The key to “AI” is having a human there to take algorithms and apply them to the right problems.

This is what most people don’t understand because many of the demos are quite impressive and narrowly tailored to prevent the fact from being obvious unless you know what you’re looking for.

COMPILE ERROR - LIBRARY CALCAREA.H DOES NOT EXIST

goddamnit you acid tripping LLM…

About 200 pounds.

The interoperability of different software really is amazing. One of the best parts of the fediverse imo.

Everyone has their friend group and nobody else is allowed in unless we say so.

No, I’m using lotide, another link aggregator altogether. It’s a lot leaner, especially on the front end.

vpzom, the dev of lotide pointed me to this fep from gnusocial that talks about the problem and proposes something similar to my first suggestion:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/2100/fep-2100.md

I’ve tried aether, and I presently run a nostr node and satellite instance, but I’ve found both of those solutions have a problem due to relying on the local client. Many networks are locked down, so I find many places I can’t really participate in nostr or aether on the go (the latter is desktop only anyway), while I can hop into any of my activitypub related instances.

I know of one project to create a nostr client that I believe will handle the communications stuff at the server end, but we’ll have to see – you never know if projects actually get off the ground, or if they’re actually worth using until they get up and running for real.

(and lotide doesn’t implement editing at all, despite ActivityPub supporting it so my options are delete and repost or leave it)

I should have said threadiverse in the title. Oh well.

Man, the other day my phone didn’t have internet and popped up and old copy of my lotide. It was a painful reminder of how much more fun it used to be on the threadiverse. Sad that all the fun instances shut down and we end up trapped here with a bunch of boring redditors.

Wolfballs and exploding-heads didn’t show up as a response to lemmy instances, they showed up in response to big tech censorship, which we have a lot of evidence was being heavily manipulated. As I said in my initial post, wolfballs was created and shut down before most of the big lemmy instances today even started, and exploding-heads was started before most lemmy instances existed.

I’m not saying that the US government did the DDOS attacks. I doubt the US government was the cause of shutting down wolfballs or exploding-heads except insofar as the establishment powers that be took advantage of idiots being tribal to push their pet policies to the exclusion of any others (which too many people fell for and continue to fall for hook line and sinker). Another form of attack is the omnipresent risk of cancelation hanging over anyone’s head who isn’t in line with the current orthodoxy.

I’m not letting you guys win because I think these replies are attacks, but because lemmy has become so ideologically homogenous in part because reddit became so ideologically homogenous. What’s the point? I already know what you’re going to say because it’s one big groupthink that at one point I was myself a part of (along with most of society), so there’s no benefit to it. I’m seeking truth, and there’s nothing new to be found in arguing with people after I’ve been saturated in their unconvincing arguments for years. So you win, yep, stupid me.

Censorship is the institution, system, or practice of censoring. To censor is to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.

The Establishment is the part of a particular group that has power or control.

If the most powerful government on earth contacts the largest and most powerful companies on earth in order to categorically suppress or delete certain viewpoints or certain speakers, then by definition that is “‘the establishment’ censoring you”. The fact that you agree with the censorship doesn’t make it not censorship, and framing it in a moralistic way doesn’t make it not censorship. Being moralistic didn’t make it not censorship when the right was doing it.

Exploding-heads as I understand it was facing DDOS attacks near the end (or at least they thought it was), that’s one of the things that prompted the admin to shut it down, it wasn’t worth the effort to try to keep the site up and running under such an onslaught.

Anyway, I don’t know why I’d even try. You know what? You win. Everything is fine and censorship doesn’t exist and the only truth is that which the government and major corporations tell you, and the government and major corporations are actually the anti-establishment fighting against the big bad individuals who believe things they’re not supposed to.

They went to nostr or other parts of the fediverse because the lemmyverse is toxic and they were constantly facing attacks of various types. Same thing that happened to wolfballs before it.

Some of the users might lurk on other servers, but I have my doubts. The point was to have a place they could be free to talk about things the establishment were censoring. Most of the colonizers from Reddit don’t realize those servers existed long before most of what are considered the big Lemmy servers today even existed.

If the goal was just to troll redditors, there’s always reddit.

By that standard it seems to me like most of the internet should be shut down, particularly establishment outlets that are more than happy to tell you who to hate.

Unfortunately, it’s the paradox of liberty that to be free you need to also give freedom to people you don’t like who will do things you don’t like.

In spite of that, libre is an ideal worth pursuing. Otherwise everyone might as well just go right back to big tech now.

It’s always nice when authoritarians can paint whoever they disagree with as the great Satan to justify their authoritarianism. It only happens every single time.

Ideally, a distributed fediverse wouldn’t need much in terms of donations because it’s a bunch of small instances instead of a few huge ones.

Incidentally, there’s an 8 day old post on the topic that is showing in my instance and I checked the source it wasn’t deleted when I went.

Big problem with lemmy in particular is that communities are server based and so if you lose the server you lose the whole community.

On mastodon, if I talk to person 1@a.com and person 2@b.com and a.com goes down, I can still talk to person 2@b.com. on lemmy, I might be talking to both in community@c.com and if that server goes down I’m no longer in a community with person 1 or person 2 despite a.com and b.com both being up.