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Atiran ,

This is a great perspective. I have definitely fallen into this meme’s sentiment many times. You have to remind yourself that it doesn’t matter.

Atiran ,

I sometimes listen to piano music while reading. It has to be relatively quiet and relaxed, or it becomes distracting.

Atiran ,

JavaScript is super fun when you’re just a kid building a hobby website.

Atiran ,

Fun fact: one of them is named Spirit of Kitty Hawk, after the place where the Wright brothers flew.

Atiran ,

The speed at which humanity refined flight after the Wright brothers is truly amazing.

Atiran ,

No coding at work! Only meetings! What do you think we’re paying you for?

Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to “understand the true nature of the universe” (www.theverge.com)

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company called xAI with the goal of understanding the true nature of the universe. The team at xAI includes AI researchers who have worked at companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and DeepMind. Little is known about xAI currently except that Musk seeks funding from SpaceX and Tesla to start it....

Atiran ,

How has he not been forced out of Tesla yet? Does he spend any time with them at all?

Atiran ,

In 2005 I bought an inexpensive black-and-white HP laser jet for $99. To this day it still prints flawlessly after sitting idle for months or years. The toner never “dries out” or goes bad. Nor have I ever once needed to print in color. If I ever do, I’ll go to a print shop.

I think I’m on my 3rd toner cartridge since 2005. Highly recommend.

Atiran , (edited )

Companies have been gorging themselves at the free buffet of open source software for a long time. But now the party is ending and many things that used to be free are no longer free for enterprise use.

Atiran ,

Yes, you are right. And I proofread it and still missed it.

Tumblr says it’s going to “fix” its “core experience” to appeal to new users (www.theverge.com)

Tumblr plans to make changes to appeal to new users and improve growth. The post states that Tumblr is currently difficult for new users to use and curates content poorly. Tumblr aims to improve how users discover and sign up, encourage frequent engagement, and boost creators’ ability to attract audiences. Specific changes...

Atiran ,

I have not looked into it or anything, but I think a tumblr alternative would do very well on the fediverse. I think it could even be better for self-hosting than Lemmy.

Atiran ,

And that’s why corporate media will always suck.

Does this feature help our users? Yes, but does it make us more money? No. So we’re not doing it.

Atiran ,

Fantastic!

Atiran ,

Me neither!

Atiran ,

I think it’s natural that there should be a small collection of large, production-class instances that host the vast majority of users. The important point is that there are more than a few, and certainly more than one.

I also think it is important for instance admins to lay out their plan for how they intend to host and fund an instance if they intend to be production-class.

We also need some kind of account backup and migration tool so that if an instance goes down, those users can easily recover on another instance.

Atiran ,

Agreed. It sounds to me like lemm.ee is in good hands.

Atiran ,

Excellent!

Atiran ,

I was just gonna say that. love the colors!

Atiran ,

I think it’s only older people who remember what the internet was like before everything became corporate controlled or SEO optimized.

Atiran , (edited )

In an SSO scenario, your home instance would still need to be around to act as the IDP. I don’t think that adds much in terms of functionality over what we have now.

The ability to backup and migrate your account is critical to prevent losing your data if an instance goes down. SSO wouldn’t help you in that scenario.

Atiran ,

It’s easy, you just step, step, step, step in, or wait, over, or, oops.

Atiran ,

I have worked with most of these people at one point or another. I used to sit next to an old architect like walters. He had so many patents the company only recognize him on every 10th one.

Atiran ,

I always drain it off and then it browns up nicely.

Atiran ,

Pizza and beer tonight! Gonna be a great weekend. Cheers!

Atiran ,

I’ve been there! Very cool place.

Atiran ,

Cute ☺️

Atiran ,

I’m liking Memmy a lot so far.

renwillis , to fediverse
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Article Update: In less than 2 days, somehow gets even worse!

https://rentsuru.medium.com/its-been-5-minutes-and-instagram-s-threads-already-sucks-f10d507807ed

My feed is now all those interesting people, places, & publications that I followed on over the years reacting & replying to celebrities & brands like Dunkin Donuts and fucking Paris Hilton.

Or worse, seeing celebrities & brands replying to each other.

Awesome. 😬

@fediverse

Atiran ,

I always found it hilarious and sad when people interacted with brands. “Someone you know liked Walmart”. Why?

Atiran ,

I think that universities are perfect for hosting instances (of Mastodon too). It would be a great teaching opportunity, and the cost seems like it would be negligible.

When I was a kid, our internet connection was actually hosted through the local university. It makes sense for them to participate in distributed platforms like this.

Atiran ,

That’s a very good point.

I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.

In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.

Atiran ,

I think a lot of people don’t care, and a lot more people just have no idea what’s going on. You have to be hyper-aware of how your data could get farmed in order to prevent each new service from collecting it.

Atiran ,

In this case I like to return a 502.

Atiran ,

Nice! I’m definitely going to implement 787 at work.

Atiran ,

Imagine if you told them then that this photo would one day “be on the fediverse”

Atiran ,

This dog is way cooler than I’ll ever be 🤣

Atiran ,

I agree with him that there is inevitably a strong tendency toward centralization, but I think a key feature to help with that would be the portability of one’s account to new instances. Even if the majority of users are in only a few instances, there is still a safeguard against one entity (I.e. corporation) directing the health of the whole system. If accounts were portable, when an instance went foul, people could move and the system as a whole would self-heal.

Nonetheless, it’s an interesting article. And the cost and challenges of running a web scale service are not conducive to small time players.

Atiran ,

I agree. Ultimately, I think there is a real chance that there ends up being 2 major fediverses. One that is federated with Meta, and one that is not.

I think that those joined to meta will ultimately become like the losers table in a school cafeteria. They can hear all of the conversations, but nobody will engage them. I’d rather be in the not-federated camp.

Atiran ,

Lemmy has definitely been able to replace Reddit for me. And although I don’t fully understand the fediverse either, I am super intrigued by the concept. I hope this style is the future of social interaction on the internet.

khazram , to RedditMigration
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@fediverse Hi Fediverse! This is so much cooler than Reddit could dream.

Atiran ,

Amazing! This gives me hope for the future of the internet. It was always meant to be distributed, not centralized into a few corporate hands.

Atiran ,

Cute!

Atiran ,

I don’t copy code. I look for inspiration!

Atiran ,

Same. I like it (and miss Apollo). But I also like the web interface too.

Atiran ,

God Emperor of Dune. Really liking it so far and I hope to get through the whole chronicle by next year. (I’m not grinding them one after another). Dune (the first book) is one of my favorites of all time.

Also, Make Something Wonderful, a collection of Steve Jobs’ writings and speeches, which was free. I’ve enjoyed it, since I’m in that industry.

Atiran ,

I loved the show too. Really tempted to pick up the second book.

maegul , to fediverse
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So most of the new growth was taken up by mastodon.social ... right?

See
https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon ... which doesn't provide recent numbers by time, but does if you go into individual instances, such as mastodon.world, where you can see user growth mainly occurred on mastodon.social.

I imagine some users have also returned, bumping MAU but perhaps a little more distributed.

Along with lemmy.world, it looks like "centralisation" is relatively natural.

@fediverse @fediversenews

Atiran , (edited )

While I certainly like having the choice of so many servers, and I think it’s smart to spread the load, I also understand why people would want to make sure they are in a stable server that has a reasonable chance to stay around. You have to put a certain amount of faith in the instance owner.

Atiran ,

Absolutely not. I’ve set it so that all sites are denied automatically, so I never even get asked anymore. I can’t imagine why I would ever want that, but I’m very selective with notifications altogether.

Atiran ,

Wow, that’s really beautiful!

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