Cosmic Cleric @ CosmicCleric @lemmy.world

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Kind of sucks for non-programmers who would have to try to figure that out.

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The  made the difference.

HTML formatting is processed differently than hitting the space bar, apparently.

Thanks!

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It's also just temporary, until a biological donor heart can be found for them.

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Nice! Did you do that through the web page editor, or a third party app editor?

I tried including the text inside of quote formatting, but I still couldn't get it to work right. This was with the web page editor.

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From the article...

It is powered by an external rechargeable battery that connects to the heart via a wire in the patient's chest.

The battery lasts four hours and then alerts the patient that a new battery is needed.

Now these companies can exploit this data fully. But the next step, it leading to lemmy results being featured on their website is no guarantee. They can just keep it low.

But why would they do that? To them it would just be another source of data to walk through as part of building a search result.

And even if you were right, having it low is better than not having it there at all whatsoever.

Plus people can specify specific sites when they're doing a search, so they can ask for a specific Lemmy search and not have it be bypassed or be at low on the search results.

Finally, reddit is destroying itself. Why should we compromise ourselves, when we can just watch reddit burning itself down, while more and more people join us?

First, even if Reddit completely self-destructs and dies, it doesn't mean Lemmy will take over, because none of the search engines have Lemmy data, they'll just be a void that someone else will fill in.

Second, why is having our data available to search engines considered compromising ourselves?

I don't really give a flying F about hurting Google, as there's always going to be a number one search engine, and most likely that's always going to be owned by a corporation. That's a red herring anyways, its not something we should be worrying about (in relation to the Reddit versus Lemmy battle, and not just morally in general).

This isn't a destroy a corporation thing, it's a make Lemmy win over Reddit thing.

I care about the users searching via Google, I want them to think the best data set for searches is on Lemmy, and not Reddit.

I also care about the users here on Lemmy who won't bother typing out comprehensive guides for things like installing computer hardware and home improvement, if they know the results can't be searched/found on the Internet by people. At the end of the day they won't bother, instead they'll just point people here to a post on Reddit (or elsewhere like Medium) that has that information, and Lemmy will end up just being a also ran to Reddit as the go-to for comprehensive how to know things or do things.

Lemmy HAS to be searchable by the search engines on the Internet, if it would wants to win against Reddit. And ignoring Reddit and just expecting them to kill themselves, that's just not going to happen.

(By the way, enjoying the civil conversation we're having on this. Thanks for keeping it classy (in a good way).)

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than to have google make money off of it, who is actively engaged in destroying open spaces and enshittify them.

Google doesnt care for traffic to Lemmy. Google cares for making money off the data they can grab. Not giving them the data directly is the only way to oppose them.

It's not about Google, it's about Reddit. Its about the users on the Internet doing searches.

I would say what I said if Google and DuckDuckGo had swapped dominate places, market-wise.

We need to have Lemmy be the best place to get search results from, and not Reddit.

And to do that, Lemmy has to be visible to Google, as it's the number one search results engine used by the most people on the Internet.

Having said that, we should actually make Lemmy available to all search engines on the Internet. We shouldn't be here to destroy Google, but to make Lemmy number one, over Reddit. Google is just a means to an end.

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Because growth through opening up for capital interests is going to end badly. See Internet since 20 years

Hot take incoming (I'm going to hate hitting the [ENTER] key right now)...

Seceding the search results of the Internet to Reddit doesn't seem like a smart way of making Lemmy popular and used to the point of where it replaces Reddit.

All these posts and comments we all put here on Lemmy, that would benefit people from Internet search results, aren't being used.

You need to be smart about how you do battle, and not just pay attention to politics and nothing else.

If you don't join the fight, you won't win the War.

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Are those regular moons, or 'minor' moons?

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God damn why’s the world so shit

Society empowers and encourages shitty people that only care about their own kind/tribe, is why.

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a lot of lemmy instances block google indexing purposefully

Hopefully I'm not opening a can of worms by asking this, but, why?

To be more precise, why not let any search engine index? It seems like it'll grow Lemmy if people can use its data to search through.

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Appreciate the help, truly. Unfortunately that didn't work either.

I was able to get a space line between the first and second sentence.

The indentation "kind of" worked, in that it didn't show a minus/dash but instead a degree circle symbol, then the second line.

But now, the third line, the one that started with "Edit:" that was crossed out was immediately below the second line, I couldn't get a blank line via the (space space space enter) technique, like I was able to between the first and second line.

Here's a screenshot of the edit in preview mode ...

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Well, if there was any doubt before, with the weird ToS p.r. dance they were doing last week, now we know, for sure.

I've already switched to LibreWolf on the desktop. Is there a good non-Firefox browser for Android available?

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I'm using the lemmy.world web site, and their web-based editor doesn't seem to have a way to switch into markdown mode. Only text entry, and 'preview'. ??

I tried using a TAB, and the cursor leaves the next field, and moves to the "Select language" dropdown control.

I also tried four spaces, but it ran the two lines together like one line: “She’s dead, Jim.” - Dr. Leonard McCoy

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I would say it’d be more effective to be open about not being a constituent specifically but being a Dem voter elsewhere with strong feelings especially if you’re willing to put an effort into primarying them.

Personally I always prefer honesty, and I myself would be explicit about not being a constitute, but the flip side is that if he's solely focused on the next election and keeping his job (which unfortunately most politicians seem to be), he really may not care about feedback from non-constitutes.

But bottom line, they'll know, either way.

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You seemed to imply with your bolded quote that this was inconsequential,

No, was just highlighting the quantity of employees. People usually like to know how many are involved.

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There is no God. You follow a fools path to swindle your money and power.

He thinks there is a God. You should say that to him. 🤷‍♂️

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Anyone can register a Google voice number with a Maine area code.

They can detect that though, in the same way that Discord does.

Having said that, still might be worth giving the feedback, even if it doesn't affect him directly. A "read the room" type of thing.

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Needs indentation on the signature line, though. Think the indentation is what screws things up, formatting-wise.

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The title only claims that the process has started.

The article says "will be" (future tense), and not "has been so far". 🤷‍♂️

There may be more to come (knowing Elon/Trump), but I can only quote the article, ethically.

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