erlend

timj, 3 days ago to til

#TIL about #IPFS shortcomings in an interesting article by fiatjaf. I also encountered its massive slowness, while trying to to download archived files last year. This critique goes into a number of interesting details beyond that: #P2P https://njump.me/naddr1qqyxgdfsxvck2dtzqyghwumn8ghj7enfv96x5ctx9e3k7mgzyqalp33lewf5vdq847t6te0wvnags0gs0mu72kz8938tn24wlfze6qcyqqq823c8y87ll

bart, 5 days ago to random

Seriously pissed about this. Offering $10,000 in seed funding for a Deviant Art alternative built on ActivityPub. Q&A below or email your pitch to info@moth.social. https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

erlend, 6 days ago to ruby

Any #ruby dev out there willing to do a simple plugin for #discourse?

A handful of indie devs are pitching in with working examples of FedCM, an important new identity standard with direct implications for the #fediverse: https://wrily.foad.me.uk/sign-in-with-big-tech-only-or-sign-in-with-whom-i-prefer

The developer of LastLogin.io has implemented FedCM on his end, but he needs the help of a Discourse plugin developer to test the complete login pipeline with his own community forum.

cc @Discourse

pvillega, 8 days ago to random

Dear #lazyweb I need recommendations of blog platforms for non-technical users.

I want to avoid Medium and Substack.

They can’t self-host nor use things like Zola or Jekyll plus GitHub.

What’s a good choice?

erlend, 17 days ago to random

I can do the one thing a GenAI cannot: I can do something unprompted.

cheeaun, 20 days ago to internet

I think following specific hashtags of a profile would be useful. Technically it's like following a profile but the timeline posts filtered by specific hashtags. Perhaps similar logic on Mastodon, to hiding boosts from profile or filtering posts by subscribed languages.

Could probably solve the issue where folks create multiple accounts for different interests or circles.

#SocialMedia

erlend, 23 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to ai

I sincerely hope the vast majority of “GenAI enhancements” will go the way of the 3D glasses which the movie theaters unsuccessfully tried to foist onto our noggins as the upsell no one had asked for.

Remember those things? They were kind-of-okay for Avatar, and then nothing else ever again. Today there can be no doubt that the novelty was ultimately not worth its weight in plastic pollution.

Took nearly a decade for corporations to largely give up on that forced fad, so, hang in there! 💪

#ai

bassistance, 23 days ago to random

Can't wait for this trend to die

luis_in_brief, 24 days ago to random

Is there a platform for exchanging long-form text with short-term data deletion features baked-in? Something like Signal or Whatsapp but with a UX optimized for longer-form text discussions (eg, maybe even assuming IRL keyboard, desktop-client-first.)

(Yes, I realize that no such system is perfect, because bad actors can always screenshot or copy-paste; but I want to raise the bar for retention and build in a default assumption that group members don’t keep archives.)

cc @erlend ?

#lawfedi

itsfoss, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

We need to talk about this! 😟

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

#mastodon

jenniferplusplus, 25 days ago to random

AI "artists" and deviant art in particular can just get in the fucking bin, oh my god. How are you supposed to find and hire artists any more? Is there a gallery site that bans gen AI submissions?

bnewbold, 1 month ago to random

I think that when people don't like social media "algorithms", the most common thread is not wanting "automated content recommendations" from outside their network. eg, "tiktok for microblogging".

it has less to do with "one algo vs many", or even "open source vs black box", or really even "engagement maximizing vs good content"