lambalicious

@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org

I write English / Escribo en Español.

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lambalicious,

It’s not as much about seeing, it’s about using, and profiting from.

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lambalicious,

Voz del Capitán: “What a year, huh?”

lambalicious,

You sound so innocent it’s almost cute. Option 2 will never happen because people are already aware the Fediverse exists and that still doesn’t make it for them, what the want is the closed walled gardens, when (not if) the time comes to cut off Threads they’ll just return to their posting there. With Threads closed off from the Fediverse, there is no incentive for them to keep their activity here.

lambalicious,

From my perspective, a big bull is charging right at us. We can either jump on it, ride it and try to taim it; or get trampled dead by it.

It’s already proven that it is a mistake to jump on the bull (or, for matter of analogy, the smart truck) and try to tame it. it’s already engineered and moved by big money so that its controls will never be available to us. Smarter than trying to tame it (a useless fight) or leave ourselves be trampled by it (a useless sacrifice), we can simply jump aside.

lambalicious,

There’s nothing unique to the current Fediverse situation. In the days of old people had their own web pages and web servers too, and we had protocols to announce changes to people too (hello? RSS? X-Headers?), we linked to each other as well (directories, webrings) and we had chat (IRC). Yet we still landed on CorpoNet.

In fact I’d surmise the current situation is worse. Whereas with the old ad tried protocols you could actually host a web server with content on a potato, or on an old beeper, nu-protocols tend to be quite resource hungry. I oft hear that people have to pay two bills for Mastodon: one for the web service and another one for the amont of storage and traffic that it generates; from what I hear Matrix is similarly heavy compared to, say, IRC or XMPP. Dunno if it’s still true or not but I also recall that stuff like Lemmy depends on DNS, meaning you have to be able to buy your own domain and depend on that kind of central authority (wasn’t the point of Fediverse stuff to be decentralized?). Rather recently a good amount of Lemmy servers were oopsied because one of the .tld authorities pulled the rug from under an entire top-level domain name.

lambalicious,

Dunno where have you been the last year, or the last 55, but those who “never experience God’s grace” still experience all the graces of capitalism and techno-feudalism, which is what currently matters.

lambalicious,

And the fedi is full of that.

[citation needed]

lambalicious,

¡Bienvenido a Ubuntulandia!

lambalicious,

El fediverso es popular hace harto rato ya, lo que pasa es que los medios de comunicación tradicionales aún no se enteran (ni les conviene) y siguen pegados en noticias del 2022, como que la tasa de interés o que supuestamente la delincuencia.

lambalicious,

You saying that XMPP is not dead?

Name 10 active generalist servers.

No, really, it would be good to know. I haven’t been able to find active XMPP communities since ca. 2015.

lambalicious,

…Why is it even behind a paywall anyway? It’s not like ISO 8601 is a super copyrighted novel, it’s just an assortment of letters and numbers in a defined order no longer than one (1) line of a classroom homework.

lambalicious,

A veces agrego los locales de cosas chicas que van cambiando con el tiempo. Panaderías o ferreterías estacionales, los locales donde se ponen los foodtruck, ese tipo de cosas.

Más que nada porque aún no cacho cómo hacer nada más…

lambalicious,

Votando en contra. Es la única votación lógica, en especial para aquellos que (irónicamente) quieren que “nos quedemos con la constitución de Pinocho”.

lambalicious,

Ahora que se cierra el proceso del plebiscito, se abre el proceso de buscar regalos de navidad.

lambalicious,

Finally, Kissinger is dead — but for the karmic balance, even SMT gets enshittified.

France bans ministers from WhatsApp, Signal; demands French alternatives. (www.politico.eu)

After the Tchap project based on Matrix, the French Prime Minister asks anyone in the gouvernement to use Olvid, the only app validated by the ANSSI, with metadata encryption and no centralised architecture nor contacts discovery. But only the front-ends are open source, not the back-end....

lambalicious,

Wasn’t also France behind a lawsuit in Switzerland that got Protonmail to start spying on its users?

Will forums fix the Internet?

In the opinion portion of Kurzgesagt's most recent video, they suggest that going back to small forums, bulletin boards, etc. will help people deradicalize and become more empathetic. The idea behind this is that, just like real life, forums allow people who disagree on certain things to bond under a shared interest or identity;...

lambalicious,

Forums already fixed the internet back in the 90s. We just undid it. And have to pay the price.

lambalicious,

That’s partilly more on the people creating duplicates without looking if the community doesn’t exist already

Which is not bad; actually and to the contrary, it can be a part of each instance’s cultural identity and it’s a practical way of ensuring the diversity and viability of smaller instances.

Discussing c/soccer in an Argentinian lemmy can be very different than discussing it in hexbear, for example. Not to mention it’s likely most of everyone would’t even be able to participate in hexbear’s. Furthermore, general subjects becoming tied to the largest instances, which statistically have more surface to cover the creation of communities for any subject ever, returns us to the same problem of conversation and community becoming centralized into a “Reddit” instance.

lambalicious,

I don’t get the issue with “maintaining Xorg”. Like, I get that it has a “cost”, I just don’t understand why that cost would be an issue since it’s basically fixed, marginal cost (and has been since like 2015): the software is already mature, so it’s unlikely to see relevant changes, or even minor changes (if that’s what we want to mean with “dead”). That means, it can be affixed to a specific toolkit and environment to build (if this isn’t being done already - which any mature project like RedHat should be!) basically guaranteeing it’ll build forever. You can just set a virtual button or a yearly crontab to do it. Fixed, marginal cost.

Contrasted to that, what Wayland is doing is kinda a representation of the worst ways of capitalism: centralize the profits, socialize the costs and the externalities (redesign, recode, rebuild), and blame society (the Linux communities) for it, all for a variable cost that is unbounded in time and space because you never know what’s gonna cost a small project like a text editor to reimplement the entire desktop stack “just” for Wayland.

lambalicious,

But keeping around X isn’t the solution - iterating on Wayland is. Adding protocols to different parts of the stack with proper permission models, moving different pieces of X to different parts of the stack, etc. are a long term viable strategy. Even if it is painful.

The problem is, that’s always used as an excuse to force people to be gratis beta testers. I’ve been around for the wrecks that were (and still are) Pulseaudio and Systemd. Wayland is even worse: it doesn’t even fully start a session in my machine. If as devs you want to “iterate”, sure, go ahead; but leave it in the dev branch; as a user, don’t try to sell me Wayland again until it’s actually over.

lambalicious,

The Fediverse operates in mysterious ways.

lambalicious,

Isn’t that just chroot?

lambalicious,

Better comment section? Youtube is basically an incel / right-wing / flatearther comment pile.

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