For me it was less about not seeing the problem with it (I don’t trust them at all), and more about making sure that people pick Mastodon instead of Threads.

Which is why I was pushing for instances to not fully defederate, but use settings that hide the content by default and let users opt in to see it. That way if someone has 1 friend/local entity that they want to follow on threads, they can still pick Mastodon and opt in to see that content.

After the recent changes, I’m not sure if that’s the right move anymore

Do you have any thoughts or plans on open-sourcing how the calculations are done? Assuming the values used in the calculations aren’t proprietary, it might be cool to do that :) That way no one can argue that the math is wrong.

You don’t have to, I think it’s rare for a company to do that, but it might fit with the transparency bit. Alternatively, if you list out where the numbers are coming from so that people can confirm the details manually.

Very cool regardless :)

My other suggestion would be to link information about the different types of heat pumps, or a guide on how to get the efficiency value. Similarly, if the heat pump question was at the end, in a toggle format so people can easily swap between the options and compare

Some kind of “panic button” to press if you’re being stalked or something

Maybe something like this?

https://security.ubc.ca/home/safety-prevention-resources/emergency-blue-phones/

That’s a cool idea, it could eventually help them adjust service if a lot of people are requesting buses a certain day.

Or simply act as an anonymized data source for future changes. The time when someone requests a bus is different from when someone actually gets on a bus

Some way to know how far away the next buses are.

If we’re going all out, then a real time map of nearby buses

We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room

I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated

They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)

I looked up “Parent AI”, and was disappointed

This is especially true with the RSS feed communities

Also I don’t think you’re the only one. Often when I come across a clump like that, most of them are sitting at only a few upvotes while other posts in the community do much better.

That seems like an optional feature that competing products have.

I’d rather the fediverse friendly open source version have features I won’t use, if it means it can continue to grow and compete with the proprietary ones

Discussions often feel like they’re happening within an ideological bubble.

While this can be true for some communities, I find that users here do still engage with other viewpoints when the discussions are in good faith.

I think the reason why a lot of users lean in a certain political direction is because of

• the origins of Lemmy
• users that choose to leave the older platforms may have done so for social / political reasons
• threadiverse is still relatively small

Do you think Lemmy is at risk of becoming an echo chamber for leftist views, a sort of Truth Social, Parler, Gab, etc., esque platform, but for Leftists?

I feel like we’re getting more politically diverse over time. It’s only a risk if we force a certain political leaning through moderation.

Is this a problem we should be concerned about, or is it a natural result of Lemmy’s community-driven nature?

Worth keeping an eye on to see how it changes over time

How might we encourage more diverse political perspectives while still maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment?

Mainly moderation. If a community or space is intended for a particular group, it’s perfectly fine to moderate how you see fit. If it is meant to be a general space, try to limit political biases when moderating and focus on bad faith comments.

If a post/comment was in good faith, it’s more effective to let someone explain why it is wrong rather than removing it. Chances are that others can learn from the explanation (or that they were correct to begin with, and you’ll learn something)

What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of having a more politically diverse user base on Lemmy?

The benefits are easy, I can’t think of many drawbacks. Maybe:

• More people = higher moderation costs (which can be dealt with by having bigger teams)
• More drama (we have drama already)

But we may have friends and family members asking about it

I see four wheels?

Great to hear, thank you!

On mine, I can press the info icon (i) -> Remove EXIF

That was my thought too!

Out of curiosity, how much did it sell for? I can see something like this going for a lot

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

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I once won a promotion and I was sent some items for free. When I went to pick them up, I had to pay more than I would have been willing to pay if I bought the items, because of ‘duties and taxes’.

I probably should have just refused the delivery, but I was young and didn’t know any better so I paid for my package. There was a receipt inside the box that listed the items as being somewhat expensive, so I assumed there was some weird accounting where I still had to pay the taxes despite getting them for free.

I’ve bought and shipped a lot of items since then without ever having to pay upon pickup.

I didn’t mind Proton’s as much, but holiday season as a whole got annoying with all the emails. Mozilla in particular, I almost unsubscribed from their emails