What’s been your experience with youtube recommendations?
I’ve never had a YouTube account, so YouTube doesn’t have any persistent data on me as an individual to do recommendations unless it can infer who I am from other data.
They seem to do a decent job of recommending the next video in a series done in a playlist by an author, which is really the only utility I get out of suggestions that YouTube gives me (outside of search results, which I suppose are themselves a form of recommendation). I’d think that YouTube could do better by just providing an easy way to get from the video to such a list, but…
There’s apparently a humanist logo used in Australia that has five stars (from the Australian flag), though they aren’t really above the person’s head:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Australian_Humanist_Societies
goes looking
It looks like the Paralympics don’t do an annual thing; they’ve changed a few times, but with the exception of the first (which was three wheelchair wheels), it’s been a combination of three swooshes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralympic_symbols
It doesn’t look like it’s the Commonwealth Games either:
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Commonwealth_Games
I tried doing a Google Images search for “athletic competition stars logo”, but didn’t turn anything likely up. The closest I was able to find was stock vector art:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/shield-stars-man-catching-ball-american-1195741933
https://colorlib.com/wp/all-olympic-logos-1924-2022/
I don’t think that it’s an official Olympics logo. The closest is Barcelona Summer Olympics 1992, and it’s not that similar.
2003-2016 logo for South Carolina Educational Television?
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/South_Carolina_Educational_Television#2003%E2%80%932016
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Most of the early discussion I recall on Reddit was around programming languages. Some startup stuff. Was probably partly the Reddit team themselves posting stuff they were interested in, and partly intake from Slashdot – I found Reddit from Slashdot – and Slashdot had a tech bent.
Here’s an early snapshot of Reddit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051202065421/http://reddit.com/
I also think that a factor is that people who can host their own instance are particularly interested, because you can’t do that at all on Reddit and the Threadiverse suddenly lets you do that. For them, it’s not just “Reddit is doing something that I don’t like”, but “the Threadiverse has the network structure that I wish Reddit did”. That’ll slew towards techies. Like, is pretty active, even on non-lemmy/kbin stuff.
I remember, as a kid, once going to a Buddhist sand-painting exhibition at an art museum. They made these huge, beautiful mandalas by carefully shaking colored sand into designs. When they were done, they dumped it out into the ocean. I remember – being pretty impressed with it – asking something like “but why would you destroy it”, and the Buddhist monk guy said something like “it reminds us not to be too attached to material things”.
Don’t know if I agreed with the guy, but I think that there is probably a very real perspective out there that ephemerality has intrinsic value.
I don’t know what his argument is, but Stross’s account seems to be @cstross.
It looks like people have created /r/place alternatives. If you like /r/place, could just use one of those and go draw something neat and popularize that. I don’t really see what drawing a bunch of images complaining about spez using the service that spez runs is going to accomplish. On the other hand, if people are doing neat things elsewhere, then other people might want to participate.
https://old.reddit.com/r/place/comments/64zlnw/an_easy_guide_for_r_place_alternatives/
That was six years ago, so could be newer stuff out.
Not really the focus of the article, but I think that /r/place was a neat idea, but hard to produce much with.
I feel like maybe there are forms of collaborative art that might go further, like letting people propose various changes to a chunk of pixels on an artwork and letting people vote on the changes.
Are you looking at your subs page? That’ll just have your subscribed magazines/communities.
Lemme add a bit more to my above comment.
Social media companies are especially doing this whiplash switch from aiming for growing the userbase to making money. And for them, there is another factor that makes it even more important to use money for growth when it is available – network effect. Basically, for certain services, the role of the service is to facilitate communication between their users. While it’s not quite true that all users are equally-likely to communicate with each other – an elderly user who only speaks Italian and a schoolboy in Kansas who only speaks English might not have a lot of desire to communicate – in general, users of the service get their value from the service by communicating with each other and each additional user is one more person with whom a user can communicate. This means that it’s much more-desirable to use a service with a large userbase than one with a small one, because you can communicate with others. The value of the service as a whole, if everyone were equally likely to communicate with everyone else, rises roughly as the square of the number of users. That’s because the value to each user is proportional to the number of users that they can talk to, and that is true for every user – multiply one by the other, and the value of the service as a whole is proportional to the square of the userbase size.
Social media work by connecting members of their userbase. So for them, they have a huge incentive to use money for growth whenever they can get a hold of it as far as they can.
The services that are especially likely to respond to capital being cheaply available are companies that have a business model that does this, even moreso than a typical dot-com. And sure enough – Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube derive their value from connecting members of their userbase, rely on network effect as well as economies of scale. And just as they dive really deeply into spending cheap money to grow when they could, when money ceases to be really cheaply available, so they will have further to swim out when it ceases to be.
Yeah, I ran into this on /r/europe when there were some EU legislation issues. The EFF does have some activity in the EU, but it does have a mostly-US focus, and there isn’t really a direct analog.
It depends on what your interest is.
EDRi (European Digital Rights) in Europe has come up on a couple of advocacy issues I’ve followed. If you’re in Europe, they might be worth a look. They don’t feel quite the same to me, but maybe that’s what you’re looking for.