Big thing is that the dev is very active and responsive to feedback. Which is really useful given Lemmy is in its developmental phase for the most part.

Unlike Sync which while good is largely abandoned thses days.

I saw a tiktok video talking about how Instagram starts the redpill/incel stuff early for the young people then they become failures in life at which point they push the guru stuff for “guidance”.

EU and even China has at least made a attempt of holding these companies accountable for the algorithm but US and Canadian government just sat there and did nothing.

Instagram is probably notably worse, I have a very establish account that should be very anti that sort of thing and it keeps serving up idiotic guru garbage.

Tiktok is by far the best in this aspect, at least before recent weeks.

I like to block Trump glazers and quite few other accounts of that nature.

Actually think the the Lemmy style user lookup where you can quickly see what stupid comments people have posted in the past to be rather useful for sifting out the low quality trash.

Thanks for the heads up I’ll have to take a look.

It be super useful having a shared block list like AdBlockers across all social media. Certainly make things a lot more pleasant.

Video about YouTubers peddling stocks.

As you guys can see this summary list below this video is pretty dense with information, so I would highly recommend watching if you’re interested in this topic.

• The amounts the creators are paid is very generous for ad campaigns. 10’s of thousands at time 100’s of thousand and even million plus dollars.
• Many of the channel are right wing alt media creators.
• Sources for data come from Securities law that requires disclosure for this type of work.
• Ad campaigns is ran indirectly though additional third party marketing company
• Majority of companies involved is resource plays
• A lot of them nano cap(16M median market cap). So have about the same market cap as a single McD locations.
• Canada once again punches well above it’s weight with half the companies being based in Canada.
• 30/56 is located Vancouver and a lot of them is in the same address with the same directors and managers
• 34/56 didn’t report sales in the past 12 months
• 30/56 had multi million dollar deficits.
• For many of these companies a large portions(~30%) of their expenses is marketing their stock
• Campaigns seems to be pretty effective at raising capital for these companies
• While some investors make a profit. 81% would have a average loss of -52.4%
• The middle man marketing companies has participated in trading of the stocks

Public vote counts should help a lot towards catching manipulation on the fediverse. Any action that can affect visibility (upvotes and comments) can be pulled by researchers through federation to study/catch inorganic behavior.

I’d love to see some type of Adblock like crowd sourced block lists. If the growth of other platforms is any indication there will probably be a day where it would be nice to block out a large amounts of accounts. I’d even pay for it.

I’ve found it’s almost irrelevant what the hats have of them. What these people desire is the attention it draws.

For obvious reasons most of these people would be completely unnoticed by society suddenly become the center of attention when wearing this stuff.

In this case is more about what you would get out of Biden, Harris, Vance or Trump.

As long as she’s willing to strongly push for a ceasefire as American you got other things to worry about. And for the record I do agree it’s a genocide.

As a Canadian I feel like people who support our right wing politicians are very generous with the accuracy of what they say and their American counterparts are even more so.

Yet somehow the Progressive side is held to this unusual standard where they’re constantly painted as the villain if they’re off by the slightest bit.

I didn’t down vote you but to share the sentiment of why you’re getting down voted. While you make one of the best apps on the platform your pricing and availability is one of the worst.

Your time would be better spent improving those aspects your business. If you just want to be a niche high priced app that caters to people obscure feature requests and have erratic development cycles you should at least be transparent about it.

Not sure if this changes anything for you but with the constraint on space for mobile plus the possible future inclusion of the up/down vote counts per post it would probably mean the user vote counter will have to be a general visualization like a user name color gradient to reduce the clutter.

Since we’re on the topic and you’re the admin/mod the Communities I post the most on I kinda curious how you guys keep track of people you’ve banned. I was skimming through my list of people I tagged and you guys banned like half of them. I’d imagine you be very favorable to it since it could make moderating a lot easier.

Xxxxx(redacted as per community rule) was $4.92 CAD to remove ads while Sync is $27.99. For the record I think Sync is the better app but like maybe 4-5 dollars better not nearly 600% better.

The Boost dev also didn’t abandon their app\platform for months during its infancy where it certainly needed the attention then comes back and drop more ads in the app.

This is my last month of Sync Ultra sub. It’s only a few bucks a month and Sync is relatively polished but I rather the money go towards a actively developed app.

This is the official answer :

> In an email, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) said 2023 data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program is not yet available to determine the ban’s full effect.

Personally speaking I don’t think it’s suppose impact prices much. In fact they were so concerned about it they started adding in exemptions almost right afterwards.

In itself there is a lot of Canadian wealth tied to housing so unless there’s some magical situation where affordability happens in a vacuum people will fight hard to against any policy that hits their wallets. My proof for this is that in 2021 when we had a election 80% of people decided that having the two parties that brought us through decades of housing costs going up was who they wanted to run the country.

Honestly some are actually good tags for specific people that are very knowledgeable in certain topics. Although the vast majority are pretty bad, I actually checked my Sync list that’s only a few months old and half of them are already banned.

I think Social media sites that have almost zero accountability like Instagram, Youtube and Tiktok where you can’t even see users past comments have comments sections that’s substantially worse quality.

Here’s the exact example from RES. I don’t think any of the Reddit client that existed actually full had this entire set of function either.

I wonder if the extra heavy dose RDT changes the yields for the modern high-end baskets.

Lance Hendricks had a video recently where he found certain high end baskets was the equivalent of using a paper filter and a cheaper basket.

They’re okay since everything is from Ikea it’s 1/20 the cost of the Webber ones. Workflow wise it’s just nice to not have to deal with a extra step every morning.

It’s only for a week at a time so it doesn’t make much difference freshness wise. I keep most of the bean in the James Hoffman recommended Tightpac America Coffeevac container or the freezer. I will say with my bean preferences I find most of the subtle flavors are gone around 30 days after roasting.