i agree with you, that it's not good for the environment. how bad is it exactly?
has someone numbers for this? how does a classical cawler + search + stackoverflow compare to a simple ai question/answer and the proportionate training effort? how much is the co2 output for a day of heavy vibe coding compare to this?
how does this co2 output compare to a flight/car drive?
how do you buy stuff online? do you read reviews on the big shopping platforms?
back in the day reviews were a good and honest way to find out if a product is usable. the idea was that normal people do honest reviews and other people can use that as a guidance.
this was probably true for some years, until the system got rigged: users were payed to take bad reviews offline, or users are payed to post good reviews. simple products with good reviews got exchanged with cheap complex products, so the reviews seemed to be for that product.
what you see is one part of this system: a seller is asking you to do free advertisement for them.
maybe the installation is simple, but the whole thing is still a beast and has tons of different services and does a lot of stuff. i prefer forgejo because of it's simplicity (still not super easy) and it takes less resources.
from my perspective there are two types of t-shirt acquisitions: a) you need cloths b) you want to spread a message.
i would think most of the fashion brand t-shirts fall mainly into a) with a little bit of c) you want to be part of a superior group
most of the funny t-shirts and band-t-shirts fall into category b) and basically you also place yourself into a certain group but into a smaller, more specific one. the big fashion brands are arbitrary so many people can identify with them. they don't want to be associated with a real message, because then some people would be excluded from wearing that brand.
so the t-shirt presented as exhibit 1) certainly falls into category b). but i really can not come up with a message you want to send by wearing the t-shirt: it's not the "font-nerd" it's not the "web-dev-nerd" or anything like this. how big is the overlap of star-wars-fans and font-awesome users?
i think at the end it's just a marketing department that jumps on the latest bandwagon of internet memes in the hope that they can gain some popularity.
they could produce t-shirts that are fun to wear and spread the brand more subtle, but in this case i completely agree with op: this is a very strange campaign. and i also think that the comments here comparing this with fashion brands completely miss the point.
i want to see how votes/comments accumulate over time on a post, therefore i would have to poll the "all" posts endpoint in a regular interval. but I would either see new posts with small number of comments/upvoted, or already upvoted post, or i would have to download all posts in a regular time interval which seems impossible to me.
so this would mean that if i wanted to receive an event for each upvote/comment/post in the lemmy fediverse i would have to create my own instance in the ActivityPub space, subscribe to all communities (there is no such single wildcard call (?), so i would have to subscribe to all ~30k communities each by its own and also watch for new communities) and then i could utilize the ActivityPub protocol as instance feed me with their events?
there are currently about 600 instances and 30k communities, but only ~2k communities have more than 600 subscribers (according to [0]). does this mean that those bots only subscribe to communities above a certain threshold?
so the instances only save the metadata/title of federated posts, but when a user wants to see the comments or content, then the other instances are queried for more details?
i agree with you, that it's not good for the environment. how bad is it exactly?
has someone numbers for this? how does a classical cawler + search + stackoverflow compare to a simple ai question/answer and the proportionate training effort? how much is the co2 output for a day of heavy vibe coding compare to this?
how does this co2 output compare to a flight/car drive?