Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
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Well, it's probably not surprising.
There are probably a certain number of people who go in, go meh, and leave... for now (and a number who stay).
Apart from possibly improving on sync, another thing which could be done is to improve the messaging on profiles, so that users understand what's going on.
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Appears I’m in the mood to spend money tonight fill in my physical anime catalog a little tonight. A essentials copy of Eureka Seven, Melancholoy of Haruhi Suzumiya, New Game, and Hanebado. #animr
Curiously, some stats show the fediverse shrinking for the past few days, although with how things are going, we can probably expect another surge soon.
@skymtf I feel this legislation would create a lot of mental illness of it's own.
Apparently, Minds is joining the fediverse.
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#FediTips for newbies like me: #hashtag your posts! There's no algorithm on #Mastodon, so the only people who see your posts by default are the people who already follow you. Well, them and the brave souls in the local and federated timelines. 🫡
Just a few topic hashtags on a post can make a huge difference in how many people will see you, like you, reply to you, and boost you. If you want people to know what you're up to, hashtag it!
Something I'm going to note is that one drug is not necessarily interchangeable for another.
A drug might have more unpleasant side-effects than another or it might otherwise not be as suitable.
https://reason.com/2023/08/25/government-continues-to-deny-its-role-in-adderall-shortage/
"During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) allowed physicians to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth appointments; at the same time, parents began noticing symptoms of inattentiveness in their kids who were stuck at home attending school over Zoom. As a result, ADHD diagnoses soared among children."
"State and local governments sued the three largest pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson & Johnson over claims that the companies had contributed to opioid abuse and deaths. In February 2022, the companies settled for $26 billion and cracked down on potentially suspicious orders of controlled substances from independent pharmacies. As a result, many pharmacies were limited in the drugs they were able to order; some were banned altogether."
"the DEA declined to raise the limits in 2023 that would allow manufacturers to make more Adderall, even in the face of a declared shortage. Meanwhile, a lawsuit filed by state and local governments caused pharmaceutical distributors to cut off the supply of drugs like Adderall to pharmacies across the country."
Apparently, there is now an "instance" which is basically just an AP gateway for RSS feeds (although, a real RSS reader would probably better).
I'm seeing person after person getting confused about profiles which haven't been fully federated.
@madelena @wststreet Hmm... It's still not clear to me that it is the media and not a misattribution. Media has a bit of a history of being blamed for things.
Well, in any case, it sounds as if there are bigger factors at play there. I think it's unfair to blame that on that.
@norakroeger So that you know, a lot of empty looking profiles are ones which haven't been synced to your instance.
I'm saying this because I already saw someone make that mistake and it was hard to watch them talking into the hashtag completely confused.
@madelena I think that shonen titles can be a bit shallow at times (although, since people enjoy it, whatever) but I seriously doubt that kind of argument.
I think that someone's problems are far more complex than just seeing something in a cartoon.
@hrefna @dev_m I think more efficient protocols didn't really catch on, because they would be trickier to standardize (and implement). AP is very universal.
I'd be curious to know what the overhead of JSON-LD would be here in comparison to using some kind of binary protocol (I'm guessing).
For what it's worth, performance does matter to implementers. Some alternatives to Mastodon on the fediverse explicitly advertise the fact that they're less resource intensive.
I prefer tags to things like CWs, although CWs are still overused.
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"for every study maligning porn, another clears its name"
That is because it is (or was) subject to the scientific bandwagon effect where someone felt compelled to look for all kinds of "links" to "bad things".
And then, someone else has to come in with a better methodology to correct that.
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https://www.utsa.edu/today/2020/08/story/pornography-sex-crimes-study.html
A meta analysis from 2020 of 59 studies which tried to look for a link between pornography and sex crimes and couldn't find one.
It found studies which found a "link" failed to control for factors which might make it appear as if there is a link when there is not.
They also found tell-tale signs of p hacking and citation bias.
Studies which followed best practices didn't find this.
Population level studies showed more pornography was associated with lower crime.
They closed by calling for more research to be done.
It's interesting one researcher is from Texas given how anti-porn the politicians can be there.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
