Spzi

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[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 2 years ago

In Lemmy, you can click on Instances (bottom right) to see a list of federated and defederated instances.

From my point of view (lemmy.click), mastodon.social is federated.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Great question. As I'm new to these things too, I forwarded it to ChatGPT 3.5. In summary:

Lemmy is designed for creating and participating in online communities, while Kbin is designed for organizing and sharing knowledge.

Lemmy is more focused on discussions and social interaction, while Kbin is geared towards structured content creation and collaboration.

They seem to have more in common than they differ, especially for users who only read posts, visit links, write comments.

I also heard they are meant to be able to access each other's content, although that's currently not working.

Please correct what is wrong, happy to learn.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 2 years ago

How can we determine malicious intent?

It's social interactions, not science. People form opinions.

People may falsly assume they're being brigaded, and there may be confusion around the term and the limits. Which in turn can be used by brigading groups to conceal their efforts.

Anyways, I hope I could help answer some of your questions.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 3 points 2 years ago

Should be possible to use another UI or just another theme without needing to redo all the backend work.

If it currently has no UI/theme switcher, then some backend work might be required, but still much less than making a new app from scratch.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If that happens with malicious intent, yes. If it's just advertising, a friendly visit or an otherwise civil exchange of opinions, no.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I find this post at a moment when the show has already started (as can be seen on https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ and https://reddark.untone.uk/ )

But the article is 3 days old. It seems many did not expect that much unity from subreddits going dark. 2.5 billion affected subscribers is quite something!

I'm still in hopes they change their mind in light of recent events. Don't think they will though.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 4 points 2 years ago

Valid point, but even then, the two groups overlap.

The title seems to suggest that all Gamers were male. The article mostly talks about how that is not the case. It refers to these vocal gamers as 'some annoying dudes' within the text. Evidently, only some Gamers reacted poorly, but omitting the "some" makes for a more clickbaity=better headline.

The irony is, this headline strengthens the very stereotype the article aims to combat.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly

Interesting title. As if "Women" and "Gamers" were two distinct groups.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading

Top three replies:

A concentrated effort by one online group to manipulate another. (e.g. by mass commenting)

When people from one group, organization, fandom, forum, server, etc. aggressively infiltrates, usually spontaneously, a rival forum, server, or stream; negative criticism is usually given to the victim of a brigade (the event itself sometimes being called a raid), with insults and counter-signaling common. Usually used in the past participle ("brigaded"). Brigades can be done in good humor, but are usually antagonistic in nature.

Brigading is an online harassment tactic where a group of people rally against an individual (or occasionally against a small group of people) in a coordinated, sustained and organized way.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

people in recovery from addiction and alcohol saying how they keep seeing ads for beer or gambling

Not that this is how it works, but I imagine a diligent algorithm looking at those individuals and that content, and then thinking "mhhmm this will generate maximum revenue!!".

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 6 points 2 years ago

Good idea! Apparently most of my subs participated, so I only had to unsub a few times. Eerie view to see an empty front page after I was done, never had that.

Apart from this short visit, I stay away from reddit.

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, that's very kind!

Someone shared this link: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/4331/The-growing-list-of-subreddits-going-to-be-dark-but

If I understand this correctly, that's a list of communities I should be able to subscribe to. I can visit https://lemmy.ml/c/atheism and https://lemmy.ml/c/gamedev, but they open as a new (?) lemmy to which I am not logged in. When I try to find them via 'Communities', I get "No results", so I cannot subscribe.

So it feels like some parts of the network are inaccessible (or even invisible, the internal serach does not show these two examples) and I don't know why.

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