julian

@julian@community.nodebb.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OF alternative fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me about it! There are some very cool people (i.e. @thisismissem@hachyderm.io) working on content classification and tagging so that the burden of filtering out this kind of content isn't borne by server admins directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voting in the threadiverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  @snoopy@jlai.lu personally, since I create AP enabled software I am on the side of votes being public data. We already have enough issues with votes being out of sync with each other. Mixing in private voting is just asking for trouble.

  Emoji reactions are neat, although niche to those softwares that utilise it. They allow for greater expression which is nice. They're useless for deriving value (for ranking purposes) unless you assign value to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone remember way before Google had image recognition technology, the time they built a game that paired up random people on the internet, showed them each an image, and waited for them to both guess the same keyword?

  It was gamified human powered taxonomy for meaningless internet points and it was hilarious (at the time.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  @rglullis@communick.news A little bit, yes! There was a recent thread in the community I posted to where a discussion about the rather lacklustre search of various software took place.

• Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interesting article! I have immense respect for @jerry@infosec.exchange, he was one of the first people I found on the fediverse, and it's no wonder why, he's revered quite highly by others as being a generous and kind admin.

  I do want to point out one thing, and that is that Mastodon has some design decisions that make it rather resource and storage intensive.

  There are oodles of lighter software out there, some with even more features than Mastodon, and some with less. For example, snac.bsd.cafe (https://snac.bsd.cafe/) runs on Snac, which is fast as hell.

  I am going to guess that a not insignificant portion of Jerry's bill is caching assets. Mastodon likes to save everything it encounters, videos, images, avatars, everything... forever (though I imagine this is customisable). Most likely the assets are viewed a handful of times in one day and never seen again... but you'll pay to store it forever!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! It's something that I personally feel is more performant and future proof for other important things like private discussions (which Mastodon also doesn't support natively yet — mention spamming doesn't count.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, check out my post about it here:

  https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18844/backfilling-conversations-two-major-approaches

  There are steps being taken in the right direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy and lots of other software use a fediverse extension called 1b12 to keep everything in sync.

  In a nutshell it means Lemmy communities can follow other communities, and they keep each other in sync. The same applies for other types of communities, like PieFed communities, Mbin magazines, NodeBB categories, etc.

  Mastodon doesn't have a concept of community or categories, so they don't support this kind of synchronization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what fediverse software is similar to lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There's NodeBB if you want a forum/BBS style UX for the threadiverse!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help implementing ActivityPub - getting inconsistent results across platforms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it's worth your blog does show up fine in NodeBB as well. Perhaps you are missing the @context property and so Mastodon is refusing to parse it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing project?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @m_f@discuss.online not directly, but there was a session at FediForum on Thursday that discussed the website and next steps for updating it. It's been stagnant for quite awhile but @evan@cosocial.ca and @j12t@j12t.social finally have write access to the repo and control of the domain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk.net outage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @blazeknave@lemmy.world

  beep beep boop boop boop boop beep... EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee awwwwwww ka-dong ka-dong da kshhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  eerie silence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk.net outage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you can still have it with NodeBB!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bounce Helps You Switch Networks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey @deadsuperhero@lemmy.world have you tried updating to the latest NodeBB? You can post to Lemmy communities from there too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing project?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @m_f@discuss.online ActivityPub.rocks I bet?

  There's exciting work planned for updating this site!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager moved the default instance to lemmy.zip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @pineapplelover@lemm.ee you can only access by entering a semantically correct invocation of tar as run on a POSIX box from 1978.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed Uptick in Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that Pixelfed is closer to the microblog space than it is the threaded discussion space.

  It's essentially microblogging except with an image media focus (or video, in the case of Loops.)

  To each their own, some people communicate better using pictures, some better over short text, some better over long-form text. There's a space for them all :smile:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com everything in Hamilton is sketchy if you're not from the Hammer 😝

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in the GTA, you should definitely check out The Cotton Factory! Cool art and makerspace.

  Unfortunately in one of the sketchier parts of Hamilton, but that seems to be par for the course for these types of places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is Weird⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @ussmojave@startrek.website yeah, I'm watching it now! It's pretty well done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is Weird⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, Human music theory is also weird.

  A lot of what we teach our kids about music theory is rooted in the firm foundation of "it is this way because it just is, so just remember it."

  Like why is the circle of fourths and fifths the way it is? Because it just is. Remember it. When you're learning key signatures why doesn't the key match the signature (D major is F# and C#,. but Bb major has a Bb and an Eb?!)? Because it just is. Remember it.

  It's no wonder music theory gets completely lost on kids. It doesn't make any sense!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Space Nine characters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  sir that's just a picture of Eddington.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post flair in PieFed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @rimu@piefed.social interesting, how does this differ from tags?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citing Tariff Uncertainty, Star Trek 1:6-Scale Figure Company EXO-6 Suspends Shipments to USA Collectors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's pretty wild how wide-ranging these tariffs affect small scale manufacturers with in and out of the United States.

  I've been hearing scattered reports across different industries all saying the same thing:

  1. They have 60 days or less of inventory remaining.
  2. They cannot order more because nobody Stateside will pay for those items at prices increased to offset the tariffs.

  For companies with razor thin margins, even 1% changes the calculus. A 145% tariff is already well over the point of no return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let's clarify something here. Mastodon follower only posts don't have the "public pseudo user" addressed, do they?

  That's the important piece that this whole thing hinges upon

  If it is present, Mastodon is a fault. If not, Pixelfed messed up.

  Am I mistaken?

  For example, a followers-only post is addressed to the followers collection of the author, at minimum. When NodeBB sees this, it doesn't even consider it public, because the public pseudo user isn't addressed. We also have no concept of "followers only", but we handle them just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring Trek into everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @fauxpseudo@lemmy.world as I learned, the latter—kai oats—is Canadian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @malikmuaddibsoong@startrek.website it's been a long road, gettin' from there to here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Season 3 Teaser Trailer | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @fordbeeblebrox@lemmy.world that's because Discovery is just bad fan fiction.

  It makes Enterprise worth watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @lost_my_mind@lemmy.world hate to break it to you, but Nokia sold their brand to HMD Global, and their new phones are ... lacking in the indestructibility department. They are hefty though, I will say.

  I owned two of them, and I got the ones that worked well. Some of the QC was wonky too.