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  • That’s fair!

    can’t see a reason you need that info

    We don’t need it :)

    Since the community on the fediverse is smaller than other social media platforms, the main goal of the census has been to create some graphs that people can look at. Since Lemmy (and Fediverse platforms in general) avoids collecting any data that isn’t necessary for basic functionality, the census allows people to voluntarily share what they want to.

    For example, when we first ran the census, we saw that the average user here is indeed older than on other platforms. Or how we have more users from British Columbia than we would expect based on population.

    Then over time we adjusted the questions, and generally added more questions based on feedback that people were curious about more areas.

    You can see some of those posts here:

    https://lemmy.ca/search?q=census&type=Posts&listingType=All&communityId=2&page=1&sort=New&titleOnly=true

    I can also understand that people are generally cautious about giving out information these days, and we’re always open to adjusting things based on feedback. Maybe we can add a question near the beginning to let people choose which sections to display?



  • Relevant bit

    The DMCA filing states that several files in the Rockchip MPP repository are derived from FFmpeg’s libavcodec sources. It lists AV1, H.265, and VP9 decoder files, and claims the copied code is clear because of matching structure, comments, and commented-out calls to FFmpeg functions with their original names.

    Much of FFmpeg, including libavcodec, uses the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. This license allows reuse, but only if certain rules are followed. These rules include keeping copyright notices, giving proper credit, and ensuring any shared code remains under an LGPL-compatible license.

    The DMCA notice says Rockchip broke these rules by removing the original copyright and author details, claiming the copied code as their own, and sharing it under the Apache license, which does not meet LGPL requirements here.



  • You can choose all answers on multiple choice questions, including choices that are mutually exclusive.

    I’ll have to add that to my review checklist for next time. At least one of those was an error (ex. It doesn’t make sense to be in multiple levels of school currently). For others, it would be clearer to have a single selection with an option for “both about equally” (ex. Desktop vs. mobile usage).

    a lack of definitions of terms. Is a town with 150 people “urban” because you have a street address and most people don’t work in another town/city, is it “suburban” because you need to go to a different town to buy groceries, or is it “rural” because that’s how most people who live there self-identify?

    Many of those questions are intended to be self-identification, but we could have said that explicitly so that people aren’t uncertain. The reasons we didn’t have set definitions:

    • People disagree on which definition/method is most appropriate, and we haven’t had the capacity to properly weigh the options / determine what value each definition might provide over the others.
    • It seems that people are more curious about the self-identified groupings than the exact details. Both factor in to what the online experience is like, but the self-identification would play a larger role?
    • Privacy. We want people to feel comfortable answering questions, without worrying that someone will figure out their real identity by aggregating the answers. It’s much harder to do that if it’s uncertain on why the user answered the way that they did.

    Still, we are open to adding definitions to questions where it would make more sense to do so. For example, we added the fast.com and census/gov Canada links this time. Otherwise we can explicitly say that users should answer based on self-identification.

    I appreciate the feedback! I’ve noted this down for next time