maegul

maegul, 18 days ago

Yea I wonder about this too.

Major problem is that fracturing is in the nature of decentralised federation. So my thinking is that what’s needed is some additional features that enable users to easily stitch together multiple communities in ways that are easily sharable or “upload-able”.

Personalised multi-communities + (better) cross-post surfacing + cross-post comment folding …

… could go fair I suspect. If multi-communities like this could then be easily configured, you could then have downloadable setups (ie config files or something similar) recommended by users or alliances of communities for new users to easily get started.

Interestingly, I’d wonder if such a feature set were to exist and gain widespread traction, whether it would enable easier community migrations when things go south in a community.

maegul, 20 days ago

“I’m sure there’d be a German word for this mood where you’re like, this is exciting, but something is deeply wrong here.”

Ha, nice.

“Unangenehmungsfreude” was my German friend’s best shot. Translates roughly to “discomfort-joy”.

On the fediverse front, platforms as reasonably well defined spaces seems to me something that is both natural and useful but which is kinda missed or ignored by the ideals of the fediverse, in that they are likely to just happen anyway, and are happening, but kinda run counter to the ideal of everything federating everywhere.

maegul, 21 days ago

One potential PoC for a plug-in could be a “conversation listener”?

Something which notifies you whenever a new comment or reply is made to a selected post/comment, so that you can keep track of any new conversation.

Dunno how viable that sort of thing would be though … how could plugins affect the UI? Plus the plug-in would need its own database.

Beyond that, moderation seems like an obvious application?

Perhaps some sort of wiki like application, where posts containing certain tags or other markers get automatically organised someway in a separate post or page?

maegul, 21 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Other random ideas:

• Federation health monitor? Checks if posts are federating well.
• Activity summariser: eg shows how many posts/comments in selected communities since last visited.
  • EDIT: I’m thinking of Phanpy’s catch-up feature here (it’s a web app for microblogging platforms and easily one of the best social media clients there is … if you haven’t seen the catchup feature go check it out).
• link localiser? Probably better in the backend (as suggested already). But it intercepts links to posts/comments and provides links to the local versions.

maegul, 21 days ago

He’s not your guy, friend.

maegul, 19 days ago

Well the one time I interacted from lemmy with comments it worked well: lemmy.ml/post/11677521?scrollToComments=true

So I figured federation was mostly sorted. Unfortunate to hear it’s still pretty rough.

maegul, 21 days ago

yea, that’s what I’d figure. However easy a GPS setup would be, most businesses are, I’d guess, relying entirely on network snooping/logs. Which, if true, seemed pretty fallible once I started thinking about it.

maegul, 21 days ago

I think The Book is probably good. There are two reading groups happening on twitch but posting and coming out of this community if you’re interested or unaware. I’m happy to provide more links if you like.

If you’re completely unfamiliar with pointers then borrowing will be a steep climb, for which some supplementary materials, discussions online and general practice and time would be indispensable.

In general though, I don’t think one should let that hood them back. IMO, just diving in and hacking while trying to learn as much as you go is probably the best way.

maegul, 22 days ago

I’m thinking that things are getting to the point of maturity that it’d make sense to have a general rule about this.

Something like:

• You’re expected to do a little research to see if your new community is very closely aligned with an existing one, and if so, provide at least some statement as to why you’re making yours or what’s different about it.

It’s not to prevent people from making their own communities at all, it’s just that it actually helps clarify the promotion of a new community while also helping the community ecosystem.

maegul, 23 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Yea that’d be a handy feature to help keep conversations going. It’s too easy to forget about conversations you’re interested in if they’re not in your feed.

maegul, 22 days ago

yea and there’s something about the way the film does it … unless you know going in you could almost be fooled into thinking it’s a serious and accurate biopic (at least for much of the film) … which was really fun to watch … because then there’d be some line or event which is clearly too ridiculous and it all lands but still the mostly serious tone is almost the punch line.

maegul, 24 days ago

And not just opaque, but also defensive and happily using moderation as a weapon in that. It’s just a shitty approach to moderation IMO, especially for lemmy and it’s vibe and size. It really has no place here, and I suspect mods like that have learnt to be like that from Reddit when this is a totally different place.

IIRC, Blaze (mod here) got banned under similar circumstances.

maegul, 23 days ago

Yea it’s really interesting whenever a professional with experience decides to put up a YouTube channel and just share stuff.

maegul, 24 days ago

I wish I was, but like many others here … being a prequel and trying to capture the vibe/magic of Fury Road … not a great mix. Watching the trailer my first thought was “so they’re just gonna go with exactly the same look?”, which is rough because we all loved Fury Road … but I wonder if the vibe and aesthetic will hit the same way? After Dune pts I and II?!

And then with the whole prequel thing … part of Fury Road’s magic was that we had no idea what was going on … here, well, it’s an origin story for a character we know well by now. So I don’t know.

maegul, 22 days ago

I just finished Constellation and really enjoyed it.

Just scrolling through some old trek conversations, literally 2 days after finishing constellation and I read this … woot!

Yea, I found myself really enjoying it too. One of those wonderful things where I had no idea what it was going in and finding a sort of lower-hype style sci-fi trying for a real attempt at something a bit more dramatic and even surreal and I was just like “yes!”. It certainly had its flaws IMO, but when it was working it was some of my fav TV in recent times!

spoilerI loved that scene in the “other”/liminal cabin (well all of the cabin stuff was brilliant for me TBH) where the two Alice’s and Jo have united and are just kinda processing their grief together. IMO, what a way to take a basic sci-fi idea, combine it with some surrealism in a fairly grounded mechanic (audio tapes and mirrors!) and make a statement about what tragedy is like.

maegul, 22 days ago

I’m with you … I think Apple and Star Trek is a perfect fit in the current environment.

Apple don’t want anything to be too political about current affairs (see John Stewart) but clearly like the idea of doing sci-fi and stuff that’s generally idealistic or moralistic. I’d expect them to be pretty respectful of the franchise’s history and core ideals.