Well said.

We’ve been debating whether someone remembering a birthday is a reflection of how much they care or not.

This used to be a great feature for vintage computers. If the machine had internet, you could search with HTTP site instead of HTTPS.

The alternatives listed here might not require JS, but most if not all of them require SSL. Vintage computers struggle to support that. Anyway, Google is best avoided when possible so hopefully an alternative surfaces .

I’m crying (deservedly) in iOS

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

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

It depends how you define diversity. The overwhelming majority of content is for the white, Anglicised gaze. You could argue that there is diversity within that group but it is still narrow enough that the content posted is pretty repetitive.

By Grabthor’s hammer, I have to agree.

This is great 🙏

Thanks 🙏

Oh, this is wonderful. I’ve just subscribed. Thank you!

I like DW and used to follow the Inside Europe podcast, but they had a lot of British and Irish people presenting the shows which sort of dampened the feeling of escapism I had been enjoying.

Thank you!

I’m not interested in the languages themselves. Just looking for different mindsets and temperaments. By different perspectives I don’t mean different politics (although that would be a symptom) but maybe varied worldviews on life.

There’s a TED talk by Lera Boroditsky on how different cultures see the world very differently based on their language. I would ideally like to hear from the people she is talking about, especially indigenous people, but in English. https://www.ted.com/dubbing/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?audio=en&language=en

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.

Thanks for asking. The podcast would need to be in English, yes. I’m actually open to all topics except Anglo culture and politics. So, anything from Europe, Africa, Asia, Baltics etc.

Topics could be art, environment / nature, culture, sustainability, mythology, degrowth, decolonisation, cooperative businesses, music and entertainment, local news, books and literature, languages (explored through English), local community and climate.

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.

I’ve subscribed to both based on the background info you gave so thank you again. I do find those histories a bit bleak, having grown up in the (relatively distant) aftermath of it. But if those voices are represented then I think I’d be interested.

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

I’d like to listen if you don’t mind sharing some links or search terms.

That’s exactly the issue, yes. Also there’s the converging monoculture of English speakers, including my own country, Ireland. So even though English podcasts span a huge array of topics I still feel like I’m listening to the same mindset.