Positive news.

News that Google News doesn’t surface.

Niche blogs. Not substacks.

Same.

Feels like I can’t afford to get that much dumber again, next time I’m infected.

Yeah a little bit of coding

Here and there.

A couple of lines probably.

Makes sense.

I’ve made an issue for this https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1860

You can edit the community (in the admin area at /admin/communities, not through the mod settings) and look for the “Posts show in All list” checkbox.

It sounds like you want to be able to do the equivalent thing at the topic level, though? On this form:

Ok, that sounds fun. I’ll make it so.

That’s it. I didn’t realise it was gone…

Ok, so that opens up a niche for PieFed.

I’ve wanted to code that feature for years but there’s always been a Lemmy instance with a bot that does it. Now that there isn’t, that raises the priority of the feature.

Oh, right.

There was a Lemmy instance that had lots of communities being populated from RSS feeds, is that still running? I have bot posts hidden so I don’t see them…

Yeah if someone can’t tell the difference it’s probably better if they don’t vote?

Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean.

Here are the new rss feeds on the home page:

Yes although if you’re only here to downvote bad content then perhaps your focus is in the wrong place.

Btw papasqat is another one of his alts and plays games like this https://piefed.social/c/modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org/p/2265140/i-got-banned-from-seven-pointless-slop-subreddits-that-i-d-never-heard-of-and-want-noth

Lemmy.today is silenced now, which will stop people from stumbling into their Comms.

It’s endless!

I can confirm that Pouakai Circuit Reflecive Tarn is indeed reflective.

My legs took a week to recover from the walk there and back.

No, it doesn’t stop posts in their communities (except their posts in their communities). It might stop their moderation actions from being accepted though, which effectively makes the community unmoderated and a liability.

This seems like a bug. Probably when someone is banned all the communities they’re the sole active moderator of should be locked. Or a warning shown to the admins, or something.

https://archive.is/ZY5jY

Yes all his communities will never go anywhere, he’s banned from most instances.

The human brain uses 20 watts of power.

There’s no way using AI (easily 1000 watts, many thousands of watts if using multiple agents in a swarm like Claude does) to make yourself 20% more efficient results in less energy per task done.

Ask your chatbot about it if you want to be sure.

Thanks for reminding me, I’ve added a comment to the bottom of the blog post about that.

Yes I should have said “similar to what people in the west think China has” but that’s not the focus of the blog post. Instead I just linked to the wikipedia article which is pretty clear about that.