That is a long article that eventually links you to watch a video to learn how to do it. Here’s the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F2qjtwcMhA&t=161s&pp=2AGhAZACAQ%3D%3D

A rocket could lift 100-150 tonnes of trash. We have about 60 billion tonnes of trash.

It’s easy block keywords so you don’t get dancing or politics, or at least, you can reduce it. The algorithm is also very good at serving your interests so if someone tells me all they’re seeing is dancing videos then it tells me they’ve been lingering on those for some reason :)

I’ve also found it a great resource for novel and practical info about:

• Cooking
• ADHD & Autism
• Music production with Logic Pro
• Human rights news
• Creativity

I like it for language learning. The books gets tedious as hell but some people have excellent short videos to help remember things and hear them pronounced by native speakers.

My heartbeat is very uncomfortable when sleeping on my left. Apparently it’s a common problem. Sleeping on my right solves this for me.

I don’t tell anyone I use this site in case they come across that stuff first. I just say I use a site “similar to Reddit”. I’m surprised that they don’t ask me the name but most of my friends don’t spend so much time online.

It’s a pity about the name. Cultural appropriation of native Americans is an ongoing problem and this is just tone deaf.

https://www.wernative.org/articles/native-cultural-appropriation

“The Chinese spying” - As opposed to the American spying?

All land is not settled until treaties are honoured. See #LandBack

The pixelated look is fashionable at the moment. I wonder if that’s the reason.

By Grabthor’s hammer, I have to agree.

Oh dear. I’ve just seen your comment history. I don’t think we’ll be agreeing on much. Good luck.

You can only laugh from a place of privilege. Please educated yourself on the Indian Act and progress with existing treaties. Your comment is at odds with the reality in Canada.

The irony of a nation of colonial land thieves complaining about immigration …

Canadians should settle their debts with First Nations and honour their treaties, like good immigrants before judging others.

I agree with all that and I don’t blame you for leaving there if that’s the experience you had. I do think even the best moderation will have bias. It’s also a thankless job. I’ve done it before on Facebook and the amount of work it takes to resolve a conflict it a bit crazy for an unpaid gig. The medium of text isn’t well suited to it unless you’re retired or something and have lots of free time. And that’s also the people who in good faith genuinely feel they’ve been wronged for not being given carte blanche in the group.

Automoderation can be helpful in detecting patterns and alleviating work from the moderators so they can spend time with their families* etc. I would say to anyone who is frustrated by that to think of it from the moderators perspective: “if I’m still in the automod queue, they must be really under pressure”. That kind of empathy online would make the role of moderator a bit more appealing to someone like myself, at least.

I agree with you about federation. It seems to be a really good solution, although it’s in its infancy and discoverability and accessibility are still an issue.

• the reason I left those platforms and moderation was because it began taking away quality time with my family. Before I quit completely, I had to make fast moderation decisions because there were so many users relative to moderators. I’m sure I made plenty of bad decisions.

Maybe I don’t frequent enough to notice that happening.

At least he has made the code freely available for others to host their own instance with their own moderation rules/style.

That sounds like an exaggeration to me, but the place is healthier than most. Maybe he’s banning the right people.

The discourse on Tildes is nothing like Reddit thanks to the web design and moderation choices made there. Interactions there are blissfully mature and intentional compared to what goes on over on Reddit. Also, take a look at Tildes and count how many thumbnails you see. It’s just not interesting to anyone with a short attention span who wants to plaster memes around the place.

I get what you’re saying about some UI similarities, but people don’t visit sites to click on user interface components. They’re there for an experience and for that reason Tildes is not like Reddit at all.

It’s not a Reddit clone.

The post asks for old “style” forums. Not just forums that are actually old.

I enjoy http://tildes.net/ Old style, but with a modern design. You’ll see what I mean.

If you have a Gemini browser such as Lagrange, then gemini://bbs.geminispace.org is one of the better forums there.