Good bot

@remindme@mstdn.social in 30 years

If you see a need for a community then start it.

No you are wrong about that.

That’s the trick.

You could, for example, have a bot running a text-based RPG in a Mastodon thread, where you get to see others in your group take their turns, then you have yours.

You can bridge the two now.

I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.

No need to be self-conscious - that’s a concise account of a complicated issue, which is going to go long. Long posts become an issue when they are rambling and unfocused.

Very true. The success of BookWyrm makes me hungry for other variations covering a range of stuff but the pool of talent isn’t massive and they all seem to be busy on various projects.

No problem. The whole.point of it is as a federated Goodreads replacement - the data is freely available, so all Goodreads has in its favour is it’s momentum and the sunk cost fallacy.

Ever since Amazon bought Goodreads I’ve been waiting for something like this, although I haven’t found the time to.impott my data and get properly stuck in. The main downside is I now want a BookWyrm for films,.comics, action figures, etc, etc. They’ll turn up eventually I suppose.

With Anna’s Archive there’d be issues of the legality of linking to it but BookWyrm does provide OpenLibrary links where available.

Ultimately, someone could create a more piracy focused fork of BookWyrm and start their own instance but I think it would be problematic for the core project to bake it in and open anyone running an instance up to legal issues. I suppose there’s nothing stopping Anna’s Archive from doing it to provide a more social interface to their database.

If you could point me to one I’d be happy to look again.

Try this.

BookWyrm is designed to be a replacement for Goodreads, so it operates in a fairly similar way.

Yeah, I left around the same and switched to OneNote which hass been working fine for my needs

When you log in via reddit, we should be able to get the list of all (non-user) subreddits that you are a subscriber.

It’s not anywhere near a complete list. I’ll run through it later and get some examples.

Great tool that should make migrating from Reddit smoother. I submitted quite a bit to the other sites but stopped when the updates dried up.

I am curious as to the criteria you use when displaying a list of my subscribed subs as it’s not complete but some of the subs not included are larger than some that are.

Anyway, good work and keep us in the loop.

Especially as FTDNA, for example, have a large array of settings, which, on one hand, is good for privacy but on the other could make it easy to miss.

I hope they got the right guy for the Golden State Killer and not just some dementia-ridden senior citizen that they could pin it on.

The genealogical genetic tests only let you find a pool of suspects (in this case no more than two dozen men), they’d then be able to a 100% match through standard means. He admitted guilt and pleaded guilty to a number of other crimes that weren’t explicitly linked to him. The only real concern I have about that is whether the police used the threat of the death penalty to get him to help clear a backlog of cold cases that he wasn’t responsible for.

I’m not sure of the timeline now but I seem to recall that this first came up through GEDmatch (which doesn’t do testing itself but allows people to upload results from different companies to compare them) and law enforcement had been creating data in compatible formats based on samples from cold cases. It hit the news because it helped identify the Golden State Killer. This got users nervous and they switched to you having to opt in allow that kind of matching.

FTDNA changed it ToS to allow law enforcement to use their database for rather vaguely defined crimes but that collided with laws (especially in the EU) and privacy groups, hence the large range of options available. In the EU you have to specifically opt in to allow those kind of matches,. elsewhere you have to opt out (which seems a bit confusing to me - it should be a blanket opt in).

I don’t know what the solution is on a platform level

It’s not really Lemmy’s problem, using “All” on a large instance like l.w is going to get you blasted in the face with a barrage of low effort posts, that’s just the nature of the beast.

I’m on a smaller instance (they’re all smaller than l.w which is the size of the top 50 other instances combined) and use subscriptions to manage what I see and it works out nicely.

On Lemmy (and most of the rest of the Fediverse) there aren’t, yet, fancy algorithms serving you a bespoke selection posts that filter out a lot of the “noisier” communities and boost the more interesting ones. You have to get out there and curate your own feed, it’s pretty easy but whenever I see a post complaining that there’s too much about Linux or too many memes it’s clear that the OP isn’t taking (m)any steps to improve their feed.

I’ve noticed a significant decline in the niche communities that were originally active

Niche communities can often only have one or two people posting regular content. If no-one else chips in or replies then that can be a dispiriting experience and that’s how communities die. If there’s a community you like then drop in, comment, make a post from time to time. That’s how communities gain momentum and start thriving.

Shoulda used ChatGPT.

This piece from The Atlantic goes into the detail of it.

It’s an incredibly dangerous lie to be spreading but the tweet wouldn’t make sense unless you knew the broader context (the Great Replacement conspiracy theory), which Musk clearly does or he wouldn’t have gone out of his way to reply. He has tried to row back on it since but just made his take on this more blatant.

I presume you are doing this for medical information rather than genealogy as they’d need to keep your information for it to be that useful to you.

If not, check out Family Tree DNA’s privacy policy as they seem pretty good with letting you set the level of sharing that you are comfortable with. They don’t share with third parties and you can adjust your sharing settings so law enforcement can use you for matching.

I’ve tested myself and a number of family members with them and am happy with the level of control they give but your mileage may differ.