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They don’t. Not anymore, at least, if that was a thing. I’ve been mentioning the Fediverse there for years. Comments generally get reasonably high views, but low engagement because people on established platforms rarely want to do anything to fix their issues.

Lemmy doesn’t let you see content that isn’t held in “groups” or “communities” (ie subreddit equivalents). Check out piefed.zip instead. It should have access to Mastodon/Pixelfed content.

Those of us still with active Reddit accounts, now might be a good time to gently encourage people on Reddit to check out the Fediverse. Suggest your favourite Fediverse website by URL (don’t just say “Lemmy” or something; we know people trip over themselves to hate on the whole choosing a website thing).

I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a bad idea to mention the state of smaller or niche communities, but it feels more honest to me to just say that we could use more people here who are willing to build an alternative, and not just scroll one.

Fediverse severs have a bit of a natural size limit, which means site-level moderation is easier. Admins also aren’t motivated by ad impressions or vanity metrics that impress investors, so there’s that, too.

It doesn’t remove bad actors, of course, and there will be no lack of bad admins, but it’s still more friction than exists on corporate sits.

Anyone who still has an account there, I’d encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like “Lemmy”) is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.

It’s a shame there’s not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?

Have you actually read the papers like this? Very often they are qualitative studies with a few descriptive statistics thrown in, and the papers themselves are very clear that they describe only the people they spoke to.

It’s the reporting that goes off the deep end.

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It’s a cutout. She’s trying to trick him into groping her.

Thank you. Came here to say this, or at least find it being said.

8! 13! No, wait, 5! I mean 3?

Nevermind, let’s just mark this “won’t do” and move on to the next ticket.

The thing that you have to keep in mind is that Canadian roads (and, presumably, American roads, too) were designed for a very different transportation culture than the one that exists today. In many cases, they were built for horses and carriages, and retrofitted to motor vehicles that grew up in a much less populated country. No, they didn’t work well in the 50s, either, but the density of cars was low enough, and the kinds of people who drove were different enough, that it kinda sorta worked. But as the populations have grown, and as the culture has become more high strung, and driving has become a necessity for many people (and as vehicles have gotten larger, taller, and more fortress-like), navigating the streets has gotten riskier for all involved.

And no, it won’t get fixed, because North Americans hate change, and we would rather give a small number of millionaires and billionaires tax cuts than actually spend money on social infrastructure in any kind of meaningful or thought out way.

I’ve noticed a sudden spike in the number of websites that send me into a Cloudflare spiral whenever I have my VPN active. I think we might see this happening on a lot more sites soon, unfortunately.

The thing is, what a lot of people mean by “the old, weird internet” is Twitter in 2012 and YouTube before it became professionalized. They don’t mean usenet, Geocities, and perl-based chatrooms because they didn’t experience the Internet prior to the iPhone app store.

No, no. There’s little evidence that LLMs could do your job. That’s very different from the LLMs “taking” your job. All business owners need is the belief – grounded or not – that the LLMs will eventually be able to do your job, and for way less than you were being paid.

Neither will be true, of course, but business decisions are not based on truth.

Is Brave actually blocking ads noe, and not just inserting their own?

Are they still installing crypto miners on people’s computers?

You mean the AOSP project that only supports hardware sold by the assholes we’re trying to get away from?

Hard pass.

It’s going to be bad, too. These companies are repportedly selling tokens for 1/10 - 1/15 the actual processing costs. Companies are already spending significantly more than they would junior developers (to generate an un-revewable amount of code). Raising peices by a factor of 20 will kill the whole project dead. They’ll need to hold out until there’s no one left who knows how to write anymore to survive that kind of price hike.

Yes, but federation isn’t really about enabling one singular discussion space. Network splits are ultimately healthy for the communities, because it allows for self-governance and actual community building, rather than unmanageably large masses screaming into themaatically named voids, controlled by a handful of super-mods and super-admins.

Distributed networks are meant to be, well, distributed, not quasi-centralized with some fun URLs used as dumb terminals.

Yup. And costs right now are rising while they’re still in the “get everybody hooked” stage of things, in no small part because they can’t survive at current prices. Anthropic is desperate to get to their IPO so they can have the warchest they need to actually become an established integral part of development pipelines and not just a fad.

My Haswell 4770k died last year after 13 years in service. I replaced it with a used AMD 5800X with 32GB DDR4 for $100. As soon as I heard about the RAM shortages, I grabbed another 64GB.

Not only am I ready to ride out this bubble, buy I’m fucking around with local LLM models just to be a snot about it.