Some apps have previews of the article when you open the comments, which might encourage people to read a bit more of the source content

[email protected] is decent if you’re looking for the more technological side, since the rules filter out

• Minor app updates
• Government legislation
• Company news
• Opinion pieces

Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.

This is the key bit. It’s good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit’s automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in false positives

I’ve seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context:

• someone quoting a news article
• someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
• actual abuse

For well moderated subs, the vast majority of those reports became false positives over time. For the mod queue, this didn’t affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated ‘scores’ won’t account for that.

We’re going to see even more annoying algospeak like “unalive”, only it’s going to be in news quotes as well

I think it’s a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots

Lemmy has that problem too, but it’s much smaller in scope. Mostly because there’s less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation

Cross posted to [email protected], and looks like someone already shared it on [email protected]

‘upperBalcony’ is assigned a value but never used

Ok but still, what if

I think the important part is about who is running the server, rather than who made the software

The fediverse is interesting in that context because each instance can decide where they set up the infrastructure or how they process data / requests. The same applies to self hosting

I saw an article that outlined which country each fediverse platform “originated” from, such as Canada for Pixelfed and Germany for Mastodon. That’s fun to know about, but otherwise not important to users compared to the instances themselves

At most it might speak to which laws will govern the project itself, but even then someone can fork a project that goes astray

The UI mostly, and because the layout is familiar to them

I installed OnlyOffice for a family member and they have no complaints. They were happy to learn they don’t need to worry about subscriptions anymore either

I haven’t seen this application yet, but is the difference that you can install word locally instead of using it in a web browser?

Sure, but that makes it unhelpful as a source if it always picks the null hypothesis (for lack of a better way to describe what it’s doing)

The AI chats don’t seem to give a straight answer on ANY issue. They always give a waffle-y answer that tries to account for ‘both sides’

I went to grab Bobby Tables and found this new variation

Yea I think that was the joke in that scene, but I can’t seem to find a clip of it

Don’t need to open Twitter to watch it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI27LEimfYg

I’m also remembering an IT crowd scene where they argue about which of them is in Anonymous, and I can’t find it now. Does anyone have a link handy? Unless I am misremembering

Depending on how primary care works where you are

tell your doctor too

Sometimes they don’t hear about the problems with pharmacies or other places they refer people to. Letting them know means that they can send people elsewhere

It would be nice to have a decent FOSS video editor on android

ImageToolbox is solid now on the image editing side, having something similar for videos would be excellent

We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room

I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated

They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)