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- Comment on The internet just got better: our European search index goes live (Summer 2025) 2 days ago:
Interesting. They seem to be saying the index consists only of European sites as well. If that’s the case I hope we can also do searches within Europe, the Ecosia announcement doesn’t say much about that.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 3 days ago:
Well, parent poster was talking about Mastodon, you seem to be talking about threadiverse platforms like Lemmy. One thing that applies to both and every single platform that is large enough for that to happen is that you’re always going to lose out on a lot of the content because there is just too much content for one person to look at. It isn’t actually that difficult to subscribe so much that you get past that point in my experience.
For the Mastodon-type fediverse microblogging platforms there’s some things that can help when trying to sift through the more popular stuff more (and less) similarly to how an algorithmic timeline would do it. Boost bots that track what’s trending and tools like Phanpy that allow you to check out what has been boosted the most in your recent timeline. There’s also starter packs (currently a fedidevs third party feature but will be added to Mastodon in the future too) and Sharkey antennas that let you watch for keywords over all the posts that flow through your instance. When it comes to things that aren’t here yet but are being worked on Fediscovery seems very promising.
Maybe some of that stuff should exist for Lemmy etc. too or maybe the “all” feed could be improved.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 6 days ago:
This isn’t actually a government doing it. It’s just some VC backed company that went to Davos to announce it.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 6 days ago:
what in particular do you mean by lack of discoverability?
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 6 days ago:
I think they’re automating the photo validation. The CEO mentioned something about giving back by releasing their facial recognition solution or something in the interview at Davos.
- Comment on Where to start with backups? 1 week ago:
Well there’s software that can make it easier. For ZFS specifically there’s zfs_autobackup which I’ve got experience with and I haven’t tried this but just found out about a Web UI that works with it: github.com/natankeddem/bale
- Comment on Where to start with backups? 1 week ago:
Modern filesystems like ZFS have snapshots and the ability to incrementally copy those around even over the network. I’d suggest considering using those instead of something that operates on top of the filesystem.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 1 week ago:
if you are looking this from the US that is not necessarily the only thing that could be driving prices up though. You’ve got tariffs and a much weaker dollar than it used to be right now…
- Comment on Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, dead at 87 4 weeks ago:
Very sorry to hear that, a legend has passed. Just watched LGR’s react to the Computer Chronicles 1988 Christmas Episode the other day… I may need to schedule a Computer Chronicles marathon soon in light of this news.
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 4 weeks ago:
well that may be true for general news but if you’re looking for a more specific topic it won’t necessarily hold.
- Comment on Throwing ideas out for lemmy 4 weeks ago:
thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.
- Comment on Throwing ideas out for lemmy 4 weeks ago:
where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/
In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.
Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 weeks ago:
It’s not just a label but it guarantees practically nothing because it only means they are allowed to consider things other than shareholder profit. It doesn’t in any way ensure that they do and a PBC is mostly treated just the same as a for-profit company.
Obviously it isn’t just the team that owns Bluesky at this point since they have had multiple rounds where they’ve raised venture capital. That is an old bit of information that I think they still have up on the site despite it being both vague and obviously false.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 weeks ago:
They’re not. In practice PBC status doesn’t really limit them very much at all and is nothing like nonprofit.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 weeks ago:
yeah I’m aware… doesn’t really refute anything I said. If he holds a share then he can do what any investor can do and how much he can do depends on how big his share of the company is.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 weeks ago:
can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not “cost optimize” it away.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 weeks ago:
Nothing might be going too far. He left the board since it wasn’t good PR for them but Bluesky is not transparent about its ownership and Dorsey could well still have a stake in it.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 weeks ago:
no that was in fact the Bluesky CEO. See: techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/
- Comment on Lemmy instance subscription issues 1 month ago:
You don’t because everything here’s based on communities while Mastodon is on individual users. If you’d like something that does both in a single platform I think Mbin would be the best bet (although you can interact with Lemmy communities using Mastodon and other microblogging platforms to some extent)
- Comment on Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows 1 month ago:
Another vote for NeoDB. It’s been very useful for me and more people on fedi need to know about it.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
Do you have a proposal for how you’d solve the other half then or just think it isn’t enough?
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
Well it is fundamentally better because it does not only have a single party that makes all the calls thanks to the real decentralization. I wouldn’t call all of fediverse “the good guys” but I would call it “good”.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
Because they’re focused on just user numbers probably and many people from Turkey recently moved there. This decision might of course cause a decline anyway.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
Whether anything about it is for a good reason is very much a contested point. There are significant issues they introduced with the design while trying to address some that exist in ActivityPub.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
they could also choose to fight it exactly like Twitter under Dorsey did and as Wikipedia did (and won). Instead they’re instantly just obeying and even setting up to obey multiple other countries like Russia too.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
Yeah, one of my main gripes with them is how much they talk about decentralization and how much it stays as vaporware while they focus on the more pressing issue of the moment.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
Yes and the thread I linked to explained why it is not looking like it’s particularly well thought out for that case. Even beyond those issues they’ve always seemed very naive about what the company turning adversarial would actually be able to do but then again they obviously also have to worry about making money.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
I don’t think you got the point tbh. It isn’t about wanting to separate but about how dependent you are on Bluesky Corp. in every other scenario (and how hard it would be to deal with the situation if they decide to go rogue).
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
seems to be a fairly recent development that isn’t really documented much for now (not that running relays and some other components of the network is that well documented in general). Of course doing it that way also doesn’t help with how centralized the whole thing is…
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 9 months ago:
PDS is not very significant, it’s just a tiny piece of the puzzle and doesn’t really prove anything about the architecture. See this for more on what I’m getting at: neuromatch.social/@jonny/113365406995624763