Pamasich

@Pamasich@kbin.earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[News] All New Weekly Young Jump Series to Be Translated into English and Released Worldwide Simultaneously — New Arc “BUNGO -unreal-” Begins [JP]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but only if there are people proofreading and ensuring quality.

  I seriously don't have an issue with AI in principle, but this right here is my main problem when AI is used (besides the ethics of most models). Companies never proofread, they never check, they just use the raw output and throw it at the consumer with zero quality assurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unifying the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think there is a "best" most efficient programming language for building the program?

  I think that depends on how important performance is for large instances, which I don't really know. Python has a huge advantage due to being notoriously easy to get into, even for non-programmers. This means it can find contributors much more easily, leading to faster bugfixing and feature development.
  But Python is also slow, which might be an issue for large instances that have a lot of work to do.

  In general, barrier of entry and performance act as trade-offs to each others. If you use a language with a lower barrier of entry, it tends too come with lower performance, and vice versa. So whether there's an ideal language depends on whether performance matters and how much it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unifying the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are there so many separate platforms in the Fediverse like Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed, and PeerTube? It feels like they could all be part of one unified platform.

  Simple answer: Because people have different visions, different priorities. Expertise in different programming languages and tooling.

  Why do we have three Reddit alternatives in Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin? Why don't all their devs work on the same project?

  1. The Lemmy devs are highly controversial. The other projects don't have such issues.
  2. Lemmy is written in Rust, Mbin in PHP, and Piefed in Python.
  3. The scope is different between them. Lemmy only cares about communities. Mbin targets wider compatibility with the microblogging side of the fediverse. Piefed plans to one day add microblog support iirc, but their priorities lie elsewhere.

  Some platforms care about interoperability more than others, trying to push for FEPs (basically standardization proposals for the fediverse), while others don't. Some care about privacy even if it degrades interoperability, some believe the latter outweighs the former. Some disagree on how to implement a specific feature.

  Mbin adopted Reddit's karma system, Lemmy didn't. Sure you could combine both of those and give the user the choice, but this reflects a difference in design philosophies. Lemmy users don't just lack a karma system, they outright don't want one. It's a system which promotes karma farming, so it's associated with the worst of Reddit. But ironically, it also encourages contributing, which is probably why kbin (Mbin's predecessor) originally added it. The fediverse is in need of contributors over lurkers, so whether a karma system is bad or good for it depends on your perspective. And that perspective differs between the developers of these two projects.

  Ultimately, sometimes projects are just born out of a dev wanting to challenge themselves by recreating something themselves. Iirc that's how Minecraft was born, with its creator originally wanting to test his skills at an Infiniminer clone and that spiralled into the most successful game ever.
  So why a separate project is started isn't always logical even. Sometimes the dev just felt like it.

  I for one like Mbin but dislike Piefed and Lemmy both. But most people seem to think differently, as Mbin is the least popular of the three. There's a lot who have sworn off Lemmy in favor of Piefed, but there's also a lot of people who prefer sticking with Lemmy.
  If there was just a single option, there's a possibility I or others might not be here today, because we don't like the choices that single option went with.

  Finally, there's also the danger of a company acquiring the project and enshittifying it. They can't really acquire an entire federation protocol and every software implementing it.

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  In the first place, the fediverse is about interoperability between different social networks. If you have just one social network, you have no use for the fediverse anymore. So your question is really more like "why do we need the fediverse?". There's no such thing as "unifying the fediverse", as that's the antithesis of the fediverse. Unifying it would undo it. The fediverse is nothing without its nature of connecting different projects together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unifying the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a fediverse messager people could use?

  There is one in active development. But it doesn't seem to be federating YET according to the description. That's an item in the planned list, and federating with other instances of itself is marked as wip. But work is being done on that front, the latest commit on the main branch is from 4 days ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NOSTR and content moderation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is using paragraphs. I checked the post on your instance and it's also showing paragraphs. Like OP said, if you can't see them, something is wrong on your end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I have to read up on the exact definition of "group".

  Here you go.

  Represents a formal or informal collective of Actors.

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  has there ever been discussions regarding SSO?

  Don't know about Lemmy specifically, but there has been discussion on SSO in the fediverse in general. There is an FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal) which lists some implementers. I have also heard the client-to-server API part of ActivityPub could be used for this, but I don't think projects usually implement that (it's optional).
  It should be theoretically possible to provide SSO for any fediverse project which has an API with authentication. I think. So sign in with Lemmy should be possible, but it's up to those other projects to implement it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others have said, you can follow accounts from those servers. If they present themselves as group actors, as Lemmy (unlike Mbin for example) doesn't allow following non-group actors.

  You can't however just go to their website and log in with your Lemmy account. ActivityPub doesn't have a built-in mechanism for this, but some platforms like Mastodon iirc have a solution and there have been efforts made to standardize something. But there's nothing supported by the Lemmy side of the fediverse yet afaik.

  If you want to subscribe to a group actor from Lemmy but can't find them, try searching for the full URL from its home instance. That should tell it to go and fetch the actor. If you want a Lemmy-like experinece but also the ability to follow non-group actors, switch to Mbin. Same applies there, if you can't find an actor on your instance, search for their full URL on the search page and it should fetch them from their home server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they can put out arrest warrants and fines

  Of course they can, but they're unenforceable if the instance's operator has no presence nor assets in the UK. That's why I wrote "forced" in bold. They can issue shit, but that's where it stops.

  and possibly have the person extradited to the UK

  According to Wikipedia, extradition requires that the crime is such in BOTH countries. So no, I don't see that being an option here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ages identities?

  If they're located in the UK, sure. But given how small Lemmy instances are, I assume they'll fly under the radar.

  Non-UK instances won't be forced to do anything. The UK can't do shit outside their borders, so as long as the instance's operator doesn't set foot into the country, all they can do is block the instance in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A proposal to help the Lemmy devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just donate to them if you want to, why make it this complicated. If you don't want your money to go towards running the instance, then donate directly to those devs not involved with running the instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion's 2025 release goal is "pointless and unachievable" claims longtime dev, accuses two leads of rushing the mod out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here's a random Skyblivion developer's response to when this got brought up on their subreddit:

  Going to chime in here as someone on the team in general and not necessarily as someone who leads our communications. We've made it clear our goal is to release this year; that being said, there is still work we need to finish. Ultimately, Skyblivion will be released when the team is confident with it—our goal has been to have it ready for release this year.

  Now, what is "ready"? That is an ongoing conversation we have been having because the nature of a fan-made passion project is that there has to eventually be a cut-off of adding cool new things. Right now, we all agree Skyblivion isn't ready (otherwise we would release it today). Our aim is that it will be by the end of the year, if we as a team decide that it isn't we will be sure to share that.

  If you're ever curious about the transparency of our work, many of our developers regularly stream, and I encourage you to check them out!

  Lastly, a reminder to be nice and support one another. It is entirely acceptable to have strong feelings one way or another, but trying to take others down in the comments isn't appreciated and won't be tolerated. What has always made our community great is our shared love for Oblivion and our support of one another.

  TL;DR Skyblivion isn't ready right now, but we still hope it will be by the end of the year. If it isn't going to be, we will let you all know. Passion projects are full of passionate people, and sometimes we don't always agree 100% on everything. Treat each other with love and respect <3

  Just figured to add the other side of claims here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? "Threadiverse" has been used before Threads became a thing, and "thread" is a generic term that has existed for ages and doesn't belong to Meta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  in fact, I follow several Lemmy accounts, and I can directly follow your account as well, right from the web interface.

  Is there any point to following Lemmy users though? Like, unlike the rest of the fediverse, Lemmy doesn't send any posts to followers. They just exist, don't actually receive anything. Is there even any point to it then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because this isn't just Lemmy.

  Lemmy itself is more like a forum or old Reddit. A focus on discussion and link aggregation, not people. I personally still consider it social media, but there are enough people who draw the line there. Like others said, it depends on how YOU define social media.

  But this is the fediverse, not just Lemmy. I'm writing this from Mbin, which has a much bigger focus on people (you can follow users here). But you can also talk here from Mastodon. Then there's platforms like Friendica, afaik the Facebook of the fediverse, which theoretically also have access (though I have yet to see a user from there, so idk if they're functionally compatible with Lemmy).

  Lemmy itself might or might not fit in isolation, but if an instance is connected to the fediverse, it's definitely indirectly a social network. ActivityPub (the protocol used to connect the fediverse) is explicitly a social networking protocol as per its spec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm a bit confused by comments on this topic. Do sovereign countries not have the right anymore to decide their own laws and issue punishment when they're not followed?

  Like, they obviously can't enforce these fines. This article says as much. The fines can't be enforced, but if 4chan ignores them, that opens the door for other measures like delisting the site from search engines or blocking access to it from the UK (these two examples are taken from the article). Which are fair measures imo.

  Like, to the people saying UK can't do laws which apply to services which are merely accessible in the UK and have no physical presence there, do you also apply this logic to the GDPR, which works the same way? The US has these laws too, like COPPA iirc. It's not really something the UK came up with, it's a bit of a standard with laws like this as far as I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope a country like switzerland or something lets companies host servers there for europe without enforcing dumb laws from uk/european union.

  Not going to happen with Switzerland and EU laws. Being completely surrounded by the EU, we're really bad with leverage and are already struggling to not have worse and worse deals forced on us. Plus, we have our own Chat Control type law coming up (which is why Proton is leaving). There's no way we'll take a stance against EU law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This already exists, I have seen it used before, don't know any exact repositories though. The reason it's not really used is because it's pointless. What are you trying to achieve with it? Your community won't look more active if it has more posts with zero upvotes and zero comments all made by the same user.

  Hiding posts from bots will also hide posts from this bot.

  Keep in mind that not everyone here uses Lemmy, so a Lemmy feature isn't a good defense in a federated world like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said, I love Windows 11. I actually prefer its features in general to what I've seen of Linux, I prefer its design a lot, and there's some stuff, like WSA and autohotkey, which simply doesn't exist on Linux with the same simplicity as far as I know. Can't use classic shell on linux either, and the start menus I have seen either looked ugly or were more launchers than start menus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Windows 11 (the non-copilot+ version) and am positive on AI, but if they pull through with this vision, I WILL switch to Linux once Win11 support ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest.

  You mean like how the french aren't protesting their country's support of Chat Control? At least I can't find any information on them doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Donating costs me money. Donating to every single website I like or rely on requires far more money than I have available or am willing to spend. I don't know your situation, but I'm not rich. I don't have that kind of disposable income to just throw around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus

  They've been A/B testing anti-adblock attempts for months or even years now, idk exactly with my sense of time. Sometimes adblocker A doesn't work, sometimes adblocker B doesn't work. Sometimes switching browser makes the same adblocker work, sometimes clearing cookies helps, sometimes its dependent on your account. Different users at the same time report different experiences with different adblockers. Sometimes watching a single non-blocked ad restores adblocker functionality magically for a few days.

  What I'm trying to say is, this didn't "just" happen, and it's specifically the author's current experience. I myself use Adblock Plus on Edge and Youtube works perfectly fine currently. This has been happening for a long time, and I'm sure there's uBlock Origin users currently who have the same experience while Adblock Plus works for them. Since that's how it's been the last times I've seen people talk about this, everyone talking about different experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm using Adblock Plus, because of their Acceptable Ads system. Imo it's far more ethical to regulate ads than to ban them entirely. Websites have to make money to sustain themselves, and ads are the least intrusive way this can be done besides donations (and let's be honest, most websites can't support themselves on donations alone). I'd rather have an ad or two at the end of an article than a paywall.

  I would love to switch to a different adblocker, ABP has quite enshittified over the years imo. But it would have to be one with Acceptable Ads support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Acceptable Ads is the very reason I'm still using Adblock Plus. What's the problem with it? It's an optional feature, just turn it off and you don't have to deal with it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time for community git to somehow be federated like lemmy.

  Already being worked on for a while. It's called ForgeFed and being developed by Forgejo (the software powering codeberg). It's an extension to the ActivityPub protocol, which is also powering the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.”

  Interesting, because the checkbox is still there for me. Don't see things having changed at all, maybe they made the fine print more white? But nothing else.

  In general, this reminds me of the incognito drama. Iirc people were unhappy that incognito mode didn't prevent Google websites from fingerprinting you. Which... the mode never claimed to do, it explicitly told you it didn't do that.

  For chats to be discoverable through search engines, you not only have to explicitly and manually share them, you also have to then opt in to having them appear on search machines via a checkbox.

  The main criticism I've seen is that the checkbox's main label only says it makes the chat "discoverable", while the search engines clarification is in the fine print. But I don't really understand how that is unclear.
  Like, even if they made them discoverable through ChatGPT's website only (so no third party data sharing), Google would still get their hands on them via their crawler. This is just them skipping the middleman, the end result is the same. We'd still hear news about them appearing on Google.

  This just seems to me like people clicking a checkbox based on vibes rather than critical thought of what consequences it could have and whether they want them. I don't see what can really be done against people like that.

  I don't think OpenAI can be blamed for doing the data sharing, as it's opt-in, nor for the chats ending up on Google at all. If the latter was a valid complaint, it would also be valid to complain to the Lemmy devs about Lemmy posts appearing on Google. And again, I don't think the label complaint has much weight to it either, because if it's discoverable, it gets to Google one way or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, you explicitly have to opt into this, for each chat you share individually.

  I get that it says "discoverable" at first and the search engines are in the fine print, but search engine crawlers get it anyway if it's discoverable on ChatGPT's website instead. That term is plenty clear imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ChatGPT chats are only public when turned into a shareable chat (which is a manually created snapshot of the chat with a link). And they only show up on search machines if you, after sharing, select the opt-in checkbox for having it show up there.

  I don't know how duck.ai works, but I assume it doesn't do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Switzerland announced a new LLM project which might be of interest here.

  Here's a German article on it. If you're okay with a Reddit link, here's a translation.

  Some points on it:

  • fully open source in its entirety — source code, model weights, and training data will all be publically released.
  • licensed under Apache 2.0
  • compliant with Swiss data protection laws, copyright law, and the EU AI act
  • respects crawler opt-outs on websites

  While nothing there explicitly says the data is ethically sourced, we'll be able to tell based on the opensource training data, and I assume copyright law takes care of stuff like books being used (though idk if the AI has a way to determine the license of web content, or if it fully relies on opt-outs there).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also it's only for AI Windows which requires an AI chip. Considering how anti-AI the fediverse is, I doubt any of the people here would be getting AI Windows in the first place. It's a non-issue for the user's here already from the get-go at the requirements.