Mushroom Robot Army vs OpenAI Robot Army… whose side are you on?

A key question in the field is whether you guys are getting citations. [1]

[1] [email protected], [email protected], Jan 27th 2025

I’m reading this while waiting to pick up food and I think I have a really weird expression on my face now …

omg this isn’t surrealism… it’s PROPHECY!!!

I’ve been on the internet too long… I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what part of the body “the burger” is…

Lemmy is different from Reddit in one important way.

Reddit is a product. You install the app, you look at the ads, the mods and admins curate an endless feed of cartoons and safe ragebait and awwwunexpectedsmiles.

Lemmy is an environment. If you’re passive, then any random thing may happen to you. So you have to be proactive in this environment.

• You could subscribe to communities that are non-politics/news, non-meme, non-tech, and browse these “subscribed” communities.
• You could use blocklists, as described elsewhere in this post.
• You could find an instance that does some of this work for you, by defederating and blocking certain types of opinions and behaviors. This seems to be what you want, and many people have provided suggestions.

These are all ok. But the one defining characteristic of Lemmy is that it is not just another product.

It’s part of their name now. “The ADL, which defended Musk’s nazi salute…”

5 of whom will move out of the state at their first opportunity

4 of them will have to join the armed forces to leave, so to conservatives this will be a win.

During the API exodus a lot of us deleted our comments bc we didn’t like the fact that Reddit was monetizing the knowledge we had created. Some people argued that it was better that the knowledge remain out there. Either way is cool I guess.

Bye bye, 13 year old reddit account.

don’t forget to delete your comments there!

I’m guessing it involves prison labor being cheaper than immigrant labor.

This has happened before. Even after Abu Ghraib Bush Jr won re-election. Even after Iran-Contra the Republicans won re-election.

But the fact is that they do not have the answers. They can only take things for themselves, and hope that people give up.

Yeah only 2 generations ago, LGBT people were considered mentally ill. 4 generations ago women were considered unfit to vote. 8 generations ago about half the US though it was OK to own slaves. It takes a while for ideas to die out. That’s why US elections turn out the way they do.

Were you able to contact the admins of your mastodon instance? For example, for mastodon.social it’s on their “about” page. I say this bc it might be a bug in their “reset email” service that they’re not aware of.

ikr lemmy has a little over 40k active users. If you look at the first data point just as the slope starts to rise, that’s where lemmy is by comparison:

Total users is pretty meaningless bc it includes things like users who left and will never return, and bot accounts.

WHAT THE FUCK

“Tell me what you told me before… about them rabbits” Lemmy Lenny said.

There’s a huge difference between living somewhere and visiting it as a tourist. Most places encourage tourism and are happy to demonstrate their hospitality. Stick to the tourist areas, start interactions by saying “We’re tourists from Germany…” and you’ll have no problem.

I’m not sure what other people here mean when they deny that there is racism in the US. There are plenty of racists in this country. It’s true that they’re much less likely to hang you from a tree for being in the wrong neighborhood – I guess if your standards are that low then we have indeed made great progress. But again, they’re generally not going to mess with tourists in tourist areas.

Pixelfed is growing at a rate of 20,000 active users per day. (source).

Mastodon has recently been growing at 5,000 to 10,000 active users per day. (source)

Those are active users, i.e. actually posting or liking/favoriting. Since yesterday pixelfed.social had to turn off its global feed. Mastodon.social still has its global feed but it doesn’t seem to be getting pixelfed posts and isn’t updating automatically. Maybe it’s good that the press is ignoring them. If they grew any faster they’d become unusable.

https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Be interesting to see what it looks like a month from now – the size of plateau and drop-off.