So, none of you have stipends and it is a group project for class. See my original answer. They’re not going to have the same priorities as you and, if you’re going to work with a group, you need to accept that.

Throwing mountains of documentation at them isn’t going to work. Talk to them and find out what it is they are finding difficult. Break it down into more manageable chunks. Rough-code it and work out the details when they have a big picture to work from. Or whatever it is that makes sense given what you’re doing.

so I brought on some people to split the work.

Grad students are underpaid and overworked. Do they have any reason to care as much about the project as you do?

(and generally everyone I have worked with at school so far)

The context is a group project you have to do for school?

The reason I am checking is that these often turn into one person desperately trying to get the others to do something and ending up doing it all themselves. You’re not really talking about “people” so much as “students who half-arse it until a few hours before the deadline”.

What is it you’re trying to get them to do? Why do they need to read the stuff you’re sending them?

particularly documentation for tools and programs, data sheets, and application notes.

No one reads this stuff unless they absolutely have to. What is the purpose of asking them to read it?

You’re nitpicking the headline while agreeing with the article.

“What is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.”

gay != trans

Went to Mastodon when Musk took over at Twitter and so knew about Lemmy by the time Spez decided Musk had some great ideas about how to run a social media platform.

That’s a problem for people who use Meta. How is it a problem for people on Mastodon?

But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t federate in other ways.

How does it federate in ways that affect users?

Mastodon is unusable if you follow Lemmy communities, so no one does.

But that wasn’t my question. If a Lemmy instance I am on federates with Threads, how do I find people on Threads, follow them, and have their posts appear in my Lemmy feed? The people who are saying it can be done are not also explaining how it can be done. You seem to be saying, in a roundabout way, that it cannot be done?

There are, thankfully, plenty of instances which allow it.

I was responding to a poster who wants it to not be possible. Because a centralised authority making decisions for all users is good, or something.

There’s very little point telling me it is possible without telling me how. I have tried and failed with kBin and I don’t even know where to start with Lemmy.

I would like to follow Cory Doctorow’s Mastodon account on Lemmy. Could you explain how?

Thanks,

1. Because that is not a decision Lemmy can make; thousands of different instances running Lemmy can choose to do whatever its admins choose to do.

2. Because (AFAIK) Lemmy instances cannot federate with Threads anyway.

For anybody looking to avoid ads on Lemmy, it seems like direct federation with Threads is not a good idea currently.

Can Lemmy federate with Threads?

I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (but don’t because it just fills your feed with an avalanche of out-of-context posts).

I can’t follow anyone on Mastodon from Lemmy (and while I think it is, or should be, possible from kBin, that doesn’t seem to work well yet).

So how can a Lemmy instance federate with Threads and how would their micro-blog posts turn up on Lemmy?

I’m not remotely bothered by federation on Mastodon because there is no algorithm pushing crap on me there. I’ll get what I follow and nothing else.

The Fediverse is not large enough to replace Twitter/Reddit (for breadth and depth of content) and it is unlikely to become large enough any time soon.

Fortunately, Mastodon does not push an algorithmic feed on me so I can follow people I want to hear from on Threads without having to put up with the bullshit that comes from being on Threads.

I recognise that the lack of moderation on Threads means that instances which do federate may be faced with a lot of extra work and not all instances will be up for that, and that’s totally fair.

But it would be good if there was at least one instance which allowed access to people on Threads without having to make an account with Meta.

FWIW it’s not a coincidence that Threads didn’t make federation possible until after they’d found a legal way to launch in the EU. They knew that if they federated first, the Fediverse would get a lot of EU users who would otherwise have joined Threads. I don’t think the entire Fediverse should cut itself off from Threads when many of its users might also like access to the feed without the Meta bullshit piled on top.

It’s likely a browser issue. I’ve found a workaround, thanks.

Aye, it looks like my browser is doing something strange. Thanks.

Browser (Firefox).

I just tried opening the feed from a thread set at a good zoom level and it is better? I don’t understand how or why. But I may have found some kind of solution by accident.

It’s not a numbers thing, it’s a facts thing. That’s just how criminal justice works (or is supposed to).

That is not how criminal justice is supposed to work. Scottish law has attempted to make it work a little bit like that but it’s not a good solution.

There is no mirror image. A guilty verdict is (supposed to be) beyond reasonable doubt. A not guilty verdict is everything else. You’re ignoring the missing middle and deciding that it has been shown beyond reasonable doubt that 16 young men have all told the same lie about a powerful person for <reasons>.

You’re entitled to whatever opinion you want to have about Spacey. But if your opinion is based on the idea that a not guilty verdict means innocent beyond reasonable doubt, then your opinion is based on a total misunderstanding of the way the legal system works.

A jury being unable to be sure of guilt beyond reasonable doubt does not mean he is innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.

How many people do you need to come forward before you believe them? Is the number of men required more or less than the number of women required? Do teenagers count double or not at all? Or does the number depend entirely on the quality of their legal defence and the amount of physical evidence they left behind?

Get over-immersed too easily. So now I stick with boring, repetitive stuff with zero social element, with the aim of not finding it engaging enough to take me away from the rest of my life.