supersquirrel
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- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 12 hours ago:
Because silicon valley thinks it can define reality however it wants and keep telling us not to believe our lying eyes.
- Comment on AI enters the grant game, picking winners 12 hours ago:
What cruel joke this all is ughhh.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 1 day ago:
Your mom goes there duh
- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 1 day ago:
Sorry but even after doing that it is still clear we need more tariffs on the penguins whether we assume they are cylinders or not.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 days ago:
Lol ok there might be no real birds left but they definitely exist in the fossil record, it was likely the inventions of trains that drove birds to the next highest dimension (which isn’t real, hence birds were real but now they are not).
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 days ago:
People are making crude jokes but the truth is birds do have a back door it is whatever food they find tastiest. Birds are easily bribable like humans or dogs.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 days ago:
They ultimately lost out to silicon
for now…
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 2 days ago:
According to who? I have seen zero evidence in my life capitalism requires a legal framework, it simply requires the threat of violence.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 2 days ago:
Except that piracy has always been explicitly endorsed by the beneficiaries of the system, they simply change the name, structure the conditions such that their piracy is considered part of the system even if it isn’t and then proceed to be pirates.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
Things get even more muddled when you consider that selfish agents may believe they are structuring a system for selfish gain when they are in fact destroying the system for everybody including themselves.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 days ago:
Yeah true, I guess I meant more before this recent uptick in memes/criticism. I don’t expect celebrity musicians to be paragons of virtue or fight every political battle for justice but I do expect… something? Like a little bit? Have a spine maybe?
I mean she can do whatever she wants, but that is the point right, she can do whatever she wants unlike the rest of us.
- Submitted 2 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 days ago:
You can be a pirate with principles.
On the topic, what was the reasoning of the Houthis attacks on the red sea shipping lanes?
It was because they are totally crazy deranged terrorist villains from an 80s action movie right?..or like monomaniacal greed right?
…wait hold on… checks notes … are we the badies?
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 days ago:
Ok that would be the part I understand, I am asking about the part I don’t.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 days ago:
Please leave, your voice is not wanted here.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 days ago:
Why does Taylor Swift get such a massive pass from everybody in terms of scrutiny?
- Comment on The One Secret Scientists And Mathematicians Don't Want You To Know About The Most Important Number 3 days ago:
No, this is from my research notes I wrote myself.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 days ago:
The US is corrupt enough at this point the only thing massive corporations have to do to survive is be massive.
Many companies that never even have turned a consistent profit are major players in the US economy.
The idea of valuing actual market competition is a distraction conservatives point to as a cool aesthetic and it has little to do with the economic reality of the US. So long as the right people are in power a dictatorship is totally acceptable to conservatives by and large and the inevitable end result of that as we are seeing are stunning displays of incompetency at the highest levels of power.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 days ago:
This is the answer unless you consider setting up a DIY home server fun, which often the kinds of people who recommend options for this kind of thing do… so just keep that context in mind here with recommendations.
Syncthing is a great solution and it is wayyyyy less a headache than any other DIY method I have done for replacing cloud/filesharing purposes.
- Submitted 4 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Europe powers move to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over nuclear drive 4 days ago:
I am from the US and at that this point I feel Iran has to make a nuclear bomb. The US and other countries NEED Iran as the scary axis of evil and as pathetic as it is I think the rest of the world won’t give Iran a choice. The US will go back to trying to instigate regime change if the Iranian government becomes too moderate for US warhawks to fearmonger about with propaganda.
- Comment on Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action 5 days ago:
This is awesome news!
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 5 days ago:
Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.
- Comment on Pearl of Honor 1 week ago:
brachiopods in the background like
- Comment on Mobilizon team got new funding, which changes and fixes would you like? 1 week ago:
I just think “community knowledge” is a much more nebulous concept that quickly extends into subjective topics that a mod curated wiki/sidebar might not fit. The sidebar more naturally represents undebatable axioms/foundations to the community such as a link directly to what a community is about or its rules.
- Comment on Mobilizon team got new funding, which changes and fixes would you like? 1 week ago:
Yes ok that is pretty much it then, very cool!
- Comment on Mobilizon team got new funding, which changes and fixes would you like? 1 week ago:
So what wiki do you want to create ? :)
I have ideas, mostly very simple things like an easy to collate and edit list of game reviews on a gaming community that you could without too much fuss link to various different comments/threads where those games were actually reviewed by people. All I am saying is a somewhat more loosely formalized “check out discussion on this thread” kind of thing that would provide a touchstone for people curious to sift back through a community with lots of interesting posts.
To me the crux of the question is time though, on a corporate social media platform eternal newness is essential to the growth of the cancer. The past is always a distraction, liability and potential problematic solution to a profitable current problem.
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I think we have the opportunity with fediverse softwares like piefed to be utterly unbound by that constraint however and reconsider how maybe older posts are just as valuable, and that they represent grist for remixing and refocusing from future fediverse users into new forms of knowledge. … and no not AI I mean human curated wikis with information presented in ways that are meaningful for humans learning things. What I want is for that to be a potentially organic process, for the next step of seeing a bunch of different recommendations for music fx plugins on a music production community to naturally say “hey I could weave these together into something useful for others!”, create a wiki post with a list and links to the various threads that recommended the plugins with the context therein and then… why not have there be the next natural step of putting that kind of information in a wiki context along with music production education resource links and threads about how to learn how to actually use those fx tools? I guess to TL;DR my point, through our relationship with online internet forums/“reddit-likes” concerned with a hobby or specific interest we desire to learn more about we all have to already all do this internally in our heads, why not make it so that people don’t have to re-duplicate all that work? Or more importantly that people can share their “perspectives” and learn from how others might see the same body of conversation, interaction and knowledge? What I am suggesting isn’t quite a wiki, because while I think that is a great next step for fediverse softwares like piefed, I think there is a more radical potential in rather than expecting moderators/people with elevated community privileges to do all the work of collating community posts into wikis that can properly represent the community in a semi-official way … allowing a new form of fediverse content that is composed at an atomic level of references to posts/threads/comments on a community with some attached context added by a user as a possible “perspective” on the community. Either these perspectives could be public and upvote/downvotable or they could function as an easy way to submit content to moderators of a community to approve or disapprove to add to a collective knowledge base (most reddit-like communities implement this by hand through the use of the sidebar and sticky posts along with DMs to the mods to submit things to those shared knowledge bases). To make this practical, with music plugins instead of having an informal process where the moderator of a music production community does all the work of finding references to music plugins and writes the wiki post about plugin recommendations entirely themselves or they have to informally communicate with somebody who has and then upload their work… why not have an avenue of fediverse interaction be a new post view where people can submit “perspectives” of fediverse posts that package fediverse post/threads/comments together into useful packages that can be of immense practical help to people learning about that niche area of expertise but that doesn’t introduce a level of authority or bias that makes community conflict resolution around controversies so much more of a headache for whoever is in charge of making official statements/documents for online communities. Why does this matter? Consider the awkwardness of being a moderator of a large music production community with many boutique plugin developers who regularly comment, argue and generally just hang out in the community and desiring for the community to have a list of recommended music fx plugins without creating friction in the community or imposing a certain bias that could never represent the full diversity of views and opinions in the community. Well… if users could submit “perspectives” that would collate together references to different music fx plugin recommendations throughout threads on the community that meaningfully creates permission to be creative and weave things together without having to feel like it is creating a story that risks confining the community to only what the people running it think. To bring this back to Mobilizon, I think it is reasonable to pose the same questions about events and the knowledge around them. What if there was a literal way to make a fediverse post that contextualized a series of Mobilizon events into a narrative that could be resubmitted as a form of fediverse content either to Mobilizon or in a way that would easily connect with Mobilizon? To make this specific to Mobilizon with an example, wouldn’t it be cool if a fediverse user who regularly attended a monthly makerspace/diy-project-share-and-help meetups that are posted on Mobilizon could create a post sharing context from each of the events they attended together into a new experience/post that might be meaningful to people? They could submit knowledge, context and story to a community without having to express it as necessarily the official stance or perspective of the entire community but rather a particular users perspective on a series of fediverse events/posts and how they connect through their life.
- Comment on Mobilizon team got new funding, which changes and fixes would you like? 1 week ago:
oh heck yes!
- Comment on Mobilizon team got new funding, which changes and fixes would you like? 1 week ago:
Something that is kind of a broad suggestion but it keeps bubbling up in my mind is the potential for some of these fediverse social platforms to be well situated to function as community knowledge bases.
To put it another way, why are these fediverse softwares restricted to sharing and federating content along the axis of time?
The thing I value most about reddit-like/internet forum like communities is they provide an amazing context to learn new things, especially things you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
At this point in time we are still stuck seeing social media as a goal unto itself, you interact online socially because you desire to interact online socially. This is all well and good, but similar to how Mobilizon helps facilitate that connection growing into something meaningful in the real world (events you can attend!) I am interested in ways in which fediverse software can be designed to help facilitate organically building community knowledge bases out of online social interaction.
As to what that specifically looks like, well… I guess I am suggesting some kind of wiki-like system and I know that isn’t a new suggestion but I think people mistakenly see this kind of feature request as mission creep rather than a natural next step for burgeoning communities of niche experts who could solidify that sense of place into a real beacon for the internet on that topic by collating conversations into community posts of information and links. Specifically I think it would be fascinating to have a wiki like database where the source links for information stated on the wiki are sourced back to comments/conversations in threads on that community (which would source to external sources of course)… I think it would make the entire process of communities producing a formalized organized knowledge base much more transparent, organic and frictionless.
To put it another way, I challenge the Mobilizon team to think about “whats next?” after you make an event and connect people, what is the intended impact? I think the next step is to create a natural platform for both interaction/events and knowledge where conversations about events can naturally evolve into more formalized posts of information through whatever community mechanisms best fit that particular community. Events and interaction feed into knowledge and vice versa, as of yet no social media corporation or community project has effectively grasped this as the central dynamo that powers online communities people actually value. I think Mobilizon because it is positioned as an event organizer for the fediverse is in someways uniquely situated to navigate that connection point successfully and show people what social media can really become if we see it as more than just cigarettes but for your smartphone.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 1 week ago:
No more unrealistic than the massive valuations on the stock market of social media corporations that can supposedly back it up somehow (with AI! or something… VR maybe?) despite the fact that fundamentally these social media places are becoming crowded rooms of bots pretending to be humans all trying to manipulate each other.
My point is, we will figure out how to sustainably scale before corporations do because the metabolism of massive tech companies precludes them from giving a shit about that.
At this point, inefficiency is a virtue for these corporations as it degrades the environment around them making future alternatives unlikely to be able to gain a hold in such a broken context.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 1 week ago:
still better than ios lol
Yeah android has termux, termux is amazing, I run emacs in it and have all the power of org mode on my phone!
