ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on Finally got around to checking out Mob Psycho 100 2 days ago:
I think you’ll be in for a treat when you get to it!
- Comment on Finally got around to checking out Mob Psycho 100 2 days ago:
Right? Also here’s how little I knew of it going in: I only knew the name of it and thought it might be an edgy show about some yakuza or something that was constantly going all out 😂
- Submitted 2 days ago to anime@ani.social | 17 comments
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 4 days ago:
But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.
This is the model digital media should take, frankly. Anything less may as well be misleading marketing, as far as I’m concerned.
- Comment on Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
At a glance, Misskey and associated forks may appear to be Twitter-clones, but dig a little more and you’ll find they’re a lot more, for better and worse.
The interface is highly customizable, not just with some different colored themes nor a multi-column interface, but that you can stack page elements in columns and set up “antennae” or filters to surface posts including specified keywords and/or hashtags while excluding others. There’s also what they call “channels” which I think are sort of like groups or dedicated topics apart from hashtags to post to and discuss whatever the channel topic is.
Oh, and because it seems *key wants to have a little of everything, there’s Pages, which is basically longform blog posting, and some versions include simple games. There’s also options for some other widgets I’ve not mentioned here. It’s genuinely pretty wild compared to the other federated microblogging services with how much flexibility it has and all that it has packed in.
I think the only other federated service I’ve found that’s comparable in flexibility may be Hubzilla, albeit I got the impression it’s less user friendly, but still, very customizable and a lot you could do with it.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to animemes@ani.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on If you find a way, please tell us! 4 weeks ago:
i’ll tell ya how to undo this, but it’ll involve going over their heads, and you won’t believe this but then you’ll be…
you ready? you really can't undo this one
sturgeon general’d
- Comment on A little late to My Hero Academia and... 4 weeks ago:
How do you go about following manga btw? Physical copies, or can you buy them digitally now? I used to try to follow some manga with physical copies, but for long-running series that got silly, and libraries around me only carried a few older volumes if they carried any.
(I know of other ways to get them fwiw, but a quick glance at the terms for this instance says not to discuss those, so let’s not get into them 😅 )
- Comment on A little late to My Hero Academia and... 4 weeks ago:
Aah, I’m only in the midst of season 4 right now, and I’m not sure if what I’m watching it through goes to season 5 or not. I’m only now realizing this series is still ongoing, so I may stop after season 4, particularly if that’s all that’s available anyway. 😄
- Comment on Observations from poking Bluesky app 4 weeks ago:
use[r] identities are not tethered to instances
Tbh while this is technically true, given the current circumstances, identities essentially are tethered albeit in a roundabout way. What I mean by that is, there’s no real point to them without some relay and appview to work with, and for now, that’s just Bluesky.
That said, I agree that it would be better to go to them than to Twitter (if they’re not even considering stuff like Mastodon), but that’s a low hurdle to clear.
- Comment on Observations from poking Bluesky app 4 weeks ago:
Oh! Thanks for the notice! I swear I think the spoiler stuff may have changed at some point, but maybe I’ve been handling it wrong this whole time.
I’ve also not really wanted to use horizontal rules because of it turning things into headers, but haven’t found a better way to put some spacing between the end of lists and the rest of a post’s text. I think I’ve corrected it properly now to be less jank.
- Comment on Observations from poking Bluesky app 4 weeks ago:
Idea is that eventually others will be able to build atop their protocol and set up different “appviews” as they call them as well as relays and personal data servers. As I understand it, “appviews” may be viewed similar to what Lemmy and Mastodon are to ActivityPub, different ways to view data passed through ActivityPub.
Right now I think Bluesky may be the only such “appview” for their protocol parsing data from their relay, but the idea is you could spin up your own personal data server and maybe also your own appview, or choose from whichever may eventually exist, and that would be like your own “instance” connecting you to others via the appview parsing relay data.
So in other words, sort of yes to your first question, and it’s sort of because right now there’s only one AuthTransfer relay at the moment and that’s Bluesky.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to anime@ani.social | 5 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Why AI is going to be a shitshow. 5 weeks ago:
When other’s, be it corporations or people start to decide which information a person can and cannot access, is a damn slippery slope we better level out before AI starts to roll out en masse.
You highlight the bigger issue here than AI alone tbh. This is why another critical element is becoming literate and teaching each other methods of independent research, using multiple sources to develop an understanding, and not relying on any singular source, especially without careful review.
All the technology in the world can’t help a person learn and understand, who hasn’t yet learned how to learn, much less understand.
- Comment on [News] Studio Ghibli Fest will bring 14 movies back to theaters this year in the US 1 month ago:
Btw, if you go to the site linked in the article and click buy tickets for the upcoming movie showing, you can enter in your zip code to see which theatres around you may be showing them!
- Comment on More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service! 1 month ago:
From what I understand, you’ll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it’s mostly a new way to “consume” them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities.
I think you’re correct with the first sentence, but on the second, I somewhat disagree. Strictly speaking, it’s correct, yet it’s not so new insofar as other platforms have done similar sorts of things, and with GOG I’d have hoped they might look into partnering with some software developers working on enabling local/self-hosted game streaming solutions more in the spirit of the DRM free approach.
- Comment on Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub 1 month ago:
I would feel better if stories like this gave us background on the people involved. Who is Mike Macgirvin? I don’t want the person to dox themselves but I do want to know where he came from, what work he’s done before, what companies he’s worked for and what kind of people, organizations or groups he has worked with in the past. What school, university or program did he come out of? How old is he? What nationality? Where does he live and work now?
Did you miss the interview linked in the article? They interviewed Mike Macgirvin a few years back, and it goes into some of the background you’re wondering about.
- Comment on More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service! 1 month ago:
…Isn’t this a weird move for a DRM free service to make?
- Comment on Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub 1 month ago:
On one hand, I appreciate this a lot as it’s been baffling to me that this aspect of Zot wasn’t adopted during development of ActivityPub. On the other, I kind of feel like forgets or overlooks the benefits of running separate identities.
I recognize that the article points to this easing that process in a way, but it’s pointing more to facets of a single identity, which benefits from some degree of interchangeability depending on those facets. This is clearest in the notion of retaining one’s audience with minimal disruption should one facet’s instance/host go offline for some reason, but also in it being relevant to maintain the same content between facets.
This has sort of also been the issue some see with the idea of federation and the fediverse itself. Some people enjoy the different styles of posting and interaction across different sites/platforms, yet in some ways federation tends to blur or break those distinctions and try, sometimes clumsily, to blend it all together. For those all in on the idea, that’s a major bonus, but for those not sold on it, it’s a major pitfall.
In some respects I think this may kind of help those wanting to maintain different identity facets around here, but may also create a potential tripping point for those trying to more easily maintain distinct identities depending on implementation.
- Comment on Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky 1 month ago:
As I understand it so far:
Broad strokes general pros/cons:
Bsky’s pros:
- Some more influential/popular, and creative people have joined. - Full account migration across instances.
- Initially at least: lower population/exclusivity, meaning less noise and fewer personality clashes, fewer trolls, so “better vibes”.
- More focused interfaces providing smoother user experience.
— Somewhere in-between:
- More social algorithm friendly, i.e. feeds with posts from what your followed accounts are liking or commenting on. - Quote posting (this one I’m counting as in-between because some Mastodon people really dislike them). - Full text search by default (see second point as to why I have this here.*) — Bsky’s negatives (as of writing):
- Fewer people overall, so can seem dead.
- No post editing. - No video/gif posting. - No audio posts. - No direct/private/mentioned only messages. — *-Note: Mastodon now has a form of full text search but it must enabled by instance admins and one must opt their account’s posts into search visibility for them to show up. This is the result of the years of back & forth over the feature and is an interesting compromise approach.
Broad strokes technical pro/cons compared to Mastodon:
Bsky/Bluesky’s tentative benefits:
- Full account migration across instances (Personal Data Servers).
- Personal Data Servers may have lower resource costs compared to Mastodon instances, enabling more self-hosting. - The underlying protocol (Authorized Transfer Protocol/ATProto) enables custom feeds to help one find what they want to see and only view that. - As this post details, it may enable more distributed moderation so that your host/instance isn’t necessarily the final say in what you can see. — Tentative negatives:
- Relays may have higher resource costs, reducing how decentralized/distributed it is.
- Currently Bsky’s federation/decentralization is only with self-hosted Personal Data Servers, while so far as I’m aware, they’re still operating the only Relay. - While the protocol may enable distributed moderation, this may also be viewed as a downside as it increases complexity in regards to which moderation services/moderators to subscribe to, who to report anything to, etc. - Custom feeds may also create a similar problem as distributed moderation in terms of choice paralysis/confusion, and further entrenching people into echo chambers more than existing social media already arguably enables.
— Worth noting when compared to Mastodon:
- Mastodon has partial account migration.
- Mastodon allows post editing, video/gif/audio posts, and direct/mentioned only messages. - Each instance’s local feed, and even its federated feed, may be viewed as providing a sort of custom feed produced by those on the instance. - Probably closer to what Bluesky means: Mastodon also allows one to make lists of others to create a distinct feed, follow hashtags, and one may pin a hashtag in a column then add others to include/exclude to create a custom hashtag feed in the advanced web interface.
- Also although it’s clunkier in Mastodon, one may export their lists, block/mute lists, and share these with others to import to their own account. - Bluesky also talks about different AppViews, which I think may be understood in relation to some of the different web interfaces, or apps one may use with Mastodon (one may understand this on Lemmy in a similar way, e.g. Alexandrite/Voyager~Thunder, etc.). - Comment on Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky 1 month ago:
I’m still not sure what I think of this to be honest, but I appreciate some more detail on how this is designed to operate on the frontend and the backend, e.g.
In the AT Protocol network, various services, such as the PDS, Relay, and AppView, have ultimate discretion over what content they carry, though it’s not the most straightforward avenue for content moderation. Services that are closer to users, such as the client and labelers, are designed to be more actively involved in community and content moderation.
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Infrastructure providers such as Relays play a different role in the network, and are designed to be a common service provider that serves many kinds of applications. Relays perform simple data aggregation, and as the network grows, may eventually come to serve a wide range of social apps, each with their own unique communities and social norms. Consequently, Relays focus on combating network abuse and mitigating infrastructure-level harms, rather than making granular content moderation decisions.(Emphasis mine.)
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount 2 months ago:
Works but feels like a bit much for media 🤔
- Comment on God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount 2 months ago:
I feel like there should be a better verb/word for unrestricting/unrestricted media.
- Comment on Nilay Patel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great 2 months ago:
For sure, and I’m kinda hopeful too, for more personal sites of all sorts in general tbh.
It’s that technical part though that I think remains the big barrier for many, at least for those that want to more fully hold the reins over their online space.
- Comment on Nilay Patel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great 2 months ago:
Blogs are cool.
The whole setting up a website and justifying the cost for a public log/journal…Not so much. It’s still clunky and costly enough that it pushes people to platforms handling all the tech backend for them, whether nonprofit or for profit. I think if enough of the technical side were made less cumbersome (and this is from someone that’s okay with tech jank), then the financial costs wouldn’t be as much of a factor for many since for modest sites they’re already rather low.
Although if I’m overestimating site setup stuff, I’d love to read how. All the research I’ve done has been somewhat discouraging when it comes to handling hosting a site yourself (i.e. security concerns, traffic handling, etc.).
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 2 months ago:
This is a longshot and may be wrong, but as I didn’t find the other replies here (nor on Reddit, where a similar question was asked) satisfying, I did some digging and found this paper that relates to something called CARAFE, which seems as though it may fit as it relates to image processing and improving image resolution.
Although arrafe or arafe have dropped the c, perhaps it still relates to this? That seems to make more sense at least in terms of image generation, and maybe in descriptions it’s meant to indicate that this was used, like to improve the quality or something. For anyone interested, the paper linked to isn’t paywalled, so you can check it out and see if this makes sense in context.
From my limited knowledge of this subject, I think it does, but 🤷♀️
- Comment on People can't truly understand history they haven't lived. 2 months ago:
You might be interested in doing some reading on the subject of epistemology. I think it’s a mistake to suppose that the hard basis of knowledge is experience alone, especially given that so much of our knowledge is formed through abstraction, and there’s many questions of what it may even mean to directly experience anything to begin with.
Reflect on any historical moment you may have lived through to this point. The entire ability to recognize it as an historical moment itself suggests conceptual models of the events of being that are not in themselves necessarily representative of a true, factual basis unless one may somehow be privy to a wider range of information and knowledge than any individual typically has. One’s experience of that historical moment then will be no more representative of a true history than any so-called victors nor any other everyday people.
Only after reflection and careful investigation of the event and the contexts surrounding it may people come closer to something resembling a true historical account (and historians could speak better to what more be may involved in striving after this than I’m indicating here). It is much the same, imo, for any efforts to develop knowledge. Anything less may be some interesting stories that may hold some fragments of truth and facts, but are disorganized folk knowledge at best, perhaps malicious disinformation at worst.