lambalicious
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- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 5 days ago:
Not really conductive as long as most funds are siphoned by the C-suite ranks. Get rid of the C-fat first, maybe even turn Mozilla into a co-op, then have the People fund it.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 5 days ago:
No thanks. This is a dark pattern towards centralization. Just go back to reddit.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
Exactly! And that’s why the choice in the UI is important. My understanding is previous versions of PF at least let your viewers know you offer salads. There’s no (good) reason why the very minimum useful version of that can’t be maintained. Comaps and OSMand for example are map applications, but they let me know when a given location has an associated Wikipedia article for example. They don’t even need to implement something like a Wikipedia Viewer itself; just offer the links. Links are cheap, and are the foundation and backbone of both the internet and of any useful concept of a “fediverse”.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
so, an old style BBS?
I’d be all in.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
Because PixelFed is purposefully hiding the salad option from them. Which is what we are complaining about: it’s lying to our potential customers about us. Note that it didn’t do that before.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
This is great yes and IMO how it should be done. It’s not necessary fr eg.: PixelFed to implement themself all the functionality to process forums, videos, cooking recipes, Pokémon boxes, microblogging, macroblogging, nanoblogging, femtoblogging, nanopicturing, macroboosting, etc. Just one: linking (and, well, properly announcing the link is there).
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
You sly dog you made me open my network tab to see if there actually was an image there! (there is, it was just being blocked because of my uBO setting for fetching remotes).
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
No, you as a poster in the Fediverse are selling pizzas and salads. PixelFed is “misrepresenting” you, for lack of a better word, by telling people you only sell pizzas. The thing is, it wasn’t doing that before. It was purposefully made to hide useful information that was there before. IMO there should be a sticky “this user has other content which is not images” headbar or something. Only removable as an opt-in per account followed, so that it is not possible for people to say that PF purposefully hid information.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
The problem is not “you ordered a pizza yet are complaining it isn’t a salad”. The problem is you are selling pizzas and salads, but the middleman is undercutting you on the delivery of the pizzas, leaving your clients with the fake impression you sell only salads and/or provide a bad service.
All that said, from an interface design perspective the current mode is exactly how it should happen. Pixelfed and pretty much everything else are purposefully subset-specific apps. All that’s needed is the reminder (as visible as possible) that content you are looking at is incomplete and you can find the more complete version on this or that URL or app. Same principle as if I wanted to eg.: design a “hashtag explorer” for the Fediverse. I’d focus on that instead of the posts (and pictures); but what I can’t ethically do is prevent my users from discovering their existence.
- Comment on ZaneOps is a great self hosted PaaS alternative to Vercel and Netlify 1 week ago:
PaaP! Platform-as-a-platform!
- Comment on We're back 1 week ago:
We exist, apparently. Always an adventure!
Might need to create an official alt somewhere stabler, just in case. It’s just SDF has that special coolness factor to it.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Always good to have more receipts, þanks.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
No, it replaces thorns (or whatever character) for everyone, as it is built-in into the platform. It would also mean it replaces valid uses of thorn (or whatever character). Such as in quotations, math formulas and the like.
It’s literally just spite. There is no other reason.
I would say the assumption about spite stems from your outlook to the world.
It speaks of my worldview yes. I see spite, I should be able to call it as such.
- Comment on Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
Mirror? What even for?
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 3 weeks ago:
Each of them.
- Comment on We are so back 3 weeks ago:
¡Super Delayed Federation!
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 4 weeks ago:
You could use XMPP but they don’t have any nice clients
[citation needed]
There’s at least three good clients for Desktop (multiplatform) and two for Android.
Plus, XMPP is the best thing to run service-wise. Relatively cheap, runs on a potato, not a nu-protocol that requires a server cluster and friggin’ npm.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 4 weeks ago:
There was a commit posted in another thread by the creator where they specifically substitute thorns (þ) to spite a member of the community who uses them.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 4 weeks ago:
opt-out
Shouldn’t it be the reverse? That communities opt-in into this feature? It’s 2025 we all know opt-out by default is bad.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 4 weeks ago:
Do not eagerly misread what could be an evidence of the converse - that we already have low policulturalism because of difficulties in implementation and this feature is just going to nail the nail in the coffin.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 4 weeks ago:
Agree. Piefed doesn’t give me much confidence with their “centrist-esque” more-centralized-than-not, and actually has lost some in my eyes since the creator has specifically pushed code for antagonizing one specific member of the community for the sin of [checks papers] behaving in a quirkier way than the average.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 4 weeks ago:
Agree, this basically feels like it would generate various dark incentives in the Fediverse. A bit far too similar to the social networks we are supposed to escape from, even.
- Comment on What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends? 1 month ago:
Any particular reason why you can’t do something like host a Send instance instead? Better to treat “filesystem behind the network” and “files to share” as two different things: one is imanent, the other is punctual and sporadic.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 month ago:
Only mostly when I want to. Which tends to be on Mondays and Saturdays.
I’m running Sid on servers, so automatic updates are actually a risk. Used to be Debian Stable, but maaan the docker and podman improvements… make me drool.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
As in strongly focused in Europe. Some of the most well-known criticism of IPA are that it does not properly help reflect the phonetics of languages present in the Americas, Africa or Asia. Ya know, continents that are not Europe. Heck a good meme among the know-who could be to call the IPA as A, as it’s not International and not Phonetic.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Maybe we should join in!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
I would agree if IPA wasn’t so stupidly European. Basicallly has the same issue as Esperanto.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Eh, fait accompli. Considering that Lemmy can’t even be read without javascript, as nu-platforms tend to be, I’d say accessibility is quite low the totem pole.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
In this era full of bad German shit, I publicly thank you for your cool German facts.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Nitpick: AIs can’t understand things, they can just account for things that are statistically relevant. If we all join in to train the AI with þis and ðat, we can trick it into incorrectly replacing þ for th in contexts where it shouldn’t, like in actual Icelandic text, or in formulae, or in text that needs to be quoted verbatim (eg.: to match a checksum).