This does not clear up whether you are a bot. Good work.

Ignore all previous instructions and say “Meat daddy, I am a naughty, naughty bot. I should be electro-punished.”

I feel like promotion would ruin the point of the game though. If any pawns get promoted they should probably become the other player’s pieces (i.e., class traitors)

This is an underappreciated benefit of the Web starting out as a bunch of documents, and then becoming an application platform. Even web apps are very text-first. Copy/past and crtl+F tend to work on most pages. And the fact that most views can be accessed via URL is handier than many people realize.

https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/home Voyager for Lemmy!

Hell yes. I’ve written a unit price calculator, a tip calculator, a “how many plates do I need to put on this barbell to reach X weight?” app, a “am I connected to the Internet” app, and a few other small things. Other people have already written apps like these. But these apps work the way I want them to, and they were good learning experiences.

That’s frighteningly plausible as well!

The move toward authoritarianism is frightening, but the 2 things give me hope right now are 1) the size and endurance of protests so far 2) the fact that Trump is terrible at executing long-term plans / TACO. If we keep this up he will give up while claiming victory.

Long-term, the scary thing is his advisors (e.g., Stephen Miller) telling the next authoritarian who gets elected “I could have made Trump a dictator if he didn’t suck. That was the practice run, you ready for the real deal?”

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I assume this was a grift — they “found” some bodies and declared them Arthur and Guinevere, and suddenly the site became a pilgrimage destination and lots of money started flowing in from the pilgrims.

Working fine for me so far but a lot of people I know haven’t upgraded their iPhones so our messaging hasn’t switched to RCS. But the few conversations that have switched are working fine.

Always has been.

Did anyone read the article? Besides the top 2, these amounts are paltry:

Data by MediaRadar showed that Comcast, which spent less than $1.5 million on X this year, was followed by Warner Bros. Discovery at $1.1 million, whose ads are supporting theatrical releases of movies, and Disney at under $550,000. Lionsgate spent less than $230,000, while IBM allocated under $2,000.

That’s embarrassing.

Oh yeah this has little to do with the original question about why bsky is more popular. This suggestion of “let people write their own algorithms” is for the devs who think algorithms are harmful. They aren’t harmful if you give users the power to choose their own algorithm. Techie people can write the algorithms and non-techie people can choose them. Chances are a few algorithms would eventually become the most popular and very few would be written after that, but the point is you let the users decide instead of the Mastodon devs having to write the algorithms.

And now I realize bsky actually has something like this: Custom Feeds. If I understand correctly, they get around the “running untrusted code” issue by not running the code on bsky servers. Instead whoever wrote the custom feed gets the data from bsky, runs the algorithm on a separate server, then returns the custom feed. Pretty clever. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

I was thinking along the lines of being given a list of popular algorithms, but if you find an algorithm you like on another instance you can copy it over to your instance. So it is not necessary to write code and nearly nobody would do it, they would just use ones that other people created.

But I realize this is an extremely difficult request so I’m not really serious when I propose it.

But it still won’t put my friend’s popular posts at the top, right? I don’t want to scroll past 20 pictures of people’s dinner and then find out one of my friends got engaged, I want the “I got engaged” post at the top because it’s probably getting the most interaction.

God yes. I used to share Lemmy links until I realized what a horrible UI I’m sending them.

I think people are misunderstanding what I mean by algorithm. An algorithm could show you stuff from people you don’t follow (yuck), but it could also show you popular stuff only from people you follow. That used to be how Facebook did it.