On Lemmy, if a community on another server doesn’t appear when you search for it, you can use the syntax “!communityname@server.name”. Your login Lemmy server will then go out and index it and it will appear in the search a few moments later.

Is there a way to do that on kbin? I’ve tried every syntax for a Lemmy community that I know of and nothing seems to work.

!communityname@server.name
/c/communityname@server.name
server.name/c/communityname
@communityname@server.name
etc.

Yeah that’d be smart on their part. They’re already paying for the server space and the moderation team.

All of the main servers I’ve seen have a no porn rule. I suppose it’s only a matter of time until someone’s willing to stand up their own Lemmy porn server and take on the responsibility of moderating that.

Well yeah, Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastodon is to Twitter. Never cared for Twitter pre or post-Elon.

Yep, you’ve made it to Lemmy. The lemmy.ml server, specifically.

I found that I only encountered it when viewing ‘All > Hot’ or ‘All > New’, I believe. I thought it was someone spamming the server with the same thing to different subs, but I see now that it’s a bug.

So for now I stick with ‘Subscribed > Hot’ or ‘Subscribed > New’, and I subscribed to a crapload of subs.

You’re 100% on the mark. Unfortunately the next automation revolution will come whether society wants it to or not. Just as soon as it’s cheaper and as effective to have machines do the work of humans, corporations will choose to go that route. We’ve seen a few instances where corporations are going against this in the short term, but it never works out for us humans in the long run. We know that corporate culture only has eyes for next quarter’s profit, humanity’s future be damned.

I’m going to drop this here, you may have already seen it & know of CGP Grey on YouTube, but using this vid as a frame of reference: Humans Need Not Apply

That video was made in 2014. We’ve known that an automation revolution is going to come along and make a good portion of the workforce obsolete (again) for a number of years (CGP Grey wasn’t the first to put forth the idea by any means), and we’re doing nothing to prepare for it. If we don’t figure out how to institute some form of UBI… well, it won’t be good.

True enough, but I’d counter that the person who uses ‘yellow’ as the answer to the square root of 100 is a moron, and the person who accepts it doubly so.

A better example IMO would be using ChatGPT to write code via pseudocode. Sure it’ll spit out something for you, but you’ll still need to verify those results using your own knowledge, and test it before putting it into production.

Another, different, example would be using it to write up proposals, project plans, etc. - if it was so easy that an AI could do it, maybe we need to take a good hard look at whether it needed doing in the first place, or examine how we’re going about it.

It is a tool, albeit a smarter one than we’ve previously had. Like any tool, it can be used for good, evil, or moronic results.

I would say that if a thing can be destroyed by ChatGPT then it probably needed to be destroyed, or at least reworked to meet the times. It’s not a lot different than people saying that calculators would destroy kids’ ability to do math, or that Wikipedia would ruin people’s ability to do research. It’s a tool, with its strengths and limitations, and should be used as such.

I’d say the sun beat them to it some billions of years ago. /s

Yeah, once it dawned on me how it worked it was intriguing. This Fediverse stuff is neat, here’s hoping that it’ll catch on as redditors jump ship, so that the community can drown out all the Russian bots and such.

While in the community, click on the Edit icon (little pencil and paper icon) in the top-right box where the name of the community is located. There are all your settings for the community that were available when you created it, including the icon and banner. You can click the X in the top-right of the either to remove them, or just upload a new one.

For me I think it has to do with the fact that by the time I got to a thread on reddit, everything that could possibly be said about the topic usually had been said already. How many times would you visit a thread only to find that exactly what you were going to say is already the top comment?

it isn’t sublemmy for some reason, I think it is just “communities”

IMO it works to just call them “subs” because you subscribe to them.

Yes because having that rule worked so well for reddit over the years. It’s unfortunately an unenforceable rule so therefore etiquette at best.

And finally, you hit some truth. Yes, being disrespectful means different things to different people in different contexts and in different areas of the world. If someone turned to me in public and said “hey buddy can you pass me that thing”, I wouldn’t think twice about it. I’m guessing someone from Brooklyn (e.g. @BrooklynMan) likely calls people meets on the street buddy as a matter of course.

But go ahead, feel free to keep taking offense to anything you like. You’re not obligated to have a good reason.

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+1 for MFA. MFA all the things. Mastodon has it, Lemmy should too.