Jamie

From what it looks like, you're calling on /community/create, the API docs show it's just /community.

I have the same experience, but I consider it to be a positive. Lemmy isn't trying to force an algorithm on me and retain my eyeballs. I subscribed to what I want to see, I scroll through new a bit, top day a bit, leave a comment here and there, and I do other things.

Before, I found myself bouncing between Reddit and YouTube, doing usually nothing else fun or productive. Since then, I've been doing more varied things, playing different games, working on programming projects. I find that I'm much more satisfied with how I spend my time.

I do still have a YouTube problem, but a lot of the stuff I watch is related to my interests and good background listening material anyway, so it's not really stopping me from doing other things.

I pair it with AdNauseum and have my browser "click" on every ad it sees. I don't know if those are being filtered on the other end or not, but I like to think that I'm making the advertisers pay for clicks they aren't really getting and messing with their metrics.

You'd be surprised how many sites are still functional enough without JS. Even then, you can often keep a lot of the tracking sites blocked and only whitelist the essentials.

The software is as safe as it's maintainers. The Linux kernel runs the majority of the world's devices, open source software makes up just about every industry standard piece of software that runs the web. Linux tends to see a lot less major vulnerabilities than Windows, and fixes for those are released much faster because anyone can submit the fix, maybe even the person who found it in the first place.

I search for things I need right before I clock out on our app we use to stock the shelves because it tells you very precisely exactly where the tag for the item is located on the sales floor. The public app only gives you an aisle number.

I think humans are too specifically hardwired for actual human interaction for it to work. Like, it's so specific that even online communication with real humans doesn't fill the void. I can talk to friends on Discord for ages, but it's not the same as meeting up and going to do something.

I really don't think an AI, even a convincing one, is going to make a large dent on loneliness in the majority of cases.

I think this is probably being caused by the larger instances aggressively caching pages to reduce load. That hasn't happened on my personal instance at all.

If that's the case, then the only way to really correct it is to change the caching.

This is Reddit we're talking about here. You pretty much get three outcomes:

1. People want the feature

2. The feature happens at all

3. It's given the proper amount of thought and oversight

Pick 1

Almost makes me wish I didn't delete my 100k+ karma account, I might've gotten contributor on it and sold it to a chinese bot farm for primo dollars.

My Canadian buddy has been talking a lot about how ridiculous dental is up there. Said his dad spent 900 Canuck bucks to get his teeth cleaned for 30 minutes.

Looked it up, apparently someone datamined something out of the app that said you could earn money for getting karma/gold on posts.

Fake internet points are finally worth something!
Now redditors can earn real money for their contributions to the Reddit community, based on the karma and gold they've been given.
How it works:
* Redditors give gold to posts, comments, or other contributions they think are really worth something.
* Eligible contributors that earn enough karma and gold can cash out their earnings for real money.
* Contributors apply to the program to see if they're eligible.
* Top contributors make top dollar. The more karma and gold contributors earn, the more money they can receive.

This is absolutely going to get gamed to hell if it really happens. It also reeks of desperation.