Lemmy uses simple filters. It has no memory of what you have looked at and takes nothing into consideration other than the chosen filter at the moment. You can even link directly to the filter because it is part of the url.
This is searching for the entire federated space of lemmy.world and sorting by hot. You might argue that "hot" is an algorithm, but it is also only determined by things such as creation date, upvotes and comments. Everyone gets exactly the same view so it isn't specially curated.
Since the list is generated from the monthly reading post it isn't surprisingly to me that it ended up being some of the most popular mainstream books. As time goes on and these books get picked over the months I believe the list will become more niche as I won't allow a winner to make it back on the list.
Anything official such as a public service or local government should really stop using Twitter. I pretty much consider Twitter to be a porn site with a bunch of angry people arguing about nonsense so there is no chance I can take your organization seriously if you are using this platform.
It's nice how fast Lemmy is growing, but I think it is a good idea to manage expectations. In the world of free and open source software you can't just throw money at the problem to make it better. The development of Lemmy will occur at will whenever someone feels like contributing. It's not someones job to develop Lemmy so it isn't guaranteed to happen at all.
Edit: Just for clarification I'm not suggesting to not donate. I'm just saying donating doesn't guarantee development.
Is there a convenient way of doing this? There is no way I can always babysit my device and wait for it to reach 80% and then remove it from the charger.
Longer lifespan? Does this mean they will have user replaceable batteries? I'd consider spending more than $200 on a phone if it could actually be kept in peak condition for more than 4 years.
Seconding Red Rising. I managed to finish the first book, but throughout nearly the entire book it felt like a fantasy rather than a science fiction. They are in a science fiction setting, but then intentionally remove all technology or futuristic elements for almost the entire story. From what I am told the rest of the books continue this similar theme somehow despite no longer being in the extremely specific situation of book 1.
I've been trying to convince some people to read some books by Greg Egan, but it has been difficult as most people are not into the idea of basically reading a math, computer science, physics and biology textbook that also happens to have characters and a story. Although the story that is there does a great job at threading the interesting ideas and concepts together. Even with a tiny bit less of a story and it would be dreadfully dull even to me.
In general I disagree with anything that makes any user more special than another user. Personally I'd even prefer mods and admins to be anonymous. It tends to lead to things being done or said in order to gain popularity rather than being genuine.
Lemmy can certainly use some polishing, but I hope it never goes too far. Especially when it comes to content algorithms. That is more of an anti-feature to me whos only goal is to generate revenue. Seeing as how Lemmy is a not a business I see no need for such a thing. Users get what they search for and nothing else.
The lemmy.world statistics are visible from the home page. There are currently 130,000 registered accounts on lemmy.world which is far larger than any other lemmy instance. Primarily because most other instances had restricted registrations of some sort for awhile.
I can't think of any other website of a similar style that is larger than the entirety of lemmy. The next biggest might be kbin.
Everyone seems to have their own opinions about how you use upvote and downvote. You can either downvote because you don't think it is a good article or because you don't agree with it or just because you want less people to see it. There is no way to enforce how peoples choose to use this system. Which means that it doesn't mean a whole lot and shouldn't be taken very seriously.
Yea I just block them. Which is pretty much all political, news or religious related communities. Also the occasional "SFW" communities that are still NSFW. Just because they have clothes on doesn't mean nearly naked people are safe for work.
Lemmy uses simple filters. It has no memory of what you have looked at and takes nothing into consideration other than the chosen filter at the moment. You can even link directly to the filter because it is part of the url.
https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&page=1&sort=Hot
This is searching for the entire federated space of lemmy.world and sorting by hot. You might argue that "hot" is an algorithm, but it is also only determined by things such as creation date, upvotes and comments. Everyone gets exactly the same view so it isn't specially curated.