lily33

@lily33@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud client just deleted all of my files, why did it do this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wary reader, learn from my cautionary tale

  I’m not sure what to learn exactly. I don’t get what went wrong or why…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a cute kitty snail! Can you post just the picture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s certainly good, I’m not arguing that. My point is, if the wine team is interested, they can fork the unmaintained project, and work on that. Eventually, people will switch over to the active fork. What Microsoft is doing, is helping the process along, and making it easier. So it’s good, and helpful - but not really a “donation” to winehq.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s simply the framing: You don’t ‘donate’ open source projects. Is simply a case of a new organisation taking over a stalled project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What social contract? When sites regularly have a robots.txt that says “only Google may crawl”, and are effectively helping enforce a monolopy, that’s not a social contract I’d ever agree to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop asking for, and implementing, these pseudo-security features. The Fediverse is public by nature. Any “measures” to control access to the public posts on it are just lying to users.

  Server owners should be able to control who can access their servers - but that is NOT - and should NOT be - treated as a privacy feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where this myth came from, but your dummy have a right to delete your posts under GDPR. In the other hand, if you post a creative work, such as a poem - then it should be covered by copyright. See, for example, law.stackexchange.com/…/does-a-user-have-the-righ…

  If anything, you might have such rights under copyright law, if your posts cover the threshold for copyright. In that case, you can ask server admins to delete them, and they will have to comply. But the request has to reach them (if they’re defederated, the delete button won’t teach them, and you’ll have to contact them separately).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we own our posts?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only US courts. Other countries don’t even have a procedure for registering copyrights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  threads.net is currently blocked. You can see a complete list of blocked instances here. There was a discussion about this when threads first announced plans to federate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosting Email - Software Recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean thousands at glacial pace? I don’t think I’ve sent 1000 emails offer the last year. And even if some people send more, I can’t imagine it would be at a pace where that becomes a problem (at least if it’s for personal use)…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosting Email - Software Recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a VPS with dedicated IP, why would it be blacklisted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, people like to think that the fediverse is a genuine threat to Meta. And they like to feel they’re doing important work defending it from Meta. So this will indeed pop up again, and again, and again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the future of Lemmy vs reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Still visiting several subreddits that don’t have corresponding active lemmy communities. Once of them actually has an “official” lemmy community (run by the same mods) but none of the people moved over, so it’s empty,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think calling it “dangerous” in quotes is a bit disingenuous - because there is real potential for danger in the future - but what this article wants is totally not the way to manage that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say the risk of having AI be limited to the ruling elite is worse, though - because there wouldn’t be everyone else’s AI to counter them.

  And if AI is limited to a few, those few WILL become the new ruling elite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Since I don’t think this analogy works, you’re going to have to explain how the world would look like if everyone had access to AI technology advanced enough to be comparable to a nuke, vs how it would look like if only a small elite has access to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  competition too intense

  dangerous technology should not be open source

  So, the actionable suggestions here are: reduce competition, ban open source. I guess what this article is really about, is using fear to make sure AI remains in the hands of a few…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as people here laugh - because yes, I get that it’s very unlikely to work - I actually think this would be better for users than the ad-based model most social media use now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A disturbing number of TikTok videos about autism include claims that are “patently false,” study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  BREAKING NEWS: PEOPLE SAID WRONG THINGS ON THE INTERNET!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverser: bring content and users from legacy social media networks into the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who still has to regularly visit Reddit because of all the niche subreddits that have great communities there but 1 post per month here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A way to deal with false positives of an ML NSFW scanner would be: Once per day, each user can “overwrite” the scanner. If a user is caught abusing this, they get banned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s can be exceptions - but lemm.ee has a federation policy where the standard for defederatiom is “directly harming lemm.ee users” and I think that should be the standard, as opposed to “users dislike the content, and there’s a lot of it (hexbear is a big instance, there will be a lot of content)”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. I chose lemm.ee in part due to the degeneration policy, and I hope if we defederate it’s because of hexbear “directly harming lemm.ee users”, and not because people don’t like the content.

• How does L4sBot choose which articles to post?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it's smart, researchers found⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  BTW, how does the L4sBot decide which articles to post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the future of Lemmy vs reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox + ublock (it has filters that block the “install app” on mobile, but need to be enabled from the settings) is useable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the future of Lemmy vs reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, the smaller userbase is actually a real problem. I’m willing to stick it out and hope it grows. But for over half of the subreddits I subscribe to, the corresponding lemmy communities have 0 posts this last week.

  Yes, I don’t need 10k comments on my posts. But memes or mainstream news was never the big value of reddit for me - I can get these anywhere. Instead it is about the niche communities with a few thousand subscribers. And for now, I still have to use reddit for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that users want to centralize everything. It’s that Lemmy’s design is such that there are advantages to centralizing.

  1. Joining the largest instance makes searching, joining, or opening communities much more seamless.This can be addressed by:

  • Improving the search so that it can find communities, or even content, that no one on the instance has subscribed yet.
  • Making it easier to open a community in your home instance.
  • In addition to Sub/Local/All feed, you can have a “moderated” feed (with communities selected by admins). The “local” feed is most useful for instances on a specific topic. But for very small instances, it’ll be too empty at least at first. So a moderated feed can create an on-topic feed that’s more lively.

  2. For most topics, only the largest communities are large enough to have good content, so everyone wants to join them. To address this, you need some easy mechanism to subscribe to all communities on a topic. For example, we can let communities follow other communities. Then people can create topical meta-communities that aggregate content without centralizing it.