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[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 weeks ago

That sucks. So much research is being twisted by humanity's greed. I hope that whatever comes after the internet becomes useless is better.

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Map of 2000+ lemmy communities (danterious.codeberg.page)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/chat@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423

This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.)

I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community.

Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map:

https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Either the people in !steamdeck@lemmy.world are pretty horny or its an artifact of the dimensionality reduction and means nothing.

Edit: Actually it could also be that it just didn't collect enough data on that community and the most recent person was also active in nsfw communities. I was only able to get back 14ish days in the data for lemmy.world. They produce way to many comments and I got kicked out early.

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[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well I used dimensionality reduction to make it 2D so the axes are how the algorithm chose to compress it.

The original data had each data point as a community and the features as a frequency of a user posting in that community.

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Map of 2000+ lemmy communities (danterious.codeberg.page)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423

This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.)

I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community.

Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map:

https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map

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Map of 2000+ lemmy communities (danterious.codeberg.page)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.)

I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community.

Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map:

https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27216373

Instead of focusing of creating good algorithms to push certain content to users why don't we focus on creating a good map that allows users to find the kind of content they want more easily?

I found this website that created a map of reddit with different countries for different topics and I thought it would translate to lemmy because instances sort of do this already really well.

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/

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Instead of focusing of creating good algorithms to push certain content to users why don't we focus on creating a good map that allows users to find the kind of content they want more easily?

I found this website that created a map of reddit with different countries for different topics and I thought it would translate to lemmy because instances sort of do this already really well.

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/

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pages.dev link spamming (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/meta@lemm.ee

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25287498

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/19638259

There are about 6 pages.dev domains spamming lemmy.world communities

The volume is definitely inorganic, and is across a wide range of communities

pages.dev is Cloudflare's site hosting which can be used for free - there are likely many legitimate sites that use that domain, but the current flood is suspicious

chronicleresolve.pages.dev

thefreedomproject.pages.dev

versarch.pages.dev

dailypulse.pages.dev

newssphere-6fu.pages.dev

iniko.pages.dev

miniza.pages.dev

orino.pages.dev

I'm cross posting because @lenny_marlane@lemmy.ml seems to be doing the same thing.

It might be an attack vector or something idk but better safe than sorry.

Not sure about this one but seems to be following same pattern.

@marvelous_coyote@lemm.ee

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25357952

I saw this and thought this would be useful in noticing and analyzing trends across the web and fediverse in specific. Which could help with noticing and finding disinformation.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24292479

Abstract:

Although hundreds of dialogue programs geared towards conflict resolution are offered every year, there have been few scientific studies of their effectiveness.

Across 2 studies we examined the effect of controlled, dyadic interactions on attitudes towards the ‘other’ in members of groups involved in ideological conflict. Study 1 involved Mexican immigrants and White Americans in Arizona, and Study 2 involved Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East. Cross-group dyads interacted via video and text in a brief, structured, face-to-face exchange: one person was assigned to write about the difficulties of life in their society (‘perspective-giving’), and the second person was assigned to accurately summarize the statement of the first person (‘perspective-taking’).

Positive changes in attitudes towards the outgroup were greater for Mexican immigrants and Palestinians after perspective-giving and for White Americans and Israelis after perspective-taking. For Palestinians, perspective-giving to an Israeli effectively changed attitudes towards Israelis, while a control condition in which they wrote an essay on the same topic without interacting had no effect on attitudes, illustrating the critical role of being heard.

Thus, the effects of dialogue for conflict resolution depend on an interaction between dialogue condition and participants' group membership, which may reflect power asymmetries.

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[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I guess we are going to be in for more SEO spam than usual if this document is accurate. But I think its good that we are finally going to get a better understanding how Google manipulates people with the algorithm.

So a win-lose situation.

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[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 5 months ago

@onlinepersona@programming.dev and @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world should be able to give their perspectives.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 months ago

Germany and Italy are also big on giving aid to Israel so Idk if the EU is going to be able to help either.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 months ago

Semi related to this I think a good way to avoid back doors in open source software is to have as few dependencies as possible. So I appreciate that this is a thing.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 months ago

If kagi is just an aggregate of other search engines why not just use a searx instance instead? Its open source and customizable.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 6 months ago

I think it is part of a long term strategy.

They saw all the negative feedback that was given when the first announcement came and there were a lot of users saying its not so bad or that we should give them a chance then.

Eventually everything became quiet and things moved on now there is a steady rise of pro Meta comments again and this time it will lead to a less violent reaction because it has already happened once before.

Rinse and repeat until they become the norm.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 6 months ago

When you check the mod logs and filter by mod you can see that it came from Mr. Kaplan which is a lemmy.world admin.

So yes it was a lemmy.world decision. The question is whether or not this admin was a lone actor.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 9 months ago

We currently have 40872 monthly active users.

700/40872 ~ 1.7% of all monthly active users.

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 9 months ago

After many hours of talks, it became clear that our overall goal could be achieved outside of Lemmy/ActivityPub.

Right now, we feel that Lemmy and ActivityPub have downsides that are limiting us from achieving that goal.

I have two questions.

  1. What are your long-term goals for your platform?

  2. What are the downsides to Lemmy/ActivityPub stopping you from reaching those goals?

Also to answer the main question I'd like for it to stay but at the same time, the last time I checked Beehaw had around 700-ish Monthly active users. That means there probably wouldn't be that much of an impact on the general discourse of Lemmy more broadly.

That seems like enough to sustain a pretty big community on a private server even if about half of you left. So if you guys do decide to leave I wish you the best.

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