SemioticStandard

@SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml

Horror author from New England. Principal engineer. Active HWA, Codex member.

Co-founder, Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.

Personal: semioticstandard.com

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SemioticStandard,

Going out especially is insane. I'm not terribly far off from Hartford, CT, and no matter where we go, if my wife and I go out just for two drinks total, one for each of us, we're not walking out of there without spending less than $25 or even $30. That's just fucking wild to me. If we want to have dinner--two mains, one shared app, one drink each--we're looking at at least $100 to $120, and that's just to any random place, not a high-end eatery or anything. And every single place will hand you a little Square thing or whatever with tip suggestions that start at 18% and go up to 25%.

SemioticStandard,

What’s also interesting to observe is that the vast majority of the comments here have been respectful, considerate, helpful, and constructive. Maybe I got too used to the massive user base of children that Reddit had, and no hate for the younger crowd, but I did miss the maturity that early days Reddit had and subsequently lost.

SemioticStandard,

Why should you get to enjoy something you haven't paid for, especially while others have?

SemioticStandard,

I know this opinion is wildly unpopular, but I think pirating is unethical. If you can’t afford something, or you disagree with spending money for it, then fine. Don’t watch that show/listen to that song/play that game. But the people who make things deserve to get paid. It’s not right to refuse to pay for something while also consuming that content. Many of the justifications for pirating just feel like entitlement to me.

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I couldn't say, they're closed to new users. I've been on the wait list for a long time, but no joy.

I'm skeptical that it ultimately won't just turn into Twitter 2.0

SemioticStandard,

If you’re a systems/network engineer or a dev, the CLI is your home.

SemioticStandard,

I like that Lemmy and Masto don’t have those fucking algorithms. It’s a relief.

SemioticStandard,

Sure, I’ll give it a go, thank you for thinking of me. The whole bullshit with Twitter and now Reddit has me feeling pretty burned on corporate-owned social media, so I’m likely to stick with federated things like Masto, Lemmy, etc., but I’ll give it a go. I am curious about it. I wonder why they’re leaning so hard on the waitlist thing? They’re losing precious adoption time, as people are right now wanting to move away from Twitter. Or rather, they have been wanting that for months, so there may already be a lot of lost opportunity re: user attention or interest.

SemioticStandard,

It wont replace it of course, it will just be another UI standard.

That’s the great thing about standards, there’s just so many of them!

SemioticStandard,

I'm totally on board with pirating content in those situations. I recognize it isn't a black-or-white issue.

thenexusofprivacy, to kbin

Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon

https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

Reddit's strategy of antagonizing app writters, moderators, and millions of redditors is good news for reddit alternatives like KBin and Lemmy. And not just them! The fediverse has always grown in waves and we're at the start of one.

Previous waves have led to innovation but also major challenges and limited growth. It's worth looking at what tactics worked well in the past, to use them again or adapt them and build on them. It's also valuable to look at what went wrong or didn't work out as well in the past, to see if there are ways to do better.

Here's the current table of contents:

  • I'm flashing!!!!!
  • But first, some background
  1. Don't tell people "it's easy"
  2. Improve the "getting-started experience"
  3. Keep scalability and sustainability in mind
  4. Prioritize accessibility
  5. Get ready for trolls, hate speech, harassment, spam, porn, and disinformation
  6. Invest in moderation tools
  7. Values matter
  • This is a great opportunity – and it won't be the last great opportunity

https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

Thanks to everybody for the great feedback on the draft version of the post!

@fediversenews @fediverse @fediverse

SemioticStandard,

The more popular a community becomes, the shittier it gets. The easier you make it to join and interact with, the more popular it will become.

In the case of places like Gab, Truth Social, Parlor, and other right wing nut job havens, while the quality of users might not get higher if you raised the barrier to entry, those places certainly wouldn’t have become as popular as they have.

But the barrier to entry isn’t the only reason they’ve congregated there, they have other cultural reasons driving them, primarily the owners or moderators being friendly to that kind of mindset. I don’t think the same crowd would be able to gather here as they’d just get defederated.

SemioticStandard,

Aww but I like the Ivory app :( I was hoping for the same thing others are here—subscribe to a Lemmy community and have posts show up in my Masto feed, then click to see comments.

It’s worth opening a GitHub issue for. Maybe it isn’t that hard to do. Might even look at the code myself to see…

SemioticStandard,

Wasn’t Arsenal in for Tielemans last transfer window?

As for Ox, I don’t think he’s going to have much of an impact there. I hope I’m wrong because I’ve always liked the lad, but he’s way too inconsistent on the best of days, and he’s only dropped off the last couple of years.

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Fuck, City wining the triple is going to make me sick.

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Yes, absolutely. I love(d) Reddit! All the niche communities, all the subs that I enjoyed so much, like r/whowouldwin and r/tiktokcringe and r/askhistorians and so many more :(

I admit, I have sentimentality attached there. It sucks. It does feel almost like the loss of a friend.

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I have high hopes for Alan Wake and Metal Gear

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Juniper for R/S, Palo for firewalls. At home I use pfsense and UniFi APs and in that environment they’re great.

Streaming PS5 locally to my iPad - laggy?

Just wondering if anyone else streams from their PS5. I've been doing it locally, on the same network, inside my house to my iPad Pro (2nd generation). I've verified that the wireless connection for both the PS5 and iPad is strong (about -60 dBm, 2x2 MIMO, no channel congestion), but it does seem a bit choppy. It actually gets...

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The Last of Us Part I (for the third time, I think?). Streaming it to my iPad in bed at night.

For a few minutes here and there, COD MW2 is fun. I used to love FIFA but I get too pissed off playing that anymore, so I’m off it.

SemioticStandard,

I want Lemmy to succeed, I want to be optimistic about it as an alternative to Reddit, but OP is correct, and we need to be honest about this very simple fact:

The Reddit we knew and loved is gone, and that’s a sad, tragic thing, and there likely won’t be a 1:1 replacement for a long time, if ever.

It’s okay to admit to ourselves that this whole situation sucks, because it absolutely does. That doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy Lemmy and other federated things like it, and it doesn’t mean that federation doesn’t have advantages over Reddit, but let’s be honest: most of us were happy at Reddit, using our favorite 3rd party app (like Apollo), and we wouldn’t be here if the admins weren’t happy to kill what we once loved.

All we can do is try to make the best of it.

SemioticStandard,

I wonder if this time we'll get a mugshot or perp walk out of it? Man, wouldn't that be something?

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