Mother fucking 2 year #lemmy cake day.
For me, lemmy was the actual start of the fediverse experience.
A reddit/forum style platform on the same protocol as Twitter style platforms that even kinda interacted with each other (first time seeing which was genuinely wonderful).
Since, I’ve always said the Fedi should do more group based things, and I stand by that. I even think Reddit/forum/group-based platforms are a better story on AP than microblogging and I’d wager they could stick around longer than the Twitter clones.
Either way, whenever I come back to the Fedi, I’m usually heading for lemmy / #threadiverse first. Reddit culture aside, I find it a much nicer way to find my people.
I hope all the best for the other platforms too… #kbin , #mbin , #piefed , #nodebb (and #friendica too)!
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AI Hot take: The “AI Problem” started with Google and magical search engines.
Great blog post by Veronica here (whose videos I’ve just discovered).
She talks about quitting search engines, and how, despite the loss of convenience, you grow closer to sources/communities that matter to you.
https://vkc.sh/quit-search/ ( @vkc )
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Can anyone parse this for me?
True decentralisation happens on #mastodon because it’s networked with Threads, a giant monolithic “instance” whose users are unlikely to ever leave?
I mean it’s good for people who want that network connection here, but it seems very strange to trumpet this as the only “true” decentralisation.
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113596014301032391
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No algorithm?
It seems that federation is the “algorithm” here.
I’m wondering if the only way in which this isn’t true reduces #mastodon down to an RSS reader. Which is a positive spin to many, but like, in the bigger picture, would certainly be some faint praise.
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So all those arguments about how federating with #threads was vital so people here could connect with their daughters and grandparents … do they now apply to #bluesky too?
Or is a competing decentralised protocol less palatable than … Zuckerberg’s shitty mega corporation?
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Anyone else finding the whole Threads-masto relationship more cringey in a post- #BlueSky growing world?
Like, cuddling up to zuck to feel “mainstream”, when you can actually just compete instead and not be connected at all with Zuck, just feels embarrassing to me.
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Analysis of follow/follower statistics that shows #BlueSky may actually be different in having more connections, compared “even” to #mastodon.
Community building tools like starter packs and user-created feeds are likely factors in this. Things the Fedi fails at sadly.
EDIT: See analysis here: https://bsky.app/profile/manlius.bsky.social/post/3lb66coarw22n
Quote post if @seachanger :
https://alaskan.social/@seachanger/113500023546622076
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For Hachydermians: BlueSky’s honouring of Nova:
https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3lb27idpjy22n
[#]hachyderm
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@dansup @Mastodon
Knowing nothing about this service … a directory of servers seems like a different thing from any kind of centralised service (whatever the merits of it may be).
Moreover, I’m pretty sure there are two other lemmy directories, one for sure which is well known and has more features (lemmy.world link to it I think).
Plus the devs made their directory pretty fair by randomising the order to promote other instances.
And, using a logo without permission is kinda suss.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/08/elon-musk-trump-ukraine-call-zelenskyy
So did he still pay too much for Twitter? Is he still a dumb business person for diminish its value?
I often worry if we’re all employee-vassals to feudal lords but still think we live in the liberal boomer fantasy of our parents.
If I have a hot take on the election (where I’m not USian) it’s that a shift in power took place behind the scenes to a relatively new bunch of king making big-corp-feudal lords fond of a neo-feudal world order.
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So Body Count came up in my play list and I’m today years old when I realise “Black (people)” metal isn’t a thing cuz angry music is only palatable from whites … ?? Were there acts that just didn’t go anywhere because it wasn’t “allowed”?
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It’s the thing I keep coming back to RE AI - it started decades ago. We older millennials, X-gen etc did it. We gave up on “surfing” the web and bookmarks and expected Google or Twitter to answer our questions magically.
Try telling someone 10 years ago to stop using Google and they told you they didn’t want to give up the convenience.
With social media, why give up the entertainment/engagement?
IMO, there’s always an earlier on-ramping mistake.
https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/113307469580945260 ( @taylorlorenz )
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Just heard a story of an older person pushing back on a younger person’s climate scepticism.
My first thought was that it likely represents the collapse of the dream of the Internet. Sure it’s a cherry picked example, but let’s be real, information did not flow freely once we had the internet. People got in the way.
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Every time I've heard people talk about "the good days of Twitter" and how this or that platform feels like it's got back to that, I've thought of Cuivienen from Tolkein's LoTR lore.
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cuivi%C3%A9nen
Tl;DR: The elves were literally born as a people in a place, "Cuivienen". But through all the strife of the early wars, Cuivienen was destroyed, like geographically, it's just not there anymore. And so it's part of the sadness of the elves, that there is no returning to their home.
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Was jazz “tech-bro-ed”? If so, when and was it white people that did it?
[#]jazz #tech
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Is there any solid thinking around the intersection between open source philosophy and the current practice of LLMs/AIs?
It struck me today that LLMs may be the final means by which capitalistic software consumes open source, in a way open source isn’t prepared for, perhaps in a way that’s a lesson for how and how not to fight capitalism?
I’m by no means on top of this space though.
[#]opensource #ai #llm
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So being on BlueSky a bit recently it only hit me now that they actually have quote posts and that I’ve been reading plenty of them.
Without wanting to touch on the abuse vector argument, it was clear to me that I enjoyed their effect - context and discourse surfacing/embedding - and that they are generally a good and useful feature. I can see plenty of people picking a platform based on their availability (I was always indifferent/naive to the whole argument).
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The threads focus of their perspective is pretty clear when they only talk about joining the fedi through threads. No real mention of picking an instance and what that's about. And all despite acknowledging that threads's integration is pretty piss poor, incl an inability to reply from threads!
Definitely nice to see such mainstream exposure, with interviews with Evan, Gargron & Jay.
But there seemed to me a real disconnect & even disinterest with what the whole thing is about.
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Watching the MKBHD WVFRM episode on federated social (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9CWq5CBlk&t=177s).
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Latest in my personal experiences of "you never know to where or how your #fediverse posts will be federated".
https://hachyderm.io/@RangerJosie@lemmy.world/113082651933853659
My mastodon post getting a reply from a lemmy user. Mastodon-lemmy integration is not good, so seeing it happen passive was weird.
Instead, what happened here (AFAICT):
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