breakfastmtn
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
Sneaking all around the fediverse.
Also at breakfastmtm@firefish.social breakfastmtn@pixelfed.social
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
Scroll down. Archive.today can archive things other services can’t. That’s why Wikipedia was in a panic about the verifiability crisis removing their 700 000 links would cause. Most can’t be replaced.
Okay, I’m just gonna explain where I’m at with this right now and why.
This isn’t a huge issue for this community but for our hard news discussion communities, abandoning archive.today would instantly make a large amount of news inaccessible (probably 1/3 or more, but that’s just a guess) to the vast majority. It could limit being fully informed to those with means. That would suck. It’s a real harm.
We’re in agreement that archive.today is problematic. We really need a working alternative. The ddos attack is shitty and immature. It’s a betrayal of trust. However, the victim stated in the Ars article you linked to that this hasn’t really had any discernible impact on them. So for now it’s a theoretical harm (and an abhorrent practice) vs a real harm.
For me, as it stands now, I’ll use alternatives where I can and use archive.today where I can’t because I care a lot about that harm. I’ll be ecstatic when a real alternative emerges. Like Wikipedia fell into different camps, we’re probably similar. I respect that you come down on this differently, but that’s where I’m at with this.
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
You know that’s not a real alternative. I wish it was – it’d make all of this a hell of a lot easier to navigate. But it just isn’t.
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
I’d take an alternative if you’ve got one. Otherwise, unless there’s a serious change for the worse, I’m probably going to keep posting them. Sorry!
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Get thee to mildly infuriating, you scoundrel!
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 5 weeks ago:
Oh shit! If they take Thunder Bay, the whole country falls… ;)
- Comment on Little repost bot 1 month ago:
Yeah, I agree. I said you wouldn’t be spamming.
It sounds like you’re grabbing posts about topics you’re interested in, knowledgeable about, and that you want to talk about. It’s almost like having a deck of cards with conversation topics on them and just drawing a random one every few days or something.
- Comment on Little repost bot 1 month ago:
You should probably get consent from communities you want to include. I appreciate that you have good intentions and wouldn’t be spamming communities, but this is the kind of thing that people can get pretty angry about.
- Comment on New Social Web Working Group at W3C 1 month ago:
One Community Group document that will be moving into the Working Group is LOLA, the live data portability spec that originated in the CG’s Data Portability Task Force. LOLA lets users move from one ActivityPub server to another while retaining all their social connections, their content, and their reactions. It’s a great improvement for data portability on the social web.
Exciting stuff!
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 month ago:
You’re really just renting hardware. You own all your games and they aren’t tied to that service. The appeal is to play PC games without being on the perpetual hardware upgrade hamster wheel.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 4 months ago:
Fungdark
- Comment on Day 250 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 11 months ago:
Damn. This is officially a lot of days.
- Comment on What exactly is the Fediverse? 11 months ago:
Wasn’t the Twitter “bridge” just bot accounts though? It’s a bit different with Bluesky because they’ve said that they completely support bridges between AT and AP but just don’t have the resources to work on them themselves. Anyway, ActivityPub co-author Even Prodromou gave an interview yesterday where he included Bluesky as part of the Fediverse because of the bridge.
Personally, I consider them to be both part of and not part of the Fediverse, I guess. I wouldn’t send someone there and I also kind of think they’re a bunch of dicks for re-inventing the wheel instead of contributing improvements here.
- Comment on What exactly is the Fediverse? 11 months ago:
I think that ATP and nostr are sometimes included as part of the Fediverse because they both have bridges that allow connection. Without the bridges they’re isolated.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 11 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 11 months ago:
I just got it on the dl instead
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 11 months ago:
Anyone have a link that works for Canadians, you MONSTERS?
- Comment on My coffee table had never had everything but coffee placed on it. 11 months ago:
I was skeptical at first but your story checks out.
- Comment on My coffee table had never had everything but coffee placed on it. 11 months ago:
That’s just downright disrespectful to the table. Do you respect wood?
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 11 months ago:
I’ve never seen anything about her in particular. I think this ProPublica investigation is the most in-depth reporting on the relationship between cartels and her political party. They basically allege that cartels paid millions to buy Mexico’s ‘hugs, not bullets’ policy.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 11 months ago:
They were always Nazis. The more mainstream-seeming “alt-right” guys were just suit Nazis. They feel more comfortable coming out in the open now, even if it’s still a bit draped in “doing it for lulz” deniability. I’m skeptical that they’re fully aware that it’ll hurt their legitimacy. They’re dug in like ticks in their echo chamber, are constantly goading each into being more openly extreme, and celebrate the push back there.
- Comment on why are they called “popular girls” if they’re typically not friends with anyone outside their small friend group? 11 months ago:
Hopefully this instructional video answers your questions:
- Comment on Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost 11 months ago:
Yes:
One, its terms of service ban content that “is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any other person.” Ghost founder and CEO John O’Nolan committed to us that Ghost’s hosted service will remove pro-Nazi content, full stop. If nothing else, that’s further than Substack will go, and makes Ghost a better intermediate home for Platformer than our current one.
- Comment on Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost 11 months ago:
I don’t think we’re completely saved forever but they tried making podcasts Spotify-exclusive. I remember a bunch of Gimlet podcast hosts being like “please come to Spotify to listen to us – it’s better than it used to be!” They ended up caving because people didn’t listen. Podcasting is built around RSS – even though people aren’t really aware of it – and people expect to get them this way.
- Comment on Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost 11 months ago:
RSS is the hero that saved us from Spotify (et at.) walling off podcasts behind their paywall.
- Comment on Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost 11 months ago:
Google weirdly gets a lot of credit for killing things that are very much alive and well.
- GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controlsblog.elenarossini.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghostmicahflee.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 41 comments
- Comment on @fediversenews@piefed.social is replacing @fediversenews@venera.social, which will be retired in a month 1 year ago:
Yes.
For example, if you search for the old fediversenews url, you can subscribe to it: venera.social/profile/fediversenews/
- Comment on @fediversenews@piefed.social is replacing @fediversenews@venera.social, which will be retired in a month 1 year ago:
Yep, I follow a couple Lemmy communities from Friendica.