@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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otter, (edited )

Thereā€™s a potential for abuse with paying for donations (not saying it should never be done):

  • risk of unsafe blood supplies if people lie about their health history in order to be able to sell their blood
  • ethical concerns around exploiting financially vulnerable people, and turning a life-saving act into another commercial transaction
    • In areas where those vulnerable people arenā€™t protected by the legal system, thereā€™s also the potential of OTHER people ā€œharvestingā€ and selling the blood

Voluntary and altruistic donations are best, and ideally those values are maintained all the way through the donation process. Hopefully technology continues to improve so that we can support those donations with synthesized alternatives

I believe weā€™ve had some discussion around this in Canada recently, specifically with donations for plasma. Iā€™m not caught up on it to comment further about it

otter,

Iā€™m also not sure if transmitting x-rays would work

Itā€™s not like radar, youā€™d need to also be on the other side to collect the data after it passed through the object

otter, (edited )

I dropped 95% of my activity on Reddit about when everyone else left earlier this summer.

This is not censorship but itā€™s similar, itā€™s the problems with Redditā€™s automated moderation system. Itā€™s not something unique to Reddit since lots of platforms have this issue, and it is a risk on Lemmy as well if we canā€™t figure out other ways to combat spam effectively once userbase grows

  • On Reddit, our university subā€™s moderation team had nearly all of their accounts banned (including all the alts), because we shared a mod account to do basic mod actions (before Reddit had some of that functionality built-in). The mod account wasnā€™t the reason, but we assume thatā€™s what the automated system used to decide we were all one person. It took a while to resolve, and our initial attempts to point out the issue resulted in automated messages saying we were wrong and that we couldnā€™t appeal anymore. Eventually we posted on mod-support and the only solution was to self-dox our alts to each other in order to get some of them reverted (the ones we didnā€™t feel comfortable sharing we never got back). It was a mess.

I think we also need to consider the flip side of this issue. Yes, some people are banned wrongfully from these platforms. However, sometimes people are banned for sharing content that also isnā€™t welcome here, and over time we WILL get more users like that showing up here because Lemmy will look like the next best thing for them. Iā€™m not sure how that will work out and maybe the Fediverse will let those users find their place away from the rest of us, but itā€™s important to know that not all bans from other platforms are unjustified.

otter,

If the app needs a server component, a small subscription is justified. If it doesnā€™t, then a subscription isnā€™t justified.

If the subscription is optional, and it gets more frequent updates & support, that might be ok too as long as you can choose to just keep the product as is (and the product isnā€™t riddled with bugs)

otter, (edited )

Itā€™s still helpful to talk about whatā€™s going on elsewhere

  • see what we can do better
  • see what good features are worth adopting here
  • Calling out bad actions by other platforms. We donā€™t HAVE to help people that arenā€™t on the Fediverse, but there are a lot of experienced and knowledgeable people on here that can discuss issues and how we can address them
otter, (edited )

This is great! The length and tone was perfect IMO

Hope you guys do these for a while to come :)

otter,

Iā€™m not your target for the question, since I havenā€™t ever tried Unlimited

Bitwarden is very solid for a password manager, and it works well for my family

You could compare prices between just ProtonMail+Bitwarden (or other manager)+VPN of choice?

otter,

What are some good alternatives to each Adobe product?

Someone on here mentioned Affinity for the Photoshop/design world

Nitro & PDFxchange for the PDF side?

otter,

Long winded talk for shit?

what

otter,

Yea Iā€™m pretty sure this is what OP heard about, itā€™s a common tidbit that gets shared

Ownership wasnā€™t secret then, and itā€™s not secret now. What happened then was that they bought transit things and shut them down. That COULD happen now too, but it would happen pretty publicly

They do lobby governments though

otter, (edited )

It could help in a lot of other crises too

During a natural disaster, you could jump back and forth carrying aid in, and the wounded people out. In any time sensitive crisis, you could get people out of harms way. This bit is more complicated, but you could potentially help out during floods and fires, depending on how far the ā€˜teleport other stuff with youā€™ extends to.

A reasonable limit might be ā€˜Only what you could physically carry yourselfā€™, in which case youā€™d need to be a lot more strategic. In that case, you could work on personal strength and be a one-human-rescue-team. When there isnā€™t a disaster, you could probably shuttle light weight (but important) stuff for a fee, then use that money to fund your own charity to do good

As for this prompt, you could probably just teleport away when someone might see you, or teleport to spots that people canā€™t see. So you could do most things that invisibility would allow

otter,

theverge.com/ā€¦/firefox-review-checker-fakespot-feā€¦

Oh cool, didnā€™t know about this

otter,

Really old posts maybe, but it might help to see which posts you are trying to comment on

Oldest post for me is this one from 5 years ago: lemmy.ca/post/375988

I was able to comment on it just now

otter,

Convincing them should be easy enough as long as itā€™s someone trustworthy

The media is going to be degrading every day that itā€™s not digitized

otter,

Great to hear! I had them generated, but I was really happy with how this one came out :)

Iā€™m hoping to eventually have some Lemmy artists swap the banners/icons once thereā€™s a need for it

otter,

This is the first thing that came to mind. I used to get them at the dentist as a kid

www.amazon.ca/ā€¦/B07WHM33X1

Didnā€™t realize how cheap they were, maybe Iā€™ll get moreā€¦

otter,

One of my favourites for sure :)

otter,

From when I was asking about it, I think itā€™s only the instance admins that can see the details. It would be nice to have this information clearly outlined somewhere, so people know and arenā€™t surprised.

Maybe a table like

What can each person see

Lemmy

Other users Community Moderators Instance Admins
info A1 info B1 info C1 (all)
info A2 info B2 info C2 (home instance)
info A3 info B3 info C3 (communityā€™s instance)

Reddit

Other users Community Moderators Instance Admins
info A1 info B1 info C1 (all)
info A2 info B2 info C2 (all)
info A3 info B3 info C3 (all)
info A4 info B4 info C4 (all)
otter,

Interesting, could you share more on how that works? Is it a neurological change or more of a physical ā€œcloggingā€

otter, (edited )

We also have !CommunityPromo for this purpose :)

Promote your favourite communities here, or ask about a community you are looking for. This includes groups for Lemmy, Kbin, Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Reddit, etc.

Please share some cool stuff in this thread, but also consider subscribing to the community above for more content like this over time

hereā€™s one that I was going to post over there: !edc

What do you carry on a daily basis?

It has cool wallets, pens, flashlights, gadgets, and anything else people carry with them

otter,

Maybe donā€™t do this though

otter,

Thatā€™s what I get for typing instead of copy paste

Iā€™ll try and fix it when Iā€™m on desktop again

otter,

Find new communities when that happens, or bring it up with the admins so those mods are replaced

otter,

Great to see! Thatā€™s 3 I know of, more creators may be sneaking around

otter,

Yep, fun coincidence I guess šŸ˜„

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