jiggles

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[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds like something a robot pretending to be a human acting as a robot convincing you it’s human in an ironic, humorous way would say!

Think about it. Under each level of irony, there could always be another level of robot. (That includes me right now.)

The singularity isn’t “near” as people say, we’re already way past it. (In text-based communication anyway.)

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We’ve had three pets so far, and they’ve all had real but uncommon human names.

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It’s completely irrelevant who made the point. If you can “agree” or “disagree” with the content, by principle it does not belong in YSK.

Take a look at some of the posts in this community. Does it seem like you could agree or disagree with most of them? No, because the typical YSK post is just a plain piece of information, which is either true or false (hopefully true).

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But that’s not the main point you’re making. “YSK: upvoting content makes it more visible” wouldn’t be much of a post would it?

You’re trying by to dictate what people “should” or “shouldn’t” promote. That part isn’t objective, it’s conveying your own ideas. Which doesn’t fit the YSK community.

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

YSK: this community is mainly for facts or guides. What you’ve posted is an opinion.

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And this doesn’t just apply to their recommended news section, this is Google in general.

Googling for technical topics without appending the name of a forum website (like stackexchange, hacker news or that other one) has been a trash experience for years. Shovelware top to bottom.

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great job on the project so far!

I'm often wondering, and this seems like a good place to ask: As someone who has no experience with app development and generally can't help with any of the actual engineering problems – is it still useful for you folks when people like me chime in with discussions and feature suggestions on the GitHub repo? Or are we more annoying than helping?

I sometimes feel like it seems easy to just “flood” the place with tickets, but if nobody contributes with actual code solutions, what is it really for? If you know what I mean…

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Isn't that the point of the whole communities structure though? That you have some common topic to talk about, rather than just exchanging small-talk?

For me, the people I'd talk to on Reddit were mostly internet strangers anyway, so my mindset is that this place is no different :) Different website, but still just fellow human beings at the end of the day.

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Just as a side-note: Multireddits are not an Apollo feature, they are a part of Reddit itself since 2013. Although, Apollo did support them before the Redesign did (which calls them “Custom Feeds”) if I'm not mistaken.

[–] jiggles@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it has potential to get there eventually. It already follows the similar design and usage philosophies, and I imagine the development could really take off now.

Keep in mind that Apollo has years of full-time development behind it, whereas Mlem is essentially an early beta of an open-source passion project.