Yeah, I see like 1-2 at a time on the communities I visit, and not always. They seem to like trolling on the popular communities, and I generally avoid popular communities, so I guess we have diametrically opposed interests.
Making stupid comments isn't a problem, posting stuff that is against the instance's rules is. So if they're harassing people or posting disallowed content or something consistently (more than a handful of individuals), and the admin either refuses or ignores requests to take action, then they should be defederated.
If you have an articulable set of problematic posts that demonstrates that it's not just one a handful of users, post those and we can discuss defederation. If it's urgent (e.g. the instance is under active attack), bring it to the admin's attention immediately.
Why? They do that pretty much with every major release, especially for demanding titles. People tend to build PCs specifically for a specific game, so the major GPU vendors want to fill that high end need.
It looks like Fallout 4, but hopefully with more depth to the side content. I haven't played, but I watched someone playing last night and the player got distracted with side content, so it seems like a classic Bethesda game.
Yup. lemmy seems to work okay, but it would miss something like !programming.dev since it doesn't have lemmy in the name.
If you know where the community is hosted, you can probably do site:instance and get decent results.
What we really need is a better integrated search inside lemmy. That way I won't feel the need to use a search engine as often. If that works, perhaps someone could make a single site that tracks all popular communities (just post comment, not comments) for better SEO, and then links to the actual posts. Kind of like those StackOverflow copy sites that I keep running into.
municipal bonds are generally not taxable at the federal or state level
CDs are taxable at the federal and state level
So that's why I park my savings in t-bills, I pay state income tax, and t-bills have a higher after tax return than CDs, and are more reliable than municipal bonds. The money that needs to be a little more liquid is in a money market fund.
How much cash
I don't hoard cash, so it's only my efund and my slush fund (i.e. the money that I've charged on my credit card or expect to pay in bills this month).
My money market fund yields 4.97% last I checked, and I think t-bills are >5% right now.
My total portfolio is almost entirely stocks, outside that efund, with any 75% US stocks and 25% internal stocks. My target is 70% US, 30% international, but I haven't bothered rebalancing yet this year so it's a bit lopsided.
The most recent comment that claims it works is from 3 days ago, and it seems you need a startup command. So it seems to have been completely broken as of a week or two ago, but potentially there's a workaround on the latest Proton experimental.
So your experience from a couple months ago may no longer apply.
I don't think there should be a rule either way, but instead a community guideline to avoid pronouns in general if they're not known, or to use they/them if absolutely necessary.
The only rule related to this, imo, should be civility. If you're intentionally misusing pronouns, that should be against the rules, not because of pronouns, but because you're intentionally being a jerk. The same goes for slurs, personal attacks, etc.
It turns out that I've seen a lot of stupid comments from users from hexbear, but that's potentially because those users are really easy to spot due to the unique username format. Regardless, I think it's a stupid instance rule, and I reflexively skip past those posts because I haven't seen any good posts (subjective obviously) from a user from that instance.
I agree. But at least they out themselves by including their pronouns in their username, so I can easily just skip over their posts. Pronouns should never be necessary on the Internet, especially on an "anonymous" platform like lemmy. Just use they/them or structure your comment in a gender neutral way and you're golden.
So I don't think so need to defederate, we can just ignore them as is. If they cause actual problems, sure, defederate.
On the Internet, pronouns should be irrelevant, just use they/them or "the OP" if needed. The only time pronouns are needed imo is for actual, personal discussions. If you need to refer to a poster that's not the thread poster, you're probably using lemmy incorrectly.
If someone posts them and I bother to look, I'll probably try to use the correct ones. Otherwise I'll just avoid pronouns and use they/them if I really need to.
So requiring it just makes it easier for me to tell someone is from hexbear and is more likely to post stupid emoji than actually post something interesting (that's been the case so far), so I don't think much of value would be lost if we defederated. I'm against defederation though, especially since it's so easy to detect.
I'm 100% in support of the lgbtq+ community, I just don't think we need pronouns on the Internet. Just make a community rule to avoid pronouns instead, especially since there's already a stupid culture of assuming everyone is male on the Internet. Moderate that and people will adapt to gender neutral language on the Internet.
A lot of it is self-selecting IMO. We're big enough to have a good sized community, but we aren't so big as to become a big target. That will change as Lemmy gets bigger, but it least for now, it's small enough that the trolls probably don't get enough attention to bother sticking around.
Yeah, I see like 1-2 at a time on the communities I visit, and not always. They seem to like trolling on the popular communities, and I generally avoid popular communities, so I guess we have diametrically opposed interests.