@PugJesus@lemmy.world it’s time to “cross the Rubicon” to full federation!

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I’m seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

!wavemusic@lemmy.world - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

!fedigrow@lemm.ee - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @Blaze@reddthat.com has been posting a weekly thread on “how is your [niche] community doing?” which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, !shortstories@literature.cafe - links to short stories online in all genres

“Hey now, life goes on… long after the thrill of living is gone.” -JM

Well, I think if we were to resolve this, we’d need a formal definition of neighborhood, and you make a useful distinction of a neighborhood vs a borough or a town. I suspect sociologists have some useful definitions, but that’s not my field.

it’s much harder to consider someone an expert or proud local of a “city” they don’t visit 90% of.

This is a lot more difficult to get behind. People are proud of their cities for a variety of reasons; visiting 90% of it seems like an irrelevant criterion. There’s some truth to the trope of the born-in-NYC native who’s never been to the Statue of Liberty.

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Hmm… I don’t really disagree, I’m just thinking it through…

Re. your first point: if neighborhoods are isolated and have little in common, then it doesn’t seem crazy to call them neighborhoods.

There’s the additional fact that some “neighborhoods” are actually cities: e.g. Long Beach is a city of its own but Westwood is a neighborhood of LA. Malibu and Santa Monica are cities but Venice is a neighborhood of LA. Compton is (famously) a city, but Crenshaw is a neighborhood. But these are all generally thought of as part of LA.

Re. your second point: I guess it’s similar to someone who lives in Boston or NYC and is more likely to travel to Europe than Alabama, but is still able to say “I love the USA.”

So if someone says “I Love LA” you want them to mean that they love every single neighborhood in LA? That seems like too high a bar for any city. Agreed about walkability and traffic, though.

if you took the world and seperated its humans by intelligence, the “idiot” group is going to be much bigger than the “PhD” group. Like…by a lot.

No… you’d have a bell curve. But even that assumes you have a single good measure of intelligence.

I kind of agree with the rest of your post, but I would have worded it a bit differently, emphasizing that people who found it difficult to start using Lemmy might still be worth having around. Also, I don’t think “as large as Reddit” or “small niche unknown” are our only options.

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat a machine learning algorithm.” - traditional Native American saying.

Ellison was trolling. He did that a lot.

“We can’t tell you what you’ll get, and we can’t tell you what you’ll pay for it.” Sounds like a corporate dream scenario.

Lifetime movies are awesome because you can put them on in the background and they’re not at all distracting from the main task you’re working on.

some people still recommend using a VPN and IP address from a country where YouTube ads are prohibited, such as Myanmar, Albania, or Uzbekistan.

Wait, you can just prohibit YouTube ads at a national level? That’s somehow awesome and terrifying at the same time.

They’d probably be capable of Miracles.

It will now require Windows Hello (via facial recognition and/or fingerprint)

So Microsoft also wants my fingerprints and a realtime capture of my face? Yeah that totally addresses my concerns. /S

Yeah, they’re so focused on screwing me over that I’m worried eventually I’ll miss something.

One call that I never will forget came at close to four A.M., waking me; he must have just gotten up in Los Angeles. His voice said, “Alex Haley?” I said, sleepily, “Yes? Oh, hey, Malcolm!” His voice said, “I trust you seventy percent” – and then he hung up.

Afterword to The Autobiography of Malcolm X

That data they’re collecting is more valuable now that it can be used to train A.I.s. A couple years from now they’ll push some update that lets them exfiltrate it (or its usable features.)

Same. I got a cheap Chromebook and a no-contract flip phone and only use google on that.