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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • A string is just a collection of characters, in programmer speak. When you use quotation marks in your search to find exactly what you want. If your search was:

    dog “fast drive”

    Google used to show results that only had both the word “dog” and the joined phrase “fast drive” in the same result. Or tell you there were no results.

    Now it feels like Google uses that as a suggestion, giving you “dog” and any combination of “fast drive”, “fast driver”, “fast driving”, or whatever else Google thinks you want, instead of what you asked for. Or if they don’t find it, they serve you up whatever they want, with a small message about there being no matching results.






  • If someone posts a copyright violation on YouTube, YouTube can go free under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. (In the US.) YouTube just points a finger at the user and says “it’s their fault”, because the user owns (or claims to own) the content. YouTube is just hosting it.

    I don’t know of any reason to think it’s not the same for written works. User posts them, Reddit hosts them, user still owns them. Like YouTube, the user gives the host a lot of license for that content, so that they can technically copy and transmit it. But ultimately the user owns it. I assume by the time Reddit made the AI deal they probably put in wording to include “selling a copy of the data” to active they want in the TOS.

    Now, determining if the TOS holds up in court is of course trickier. And did they even make us click our permission away again after they added it, it just change something we already clicked? I don’t recall.


  • Step one is more posting. Keep it on people’s feeds. Do that enough and then you reach out to others who were looking for this and know it. Disenchanted Reddit users, like how some Twitter users went to Mastodon. (Mastodon.gamedev.place and PeopleMaking.Games being two off the top of my head.) And Discord servers.

    Try to get enough of a community to keep it visible and alive. That’s the goal at this point.

    Then you try to get the people who are looking for this and don’t know it. Now, this isn’t some giant Silicon Valley investment you expect to blow up. You build in the long-term, based on reputation and access. When people want something new, you have to be there. And when people get annoyed with the status quo, you have to be there.

    As for the day to day, if we get to the point of what we can call a community, I’d like a few themed posts a week. Indies, game-tangential series (YouTube channels or podcasts,) maybe Q&As. At that point it’s really about the attention we can garner as a community, both the numbers and the specific people.

    But let’s be reasonable. That’s several months down the line at best, given my assumption that many of the thousands of subscribers no longer use Lemmy at all. It’ll be an uphill battle. And worst case, if I did nothing, I’m no different than the current moderator. (Not a slam. Just saying.)