Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook
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DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.DuckDuckGo
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It's a pretty bold move to launch an open source service like this, especially one that is as complex as a video sharing site. One would think a gradual increase of user base would be easier to handle than a sudden influx of people at a moment when one has been scrambling to meet a deadline.
Good thing they/he is not afraid of postponing the release and making sure it's ready. And if it works well it will be one hell of a release. Fingers crossed. :)
Why not. I know a lot of people are into this.
I'm personally not interested in seeing video clips on Pixelfed, so I hope they can be hidden in account settings.
But respect to Pixelfed developers who seem to do a great job - it's awesome.
Edit: looked properly at loops and it looks like it's a totally separate thing to Pixelfed. Happy days!
mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacy
mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacy - Liliputing
mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyBrad Linder (Liliputing)
Hovrättsdom för mord i Uppsala år 2017. Svea hovrätt har fastställt Södertörns tingsrätts fällande dom mot en idag 27-årig man för mordet på en man i Uppsala år 2017. Vid gärningen var den dömde mannen bara 19 år gammal. 27-åringen dömdes även för förberedelse till mord i Bandhagen och för medhjälp till synnerligen grov narkotikasmuggling.
Internet innan och efter webben. Idag domineras internet av webben vilket inluderar både bilder såväl som video och andra rörliga bilder. Men det fanns en tid när webben, dvs protokollet http (http://, https://) inte fanns. Då bestod internet av telnet (telnet:), mejl (mailto:), filöverföring (ftp://), finger (finger://) för att söka mejladresser på nätet, usenet dvs nyhetsgrupper (news://), chattar (irc://) och gopher (gopher://) med mera.
Styluslabs' Write is now AGPLv3
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21154325
Write is a handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications.More information and demo: github.com/styluslabs/Write/
I've used it for uni on a Linux tablet/convertible and it worked really quite well and has some nice convenient features for note-taking.
The UI looks like it's from android 4.something though ^^'
What I really appreciate about it is that its storage format are plain SVG(Z) which are extremely compatible. All you need to view your scribbles is an SVG viewer (i.e. a web browser) which basically every computer with a GUI has. Their website is in fact mostly just the output of their own app.
GitHub - styluslabs/Write
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Styluslabs' Write is now AGPLv3
Write is a handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications.
More information and demo: github.com/styluslabs/Write/
I've used it for uni on a Linux tablet/convertible and it worked really quite well and has some nice convenient features for note-taking.
The UI looks like it's from android 4.something though ^^'
What I really appreciate about it is that its storage format are plain SVG(Z) which are extremely compatible. All you need to view your scribbles is an SVG viewer (i.e. a web browser) which basically every computer with a GUI has. Their website is in fact mostly just the output of their own app.
GitHub - styluslabs/Write
Contribute to styluslabs/Write development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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It was an old Fujitsu Q755, not something I'd recommend you buy.
Had a wacom tablet built into the touch screen though which is the only thing I'd watch out for.
Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from. Almost none of the storm's devastation will be paid out by insurance.
Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from.
The estimated costs of Hurricane Helene have more than doubled since it made landfall. Almost none are covered by insurance.Jake Bittle (Grist)
Rather generous title for the NazIDF pointing a tank barrel directly at the UN troops
Thye're using the UN base as human shield cover now. UN vehicles in blue, IDF in red
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This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
This Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed gears on its joints to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forwardJoseph Stromberg (Smithsonian Magazine)
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What's your favorite FOSS tools for image editing?
Typically when I'm working with photos, I'm doing graphic design type work. I've been using GIMP for this. GIMP is meant for raster graphics editing.
You could also use Inkscape for vector graphics, or Krita for more digital painting type work. But I know all these tools are very powerful and overlap on some use cases.
Do you use any AI-type tools? I use a image upscaler called Upscayl. It works really well and works entirely locally.
Do you know of any tools that can remove backgrounds? This would help with help with the type of graphic design I do.
What other tools do you like to use as it pertains to images?
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This is interesting and important but fun fact, maybe not the first case of 2 billion+ yr old microbes. There were microbial organisms found in a mine in Minnesota coming from 2.6 billion year old rock and they suspected they were coming from water trapped when the rock, banded iron formation, formed in an ancient ocean. IIRC there were two bacteria - one that eats sulfur and excretes iron, and one that eats iron and excretes sulfur.
Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota. Great tour.
imagine two societies spending billions of years in the dark depths eating the others poop
nature is beautiful
one that eats sulfur and excretes iron, and one that eats iron and excretes sulfur
Thermodynamically, how could these two cycles sustain metabolism? Were there other processes/species in the mix to introduce chemical compounds that had more energy contained within?
Reminds me of the primordial soup game where each players microbes need to eat to the poop of the other players. And yes it's a German game.
Matrix v1.12 release
Matrix v1.12 release
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsTravis Ralston (matrix.org)
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World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies.Mallapaty, Smriti
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I keep an eye on these types of treatments. Type 1 diabetes being autoimmune and all.
So far, I'm putting it in the bucket with all the other "cure is just 5 years away" things we hear about.
It's promising, and neat it's worked in these cases, but I remain skeptical. Twice over as it appears to be research from China, who doesn't have the best track record for robust scientific integrity. We'll see how repeatable this stuff is soon enough.
Victims of Communism memorial faces call to remove over 330 names linked to Nazis, fascists
Victims of Communism memorial faces call to remove over 330 names linked to Nazis, fascists
A Canadian Heritage report obtained by the Ottawa Citizen recommends removing more than 330 names from the memorial.David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa Citizen)
Lost_My_Mind
in reply to moosetwin • • •clicks video
Oh god, I'm NOT watching a god damned 3 hour video on facebook vs fediverse!
Seriously! Why did this guy feel the need to make a THREE HOUR VIDEO about social media??? A 10 minute video would have been a bit much, but THREE HOURS AND 9 MINUTES??? ARE YOU HIGH??? Holy shit....
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NauticalNoodle
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •Carighan Maconar
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •In fact, the very reality of there being a three hour video of someone talking (as in, in written text this'd be a maximum of 10 minutes of reading, for a slow reader) about a supposed onboarding problem with the fediverse is irony at its finest.
Yeah... sure... if you always expand 10 minutes of content into 180 minutes using a wrong format, you might fuck up getting anybody to do anything. You seem to not want them to get what you're trying to teach, maybe.
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moosetwin
in reply to Carighan Maconar • • •Carighan Maconar
in reply to moosetwin • • •Ghoelian
in reply to Carighan Maconar • • •Bezier
in reply to Ghoelian • • •the post of tom joad
in reply to Carighan Maconar • • •SkaveRat
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •well, you're in luck. because the video is not about that.
In fact, fediverse gets a 10 second mention while the credits roll.
There, now you can watch the 3 hour video. It's fun.
RobotToaster
in reply to moosetwin • • •I still think defederation is the biggest hurdle. It would be a lot easier if you could just tell people it didn't matter what instance they join, they will be able to follow anyone.
Usually when I mention it people will talk about all the reasons defederation exists, but it doesn't change the fact that if a normal person has to start looking up what instance they can follow uncle ReaganLover69 on, they're probably going to stay on twitter.
Carighan Maconar
in reply to RobotToaster • • •Blaze (he/him)
in reply to Carighan Maconar • • •TexasDrunk
in reply to RobotToaster • • •Defederation makes it so that figuring out which instance to sign up with in order to see your friends and local businesses (since we're talking about vs Facebook instead of Twitter or Reddit) would be a nightmare for the average person.
I have multiple accounts on some services trying to get to everything I want to see. I mostly gave up on Pixelfed. My main Mastodon account can see people on other instances but has problems seeing their posts. And I'm absolutely not willing to troubleshoot it because between work, a social life, and other hobbies I just don't have the time or give a shit.
I like the fediverse. I'm here. I use it. But I'm only going to use what's convenient and I promise that I have more patience than the average non tech person who wants to sign up using a linked Gmail account and see all the things they expect to see without having to think about it.
Edit: I think my brain skipped the last two sentences in that comment. I just sat here and bitched about something that was already mentioned. I have brought nothing to this discussion and have bro
... show moreDefederation makes it so that figuring out which instance to sign up with in order to see your friends and local businesses (since we're talking about vs Facebook instead of Twitter or Reddit) would be a nightmare for the average person.
I have multiple accounts on some services trying to get to everything I want to see. I mostly gave up on Pixelfed. My main Mastodon account can see people on other instances but has problems seeing their posts. And I'm absolutely not willing to troubleshoot it because between work, a social life, and other hobbies I just don't have the time or give a shit.
I like the fediverse. I'm here. I use it. But I'm only going to use what's convenient and I promise that I have more patience than the average non tech person who wants to sign up using a linked Gmail account and see all the things they expect to see without having to think about it.
Edit: I think my brain skipped the last two sentences in that comment. I just sat here and bitched about something that was already mentioned. I have brought nothing to this discussion and have brought shame upon my house.
masterspace
in reply to RobotToaster • • •No, it's not.
It's literally a concept no normie knows about nor would care about.
They are not trying to follow some tankie on a banned Marxist instance, they're trying to follow cute cat pictures on lemmy.world.
End of the day, just like with safe site filters etc, you'll end up with most instances following similar enough protocols and federating with each other and the vast majority of people seeing the vast majority of people, with some fringes blocked for some people.
RandomVideos
in reply to masterspace • • •Until you accidentally end up on an instance that defederated from lemmy.world and are confused why there are no cute cat pictures
Is there a way to easily find an instance based on what you want to use lemmy for, not just what the instance is about?
IsThisAnAI
in reply to moosetwin • • •I'm sure what this guy is saying has truth to it but here's the actual problem.
The people.
Fediverse will never EVER hit critical mass unless the users and mods stop calling everyone they don't agree with a Nazi. Mods need to actually enforce NSFW shit and do their job. Nobody is going to scroll in their off time when you can randomly have furry dick pop up.
The problem is the people. This place is hostile as fuck to the average user.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •I've never seen such content, which community was that? Did you report the content for not being flagged?
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JackbyDev
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •Jake Farm
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •IsThisAnAI
in reply to Jake Farm • • •Jake Farm
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •kbal
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •lambalicious
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •But when they have that content, or even worse stuff such as neo-nazism, shown on Twitter and Facebook, suddenly they have no issue! Suspicious.
Jake Farm
in reply to lambalicious • • •renzev
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •TBH this is to be expected from a demographic made up largely of ex-reddit users
CherryPigtails
in reply to moosetwin • • •IsThisAnAI
in reply to moosetwin • • •Filtered word: nsfw
OpenStars
in reply to IsThisAnAI • • •IsThisAnAI
in reply to moosetwin • • •Folks (and you 😁), I get you are trying to be helpful but you are missing the point.
I get that I can hit the button. It drives away people in general. People do not like filling out reports. Having to block, report, and moderate your own content is work. Users value having most of that done for them.
Jake Farm
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in reply to Kierunkowy74 • • •kbal
in reply to moosetwin • • •overload
in reply to kbal • • •He's more than capable of joining the fediverse, but he's also a UI/UX designer.
I would say his main issue with the fediverse is the amount of friction between a normie being exposed to the concept and actually signing up and engaging with it.
You have to admit that it isn't the simplest thing to do. People have to understand the concept of the fediverse, find an instance that will accept them, sign up (with confirmation required from the instance mods) and then find out how to find communities that they are interested in.
It's not about whether a tech-savvy person can figure it out with some effort, it's about whether normal people can transition away from a monolithic, streamlined, social media to it.
kbal
in reply to overload • • •That's the argument. Do they, though? I sure didn't when I first signed up.
Blaze (he/him)
in reply to kbal • • •Dame
in reply to overload • • •iopq
in reply to overload • • •People have to understand email addresses, domains, the DNS system just to decide which email provider to choose. After that they still need to find people to email.
This email thing will never catch on /s
overload
in reply to iopq • • •Hahaha, touché. To be fair though, a lot of people struggle with email.
And if an easier version of email existed, email mightn't have caught on.
Feathercrown
in reply to overload • • •linearchaos
Unknown parent • • •I can tell you that the average person in the last 30 years hasn't wanted to learn shit. I suspect it goes back far longer than that but I was too young to pay any attention.
People like us have always been around but we are not the norm. We thrive on challenge on the advantages of doing things different and better ways. But the vast majority of human history is primarily people just wanting to get by. They spent their extra time shining their floors or waxing their cars. Maybe getting that last decoration up in the foyer. That's why we have so many databases running in Excel, It says easy as possible while just barely skirting by danger.
renzev
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