From stocks to stocks I see.

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Lemmy is not the Fediverse, and I happen to think it's pretty easy to figure out. But I've come from USENET > Forums > Reddit to get here. Someone who hasn't had that background sees a bunch of random links that are probably not of interest to them. Reddit has it's default "Popular" feed, and before that had a bunch of curated default subscriptions to get people started. Lemmy doesn't. There's Subscribed, Local and All.

"All" is a mess. It's super US-centric and all about their politics.
"Local" is of course dependant on the Instance. I live on ours, so I happen to like it. But, I can see how someone (particularly a non-Australian) wouldn't find it to their taste. Most instances will have little (or maybe one busy Community) in Local.
And finally you have "Subscribed". Which is empty by default. How is a new person who has never been on Reddit supposed to know what to do with that link? It literally has nothing.

Now, take that new person to something like Mastodon. Your default feed there is just the equivalent of All. And odds are someone's first taste of Mastodon is going to be all about US politics and people yelling about something. Again, not a great first impression.

"The Algorithm" as we loosely define it is supposed to fix this. It is supposed to bring you content you like, learn what you like and bring you more content that you like.

OK but how did he take a picture of his phone falling?

Or, you could just use a simple talk & text phone.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard that about Lemmy. It has basically the same algorithm as Reddit. It might work for Mastodon and Friendica, relative to Xitter and Facebook, though.

True that.

I think when most people talk about "the algorithm", they are talking about an algorithm that targets each user individually such that even if two people are on the same part of the site at the same time with the same preferences set, they will see different (personalised) content.

That kind of personalised algorithm is certainly what I want to avoid. I don't really mind how the visible content is chosen, but I do want to have some sense of shared experience so that we aren't just talking past each other. I want to know that if I tell someone to go to a website then they'll see what I see.

Random is an algorithm

Local legend that cunt.

His Opt out was filmed and then posted on social media?

Which also makes no sense, sorting by new is an algorithm.

It's funny to me that everyone agrees the algorithm is bad; yet one of the common criticisms of Lemmy/Fediverse is its lack of an algorithm - making it less user-friendly to new users.

The fun part is the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes would let the car companies sue the country if they attempted to pass a law requiring something that might decrease sales, like that sticker.

Only brokies have to worry about fuel economy /s

Dumbasses would boast about how low their rating was, to match their fuel economy and penis size.

The gunts on those seppo trucks.

Those cars are a sin

TBH they changed the recipe a few years back and now taste far worse. But my brain has already been corrupted by the fandom, so I continue to use timtams as a way of visualising how much money I'm spending. $170 flight? That's 510 timtams! Almost 2 a day for an entire year.

Look in all seriousness, you have to consider the medium to long term effects of climate change on the chocolate industry and how thats going to affect the marketability of TimTams in the future. I would say the chocolate content of Timtams puts these biscuits into the medium risk category.

There are a couple strategies I'd suggest First Crumb Super consider implementing,

• The Family Favourites Index

A diversified index tracking the current selection of family favourites. As a biscuit drops out of the family favourites, that money is reallocated to the remaining family favourites biscuits.

• Monte Carlo Simulations

This is a high risk random sampling strategy, that may indicate such risky investment allocations into Wagon Wheels or Meiji Hello Pandas, or to such safe options as Monte Carlos themselves. This method may seem counter-intuitive but the method's randomness can simulate the randomness of our world quite well, and may pay off with significant returns.

And finally,

• The Braveheart Method

Probably the most high risk strategy, but has monopolisation potential. This strategy calls upon the historic role Scotland has played in both biscuits and economics. Over leverage on, and attempt a hostile, and very snackable, takeover of the shortbread market. I'm talking Walkers, I'm talking Arnotts Scotch fingers, even Black and Gold Scotchies. If theres Tartan on that package, its a Buy! Buy! Buy!

Similar. I've only had them a few times when I bought them as a gift for my partner. We don't buy timtams or milk chocolate that often. I don't know if I'd better able to tell them apart with a blind taste test. The texture may be slightly different. I'm also confused about the whole timtam fandom, seems to be one of the greatest marketing achievements in my lifetime.

Hmm. I think you're trying to lead me into niche investments!

What are they like? Texture & flavour similar, or completely different?

Gluten free timtams is better bang for your bucks.

Would likely end up with broken safetynet then, so not really worth the hassle. Ironically, staying on an out of date stock ROM is more preferable for my bank than staying up to date and safe...

(Its been a while since I did the 3rd party ROM thing, so I might be making some wrong assumptions. If its gotten better maybe I'll consider it)

There might be some third-party version of Android you could put onto it that'd keep you more up to date? I'm not really sure, as I've never had a phone last that long with a usable battery, so I've never tried.

Samsung s10+. Very out of date, but 100% functional, so I am very hesitant to just create ewaste for the sake of it.