Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Anyone looking for me, the user I'm replying to here is my new user
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
A server will only pull in everything from a community once at least 1 person on that server subscribes. Then it will start pulling in every new post and comment as soon as they're up.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Fixed link
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, this was written before I put the PSA up and figured it out. Lemme fix it for ya
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
/r/Tech, /r/Technology, /r/TechNews and others all exist. Which one is the "main" one?
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Hey! Considering I just advertised your server on Reddit, thought I might put this here. Feel free to delete if you don't need/want it.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827 > With the ongoing large influx, I was thinking that it might be nice to have some instructions for new users pinned across instances' front pages, not only to be more welcoming and help with the learning curve, but also to maybe direct people to less popular instances. Something like [this post](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/55506), but more detailed. I wrote a draft below—any thoughts on the idea or the instructions? > > > # How to Join Lemmy and Find and Subscribe to Communities > > > > (These instructions are for using Lemmy in a browser. If you are using [an app](https://join-lemmy.org/apps), some steps may differ.) > > > > ## How to Join Lemmy > > > > To use Lemmy, you need to be a member of **one instance** from the list at <https://join-lemmy.org/instances>. You will still be able to see content from anywhere, but the instance you choose will determine: > > * What URL you use to log in to Lemmy, > > * What content shows on the homepage when you select "Local" or "All", > > * Who moderates your instance, and > > * What rules you agree to when you sign up. > > > > Choose an instance that matches your interests, language, and region. (If you want more information about an instance, you can tap its "Join" button, which will show you its current homepage in the main view and its description in the sidebar.) **Please avoid joining instances that are already crowded.** > > > > Once you have decided on an instance, tap its "Join" button to open it and then tap "Sign Up" in the upper-right corner. Fill out the form and wait for your account to be approved. > > > > When your account is approved, log in and customize your profile and settings. If you change your language settings, **select "Undetermined" in addition to any languages you speak** so that you can still see posts and comments that are not tagged as being in any particular language. > > > > ## How to Find and Subscribe to Communities > > > > There are two ways to find communities through Lemmy: > > > > 1. To browse communities that others in your instance are already subscribed to, tap the "Communities" tab at the top of the page and choose the "All" scope. Tapping on a community name will open it through your instance. > > > > 2. To browse communities across all instances, visit <https://browse.feddit.de/>. Tapping on the community's name will open it, but probably not through your instance (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). **Instead, follow these steps:** > > > > a. Copy the community's URL. You can either use the copy button next to the community name or else open the community outside your instance and copy the URL from your address bar. > > > > b. In your instance, tap on the "🔍 Search" button in the upper toolbar. > > > > c. Make sure that you have chosen "All" for each of the four filters: "Type", "Scope", "Community", and "Creator". > > > > d. Paste the community's URL into the search field and tap "Search". > > > > e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing "Scope" to "Local". If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again. > > > > f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in your instance. > > > > Once a community is open in your instance, subscribe to it by tapping on the "Subscribe" button at the top of the sidebar. > > > > Can't find a community you're looking for? Subscribe to [!findacommunity@lemmy.ml](/c/findacommunity@lemmy.ml) and make a post about what you're looking for. Or, if it doesn't exist yet, and your instance allows it, create the community yourself. >
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
I’m big into tabletop, and would welcome (perhaps after Beehaw growth), a specific tabletop community here
I would subscribe to that in a heartbeat.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, posts & comments can't work in this way because each instance will have different ID numbers for their federated copy. I'm not even sure how to begin approaching this issue.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Jesus:
temperatures surged to more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Dhaka. Other cities such as Rangpur recorded a high of 41 degrees Celsius – the highest there since 1958.
Global warming is absolutely crushing certain countries. There's going to be a lot of dead elderly and young children before all that is over.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
This is gonna be another gif situation, isn't it? :))
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
It already says that at the top of the instances page
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
I don't think it's likely to have a UI element, devs are slammed enough as it is and there aren't enough new contributors stepping up (I'm trying, I really am, I just don't know Rust, Psql or Typescript enough).
Much better for there to be a community ruling about it which Beehaw members & contributors abide by
Barbarian 1 year ago • 94%
It's not allowed in a lot of instances because the moderation is absolutely exhausting and sometimes NSFL material.
The only limiting factor here is admins + moderators of an instance willing to put themselves through that.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 75%
1-man instances proven more superior to see through impersonation :P
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Maybe? Could take a bit for user changes to federate out
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
I still see you as Juniper
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Definitely better than what we have! More info is better
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
So, there's a fundamental issue here. A lot of the systems that Amanda is talking about aren't actually AI.
Chat-GPT, contrary to the blogosphere, is not actually AI. It does not have the capability for thought. It doesn't have the capacity to understand truth or fiction as concepts, let alone tell them apart.
Chat-GPT and similar systems are probabilistic language models. Essentially, I start it off with sentences (a list of tokens, if you want to get technical). Then it responds by essentially looking at the training data it's been supplied with and picking out the sequence of tokens that most likely is the answer the user is expecting, given the input. Notice that bolded text? The user is expecting. Not anything else. These language models are trained to spit out what users expect, nothing more, nothing less. If a user doesn't like the response, they give a thumbs down and the model recalibrates, introducing more noise and randomness into the result.
These language models are actually really great at reducing manual labor at certain tasks (writing cover letters, delivering predictable essays, I've personally used Chat-GPT for Shadowrun world-building) but they need to have a knowledgeable person using them because they absolutely will not reliably say true things. They will say whatever their training data says is the most likely thing the user is asking for.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Legitimately almost made my spill my beer xD
Yeah, AAA titles have been absolute trash in recent years. I've just been on indie games and a total simp for Paradox Interactive (sorry, I love grand strategy games) for quite a while now.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
It's not a priority for the devs, for very understandable reasons. They just finished a HUGE performance pull into the github for lemmy-ui (the web platform). Anybody willing to make a new app or improve the existing one is absolutely welcome to do so.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
I don't think you can on Beehaw.org. All communities on your instance need to be created by an admin.
Probably a good thing overall, considering the thousands of dead subs that are going to be all over the place come Monday.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
You're awesome man! This is direly needed. I'm just wondering how on earth to publicize this before the madness that hits on Monday.
Any chance you could find a place to fit this in the join lemmy site and do a pull request before then? I know it's a lot to ask, but it would be huge.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Maybe you could bring it up with the Kbin devs? I'm sure it wouldn't be too crazily difficult to have it work similarly over there. Just need to swap /c/ out for a /m/. Probably similar needed over here to translate /m/ to /c/ too.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Actually, the full URL is pretty easy to use if you know what you're doing (which of course, everybody is trying to figure out right now).
Just switch the search from "Community" to "All". Image from another thread
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
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EDIT: W
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Have you tried the community browser yet?
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Well, gave it a shot. We'll see what happens :)
EDIT: Seems to be performing about average, comparing it to other posts on the community. Ok, point retracted. Just need more people putting stuff in from outside the US. Maybe I'm just still stuck in the Reddit "News means US news" mindset and need to break out of it.
Over 150,000 teachers in Romania have been striking for higher wages since May 22nd. With the Bacalaureat (the final exam of high school) approaching, the government caves and gives them their demanded 4,000 Lei/Month (862 USD/Month)
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Can confirm bang-prefixed is broken, c-prefixed works. At least from the website UI.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
I'll put up a github issue for it, maybe somebody can look at that
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Hi all, I know I'm not from Beehaw, but I do subscribe to a lot of your communities as I like your moderation.
Any chance of a World News community? The current News community is very US-centric, and it'd be nice to have a more international spot to put news.
Hi all! So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here). Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin: [News]\(/c/news@beehaw.org) [News](/c/news@beehaw.org) [My User]\(/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev) [My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev) You're welcome!
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, definitely a papercut I expect we'll see a lot of users hit. Early days yet, and more dev manpower needed. I'm learning TypeScript and Rust as fast as I can to help out xD
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Do you mean at the technical level or UI level?
At the UI level, just have a look at https://kbin.social and you'll see a lot of very familiar posts. Also their posts show up here, just like any normal post.
Mastodon is a bit trickier. If you put hashtags in your post text, I think it shows up like a "toot" for users following it? Sorry, not a Mastodon user, don't really know how it works.
At a technical level, Lemmy is built on the ActivityPub protocol. It's how Lemmy servers talk to eachother, it's how Mastodon servers talk to eachother, and it's how a hell of a lot more services talk. Best analogy I've heard is ActivityPub is like the email protocol for social media platforms.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Definitely early days teething issues. There's gonna be thousands of dead communities in a week's time and it'll take time before things settle down and people come to a consensus on the major ones.
Barbarian 1 year ago • 100%
Did you change the search options from "Communities" to "All"?
Barbarian 1 year ago • 93%
All of the more fediverse-focused ones (fedditors, fedinauts, feddies, fedizens, etc) are definitely better. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy: we have users from Mastodon, Kbin and more seeing and replying to our posts. Let's choose a name that reflects that :)
Also, just to prove a point, if you're here from anywhere not Lemmy, say hello!