Anyone looking for me, the user I'm replying to here is my new user
A server will only pull in everything from a community once at least 1 person on that server subscribes. Then it will start pulling in every new post and comment as soon as they're up.
Fixed link
Yeah, this was written before I put the PSA up and figured it out. Lemme fix it for ya
a primer on federation is prudent.
Something like this maybe?
/r/Tech, /r/Technology, /r/TechNews and others all exist. Which one is the "main" one?
Hey! Considering I just advertised your server on Reddit, thought I might put this here. Feel free to delete if you don't need/want it.
Idea/Draft: A common set of instructions for new users that could be pinned across instances.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827
> With the ongoing large influx, I was thinking that it might be nice to have some instructions for new users pinned across instances' front pages, not only to be more welcoming and help with the learning curve, but also to maybe direct people to less popular instances. Something like this post, but more detailed. I wrote a draft below—any thoughts on the idea or the instructions? > > > # How to Join Lemmy and Find and Subscribe to Communities > > > > (These instructions are for using Lemmy in a browser. If you are using an app, some steps may differ.) > > > > ## How to Join Lemmy > > > > To use Lemmy, you need to be a member of one instance from the list at <https://join-lemmy.org/instances>. You will still be able to see content from anywhere, but the instance you choose will determine: > > * What URL you use to log in to Lemmy, > > * What content shows on the homepage when you select "Local" or "All", > > * Who moderates your instance, and > > * What rules you agree to when you sign up. > > > > Choose an instance that matches your interests, language, and region. (If you want more information about an instance, you can tap its "Join" button, which will show you its current homepage in the main view and its description in the sidebar.) Please avoid joining instances that are already crowded. > > > > Once you have decided on an instance, tap its "Join" button to open it and then tap "Sign Up" in the upper-right corner. Fill out the form and wait for your account to be approved. > > > > When your account is approved, log in and customize your profile and settings. If you change your language settings, select "Undetermined" in addition to any languages you speak so that you can still see posts and comments that are not tagged as being in any particular language. > > > > ## How to Find and Subscribe to Communities > > > > There are two ways to find communities through Lemmy: > > > > 1. To browse communities that others in your instance are already subscribed to, tap the "Communities" tab at the top of the page and choose the "All" scope. Tapping on a community name will open it through your instance. > > > > 2. To browse communities across all instances, visit <https://browse.feddit.de/>. Tapping on the community's name will open it, but probably not through your instance (in which case the page will say that you are not logged in). Instead, follow these steps: > > > > a. Copy the community's URL. You can either use the copy button next to the community name or else open the community outside your instance and copy the URL from your address bar. > > > > b. In your instance, tap on the "🔍 Search" button in the upper toolbar. > > > > c. Make sure that you have chosen "All" for each of the four filters: "Type", "Scope", "Community", and "Creator". > > > > d. Paste the community's URL into the search field and tap "Search". > > > > e. One of the results should be the community shown as an icon, a name, and a subscriber count. If you do not see it, or it is buried too deep in the search results, try changing "Scope" to "Local". If that does not work, you may need to wait a bit and try again. > > > > f. Tap on the community in the search results to open it in your instance. > > > > Once a community is open in your instance, subscribe to it by tapping on the "Subscribe" button at the top of the sidebar. > > > > Can't find a community you're looking for? Subscribe to [email protected] and make a post about what you're looking for. Or, if it doesn't exist yet, and your instance allows it, create the community yourself. >
I’m big into tabletop, and would welcome (perhaps after Beehaw growth), a specific tabletop community here
I would subscribe to that in a heartbeat.
Yeah, posts & comments can't work in this way because each instance will have different ID numbers for their federated copy. I'm not even sure how to begin approaching this issue.
Jesus:
temperatures surged to more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Dhaka. Other cities such as Rangpur recorded a high of 41 degrees Celsius – the highest there since 1958.
Global warming is absolutely crushing certain countries. There's going to be a lot of dead elderly and young children before all that is over.
This is gonna be another gif situation, isn't it? :))
It already says that at the top of the instances page
I don't think it's likely to have a UI element, devs are slammed enough as it is and there aren't enough new contributors stepping up (I'm trying, I really am, I just don't know Rust, Psql or Typescript enough).
Much better for there to be a community ruling about it which Beehaw members & contributors abide by
It's not allowed in a lot of instances because the moderation is absolutely exhausting and sometimes NSFL material.
The only limiting factor here is admins + moderators of an instance willing to put themselves through that.
1-man instances proven more superior to impersonation :P
Maybe? Could take a bit for user changes to federate out
I still see you as Juniper
So, there's a fundamental issue here. A lot of the systems that Amanda is talking about aren't actually AI.
Chat-GPT, contrary to the blogosphere, is not actually AI. It does not have the capability for thought. It doesn't have the capacity to understand truth or fiction as concepts, let alone tell them apart.
Chat-GPT and similar systems are probabilistic language models. Essentially, I start it off with sentences (a list of tokens, if you want to get technical). Then it responds by essentially looking at the training data it's been supplied with and picking out the sequence of tokens that most likely is the answer the user is expecting, given the input. Notice that bolded text? The user is expecting. Not anything else. These language models are trained to spit out what users expect, nothing more, nothing less. If a user doesn't like the response, they give a thumbs down and the model recalibrates, introducing more noise and randomness into the result.
These language models are actually really great at reducing manual labor at certain tasks (writing cover letters, delivering predictable essays, I've personally used Chat-GPT for Shadowrun world-building) but they need to have a knowledgeable person using them because they absolutely will not reliably say true things. They will say whatever their training data says is the most likely thing the user is asking for.
PSA: How to link users & communities so it doesn't break for other instances
Hi all!
So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here).
Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin:
[News]\(/c/[email protected])
[My User]\(/u/[email protected])
You're welcome!