SD drar tillbaka gängmotion. Efter att SD:s mycket omfattande gängkopplingar blviit stora nyheter i samband med Jimmie Åkessons bröllop framstod det uppenbart att Sverigedemokraternas förslag i sin motion om att bekämpa de kriminella gängen skulle slå mot hårt mot dem själva.
This week in KDE Plasma: 6.2 has been released!
This week in Plasma: 6.2 has been released!
And I’d say it’s a pretty good release! As with all large sets of changes, there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brig…Adventures in Linux and KDE
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there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brightness
Oh no, please don't! This release finally fixed the monitor brightness issue I had. It finally saves the brightness value and restores it after reboot. I had to set it manually after each boot before! Whatever regression you have, this fixed an issue for me. :D
That's the problem KDE has seemingly always had. They historically prioritized features over stability. They have been improving the processes significantly but it still shows a bit.
I personally can't use KDE as the basic settings are convoluted with lots of options. I wish there was some sort of long stable version that removes a bunch of options and settings to make a desktop that is stable and simple. Having so many options creates a lot of room for problems. I sometimes like to experiment and customize but for my main system I want tested and unchanging.
No need to change the identity of having many options and customization in KDE. This is why we have a choice of multiple desktop environments (and window managers too). If there was no XFCE or Gnome as an alternative, or even the upcoming COSMIC desktop, then I would agree to slim down KDE.
I used Gnome 2, Unity and Gnome 3 all for multiple years and have experience in XFCE as well. Really KDE is not much more buggy than Gnome 3 in example. In fact, I had lot of problems in Gnome 3 such as always breaking extensions and other limitations as well, why I switched to KDE in the first place. I was about to go back to tiling window managers, but KDE works good. I encountered with every desktop environment and window manager problems like these. So to me KDE is not really worse.
Its been a long time since I used gnome 3 so I can't really testify to its stability. However, modern gnome is very good about make sure they give the gnome experience. Like it or hate it gnome only ships things they think will be reasonable to use. They also don't ship anything that is not heavily validated.
The downside with gnome is that sometimes there is a breakdown between the devs and the users. The devs use it a certain way and assume everyone else does the same. This can lead to missing functionality that almost everyone reenables with extensions.
Linux as a ecosystem is made by humans at the end of the day and humans are funny about there beliefs. I think a mix of the gnome and KDE style would be great. Cosmic follows the KDE development style as far as I can tell and Xfce4 just doesn't have a lot of man power.
I really think Cosmic is the ideal desktop, at least from the idea what they want to do. But I don't want rely on it as its not proven yet (I mean with first release). Maybe in a few years from now.
I have my gripes with Gnome, so won't go into it now. Not very healthy doing that. :D I do think if you use Gnome as intended and without (or almost none) extensions, and use Gnome Apps for the most part, and don't need to customize each and every corner, AND embrace the Gnome way of doing things, then I agree it is probably the best DE. But these are lot of ifs and buts. I don't know if most people fall into this category, I certainly don't.
And on top of it is how Gnome... well I said I won't go into it now. :D I'm sure you are familiar with all of this.
You can just hear it as kitty wedges into that pipe.
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"MEooow?" :|
Can I offer some constructive critique?
This meme is getting downvoted because it is both a fairly dumb concept but also a very unsatisfying execution.
You need to take your idea and communicate it in a meme response. It could be a meme representing confusion or sarcasm, but adding "Breaking New..." as bottom text is really not going to go well even if everyone thought your opinion was good.
Att Iran utnyttjar svenska gäng finns det inga belägg för. Mossad påstår att Iran utnyttjar kriminella svenska gäng för att begå våldsbrott riktade mot israeliska intressen i Sverige. Det har fått Säpo att sprida samma uppgifter till svensk media.
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What if 'cotton candy' planets are actually Ring Pops?
What if 'cotton candy' planets are actually Ring Pops? | Popular Science
Some super-puff exoplanets might be Saturn-like ringed worlds, according to new research.Briley Lewis (Popular Science)
Grayzone Journalist Arrested & Accused of "Aiding the Enemy" for Reporting Same Info as PBS
Grayzone Journalist Arrested & Accused of "Aiding the Enemy" for Reporting Same Info as PBS
Today, Israeli news site Ynet News reported “charges against” American investigative journalist Jeremy Loffredo for “aiding the enemy” after defying Israel’s ban on reporting missile strike locations.Matt Orfalea (The Orf Report)
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PBS’s Nick Schifrin also defied the ban and reported the same information about the same missile strike from the same site as Loffredo who reports for The Grayzone. They both reported the strike to be approximately 1,000 feet from Mossad HQ in Tel Aviv.
Clearly Tel Aviv is a military base and not a civilian city. You can't allow journalists to report on valid military targets
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'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem
'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem
When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding.University of Copenhagen (Phys.org)
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The millions of simulations were spread across the various possible combinations within this framework. As a whole, the results form a rough map of all conceivable outcomes, like a vast tapestry woven from the threads of initial configurations. This is where the isles of regularity appear.The colors represent the object that is eventually ejected from the system after the encounter. In most cases, this is the object with the lowest mass.
"If the three-body problem were purely chaotic, we would see only a chaotic mix of indistinguishable dots, with all three outcomes blending together without any discernible order. Instead, regular 'isles' emerge from this chaotic sea, where the system behaves predictably, leading to uniform outcomes—and therefore, uniform colors," Trani explains.
The full paper is here: aanda.org/articles/aa/full_htm…
From what I gather, they're looking at the trajectories of the first object ejected from the system over all of the simulations, and they're finding that:
If the 3BP was fully ergodic, we should see a mix of colours everywhere, but instead we observe four large regions of uniform colours, two large ones at ι ~ 80° and 260°, and two small ones at ι ~ 175° and ι ~ 355°, that we term regular islands.
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All of those colors on those images are dots, each one representing the outcome of a simulation. The large single-colored areas shouldn't exist if 3BP were truly chaotic and unpredictable. Furthermore, you can see some "finer structures that look like narrow stripes."
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Capitalism is a free market.
Capitalism is, for example, being able to buy a pack of cigarettes at $15 and sell them $2 a pop on the street to make $40.
We don’t have a free market; therefore we don’t have capitalism.
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Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?
I don't like the clickbait title at all -- Mastodon's clearly going to survive, at least for the forseeable future, and it wouldn't surprise me if it outlives Xitter.
Still, Mastodon is struggling; most of the people who checkd it out in the November 2022 surge (or the smaller June 2023 surge) didn't stick around, and numbers have been steadily declining for the last year. The author makes some good points, and some of the comments are excellent.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1g1g844/why_is_mastodon_struggling_to_survive/
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I don't want to follow random people though? Twitter was useful as a way to follow specific companies and people to know when say, a service goes down or an update is released.
These people and companies aren't on Mastodon.
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Personally, I just don't enjoy that Twitter-like format. I never used Twitter so I find it... Awkward? To me its kinda like a platformer with bad controls, everything else about the game might be great but if it doesnt feel satisfying to play, I'll skip.
I still have my account and Megalodon on my phone but I just can't get into it.
Reddit / Lemmy is nice because you can have actual conversations. Twitter you are basically shouting into the void and sometimes it shouts back.
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That format was pretty good for "Come see us live at the Sodbury Theatre in Glurpfortshire, Feb 32nd @9PM!"
I remember an instance where a Cracked.com article pointed out something like "5 creepy places on the internet" one of which was a dicussion forum in which one account was posting over and over, many times a day, about public appearances and such of the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and readers showed up en masse to harass this person. Turns out she was off-label using a forum engine as her own little microtwitter to publish alerts to a fan club. But when the Cracked author rejected that context and substituted his own, it smelled a lot like Humanbeing151.
But yes in general I find discussion boards to be more useful; I think it's why they were invented first; Reddit and Lemmy are basically just different approaches to implementing Usenet.
William Shatner couldn't find me on Mastodon
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I personally didn't like mastodon's UI style, I found it tedious to use and more complicated then needed.
There's no real similar product(at least out of what I've used) so nothing to run muscle memory on, and it deep dived into federation to the point it was confusing too confusing to figure out
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Yeah, chicken and egg. Unfortunate twitter has now locked down feeds so you have to be logged in, so also fuck them on that point.
It's a tradeoff. I am so disgusted by twitter that I chose to give that up and leave.
They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.
Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.
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On the very end of the graph you can see it sort of beginning to stabalize, there was even a small uptick in the second to last point, and sure, the last point shows a small decrease again.
My point is that it is too early to call out for danger regarding mastodon, that is too alarmist and may scare new users from the platform, speeding up the end of Mastodon.
So untill we have a period of time without surges it is hard to determine user growth
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Yes but no. Due to architectural differences, federation under AuthTransfer protocol is simply different compared to ActivityPub. In its own terms it is federated as individuals' data is stored in personal data servers (PDSs) connected to a relay, which currently is only the Bluesky relay, that roughly speaking connects them to other personal data servers.
You can technically operate your own personal data server apart from those operated by Bluesky, but I think it's fair to say the vast majority on there don't. It's not clear yet, apart from fully holding your own data, how useful it is to operate your own given you only have one relay to use anyway at the moment.
So even in its own terms Bluesky really isn't federated in much of a meaningful sense yet. The problems are twofold: a major part of their pitch is making federation Just Work™, keeping the underlying tech out of mind to mitigate confusion, but you can't have your cake and eat it too here. Eventually, if you're really committed to meaningful federation, you have to teach people about the value of operating their own personal data servers, at minimum, otherwise what was the point in separating it out in the architecture?
Problem is, that goes against their pitch to their audience and spoils the appeal. It's telling a good joke only to kill it by explaining to the one person that went, "I don't get it."
Secondly, they've already upfront said that relays may be cost prohibitive for many people to operate, resulting in only a few ever being spun up. If that remains the case and is true, then even if a few were spun up, that's not any more federated or distributed than the rather consolidated web we see now. How much of a difference would it make if the social web was running on AuthTransfer and the major relays were owned and run by Meta/Facebook, Twitter/X, and Google?
Congrats you have your own data in a personal data server...But are you really the one running it, or did you just opt into the PDS entryway offered by Facebook/Twitter/Google/etc. because sorry, what's that about a server?
Mastodon is just like Threads : a hype , wait for the hype to end and you'll see that it doesn't offer something that would impress an ordinary person who isn't a nerd or tech savvy enough to continue using it...
What I'll say now is more like random thoughts about federation and it applies to any federated service but this post inspired my thoughts so ...
The two best features I can think of for Mastodon are :
* Open source: an excellent thing but it's probably not important for an ordinary person who still uses the products of big companies just because they are "convenient" and "common" even when his data is the cost
* federated: although it provides freedom to choose where you want to join, it creates a lot of confusion and inconvenience as well :
I personally have somewhat specific interests and I usually tend to avoid public instances dedicated to "everything", however, every time I decided to join a federated service I got the same confusion : "which instance should I choose?" , I had two accounts on Mastodon before I deleted one of them ( and I'll probably delete the other soon ) and I felt this confusion the two times I created an account, I have two accounts on Lemmy and I felt this confusion the two times I created an account, one account on Peertube and it's the same ( this was the most difficult of them honestly because Peertube's filters are very bad and whenever I could find an instance that I considered good, it turns out that registration is closed, or needs approval), the same confusion also happened when I created an account on Kbin/Mbin , the same on Pixelfeed , the same when I searched for an instance of friendica and it will be the same when I think in the future to repeat the experience on any other federated service...
Now, someone may come and say the famous sentence "it doesn't matter which instance you choose, at the end you can follow anything from any instance" and honestly this sentence is a pure myth imho because .. first : when you register an account in an instance, you will constantly notice the "local" section, which shows you what's happening on the instance you are in , and it'll form part of your experience in the instance depending on the instance itself and people on this instance , also , let's suppose that a large number of annoying users existed on a popular instance and the moderation of this instance couldn't solve the problem ( or didn't do anything about this in the first place) , what might happen is that moderation of other instances might decide to defederate with this instance, and this might affect an ordinary user who has done nothing but joined the instance - and any other person who isn't annoying but but ended up on this instance -, I know that this point is unreal currently but it might be real one day especially that some instances are known for not being tolerated with specific behaviors
* Another confusion that might happen ... I'll explain it with my own experience : when I was still using my first Mastodon account, I left the account for a few months and then decided to return ... but guess what happened ? I forgot which instance I signed up for in the first place ! fortunately, after two attempts in two different instances, I found the solution : I searched on a random instance for my Account (I still remember the username ) and was able to find it ... I was lucky in this, but I can't guarantee that everyone will be as lucky as me and will find a way to remember ( this is both a good and bad point for the federation , on the one hand I forgot where I registered because the instances are similar , and on the other hand I found the instance which I registered in using another instance )
I have an account that I use to read, but I've never posted on Mastodon. Decided to tweet after seeing this post and I see a privacy option called "Quiet Public - Fewer Algorithmic Fanfares".
Seriously, wtf is this? What does that even mean? If techie people like me can't figure out Mastodon then you can't expect the general public to do that. I'm not blaming this feature in particular, but Mastodon is quirky in all the wrong ways.
I think a better title & question would be, "Why is Mastodon struggling to thrive?"
It's surviving no problem, but it's not thriving for a multitude of reasons. Some are pretty well covered across comments here & in the linked discussion, and are more or less reiterations of prior discussions on the matter.
Ultimately I think as much as many of those reasons are correct, the biggest reason is the same as ever: network effects. All the jank and technical details could be endured and adjusted to if there was sufficient value to be had in doing so, i.e. following accounts of interest/entertainment, connecting with friends, etc. That's proven to varying degrees by those that have stuck with Mastodon. In turn, however, it's also clear by how many bounce off that for many there's still insufficient value to be found across Mastodon instances to justify dealing with all the rough edges.
If Mastodon had enough broadly appealing/interesting people/accounts across its instances, people might deal with the various technical and cultural rough spots the same way they deal with similar on other social networks they may complain about yet won't leave. There still aren't enough of those sorts on there for many though, so Mastodon simply survives but doesn't thrive.
Agreed, that would have been a much better title. There's a lot of negativity around Mastodon -- the Twitter migration in 2022 is often described as a "failure". It certainly wasn't a success, but I see it much more as a missed opportunity.
Network effects are certainly a big deal but every social network has to deal with the issue, and some succeed. Addressing some of the reasons for bouncing not only improves retention, but makes it more likely that people recommend it to their friends. So many of the problems from July 2023's Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isn’t were problems back in 2017 as well ... how much progress has Mastodon made? Fortunately other fediverse software's making more progress, but it's still frustrating.
Then the next Billionaire with a massive ego and huge budget comes out and makes another one.
Or we get Jack Dorsey making a new company for a 3rd time.
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"Pubcrawl" is what you're looking for. Probably not the best SEO optimized name if you don't know it by name, but works well afaik.
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Sorta/mostly. The protocol has a bit of a different model then Activity Pub, and it's in development so there are some limitations, but it's been opened and there's people hosting their own PDSs now (the part of Bluesky that hosts your account).
To my knowledge there's only two AT relays (the part that aggregates content from PDSs), Bluesky itself and very recently frontpage (a link aggregator). That makes the network fairly centralized right now, although BlueSky/AT has made a lot of progress in the last 9 months in terms of opening up so I expect it'll be a lot less centralized this time next year. I'm also betting that somebody will make an AT client that pulls posts directly from PDSs instead of going through a relay at some point.
I'll say it again, the name sucks. It's not cute, it sounds like mastrubate compared to twitter, it just is not catchy.
TicTic, snapchat, the apps that make it have a stupid catchy name, mastadon ain't it.
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Mastodon wasn't launched by a VC-backed Silicon Valley startup to become the phone app that replaces Twitter.
It was created by a German high school graduate and metalhead all alone as not much more than StatusNet with a different UI and some features cut for simplicity. It was designed by a nerd for nerds, nerds who didn't rely on phone apps for everything. At this level, and back in 2016, not even an official native iPhone app was mandatory.
It’s designed to be anti-infuencer
When my own feed, free of the algorithm, did not have content of interest. Because I or others took turns shouting into the void. Then I would go on the explore /front page where there was definitely an algorithm of influencers, many who had follower counts of thousands, talking about the same stuff. Many seemed to be upper middle class Americans .
I soon hated them, but many were broadcast to other instances’ front page too. Between them and lack of interaction from people I wanted to hear from, I left
Mastodon was around for a while, slowly being built up until 2022 when the big twitter surge happened. They had the perfect foundation to make it the next big thing and all they had to do was keep the people who joined, make it slightly easier to join, and develop a few features like quote posts.
- They banned and defederated everyone who wasn't in a very narrow sliver of political and technological opinions.
Mastodon lost it's momentum, but had a second shot a year or two later. Threads joined the network offering a massive user base that could talk with Mastodon users. Then Bluesky blew up and that was bridged so Mastodon could talk with those people too. Mastodon may not have been the center of things anymore, but it could be fully integrated into the other two.
- Most servers defederated with threads and bridges.
There are other things that I'm sure play a roll as well. Luck, discoverability, easiness to join, people getting board, people looking at the next shiny thing, you name it. But it does look to be in many ways self inflicted.
- You know all of those politicians and scientists people like to follow? Well, they're still on Xitter.
- I remember their "official" app claimed it was a third party app on the stores, which probably put off a lot of potential users. Any phone users will be getting an app by some randos no matter what they pick, which is a big trust issue for many of us.
"He", not "they" — if I understand correctly this was way back when Eugene Rochko was the sole developer — but yes. Same as Lemmy being named after Lemmy Kilmister, and Debian major versions after Toy story characters.
I don't see what's "rich" about that, it's just developers having personal tastes outside of coding.
On the feature side, according to Mastodons recent 4.3 release post development is only 4 full time employees and a budget of under $500k annually. That is basically nothing in the realm of social media companies.
Improving Mastodons features requires money and resources, but Mastodons users are unwilling to pay for instances and unwillingly to fund development. Hell, the .world folks host a bunch of instances for collectively hundreds of thousands of users and they take in about $1k a month in donations. I’m surprised that even covers hosting costs.
So…it’s no wonder that it isn’t going to be as polished as other social media in ways that would reduce the attrition.
Exactly copying a name is a bit strange to me. I have always been under impression that whoever named the social network has been unaware of the band.
Lemmy and Debian are not the same.
Lemmy and Debian are not the same.
Specifically Lemmy is exactly the same — a direct namedrop in tribute of a known musician or band. It's really no weirder than a band naming itself after archduke Franz Ferdinand, or after Nikolai Gogol 🤷
You can put in their handle, with the domain they've signed up with
If you're looking for more wider fuzzy search for that; mastodon 4.4 is gonna implement independent search services, meaning that search will be expanded beyond one server, and you can find new accounts on other servers just by keywords
Because it doesn't have $100s of millions to throw at marketing, or the name dropping of Twitter creators behind it.
It is what it is. You can either be alright with being small, or hurl money into it, but the people who hurl money into things tend to want it back at some point, and that means becoming a shitty business.
I know my friends name and surname and that must be more than enough.
I see. However; no.
I echo the sentiment that there aren't a lot of Asian people on Mastodon. Although it seems that vivaldi.net is mostly Japanese people.
Asians are mainly using their national instances. Several largest Mastodon instances are Japanese (Pawoo, mstdn.jp, Fedibird), there are also pretty large Korean (planet.moe) or Chinese ones (m.cmx.im, alive.bar, wxw.moe). Outside East Asia, Asian instances tend to be small, though.
I'll throw my -opinion- in the ring here because no one else is saying it the same way.
- Echoing what other people said, finding a server was hard especially as at the time I thought defederating seemed stupid (changed my mind somewhat now that I use Lemmy). Then once signed up discovery was/is a pain. How do I find good accounts when they aren't synced with the instance I am on? Fuck if I know, I never found an equivalent to lemmyverse.net for mastodon.
- Now into the big problem I had: federation was a pain. It was my first interaction with a federated service that isn't email and it was confusing and annoying. Finally find an account you like? Well you either can't see any of their posts or the few you can have 1 reply and 5 likes. Eventually you realise you have to click onto the account's instance to see everything and they have 100 replies and 500 likes (made-up numbers, obviously) but guess what you can't interact with any of them because you are no longer on your instance. It basically forced me to browse logged out for 99% of my browsing, constantly following links between websites. I have not had quite the same trouble with Lemmy because despite having some similar problems, it has been a LOT quicker to sync especially once you point your instance to another.
- The lack of algorithm or fine control of my feed was off-putting. I still hate that Facebook and other platforms make it hard or impossible to sort chronologically, but having only chronological makes for a potential to miss out on massive amounts of stuff.
- And on a personal note, I think I'm just falling out of favour with the idea of a microblogging platform with strangers. If my friends used it things might be different.
I did try out Firefish and enjoyed that way more as it had a fun and engaging UI and lots of extra features, but it holds the same federation and discovery issues.
Then once signed up discovery was/is a pain. How do I find good accounts when they aren’t synced with the instance I am on? Fuck if I know, I never found an equivalent to lemmyverse.net for mastodon.
Feels like the A.1 issue of Mastadon as a platform. If person A on instance Q wants to follow person B on instance R, there's no straight line easy path to do that. Compared to Twitter or BlueSky or Threads, where its all one ecosystem and you just say "I'd like to follow @LieutenantDickweasel" and now you've got their posts in your stream, Mastadon is byzantine and not worth the effort to explore.
On the flip side, Truth Social is a Mastadon instance, and it's trading with a market cap of several billion dollars. Seems successful enough to me.
I think I’m just falling out of favour with the idea of a microblogging platform with strangers
Generally speaking, you're not on these services to follow strangers per say. You're on there to interact with D-list celebrities and other highly niche personalities. Or you're on the system to self-promote and become a D-list celebrity/niche personality. Webcomics artists, semi-famous musicians, podcasters, and political bloggers are all over my feed. I'd never talk to these people IRL. And I'd never interact with them if they were even slightly more popular or famous. But in this space, its a cozy little "oh let's check in on what the author of AtomicRobo Comics is up to?" fan relationship that's fruitful and fun for everyone involved.
But Mastadon is shit at putting indie fans in touch with their focus of attention. After that, what am I using this for other than a stripped-down Discord or glorified group-SMS? Pointless.
One reason why Truth Social was able to work stemmed from the fact that it was a single magnetizing D-list celebrity that drew people in. But even then, you're talking about an audience in the... thousands? Even as a one-stop shop for all things Donald Trump, it's low energy and lame when compared to Twitter.
Feels like the A.1 issue of Mastadon as a platform. If person A on instance Q wants to follow person B on instance R, there’s no straight line easy path to do that. Compared to Twitter or BlueSky or Threads, where its all one ecosystem and you just say “I’d like to follow @LieutenantDickweasel” and now you’ve got their posts in your stream, Mastadon is byzantine and not worth the effort to explore.
You do know that the Fediverse is more than just Mastodon, Truth Social and the Threadiverse?
Search that covers 100% of the Fediverse is technologically impossible. Any Fediverse-wide search would need to know all of the Fediverse. All of it.
Like, let's suppose R is B's personal instance. Let's suppose B spins up the instance for the first time. Any all-encompassing Fediverse search would have to know about it immediately. The very millisecond Apache or nginx or whatever comes to life, that search would have to know it's there to be able to always cover exactly 100% of the Fediverse.
How's that supposed to work?
If it's one centralised search engine, it would have to be hard-coded into the source code of every last Fediverse project out there so all new instances can automatically announce their existence to the search engine.
And that's not four projects or so. It's over 100. Not only Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed. It's also Ecko and Hometown and Glitch and many other Mastodon forks. And Pleroma and Akkoma and other Pleroma forks. And Misskey and Firefish and Iceshrimp and Iceshrimp.NET and Sharkey and CherryPick and Catodon and Meisskey and Tanukey and Neko and dozens upon dozens of other Misskey forks. And Mitra. And Socialhome. And GoToSocial. And micro.blog which, by the way, is closed-source. And Friendica and Hubzilla and the streams repository and Forte. And Pixelfed. And Funkwhale. And Bandwagon. And Castopod. And PeerTube. And Owncast. And Mobilizon. And Gancio. And BookWyrm. And Flohmarkt. And so forth.
It'd be even worse if it was supposed to be built into the Fediverse projects themself. Like, you could search the whole Fediverse from Lemmy's Web interface or any one Mastodon app.
That'd require each new instance to announce its instance to each running instance.
That'd require each new instance to know all running instances immediately.
That'd only be possible by building a list of 20,000++ Fediverse instances into every last Fediverse server software repository so that it's installed along with new instances.
And that list would always have to be up-to-date.
So when B spins up R, the following would have to happen:
- R
git pulls the most recent version of the main branch of Mastodon's source code to have a most up-to-date list of active instances possible. - R starts up.
- R announces its existence to the 20,000++ Fediverse instances on the list.
- R goes through a list of all Fediverse server application code repositories which it has pulled from the Mastodon code repository as well.
- R announces its existence to every last one of these repositories by creating a new branch, editing the list of active Fediverse instances, submitting the edit as a pull request and merging its own new branch into the main/stable/release/... branches of all these code repositories.
Any Fediverse server out there would be able to hack into any Fediverse server code repository and manipulate the production code. Otherwise, this whole thing couldn't work.
Fediverse server code repositories would be flooded with automated pull requests plus mergers. Oh, and if Mastodon can add a new instance to a list in the Mastodon production source code, anything could remote-manipulate anything in the Mastodon production source code.
I'm saying they are using it like a rss in the fact that they are mainly there just to follow and be fed content. It's where they go if they want direct content submissions from blank famous person.
You seem more fixated on arguing semantics.
Healthier for whom? As there’s an extensive list of people harmed that absolutely do not find mastodon “healthy” let alone “healthier” particularly Black and Brown folks.
Bluesky defaults to the same way feeds are presented as Mastodon does, so your statement is false
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Readme is overdue to actually be finished, but the script itself is working. Can be run locally on desktop or termux, though some clients on desktop need a custom host added since they don't like localhost and amethyst only uses it if you don't add it as a local relay.
GitHub - 0n4t3/nipy-bridge: A Nostr to AT (Bluesky) & Activity Pub local bridge
A Nostr to AT (Bluesky) & Activity Pub local bridge - 0n4t3/nipy-bridgeGitHub
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Decentralisation and having multiple instances isn't even that much of an issue. 99.999% of all Twitter refugees were railroaded to Mastodon and what seems like 99% of these straight to mastodon.social. They genuinely thought mastodon.social was "the Mastodon website", just like twitter.com was the Twitter website. It took many of them months to even notice that Mastodon is decentralised. And it took some of them even longer to notice that the Fediverse is, in fact, more than just Mastodon while half of them think that Fediverse = Mastodon after almost two years.
No, the biggest issue is: What they were looking for was not something radically different from Twitter, now that Twitter sucked. They were looking for a Twitter without Musk. Like, a drop-in replacement that doesn't require them to adjust in any way. A 1:1, 100% identical clone of Twitter how it was the day before Musk took over with the same UI and the same UX and the same culture.
When they were railroaded to mastodon.social, they were told that Mastodon is "literally Twitter without Musk". And they took it as literally. By face value. And then they ended up on something that looked and felt nothing like Twitter. No matter how many of Twitter's limitations Gargron arbitrarily and unnecessarily implemented into Mastodon, he never got close enough to Twitter itself.
People would stick around because Mastodon felt like the only alternative to Twitter there was. Of course, they kept using Mastodon exactly like Twitter, not adopting to Mastodon's culture and relying on their toots being delivered to people by an algorithm that Mastodon simply doesn't have. Hashtag? Fuck hashtags, I didn't need no hashtags on Twitter, so I ain't gonna use none on Mastodon. And then they wondered why so few people discovered them and their content.
They didn't want to adapt. They were waiting for Mastodon to finally "fix the bugs" that made it different from Twitter. Which it didn't.
Instead, Mastodon developed its own culture (which is a story of its own). And they were pressured to adopt Mastodon's culture. CWs for sensitive content for any definition of "sensitive". Twitter ain't got no CW field. Alt-texts for all images, and it had to be actually useful and informative. They ain't never done no alt-texts on Twitter. Of course, the right hashtags. See above.
Also, Mastodon-the-app is lack-lustre. Whereas the official apps for just about everything else are fully-featured, the Mastodon mobile app is only there for there to be a mobile app named "Mastodon" for those people who join a new online service by grabbing their iPhones and loading the app with the same name as the service from the App Store. Especially newbies often can't wrap their minds around using an online service with an app that doesn't have the same name. But the official Mastodon app is actually just about the worst Mastodon app out there. At the same time, for many Mastodon users, this app IS Mastodon. They've never seen the Web interface. What the app can't do, Mastodon can't do.
Lastly, Mastodon was probably also way too techy. Like, you had people talking about Linux and Open Source and Web design and whatnot all over the place, something that they themselves knew nothing about and weren't interested in. On top came those people with their weird-looking monster posts that said the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, and they were posting from something that is not and has never even been affiliated with Mastodon.
And then Bluesky came along. And Bluesky looked exactly like what they've been wanting all the time: a 1:1 Twitter clone. One big reason for Bluesky's success is that it shamelessly ripped off the UI of immediately-pre-Musk-takeover Twitter, both the website and the mobile app. A fully-featured, well-polished mobile app with all the same features as the website. And at first glance, it feels like the same monolithic walled-garden silo as Twitter with the same kinds of users as Twitter, minus the Nazis. At least not as ripe with übergeeks as Mastodon.
Also, Bluesky grew faster and quickly had more users than Mastodon. Which sounded like more followers in less time. Exactly what all those famewhores that brag about their Twitter follower counts were craving.
People wanted a pre-Musk Twitter clone. Mastodon isn't one. Everything else in the Fediverse is one even less. Bluesky is just that. Bluesky is what people had wanted all the time.
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Luckily, Mastodon is working on a discorvery protocol that should offer a way to find people across the board, which will hopefully make the Fediverse “appear” centralized to the average Joe while maintaining all the benefits of decentralization to the advanced users.
I'd bet that this will be so proprietary and non-standard again that it'll only work within Mastodon, maybe plus a few of its own soft-forks, effectively ignoring 30% of the Fediverse.
Also, let Mastodon shrink if that means that the "market share" of other native Fediverse server apps grows.
The fewer people think the Fediverse is Mastodon, and the more exposure the other stuff in the Fediverse gets and what features it has over Mastodon, the better.
Head of Nuke Abolition Group Decries Gaza Suffering After Winning Nobel Peace Prize
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Julia Conley
Oct 11, 2024
Head of Nuke Abolition Group Decries Gaza Suffering After Winning Nobel Peace Prize
Toshiyuki Mimaki said he had believed "the people working so hard in Gaza" would be awarded the Peace Prize, referring to aid workers with UNRWA.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
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Tesla’s value drops $60bn after investors fail to hail self-driving ‘Cybercab’
Tesla’s value drops $60bn after investors fail to hail self-driving ‘Cybercab’
Investors criticised lack of detail about the ‘robotaxi’ showcased by Elon MuskDan Milmo (The Guardian)
Chinese scientists achieve fusion milestone with neural networks
Chinese scientists achieve fusion milestone with neural networks
Chinese scientists use neural networks to achieve a breakthrough in fusion energy research, enhancing the accuracy of plasma measurements.Aman Tripathi (Interesting Engineering)
Chinese scientists achieve fusion milestone with neural networks
Chinese scientists achieve fusion milestone with neural networks
Chinese scientists use neural networks to achieve a breakthrough in fusion energy research, enhancing the accuracy of plasma measurements.Aman Tripathi (Interesting Engineering)
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Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal - News - IEA
Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal - News - IEA
Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 is set to match entire power capacity of major economies today, moving world closer to tripling goal - News from the International Energy AgencyIEA
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Careful, though: WriteFreely is solid, but limited.
For example, it has no comments. Like, there's no way you can interact with a WriteFreely post, at least none that the author would notice. Comments are planned, but way down the to-do list.
Also, while you can embed images, you have to host them externally and then hotlink them. I think this is one of the next things that WriteFreely will tackle. It's possible; Plume has its own built-in image hoster, but Plume is so underdeveloped that its devs recommend WriteFreely instead.
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Microblog is Twitter-like, normally plain-text only, normally limited in characters, no titles, no summaries because unnecessary for not even 1,000 characters per post. Also, conversations/threads consist of posts, posts and more posts that are loosely connected via mentions.
Blog is like WordPress or Blogger or Medium. With titles, with summaries, no character limits and the whole shebang of formatting.
Headlines
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bold type, italics, code,
- bullet-point lists,
- numbered lists,
images embedded in-line within the post (with text above the image and more text below the image), nicely embedded links instead of URLs in plain sight and so on. Also, conversations consist of exactly one (1) post, and replies are comments that aren't posts and work differently from posts.
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in reply to HelixDab2 • • •I assume you've tripped up on your measurements somewhere, because 4 ml would be a very sad dram. A spirit measure in the UK is 25 ml, so you get 28 of those out of a 700 ml bottle for $7,000 at that bar.
Edit: upon looking it up, apparently a dram actually is 4 ml in America? In Scotland that's just the word for a glass of whisky, assumed to be an approximate "one drink" rather than an actual specification of volume. If you offered someone a dram and poured them 4 ml here, they'd think you were the stingiest person since Ebenezer Scrooge
However bars mark drinks up like mad, and they will absolutely do so on extremely premium drinks because the only people buying those are people who do not care how much it costs. If you take $3 for a shot of a basic vodka, that's $84 for the bottle, and there's absolutely no way you'd pay $84 for that same bottle in a supermarket.
You definitely could spend seven grand on a 40 year old bottle of whisky if you went looking for one. This specific bottle is 51 years, but it's commanding this price because it's a very rare
... show moreI assume you've tripped up on your measurements somewhere, because 4 ml would be a very sad dram. A spirit measure in the UK is 25 ml, so you get 28 of those out of a 700 ml bottle for $7,000 at that bar.
Edit: upon looking it up, apparently a dram actually is 4 ml in America? In Scotland that's just the word for a glass of whisky, assumed to be an approximate "one drink" rather than an actual specification of volume. If you offered someone a dram and poured them 4 ml here, they'd think you were the stingiest person since Ebenezer Scrooge
However bars mark drinks up like mad, and they will absolutely do so on extremely premium drinks because the only people buying those are people who do not care how much it costs. If you take $3 for a shot of a basic vodka, that's $84 for the bottle, and there's absolutely no way you'd pay $84 for that same bottle in a supermarket.
You definitely could spend seven grand on a 40 year old bottle of whisky if you went looking for one. This specific bottle is 51 years, but it's commanding this price because it's a very rare special edition from a big and popular distillery
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in reply to Eheran • • •For context 28 CBM is about the volume of a 20' container.
Or a stacked pallet is about 1.8 CBM so about 15 standard height pallets.
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in reply to SeekPie • • •Sorta. CBM is cubic meters and the entire world uses feet for shipping containers. For Intl logistics CBM and kg are the standard for volume and weight but they get loaded into containers measured in feet.
You'll see similar stuff in other industries. Machining a lot of measurements are in mm but tolerances in "mils" or 1/1000 of an inch. Or medical where volume is in mL or drams.
When it comes to distance though I only really know miles.
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in reply to no_nothing • • •I know everyone’s general focus is on the cost of the thing and how ridiculous it seems, completely ignoring that it’s a Scotch that was aged longer than the overwhelming majority of us—me included—have been alive, and that there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.
Me, I’ve wrangled with exactly how you’re meant to pay for the thing and walk out the door with it. Am I bringing $27K—plus tax—worth of cash—three straps of hundos?—to Costco and having the cashier count it? Do I get pulled into the manager’s office instead? Or, do I put this on my Costco Citi Visa? Will they decline it, even if I have the credit limit? Can I sub in another Visa, since that’s all they take? Do I get walked out the door, or do I get a receipt for the checker to sharpie a line through?
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in reply to Mak' • • •If you have to ask you can’t afford it.
People buying 30k bottles of wine are generally the kinds of people that don’t have a “credit limit” like we’re used to. They probably also have people that go get that wine for them, and likely pay by credit card or check.
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in reply to Maeve • • •The very wealthy are also petulant little pigs who clad themselves in designer clothing, diamonds, and gold. Who literally clutch pearls and hiss at minorities. Who support genocides and drive drunk on public roads after their racist little evening gatherings.
Let’s stop pretending these ghouls are valid human beings. Entire Royal families have been terminated for having less relative wealth to the workers than todays ruling class.
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in reply to SoJB • • •They are human beings, these are human behaviors, and it's not "no true human would..." Of course they would, and easily, too. My only point was to highlight differences in our concepts of wealth, and theirs.
Indeed.
Mak'
in reply to TexMexBazooka • • •Oh, I acknowledge that.
However, there are two things I get hung up on. One, can’t pay by check—Costco doesn’t accept checks. And, two, the traditional no-limits cards are generally Amex, which they don’t accept—only Visa.
So, yes, while nothing else you said was wrong per se, I’m still left to ponder just how the transaction would go down.
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in reply to Mak' • • •That's just not true, though.
Supposed expert "connoisseurs" haven't been able to tell famous high-priced wines apart in controlled taste tests.
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in reply to Mak' • • •You are correct, but to be clear, it's not so much that tasting this scotch is a life changing experience; it's more that to these people, 27k is just chump change.
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in reply to sushibowl • • •It's also about knowing that it's so exclusive that regular people can't experience it. Take away the pricetag and it's isn't nearly so appealing.
Veblen product, innit
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in reply to Mak' • • •Doesn't mean it's worth 30k. There are whiskies just as old and better that aren't sold at that price.
This item is not sold 30k because its old, or even rare. It's sold at that price because there's always a rich sucker who wants something expensive.
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in reply to no_nothing • • •Well, thank goodness it wasn't 27,000.
That would be way too much!
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in reply to NutWrench • • •I'll wait for the * price tag... And a winning lottery ticket.
But seriously, a Scotch barreled in 1948? I didn't know they aged anything that long.
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