I think some chickens are more likely to lay them than others (due to age, or genetics). After that the eggs are somewhat larger, and you can check by shining a light through it

Thank you!

@alam@lemmy.world is also on the threadiverse, and may post updates about this as it develops

Predictions

Showerthoughts

I had no idea Reddit invented having deep thoughts in the shower, or making predictions

🙄

Am I the Asshole?

Yea they can keep that one

No problem :)

Use the free trials with both and see what you prefer!

For podcasts, if you’re on android, check out AntennaPod

edit: Adding some more information

• The podcast format was designed to be decentralized and open. Most creators still do direct distribution, so you can follow your favourite podcasts without needing a centralized entity like Spotify to collect it for you
• The exception is the platform exclusive paywalled stuff that Spotify produces themselves. Joe Rogan is one of those iirc, but I don’t think that affects the majority of people here
• If you listen on multiple devices and want to synchronize your listening history, see here: https://antennapod.org/documentation/general/synchronization

I appreciate that you are gathering community feedback!

Right now it feels like the website is geared towards the style and content that technical users appreciate. I agree with the other comments that it would be nice to simplify the website down. Technical users are willing to explore for more information while the average user taking a quick look will likely leave.

Taking inspiration from other Fediverse platforms, my favourite landing pages are from Peertube and Mastodon:

• https://joinmastodon.org/
• https://joinpeertube.org/
• https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join

How about the instance selection wizard (click “join a server” on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?

This is likely a biased opinion, but could you add ‘region’ as a field, or ‘regional’ as a topic? For our instance, I think that’s how a lot of people are choosing to make an account with us given recent events. It also helps the user find an instance that is nearby (for lower latency), and within a jurisdiction that they are familiar with / can have an influence over through voting or other means. pangora.social seems to be down right now, but I recall them having a nice way of organizing that

Another biased opinion, I agree that it’s better to have large instances near the top since they’re more likely to be up / fixed quickly / on top of moderation. You could include a note saying that larger instances are near the top because of XYZ, and that people can always make more accounts down the road if you change your mind. That way there’s less pressure to pick the “correct” instance.

And the list of apps, what can be done here? For one thing the data is rarely updated, so we would appreciate pull requests.

Could you potentially collaborate with https://lemmyapps.com/ ? It would be easier for users to submit updates to one place (whether it is a PR to you or an update on that site)

If I were to try and critique the site in excessive detail, from top to bottom:

• Could you make the logo have a rectangular / circle background around it? Right now edges look odd over the dark background. The hover effect looks nicer, maybe with different colors
• In the header: News, Docs, & Contact can be collapsed into a dropdown under ‘About’ or something similar, since those are pages that someone would go searching for
• Instead of ‘Join a server’, ‘Donate’ and ‘See all servers’, it might be better to have one massive “Join a Server” button/card on the front page that leads to the instance list page.
  • Join a serve and See all servers are very similar for a user that’s not familiar with how this all works, and they end up in the same place. So instead of a popup, could you have it as a responsive widget on the instance’s page? That way users can quickly figure out how the instances are tagged
  • Since the donate button is already in the header, it might be better to have a large section on donations further down the page.
• The paragraph is a large block of text. I’d prefer something closer to what Peertube did
• The screenshots could be larger and more prominent
• The images give off ‘AI generated’ vibes, even if that wasn’t their origin. Could you have large cards with simple icons, similar to the 3 header cards on our site: https://fedecan.ca/en/
• I like the ‘Create your own discussion platform’ card’s format. It’s a bit hard to read, but otherwise nice
• The ‘more features’ section could be simplified down to the important points, and maybe even combined with what is being done with the screenshots area

On the servers page:

• The community explorer and fediverse observer are external sites, but they look like widgets right now.
• Is every instance under one topic, or would it be possible to let the user select multiple and have instances appear and disappear from the list live?
• I like Pixelfed’s join page since I can quickly narrow down an instance based on what’s important to me: https://pixelfed.org/servers

Well yeah, what I said was

It’s useful in some contexts while being hot garbage in others. Learning to use it for what it’s good at is fine, trying to shoehorn it into everything is stupid.

Same as relying on it for everything. That’s not adapting, that’s being easily replaceable.

Use it for the few things it’s good at, and ignore their false promises on the rest.

This post was about tech companies trying to shove LLM based “AI” into everything. I’m looking forward to when investors move on from this one specific type of algorithm and we can get back to innovating properly.

Well duh

How does that add anything to the points above

Seems like the key word in the post was “mass implementation”

It’s useful in some contexts while being hot garbage in others. Learning to use it for what it’s good at is fine, trying to shoehorn it into everything is stupid.

Same as relying on it for everything. That’s not adapting, that’s being easily replaceable

So they could have held paint drying Mondays instead, with the same overall effect

“Every single Monday was called Paint Dry Monday” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could only watch paint dry. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only watch paint dry.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”

I always saw the rules against Wikipedia to be around citations (and accuracy in the early years), rather than it harming learning. It’s not that different from other tertiary sources like textbooks or encyclopedias. It’s good for learning a topic and the interacting pieces, but you need to then search for primary/secondary sources relevant to the topic you are writing about.

Generative AI however

• is a text prediction engine that often generates made up info, and then students learn things wrong
• does the writing for the students, so they don’t actually have to read or understand anything

I like the site, it’s clean and straightforward

I appreciate your work!

Oh is that what it was 😄

There’s an account that I haven’t used in years, which gets a “Are you trying to log in?” email every few months.

I got 6 emails at once the other day, figured it was the same junk

I could have sworn I dropped a button here

TIL, and also ☹️

https://www.eurogamer.net/shadow-of-mordors-brilliant-nemesis-system-is-locked-away-by-a-warner-bros-patent-until-2036-despite-studio-shutdown

Neat! Would love to see more from there if you have more photos 😄

Right, good point

This is very cool, thank you! Sometimes when I post here, I link to a related research paper. A lot of research paper sites are a pain to use, and even harder to search with

The share menu seems to give me this

Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse

https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871
https://openparchment.com/paper/2501.05871

How hard would it be to have some openparchment related links at the top of the article pages? Or perhaps a way to link to the articles details page directly?

I think the confusion is in the way it’s displayed. The notation in the comic is ambiguous, where the division is shown as a symbol, while the multiplication is implied with the brackets, so some people see the question as 8/(2*(2+2))=1, while others see it as 8/2*(2+2).

For the later, my understanding is that multiplication and division actually have equal priority and are solved left to right (rather than an explicit order as PEDMAS and BEDMAS seem to suggest). So the second interpretation would give 8/2*(2+2)=8/2*(4)=4*4=16

The reason this isn’t a problem more often is because

• math questions should be written unambiguously, using symbols everywhere and fraction bars
• in real life problems, there is a certain order in which you manipulate the numbers, and we can use correct notation (with an excessive number of brackets if needed) to keep it crystal clear

Also the (2+2) bit isn’t relevant to the confusion. We might as well replace it with 4 when discussing the problem. No one should be messing that bit up