JubilantJaguar
@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 1 day ago:
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 1 day ago:
Same, same, and same.
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 1 day ago:
I like it. The reasoning’s good.
I hate the term “instance”. It’s hopelessly geeky (it derives from object-oriented programming). It brings to mind nerds and gamers in basements.
- Comment on What RSS feeds are you subscribed to? 4 days ago:
Isn’t this like saying “What phone numbers do you have in your address book?”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This is not a showerthought and it obviously breaks rule #3.
Moderation please.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Incomprehensible. Ungrammatical. Not even a showerthought.
Moderation please.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
#notashowerthought
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 week ago:
True, but it still gives the Malian government an ultimate authority over the domain, which just seems completely dumb to me. The also-semi-failed Libya has ultimate authority over
lydomains (like bit.ly) and has actually used its power to shut down domains for being against Libyan law. Domain hacks are not just ugly, they’re dumb. - Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 week ago:
Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali’s government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.
Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.
You know why I’m not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I’m not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it’s an adult. It has agency, it’s not a colony of anyone, it’s a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone’s views here are colonialist, it’s yours.
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 week ago:
Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 week ago:
This seems to be missing Mali, the home of
.ml. It’s in West Africa and since the French soldiers left it’s been an authoritarian client state of Russia. Very appropriate. - Comment on Why should someone join the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
It has no ads and never will.
- Comment on Why should someone join the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
This sounds more like a dreaded VC pitch! (But true in substance.)
- Comment on Why should someone join the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
Just don’t tell 'em all that or they’ll never come.
- Comment on Srinkflation is actually enshifitation when you think about it. 1 week ago:
Typing with your thumbs is a shifitty user experience. Come join the grown-ups, we have keyboards here.
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 week ago:
Yes I know, I literally do it myself with a Python script right now for 3 sites. I just wish someone would generously provide a hosted and maintained service that does this. IMO it could be a game changer. For some people a single source that lacks a feed is a deal breaker for RSS.
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 week ago:
If it, or some other service, could find a way to publish feeds of content for sites which don’t have RSS feeds, now that would be really useful.
- Comment on Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95% 2 weeks ago:
Well that puts the loss of my little VPS into perspective.
- Comment on Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95% 2 weeks ago:
And terrible, archaic, chaotic practices such as activating your 2FA without permission and then locking you out of your account for weeks pending multiple signed paper letters. Oh, and sometimes their datacenters burn down and take your server with them. I’m sad to have to throw them under the bus like this. I want OVH to succeed but personally my patience with them definitively ran out.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 2 weeks ago:
Great idea. Backed by some kind of Patreon for FOSS. Which might exist already, as I just learned here: Open Collective
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 2 weeks ago:
A corporation will only pay users to watch ads if it is a way to get them to buy junk that they didn’t need or possibly even want. Otherwise the model breaks. Advertising is a scourge, to rely on it in any way does not feel “values-driven” to me.
- Comment on GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls 2 weeks ago:
A VPS costs 5 bucks a month.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 2 weeks ago:
To me at least, this contribution makes you seem like an even worse asshole than them. Just some anecdotal feedback.
- Comment on What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube? 2 weeks ago:
How about doing *after a certain period has elapsed"? A week, or 30 days, say.
This would approximate the freemium model where early access is paid and archives are free.
It might make it easier to get creators on board.
- Comment on Up for it; down for it. Same thing 2 weeks ago:
This is one of the 10% of showerthoughts here that are actually showerthoughts and not… something else.
- Comment on What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms? 3 weeks ago:
This is helpful and I agree. You forgot Slack and IRC!
I propose this breakdown of the basic software paradigms:
- forum (Usenet, PHPBB, Reddit, YouTube, Discourse)
- blog (Wordpress, Substack)
- microblog (Twitter, Mastodon)
- chatroom (IRC, Slack, Mattermost, Clubhouse if you count audio)
God I hate it when people say “check my Substack”. It’s a blog dammit.
- Comment on When people look back on the dawn of the computer age a few centuries from now computers, the internet and AI will all be a part of the same innovation 3 weeks ago:
People? A few centuries from now?
- Comment on My Deep Thoughts 3 weeks ago:
Final proof that AI is labor-saving.
- Comment on We should have a WET timezone 3 weeks ago:
OK yes that is indeed odd. Apparently Morocco is aspirationally European.