JubilantJaguar

@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, good parallel, didn’t think of that. Perhaps there’s just a limit on how much you can decentralize without things breaking down for either social or technical reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interesting, thanks.

  Atproto scales quadratically, […] harms performance AP scales horizontally

  Clearly true. But this suggests to me that ATProto might still work well with, say, 5 or 15 "PDS"s. That is still enough IMO to guarantee a high level of pluralism.

  In a commercial market, let’s say for telephony or cars or web browsers, we readily accept that there are only a handful of players. Indeed, there’s generally an optimal number, high enough to guarantee competition but low enough that we can keep track of the brands and trust that they won’t go out of business tomorrow.

  And nothing is stopping at least one of those few brands from being a “good guy”, akin to Mozilla’s historic role in the web-browser market. It could be run by say, Wikimedia, for example. At least we would know that it would not disappear tomorrow, which is more than can be said for most Lemmy instances.

  I agree that there should be enough space for both ATProto and AP to thrive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is more open than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very useful, thanks.

  As I see it, Bluesky is fundamentally different from Xitter and it is a major step in the right direction. It is short-sighted to reject it because of some technical imperfections.

  The fundamental question IMO is whether there is enough mindshare (i.e. users and attention) to allow ATSocial (AKA partial federation) and ActivityPub (AKA total federation) to both be successful. I’m thinking there is. After all, the vast majority of people are still on ad-fuelled corporate social media, with all its internal contradictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bubble-dwelling can indeed be a kind of sickness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It this was subtle parody then hat’s off, nicely done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plato got virtually everything wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is philosophy, not history or even historiography.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two Approaches to Solving the “Quiet Fediverse” Problem: Conversation Backfilling Mechanisms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. But whether this is a technical problem or a human problem, it is a problem. Silly for people to be denying that IMO.

  If servers are going to come and go every 3 months at the whim of individuals, then - IMO - maybe there are are too many servers. Anecdotally, I picked my particular one for this very reason. Seems I anticipated well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely. This feels like a major communications fail. It’s a basic technique of fundraising and mobilization: put a big ticking clock on your campaign and people will step up in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so tired.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s the point. I don’t want to have to go there to have a good experience. I want to have it here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so tired.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we should rename this place too.

  This is the best of your ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so tired.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we do things as you seem to want, then there’s no point even having separate communities. Let’s just have one big bin and every day we can throw 10,000 conversation into it like junk.

  The rules are there for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so tired.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check the community description, it has a decent definition of “showerthought”. With examples for clarity.

  Also this community is actively asking for more mods.

  So that explains it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so tired.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This belongs in !casualconversation@lemmy.world or !shootingthebreeze or whatever, not here. Like 1 in 3 other posts, yes. Literally breaks rules #1 and #2.

  The “mods” in this community are asleep at the wheel. Might as well not have them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This post breaks literally rules #1, #2 and #3 of this community. Crazy.

  Mods please wake up and DO YOUR JOB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be ashamed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Breaks rule #2 completely. Not a showerthought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  THIS IS NOT A SHOWERTHOUGHT. This just an opinion. There already a ton of places to put your banal talking points like this. Why can’t you put them there??

  For examples of what a showerthought is, look on the right. Another one was posted 2 minutes after this very post:

  “With all due respect” could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is given

  That is a showerthought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct but boring (but correct) answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia sources their information better than most journalists do in their articles.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another not-a-showerthought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much longer until we're just the States of America?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In no way is this a “showerthought”. Seriously. This community is being devalued to worthlessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't need AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on, this is not a “showerthought”, this is just an opinion. Put it elsewhere.

  Moderators, please wake up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The key takeaway of science is that observation constitutes the primary reality.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides evidence (what you see in front of you), there’s also reason (what you can deduce from first principles).

  I’d say the key concept of science is that knowledge can be built upon. That answers don’t yet exist to every question. That you can say “We don’t know but we’re working on it”. This was absolutely revolutionary in human affairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manage things "To be Read"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a bookmarks list basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manage things "To be Read"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Prediction: you’ll never get actually read most of what ends up on this to-read list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If children are taught to read by AI there is no shot they don't teach them wrong and change language for ever.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps AI could be used to rewrite this post so that it makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ITT: lots of generic VPN advice by people who have no experience with the specific problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s certainly an oddly optimistic take in this neighborhood.

  Unless you mean space exploration, which I personally think is a delusional distraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that could be because it is an AMAZING post – it covered all the points and no one has anything left to say

  Finally, I know why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is not really a showerthought and flagrantly breaks rule #6. Put this elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the only answer you need to read. It’s a non-problem if you just do this, and there’s no reason not to do it.