Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, warned more records could be broken this year, due to an increase in emissions and El Nino.

Okay, I know this isn’t the point of the article, but this guy’s name is cool as hell and would fit perfectly as the leader of a band of survivors once the climate change apocalypse actually hits.

Now, that said, I would prefer that it didn’t. Every other form of existential dread I can rationalize away, but this feels inexorable.

Hopefully these things aren’t just replaced but one can hope

if you listen closely you can hear the beans coming our way

yeah, I had some ones set up like months out, it was always fun getting those random reminders. There’s a similar bot on discord, at least

Here’s a link to the blocky docs with a little more explanation. The above link looks like it goes to the a docker image posted on the user’s profile… I think? ^I need to get more familiar with docker^

I voted for no memes, and I’m really glad we got that, but one thing I want to mention is that it’d be good to have a /c/gamingmemes or something to redirect people to, rather than just a closed “no memes here”. There’s definitely an appetite for that content, and it seems gentler if there’s another community they can be directed to.

(I thought about creating it myself but I’ve never really liked gaming meme pages, so I don’t think I’d be good at hosting one 😅)

largest tech community in the fediverse

TIL. I assumed between lemmy.world, programming.dev, infosec.pub I’d had my tech feed basically covered

I’m afraid allowing memes, even on a single day, could be a slippery slope,

yeah, I think trying to make everyone happy with forced coexistence (instead of just having two distinct areas) might actually be likely to only create more friction

oh man, I’m glad I’m not the only one that’s always been annoyed by that on reddit.

So many times, you’d just get a post like “man you know this guys a real one” with a picture of some pixelated lifeguard, 30 comments of people like “yeah thats my boy 🙌🙌🙌”, and then one poor guy at the bottom sitting at -30 just trying to find out what’s going on.

It’s definitely a valid question, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally “higher-quality”, will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.

So, as long as we’re using an upvote system, those need to be split so the articles and discussion posts don’t get drowned out in a sea of easily-consumed and quickly-upvoted low-content posts. I know I would personally really prefer having a proper feedly-style community with a bunch of articles and discussions than another gaming meme one that could basically be a bot linked to an instagram feed.

I actually voted for one day but now that I’ve thought about it a bit more, I think I’d prefer a /c/games and /c/gamemes or something, just so the people that want the latter have their space all the time. It seems preferable to the friction of trying to share space for both styles of community when we don’t actually have to. I think, if we do vote to keep them, we’re going to need a /c/gamingdiscussion or something for the actual wordy content.

Honestly, a community like /r/games without the power mod approach to what articles can be posted would be really nice.

It’s definitely a valid question though, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally “higher-quality”, will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.