I’ve seen some dashboards around, is this what you’re looking for?

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
• https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame

Definitely this one, the products are sometimes placed right next to legitimate ones and worse:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025

Hidden camera reveals some pharmacists recommend homeopathic products to treat kids’ cold and flu

I sometimes come across influencers pushing chrio “treatments” on pets or newborns, saying it makes them “breathe better” or be “more energetic”

It’s infuriating

Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.

Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are

• Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)

• Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds

That’s a good point, even the platforms may change over time (either by name, or entire projects migrating).

People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.

Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet. I expect that to change over time though

I’d start with ublock origin for browser extensions, and then add more things based on what you’re looking to do :)

You’ve already mentioned a few, but another might be to explore alternatives to the bad services and start a process to migrate over. That can look like anything from reducing your dependence on a service to moving over entirely.

ex. unfollow people and things you don’t care about

Some more variants if a workout isn’t your thing

• take photos on your phone when you see something nice
• contribute to OpenStreetMap by doing quests on StreetComplete (you answer questions about things you walk past)
• Geocaching, if you live somewhere with things to find

Beehaw is still Lemmy (unless anything has changed recently), but the instance is run a particular way. There should be a link somewhere about their philosophy and what the differences are.

In terms of vibe / community, I would think that there are more differences between the individual instances than the software that they run. That’s something which is easier to get an idea of as you use it more.

When I was starting out, Kbin didn’t have as much third party support, so there wasn’t a good way to use it on mobile. That may have changed since then

Initially on Lemmy I was uncomfortable with upvotes being public, but now that seems like the only way to catch issues like this. Vote manipulation is spiraling out of control back on Reddit

BuyItForLife communities might work, and a lot of topic specific communities have discussions on if a product is worth the hype. Having a separate community for it might not work as well if it doesn’t have the momentum / crowd sourced knowledge

Consumer protection programs are also fun. CBC Marketplace has a BuzzKill segment that somewhat fits with this theme

This isn’t the right community for this?

Asklemmy is meant for open ended discussion questions, whereas this seems better for askScience or something similar

Unless it’s jello

As an idiot currently blundering around in it, I don’t think this is something we can gatekeep, nor can we try and do it. It’s just something that will happen

The great thing about the fediverse is that people have control over which instances they are around, and there will always be some more isolated ones if that’s what you prefer

Yep, make a note in the post body about the change, so that people have context for comments on the old article

This depends on how different the new article is

I think part of the issue is that you can undo the deletion of your own posts, which is a nice feature to have.

Maybe what we need is:

• hide: does what “delete” does now
• delete: with a warning that the action is irreversible

Add in a warning when posting or commenting that hiding/deleting may not federate

I usually recommend the cerave / cetaphil stuff, especially if your skin is harder to take care of.

Otherwise I refer to the CDA list to double check if it’s recommended. It covers the following

• Fragrance-free or unscented
• Gentle on skin to avoid skin irritation
• Do not contain common allergens
• Do not clog pores

https://dermatology.ca/recognized-products/skincare/

I agree with the post when it comes to clothing, I don’t like being a walking advertisement and I’d prefer the logos to be small and subtle, if at all

For a phone, it’s pretty low on my list of priorities when picking

Advertisers are probably paying more content farms to astroturf it though.

Yup, in fact we just banned ~13 accounts tonight from a subreddit I’m still involved with. That’s just the ones we identified, and it’s only a medium sized subreddit

A user noticed that the responses to a post sounded a little off and reported it. Turns out there was a network of bots using generative AI to mix real academic advice (ex. “Go talk to the advising office”) with occasional subtle advertisements (ex. “I recommend using grammarly and (advertised service)”.

Once we caught on, we looked through the history of those accounts and gathered as many as we could identify and banned them all.

I don’t think this is Reddit’s doing, and they’re usually good about banning spam bots site wide once a mod report is made. Still, they benefit from increased activity and they have an incentive to do less of that. It was also much harder to notice the problem because of the AI generation. If a user didn’t explicitly report it, I probably wouldn’t have noticed

This is better asked in a different community, asklemmy is meant for discussion questions

As for the question, see here

https://lemmy.world/post/1565886

Pretty much, and while it depends on location, that is the case where I am at as well.

The good thing is that we can still limit how much time we spend on it and what kind of information we give away