The oldest game I still really enjoy is probably The Secret of Monkey Island for DOS (1990). I like classic NES games too but I don't really play them anymore....
Beehaw is great. I like the people and the communities here. But it doesn't feel very "Fedi" interacting with just one instance. So what's your favorite community hosted elsewhere?
In this episode we explore a relatively new subgenre of science fiction called Solarpunk, which aims to imagine better, more ecologically harmonious, futures on earth. In many ways Solarpunk is a reaction to both the real-world climate crisis and to the many apocalyptic visions of collapse filling our screens. Andrew Sage from...
You might slightly misunderstand how federation works. On Mastodon someone on your instance must follow someone on a remote instance to get their posts pushed to your instance. Same with Lemmy, someone on your instance must follow a remote community to get posts & comments. Since you're on a single user instance (like me) we don't see anything we don't follow/subscribe...
I know most of the Bethesda RPGs have massive mod support, and there's games like Minecraft that have more mods than anyone can imagine. I would consider those games pretty playable in their vanilla states. Would you say there are any games that were "saved" by modding? Or that are still kept alive by thriving modding...
Intentionally destroying a dam is an internationally recognized war crime.
Works and installations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations, shall not be made the object of attack, even where these objects are military objectives, if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population. Other military objectives located at or in the vicinity of these works or installations shall not be made the object of attack if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces from the works or installations and consequent severe losses among the civilian population.
Not speaking for anyone but me, but sometimes when people say they something is too political it really means too much "extreme" political views. Personally I don't want to interact with extreme auth-left or auth-right content. I think politely discussing why access to housing should be guaranteed by government, or arguing for lower corporate taxes or whatever, isn't what bothers most people.
Fortunately Fedi allows instances who are fine with it host those users, and I don't have to see it. And Lemmy -the project- isn't political, it's just software for which I'm grateful to the devs.
I don't completely disagree, but that's not what I meant. People are conflating the views of Lemmy's main developers with the project itself, and I believe they can be separated.
True. Let’s be honest though, in a world where people are used to huge centralized platforms like Twitter and Reddit, the Fediverse is unfamiliar and confusing. Not sure what can be done about it other than educating people. But there may always be a slight barrier to entry.
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....
Well yeah, point taken that replicating everything everywhere and forever might be impossible. But I do believe at a minimum my identity should be portable and accessing Fedi (ie. in microblogging: posting and viewing a feed of the latest posts of my follows) should be decoupled from which instance I pick to access the Fediverse.
I don't particularly like how owners of instances which grew are now essentially locked in to having to spend 100s or 1000s of dollars a month keeping their now expensive instances running and providing service. This is a bad place to be for a platform ran by volunteers. Letting instance owners scale their service down as well as up would be ideal. But this requires at least decentralized identity, and at best some form of content hosting redundancy...
It's easy to say the current architecture of Fedi works when it's still small. Your instance has 139 users.. That's not intended as a slight. Hosting instances is good and I applaud you for it! But I wish it were easier to more equally share the load once the platform becomes more popular.
No. And I think it's a really hard problem. poVoq was right to call me out on full replication being a bad move, because duplicating all content on every server is obviously inefficient. But a solution in-between, with decentralization and redundancy, is probably a very complex challenge. Doesn't seem impossible, but very complex network protocols rarely seem to succeed.
Edit: Sorry I was still thinking about some fabled perfect protocol. But if you're looking into decentralized identifiers, W3 is working on one approach. It's not something I have seen used anywhere or integrated with ActivityPub yet, but that could be the future I'm hoping for. Probably.
Something like that. But also with fully decentralized identity. So all content is signed by a keypair which is local to the user, and can be used to access Fedi through arbitrary instances. Probably I am too wishful.
No. I am on my own little single-user instance and I can follow, vote, post and reply anywhere from here. It's just a little awkward sometimes because you have to learn how to paste URLs in the search box, and until you subscribe there will be some missing content. But once you get past that, everything works.
Following a decentralized identifier would essentially be like following a unique public key. Their screen name is just some text which can be anything. The bigger problem is the overall infrastructure of Fedi which is very much based on lists of user@domain .. this no longer trivially works if the "user" you follow could be posting from anywhere. It doesn't seem unsolvable, just kind of difficult to imagine with the momentum behind Fedi as it is right now.
What is the oldest game you still like playing today?
The oldest game I still really enjoy is probably The Secret of Monkey Island for DOS (1990). I like classic NES games too but I don't really play them anymore....
What's your favorite community outside of Beehaw?
Beehaw is great. I like the people and the communities here. But it doesn't feel very "Fedi" interacting with just one instance. So what's your favorite community hosted elsewhere?
Restored electric tramway in Bergen, Norway (video) (www.youtube.com)
Since 1897 the city of Bergen was served like by an electric tram system. Sadly, like in so many cities, it was shut down in 1965....
Working anime-styled QR codes using Stable Diffusion (arstechnica.com)
Really creative use of image-synthesis!
Twitter’s window to edit tweets is now one hour, but you still have to pay for it (archive.today)
Twitter Blue subscribers can pay $7.99 per month for a blue checkmark icon and the ability to edit tweets for up to 60 minutes after they’re posted.
J&J’s COVID vaccine is dead in the US; FDA revokes authorization (arstechnica.com)
Mother fatally shot by neighbor after dispute over playing children, sheriff says (abcnews.go.com)
Solarpunk and How We Escape Dystopia [Podcast] (youtu.be)
In this episode we explore a relatively new subgenre of science fiction called Solarpunk, which aims to imagine better, more ecologically harmonious, futures on earth. In many ways Solarpunk is a reaction to both the real-world climate crisis and to the many apocalyptic visions of collapse filling our screens. Andrew Sage from...
Intended way to federate
What is the current workflow of federating with other communities?...
What game is improved the most by mods?
I know most of the Bethesda RPGs have massive mod support, and there's games like Minecraft that have more mods than anyone can imagine. I would consider those games pretty playable in their vanilla states. Would you say there are any games that were "saved" by modding? Or that are still kept alive by thriving modding...
France to invest nearly €3 billion in semiconductor factory to boost local production (www.france24.com)
Countries around the world are investing billions in onshoring semiconductor fabs. Is this an early sign of wider deglobalizing?
Chronotrains - Where can you go by train in 8h? (www.chronotrains.com)
Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson region blown up by Russian forces - Ukraine's military (www.reuters.com)
People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good.
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/140vbey/launching_rlemmymigration_what_communities_have/jmxnzsh/?context=1...
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....