The best feeling of my lie? Getting fired after returning from vacations.

IMO it's not about what metric is used, but how it is used. The current approach, completely avoiding any karma like mechanism, solves the farming issue, but IMO does not cater to the needs of every user.

For example, I have ADHD and if accumulating karma gives me much needed motivation and feel good chemicals, I am going to take them.

At the same time, holding a user to a higher regard because of their karma is stupid, it's better to build real connections with usernames you recognise through continuous communication.

Personally, karma was an easily digestable piece of information about how my outreach into the social media is performing. Accumulating karma helps me feel connected with the community, feel accepted.

He is a bit sleepy after a long walk at the park 🥰 We met a bunch of wonderful friends today. I even had a huge puppy (10 months old but bigger in size than me) climb into my hands for a hug

Lemmy's user base is pretty interesting, you will find interesting discussions in pretty much most communities. However, if don't find something interesting, don't be afraid to start a discussion on your own. Coming from Reddit I used to be afraid of the harassment, but Lemmy is a safer space ❤️

Some general pointers:

1. Beehaw is a good place to look for interesting discussions
2. If you find an interesting comment, take a look at the author's profile, chance is they have more interesting stuff for you to find
3. Filter by subscribed and hot/active
4. Look for opinion articles

Is this what autism feels like?

Sometimes yes, a lot of us feel isolated, struggle with socialization and connecting with others. Othen it helps to find other ND people, they are just as interested in whatever niche topic you are thinking about.

PS Yesterday, I started a post on AskLemmy after pondering about how technology and science is changing at a faster pace than people (mostly professionals) can adapt.

Not really, we are a small team and we generally trust each other. Sure there are things that could have been better, but it's not bad either.

But they are sooo adorable 😍

Have you tried the thing that has been on your mind for the last month (or more) but cannot get around it?

When I am in a rut, unable to do anything for over a week, usually there is something that I am stuck on...

IMO it's never about the tool, but who controls it. For example, nuclear energy is a neutral thing on its own, when used to generate power it's (arguably) a net positive, when used for bombing it's a net negative.

The same goes for algorithms, when they are used to save lives at hospitals it's a net positive, when used to harvest people's attention it becomes a net negative.

(For anyone interested, I have MAB algorithms in mind, they can be used to prioritize patients at hospitals, or make recommendations in social media. You can guess which application of the algorithm is more commonly used, well researched, and well funded.)

TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Seldon

Seldon develops psychohistory, an algorithmic science that allows him to predict the future in probabilistic terms. On the basis of his psychohistory he is able to predict the eventual fall of the Galactic Empire and to develop a means to shorten the millennia of chaos to follow. The significance of his discoveries lies behind his nickname "Raven" Seldon.

Maybe, you get to choose the point. What were the moments that made it all worth it?

👍for keycloak

Been using that for my side projects, with the added benefit that I got a single instance running on docker for all my projects, sharing a realm so a user has to register only once.

I can share my docker-compose.yaml in case you want to try that.

It supports oidc, so if you are using python you can set up authlib with 5-10 lines of code. I can share code if there is interest.

Human babies need a buff, they're functionally useless for far too long.

Capitalism now wants to extract value from babies??