CombatWombatEsq

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted live streaming⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve contributed a bit to owncast, and I think this is the right answer. It’s what fedi tv uses: theindiebeat.fm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what concerns me about these is if LLMs learn to pass information through posts that look like boring social media posts, but had another, embedded meaning. Spies used newspapers to pass messages, posting innocuous-looking want ads and letters to the editor, and exotic minds are like to come up with exotic encodings we might not even recognize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on what you mean by “this,” it kinda is, but you only get a vote by doing the work, and posting is generating work, not doing work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Just start a new community if you don’t like the mods. It’s super easy, and if you’re attached to a particular name, usually you can get the same name on a different instance.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically)⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve gotta stand up for what you believe in. The medium is the message — your boss and coworkers will start to understand that you are serious once there start being consequences. That’s how it spreads. Little people, everyday people, saying “I won’t do this anymore, damn the consequences.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My personal belief is that American cities should have about 100x fewer cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You and I, I suspect, agree here. I prefer 2; you prefer 5. But what matters about weights and measures is communication with other humans and everyone has decided to use a 10 bases system and what matters is not your personal preference but interoperability. Mebibytes might be better than megabytes but you use megabytes in your documentation because that’s what everyone else uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. You hear a lot more UK commentators call it the 18 yard box than the 16 meter box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, a half cup is 8 tablespoons, quarter cup is 4 tablespoons, an eighth cup is 2 tablespoons. A half liter is 5 deciliters, a quarter liter is 2.5 deciliters, an eighth liter is 1.25 deciliters. In cooking I’m much more likely to use binary arrangements than decimal, and the fact that metric users would use milliliters instead of deciliters makes me think that ten isn’t really the magic number it’s cracked up to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How hard is it to get your American colleagues to use metric as well?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Old hands in the field, not students in the academy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Factors of 10 are overrated. Mebibtyes are objectively a better measure than megabytes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We joke, but the metric conversion act of 1975 means that most Americans are more familiar with metric than we care to admit. It’s on most everything. Mostly, it’s the professional class — engineers who don’t want to learn to visually estimate in liters/second rather than gallons/second — who have resisted switching over, rather than Joe and Jane American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4th of july, who will be happy to be independent of whom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Truth Social is just mastodon defederated from everyone else. You could stand up an instance of Lemmy, ban all the Americans and defederate from every instance that has Americans on it; no-one can stop you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTokers say anti-ICE videos won’t publish. The company blames tech issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I comment about bluesky I realize I don’t know anything about bluesky so… maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This thread needs a CTA (call to action), so here it is: joinloops.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTokers say anti-ICE videos won’t publish. The company blames tech issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that this comes right on the heels of the unexplained bug in Bluesky that causes the Minnesota hashtag to break on the day of the general strike. How’s that corporate-backed social media going, friendo? Is your speech free yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to tell your friends about pixelfed, friendica, and signal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it sucks but you’ve just gotta shitpost through it. No comments? Guess you gotta generate some content. We are the algorithm, and we are the bots, here on fedi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lgbtqia.space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some ways to fight for socialism from the comfort of your room?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most effective way is to choose a small sliver of socialism you’re most interested in — universal healthcare, public transit, state capacity — and to focus on that. Most of the “all the socialism, all at once” approaches are pretty well suppressed, and most people just switch off when they encounter the word. Find like-minded people who are focused on that, and see what they need — someone to mod their discord, someone to rewrite their website, someone to edit the newsletter. The focus is banding together with people who can do the outdoors part and doing the work that can be done from your room so they can have more time to do the stuff that can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They think of it as a zero-sum game. There is either a bike lane or two car lanes. The number of cyclists is fixed and the number of drivers is fixed. If there is one less lane to drive in, there is more traffic. If you spend limited tax dollars on bike infrastructure, driving infrastructure will not receive necessary maintenance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not — I think that were I to stand up a threadiverse instance today, it’d be a piefed instance. I think it’s already a better product and that it has a better governance structure that means it’s going to continue to improve faster than Lemmy.

  Which is not to get down on Lemmy! To the best of my knowledge, it was the first of its kind in the fediverse, and the Lemmy devs solved a lot of thorny problems. And the lemmy.world admins have been incredible hosts — I’ve modded a half dozen communities and still never had to take a mod action.

  No, I meant the larger project. I came to the fediverse back when ActivityStreams was published in 2017. I didn’t quite see the vision until ActivityPub was published in 2018, but you could see the promise of social media interoperability even in those first few steps. I don’t know if you remember, but there was a time when the World Wide Web was a very small part of an internet that was divided into tiny silos, but for me, I saw the release of activitypub the same way — the w3c has come in and put together a reasonable way for everyone to play in the same sandbox together.

  And I think ActivityPub has done it. I can boost my bookwyrm posts from mastodon to tell people about what I’m reading. I can cross-post to piefed from my pixelfed by @ mentioning a community. I hardly even notice when I interact across instances and services.

  For me, the thing that is exciting about Lemmy is that it is a small backwater on a weird, wide beautiful world of people who are all talking to each other in the way that makes them the most comfortable, in small groups and enclaves that have the frontend and moderation policies that best match their needs, but that they can still talk to everyone else. It’s more like email than reddit, and to me that’s what’s most exciting.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone. I’ve never caught any kind of Reddit discipline. There are a few of us around who indie web/fediverse enthusiasts who deeply believe in the project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will 24/7 trading have a similar kind of negative effect as the introduction of 24/7 news did?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It will certainly favor institutional investors over individual investors (who will still need to sleep sometimes), but I’m not sure what doesn’t at this point, so I’m not sure how much that will matter.

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