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- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 weeks ago:
This was the case a year or two ago but now if you have an MCP server for docs and your project and goals outlined properly it’s pretty good.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 weeks ago:
A huge aspect of this is ranchers not cycling their land and allowing it to regrow native grasses properly, which does end up running into the land use problem again. But right now we’re very unoptimized with land regrowth and there’s a huge difference that can be made with just properly handling the land and to stop ranching in literal deserts.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
A lot of this comment hinges on your belief that US women are not intelligent enough to to understand that exploitation and manipulation. Knowledge has progressed a lot in the last 20 years. Look at the under 18 and 20-24 age groups here
There are much better examples of the subjugation of women in the US right now than to pin the societal oppression on US’ fostering of an anti intellectual society.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
The freedom of both women and the general public is not solely dictated by healthcare and the ability to attain higher education.
Does a free society cut off country wide access to the external internet?
Iran is actively lying to its citizens saying they destroyed the US base in Qatar and there was minimal damage to Iranian nuclear facilities. Both outright lies. This is not a free golden society.
How many women are persecuted from laws around the head dressing and other clothing related issues.
Boiling womens rights down to they can become an engineer and have good healthcare is laughably pathetic and on the verge of being a conservative talking point I would hear on fox news in justification for stripping away more rights. Pinning the struggle of US women against Iranian women is an incredibly pathetic mindset that only fosters negativity.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
Both of you are right but there’s definitely levels to how much worse it is in Iran
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
Even for non newcomers, having threads marked as duplicates for problems introduced by version changes that aren’t considered in the original question/answers is a major issue.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 3 months ago:
Let’s not kid ourselves the user experience is much much nicer on tiktok than on Mastadon.
- Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture 3 months ago:
not including the one picture of the protocoll/network topology
This is a solid one from their wiki Image
- Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture 3 months ago:
This is just wrong. Another platform similar to tiktok(spark) is in beta with their own infrastructure outside of all Bluesky servers and they have to deal with their own moderation. They can choose to read in any Bluesky data they please and bluesky can do the same with theirs.
If Bluesky shuts down all servers tomorrow they still exist. The federation is simply adopting their Lexicon into your relay and appview.
If you want a microblogging platform specifically you can easily run your own infrastructure similar to running an instance, intake all BlueSky posts and if Bluesky shuts down your app will continue operating using BlueSkys lexicon, however you’ll have to manage your own moderation.
- Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture 3 months ago:
Would love to know why you think it’s not?
- Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture 3 months ago:
We’re just arguing semantics just to argue at this point.
I can say how the paragraph says the majority of Fediverse platforms operate on ActivityPub and how ATProto is not within that majority at the moment.
Or I can say yes Diaspora is the only one that matches the original definition, but what is the definition now?
But a much better conversation is why we’re trying to fracture our conversations around decentralized social media? The data is open and can be bridged. At that point are both protocols the Fediverse? Why are we digging ourselves into a whole here on the Activitypub side and refusing to discuss how we can further the Fediverse and decentralization?
- Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture 3 months ago:
The literal first line of Wikipedia agrees with me?
The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi)[4][5][6] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol.
- Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture 3 months ago:
Instead of being a patronizing ass, how about let’s have some discussion about
The ultimate goal of this subreddit is a fully decentralized social media landscape.
And how ATProto is not accomplishing this / what they can be doing differently than what’s outlined in their blog post
Or a counter argument to
Fracturing discussion between ActivityPub and ATProto helps no one, especially in niche communities like this.
- Comment on Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture 3 months ago:
The idea of the Fediverse is simply a group of social networks communicating through the same protocol, is that not what ATProto is attempting to accomplish?
I’ve been a long time supporter that ATProto actually is apart of the Fediverse. The ultimate goal of this subreddit is a fully decentralized social media landscape. Fracturing discussion between ActivityPub and ATProto helps no one, especially in niche communities like this. The long-term goal is the same, and whether that progression happens on protocol A or platform B it’s progressive nonetheless and we should discuss it.
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on ghibli posting 4 months ago:
Just put the shitpost in the bag
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 4 months ago:
OpenAI is so lagging behind in terms of image generation it is comical at this point.
They dropped a new image model last week using 4o to contextualize the request, it’s very very good. However it’s for paid subscribers only right now I believe.
However as you mentioned Stable diffusion and mid journey probably still have more customizability.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 4 months ago:
On xiaohongshu before the translate feature people would write in both languages for ease of translation and so the other side wouldn’t have to translate it themselves.
That’s probably the best situation especially when we don’t have text limits.
It was however hilarious watching everyone find out in realtime just how bad Google translator is for Chinese and literally everyone having to swap to GPT or DeepL.
- Comment on Enshittification 4 months ago:
I was just reading an article about how candy companies are trying to make GLP-1 (Ozempic) resistant candy that is effectively hyper-addicting and restarts the cycle of addiction.
Incredible how bad capitalism is for society and it’s affect on food processes in order to drive needless profits.
- Comment on The chair 4 months ago:
Someone get her to Congress
- Submitted 4 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 469 comments
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 months ago:
I see this thrown around a lot.
90% of us watch Netflix, Plex, YT TV or some other streaming service, how do I watch these with 4k quality without connecting to the Internet? That’s just an unrealistic request for 90% of TV users.
- Comment on Gratitude for open social media alternatives. 4 months ago:
You’re actually right they are decentralized and your account would continue existing if you had your own PDS and either you or someone else was running a relay.
The OP above is essentially saying what if the relay goes down, but anyone can run a relay it just costs a few hundred a month and there’s little reason to do so (right now).
Usually people on this side of the Fediverse aren’t in the know on the AT Proto inner workings.
One thing you can point out is protocol ownership, Bluesky owns the AT Proto protocol and can change it however they like while ActivityPub is a W3C ownership so a lot more resilient (albeit slower changes)
- Comment on Self-hosted Personal Finance Suggestions 5 months ago:
I spent a lot of time trying to find an open source self hosted tool to replace mint and ended up just moving to Monarch and paying. Honestly it’s been a really great experience as if long as you don’t mind the annual $50.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 6 months ago:
The big issue here is they’re being treated as criminals who committed violent crimes and it’s a disgusting sight for everyone involved except racists. A lot of these people are innocent people, some who have been here for over 15-20 years and have entire lives and families in the US.
That’s why most of the talks here were around Colombia sending their Presidential plane to pick up their citizens. They weren’t rejecting the people, they were rejecting the way in which it was done.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 8 months ago:
Bluesky is apart of the Fediverse and the quicker ActivityPub sites accommodate that fact the quicker we’ll have an open internet.
This pissing fight between ActivityPub sites and Bluesky is dumb and doesn’t further an open internet.
Not directed at you but to a lot, go put time into making Mastodon compatible with atProto instead of bitching.
- Comment on Live Long and Prosper... with aliens 8 months ago:
It’s been an incredibly slow churn to progress.
The most noteworthy thing at yesterday’s hearing was a report on a Unclassified secret access program - Immaculate constellations which outlines types of UAPs and their behavior. The problem is it’s brought in via an unverified source, either current or former member of the DoD. Also it’s improperly formatted for a DoD doc. But that can possibly be explained via them editing it for public use.
The most interesting and ironclad to come from everything so far has been Schumer’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2024 (UAPDA) which is attempting to get passed with the NDAA (Annual defense act). In the act it lays out the groundwork for UAPs existence and that the government is in charge of both reconnaissance and recovery of them, and most of the secrets are held behind the Department of Energy.
A lot of Chuck Schumer’s comments and amendments play relatively safe though saying “if this exists” then here’s a law. But there was also a lot of work put into a 2023 UAPDA with that NDAA and actually got shot down by Republican military industrial complex lackeys so take from that as you will.
The 2023 amendment was fought over heavily because it required a return of all classified uap biological materials and non biologics to be returned to the US government from private contractors. Which is another big bullet point.
I think the most news we’ll get soon is whether the 2024 version of the UAPDA is included in the NDAA this year.
- Comment on Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky 9 months ago:
I truthfully don’t think this bridge will work long-term just because it’s rather clunky. I think mastodon needs an integration built into their platform so instances can have the choice to turn on a two way atProto connection that creates accounts under the instance identity and writes and reads post to atProto.
Bluesky doesn’t need to adjust anything as they’ll pick up anything written to atProto.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 9 months ago:
Instances aren’t necessarily a thing in atProto because an instance usually refers to a single server. But you can see people’s posts from selfhosted PDS/relays yes.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 9 months ago:
If you can build or selfhost your own of the following to read and push back to all of the atProto protocol:
- App
- Backend Relay
- Moderation
- Algorithm
And you still say that’s not decentralized I’m not sure what you’re looking for nor what your definition of decentralization is.
