Gsus4

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[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)
[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Karma still exists even when you don't see the number, because it is used to sort posts in some way (by number or upvote percentage). Upvotes are important information to the community in principle.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's not so much a dark pattern, but an emergent property of the upvote system: usually the first commenters tended to have an advantage and late good comments actually would never get enough exposure to float to the top.

Karma farmers would just sit at "new", spam comments and get visibility for joke and outrage comments.

The solution may be to randomly order comments below a certain threshold and/or within an upvote range.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago

I remember, it was fun. And it's actually important in the age of silomania. Heh, the internet's not dead yet, turns out.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it's elaborate camo 😃 you can't hit them if you fall off your seat laughing. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qklvh5Cp_Bs&pp=ygUaZnVubmllc3Qgam9rZSBpbiB0aGUgd29ybGQ%3D

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It still may be possible for you to work around their bullshit minterpretations of ethics, but you'll have to write a 5000 word essay on what ethics is, how it is applied, provide examples. At least in ChatGPT.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Major reason not to buy ebooks from amazon: you can't lend, give, exchange, sell them and you may lose all of them if you anger the right people. They are not yours, you are not buying them, you merely paid for conditioned access to them.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I can give you a perfect example of car brain that even applies to people who try not to drive too much:

The other day I saw a dude complaining that they keep putting zebra crossings at roundabout exits and he insisted that this was just done to use pedestrians to slow down roundabout exits, but that what these city planners were doing was dangerous, since more than once he had almost run over a pedestrian or stopped suddenly and endangered cars behind him. :/

Then somebody actually asked: "Ok, so where the fuck do you suggest that the zebra crossings be placed for the people actually walking along the streets that cross the roundabout in multiple directions? Do you expect them to walk 20m further?"

sudden paradigm shift and some drivers actually became aware of car brain.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was gonna say that I never expected or wanted lemmy/mastodon to become mainstream anyway, far from it. And like dual-booting linux and windows, there are just some things I won't abdicate in favour of convenience or having more followers/software or being on a platform with more market power.

But you know what, it's a spectrum, from the volunteer/libre-heavy to the hideous proprietary tyrannies:

??? > FOSS > wikipedia > reddit > google > microsoft > twitter > facebook > ???

Maybe if we are able to accommodate a large fraction of the mod community of reddit and let the flexibility of federated diversity and "3rd-party apps" flourish against facebook's top-down approach we might create a wikipedia-like oasis...

But probably not, because there is too much money to make in appmaking rather than written content creation.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But why do the current lemmy instances have to die if facebook decides to make ActivityPub+goldextra? We'll just stay on our branch, maybe lose a few users who should know better. Facebook isn't even making use of ActivityPub's federation anyway, which is why we are here.

I'm actually afraid that they won't defederate at some point but find some way to track the activities of the federated servers.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Yea, I like space exploration, in-game economies, but not so much the mindless grind.

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