supernovae

@supernovae@readit.buzz

Your resident Admin for Universeodon.com and Readit.buzz fediverse systems.

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What "third generation" Trek is worth watching?

I started with Star Trek after watching the Star Trek (2009) movie in college. After that I went wild watching everything I could since I was young with loads of time. I watched most of TOS, all of TNS, all of DS9, all of Voyager, all of Enterprise and all of the movies. I then stopped since I didn't have the time and wasn't...

supernovae,

Yes, I've enjoyed both of these and enjoyed them on their own unique merits vs basing it on what "star trek should be". (which drives others to hate it)

supernovae,

Bing implemented ChatGPT with their own layer on top. It works like ChatGPT and can give some ChatGPT like responses, but it does so by showing the sources and links.

Therefor, i'm happy to say - I actually like this new bing and use it a lot.

BUT... i also use bing rewards to buy all my video games so it works there too :D

supernovae,

thanks for the update - i'm seeing this on my instance as well and haven't found any rhyme or reason why it happens.

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (privacy.thenexus.today)

I'm changing my stance on the whole Meta/project92 thing after reading this article. I think the entire* fediverse should block project92 by default. Later, some instances can re-evaluate whether to maintain those blocks, once we have a better idea of what the benefits and consequences of federating will be:...

supernovae,

Here's the thing - people who already hate meta won't use it - so nothing changes for those folks whether meta is here or not.

ActivityPub is a W3C standard, so I hope meta shows up and connects. That breaks down the walled garden.

Users can choose to follow or not follow or block themselves.

(It's really Instagram joining btw, not classic fb)

supernovae,

It's not about Meta, it's about the people.

I welcome the millions to the fediverse with open arms and hope they find our side a bit less surveillance-y and more pleasant.

supernovae,

There are a lot of spam accounts on fediverse. There is a huge sex worker/porn under belly, there is a HUGE amount of organized fraud. If anything, having meta join will dilute some of our own hot mess.

supernovae,

Having them join fediverse doesn't give them an inch, it gives us light years. I can't believe people don't realize the upper hand we have here.

supernovae,

Having meta join doesn't change shit here other than have a huge corporation break the wall down on what federation means to the average joe - and that's a good thing.

Meta will meta no matter what they do - but if we can break the walled garden down and make it easy for users to move that would be great.

supernovae,

Which means there is nothing to worry about because admins will continue to shoot their own foot off. Not sure why it's such a big deal for people who will never use it anyway.

supernovae,

I disagree with you 100% :)

What i'm saying is people like you will never be convinced of anything so it doesn't matter what Meta does.

But for the rest of us, I'll enjoy following people i haven't followed because i refuse to have meta apps installed but will soon be able to connect without them.

Activitypub is going to be here no matter what.

I'll make it so awesome the people I like on Meta will move over

And i'll continue to ignore the people who are just espousing hate and vitriol because they don't matter anyway.

It's about the people - not the protocol. the protocol helps us break the walled gardens down - but we have to welcome the people or it won't matter.

supernovae,

Again, meta joining doesn't change anything for you if you don't follow and you block it yourself.

activitypub is already a public protocol.

It's about people. You have your agency to act as you see fit. There are good people on meta platforms that i hope to invite here and activitypub makes that possible.

That's all that matters.

If its about privacy and protecting your data from corporations, activitypub is the wrong protocol for that.

supernovae,

Y'all seriously don't think any of this through do you?

Right now, if they jump ship - they lose their network.

In the future, if they jump ship - they can do so and still maintain their network.

My enthusiasm for the fediverse is there because i see this as opportunity to shine.

Y'all see it as opportunity to run and lock your doors.

You're like the Trump of the fediverse. "Build a wall"

I say fuck that.

supernovae,

Yup, I've always said moderation scales with the size of the fediverse, so a momentous change like p92 will scale that up - but not necessarily in any specific ratio. Because fediverse is loosely coupled, it will scale as the relationships build more than scale merely out of existence.

supernovae,

Evryone fought about the protocol forgetting that success was always about adoption.

If we want activitypub to succeed we need to embrace adoption everywhere

supernovae, (edited )

Admins that talk after the initial meeting no longer sign ndas.

ndas for unreleased projects are not sketchy.

What is sketchy is people justifying abuse, anger and hate towards fellow people because they don’t know what is going on and failed to ask a single question before they started to hate people.

i’m sorry, but abuse is never justified.

Have any specific questions i can answer or anything you want me to ask?

My “MO” has always been to work in the open and break through the bulllshit.

supernovae,

Don’t act like abusing me or other admins is justified because you think it is. it isn’t

ask me some questions. not loaded bullshit questions but real questions.

supernovae,

The population doesn’t care about the technology. If we make social media about activitypub more than it is about social media and connecting people - we’ll be shooting our own foot off no mater what meta or anyone does.

Instances and fediverse are great because of the mods, admins and people. Activitypub is the protocol and it’s an open web standard. We should expect web standards and join them but remember the product isn’t the protocol - it’s connecting people

i for one look forward to bridging to p92 and showing them what great communities can be like.

supernovae,

You're not thinking broad enough.

Meta joining and be successful means Reddit has to think about federating or not being successful.

Wordpress is going to have all their blogs on activitypub soon. Tumblr says they're joining - Mozilla is hirring product and developers to build out their platform.

Also, Meta is a multi billion dollar company - they know how to do UI/UX - they can spend their investment/R&D on solving problems we can't and we can be nice and welcoming to the users who show curiosity.

It's a shame we're too short sighted to see opportunity here. We really have nothing to lose since it's not like meta will suck all the haters back in

supernovae,

The point of activitypub is to not have walled gardens. If meta is successful then you bed RTeddit is probably going to have to federate.

Tumblr and Wordpress is already coming.

Mozilla is too.

supernovae,

I honestly think most people shouldn't be running social media sites - so i don't care about decentralization for the sake of decentralization - the open protocol helps that. There is "de-centralized enough" where having trusted networks matters more than infinite number of networks that just cause problems.

People need to know what they're doing.

supernovae,

Path of Exile seems to do it right. I'm always online anyway. If gamers stopped being dicks and DDOS'ing that'd be better.

supernovae,

I'm pretty sure they have DDOS protection.. but it only goes so far depending on the attack...

supernovae,

Lemmy and Kbin sites need to implement basic block lists... the terrible mastodon/akoma/pleroma/friendica sites all need to be banned here too or they will make your day bad.

supernovae,

Federation can be automatic - people just need to go find the block lists where the work is already done.

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