PeriodicallyPedantic

@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of people here aren’t looking at this in the right way:

  They don’t have to accept accounts for student or let students interact. This can be an alternative system for disseminating announcements with optional mechanisms for feedback. All they need to do is federate and then any of their students subscribe.

  I’ve been wishing that my my governments (at all levels) would do this so I can get notified of things like changes to bus schedules or closures of highways and shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Elitist neckbeards like you are why Mastodon and Lemmy are still boring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiny pp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a loud car, I can confirm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll be lucky to get a couple up votes.

  It’s like streaming with no viewers, only the activity you’ve doing isn’t something fun you’d be doing anyways, eg gaming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about no, that sounds super depressing

  Why would I do that? That doesn’t get anyone what they want

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it, but that’s not the model Lemmy was built around.

  It’d be neat if, instead of posting to a community you posted to your instance and tagged your post with a topic, and then instances could contain topic aggregators with moderators that moderated their local view of the topic.

  But even that comes with challenges around protection at-risk people like kids, where nobody is fully able to control the discourse around them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly

  Someone has already created my niche community, and there are 2 people in it, and it hasn’t grown since I joined, and that makes the conversations in it boring af

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are lots of reasons to want alternatives to social media mega-corps, and the people with those reasons have varied likes and hobbies.
  Even amongst the people who care about privacy, decentralization, etc, people still have varied interests. All you have to do is look at the popularity of Tiktok content about privacy, security, programming, etc.

  Dude is a basement dweller, and just assumed that was the norm for everyone who shared an interest with him.

  I have my own thoughts about hurdles that loops will face, but “fediverse is for snobs” isn’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lamest flex in history

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the constraints make it interesting
  I want the length limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What an absolute neckbeard take

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m interested, and I hope it’s successful.

  I’m not sure how they’re going to attract creators, when Tiktok already has the same features, has a larger audience, and pays… But I hope they can because I’d love to dump Tiktok for something open source.

  I wonder how their FYP will work, because honestly that’s a huge part of what makes Tiktok good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate that that happens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Incoming James While John

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a matter of perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a matter of perspective⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear, I got my dick caught in the number 8.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop it, you’ll make me cum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know what I got. No low balls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fractal sandwich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Four dogmen?
  Horsedogs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay, two issues here...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of shit what if it’s like Captain planet, and if they all stand up at the same time it’ll summon Jesus?
  They’re not allowed standing because they don’t want to trigger the rapture!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay, two issues here...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok I think I’ve got it.

  Jesus is like Voltron, the 3 dudes in the middle combine to form him.
  And the 2 on the ends are the spiritual equivalent of two men each, which is why all the parts of Jesus are hanging out with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope you don't have any plans this evening.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the rapture happened a decade ago and this is hell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted some of their side projects. Their web-things iot automation controller (and related standards) was pretty sweet. Until they spun it off into its own company without any staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never ask⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point.

  And from everything we see it really seems like the IDF really doesn’t gaf about collateral damage either, so they probably didn’t care that they’d give any of these away to other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never ask⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But like… A communication device seems like THE most suspicious equipment you can get. I’m shocked nobody verified, and I’m shocked that they had the audacity to even attempt.

  Wrt giving/selling the pagers, well, I’ll have to read more to find out if that happened. It wouldn’t surprise me but also I imagine it’d be hard to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never ask⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still trying to understand why Hezbollah people were like

  Thank you for this pager, stranger, I’ll use this without question for the next few months, and certainly not give it away or sell it or take it apart.

  And why anyone thought that it’d go that way.

  I’ll need to read more about it, maybe this is explained, but it seems like such a long shot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like this? 😱

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately this does not financially benefit the tv manufacturers, and may land them in trouble with the platforms they themselves advertise on (like Google).

  They’re more likely to use AI to serve you more ads as an extra revenue stream; capitalism has gotta capital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a wild interpretation of what they said.

  Dude described a branding problem, not a technical problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all disk? 🌎👨‍🚀
  Always has been 🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀