The team wanted to set up here, but was held back by the lack of mod tools.

Lemmy hasn’t really improved on them yet, but there’s a revamped UI in the works. Piefed has a number of improvements already.

Maybe once things are looking good enough for their high standards, we can invite them back over to take a look 😄

So they could have held paint drying Mondays instead, with the same overall effect

“Every single Monday was called Paint Dry Monday” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could only watch paint dry. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only watch paint dry.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

I always saw the rules against Wikipedia to be around citations (and accuracy in the early years), rather than it harming learning. It’s not that different from other tertiary sources like textbooks or encyclopedias. It’s good for learning a topic and the interacting pieces, but you need to then search for primary/secondary sources relevant to the topic you are writing about.

Generative AI however

• is a text prediction engine that often generates made up info, and then students learn things wrong
• does the writing for the students, so they don’t actually have to read or understand anything

Yup, it looks like generative AI + image editing after the fact

Image generators have trouble juggling multiple colors and patterns on clothing. It would be a weird stylistic choice to create that effect with image edits alone

Also if you look closely, she has 3 arms. Two arms holding the phone up, one arm holding a soccer ball against her body?

For sure! I’m looking forward to seeing more NodeBB content, it federates over nicely

Sorry about that 😅

Previous related post here: https://lemmy.ca/post/57328037

Looks like one user has been doing the majority of the posting, they might not know that people have issues with imgur / of better options

TIL 😮

[email protected]

Oh is that what it was 😄

There’s an account that I haven’t used in years, which gets a “Are you trying to log in?” email every few months.

I got 6 emails at once the other day, figured it was the same junk

A launcher is the home screen. You can replace the default with something else

What is this other template called?

The first two replies saying this didn’t happen both have

• AI generated profile pictures (one even has the watermark)
• verified checkmarks
• bios pretending to be real people

Others have covered the bot flag, I’ll add a bit more to this

Maybe because I use VPN

Generally Lemmy (and Fediverse platforms) don’t use sneaky dark patterns or hidden blocks. If you are blocked in some way, there should be something indicating it.

TIL, and also ☹️

https://www.eurogamer.net/shadow-of-mordors-brilliant-nemesis-system-is-locked-away-by-a-warner-bros-patent-until-2036-despite-studio-shutdown

Neat! Would love to see more from there if you have more photos 😄

This is very cool, thank you! Sometimes when I post here, I link to a related research paper. A lot of research paper sites are a pain to use, and even harder to search with

The share menu seems to give me this

Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse

https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871
https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871

How hard would it be to have some openparchment related links at the top of the article pages? Or perhaps a way to link to the articles details page directly?

@[email protected], I’d be curious if you did the same experiment but with a [Free public access] tag in the title, or something similar.

I would also like to support non-google / non-ad-revenue-fueled platforms when I can. Seems like a lot of people might not know that they had free access to it

I’ve been learning more about Patreon recently, and it seems to be a half-decent platform that creators find genuinely appealing.

I don’t agree with all the points here, but I’m willing to hear them out and see what they come up with.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/patreon-algorithms-social-media-internet.html

The Fediverse has some limitations around creator-made content, and maybe something like Patreon can fill in those gaps? At least until if / when they enshitify…

That’s a good point @[email protected]

lemmy.ca and piefed.ca are both compatible and run by the same organization :)