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.
If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.
In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.
This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.
Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.
Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.
That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?
My anti-spam #lemmy automoderator bot #Threativore is now available as a docker container and it is now fully enabled for reporting, removing, and banning. Here's my lemmy announcement: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15112791
I am not the easiest person to love here on fedi and now that I’ve seen really horrible accusations flying back and forth over The Bad Space I’m wondering what ya’ll say about me behind my back.
Like I know the pro-genocide crowd has been stalking me and gossiping about how anti-Semitic I am but hopefully that’s it.
Do we have a heuristic scanning service we can hook into with a REST API to tell us if a message/comment is spam or not, or is this another thing I need to build myself? Thinking of something like akismet but not available only for wordpress.
New #Firefish release! And this is the new official account for the project, under naskya's leadership, give them a follow if you want to stay updated. Best of luck in the new beginning! 🚀
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.
Like, I'm good at #FOSS development and I love doing it. I enjoy making things that help others for the sheer joy of creation. I could do it all day, every day. But if I want to do that, I have to develop skills that have nothing to do with FOSS development. Nothing to do with even managing it. I have to develop things one needs to be an "influencer", or for work in marketing. This is antithetical to the specialization we should be aiming at as a society.
@JustinH I agree. I don't think it's a "tech-bro thing" to say. Not everyone is meant to be a bubble social media person. Some of us are autistic nerds who are happy to be shut in a basement and code all day without talking to anyone. Likewise there's visual artists and authors who just want to stay in their Atelier/office and create.
My hot take on the Vision Pro is the same as my hot take on every AR/VR/Mixed Reality headset produced in the past checks notes 20 years: "If most women can't use your product for 4 hours straight without throwing up, don't try to tell me that it's the future of anything." I said what I said.
Women can use a smartphone indefinitely without nausea. They can use a laptop indefinitely. A gaming console and TV indefinitely. But XR headsets cause motion sickness in most women in under an hour. 🤷🏿♂️
@GossiTheDog I heard horror stories of companies trying to sue FOSS developers because the software caused failed somehow and caused them monetary damages
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.
As someone who grew up poor and with very little access to global culture, I shake my head sadly with those people who talk about #AIArt with the same moralism people were making against #piracy.
This didn't work then, it won't work now. People without money or time can't and won't support artists. If their only option is to use ML tools to create and share what is in their brain, they will do that instead.
All the arguments against this are privileged "you wouldn't download a car" territory
#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.
@BeAware I know the struggle. When my brain decides it won't have it and will just keep thinking about that one subject, I find it's better to give in and just get up and do what my brain needs to do until I get exhausted enough to feel sleepy.
[ADHDinos] How about no? (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11038608...