CoderKat

I know some phones had already did this, but I always liked the idea of support for using your phone as a TV remote. The phone has replaced so many pieces of hardware that it feels silly that TV remotes haven't been replaced yet.

I also specifically wish Chrome supported extensions on mobile. Firefox does it. Why can't the biggest browser do it?

... is this Terminator? Probably, since the year matches up.

No, it's definitely a FPTP failure. If you have progressive third party candidate who mostly attracts voters who would otherwise have voted Democrat, it splits the vote. Even if the majority of people voted for either the third party or the Democrat candidate (let's say 30% each), the Republican candidate would get win even with 60% of people not wanting them.

I suspect you're thinking of people being afraid to vote third party and thus dooming the third party to lose, but the fallacy of that is assuming that everyone would genuinely vote for the third party over other candidates, which isn't the case. Articles like the one we're commenting on are only pointing out the most common belief.

I don't know anything about this particular site, but typically these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once. So reddit would get a single view no matter how many views your link gets.

For sites like Google's cache or archive.org, they often were gonna cache the site no matter what.

The two white rooks swap places, leaving viewers extremely confused.

While certainly stuff like user styles have a lower barrier to entry and are very easy to structure as an opt in, note that kbin and Lemmy being open source means that anyone who would make an addon could just make their changes directly to the website.

Ads pretty much are the best bet.

That said, they aren't the only option. Donations are a big alternative. That's why Wikipedia is ad free, for example. The other big one is subscriptions, but you basically have to offer a lot to convince anyone to subscribe. And a lot of "subscriptions" are actually just a convenient way to donate, which should be viewed differently from non-donations, since far fewer people are willing to donate, due to being completely optional.

There's also sponsored content, but that's just deceptive ads. I'd rather ads be 100% transparent and obvious about being an ad.

Finally there's angel investors, but those aren't typically paying out of the goodness of their heart. They usually want to grow a business that they'll later commercialize. They'll get a great period of time where everything just magically gets paid for, but odds are, they're gonna do something terrible later to monetize.

An obligatory mention that ads don't have to be scummy. That's the norm, yeah, but it's entirely possible to serve only ethical, clearly marked ads that don't utilize deception or are scams. It doesn't make as much money as accepting scummy ads, which is why we usually end up with ads being scummy, but it is an option.

You mean the model that is easier to understand and helps get users to stick around? Defaulting to some local only view would be terrible for retaining people who are seeing kbin or Lemmy for the first time. Depending on what instance they ended up on, they might mistakenly think that kbin/Lemmy doesn't have much to offer or that it's specialized.

I mean, how many actual users are viewing local only? I'm skeptical that many people would purposefully be doing that. So why would we make it the default?

(As an aside, for comparison, I believe kbin defaults to "all", which is great for showing the breadth of posts, but shows too many niche things. The point of defaults is to try and make the default view more general as a starting point that applies to more people.)

Is this a Lemmy specific issue? I've never noticed that you seem to be describing with kbin. But I don't really understand it. Do you have to subscribe to see posts on Lemmy? Cause on kbin, you can see threads fine for communities and instances you've never subscribed to. And when you do subscribe, you can see older posts and comments.

I've discovered countless Lemmy communities to subscribe to in the first place from viewing kbin's equivalent of /all.

I love my smart lights. It's convenient controlling my lights with my voice and setting up automation rules for them.

Yes, there's some privacy concerns. Personally, I just assume it might happen and consider it worth it. Honestly, I just don't really care much if Phillips knows when I turn my lights on. I mean, my neighbours can figure that out just by looking at my place.

Probably because "join Lemmy" is way too broad and Lemmy sites don't have good page rank scores yet. With any luck, the sites becoming bigger will improve results.

That said, I'm not sure if the page rank algorithm will even work very well on them without changes, since there's so many possible URLs for different instances view of the same post. It likely dilutes the rank of any particular result.

As an aside, even if Google worked well, I suspect it would end up causing the biggest instances to only get bigger. Google gives weight to what other people link to, and that's most likely to be from the largest instances. Also, the whole idea of creating new instances probably doesn't mesh well with how web search works, since it isn't likely to trust new, unfamiliar sites.

It might get a short bump in traffic, but I don't see traffic increasing on the longer term because of this. And it certainly does spread awareness while also reducing advertising value.