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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t know the exact neuroscience behind it, but suspect this relates to the fallibility of memory, and whatever goes in in the brain during learning and reasoning.

    So you know of multiple bands and songs, you attempt to relate a specific band and song, but because of some murky memories and rough recall, you briefly relate the wrong pieces of information, recognize the mistake, and correct for it. How that process works precisely may vary across people and their methods of recall and knowing.

    In a way I suspect that the false-positive you mention may be a sort of synaptic shortcut to the correct information through whatever systems are at play in the brain for this reasoning. For some it may be that this process of rapid error correction is sometimes faster than immediate, accurate recall, or may be more of an unconscious aspect of accurate recall.


  • I’m of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don’t feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I’m out of it being around here.

    On one hand I don’t mind that, as I’m frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It’s not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it’s produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it’s a vibe I resonate with.

    On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you’re trying to cultivate. It’s too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there’s not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people’s interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.

    So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

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    'cause capitalism trying to monopolize everybody’s time and make everyone feel they gotta make everything make money






  • […] there was just a little more non-political content to help dilute it due to the larger user-base.

    There was/is a lot more and that’s one of the various reasons the different Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed sites haven’t swayed people over yet. There’s far more people around here replying to posts like this and news posts, as well as creating news/politics/“dry” posts or find-anywhere-fare like memes/shitposts than much else.

    It’s why recently I’ve tried posting more than media news links to a few of the different entertainment communities. Around here you really have to post/comment on what you want to see more than on the big corporate sites.



  • Regarding the first question, for me PeerTube has a similar problem as with other fediverse stuff, which besides a lack of greater adoption is a scarcity of sites with a positive, distinct identity/community (last I checked at least) to encourage more people to use it.

    Off the top of my head in terms of PeerTube, only TILvids.com comes to mind, which is cool, but remains primarily tech and specifically Linux-related educational videos. I don’t mind that, but it’d be cool to see a broader range of educational content on there.


  • Is there some context that could help clarify what’s led to this change?

    Similarly, could you provide clearer examples, and how this is intended to fit into the existing Terms of Service/Rules? Despite the length of the post, the way in which it’s written leaves this change too ambiguous to be easily understood, which I think is evident both from the voting and commenting patterns.

    In my opinion, my questions should have already been addressed in the post, and I think may have helped reception of this change (supposing at minimum it’s to curtail some abusive moderation practices).





  • Alongside others mentioned (tags/flairs, multi-communities, keyword filtering, etc.) another feature I’d like to see added/improved is notification settings.

    Something like…

    In account settings:

    • Enable/disable all notifications.
    • Enable/disable post reply notifications.
    • Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

    For others’ posts/comments and per posts/comments:

    • Enable/disable post reply notifications.
    • Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

    With those settings you could more easily tune out all notifications or only opt into those you’d like to see, and opt out of those you’re done with (say your post/comment got popular and you’ve had your fill from the replies).


    Unrelated to notification settings, it would also be nice to be able to block communities from the front page via the … More menu in the default web UI.