Going into more detail would be helpful: Do you get an error? Do some settings restore or change? How old is your backup (i.e. from what version of Voyager)? Android or iPhone (before and after)? Are you selecting a file from your device, or trying to use from cloud storage (Google Drive, Nextcloud, etc)?

The duplicate content thing is kinda impossible to solve perfectly. Some people will tell you it’s a feature, and it can be interesting to see the different instances’ comment sections (especially after moderation), but yeah it can be annoying to have your feed dominated by a few stories.

The default web front-end will merge crossposts, but won’t if they’re multiple posts to the same URL. I think some of the apps do have that deduplication as a feature, but I couldn’t tell you which.

I remember the same problem from my Reddit days, but there wasn’t generally so many similar, overlapping communities.

From the Lemmy docs:

• Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
• Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published

My default is set to

• Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities

This is the newest sorting option, I think, and it helps me not miss posts from the smaller comms - particularly ones where people are asking a question and there’s been no engagement. Ideally I’d like to have Mastodon-style lists so I could have “quiet comms” or something and check them all every so often.

I will switch to new or top 6h/24h if I’ve been on recently and just want to see what’s fresh. Top all time or 1y if I’m looking at new-to-me comms so I can see what type of thing to expect from it.

There’s no algorithm here*, so use the different sorting options (for both posts and comments), as well as setting your favourite as default once you see what works for you.

* the different sort options are of course algorithms, but I mean there’s no automatic, manipulative system like YouTube’s “The Algorithm”, Facebook, TikTok, etc.

Voting doesn’t tune your algorithm, so I’d say only use downvoting for things that are low quality, trolling, in the wrong sub, duplicate posts, etc. Your votes aren’t private, by the way - although Lemmy itself doesn’t display voters’ names, that info is in every server’s database, and some other software in the Fediverse does show them.

There are quite a few apps available, I like Voyager on Android and I stick to the default website on my computer.

Also these can be good sources:

• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
• !new_communities@mander.xyz

I think scaled is better than hot otherwise you’ll never see anything from your small communities.

Sometimes I get downvotes that make no sense, so I just chose to believe it was an accident.

Not quite what you were asking for, but there is https://tomgroenwoldt.github.io/helix-shortcut-quiz/

It’s quite good for letting you know about things you didn’t know you could do, but sometimes it tells me I’m wrong because I’d do it a different way - e.g. I’d go to line 13 by :13 but it wants 13G.

Also, from within Helix you can do space ? to get the list of commands and any bindings they’re on.

edit: also, FYI Helix and similar are modal, not modular (although there is a plugin system on the way).

It uses a neutral net that he designed and trained, so it is AI. The public’s view of “AI” seems mostly the generation stuff like chatbots and image gen, but deep learning is perfect for science and medical fields.

I found his paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7fe6 (no paywall 😃)

From the intro:

VARnet leverages a one-dimensional wavelet decomposition in order to minimize the impact of spurious data on the analysis, and a novel modification to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to quickly detect periodicity and extract features of the time series. VARnet integrates these analyses into a type prediction for the source by leveraging machine learning, primarily CNN.

They start with some good old fashioned signal processing, before feeding the result into a neutral net. The NN was trained on synthetic data.

FC = Fully Connected layer, so they’re mixing FC with mostly convolutional layers in their NN. I haven’t read the whole paper, I’m happy to be corrected.

I wasn’t entirely serious, but…

If memory serves, you just add lemmyverse.link/ after the https:// bit, so it’d be
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282

It looks like lemsha.re works similarly:
https://lemsha.re/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282

It’s a bit weird that it insists on the link being via https but then includes that in the url…

You missed a great opportunity to use lemshare/lemmyverse here

I use the Android skin, and am happy with it, despite it being marked as beta. I think that having the native feel is important, even if it’s not quite as polished.

We’re all getting invited.

Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.

I have a load of credit on there still (got tricked by them deactivating my credit and topped up unnecessarily). I still use it for international calls at least once a month, I hope this news story is overblown.

I think it’s probably a mix of criticising a joke for its accuracy, and the fact that it’s in a single paragraph so it’s a huge wall of text.

Turbo Pascal was my first real programming language, and Delphi was pretty pleasant to use for GUI programs as I recall.

I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

I just saw the top two thirds, and had to scroll to see the punchline and the comm - what a pleasant surprise! For me, it’s the 3DO but that’s too niche for most.

the neater and more consistent your handwriting, the easier time the Nuwa pen will have captur[ing] it

That’s me out then