That’s excellent! Okay, I updated the one community to be only that one.

Like I said, I’m open to adding other ones or multiple communities, I’m just not sure where to strike the balance that won’t wind up creating tons of communities that don’t see a lot of use.

Okay, I looked at how it’s set up. I think the right thing would be to set it up so there’s one community for each main section: World, US news, sport, tech, and so on.

The issue is that there are a huge number of them. That’s pretty common, but usually there’s a “top stories” feed that I can do. I could make a bunch of new communities, one per section, but I’m a little reluctant to just make huge amounts of spam if I’m not sure how much human attention they’re going to get.

Which sections would you want? Maybe I could do like I did for Ars Technica, and make a few communities for some of the mainly useful ones. I’m still not sure how to handle it, to be honest. It would be nice if I could set up a nicer UI so that people could just pick out exactly what they wanted, without creating spam or ghost-town communities for other people.

Do you know if there’s a feed that’s only top stories? I’m using https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss but that one seems to spam a constant flood of posts, which I’ve been trying to avoid.

Sure: !theguardian@rss.ponder.cat

I’ve been trying to avoid adding every single periodical with a new feed so they proliferate, but there’s always space for The Granuiad.

A coup for proponents? For reasons that are still unclear?

The first photosynthesizing organisms burned up all the carbon dioxide, and with no greenhouse effect at all, and ice sheets reflecting even more sunlight as they spread, the world cooled uncontrollably until the whole thing was frozen. What’s unclear is how surface-dwelling microscopic life managed to survive the event at all until volcanic activity gradually threw enough carbon back into the atmosphere that it slowly warmed back up after 100 million years, and reached a new equilibrium.

Geological history is absolutely wild. I am not a science-ologist but I thought that all of the above was settled science at this point, and this discovery was just a nice confirmation about it.

Hopes?

He did, but back then, he thought he would pay a price.

Now, pardoning them is to his benefit, so of course he will.

The fact that a bunch of bees who want to live somewhere have veto power, however temporary, over Mark Zuckerberg… it gives me a little bit of hope for the future.

Surely, it is a sphere, with little divots for your fingertips like a bowling ball.

I don’t think so, it looks like its reputation is pretty bad.

https://www.capitol.ai/story/c659a742-efb4-404c-8601-609f4203f8e8

There’s not a hard-and-fast rule, but I intended originally to limit news sources to those that bring something significant to the table, not just 10 or 100 copies of the AP newswire, and it looks like this one is pretty far in the other direction from that.

Beware of him who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Not a problem. Here’s what I did: I made communities for all four of the feeds, and I switched to community names without underscores:

• !bitsandpieces@rss.ponder.cat
• !drudgereport@rss.ponder.cat
• !borowitzreport@rss.ponder.cat

I was using a convention before of matching the community name with the hostname part of the URL, just for consistency.

I moved the community images that you made over to the new communities, and made you a mod for all of those communities in case you want to do anything.

I’m a little bit unsure about adding Drudge Report, since some time back it was a huge vehicle for misinformation, but looking at it now, it weirdly enough seems completely fine. Unless some reason comes up to exclude it I don’t have a problem with it.

You may have to switch your subscription for bits_and_pieces to the new name, and can you delete the communities with underscores?

Thanks and how does that all sound?

It sounds like you did everything right, but for some reason the bot hasn’t gotten the message yet. Does sending a message from Mastodon to Lemmy work? Can you try sending me a message?

Regardless, I added the feed for you, so it should be all set.

Edit: It definitely would be nicer if it would import the body and image, too, although that’s a little bit complicated since it would have to translate HTML to markdown, I think. Are you reading this from Mastodon? How do they look to you?

I never told you that Meta was a good thing. I think they’re a terrible thing, their AI development included. I was just telling you that there’s a specific answer for how Meta could possibly be doing something here that would work, that is contained in the article, and you’re substituting your prejudice and assumptions about the situation for knowledge, and angrily asking questions which have specific and interesting answers which you could have found out. By reading the article.

I’ll do a quick multiple choice. Your guessing that they’re somehow harvesting posts from Facebook, and trying to turn them into materials science knowledge, is:

1. Exactly what they’re doing
2. Not what they’re doing

You fill in the answer.

If only you had read the article, you would know the answer to this question.

Sounds good! Let me know if the theme or UI is giving you any trouble, as I’ve been messing with it.

Whoa, I didn’t even know it was possible to sign up on rss.ponder.cat.

Can you sign up on ponder.cat instead? That’s the one that’s designed for people to use, rss.ponder.cat is supposed to be just for the bots. I can subscribe you there to all of the RSS feed communities if you want to have them all.

Who in the world thought this was a good idea?

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block)

If you want such discussion then a repost bot is not exactly the way to go for.

I don’t want such discussion. You’re welcome to try to start one here, but as you pointed out, it’s not exactly the place for it.

If you have no interest in a discussion, but just want to blast your opinion, then you’ve done so. Mission accomplished.

On lemmy? Yeah about 90% of the people here are brainlessly reproducing the propaganda of terrorists and Iran.

In reality? No.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/646955/disapproval-israeli-action-gaza-eases-slightly.aspx

The majority doesn’t determine what opinion is right, of course. You’re free to your opinion whether 42% of people agree with you, or 10%, or 1%.

Coming at it from a standpoint of arguing your case is fine. Coming at it from a standpoint of blasting that your opinion is the right one, and the people with the other opinion are terrible, and insulting anyone who tries to disagree with you? That will get a ban, because it’s a huge waste of time and pollutes the space for people who want to use it for other things.

I may need to make some site rules about this. I thought it could be done on a common-sense basis, but I guess that was naive.

I if you look at his profile he seems to be very active

He’s been drawing some heat from moderators. I had him categorized as a troll account so I didn’t hesitate when he came in with something inflammatory. I just looked over his profile, and you’re right. He’s posting pretty actively and almost all of it is pretty benign. He might just have a blinkered type of view where he is right, and anyone who disagrees is wrong, and the way to approach that situation is to berate any user or any journalistic outlet that doesn’t follow his view exactly. That’s not exactly productive behavior, but it’s also not trolling, it’s just human malfunction of a pretty common type.

Maybe I was hasty. I made this:

https://lemmy.world/post/20356525

If he wants to come into that discussion and objectively defend his point of view, then I’ll unban him. I’m not trying to silence unpopular points of view. If he has no interest in this discussion except in terms of tossing his angry opinion in and then fleeing, then the ban will remain. You can let him know, since I don’t know if sending him a message will work now that he’s banned.

This comment is fine. You’re expressing your opinion, which you’re welcome to do, and backing it up with sources.

I think this conversation would be better placed in !israel_palestine_pol@lemmy.world than in a news community. You surely realize yours is a minority view, so you’ll have to expect some kind of disagreement about it. Which is fine. Doing that same thing in a content-free way as YourPrivatHater did, so that the disagreement that ensues is guaranteed to be unproductive, is not fine.

Does that seem sensible? I can’t tell. To me it’s common sense and good behavior on the internet, but maybe I need to write it down as official site rules so I can be “objective” in the application of it. Let me know what you think.