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- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 5 weeks ago:
Excellent news!
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 5 weeks ago:
Yes it primarily federates with Lemmy and Mbin. See https://join.PieFed.social/features for a comparison.
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 5 weeks ago:
Getting full Mastodon interop in PieFed is going to be a long road. I urge you to bite off a smaller piece to chew until you get comfortable - Https://join.piefed.soxial
- Comment on Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah there are multiple ignored GitHub issues about Mastodon's federation of replies, going back many years. It's never getting fixed. This realisation sent me on a multi-week quest to find a platform that does replies properly. Akkoma and Friendica seem better at replies but have other shortcomings.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 5 weeks ago:
Media literacy crash course https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=1&pp=iAQB
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 5 weeks ago:
I use my searxng instance several times a day.
DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can't browse anything.
I also selfhost a moderately successful SaaS that I built. It's essential to me that it's available to my customers although I don't use it personally.
- Comment on Tidal is laying off more staff. 1 month ago:
I've had a Tidal subscription for about a year. It's recommendation algo is way way better than Spotify and there are none of those spammy 1 minute tracks that Spotify has because 'artists' have gamed the system.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 1 month ago:
ok so the monkeys need to type faster
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 1 month ago:
TikTok quantified the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos.
Kentucky authorities note that while it might seem a lot, TikTok videos can be just a few seconds long.
“Thus, in under 35 minutes, an average user is likely to become addicted to the platform,” the state investigators concluded.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-28040/teens-tiktok-addiction-lawsuit-investigation-documents
- Comment on Does hair in food carry any health risks? 2 months ago:
It's not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.
- Comment on Launching c/Latvija, the community for Latvia on the Fediverse! Calling all Latvians and those interested in Latvia and the Baltic countries to join and support us. 2 months ago:
!latvija@lemmy.world
- Comment on Add any RSS feed to any Lemmy community 2 months ago:
Really great tool, thanks! A few questions...
In the commands, will {instance} always be rss.ponder.cat?
Is the full process:
- create account on rss.ponder cat
- create community using new account
- send message to add rss feed(s)
Or do you make the communities and then we add feeds to them?
Does each message need to have only one command?
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 2 months ago:
We're working on it :)
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 2 months ago:
Half of them use their real name. Also a lot of them are sharing links to content they've posted using their personal FB account or whatever. They don't even try to have any opsec because they don't think they're doing anything wrong.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 2 months ago:
All this talk of encryption and sopenas is mostly pointless - all the police need to do is join any of the Telegram channels and see the evidence for themselves, like in this case - https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350438242/man-who-wanted-build-gallows-hear-jacinda-arderns-neck-snap-guilty-threats-kill
No doubt there are private channels but there's absolutely no shortage of criminal stuff happening out in the open.
- Comment on Simple way to get emails for new Lemmy or Mastodon posts? 2 months ago:
Lemmy communities and Mastodon profiles both produce a RSS feed of posts. I'm sure there is a RSS-to-email service that would do the trick.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 2 months ago:
There is no universally good investment - it all depends on your priorities, risk appetite and timeframe.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 2 months ago:
Middle Eastern money
Something tells me the Saudis don't want AI for the betterment of *all* humanity.
Could be the human rights abuses, dunno.
- Comment on Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1) 2 months ago:
I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:
fostering genuine connection
protecting privacy and enforcing consent
championing accessibilityI think she's obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There's certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they're constructed I don't feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.
It's hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that's a value tho - diversity.
There's a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it's best, this is a "people before economy" value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.
The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?
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- Comment on Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences' 2 months ago:
Not in this case
https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/
- Comment on cohost to shut down at end of 2024 3 months ago:
Very extensive background saga, if anyone is interested: https://hackers.town/@lori/110656825941689147
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 3 months ago:
Good find!
- Comment on Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game? 3 months ago:
And, in real life, the house has a much larger bankroll.
- Comment on A general fediverse client app, supporting multiple content types? (mastodon, lemmy, peertube, etc) 3 months ago:
If you really need it to be a proper mobile app then it's unlikely you'll find one - this would be quite a lot of work as every platform has implemented it's own API for talking with client apps, rather than using ActivityPub. The app would need to talk to several different APIs.
You're better off choosing a platform that can talk with as many different types of other platforms as possible. And when I say 'talk with' there will be gradients of talking with differing amounts of problems. For example PieFed is great with Lemmy, good with PeerTube and Ok with Mastodon. Then use the client app for your chosen platform.
Choosing the platform will be a process of just trying them all. Check out friendica, they cast a wide net.
- Comment on Are some peertube instances/channels not being federated with lemmy.world 4 months ago:
Check this out https://join.piefed.social/docs/installation/ and additional installation instructions linked to at the end.
The repository has a docker config file too, which you might find easier. No yunohost config yet, sorry.
I haven't heard of anyone running it on a Pi but it should be doable. Consider putting the DB on a separate Pi if you subscribe to a lot of high traffic communities.
- Comment on The Future is Federated: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin) 4 months ago:
Elena put their finger on an especially weak spot for Lemmy and PieFed, where Mastodon integration is somewhat of an afterthought. There is some integration but it doesn't really work the way they expected it to.
The ideal of "everything talks to everything" still remains elusive.
These days I'm less sure it's even a good goal to have - content on different platforms doesn't always 'fit' in others. Mastodon posts lack a title so look awkward on Lemmy, Wordpress blog posts are often long, causing some Mastodon mobile apps to make their users scroll for days, Peertube videos often have a bunch of "here's how you can give me money" links in the body which look spammy out of context, etc.
Some platforms are a more natural fit for each other than others.
- Comment on The end of Iotide 4 months ago:
I'm pretty sure the basic appearance is intentional. I love that aspect of it!
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 17 comments