Both. Obviously platforms with attention based algorithms are worse.
But platforms like Lemmy, Ao3 and xkcd are plenty addictive. Oh and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the worst offenders! I don’t think the people that developed any of those want to exploit us.
The instance is the part after the @. They host users and communities. Admins manage the instance.
The community is the thing you subscribe to. Moderators manage the community.
I’m pretty new.
Lemmy is great. It doesn’t have as many active hyper specific communities as reddit. But there are still plenty of active communities.
There is no attention based algorithm. But the more basic sortings work well enough. I already spend too much time here.
I tried mastodon and Twitter a few years back. I still have absolutely no idea how that whole microblogging thing is supposed to work. Am I just supposed to scream into the void? Same thing with pixelfed.
If people link peertube videos from Lemmy, peertube works well. But the feed needs work. I don’t really care about the topic of the video. So the filter by topic isn’t that useful. I’d like to filter by language. And then find well researched videos by someone who is enthusiastic about a topic. Any topic. I don’t know if there simply aren’t that many or if I just can’t find them.
I think attention based algorithms could help retain new users. I think there are many who try fediverse platforms and just don’t stay long. And if we get more users that stay longer, we get more content, and then niches can form.
To not lose current users, and just because of mental health, it would probably be better if the attention based feeds could be turned off in the settings.
Exactly. Because the legislative arm of the government did their job in that case.
And perhaps one of our states leaves the country.
I don’t think reddit even has an option for alttexts. Lemmy really encourages it.
Social media networks without attention based algorithms also aren’t quite as addictive.
Usually we teach them from the time they are 3 years old. So basically when they are teens
Breaking in is just what we call the process of fostering trust and getting the horse slowly used to a rider.
Even worse: They are hoping that LLMs in training don’t realize that it’s an ad
Hosting with close allies shouldn’t be a problem.
Within the EU, I still don’t care in which country the data is hosted
I wouldn’t say forever. But it will take a long time to rebuild.
They are also supposed to limit freedoms, where they infringe on the freedom of others.
For example the freedom to shoot people infringes on the freedom to be free from physical harm. So it should be limited.
Universal healthcare providers sometimes choose to cover drugs or treatments that have slightly worse outcomes instead. The treatment that was state of the art 10 years ago probably still works just fine.
Patents last 20 years. But most of that time, a drug is in trials.
Providers can also choose not to cover other drugs by the same company, if they refuse to budge. Not being able to sell any drugs across an entire country would be a big problem for companies.
Not really. Teenagers and young adults used to party a lot, and those parties used to have a lot of alcohol
I actually rather like the taste. Although it’s certainly an acquired taste. Like salminak
I thought generics were handled relatively similarly in the EU and the US, but apparently the US does grant a bunch of exclusivities, on top of patents.
However the biggest difference between those health systems still seems to be how providers bargain for lower prices.
In the US, insurances bargain for rebates. That means that if you buy a drug with insurance the insurance only pays a small percentage of the drug price. They are still allowed to demand copay on the list price. So often the insurance makes a profit in that transaction. But if you try to go around insurance you have to pay the full list price and will pay even more.
Over here, the universal healthcare providers bargain with the pharma companies to lower the list price. And with a much greater bargaining power to boot.
AO3 is not predominantly smut. It allows smut. So people go there to find it. But most works aren’t smut. And it has a really powerful filtering system, so you can find what you want.
Most of the time I go there for humour.
Chocolate eggs? We always hide real eggs. Cooked and painted.