Easier: n(13-n).

The userbase is small but stable.

I wish that it was darin (darling). It rolls off the tongue so much better.

I don’t think that handedness plays a huge role. I think that in some cases it’s simply random, and in other cases it’s “we write in this direction because that’s how we learned it”.

Inkwriting exists since at least the 2500 BCE, it was already used with hieroglyphs, and yet you see those being written left to right, right to left, boustrophedon, it’s a mess. Even with the Greek alphabet, people only stopped using boustrophedon so much around 300 BCE or so.

Plus if it played a role we’d see the opposite of what we see today - since the Arabic abjad clearly evolved among people who wrote with ink, that’s why it’s so cursive. In the meantime the favourite customary writing medium for Latin was wax tablets, where smudging ink is no issue:

My dumb brain read “nap” as “map”. Suddenly your floor (rug? carpet?) became a huge map of some unknown land, and your kitty was planning its do-meow-nation.

He’s damn cute by the way. Good rest Scooter!

As others said it was a conscious decision of the developers, as it’s gamification of the system and they aren’t big fans of that.

I agree with this decision.

The Fluff Principle* makes easy-to-judge content get higher scores, and we do see it Lemmy. It isn’t a big deal because fluff ends on its own specific comms, but once you gamify the aggregation of score points, the picture changes - now you’re encouraging people to share content that they believe to score high over content that they believe to be contributive.

Additionally a publicly visible karma enables a bunch of poorly thought mod practices, like karma gating (“you need +500 karma to post here lol”) or automatically banning people with low karma (even if it might come from a single post/comment).

*“Hence what I call the Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over unless you take specific measures to prevent it.” (Source)

I have never met a person who can isolate the moment when Tucker Carlson became Alex Jones. So, where did it come from exactly? …it’s very clear to me both are demons.

You // need // some // Xanax // /s 😁🍻

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOP IT!!! /s

Serious now. It doesn’t work here, since there’s no audible ping for every reply that you sent me. It’s more like in whatsapp*: I definitively don’t want to mute some people, but I wish that they didn’t send me multiple short messages.

*inb4 I hate whatsapp but not having it in Brazil is social suicide.

I see, the cat distribution system is fully operational and working as intended!

I’m joking. She is a cutie indeed. And Miez looks classy.

Yeah. I got a leg scar from a domestic cat that I’ve raised from kittendom, who’d easily have ripped my face if she could reach it*. A wild, larger, and more powerful version of that seems like a bad idea.

*because I was holding a kitten that she never saw before. Yup. Fuck you Kika, I love you but you’re a bloody arsehole.

Messaging:

• People who reply to direct text questions with 5min audio recordings.
• People who use Enter as if it was the space bar, sending 10 messages for what could be easily sent as one.
• People who treat their requests as of utmost urgency, but when you contact them back take hours or even days to reply back.

Online forums:

• The sort of illiterate fuck who treats “but” as if it contradicted everything preceding it.
• People who feel entitled to have ELI5 versions of the text content produced by other people. (i.e. throwing a tantrum because of difficult words, text size, or even conceptual complexity.)
• Usage of “lol” and/or “lmao”. (I mentally translate those into “I’m braindead and should be treated accordingly.”)
• The sort of dead weight that focuses too much on specific words being used to convey something, instead of what it conveys.

Yup, I got that you don’t mean that everyone is a bot there. I just don’t think that there aren’t so many of them as you’re saying; it’s certainly not as much as half the users, or even the activity (bots tend to be more active than actual users).

They’re still wrecking damage on the place though. Eventually they’ll reach a plateau in proportion, but their numbers will go down, alongside the actual users.

For real. Companies being extra pushy with their product always makes me picture their decision makers saying:

“What do you mean, «we’re being too pushy»? Those are customers! They are not human beings, nor deserve to be treated as such! This filth is stupid and un-human-like, it can’t even follow simple orders like «consume our product»! Here we don’t appeal to its reason, we smear advertisement on its snout until it needs to open the mouth to breath, and then we shove the product down its throat!”

Is this accurate? Probably not. But it does feel like this, specially when they’re trying to force a product with limited use cases into everyone’s throats, even after plenty potential customers said “eeew no”. Such as machine text and image generation.

The insertion of an all knowing checker who could have written it himself anyway

The checker does make all the difference, but he doesn’t need to be able to write it by himself. It could be even a brainless process, such as natural selection.

I think the point is less about any kind of route to Hamlet, and more about the absurdity of infinite tries in a finite space(time).

I know. It’s just that creationists misuse that metaphor so often that I couldn’t help but share my brainfart here.

Bots are parasites: they only thrive if the host population is large enough to maintain them. Once the hosts are gone, the parasites are gone too.

In other words: botters only bot a platform when they expect human beings to see and interact with the output of their bots. As such they can never become the majority: once they do, botting there becomes pointless.

That applies even to repost bots - you could have other bots upvoting the repost, but you won’t do it unless you can sell the account to an advertiser, and the advertiser will only buy it if they can “reach” an “audience” (i.e. spam humans).

Shorthand for third language [English] speaker. I mean that I’m prone to switch a few words here and there, due to other languages interfering inside my head.

This sounds familiar, almost as if history could perhaps, maybe, just possibly… repeat itself? Nah! (says spez)

Digg, right? Yeah. Perhaps spez even knew that it would repeat, but was smart (and shitty) enough to jump off the ship before it happened.

Perhaps even worse: Wobblesticke, Jiggleweapone, stuff like this.

If we’re considering even chimps “monkeys”, there’s already eight billion of them, I think that’s enough.