maegul
@maegul@hachyderm.io
A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.
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- Comment on 5 months ago:
That search/SEO is broken seems to be part of the game plan here.
It's probably like Russia burning Moscow against Napoleon and a hell of a privilege Google enjoy with their monopoly.
I've seen people opt for chatGPT/AI precisely because it's clean, simple and spam free, because it isn't Google Search.
And as @caseynewton said ... the web is now in managed decline.
For those of us who like it, it's up to us to build what we need for ourselves. Big tech has moved on
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on 7 months ago:
@TheTomas @atomicpoet @fediversenews
What's interesting to me, as someone who's generally critical of the state of the fedi, is that I think atomicpoet is right, it is a part of the fediverse, but I think TheTomas's general point is also important, which is whether there should be a base threshold of inter-functionality to be considered a part of the fediverse.
Because merely receiving posts isn't far beyond RSS and the fedi, AFAICT, likes to (& should) think of itself as more than that too.
- Submitted 8 months ago to fediversenews@venera.social | 3 comments
- Comment on 8 months ago:
@jbwharris @shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews
Which, TBC, is all good by me.
It's just that the amount of noise and "drama" necessary to maintain this constant vigilance against what a decentralised social media protocol naturally allows seems like a potential dead end with diminishing returns.
EG, many on bsky that those here would like to talk to have probably left here because of this "noise" however much they align with the values here.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
@jbwharris @shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews
Yea, for me, the whole "I want a relatively anti-social social media" motive of many on masto seems like something that requires better institutional/infrastructural devices rather than merely distributing it amongst defed, personal blocks and outcries over opt-in/opt-out.
At some point, it seems, some people just want a different system than what this is. Like a closed FOSS Discord.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
@shlee @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews
eh ... as with Threads + fedipact, there's likely a spectrum where the louder voices can mask the "middle of the road" voices, for better or worse. Anti-Bridge-Pact?
What exactly is the difference between this and a new instance? I'm genuinely unclear?
Like, do kbin instances respect search indexing preferences? What about other commercial instances like moth?
Is it the relative size of bksy?
- Submitted 1 year ago to fediversenews@venera.social | 2 comments
- Comment on 1 year ago:
@fediversenews
ruud (woke up and) has reported on the incident: https://lemmy.world/post/1290412Seems that there was a vulnerability which has been patched and cleaned up. Patch is yet to be merged and pushed to all instances apparently.
Overall this incident has both positives and negatives. It’s not good that this could have happened. I’m not clear on the root cause so others can attest.
Positively, lemmy is an active platform, attracting attacks and devs/admins patching and maintaining the space. - Comment on 1 year ago:
So, lemmy.world is back up and running.
It seems (mostly?) sanitised from the hacker's defacement and is running (mostly) as though nothing has happened (which is perhaps alarming?).
Maybe avoid visiting if you have an account there (until things are verified) as it seems part of their hack was to scrape JWTs/cookies through a JS/scripting injection. (See, eg https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/850269)
- Comment on 1 year ago:
Seems that there may be a vulnerability in the platform itself.
beehaw.org have taken the precaution of turning their server off until things get sorted.
See https://hachyderm.io/@beehaw/110687918465426082
Also ... kudos to beehaw admins ... having an admin account on a separate instance and platform for announcements ... "this is the way" and all!
- Submitted 1 year ago to fediversenews@venera.social | 4 comments
- Comment on 1 year ago:
@fediversereport @fediverse @fediversenews
Just skimming through ... somehow caught a link to an estimate of mine on lemmy's true size (god I hope that number is reasonable ... it was a very rough estimate!)
Otherwise, the comment about kbin's active users ... kbin doesn't track active users AFAIK (I've read ernest say as much) ... it's more or less the same as their total user count +/- weird variation.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
@fediversenews RIght now ... it seems like they're focusing on creating generic feeds for people to follow and aren't interested in allowing people to create their own feeds. But that might change if it becomes a success.
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- Comment on no title posted 1 year ago:
You should probably at the original author of the proposal (not me): @supakaity