I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
🍁⚕️ 💽
Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
Cool, looking forward to seeing what !ausmusic@quokk.au puts out for next year’s lemmyvision
We also have a sister community for !fns here: !indigenous@lemmy.ca
Winters’ lawyers alleged the platform “repeatedly and insistently misdiagnosed” him while drawing on previous discussions about religion to assure him he would recover.
I forgot that it “learns” now, I haven’t tried it in a long while 🤦
I haven’t tried any myself yet, but I’ve heard that watches have a hard time reading the data compared to bands that go around your arm or chest, or even the rings. I don’t think I’d enjoy wearing a ring while sleeping though
I think people are tired of these headlines because we’ve seen the same thing for many companies, without lasting consequences. It’s even worse for elon musk related stocks, because of how much manipulation those ones go through.
I don’t have a source, so take it with a grain of salt, but I vaguely remember a discussion that one of his companies couldn’t remove him because the stock was artificially inflated by his presence. It might have been tesla
I have heard that a dedicated sleep tracking device will work better than the watches, but I don’t have any direct experience there.
Maybe you can find one that can export the data over a USB cable
Welcome!
Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca if you have any questions
We’ve also put together a guide, and new users might find these pages helpful:
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people
I think we just notice it more because we have less content, so you’re more likely to hear about each bit of drama that comes up and you’re more likely to know one of the parties involved. There was lots of drama on reddit too, but I didn’t subscribe to the communities that talked about it and I often didn’t know enough about each incident to judge anyone
It’s still annoying though 🫤
It seems like these articles came out after the huggingface ones
Sounds like they got caught trying to steal from huggingface, and are now trying to market off of it
I think this article and headline does a poor job of explaining the wider context around this one.
It is likely to be aimed at financial traders who want to see market-moving news fast. Trump’s social media posts often cause sudden swings in global markets, especially when he writes about trade and tariffs.
For firms, a delay of even seconds can be costly. Until now, banks and traders had to monitor the app manually. The new system will send posts directly to paying clients.
I’ve actually been playing with the idea for a generic “how could this have been better” community for a while now. It would fill the niche of communities like AITA, but the point would be to see if someone could have done something better in a particular situation rather than figuring out who’s fault something was. Not limited to past events, or personal situations, but it would have rules around keeping the discussion productive.
It’s hard because I feel that a lot of people who would post in such a community, would also feel emotionally attached to a particular outcome. I’d prefer if the community could build up a wholesome culture rather than a place to vent or get into fights
See crosspost(s) for more discussion:
This is the first big step in the process to develop comprehensive guidelines for the Fedecan non-profit and the various platforms.
While this will mostly involve converting tacit knowledge and experience into an explicit written form, we expect that this process will inevitably bring up some points of disagreement on the best way to deal with different issues. We ask everyone participating in these discussions to please contribute constructively and in good faith. We encourage you to bring up any concerns or issues you have with the proposed structure and drafted guidelines, so that we can work together to fix them early on. However, in order to keep a productive environment for those discussions, we will be pruning any comment chains that devolve into personal attacks, slap fights, etc.
To help ground your feedback, consider these thought experiments when evaluating a potential guideline:
The full guidelines, including governance details like the annual review cycle, can be found on the website: https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/
We plan to structure the guidelines as follows:
These rules apply to Fedecan team members (directors, officers, admins, and anyone with elevated access). They set expectations for how team members should act.
These are the baseline rules that apply to every user on every Fedecan platform. They cover the things that are prohibited by Canadian law (threats, hate speech, CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery) as well as universal policy rules (privacy/doxxing, harassment, fraud, content that could cause harm, labelling of sensitive content, etc.).
Each platform has different functionality and norms, so this is where we can be more specific with the rules. The threadiverse platforms (lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, sh.itjust.works) share similar rules around community creation, moderation, vote manipulation, and content labelling. Pixelfed has its own rules tailored to its platform.
These are optional templates that communities can link to, or use as a starting point for their own rules. The idea is that moderators can point users to a clearly written explanation of why a rule exists, and any relevant exceptions, rather than trying to fit everything into the sidebar. Additionally, if many communities are enforcing a particular rule in the same way, then users will have an easier time understanding and following them.
The post title standards template has been drafted, and we plan to add more as the need arises. I have a few others that are in the works, but they have some overlap with the other sections, so I thought that it would be better to let people discuss first.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/66632160
Generalized ‘Threadiverse’ sections
Previously, we had separate guide sections for Lemmy and Piefed, with very few Piefed specific pages. Instead of writing a new set of pages for Piefed, we have generalized most of the Lemmy pages into pages that can be applied to any threadiverse platform. When the page can use additional Piefed specific information or screenshots, we added a “🛠️ Help Needed” card near the top.
This includes the following pages:
- threadiverse/overview
- threadiverse/detailed-overview
- threadiverse/alternative-uis
- threadiverse/apps
- threadiverse/finding-communities
- threadiverse/formatting-posts
- threadiverse/how-to-block
- threadiverse/how-to-deal-with-inappropriate-content
- threadiverse/how-to-open-in-my-instance
Since ‘privacy’ information will be specific to each platform, and there is more of a risk if a user is confused about that information, we are keeping those pages separate. The existing Lemmy page is still up, and there is a work-in-progress page for Piefed that a contributor is working on.
- https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/privacy-lemmy
- https://github.com/fedecan-ca/fedecan.ca/pull/63
At this time, the moderation, admin, and dev sections are still separate.
- We will likely generalize the moderation section next, once the example rule templates are ready
- The admin sections will likely stay separate
- The future of the dev section is uncertain, and it might be generalized to the fediverse level
Updated ‘Alternative UIs’ page
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis
The entries now follow a consistent format, and are sorted alphabetically after the default UIs. We have also added a summary table that compares all of the alternative UIs.
RSS feeds for announcements
These announcements are intended for users that have accounts on our platforms, or are interested in news about our organization.
You can use it by adding the following link to your RSS feed reader / aggregator: https://fedecan.ca/feed-en.xml
Other changes
Other changes include:
- Updated the wording on the “Our Platforms” section so that it is clearer for new users: https://fedecan.ca/en/#our-platforms
- We published a few older announcements to the website. They existed only as Lemmy/Piefed posts in the past: https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements
- Updated the donation page with a nicer comparison table and option cards. We did not make any changes to the donation options, that will come at a later time: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate
- We made fixes to the footer responsiveness and style
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14579547
https://canvas.fediverse.events/
July 18th (4am UTC) to July 20th (also 4am UTC)
Canvas 2026 is in roughly 30 days!
Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time
Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year’s Canvas was!
If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you’re a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀
Mlem is adding support for Fediverse Events within their app ✨
After taking a lot longer than I was expecting to, I’m pleased to announce the results of the census we ran earlier this year!
This year, the results are on our website instead of being copied into a post here. I’m hoping that this is better since the website charts are interactive, with additional details if you click/tap on something. They also support dark and light mode. The full results contain discussion on how we processed the results, any assumptions we made, and all of our recommendations for how to improve this process for next time.
fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults
If you have any issues with the site, let us know and we will take a look.
I can also add screenshots in the comments so that people reading the comments don’t have to search through the article for context.
Section 1.5: Internet Speed
Section 1.8: Most common pets
Yes, the 200 cherry shrimp were all from one response.
Section 2.01: Age Distribution
Section 2.08: Education
Section 2.10: Desktop Operating System
The question on specific distro / version had a pretty low sample size, but you can find that too on the article.
Section 3.1.08: Most popular desktop UIs
Section 3.1.10: Most Popular Mobile Apps
Section 3.1.13: How often people use centralized forums/threaded platforms
Section 3.2.05: What people post on Pixelfed
Section 3.2.06: What people follow on Pixelfed
Section 3.3.04: Donations (of time or money)
Section 4.4: Favourite genre of music
It seems that a lot of new people have learned about these platforms from a popular post on Reddit. We currently see 78 notifications (and counting) and a pile of applications on piefed.ca too many registration applications for me to keep this up to date.
I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!
Please let us know how we can help! For example, here are some tips on finding communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities The guide says Lemmy, but the steps are the same on Piefed
Since a lot of people arrived here from r/BuyCanadian, maybe you will be interested in !buycanadian@lemmy.ca
🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed
edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳
After reviewing the previous meta post, and discussing with the community moderator, we feel that closing this community is the best option at this time. This community does not have the moderation capacity to handle the content that gets posted, and the rules/culture need to be reworked to prevent the issues that are common here. We got some great suggestions in the linked thread if someone would like to work on this in the future.
Please feel free to offer additional feedback in this thread, and to suggest alternate communities to fill this niche. I can edit this post to add suggestions:
Fediverse news and discussions:
Community Building discussions:
Apps, Development, Technical Discussion:
Memes:
Discussing mod & admin actions:
We receive a lot of reports from this community, and we get the impression that the current rules and moderation capabilities aren’t sufficient for a community like this. While things are quieter right now, during periods of activity this community tends to cause unnecessary strain on the lemmy.ca admin team.
Having additional moderators could help with this, as well as having a more comprehensive set of rules. That way, the community’s mod team can go through the queue more quickly and also take action on users that abuse the reports.
For the sake of a productive discussion, please limit comments in this thread to discussions on how to improve this community, without directly pointing to specific users or situations. Ideally, this will also help to develop better rules (think ‘veil of ignorance’).
I think it comes down to
ETFs are generally better, especially if you don’t touch them for a long time.