With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
I think corporate instances should be allowed only as hosts for accounts of their own employees. Letting large companies dominate the fediverse kind of diminishes the idea of putting control of social media back into hands of the people. If the companies really wanted to help the fediverse out they should be donating to fediverse projects rather than trying to monopolize it.
I just got back from a over five-hour walk with my dog. I had promised him that for a long time, and both of us really needed it ;-) Now, a quick lunch, and I still have an evening workout ahead of me. Today, I decided to take a break from coding, although I probably won't resist doing something, and at night I'll probably tweak...
A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...
Hmm... I'm no expert, and probably not even competent at these sort of matters, but the thing that popped to my mind was "something something encryption something something trust". I wonder if this has a smart solution.
My man, you're straight up fighting it up there with one of the largest websites on the internet with vastly more resources and you're delivering. You deserve the praise and encouragement.
Hey all, I have a RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 5600G and I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Since Steam has shader pre-processing on Linux I thought I'd ask on a Linux gaming community about this. I noticed that when Steam processes Vulkan shaders, it uses the CPU (my CPU heats up a lot and the process manager shows CPU being used while GPU is not...
Interesting! I think I'll keep it on and just deal with the fact that it runs on CPU and takes a while, then. I was just wondering if it running on CPU was a mistake or something wrong on my part.
Yup, it also pulled in a lot of Vampire Survivor players. It's incredible how this is the #19th most played game on Steam but the developer doesn't want money and doesn't even want to accept donations.
Just FYI: You can help promote the #Fediverse by cross-posting.
There's still a sizable userbase on #Reddit and many Kbin/Fediverse users still use Reddit. That's fine. You can help in a small way by posting interesting content on both platforms, then mentioning "This post is also available on the Fediverse here:".
This will at the very least begin discussions about alternate platforms and I highly doubt Reddit can find any rule to fault you for doing so. This is also how Digg started leaking users to Reddit, so it works. Exposure is key. You may make a new user, or get a developer interested in contributing who wasn't aware of the Fediverse before, or didn't think it was significant.
@CleoTheWizard Furthermore, you can encourage creators who make OC to do the same. Many are also fed up about Reddit's actions and are likely to agree.
Hey @maskapony, thanks for continuously posting Singapore news on /m/Singapore. I hope we can convince more Singaporeans to get on the fediverse in the future. Keep up your posting and help promote the fediverse. I'm sure it'll pay off. (Making this a microblog because Kbin doesn't have a DM feature yet).
The way I'd imagine official instance accounts working is the governments launching their own .gov instance and restricting accounts to only verified government officials, or corporations doing the same thing on their own official domains. Then their posts are federated to whoever wants to see them (or people can just go to the instance).
Rosenzweig, known for her Panfrost and Apple M1/M2 GPU driver work is now contracted by Valve to work on graphics driver development! Sounds like great news for Valve's push for Linux gaming.
I really appreciate that Valve seems to be ethical about the way they're going about this, at least so far. I haven't heard any bad news nor does it raise any "extend embrace extinguish" alarms. Rare for a company these days...
I'd argue that social media isn't inherently bad. It's social media that promotes instant gratification that is bad. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok - their purpose is to make you consume more content, quicker, so they can harvest data on your likes and dislikes and stop you from thinking too hard, which makes you less likely to spend money. Social media should be about letting people talk to each other, not about glorification of celebrities.
And the former purpose is beneficial for youth - it allows one to expand their view of the world through the thoughts, views and ideas of other people, while the latter makes youths into victims.
I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject....
And now this is here, and development is being spurred on by the large migration, the next large Reddit crisis is likely to drive an even larger group here. Things will slowly build up and eventually you'll find that more things happen here than there.
The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2]....
Yeah, it's literally very early days. This is new, everyone here has just flooded in, and things need time to sort out and stabilise. There isn't a "system" that works for everyone yet. We'll see new instances getting popular, drama and controversy, and so forth. That's normal on the internet.
Unfortunately, looking at the comments in the Singapore reddit it seems that for many, /r/singapore remains their primary subreddit of choice and are unaffected by the reddit blackout...
A case for preemptively defederating with Threads
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
RTR#43 Break time
I just got back from a over five-hour walk with my dog. I had promised him that for a long time, and both of us really needed it ;-) Now, a quick lunch, and I still have an evening workout ahead of me. Today, I decided to take a break from coding, although I probably won't resist doing something, and at night I'll probably tweak...
I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you.
A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...
Best CPU and GPU monitoring app
Hey, whats the best CPU and GPU monitoring app for linux. For temperature, cpu and gpu utilization.
So... it's been a while now since the great exodus. How are you all doing my fellow refugees?
I made my home here permanently now. It seems like such a friendlier place but how are you all doing?
Steam using CPU to process vulkan shaders instead of GPU?
Hey all, I have a RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 5600G and I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Since Steam has shader pre-processing on Linux I thought I'd ask on a Linux gaming community about this. I noticed that when Steam processes Vulkan shaders, it uses the CPU (my CPU heats up a lot and the process manager shows CPU being used while GPU is not...
COVER Corporation announces debut of Holostars English ARMIS (holostars.hololivepro.com)
COVER Corporation announces debut of ReGLOSS under Hololive DEV_IS (hololive.hololivepro.com)
Looks like a new VSinger group! They're debuting their new song soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_uXN_ybxc
Hololive fan-game Holocure has been released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Already #19th on Most Played 1 day after release! Congratulations Kay Yu.
COVER Corporation Announces Debut of hololive English -Advent- (hololive.hololivepro.com)
Does anyone think that due to how usernames work on the Fediverse, we might get some people using their real names as usernames?
I'm thinking about how emails ended up becoming. Where our first email addresses were so wacky, and slowly we just wanted out real names.
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Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer (www.phoronix.com)
Rosenzweig, known for her Panfrost and Apple M1/M2 GPU driver work is now contracted by Valve to work on graphics driver development! Sounds like great news for Valve's push for Linux gaming.
Alternate gender input fields (imgur.com)
As collected from /r/programmerhumor. I think I got all of them.
Crazy Coincidence (lemmy.world)
OC Killing a giant (Reddit) (www.faceted.social)
I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject....
60% of subreddits are still dark! Reddit activity down 30%
The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2]....
Beehaw is defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, two large lemmy instances
See Beehaw's Post to find out why
As long as /r/Singapore and other sg subs remain online, alternatives are unlikely to gain traction
Unfortunately, looking at the comments in the Singapore reddit it seems that for many, /r/singapore remains their primary subreddit of choice and are unaffected by the reddit blackout...