Ziggurat @ Ziggurat @sh.itjust.works

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z.b. wenn du post auf actualite@lemmy.world ein franzozish sprechende c/ auf LW viel posts werden untergestimmet (gibt es ein Wort fur Downvotes) , nicht viel aber genug sodass diese poste kriegen ein null.

Aber hier ist es schlimmer als die sprache is auf engels defieniert

(scheisse, ich soll ofter Deutsch sprechen/schreiben, ich habe dass gefühl dass ich habe viel vergessen)

Among the stuff I learned n reddit, up/downvotes make no sense at all. You can make a one-line joke and get a ton of upvote while if you make a long-sourced-argumented comments you get downvoted .

But yhea, there is some issues with mass downvoters, especially on LW, it's even worse when you post in other language than english. Don't take-it personnally

From Mbin, I can see who upvoted your challenge contribution but not who downvoted it (I thought it was public too)

Just something simple this time

The strength of the fediverse is that it's a whole network of individually owned servers. The weakness of the fediverse is that it's a whole network of individually ownwed servers.

it's a strength because you don't rely on large companies and are closer from the internet as it was designed with a decentralized network of equal importances server rather than a few big one. Which limits the power of the people owning the server and let having diverse moderation policies (e.g. I am all in letting a space for far righter mocking left-winter on Lemmygrad, but I am glad my instance doesn't federate with them)

It's a weakness, because the person running the instance may-close it tomorrow, many instance relies on someone spare ressources in time/infrastructure/money, some would accept donations,some are run by larger non profit (which also rely on donation, but have a legal structure to take them). It also means that they don't have the legal ressource to know the exact limit between legal and illegal leading to critic about their moderation closing community about topic like piracy Thread

the cool thing is that even if an instance closes, migration is fairly easy, so the impact is limited. It can be frustrating, I remember the closing of a large forum where I was involved in the large 00's which was quite frustrating for contributors (It was like a server crash followed by a corrupted backup, shit happens)

Note also that proprietary social media do close too, remember when google closed plus or wave ? or when yahoo close yahoogroups ? it's not like being owned by a large company means it'll be open forever (look at US trying to ban tik tok)

You'll die. In 50-70 years you'll be sleeping in a grave, while there is a good chance that the US (or Germany/France/China) will still be around. Even though a couple of countries have multi-generation mortgages (looking a your switzerland) most bank won't lend money to people if they think they'll die before paying pack. It's less an issue with governments. Well if we look at history, every 100-200 years, there is a moment when a country stop paying their debt, best case they throw the bankers in jail and seize their goods, worst case they do economic reform and punish their own citizen. but it's still way safer than lending money to a person/company.

That said, public debt is still a potential issue, the era of negative interest rate is over and these interest are part of a country budget. Moreover, i am always weirded out when the state take poor money it's called taxes, but when they state take rich people money it's called debt and we give them interest.

Finally, even though everyone know that at a point any government will either declare bankrupcy, have inflation, or a revolution to cancel the debt, the risk over a few years (to take typical treasure bonds is still very low. My money is safer in public debts of almost every country than on stock of a large company)

Don't give ideas to chaotic evil architects

User interface.
OK miss/calc/shark key has it but mastodon is pretty rough, and lemmy isn't that nice. Yes I know for Lemmy Alexandrite is neater than the official app, but it's already some power user level, same for instances having the photon and old front-end.

Considering how powerful is the copyright mafia (Remember that the pirate bay founder got jail-time) I totally understand why the people running the instance are doing so. I get why user are pissed off, but they're free to host their own instance and deal by themselves with the legal liability

In term of UX the miss/calc/shark key beat Mastodon.

However, Mastodon has way more instances (including many ran by well established organisations) and a stabler codebase (while, regarding *key, I am a bit concerned by the amount of forks)

It's the same fediverse so you would see the sa me federation from both

Hey, Thanks for coming here. My concern before going tot the issue tracker is that it seems to work on some instance and not on some other. so it was not clear whether it's an instance specific problem or a software issue. hence firstly a discussion here.

If necessary I can try to open a ticket on the github.

Considering that you need to check tire pressures every 6-12 weeks, I wouldn't worry about the summer/winter difference.

On my bike the recommended pressure is in the 4-6 bar range. so way more than the expected variation from temperature (or day to day pressure).

The trick is that the fedi, has already better tools than reddit/Xitter. We can already flag the language and filter by language, which is feature reddit still doesn't have. So it's also about people using it rather than blocking/downvoting

Note that, with some other french speaker we've done a couple of experiences with language tags. Some instances ignore the c/ default language https://sh.itjust.works/post/16306134 so even if the community is properly set some languages aren't set automatically.

Moreover some /c/ may want to be multi-lingual and then users need to set language by hand no matter what

We, ve made it Lemmy ! We created a Word and brought it to Google front page

Are you trying to recreate the race theory ? There isn't enough difference among human ethnicity to have sounds that you can't do biologically.

However, as brain plasticity diminish with age, there is tons of sounds that non native can pronounce, look at French trying to speak english and struggling to get the th sound correctly Ze Ding is Tat or English speakers unable to get the french u sound properly Excousez moi. And this is for 2 countries which are pretty close geographically and culturally. I let you imagine what happen when an European try to learn an east-asian or sub saharian language, especially as an adult. IT's not about genetic, just about not being used to these sounds

We will have to look into this. I assume you would prefer that the posts do get automatically tagged as French

If the community has a default language yes, it would be great to have tagged automatically in the default language

The language settings on Lemmy generally need some work to make them more intuitive, imo. New users are often confused by them.

Indeed, this isn't intuitive (and something you find on the fedi, but less on mainstream social media). Also when using the wrong Language, Lemmy doesn't return any error but just refuse to accept the post. Which is a great way to confuse anyone.

Thanks for looking at it

Many countries aren't that far from UBI. When you add all the welfare programs, People alrcadx get money When not working or When notgettimg a fair wage (yeah wage are so low that in today's economy minimal wages workers alrcadx need some welfare benefits tolive)

UBI is about generalizing it and making it a livable amont. This would be a taxable income, it would allow working class to work less (letting works for others) whiletaxes won't let the rich get tricher zithouthaving to work

I wouldn't be on lemmy if I wasn't worried by the weight of foreign bilionaire on technology that should be accessible for everyone.

But I doubt that VR will got that mainstream considering all the practical diffictulties to use-it

In principle, people have to fill the "language field' before posting. If you set it properly you'll see only languages you'll understand.

this field is also quite important for visually impaired user, who use tech like "screen reader". So it's worth trying to use-it.

Also please don't downvote language you don't understand, on a small community (because not many lemming speaks that language), if a thread gets 5-10 downvotes there is no way for the locals to bring-it back to positive

-5 on a 400 subscribed community where it's rare to see posts above +5 is significant, the francophone lemmy is still quite small. Not clear whether it's why the downvotes are visible compared to bigger language, or whether there is people downvoting stuff on all which aren't in english