker in their car at the behest of their insurance agent. When their insurance went up because of excess braking (they have those BS short yellow lights to help the red-light cameras) then suddenly they cared that they were being tracked. The surveillance didn’t affect them, until it did.
It’s so easy for people to just not think about it, or assume it won’t happen to them, because that’s the easiest method to cope with the shrinking amount of privacy we get.
I know of no way to champion privacy. No call to arms about an offense to rally behind. It’s a slow erosion that people don’t immediately notice, until it finally affects them.