lambalicious
@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on SDF Matrix 4 days ago:
Haven’t had issue in the last two weeks, but I do seem to recall different members are slotted into different servers.
- Comment on What do you host on your backup servers? 2 weeks ago:
You made me snort what fortunately was only tea and not a carbonated drink! XD
- Comment on What do you host on your backup servers? 2 weeks ago:
…backup servers? 👀
- Comment on AI Generated X 2 weeks ago:
It’s in everyone’s best interest for AI content to be honestly declared.
May i introduce you to the concept of corporations? It’s a frshly new thing from latest millennium, dunno if you’ve heard of it.
- Comment on AI Generated X 2 weeks ago:
Assuming it’s right.
99% of the time it’s hallucinating, inventing two extra authors for the text (each with six fingers), misattributing a quote to at least one of them, and n otoriously missing the point of the article in favour of developing a more click-baity summary.
- Comment on Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th 2 weeks ago:
I find it sus that they say 100% of the proceedings will be donated. I’m wondering if a fair part of this is an attempt to clear their image after they delivered environmental freedom fights over to monarchical and corporate interests in the EU.
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 2 weeks ago:
Even more important then to get them deessentialized if they’re already feeling like leaving.
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 2 weeks ago:
This is already impacting futurology.today - one of the Mods is British, and because of this law doesn’t feel comfortable continuing. As they have back-end expertise with hosting, if they go, we may have to shut down the whole site.
Its good news that they are merely a mod and not an admin / op, then! That’s why documenting and transfer of knowledge is important! If they don’t feel capable of dealing with a stupid law, they should make themselves unnecessary to your community ASAP! Have them prepare to step down from the role by documenting everything that a replacement needs to be able to do, then as soon as another mod can test that the documentation works, derole them if that’s what they want.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse Too Complex? Can It Embrace Simplicity Without Losing Its Identity? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really that complicated. In fact, it’s literally by design easier than the old 90’s “everyone in their own forum” where you literally had to sign up to each and every place to have a voice or a vote; now, you only need to sign-up to at best one instance.
In fact, I’d say much of the complains about complexity we see nowadays are part of the general appeal to anti-intellectualism that runs rampant on the modern internet. Most things should not be “fire and forget” for good reason, and the social internet, much like driving a car let alone a truck, is a good example why. It’s curious in that sense that you quote this:
As the saying goes, “Society can only move as fast as its slowest member.”
Before mentioning I’ve ever heard this anywhere where there’s decent people, so perhaps it’s something that’s told in KKK circles or the like. Like, this is so sorely and patently false it feels like an attempt at trolling. Society moves past the “slow” members and throws them under the proverbial progress bus all the fucking time. That’s what capitalism, collonnialism and consumerism is all about. A good society has to be slow, because it has to observe, think, evaluate and teach.
There are severe pain points still on the general fediverse experience and in some service / instance particulars. You make good point in mentioning a few of them such as the lack of unified onboarding, better guides (technical and visual) and quite definitively the discoverability problem. But I’d frown at some of the proposed solutions like “smart algorithms”
- Comment on Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon 1 month ago:
You don’t understand why or how platforms like these got made, don’t you?
If enough people came in to “put them in their place”, the way you describe, this place would basically become Threads (or Twitter) anyway.
- Comment on Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse 1 month ago:
Thanks for the reminder, there’s a fake-it-till-you-make-it already, as a Firefox extension.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 months ago:
Essentials? Difficult to decide, it depends on why you are even selfhosting in the first place.
At a first glance and looking at my attempt at a homelab:
- some sort of basic web service (eg.: nginx + PHP setup)
- some sort of repo manager service (I do Fossil, but I hear most people use eg.: Gitea)
- XMPP server
- Jellyfin server
- Minetest server
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 months ago:
and can even be extended to act as a Unified Push distributor.
wait wait wait wait.
That works? Teach me how!
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 2 months ago:
Sounds like just repeating an inherent truth to me? You can find toxicity anywhere on the internet that is not tightly regulated by a BDFL. That said, I would not adscribe any undue weight to this kind of statement. It’s like saying sky is blue. Intentions don’t matter, mass of users vs limited work of volunteer admins does.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 2 months ago:
We ought to improve as humanity so we can deserve Gabe.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 months ago:
You federate with Threads
Nice try, fed.
- Comment on The Fediverse is Inefficient (but that's a good trade-off) 2 months ago:
Interesting! Didn’t know that was what it was for. I always thought it was merely a storage backend.
Any metrics on how many instances are using it and how much deduplication is it doing?
- Comment on The Fediverse is Inefficient (but that's a good trade-off) 2 months ago:
Usually the issue of media storage (photos, videos, etc) is brought in as an Issue. For now I’ll skirt the “legal ramifications” including copying media and privacy, as those are an ever changing landscape of legal wanking that wankers can speak of much better than one can (and evil wanking still needs to be fought against).
One idea I’ve seen floated around is to have some sort of cooperative CDN for instances. Let’s say four or five relatively kindred instances, make a commitment to last and pool their resources to maintain a joint CDN from from which they’ll get their “media federation” from. This would reduce costs and issues a lot, since by the very nature of the fediverse, if everyone builds their own caches most of those caches are going to be hosting most of the same content. Basically: deduplication, but the poor man’s version.
Another alternative is to just ditch storage of videos and images. Just take links to Elsewhere and let Elsewhere handle it.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
Oh yeah totally. But while one could argue we are owed security, we are not owed updates. (And when we do, they’re offered to us via “buy another phone”, such is Capitalism).
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
Security is not a state but a scale, and is gauged against everything else.
From the perspective of a privacy / security zealot, a smartphone is SOL as soon as they lave the factory, as not only not even OTA updates keep them safe (and you can argue that with some manufacturers such as Samsung, OTA does is the primary risk vector!) but they can eg.: ship with unfixable vulns at the hardware level that would lead to ditch the whole thing anyway.
So long as there isn’t something like a state-funded program for citizens to renew their phones every ~2 years for fully open ones, I’d not worry much. After all, the other option would be not using a phone because current ones are a PITA and just as vulnerable from the other end.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 2 months ago:
I can’t see any of the graphs. The show as a black box.
This despite disabling Canvas Blocker on the page for testing. According to my briwser, loading the resources from “cdn.jsdelivr.net” is blocked due to a CORS failure.
Aren there by any chance image dumps of the charts in any normal graphics image format? Or even jpeg-xl, for variety.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
My primary phone belongs to my work.
So it’s not yours. Looks from here that’s the one issue you have to solve before everything else.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
No one says you have to upgrade your phone OS to the latest Android. You can just keep using the Android (and/or Custom ROM) that works.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 2 months ago:
I’m not sure if there’s a solution here, but I’d like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.
It depends on what exactly do you consider the problem to be, but my understanding is that solutions to the more general problem of “what server a community is in” are already in the works (multicommunities and stuff).
As for a more local kind of change… Be the change you want to see. Start up, and maintain, those alt communities that would serve as counterweights to the ones that are in .ml. Also, understand why they are in .ml in the first place yet still manage to function.
- Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town 2 months ago:
Finally, what the Fediverse needed:
AIs.
Good to know they’ve caught up to us from the walled gardens. Welp, I guess that’s it folks. Let’s pack up and go back to Usenet.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 3 months ago:
this definitely makes sense in the OSS community, but i feel like someone should’ve already done it as a semi pet project already. I know i would’ve done it.
Pet project, yes; production-ready, that’s a whole 'nother story.
Ultimately some things are too complex to deliver out on tem “just because”. Such as web browsers, hence ATM there only exist about 2.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 3 months ago:
Don’t hold your breath on the whole “wisening up to the VC funding” thing. People today still believe the moon landing was somehow faked to own the libs or something silly like that.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 3 months ago:
The grossest franchise of all time (Pokémon) still has like 20 forums going on.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 3 months ago:
Discord is just high quality and
What are you smoking and can you share the contact info of your dealer?
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 3 months ago:
the major issue with forums, as pointed out, is the hassle of having to go from one website to another to talk about various subjects and needing to sign up to each one of them.
Honestly the “having to sign up” part would be trivial to solve if topical forums just globally adopted OpenID sign-in or similar. No need to have one account per community if you already have (or “are”) an account in the World.
But even then, there’s a point to having to go through a sign-up process. At least some sort of vetting. We have seen how far have fallen all the communities that have ever relaxed sign-ups (as another comment in this thread shows, there was once a time when FB only allowed educated people in).
