[–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

would kill the community

I'm of the opposite belief. I think some communities stay dead bc there's just one person constantly posting articles with zero input. I avoid these "zombie" communities. Regular dead communities are more enticing to post in for me.

start one, and unsubscribe from the communities you don't like.

This would create even more fracturing, which is already a big problem here.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Basically all articles end up commented on anyways.

    No. Small communities do not get this feature, and it is my belief that they stay small because (a) no one is willing to make the first comment and (b) the feed is just full of new dead posts, or "zombie" posts.

    At least that's in my case. I get this urked feeling and leave the community whenever the feed feels "zombie". Not the case when it's just dead.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago

    but I want the community to not die.

    I understand this, but

    I don't have anything meaningful to say

    Could this not be true for everyone else? Someone needs to start the discussion. Otherwise it will just stay dead. Imo it's better to either leave it or come up with at least something.

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    There are some communities where the vast majority of posts are by on or two users reposting news articles.

    Sometimes they'll summarize below, but they will almost never share their opinions on the article, or even just ask what others may think about in regards to this aspect or that aspect. So the entire feed is just URLs.

    I would feel more engaged to comment on those posts, or even start a post in the community, when it doesn't feel like a bunch of robots reposting the daily slop.

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    “Contrary to standard cosmological theories where the accelerated expansion of the universe is attributed to dark energy, our findings indicate that this expansion is due to the weakening forces of nature, not dark energy,” he continued.

    So both dark matter and dark energy don't exist?

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    It is by design non-invasive and should work on any distro which meets the requirements; Btrfs root and systemd-boot bootloader. With non-invasive I mean; it doesn't mess with your normal OS and its configuration, it can be rolled out, toyed around with and just as easily be removed again.

    Taken from reddit:

    I think this is the best approach to immutability. I don't want heavy abstraction and I don't want containers.

    A system I can deploy anytime and rollback on is all I needed.

    When I have time, I will include this in my setup.

    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
     

    I want to discuss a better means of organizing tags for websites that use a generic tagging system. I propose a tag hierarchy.

    Basically, if I search for #dog, I should find posts with #puppy, #pug, #baby_pugs, #cute_dogs, etc.

    But, if I search for #pug, I should only get posts with #pug, or other tags like #baby_pugs, #cute_pugs, etc.

    This would make adding 50+ similar tags to a post irrelevant and allow for normal people to put a single obscure tag and still gain visibility.

    I want to bring this idea up to more people. Where should I discuss this? You can suggest any website, community, or Lemmy instance where I could possibly develop this further.

    I'm happy to discuss this here as well.

    [Edit for clarity]: I am not just talking about tags for the federation and Mastodon. I am talking about improving any and all websites with a generic tagging system. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. etc.

    Help on BTRFS setup (programming.dev)
     

    I'm attempting a new install. I want to use btrfs with swapfile.

    Do I need to disable compression on my swap subvolume?

    Is there anything else I should keep in mind for fstab if I want to, say, not keep track of my Downloads folder when snapshotting?

    Here is my fstab:

    LABEL=arch@btrfs        /               btrfs           rw,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=256,subvol=>
    
    LABEL=arch@btrfs        /home           btrfs           rw,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=257,subvol=>
    
    LABEL=arch@btrfs        /var/cache/pacman/pkg   btrfs           rw,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=259>
    
    LABEL=arch@btrfs        /var/log        btrfs           rw,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=258,subvol=>
    
    LABEL=arch@btrfs        /.snapshots     btrfs           rw,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=260,subvol=>
    
    LABEL=arch@btrfs        /swap           btrfs           rw,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=263,subvol=>
    
    LABEL=efi@fat32         /efi            vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=asci>
    
    /swap/swapfile          none            swap            defaults        0 0
    
     

    TLDR: Companies should be required to pay developers for any open source software they use.

    He imagines a simple yearly compliance process that gets companies all the rights they need to use Post-Open software. And they'd fund developers who would be encouraged to write software that's usable by the common person, as opposed to technical experts.

    It's an interesting concept, but I don't really see any feasible means to get this to kick off.

    What are your thoughts on it?

     

    I used to listen to long form essays on Youtube. My favourite ones either break down the history of a conspiracy, teach me something new and cool about the world, or explore a hobby I've never been interested in.

    I don't like the ones about killers or heavy drama. I also don't like podcasts that spend half the time reading the latest news from [topic] in verbatim .

    What are some podcasts you can recommend me while I chip away at other things?

     

    Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek.

    Not only that, these communities are some of the most active I've ever seen. There is no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

    So, what's the correlation with Lemmy and Star Trek? Why not other sci-fi series? Please, are there any connections?? Is this all coincidental?

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