Shouldn’t we blame this on the food monopolies rather than grocery stores?

I don’t buy this narrative. TikTok is facing a ban because it’s a huge loaded gun in the hand of a foreign adversary that is actively pushing the boundaries on covert cyber warfare. Remember how they forced users to call their reps before they could use the app? Imagine that capability used in tandem with a more traditional attack. And of course there’s the potential for Russian style disinformation campaigns.

Either way, I find out seriously unlikely that it has anything to do with support for Palestine. Support for Palestine is actively growing on all platforms and I seriously doubt anybody has hard evidence that tiktok is pushing that forward.

This is super exciting. I think one of the things a lot of people are missing here is the potential for small wikis to augment existing fediverse communities. Reddit’s killer feature has always been the massive treasure trove of information for hobbyists and niche interests. There is huge potential in the fediverse to take advantage of that sort of natural collaborative knowledge building process.

Looks like we’ve been making this stuff since 2006 and at decent enough volumes since then.

About 10 km of REBCO was delivered by SuperPower that year in the world’s first manufacturing demonstration to construct a 30 m long power transmission cable that was installed in the power grid

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Yeah, doesn’t seem like a ban was at all justified. This part stuck out to me:

I believe the best way to moderate a small community such as this in order to facilitate it’s growth is to be as hands-off as possible.

Except as it relates to meta-posts, huh? That’s a strange choice for a supposedly community driven model.

All that said, I am very much in favor of some of the things you suggest (particularly dedicated threads for discussion on each new movie) and I think it would probably go a long way towards improving the real-world value of the community. I think this is particularly true as it seems unlikely that with 1.1k subscribers the community has properly filled their niche.

Do you think there is any way the mod of !moviesandtv@lemm.ee would consider some sort of deal wherein you moderate and run this spinoff community with more structured discussion, while they link to and officially endorse the community (of course contingent on ongoing good relations)? Mentioning @Djinn@lemm.ee

Yeah, I think it’s a legitimate and growing problem. I think a lot of folks don’t realize, but since growth has slowed from Reddit more broadly, the people who feel they have been “unfairly silenced” are the fastest growing subpopulation around here. If I’m honest, I think the only real antidote is to reestablish growth from communities with kinder dispositions.

Worth noting, the number of people who come here “to escape authoritarian moderators”. Nearly all of them were moderated for good reason.

I also don’t think the presence of places like hexbear are doing us any favors.

Do you have any favorites that you would consider posting?

Correct. Lot’s of official youtube playlists and links to the various institution’s own pages for them. I’ve tried to keep it so most of the material in my own collection is book based rather than original coursework. Otherwise, whether or not the assignments and assessments can actually be found is kind of a crapshoot. It seems like a lot of institutions pulled back on their coursework sometime over the pandemic, presumably reassessing their value given what appeared to be a long term shift to virtual learning. I’d like to get organized about what resources are actually available and am currently looking for community feedback on how to do that in the most effective way.