lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead
This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join....
rysiek, (edited ) to fediverse Well if it isn't cryptocurrency spam coming from the biggest, open instance on the #Fediverse. 👀
I wonder if this is at all related to challenges with moderating an instance of checks notes 200k active accounts? Or with moderating new accounts on the only instance actively promoted in the official apps? :thinking_rotate:
Thankfully we can always defederate! What's that? It's the biggest instance so there are real concerns about a lot of people losing connections? Whodda thunk it!
This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit tries to join....
Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement...
I'm genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?
It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies....
cliffwade, (edited ) to fediverse
Teppic, @cliffwade No, I took the optical drive out of my laptop and replaced it with a second HDD. That said I do have (and already had) a portable usb dvd drive just in case... I used to have a client who would contractualise financial models by burning two copies to CD, then both parties would sign both CDs with a marker pen, and each party would get one each. That went on for a long time after it became hard to find CD drives.
kkarhan, @ButtonMcLemming @cliffwade +9001%
Sadly optical media standards don't grow with the need for more storage and whilst #TapeDrive|s do, modern versions of #LTO #Ultrium are absurdly expensive so unless one needs to backup Petabytes offline it doesn't make financial sense...
Personally I prefer the form factor of 3,5" #FDD|s but their abysmal capacity makes them rather useless these days.
Which is why I suggest to replace the magnetic film with a #SSD in the same shell:
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy
chlopmarcin, to fediverse Polish 🤔 :fediverse: :mastodon_oops: Zastanawiam się, czy fenomen niezwykłej łagodności #Fediwersum (w porównaniu z Twitterem, Facebookiem itd.) nie bierze się z czegoś całkiem innego niż się powszechnie uważa. Ludzie mówią: tu nie ma algorytmów, za pomocą których BigTechy manipulują emocjami ludzi, dlatego ludzie w #Fedi są milsi, mniej konfliktowi, bardziej pomocni itd. A czy nie jest tak, że o tym decyduje po prostu
b i o l o g i a ? 🍃
Skoro ponad połowę użytkowników stanowią osoby po czterdziestce, to czy sam ten fakt nie sprawia, że w atmosferze jest mniej testosteronu, gówniarstwa, fochów itp. przedszkolnych zachowań?#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonPL #FediPL #socjologia #ankieta #badanie #wiek
rcz, Polish @chlopmarcin Alternatywną hipotezą byłaby większa bańkowość — czy czasem nie jest tak, że nadużywanie narzędzi służących do wycinania zachowań abuzywnych prowadzi do skuteczniejszego odcinania od siebie grup ludzi od osób o istotnie odmiennych poglądach.
Innymi słowy: czy jest łagodniej, bo ludzie o różnych poglądach faktycznie rozmawiają ze sobą łagodniej, czy też jest łagodniej, bo ludzie o różnych poglądach szybko przestają ze sobą rozmawiać w ogóle?
rcz, Polish W rozmowach o tranzycjach mieszają się co najmniej trzy różne narracje:
narracja medyczna: mówimy o problemie medycznym (chorobie, zaburzeniu), i rozważamy możliwe terapie, oceniając ich skuteczność w sensie poprawy jakości życia w relacji do skutków ubocznych, kosztów itp.,
narracja indywidualistyczna: niektórzy ludzie chcą robić pewne rzeczy ze swoim ciałem, jak tatuaż, brazylijski lifting pośladków, albo wazektomia.
narracja kulturowa: przynależność do danej grupy wiąże się z wykonywaniem pewnych zabiegów, jak obrzezanie czy rytualny tatuaż.
Dopóki te narracje nie wchodzą sobie w drogę, każda z nich jest dość dobrze rozpoznana. Nie musimy wymyślać koła, zastanawiając się np. jak się ma kwestia „żalu” do medycznego uzasadnienia terapii. Pytanie o to, jak się ocenia terapie, nie jest nowe, to przecież podstawowe pytanie evidence based medicine. I to nie tylko pytanie, czy pacjent mówi że jest zadowolony, tych pytań jest dużo: inwazyjność, ryzyko komplikacji vs oczekiwane skutki, wpływ przyszłe potrzeby medyczne i pozamedycznie, na funkcjonowanie społeczne, no i sama poinformowana zgoda to dość skomplikowana sprawa. To jest coś, co powinniśmy być w stanie oddać, jak piszesz, kompetentnej organizacji lekarskiej i zaufać że robi to zgodnie ze sztuką.
Problem jest wtedy, gdy zaczyna się to mieszać z tymi dwiema pozostałymi narracjami. Z jednej strony mamy rozważać „ratujące życie” terapie medyczne, ale z drugiej podważanie takich terapii staje się „odmową prawa do istnienia” grupie ludzi o danej tożsamości, czyli ludobójstwej, pogromem, staniem po stronie faszyzmu, „chęcią mordowania”, oraz zamachem na autonomię cielesną, a w ogóle to nawet mówienie o „zaburzeniu” jest przedstawiane jako patologizująca medykalizacja, jako analogiczne do patologizacji homoseksualności. To jest silna presja, zaburzająca naszą zbiorową percepcję, musimy sobie ją uświadomić. Zob.:
https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p382
anders, to lemmy Lemmy is booming
I have never before received so many reactions and comments on my Lemmy posts before, so it's obvious to see, that there are many new members here.
Welcome to all the new! And I'm looking forward to see more of you here.
Cheers!
anders, en-us
oishiiburger, Exactly my thinking. Very impressive so far, and my only complaint has been finding the communities and the conversations I want to be in. But it will get there! (I hope)
Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031...
Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
louis, to fediverse I disagree with the current CEO of Mastodon about his stance on mid-sized instances. We don't want to be run in isolation, we are part of the Fediverse. "Normal users just want the default", he can repeat that as many times as he wants, it doesn't make it true because of that.
Diversity is the DNA of the Fediverse and Mastodon is just one part of the whole. Thousands of people spend their time and money to make it successful. Anyone who dismisses that and single-handedly tries to market the Fediverse as a Mastodon brand and use "crowding out" techniques to prevent users from even being encouraged to choose an instance from a diversity will ultimately fail.
I am super disappointed with the direction Mastodon Corporation is taking. If there is not enough headwind here soon, then sooner or later it will lead to a schism.
rysiek, @jjk it's not some app that decided to default to some instance, it's the official app of a project that gets identified with the whole fedi deciding to make default an instance that has 1/10th of all active accounts on fedi.
And that's a problem. I wrote why this is a problem, with some history of a similar social network a decade ago that got badly hurt in similar circumstances:
https://rys.io/en/168.html
aral, @louis The most strategic thing Eugen could have done would’ve been to keep mastodon.social small and make it socially unacceptable for instances to grow beyond a certain size. That would’ve been a poison pill against the infinite growth death cult of Silicon Valley. Maybe not a permanent one but it could have delayed things a little. Instead we’re welcoming them with open arms and equating their interest with success. Like sheep flattered by the gazes of wolves.
They also shut down registration...
Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent....
kuketzblog, to fediverse German Heute ist »Ask me a question!«. Stellt mir eure Frage aus dem Themenbereich IT-Sicherheit oder Datenschutz. Ich antworte mit Ja/Nein oder enthalte mich. Regeln:
- Jeder darf eine Frage stellen
- Die Frage muss aus dem Themenbereich IT-Sicherheit oder Datenschutz stammen
- Formuliert die Frage so, dass diese mit einem Ja/Nein beantwortet werden kann
- Nur am 01.10.2023
- Nur im #Fediverse
chbmeyer, German @kuketzblog
Offenbar ist die Verwendung von AppleID und iCloud mit schulischen 1:1 oder "shared iPads" auf dem Vormarsch.Stichwort: "Datenverarbeitung zu eigenen Zwecken" durch Apple.
Weil es sehr oft behauptet wird:
Sind die Telemetriedaten bei iPads und die Verwendung der iCloud tatsächlich weniger problematisch, als bei MS365?
thinkpad, German @kuketzblog @caregiverstudent
Daran anschließend, auch an die Bubble:gibt es zu #doctolib eine brauchbare Alternative, die den Ärzten vorgeschlagen werden könnte?
steve, to fediverse
steve, 📢 Sign up for the Bean for #Lemmy beta here 👉
steve, I also setup a community on #Lemmy and will be posting regular updates about the app there. I'd appreciate some upvotes on my post too ❤️🥹
Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances
mariyadelano, (edited ) to fediverse Alright. Gonna write a piece on the impact of #neurodivergent users on our culture in the #Fediverse
So let’s start with a poll. Boost please!
Are you neurodivergent?
(Self-diagnosis is valid, I know how freaking hard it can be to get the official one!)
@actuallyautistic #ADHD #AuDHD #Autism #ASD #neurodiversity
SECOND POLL WITH MORE TYPES OF NEURODIVERGENCE: https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano/110753113559931102
mariyadelano, I couldn’t add more options for other kinds of neurodiversity so please add yours in replies if I didn’t represent you!
I’d like to be able to represent you in the final piece, poll limitations aside.
mariyadelano, (edited ) Okay, secondary survey for people who are #neurodivergent but not ASD or ADHD:
What kind of #neurodiverse condition do you have?
PLEASE EXPLAIN IN REPLIES IF YOU SELECT ‘OTHER’. And please boost to expand reach 🙏
Iconfactory, to fediverse Online media can be overwhelming. It's fragmented between countless services, websites, social networks, and apps.
You need an app that weaves together an overview of nearly everything that’s happening across all the different services you follow.
That’s our vision for Project Tapestry, the new Kickstarter we're launching today.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry
Iconfactory, Project Tapestry is a universal chronological timeline of your favorite social media services, blogs, RSS feeds & more. All updates in one place, in the order they’re posted with no algorithm deciding what you see or when you see it.
But we need your help! Check out our Kickstarter campaign to learn more about the project and the backer rewards we have planned, then make a pledge to help us turn Project Tapestry into a reality.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry
Iconfactory, It took just four amazing days for #ProjectTapestry to become 100% funded on Kickstarter! To say we're floored would be an understatement. We couldn't have done this without you and we wanted to give a sincere thank you to everyone.
We'll be posting more details about stretch goals and a video overview of the DIY API behind Tapestry in the days ahead but for now, a sincere thank you from all of us here at the factory. You are the BEST!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry
atomicpoet, to fediversenews Meta’s ActivityPub-enabled Twitter competitor is moving ahead.
The project is called “Barcelona”.
It will be its own independent app, and it’s being pitched as “Instagram for your thoughts”.
How do you feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?
Here’s a screenshot of Barcelona.
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-barcelona-is-taking-shape/648482/
atomicpoet, For nearly 20 years, Meta has proven time and time again that they care nothing for the open web.
And should they use the open web, it’s for sucking up as much personal data as they can.
So I’m not excited about Meta joining the Fediverse, and I’m skeptical.
atomicpoet, That said, should Meta actually federate with Barcelona, it should be seen as a victory of sorts.
It means the biggest social media company in the world validated the notion of a Fediverse.
I’ll probably block Barcelona. You probably should too. Meta probably won’t be a good citizen.
Nevertheless, adoption of decentralized social media will soon be in full swing.
Edent, to fediverse 🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/
⸻
#ActivityPub #fediverse #FOURSQUARE #geolocation #OpenStreetMap
Edent, I've built an ersatz FourSquare clone for the Fediverse!
For now it is single user instance (me) and runs on a simple server with no database - just a couple of PHP files.
It geolocates my phone's web browser, shows nearby Points of Interest using OpenStreetMap, lets me attach a short message & an image with alt text.
Then it posts it to its Fediverse followers. The post contains geotags which some ActivityPub clients can see.
Sample post:
https://location.edent.tel/posts/65b8f590-f308-d472-82c5-92a9f227c641.jsonFollow: @edent_location
Edent, Here's my blog post about building a personal #Fediverse server in #PHP.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/
It was surprisingly simple. You can publish #ActivityPub with very modest computing resources.
If you can see the geotags on @edent_location please send me a screenshot 🙂