lambalicious
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- Comment on Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative 1 week ago:
Not to mention everything community about cats!
- Comment on Introducing ink.key, a fediverse music collective/net label. 1 week ago:
if you want voice well, then idk what to say
Mumble!
- Comment on UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government 1 month ago:
It would make sense to require a company to release the code for players to host their own servers, which has been done by many games in the past. Not to continue to run it themselves.
That counts as “working state”, assuming the published code is reasonable to operate (it must be FOSS, or at least permit open modification and distribution; and it must run in a server with specs that’s reasonable to have at the time of game publication)
- Comment on Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative 1 month ago:
Because to import old content, you have to respect the old license (or get every contributor of back-then to relicense). That would mean having a site with contents under differing licenses depending on date, which is something the corpos can use as an excuse to continue siphoning everything without consequence.
I’m fine with a mirror / archive of SO. But it shoudl very definitively be a different thing than an active SO alternative, and their users and data storages should be also different.
- Comment on Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative 1 month ago:
They already have it.
I said alternative to SO. As in, likely, a place to post new content (answers, comments). Nothing can really be done with the content OAI already got their hands on other than firing off a few well-placed EMP bombs.
- Comment on Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative 1 month ago:
Like, who wants that?
Have you literally missed out on the fact that the protest is happening? The protest is certainly not because SO answers are bad.
- Comment on Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative 1 month ago:
See here’s the thing: Creative Commons is not an exclusionary license. If I want to make commercial use of something that has a CC-NC license, I explicitly can ask the author for a secondary license limited to the usage and scope that I need. The important thing here is that the author still retains control, as well as a data point of who is profiting from their stuff and how.
- Comment on Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative 1 month ago:
People who are looking to start a SE alternative but start with the idea of importing the original SE data dumps are already Doing It Wrong. Much of the issue that has led to the desire to fork SE comes due to the license of the posts and content, which lacks the NC (NonCommercial) component of Creative Commons. Without that component, any attempt to make a Fediverse alternative just ends up in Yet Another Endpoint that can be freely siphoned for data by corporations, for AIs, etc.
- Comment on Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) 1 month ago:
Hmmm maybe that’s the one that tries to do everything on its own instead of using the stuff I’ve already set up. Had similar issues with eg.: Nextcloud.
I’ve been looking for an alternative “the actual XMPP service only, nothing else that can be sourced by the host” container setup but there doesn’t seem to be any.
- Comment on Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) 1 month ago:
You can, but honestly no idea how to handle stuff like the certs from that point on. Most other software on docker lets me eg.: just bind-mount the host’s directory with the certs I want to use - or just not even know about SSL in the first place and just let me reverse-proxy the access in (like, say, a simple static page web server).
But, like I said, the last times I tried to get into it, it tried its darnest to get in my way. If that’s changed since then, that’d be great.
- Comment on Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) 2 months ago:
While I like it conceptually, the two times I tried to install it I felt it was far too opinionated for me to get it to work correctly, like other software “bundles” of its kind that want to take control of the entire process of setting up ports, networking, storage, certificates etc…, instead of just hanging down from stuff that I have already prepared for it (like my own domain with my own cert).
Like, as a piece of software it’s something I’d absolutely use… if someone else sets everything up for me.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 3 months ago:
So, you want people to miss out on cat pictures because your feelings were hurt?
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 3 months ago:
Could be, but still it reeks of overreaction. Without the need of seeing anything else, it’s almost impossible that Germany’s law is that strict that “linking to (discussion of) pirated material” would be off, since if that was the case Google would be making Germany rich with their fines, which doesn’t seem to be the case. It’s even worse when it comes down to saying “discussing or mentioning” internet piracy would be illegal - under the way copyright holders themselves understand it, this would mean mentioning the market of secondhand sales would be illegal in such jurisdictions.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 3 months ago:
When you receive a takedown / DMCA / whatever legal mumbo-jumbo applies to your jurisdiction, you have two choices:
Comply immediately Fight it in court
You actually have a third option: file a DMCA Counternotice. If my reading is correct, the very act of filing the counternotice allows you to keep the content up unless the original filer “insists” (it’s the mechanism against “DMCA trolling”). DMCAis not a jail-free card to erase content from the internet.
- Comment on Surfacing Content from Smaller Communities on Lemmy 3 months ago:
Any metric that ultimately depends on frequency and variety of posts is going to bury niche communities more or less by design.
Dunno what we need, honesdly, but I would venture that one thing that could help would be like, for exxample, StackOverflow’s “Unanswered” view, where you can check which topics have not garnered conversation attention. It would probably have to be tuned so that it specifically ignores 0-comment posts that are also links, because those tend to be reposts, news or stuff like that that’s easy to spam.
- Comment on Paying people to work on open source is good actually 4 months ago:
Putting a cost on software is adding a restriction, thus making it less free (as in freedom).
Don’t confuse “free from cost” with “free from restrictions”.
Writing software costs costs - be them time, money, evne mental health as we have often seen because of too many entitled people in these communities. Putting a price on the software means valuing it for what it is, and does not incur in any additional restriction on the usage of the software.
All that said, I think the cost of free software, at least when it comes to infrastructure software, is something that shouldn’t be necessary for the end user to pay. Similar to how we pay taxes, instead of paying for the installation of semaphores on our streets directly.
If I were to design any such global system, it would be eg.: distro maintainers who would pay a maintenance cost to the developers of the dependencies they ship. Probably in the form of a funding pool that is distributed across projects prioritizing those that 1.- have ethics and development practices more similar to the distro’s and 2.- are in need of more immediate attention for solving security or usability bugs.
Furthermore, national-level funds for this would be collected via a taxation system managed by an academic office or other such entity and taken in a measure scaled according to the nation’s average technological “estate” (after all, developing and maintaining a more complex system requires more cares and attentions).
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 4 months ago:
If we’re allowed to - and happily do - copy over content from for-profit websites with bots, it feels a bit weird to then get angry about that happening in reverse, no?
Not at all. It’s a matter of asynchronous power play.
We can do the former as a fight against power, but we have to fight for it. When they do it to us, it’s “just business” and we have no defense.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 4 months ago:
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 4 months ago:
The problem is that no browser can allow you to escape the horror that is web standards & practices that have been developed over decades […] practically the entire web is reliant on JavaScript, […]
I’ve been saying it for a while: continuing to play catch is a losing move for Mozilla or for any independent browser maker.
The real move, is to switch to or at least integrate an alternate internet, something that uses a protocol that is simpler and more limited by design - just get rid of Javascript (or of “remote execution”, really) and you instantly get a much leaner, much securer internet design.
I’ve heard pretty good things about the Gemini protocol, but IMHO they went too far too extremist into the “text internet” philosophy, and as a result is a raw downgrade from Gopher. Gopher could actually be a good option.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 4 months ago:
Perhaps we should take the clue and - if we also see clues of Mozilla enshittifying - switch globally to an easier internet that’s also easier to program for. Something like Gemini (the post-Gopher thingy, not Google’s latest fad) for example, where I take it maintaining a browser is nowhere near the same order of magnitude as complex.
- Comment on What is going on with Kbin 5 months ago:
I would not want the future of my instance to be dependent of such a level of uncertainty, now or in the future.
You can always go to a big provider like Facebook. They’ll surely won’t have issues with your documented whining on Kbin.
- Comment on Does anyone know of a Spanish speaking instance besides feddit.cl? Eslemmy.es has been down for some time now 5 months ago:
Lemmy-wise admittedly none comes to mind at the moment. In fact this is the first time I hear of meneame, which is good to know so thanks!
Mastodon-wise there’s Chilemasto, Masto.es and Lile, admittedly haven’t paid attention to instance names to find others.
- Comment on Two men exonerated after 30 years in prison by retrocomputing enthusiasts and the Bloop Museum, by extracting data from a damaged floppy disc. 5 months ago:
Police reasoning, d’uh.
Certifying to become a police officer requires less hours than finishing a Street Fighter game.
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 5 months ago:
Honestly if the feds are going to even take the effort to move personnel to your house and knock your door, when it’s quite unlikely the server is hosted physically at your house in the first place, you could take the opportunity to offer them cheap consulting on technology, international cultures (anime and stuff) and federation.
Heck, you can aim at their ego. “I tricked you, right guys? That means I’m pretty good.”
- Comment on The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety 5 months ago:
It’s not as much about seeing, it’s about using, and profiting from.
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- Comment on [Duscussion] Post licening to kneecap threads putting ads next to our content. 5 months ago:
Dunno where have you been the last year, or the last 55, but those who “never experience God’s grace” still experience all the graces of capitalism and techno-feudalism, which is what currently matters.
- Comment on Embrace, Extend, Enforce (ƎƎƎ): A practical Strategy against potentially abusive Instances like Meta’s Threads 5 months ago:
We’ll probably have to move to a new internet. Dibs on calling it the “Freediverse”.
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 5 months ago:
And the fedi is full of that.
[citation needed]
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like Kurzgesagt is describing the Fediverse in their latest video? 6 months ago:
That’s partilly more on the people creating duplicates without looking if the community doesn’t exist already
Which is not bad; actually and to the contrary, it can be a part of each instance’s cultural identity and it’s a practical way of ensuring the diversity and viability of smaller instances.
Discussing c/soccer in an Argentinian lemmy can be very different than discussing it in hexbear, for example. Not to mention it’s likely most of everyone would’t even be able to participate in hexbear’s. Furthermore, general subjects becoming tied to the largest instances, which statistically have more surface to cover the creation of communities for any subject ever, returns us to the same problem of conversation and community becoming centralized into a “Reddit” instance.
- Comment on Idea for Fediverser: Community Ambassadors to reach out to the best reddit posters? 6 months ago:
The Fediverse operates in mysterious ways.