Distilling has been around since forever. It’s a legitimate technique that can give you a better model depending on your needs.

OpenAI does it too to improve its models.

It’s also a problem with algorithms. Big communities drown out smaller ones because the sorting only looks at absolute numbers. Change is underway though.

(They were not serious)

Why would a nonprofit org do that?

Liking cats and dogs are not mutually exclusive what’s everyone on about?

It changes only when you disable regional search.

We’ll be driving monster trucks in 2033

People who use ad blockers aren’t the type of people to click the ads. We’re doing a Google a service by improving conversion statistics.

Zuckerberg is just a man, not a technology

On Reddit I’ve found most of the billionaire news in tech subs is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.

I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.

On Lemmy you only see local communities by default. On Mastodon you see posts from instances that the admin linked. Idunno about kbin etc

You can block communities and users on Lemmy. You can’t block instances, but that wouldn’t make sense since you don’t see their content unless you go there or subscribe to a community. Maybe blanket blocking users from an instance would be useful.

I’m not confused. You can block people on Lemmy.

On Reddit I’ve found most of the news about the big social networks is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.

I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.