RedWizard

I've made that mistake before. Good to know it extends all the way to comms too.

@CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml Let me know what I can do to help trouble shoot if necessary.

Here is a reference to what that looks like.

I'm not sure how much I like the presentation here. Another option would be to have tabs between the sorting options and the comments.

If you want to combat people only contributing to the most active thread, maybe sort each instance's comments by total comments ascending?

If you wanted to leave a top-level comment in the other thread from the view you were in, you could do like a Window Shade type UI where each comment section is contained in a box with a clickable header. Clicking the header collapses the shade, leaving only the header. Kind of like collapsing a comment. The other thread comments could be under the primary thread comments and collapsed (or auto-expanded; maybe that's a UI setting). Like this:

| Comment Thread 1 (12 Comments) (community-a) |

I have a kind of systemic idea of what you're noticing, if you'll indulge me.

If people are using Active Sort, then most of the front page and the next couple of pages will be dominated by posts that are a day old or more at most (or, more accurately, are more old than new). Active Sort resets a posts timestamp to the most recent comments timestamp until the post is at least two days old, then it switches back to its original timestamp. The delta between a posts timestamp and the date when rank was recalculated heavily impacts a posts rank. The score (upvote - downvote = score) then influences the rank some. So, this means that posts that generate comments have a higher likelihood of remaining on the front page, since each comment makes the post appear "newer" to the algorithm. This makes the post more likely to be on the front page, garnering it more chances for upvotes and comments. So long as the topic is "chatty," it remains on the front page.

There is a minimal window of time that determins when a post lives or dies. It's, I think, the first 5 hours of the thread existing. If the post can't generate any comments in the first 5 hours, it's effectively off the front page (contingent on volume of new threads), and most people likely won't see it.

Scaled Rank is supposed to solve this by considering statistics about the community the post comes from; the smaller the community is or the lower its engagement, it gets an inverse proportional boost to its rank calculation (lower = more boost, higher = less boost or no boost). It doesn't consider new comment timestamps.

Hot Rank, only considers the post's original timestamp and its score, which can make its rank results look very similar to Scaled Rank but also means that posts typically fall off the front page in at least 5 hours, moving newer threads up in the ranks faster. A newer thread that gains substantial votes in a small window of time hits the front page faster as the others decay. Those higher-scoring posts will fall off, even if they're generating more "conversation." (I put this in quotes because, that "conversation" could also be drama, arguments, struggle sessions, whatever you want to call it. All comments are "positive" to the algorithm regardless of its content)

The "reddit model" Lemmy is emulating requires a network effect to work properly. On a larger scale, open community creation is good since it lets more niche interests have a space to collectivize, and that list of interests is crowdsourced. However, when you do not have the correct scale for that model, you don't have enough people to support or sustain those niche interests. In theory, the network effect generated by federation should allow for niche interests.

In practice, however, the LemmyUI and the nature of its federation mean that to the end user, what is listed in the "Communities" tab are all the communities that exist. You can switch the view to All, instead of Local, but that list is only a list of "all remotely subscribed communities" and not "all communties on all connected instances". So discovery of those external communities is basically contingent on users A) knowing where to find external communties, and B) subscribing to them. The LemmyUI has made strides in making that process easier (being able to subscribe to an external community, from that instances page, to your local account on your instance). Due to the barriers to community discovery, the network effect that should be generated by federation is extremely hampered. This leads to nearly every instance having its own version of a generalized niche, like gaming, TV, movies, music, news, etc. What makes those groups unique then is the moderation and the underlying ideological presentation of the instance.

There are numerous communities on Lemmygrad, and that's due to community creation being open to everyone; however, the number of communities, I think, is out of proportion to the local user base. Lemmygrad gets, according to its front page, 524 unique active users a month, and from the /site/ API endpoint, it has 694 communities (I double checked this by using community/list?type_=Local and got 556 local communties, not sure why there is a discrepancy). That's just over 1 community (1.3) per user a month. That definitely isn't enough people to support all the different niche communities that exist on Lemmygrad. To put it into contrast, Hexbear has 1649 unique active users per month and 137 communities (again, double checked this and got 115 local communities). Because of the nature of community discovery, there isn't a good way to expose the wider network to all of Lemmygrad's niche communities to try and build an external subscriber base.

How many of these communities have active moderators, I wonder? Are these communities the result of a handful of users creating them, or are they almost all owned by unique people? I know I'm guilty of this. I have a community that only I can post to called !wizardstower@lemmygrad.ml. My use of it ranges between using it as a personal blog or an archive for comments I make. Probably not the best usecase for a Lemmy community, frankly.

I wonder if a more directed and curated approach to communities, in the way that Hexbear curates its list of communities, would be beneficial to Lemmygrad.

2016 radicalized so many people in both directions. Burnie's loss in the DNC primary had a profound effect on his supporters. Donald Trump had the rhetoric to capture a fair portion of the people who were disillusioned by Bernie losing the primary. I think it exposed people's budding tendencies and gave them permission to go all in on them. I have no idea if someone has attempted to dig into this phenomonon at all, but it seems pretty clear to me that the rise in Burnie's left-wing populism allowed Trump to piggy back on that momentem and convert a good portion of it into right-wing populism.

Jesus Christ. Where does one even start with a comment like this? Defending Andrew Tate, of all things, is something I didn't expect to see logging into the Grad today.

But the SA charges are probably just the standard defamation play they use against everyone they want to silence.

You can go find the videos where he talks about how to abuse women, and how to entrap them so that they can become cam slaves. What on earth could he be talking about in those videos otherwise? What kind of comrade do you consider yourself, where you can see a guy like Tate and think "Yeah, this guy, he's standing against 'the system' just like me." What even is this "System" you're talking about? The imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchical system? Is that what the "Matrix" is that Tate talks about? Because I'd love to see how you drew those conclusions from the man's insane ramblings.

Since you quit watching all these "e-celebs" maybe you can spend some time reading a book.

Heh that's a hardware issue.

Voyager has been good. They just implemented a custom emoji fix to that ensures emoji are the correct size regardless of their uploaded size.

Have you tried increasing the size of your swap memory in windows? Otherwise known as "virtual memory". Depending on the speed of your drive and available space, you might be able to increase the vertual memory size to get more performance.

But what about using a page archiving service, even a self-hosted one, like Shiori. Shiori has an extension that can allow for single click page archiving right from the browser. The pages are saved as html files or txt files and it will create a readability version of the file which is just the text and images. You could then search the files and their contents using something like VS Code to search the whole directory where the files are stored. There are plenty of other ways to do that search once you have those archives, though. I think even Windows File Search will search the contents of a txt or html file stored on the device.

Shiori also has its own search, which is pretty fast, and searches the contents of the archives as well.

On what basis do you make such a claim?

https://archive.is/20240220003112/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-19/china-vows-to-centralize-tech-development-under-communist-party

Archive of the full article.

This is rational from China's perspective. Divesting in the American technology pipeline not only weakens America's grip on the global economy but also positions China as the leader in global technology.

Also, we have more evidence of US putting back doors into technology than we do China. If you're living in the imperial core, it's far more likely that the US is monitoring your activities than China is.

Free = Freedom not free as in it costs nothing. Look it up.

The F isn't Free its Freedom.

Those were my favorite C&H comics. All the Space Man Spiff stuff, all the Dinosaur stuff or the silly Noir stuff, even the twisted snowman stuff.

Damn live journal is still a thing?

That would be more then I'm willing to spend. I'm basically trying to get around their human verification process. The first thing they demand is a phone number to receive a OTP.

What I did find was a service called smspool.net that let's you order a non-voip number to receive a OTP for around $0.25. You can rent a phone number if you want but I was able to get the OTP and get through the appeal process.

OK I might have answered my own question. Its likely that the numbers provided to you are VOIP numbers and not "real" numbers.

WhatsApp will not let you use a VOIP number to sign up for their service. Its likely Facebook will not send a code to a VOIP number as well.

Kind of a bummer. I just want to argue with chuds on my local page without giving Facebook my soul lol.

To put this into context, the United States imprisons about 4.3% of it's population and represents 20% of the global prison population... It's like 2ish million people in American prisons.

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It seems there is a federation issue with parenting@hexbear.net

It seems there is a federation issue with parenting@hexbear.net

It seems there is a federation issue with parenting@hexbear.net

Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

| Comment Thread 1 (12 Comments) (community-a) |

Do you browse lemmygrad by Subscribed, Local, or All?

My brother is joining custom and border patrol (CBP)

Test post from beyond the Vail

Figures.

The rise of enemies from within - the so-called American Communist Party

I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.

Genzedong.xyz down?

Updates on The Long March + Mega thread links.

[Discussions] Lemmy clients

I miss the Hexbear Active Sort...

Testing Local Only Comms

How can I quickly "unclog" firefox when it runs out of memory (with 1000/2000 tabs)

This is a test

China Vows to Centralize Tech Development Under Communist Party

China Vows to Centralize Tech Development Under Communist Party

Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to ? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part

Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to ? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part

Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson, 1994

I think I want to learn Esperanto

A fully open source stack for MIPI cameras - Hans' hacking log — LiveJournal

Why don't we want D&D characters to die?

Relay Phone Number and OTP codes

Relay Phone Number and OTP codes

Relay Phone Number and OTP codes

Ethan and Hila Klein from the H3 Podcast called the capital of Palestine a 'terrorist city' (@23:06)

Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order and says all its property will be confiscated

Barbie: who saw it?

Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down

an actual question that may come off as inflammatory about Stalin.

Pokemon is driving me to want a Plex Server.