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Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

I love this bit from the article:

To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, "Busy now, please check back later." (To be fair, in this case "check back later" is a good summary of what happened.)

Good CAT in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

"How to be a good human owner"

SystemD in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah exactly. It does have some features that require integration with the init system, which systemd obviously supports, but it could be used independently of systemd quite happily, and other init systems could easily support those integrations.

Pikachu reacts to an AI art in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is the bottom picture AI upscaled? It looks way crisper than I remembee that meme ever looking

Chapter 5 Panel 39 by Daniel Lieske in c/digitalart@lemmy.world
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Had to find out what this was from. Its a webcomic called Wormworld Saga, and it looks pretty great!

vscodium, vscode without spyware in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its not a bad comparison. Sure, some details might differ, but the underlying concept of a build that only uses the open source code is the same.

Is there a way to hide posts below a certain vote threshold? in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hey, removing this as off-topic. A community like !general@lemmy.world might be better for these types of questions.

TechCrunch mentions Lemmy / Kbin migration: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Removing as this is off topic, but I've cross-posted to !reddit@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/205415

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TechCrunch mentions Lemmy / Kbin migration: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)
Steve Huffman mad about blackout, wants to make it easier to remove moderators. in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Removing as it is off-topic. I've cross posted this to !reddit@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/205168

Community moderation policy in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey! Thanks for your question. There wasn't before, but there's now !newcomers@lemmy.world. The plan is to have a stickied post with a list of recommended communities for new users.

Community moderation policy in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That's great, thanks for starting the community! It's good to have place where the content accessible for people to still engage with it.

We'll find a way to promote the visibility of the community so that it can start to become a hub. Probably in a list of recommended communities stickied to the front page.

Let's treat eachother better; this isn't Reddit 2.0 in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] sunspider@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this post has a relatively high engagement, I'll just lock it for now.

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Community moderation policy (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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Hey there lemmings!

It's your friendly neighbourhood Sun-Spider here. I recently volunteered as a mod on this community, so I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know my plans.

Many of you will have seen that there are a lot of off-topic posts in this community right now. I suspect that new users, especially ones not yet familiar with how Lemmy and the fediverse work, are seeing it as a kind of default community or a place to generally discuss the world of Lemmy.

However, as it says in the sidebar, this is a community about the lemmy.world instance specifically. If it's going to serve as that, then it can't be drowned in off-topic posts.

To that end, I plan to start going through and removing posts that are not discussing this instance, with two exceptions.

Firstly, I know that some of these posts are providing good info to new users coming from Reddit, so I'd like to not take those down just yet. Since this is such a visible community, keeping them has value. Therefore highly upvoted posts that are specifically for newcomers from Reddit may get left.

Secondly, I know that removing posts with many upvotes and comments could be seen as overly harsh. While we don't have a karma system here, if you had a post that has done well then suddenly seeing it removed is painful. Therefore if a post is off topic, but is nonetheless highly upvoted, then I may instead simply lock the post. This preserves the content, but prevents further engagement. This should mean that it gradually falls off the front page, whose default sort is Active.

TLDR

  • Posts that are not about the lemmy.world instance specifically will be removed, with the following exceptions:
  • Some posts providing value to new users will be left
  • Some posts with high engagement may be simply locked

Update

Check out the new communities !newcomers@lemmy.world and !general@lemmy.world! These are intended to be a good home for a lot of the content that's getting removed/locked.

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What icon should we have? (lemmy.world)
 

This community still needs an icon, and just the flag is boring. What does the community want to see?

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Hallo vanuit Groot Brittania! (lemmy.world)
 

Hallo Nederlanders; ik woon in Groot Brittania, maar ik ben half Nederlands van mijn vader. Ik heb nog familie in Nederland en dus wil ik mijn Nederlands oefenen. Is dit en goede plek om dat te doen?

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