abbenm

@abbenm@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a FOSS Android app to record audio?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. Voice recording works perfectly well for me. It definitely should work. May be worth troubleshooting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on r/antiwork drama and implications for Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  This led me to think that Lemmy is currently vulnerable to the same problem. I’m wondering if it would make sense to brainstorm some ideas to address this vulnerability in the future.

  I think yes and no to this. Yes because Lemmy as it currently exists kind of has the same thing going on. People who create the communities are the creators and that's that.

  But no, because federating is supposed to be a mitigation here. I know that mastodon.social and pixelfed have sometimes shut down signups to purposely spread the userbase across other servers, and perhaps some rebalancing across credible servers can help here.

  That would be my first idea.

  I think I would veer away from elections because that could have unintended cultural effects. They could be gamed, create inward looking drama that makes no sense to people on the outside, etc.

  I like the brainstorming here though, and I agree that your suggestion would help avoid that problem, but its at the cost I think of bringing on some unintended consequences. If we can lean into existing features that would be my option A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently reddit also has content gated behind an app on mobile now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  People are saying they all have seen this but... I'm on reddit mobile all the time and this is new to me. At least this way of doing it.

  What I normally see is "reddit is better in the app" and two buttons, asking you to try the app or if you want to stay in the browser. It was presented kind of as a choice. Now it looks like a demand!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the reason that you joined lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I wrote a post in a small sub that I was part of saying that this monster didn’t deserve to be a reddit admin, let alone to have his pronouns respected (as many were asking because he was a male who transitioned to female).

  This does not put you in the good guy column as far as I'm concerned. Purposely using different pronouns than when someone's asking as an intentional means of denigrating them because you don't like them is like ground zero of stuff that is bad to do when it comes to the whole reason that pronouns exist.

  I don't know anything about the situation that's a seriously bad indicator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request to remove c/antivax⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  2 paragraphs= "walls of text" 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcement: Tightening of anti-vax ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. That is a good policy, and you're doing a good job as a mod.

  I guess for me the takeaway is, it's always going to be a game of whack-a-mole and it's always going to be a question of whether you have good mods. Other servers are just not going to have them all the time, so we're really depending on lemmy.ml to federate and defederate in a thoughtful way. So far, so good though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is an excellent idea, a worthy project, and I applaud you for putting some real thinking into practical steps!

  My federated X wishlist had social media, reddit-like thing, instagram-like thing, and a youtube-like thing. A federated IMDB alternative would be awesome.