lambalicious

@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You federate with Threads

  Nice try, fed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse is Inefficient (but that's a good trade-off)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 2024, h264 runs on a CPU like nothing, why haven’t we figured out how to do these things yet?

  It’s not about the hardware. (Not like it’s that ubiquitous anyway; I’m daily driving a machine from 2017)

  I’m going to guess part of it is because for the things that matter to the people who do end up having to code, test and distribute stuff, something like “seamless screen sharing” or “video conference” doesnt really matter.

  And IMO, that’s good if we want to Recover the Web.

  The idea behind being in something like a jabber chatroom, or a web forum, is that I can pay attention to 12 channels (or whatever) at a time, read one or two, reply in three others, etc. Text is so un-invasive that I can just explore without bothering myself or anyone else.

  In comparison, something like audio chat or video chat is more presence-encompassing. You can’t really “push to talk” three different things to three chatrooms at about once, and you likely can but won’t want to listen to three chatrooms full of people at the same time. For something like a videoconference you not only need a camera, but a good behind-you because not only who knows who or what will be showing back there.

  In the end, something like a simple jabber-like chatroom is far easier and more productive to work on, even before we get to the coding part.

  Not to mention: this is computer stuff. No one really likes to work on “debt”, which is what “Foo has to have ‘screen sharing’ because Discord has it” ultimately boils down to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most stupidest idea (yes, double superlative, that’s how bad it is) I’ve heard posted on the Fediverse since… well, the last time I heard the most stupidest idea, and that was also here on the Fediverse. So, congratulations on that front.

  There’s like 123456 bad things with this idea, starting with the obvious of blockchain and cryptocurrency, and continuing with the fact that “quality of instances” is equated to “consumption of content”. Popularity and connectivity are not indicators of quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 Self-Host User Survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  requests Google Static

  requests Cloudflare

  Nice try, fed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the best stuff in the world looks like it’s 20 years past a prime that isn’t, because they’re truly good eternal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance are on Feddit.dk, but you won't see them on your own instance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A toot is literally the sound of a birb. It’s got more comfy than “tweet” does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice would kill the entire usefulness of the subscribed view if people have to subscribe to entire magazines / communities / whatever only to vote on one particular stuff in them that is relevant to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, and for the record, linux is ALSO a confusing hot mess for the average person. But until linux developers accept this,

  I’ve heard the same kind of stuff about lots… lots of things that “will never catch on”. Every one of those doomsayers were wrong. Some of them unfortunately, but still, they were all wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God I wish someone went and finally fixed that. It’s incredible that of all the FOSS and community stuff you can find on the internet, lemmy is the big one that can’t even remotely be browsed via w3m / elinks / anything-without-Javascript.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this later returns as ed.ch (more streamlined and lightweight, minimal featureset, perhaps not even the ability to store remote files so as to avoid the CSAM issues, etc) it’ll be The Day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All that is needed is a way to find what you want and a solid system of building trusted profiles with ratings and such.

  Wouldn’t the second part require a trusted means to verify that a given profile actually sold you the promised thing, as well as some trusted means (two-party signing, maybe) to announce that a payment actually took place?