FediTips might be more alarmist than most, but I agree with them. The concentration of activity on Mastodon.social is dangerous.
IMO the solution is to streamline signing up to different servers (or, and far better, implement nomadic identity!), not to continue to beef up Mastodon.social's infrastructure and draw more and more users there...
You could, but that just moves the people you follow. Your followers would still follow the old account. Mastodon has a migration option which forces users to unfollow the old account and follow the new account. But nomadic identity would really free users from their username being tied to a particular server.
The country can impose fines or block products from being sold in their domain if a company goes against these kinds of rulings. Same with other countries and the EU, that's why companies ask for permission.
After Brexit they must lost a lot of leverage however. Makes me wonder when the first company will consider the potential loss of UK sales as less than the benefit of whatever deal they're making.
Human-computer interaction specialists from the University of Glasgow are highlighting the need for new systems in autonomous vehicles (AVs) capable of replicating the complex social interactions between human car drivers and cyclists on UK roads.
Also I would hope self-driving cars of a particular type won't be allowed until they demonstrate robust abilities to detect and avoid collisions with pedestrians and bicyclists.
The priority rule of the planning software should always be to avoid a collision. Even if the car doesn't read cyclists intent properly it should always be able to emergency brake. But to do this, it needs to be able to correctly detect and plan out other road users.
I suppose this may make sense in the case of something like Mastodon. But something as versatile and customizable as lemmy, which allows for the existence of separate topic-based communities, makes topic-based instances of lemmy not necessary....
Communities (like subreddits) typically get better with more active users. This promotes at least per-topic centralization.
I don't think there's a great deal of value in having 10 instances each hosting a "Retro Gaming" community. Users will naturally cluster to 1 or 2 of these. But I see no problem with the main Retro Gaming community being on instance A while the Halo Games community is on instance B.
We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines....
This is the way. As a bit of a Reddit-addict I hope Lemmy (and perhaps other interoperable projects one day?) will take off. Centralized social media sites appear to be doomed to inevitable self-destruction. Protocols can survive.
Like Mastodon and other ActivityPub applications however, it is the Federated nature which IMO still needs some work. Not being able to easily browse remote communities, posts, scores, comments, etc. from the comfort of my home instance (which will also be the only portal to the federated world visible to mobile applications) is a problem. On Mastodon I often don't see all replies, and likewise on Lemmy I don't see any comments to this post yet.
I hope ActivityPub apps figure out a way to better synchronize remote and local state so users won't keep seeing incomplete/fragmented views of Fedi content.
Development Secrets of the Original Kirby, by creator Masahiro Sakurai (www.youtube.com)
Scientists use "Cities: Skylines" to shed light on the link between personality disorders and complex problem-solving ability (www.psypost.org)
The Fediverse is in Danger (mstdn.social)
UK CMA blocks the Microsoft takeover of Activision (www.gamingonlinux.com)
PBS Eons: It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal (www.youtube.com)
"A new discovery raises an important question: from an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?"
Japanese firm’s pioneering moon landing fails (www.theguardian.com)
Game developers on the Fediverse
Who are your favorite indie/modern/legendary game developers posting on Fedi about their craft?...
This Private Moon Lander Is Kicking Off a Commercial Lunar Race (www.wired.com)
Self-driving cars must learn the language of cyclists to keep roads safe (www.gla.ac.uk)
Human-computer interaction specialists from the University of Glasgow are highlighting the need for new systems in autonomous vehicles (AVs) capable of replicating the complex social interactions between human car drivers and cyclists on UK roads.
Should separate instances of Lemmy be topic-based? What else, if not?
I suppose this may make sense in the case of something like Mastodon. But something as versatile and customizable as lemmy, which allows for the existence of separate topic-based communities, makes topic-based instances of lemmy not necessary....
Welcome Reddit refugees!
We are happy to see that many of you are exploring Lemmy after Reddit announced changes to its API policy. I maintain this project alongside @dessalines....