[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Betteridge's law of headlines has rarely been more applicable than in this case: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." 

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 year ago

A new scaled sort option has been added. This sort is identical to the Hot sort, but also takes into account the number of each community's active monthly users, and so helps to boost posts from less active communities to the top.

This is such a vital change and should be the default. Lemmy is currently effectively suffocating and killing its small communities and stunting its own growth due to its complete inability to surface their content. No scaled sorting, no "community bundling" - this is an important step in the right direction but there's likely a lot more work needed to solve this problem.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 100 points 1 year ago

It was made illegal in the EU years ago.

The rule is pretty simple: you have to be able to cancel a subscription the same way you signed up for it. If you used the Internet to sign up there better be a fucking button that allows you to cancel.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

Had she retired on time, she would have been remembered as a trailblazer instead of a stubborn, senile, roadblock. The general public would have felt sadness instead of relief.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

He's not the one collecting the data, receiving the data, or even choosing what data is collected. How the fuck can he be "more transparent" with this data? It's Google standard AdMob SDK used by the vast majority of Android-Apps showing ads. The SDK isn't initialized in the paid version.

Literally, the only complaint I'm having here is that buying the Ad-Free version was a little too hard to find. A pop-up "hey, would you like ads or pay for this app" would have allowed me to pay for it faster.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

It's not a bug, that's just where the visible spectrum ends. There's a bunch of different shades of ultraviolet following that purple line. Just don't read far enough down a comment chain to stare at the gamma-ray-colored ones.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 year ago

Most of them? The fact that most niche communities failed to successfully migrate away from Reddit is the reason why Lemmy isn't really something I frequent as often as I would like these days.

Heck, it would probably be a whole lot easier to list the three niche communities here that may be thriving.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 year ago

My wife teaches at a university. The title is partly bullshit:

For most teachers it couldn't be more obvious who used ChatGPT in an assignment and who didn't.

The problem, in most instances, isn't the "figuring out" part, but the "reasonably proving" part.

And that's the most frustrating part: you know an assignment was AI-written, there are no tools to prove it and the university gives its staff virtually no guidance or assistance on the subject matter, so you're almost powerless.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

Every account on lemmy is a bot except you.

[-] PurpleTentacle@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

The problem is, you and me wouldn't be superhuman. Being a broken-ass, second-rate, classic-style human in a world of superhumans would absolutely not be cool.

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