[-] FundMECFSResearch 44 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The two main reasons people attack LW is:

  1. people who criticise it because it is by far the largest instance, and thereby means lemmy isn’t as decentralised as it could be, I think this is a fair point, because it has caused federation issues with for example aussie.zone in the past.

  2. Tankies who get mad the average lemmy.world user does not share their admiration for China, Russia, North Korea, Stalin, and Mao. Thereby accusing the whole instance of being “libs” and “bigots”.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 11 points 13 hours ago

Philosophical ramblings to justify my existence, which according to capitalism has no value because I don’t have the ability to work.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 3 points 13 hours ago

L’argent ne fait pas le bonheur, mais la pauvreté fait le malheur

[-] FundMECFSResearch 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I totally get it, healthy people love trying to relate, but sometimes it can negate our experiences.

“I’m tired too”

“I’m in pain too”

“I’m [x] too”

like I don’t think these comments healthy people make come from bad places, but they often dont really understand our problems tend to be orders of magnitude more severe than the “common meaning” of the word, because they have never experienced it. I mean I would assume the same before I got my illness.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Oh shit they aren’t one of us. They have spider heirarchies.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 19 points 19 hours ago

The fuck is happening in the past few weeks in china? Loads of these kinds of incidents all of a sudden?

[-] FundMECFSResearch 18 points 19 hours ago

I mean it connects to lemmy, kinda like mbin.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 11 points 20 hours ago

“fatigue” being in the name was one of the reasons it used to be dismissed as psychological.

But now, especially with the help of long covid, we’ve found a distinct clinical entity, with clear physical markings, Complement system overractivation, T-cell exhaustion, WASF3-caused mitochondrial dysfunction etc.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 27 points 20 hours ago

I hate when the media tries to “simplify” the name to “fatigue”.

There’s a reason the medical profession has abandoned the terms post-viral fatigue syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome as names, in favour of Post-Actute Infection Syndrome, and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

  1. They are extremely inaccurate names, these conditions can cause hundreds of symptoms and fatigue isn’t always one of them.

  2. It’s an incredibly minimising name when these conditions are known to have caused death, and can cause people to lose the ability to speak or digest in severe cases. “Fatigue” is something healthy people experience too.

But the media always loves “dumbing it down” to “fatigue”.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28363968

French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 13 points 21 hours ago

This is really cool.

Which of these make their data publically available?

Because the greatest scientific contribution would not be hording the data so you can publish your paper, but making it freely available, so any group of researchers can look through it and contribute to scientific knowledge by analysing the findings in different ways

[-] FundMECFSResearch 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

May I suggest trying out

lemmy.cafe

(which blocks ML too, on top of grad and hexbearg)

and only subscribing to non-political communities

[-] FundMECFSResearch 14 points 22 hours ago

Man I blocked yungthos ages ago. I don’t know if I’d even be going on lemmy if I couldn’t block people like him.

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don’t know if this is the best community to post in but interesting.

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No matter which sort you use (except for new), content is recommended to you by activity. Depending on the sort (active, hot, top) it uses a slightly different mixture of votes/comments/time since post to determine the order.

The only exception is scaled, which boosts a little bit midsized communities, but still doesn’t manage to improve visibility of niche ones.

If lemmy is to truly start having active hobbyist communities instead of being 95% lefty US politics, Shitposts, and some tech stuff, it needs a sort that takes into account the user’s engagement.

For example, if I upvote / comment often in a community, there should be an option to have posts from the community be boosted in my feed, even if it’s a tiny community. 

Let’s say I’m subscribed to !world@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world because I want to occasionally see news. However, I’m also subscribed to a couple hundred other communities, some of them who don’t manage to get more than a couple upvotes on their biggest posts. And whenever I see them I’m replying/upvoting because I’m passionate about that topic. 

My feed shouldn’t be 95% c/news and c/world because those are the most upvoted and commented. I shouldn’t have to scroll down hundreds of posts to find “big” posts in small communities I interact with at any opportunity I get. 

That’s why I think it would be beneficial to lemmy if the sort/algorithm took into account your engagement in a way.

It doesn’t have to be complicated, you can have a single number “engagement score” for every community calculated with a basic formula, and that number is used as a boost to the community. 

I’m aware that there are some examples of successful niche communities on lemmy. But that’s mainly because either a significant chunk of the lemmy userbase is into that niche (let’s face it the lemmy community is not a representative sample of the world population, we tend to be very similar people), or because the posts on it are simplified image/video type posts which appeal to people who don’t know much about the subject.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4853884

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4853256

To whom it may concern.

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I don’t mean like a closed algorithm.

I mean like a search engine I could tell: I want you to downgrade [healthline.com] and push it lower down in results. Or I want you to “upgrade” [arstechnica] and show it higher in results.

etc

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