Sl00k

@Sl00k@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to know why you think it’s not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architectureatproto.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ghibli posting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone get her to Congress

• Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in Aprilwww.plex.tv ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open protocols and APIs seem pretty meaningless to me if there’s a single point of control for the brand.

  You’d need to expand on this more for me to understand you. Yes there’s a single point of control from a moderation standpoint (labeler), as there is on Lemmy instances. But anyone can host their own ATProto relays and the Bluesky relay will federate with each other automatically federate.

  If everyone migrates to bluesky and then bluesky says “of we’re not doing that open thing anymore because of this new embiggened thing we’re doing” everyone will still be on bluesky.

  Not necessarily because the accounts are atProto accounts and you can migrate to another platform(albeit another doesn’t exist yet) As far as the Bluesky app goes it really just shows you atProto posts and hosts your data (similar to Lemmy instances) they as an entity just also maintain the OSS backend firehouse crawler and more.

  I really think a lot of people have this perspective that it’s not decentralized just because it truly is a lot more complicated due to there being like 5 different moving pieces of decentralization (PDS, Relay, Appview, tbd labeler, algorithm) and they do a great job at obscuring it for regular users which is a great thing. And nobody has really tinkered around and set-up any sites or integration with it yet. I’m personally trying to get a mastodon two way mastodon integration setup as it’s possible but nobody has done a solid implementation (just somewhat gnarly bridges between protocols)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t necessarily true. Just because their architecture is harder and not a simple server host does not strip away its decentralization.

  They have decentralized the following:

  • App access (can build your own or show openProto posts in your platform

  • Algorithms

  • Firehouse (backend albeit rumored to be expensive)

  • More if you consider the domain name hosting stuff and media storage control. Also moderation is planned to be decentralized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request cycle time and throughput, Uplevel found no meaningful improvements for those using Copilot.

  This assumes I’m going to dedicate my increased productivity to my employer. I’m still at the same level of productivity but personally my effort needed for specific tasks has dropped a lot meaning more free time for me.