Please remember Rule 1 to "be nice".
I know this whole discussion is about cruelty, but still it helps if we here can have a discussion here that isn't like that. Even (especially) if someone were to truthfully live up to that word.
Hrm, so now by removing the pronoun, they will make it non-binary:-).
If despite the plethora of other words, City was the "mode", then that would make sense. Or it could be adjusted for population, or otherwise biased towards whatever the definition of a "city" is to specifically exclude towns and the like?
In any case it's kind of a neat graph to think about:-).
Except that they also write the Lemmy sourcecode. Hence you can begin to understand why we cannot receive notifications about being banned or posts/comments removed, nor appeal via a modlog, nor be able to DM a mod bc you can't even see who to talk to when the modlog simply says "mod", nor if OP violates a rule somewhere - even on some other instance & community entirely - can others continue their discourse when OP's post is summarily removed or then banned (on Reddit the link to the post is merely removed from the list of links shown in the community feed, but the post itself remains viable and people can finish their thoughts, unlike Lemmy where even after typing something all out you may literally not be allowed to hit Send), nor was it a priority to allow mods to see reports and thus be able to effectively moderate from another instance, thus freeing them somewhat from the control of a single admin, etc.
It's not even a bad thing that I am saying - especially on their end: they develop the Lemmy codebase how they want it to be, bc it was their idea and they did practically all of the work. If we want different, then we would need to similarly put in the effort to create it (and before that, open our eyes to see clearly what is going on and where we might rather be heading instead). Many have already started, like K/Mbin, PieFed, Sublinks, Mastodon, Friendica, etc.
- !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
- !fediverselore@lemmy.ca
- This one, !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- There's surely way more places for people to post such content, like I see it on 196 a lot as well.
Also, while it is indeed the admins that mass ban people from communities that they've never even heard of across the entire instance, the mods are not entirely unknown to Lemmy users themselves. There are many famous stories, such as the one who told a user that he wanted to kill them, bc they posted a screenshot of two people kissing in some kind of dating game claiming that it was "triggering". Those mods are protected by those admins. In turn, nobody else across the Fediverse is protected from either those mods or especially those admins.
This is their software, and we are on their platform, always remember.
It depends how sophisticated the algorithm.:-)
That is the only state that I see a gradient coloration for. If you were in the northern part of Maine, that might explain it? (Assuming the gradient was intended to mean literally north vs. south as opposed to more generically some parts vs. other parts)
Which one(s)? Los Angeles? If so, naw, cause certain individuals don't know how to read in Mexican (the proper term there is Spanish I know:-).
Edit: I forgot you said The Wetlands.
Who knows. Would NYC even be considered one "city", rather than a set of burroughs, for this purpose? Or are the names perhaps normalized by population? If so, would they remove outliers as many statistical packages will do for you, but in this case they should leave them in, so if they were removed automatically that would not be great. Or if they just went with one name = one count then is there a minimum cutoff? Or a nearness criteria e.g. places near NYC still get swept up into it? And like how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? So many unanswered questions here...
Probably the names are too diverse? Dallas, Houston, Alamo, but they do have some like San Antonio.
Probably it's what, ~200 years ago, they hoped would eventually happen!? (like Kansas "City":-)
We absolutely definitely did:-)