[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I love this bit from the article:

To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, "Busy now, please check back later." (To be fair, in this case "check back later" is a good summary of what happened.)

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

"How to be a good human owner"

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

Here you go:

HELP IM TRAPPED IN A DILDO FACTORY

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Is the bottom picture AI upscaled? It looks way crisper than I remembee that meme ever looking

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Its not a bad comparison. Sure, some details might differ, but the underlying concept of a build that only uses the open source code is the same.

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[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey! I'm keeping this as it's sharing knowledge with new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey! I'm keeping this as it's sharing knowledge with new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this is a highly upvoted post, I'll just lock it for now.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

Hey there lemmings!

It's your friendly neighbourhood Sun-Spider here. I recently volunteered as a mod on this community, so I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know my plans.

Many of you will have seen that there are a lot of off-topic posts in this community right now. I suspect that new users, especially ones not yet familiar with how Lemmy and the fediverse work, are seeing it as a kind of default community or a place to generally discuss the world of Lemmy.

However, as it says in the sidebar, this is a community about the lemmy.world instance specifically. If it's going to serve as that, then it can't be drowned in off-topic posts.

To that end, I plan to start going through and removing posts that are not discussing this instance, with two exceptions.

Firstly, I know that some of these posts are providing good info to new users coming from Reddit, so I'd like to not take those down just yet. Since this is such a visible community, keeping them has value. Therefore highly upvoted posts that are specifically for newcomers from Reddit may get left.

Secondly, I know that removing posts with many upvotes and comments could be seen as overly harsh. While we don't have a karma system here, if you had a post that has done well then suddenly seeing it removed is painful. Therefore if a post is off topic, but is nonetheless highly upvoted, then I may instead simply lock the post. This preserves the content, but prevents further engagement. This should mean that it gradually falls off the front page, whose default sort is Active.

TLDR

  • Posts that are not about the lemmy.world instance specifically will be removed, with the following exceptions:
  • Some posts providing value to new users will be left
  • Some posts with high engagement may be simply locked

Update

Check out the new communities !newcomers@lemmy.world and !general@lemmy.world! These are intended to be a good home for a lot of the content that's getting removed/locked.

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Hey there. This instance currently follows the code of conduct and rules for mastodon.world: https://mastodon.world/about

Discussion and civil criticism of these subjects is allowed, but name calling, ad hominem attacks, and other uncivil behaviour breaks the rules.

Also remember that specific communities here may have additional rules.

It looks like we can't pin comments yet, so apologies if this reply gets buried. For now I'm going to lock this post, as the discussion has degraded and is full of rule-breaking.

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Asking the important questions! I won't deny this has already crossed my mind. I do think lemmings sounds like the best option.

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I've had to change my mindset; if I care about it existing, then I have to be the one who makes it. I've already created !smashbros@lemmy.world and I've become a mod for !ukcasual@lemmy.world.

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Only On Tuesdays is a smaller channel I started following recently. I think his Character Crisis series is great content, and I thought it might be appreciated by people here.

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Hey all! Come introduce yourself. Which Smash game do you play? What kind of player are you? Lets get to know one another!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sunspider@lemmy.world to c/smashbros@lemmy.world

Welcome smashers!

This place is pretty empty right now, but I'd love it to be a welcoming community of Smash players. To that end, what kind of posts do you want to see when you come here? Memes, combo videos, discussions, or something else? Let's discuss it and build the community we want to see.

I'd also love feedback on the rules. Are there any missing? Is the language clear enough? Let me know.

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Good shout! Just signed up to the OpenCollective for my Lemmy instance.

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