While news outlets are certainly drivers of fatigue, readers are not entirely off the hook. Research shows that negative headlines have more than a 60 percent higher click-through rate than positive ones—à la the old trope, “if it bleeds, it leads.”

I always feel that there are way more bad news than good news until now. I made a tally of the posts on the homepage of Beehaw right now and registered 14 as positive, 10 as negative, and 15 as neutral wrt my stance. It just seems like I actively focus more on the bad ones. Maybe I will try reading more positive ones.

Their prequel on Meta: A few thoughts about #Meta’s #ActivityPub project (and whether we should instantly block it)

To recap: I’m also very, very suspicious of Meta and I know they don’t have good intentions - I’m not suggesting that maybe they’ve changed and they will do things differently, to “give them a chance” first. I just don’t think that declaring to block them makes much sense at this point in time. Maybe they will give us real reasons to block them once they launch their platform. But I’m not by principle against interacting with Meta users, as long as I can avoid Meta’s ads, black box algorithm and data mining.

I guess you do need to know the domain name to block it.

You can try to access https://beehaw.org/u/Lugadi. Currently it’s 404, which probably means that your application was denied. But you should be able to reapply though.

Wait, are you sure the handle is Lugadi instead of Lugado? Because https://beehaw.org/u/Lugado shows the user page. In this case, if you cannot login it probably means your application is still under review.

The defederated list does not include reasons and we can’t add it from Lemmy’s tools. The Lemmy instances we’ve defederated from memory are : Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml because they deny certain genocides, exploding-heads.com and lemmygrad.com because they are queerphobic, burggit.moe because they host child pornography.

https://beehaw.org/comment/300942

This project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 825322.

Source: https://nlnet.nl/project/Lemmy/

“Same bigotry, different religion”

They were posting from mastodon, I guess that’s just by default.

Maybe collapsing the sticked threads would help?

It happened to my Pixel 4a.

Meanwhile, one of the US parties is trying to ban universal free school meals. Sad.

Hi bees! Great to be here with you guys.