Troy @ troyunrau @lemmy.ca

Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary S

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Yes. This is the correct view of capitalism if seen from the position of money.

Until you step back and ask where that money comes from.

And you realize that it is a funnel, from those without money to those with money.

And then the exponential growth "feature" starts to feel bad.

I say this as a small business owner experiencing double digit year-over-year equity growth, trying to claw my way up and out of the crab bucket.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/01/22/like-the-spartans-in-thermopylae-a-dozen-ukrainian-commandos-battled-scores-of-north-koreans-for-eight-long-hours-in-kursk/

https://www.forcesnews.com/ukraine/british-commandos-helped-generals-leave-ukraine-start-war-investigation-finds

You have a confirmation bias.

Whoa! Cakeday on Lemmy! Thanks!

Also, great notes! :D

Funding bait

Colour me cautiously optimistic

Excellent work folks!

The true power of federation showing itself here. In this case, it's two software packages with the same server/admin team -- which basically future proofs both.

I'd make a recommendation: have some sort of cross-pollination tool. Basically, pull the database of all subscribed communities on Lemmy.ca and have a bot subscribe to the same on PieFed, and vice versa. Probably easy to do if you have server-side access.

Furthermore, in the ideal world, "Local" from the Lemmy instance includes the piefed.ca local commuities. This might be a harder ask. The reason would be to prevent bisecting the Local feeds.

Finally, ideally there is a community migration tool, to cross between Lemmy and PieFed if a community wants to move from one side to the other. This would be a bigger project, but would future proof Fedican even further should either piece of software become badly maintained.

Well, okay, I just created a year's worth of work for a programmer. How can I help?

Doubly so for being a trans brick

Hot 73 yo jailbait

If the music is good, yes :)

Old Galaxy Note9 which I'm probably replacing with a much nicer Sony this week. :)

I want to take that through airport security in the US. ;)

I'm not crying! You're crying!

DM: yes.

Corporate journalism is digging (no pun intended) its own grave in many cases.

A feedback cycle where no one wants to pay for content, so advertisers are needed to fund their staff, which means clicks and engagement become the metric of success. But, the solution is either publicly funded news (largely unpopular), or regulating the open internet (more unpopular). So, yeah, the death of corporate journalism is coming.

Majestic

As a mod of a few mostly quiet communities on lemmy.ca, I'd note that there isn't actually a lot of work involved. Like, I check the ModeratorView every few days just to make sure something didn't slip through my feed, read some comments, and then return to scrolling. I have never actually had to take a real moderator action. It's actually crazy how nice everyone is, even the ones that disagree with me :)

Like check the modlog on lemmy.ca -- it's not that busy.

I concur. It is also relatively unmolested in terms of fucking up KDE programs.

Wouldn't put more than like 5V DC on it, but you could use it to put power to some low power USB toys.

I wrote for Ars for a brief period, on Linux topics. This was prior to the digg exodus. As a writer, I got a set rate for each page of content, with an expected average word count per page. I'd get a bonus anytime my story hit the front page of digg, slashdot, or similar aggregater. It happened a few times.

But that bonus incentive meant I was encouraged to specifically write stories that would resonate with those audiences. It wasn't fraud or a scam -- it was free market economic pressure. But the effect was the same -- I was tailoring my content to maximize aggregator exposure.

I began to submit my own stories to Slashdot and similar, because a minute of my time could pay me $100 or whatever.

I am not sure that reddit is biased towards these publications as much as they are likely intentionally gaming the algorithms, and encouraging their writers to do the same -- write content you know will hit the frontpage. I don't think it is wrong necessarily, but it certainly isn't organic.

That said, Ars generally has very high quality content due to some very good reporters. Eric Berger comes to mind. So it could be both effects: quality and gaming the system.