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In moderation has eased itself into the lexicon of all polite conversation when your trying to get someone to stop doing a bad thing, but you don't want to scare them with the prospect of totally stopping yet.

• Drinking... in moderation
• Smoking... in moderation
• Recreational Drugs... in moderation

Or when it comes from people in authority it just means "I'm not ready to have this fight, so I'll just say in moderation as a catch all so you wont get mad at me"

Single player deduction game for folks who want to scratch the Avalon/social deduction itch. You can join the playtest to get instant free access

Ascension Level 4 - with 5 corrupt characters is my current skill ceiling. 1 drunk, 2 from pooka, 1 from poisoner, 1 from plague doctor.... its rough!

I've got 9 hours in the game now, can't recommend it highly enough

Despite his famous presence on the $20 bill, he is not, in fact, a dead president.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Functionally overalls are just pants with a really high waist line (neckline?)

pants that don't stop just become overalls... or a apron with legs.

I was watching two people buy ice cream using their phones today. It occurs that they can only do that because the central bank that controls their phone apps/bank account hasn't frozen their favors.

If money represents personal favors between two people, introducing a third party into money means someone else can show you disfavor (heh)

Fiat money is "controlled" centrally, but not each transaction.

Digital Fiat money is both "controlled" centrally, but each transaction must be approved by a third party (outside of some fringe distributed ledgers).

Like if you were a human rights reporter in a war torn country, and you tried to buy ice cream... maybe you couldn't anymore, all your favors have been expired.

Full Disclosure - I've been influenced by this great book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years

I had this thought in a swimming pool, and not a shower, but a pool is shower adjacent so I thought this might count.

Scenario: this island is cut off from the rest of humanity (magic, war, space alien zoo, etc)

Which island is in the best position to maintain its civilization? Industry? Technology?

Silent films boomed at the start of film, and quickly got replaced by talkies.

Nowadays people at home are watching a movie, talking to friends, and playing on their phone at the same time. Short format content is often consumed silently. The artform of silent film making is having a resurgence (in 1-5 minute clips)

I've browsed coub, tiktok, youtube shorts, instagram reels... all muted while doing something else

The Talkie days are numbered.

The recent discussion of instance admin burnout has got me thinking about how do we create a sustainable model going forward to prevent admins from being over burdened.

The biggest workload for admins is they become the defacto community moderators for every community with inactive mods, inattentive mods, etc.

I imagine this is part of the overloading stress that caused lemm.ee to throw in the towel.

Mandatory Moderation Model

• 1 - Every community that doesn't follow the following rules get's autolocked
• 2 - Every community on a instance needs a moderator
• 3 - Every moderator must be active
• 4 - The report backlog for a community must not get stale or too old (24h/48h)

Admin's would be moderator managers, and not get involved in user posts, just moderator issues

• A - Moderator not following instance TOS
• B - Moderator acting in bad faith
• C - Unlocking communities when moderators fix the initial issue

What are your thoughts? Would this help larger instances scale better?

I have two lemm.ee communities and I very much want to keep the post history in one community for discover ability and archival purposes.

What tools and methods are available to transfer posts from one instance to another?

It might be nice if lemmy clients (voyager, default client, etc) would make a suggestive pop-up:

Would you like to block this community? Your downvote ratio is 100% over the last X days/Y posts.

This is good for lemmy because it will let users have a more positive experience, its helping guide people to get better use of the user interface.

I've been looking into some federation issues, and the lemmy-federate tool is great. Especially the errors, check the errored instances to find out why they are erroring.

I've found two instances where one of my communities wasn't federating because it was misconfigured and the community was blocked.

I've found two instances where the federation was working, but because I as a user was banned, the communities were empty.

And I found one instance that WAS federated by a user, then the user left the instance, and now the community is just dangling without updates.

https://lemmy-federate.com/

The instances being used are

• lemmy.doesnotexist.club
• chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting https://hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts

A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn't good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing (tm)