Assuming you're an anarchist or otherwise leftist radical, what radicalized your position?
For me it was a combination of seeing the rampart corruption of the Greek state and the sloth and hypocrisy of the KKE in my own family. Then afterwards it was the alienation of my own wage-slavery.
I'm facepalming so hard today. On the discussion of whether #lemmy should start supporting plugins in order for more developers to be able to inject the extra functionality they need, I have a rust fanboi insisting that no, the better approach is to make every admin who needs this compile lemmy from scratch to add the extra functionality. According to them this can be totally as easy as plugins.
Is there a #wiki software that uses #activitypub? I would like to have a way for the lemmy.dbzer0.com users to work on a wiki, but I don't want to make people make new accounts if possible.
A ton of the successful FOSS projects I see have dedicated people doing social media all the time. @reduz from #GodotEngine is micro-blogging constantly (on Ex-Twitter) which is a great help for keeping people talking about Godot.
But when you're a small project, its a ton of extra work with a skillset a lot of us are not at all comfortable with.
The scope of building a large #FOSS webservice is so large, it's impossible for one person to handle it alone. But it's also very very difficult to find competent and trustworthy people to cover the aspects you cannot. Especially DBAs!
A #DBA could be considered like the healer in a "Holy Trinity" game (Tank/Healer/DPS). It's the role everyone needs but very few enjoy doing.
If you find a competent and trustworthy DBA to help your FOSS project. They're worth their weight in gold!
You can now self-tag your instance on the #Fediseer
You can use that to discover new instances to join, or to help you filter out instances focused on subjects you might not want to deal with (e.g. "gore" or "piracy")
My take on #FOSDEM (and other conferences organized the same way) is that it's actively excluding some types of #neurodivergent#FOSS creators. Particularly, those who find it really hard to promote their work, and especially when they need to talk up what they have created.
By asking people to self-submit, they naturally exclude the shy ones, who would never think, or really struggle doing that.
This selection process self-selects for a particular type of developer.
hey @ruud I just sent your mastodon.world admin @mwadmin a PM from @fediseer about guaranteeing for you. Would it be possible to tell me if you got a notification about it?
The recent Compare and Contrast by the Nexus of Privacy (https://hachyderm.io/@thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange/111605585059631601) mentioned as a detriment that potential problematic instances might use the #Fediseer. Other than the counter-arguments I've presented on this I want to posit that this might actually have beneficial effects.
You can monitor who they endorse, and use it as a reverse-blocklist.
You can monitor who endorses them and use it as a blocklist.
The fediblock account is stopping operation because mastodon.art retaliated against their parent instance with silencing because of a credible #fediblock report deduplication by @fediblock for .art , until the admin behind the fediblock account steps down from their own instance? And that admin is actually quitting the fediverse? WHAT?!
Mastodon has some wild drama I'll tell you... I'm glad I'm a #threadiverse addict instead.
Ugh, the naturally chaotic use of #hashtags on #Mastodon can make it very frustrating to use one of them for specific topics. I want to try and find other people talking about #GenerativeAI and particularly #AIArt like #StableDiffusion, but the last two are swarmed with just people posting images. How does one make a tag that is both easy to (think of to) tag with, and signifies discussion on a topic, instead of image-posting?
It's very much why things like #Lemmy are necessary.
#LLM and #AIArt give incredible power to the underdogs who never had any money to pay someone to create some. Some many solodevs who had pretty much nothing to use except garbage clipart and a few public assets which usually didn't fit their style.
Sure the same technology will be abused by corpos to get rid of all those pesky humans, but we all know the quality of AI is not AAA. What works "good enough" for an indie, doesn't work for a multimillion production.
I feel we need to tighten the #lemmy integration into microblogging services like #mastodon to have an advantage over #reddit. Microblogging has orders of magnitude more active users than lemmy, and a lot of the same discussions are happening in both places. If we could more seamlessly unify these discussions when wanted by the participants, it would help get over this "chicken and egg" problem that the #threadiverse is in.
