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Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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♪ Longe vá, temor servil ♪

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I also may boost posts I make with alts, but I'm mainly here so that should be rare.

  • A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

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  • If I am successfully sifting through the text, it sounds like Computer x Computer battles in Ultimate Ninja 5 for the PS2. Basically, they were fun to watch the first 2 times, then would grow boring and bland, and I'd pick the controller again to go back to playing.

  • Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client?

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  • The way I understand it, no one should deal with those they don't want to, and that's best done bilaterally than having to deal with the choices of a central governance. And ActivityPub should go by this principle. Instances decide if they want relations with other instances. Users decide if they want relations with other users, communities, tags, and instances. If a given instance does something the user doesn't like, the user can pick another instance without inhering the choices of the previous, but still being able to access the environment and choose whom to deal with.

    Also, in a process, whatever it may be, it's the point that more parts depend on that if it fails, the more damage happens. While AT Protocol's PDS system helps lowering stress on specific instances, the tendency is to have only a handful few, as "they already do all the job", so if a PDS node fails, more strain goes to the others, if the site owner chose or remembered to put back up nodes. Meanwhile, if an instance dies on ActivityPub, just a small part of the environment dies, but even posts from that dead instance may keep propagating. It's a situation of safety versus server optimization, I'd say.

  • Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube?

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  • Hardware prices are weird. From what I follow and followed of companies like GOG and ZP, older games usually have their source codes lost because storage was way too expensive and so older code versions were deleted, that around the 80's~90's. And observing cycles, I also notice one where storage becomes cheaper and holding more data with the same space, followed by big industry players kicking the bucket about storage optimization, then rinse and repeat. But now at least, I feel like there's potential for it to be mitigated, as everyone with access to a forum or some other form of social media has the potential to give their opinions, including regarding this ups and downs cycle, and so reverberating even in those that in decades prior could not even notice the tendency.

  • Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube?

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  • I think Peertube is the best, not immediately but in potential. Given that, I'd suggest sticking around, interacting, making contents yourself and sharing stuff from there with your friends, so the environment gets traction and so those interested in improving the engine, the environment or just doing the same you did for traction, gravitate towards.

    Personally, I'd say it's the same as people saying Lemmy wouldn't go anywhere when Spez was going coo-coo some years ago. While Lemmy itself is more or less stagnant, it was a good kickstart then. And now, from what I saw in statistics some weeks back, comments are increasing on the "threadiverse" even if posts are slowly decreasing, which afaik is a better sign of organic growth.

  • Hola

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  • saludo, gato amigo

  • Neocities deindexed from Bing

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  • So, going by the blog post, the entire domain got sanctioned due to a few (proportionally speaking) malicious domains?

    If so, wtf 💩

    Also, for things like this, I'd suggest linking to sites one uses (Neocities or otherwise) between one's friends and followers so discovery of sites flow through the chain of trust. Not as fast discoverable, but avoids algorhithm decisions like this, or shadow ban, or ill-intended sites paying to appear higher, or so on.

  • Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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  • I wouldn't say necessarily China controlled. Social engineering is great for making people replicate the engineering without noticing.

    But indeed I notice a lot of posts that benefit China since I joined in some years back (thanks Spez), specially in news and country-specific communities.

  • Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web

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  • Can't check much of it now, but one thing that concerns me in Discord, and that I've already seen happening, is entire chat histories getting nuked, either by accident or by moderation's dishonesty. With AT Protocol's middleman-style of delivery system, I don't trust it for preserving a chat history, but with ActivityPub and its nature of more easily being self-hostable, backing up suddently becomes far more reachable. So for that, I'll be waiting until ActivityPub compatibility is added.

    Also, on a more positive light and pondering on design possibilities, I wonder how channels will look like for platforms not inherently compatible with such. Maybe Mastodon and Misskey will treat as private mentions? Also maybe Lemmy and Mbin will treat each channel as a separared DM? Also makes me wonder about other platforms within the fediverse. 👀

  • Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web

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  • I'm not holding my breath until more protocols are added.

  • noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children

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  • Yet to read the article, but I hope it gets enforced. I grow tired of seeing laws and proper judicial decisions not being enforced or being done so at the convenience of those interested.

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  • I see. About SwitchedToLinux, hadn't found any posts from there so thought it wasn't included e.e"

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  • Would you include feeds from other languages too? I can think of one or other Brazilian tech news sites too.

  • Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?

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  • Didn't mean it was. Just mentioned it as it was the most common example I knew. But thanks for the link! Reading it now.

  • Can we make federation less dependent on domain names?

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  • How interesting. Isn't the did: system also what AT Protocol (Bluesky) uses? 👀

  • Poor baby

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  • Cat be like 🫣

  • The lost art of XML — mmagueta

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  • Ooooh~

    Thanks for the explanation!

  • If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?

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  • Dunno your region, but Registro.br's domains are rather cheap imo. However, I need to check again, but afaik it's only for people with CPF or CNPJ, the Brazilian equivalents of person and company identification numbers.

  • The lost art of XML — mmagueta

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  • Skimming through the post, the code snippet about halfway through picked my attention. Been a while since I studied site development, but that snippet looks awfully like HTML. Are it and XML related?