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Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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♪ Longe vá, temor servil ♪

I may post/reply/boost in:🇧🇷 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇯🇵 🇳🇴(or close languages)

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

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  • QuickDic's default databases are compiled from Wiktionary entries, and Wiktionary seems like the most reliable part of Wikipedia currently. Wonder then if that couldn't be used also. On QuickDic, having all databases installed takes a bit over 1 GB, not much for desktop standards afaik.

  • Fediverse Recommendations

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  • Also Mbin mentioned in other comments for both Reddit and Twitter-inspired experiences

    Also maybe worth noting there's some degree of interoperability between instances? Like Misskey often displaying full text bodies from posts from threads-types of sites, Mastodon running Peertube videos as attached videos, and Mbin, Misskey and Mastodon users being able to follow users on pretty much any instances, and Lemmy and Mbin (and probably Piefed though still to confirm) being able to follow Peertube channels as communities.

  • Fediverse Recommendations

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  • Plume for blogs, NodeBB for databases Discourse-type of forums (source) and Pleroma and Misskey also for Twitter, I think

  • Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse?

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  • Linked Mastodon posts redirect back to lemmy.ca so can't check, but going by the intro, it's something I've been noticing, when I boost a post on Mbin, Mastodon displays as you described, at most including the image as attachment, and that despite of the original post's instance (for the thread-based ones).

    Now, maybe something like what Misskey instances do would be a good solution? For example:https://nijimiss.moe/notes/01K5T7RE2G147ZRBSZ4GDHS3NR(For https://thebrainbin.org/m/auster_info_dumps/t/1095421)(Just don't like the links appearing again as attachments at the bottom)

  • Some Beginner Questions

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  • If you fear breaking something and you have some spare money, why not buy some used computer to test around? If prices are similar over where you live, an used computer, specially older ones but still from this century, shouldn't be too expensive. And that way, you won't lose as much if you somehow does a major mess up (which from my experience, is on itself pretty rare to happen).

  • Community Discoverability Inconsistencies

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  • Not very familiar with PieFed, but from my experience on Mbin and Lemmy, communities only exist for another instance if either someone already follows it, someone click on a ! link to a community and follows it, the link of a post from a given community is searched in the instance's search field, someone comments or up/downvotes on a post, or, microblogging/Mbin-specific, someone boosts a post and is followed by someone from another instance. However, neither are fail-proof from what I tested, and from the little I used PieFed, it seems a bit more bureaucratic to find external stuff, which added to being the newer of the thread-type site engines, might make it a bit slower to find stuff initially.

    Though, on this last part, similar to what I observe in Mbin, propagation is exponential, so at some point having to manually track stuff should become just a memory.

  • I_fucking_hate_them_now

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  • иnteresting_idéa_lål.ㅅㅇ

  • The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity

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  • I see. Sorry for jumping the gun.

  • The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity

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  • The problem of reporting specific cases is that it could become cancel culture all over again. First option, I think, would be to try to correct issues in the article. Then, if they denied, then start suspecting of the site itself. And if already suspecting, it adds up to the site's untrustworthiness.

  • The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity

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  • Skimmed through the article and something picked my attention, the numbers given in the "325000 posts analyzed". The way its given, it makes seem like big numbers, but if you calculate what is the percentage of the numbers given, it's less than 1%. Can't check the linked source, but it seems like a classical "lying with statistics".

    And besides, text seems written in a way to give the impression site moderation for smaller sites is too stupid to block bad actors, and that only the paternalism of bigger sites can solve this implied issue.

  • Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and?

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  • Old post, but in case it's still useful, Mbin's been working great as a bridge for propagating posts between services from my experience. Lemmy can fetch posts from thread-based instances pretty well, but on other things, Mbin feels the gap, like having from what I can notice an easier time tracking Peertube, its boosts allow propagating pretty much any posts to microblogging platforms, and being able to follow users, their posts (either from threads or microblogs) get tracked automatically, no need to look for the post's link on the search field.

  • The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source - Revisiting and Contextualizing the designed xz backdoor, multi-year-long effort

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  • The good part of the backdoor to have been found out is that now it's much harder to pull that again, be it on the same project, or in projects from people that followed through the issue and/or the news - and with how much noise was made, I'd expect quite a lot more of people than the usual to have seen something about.

  • Microsoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

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  • Saved you a click and a referral:

    As of yesterday, Microsoft has released the version 1.1 source code of “Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor” on GitHub

  • Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving

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  • Kbin.Social (rip) and Lemm.ee (rip #2) posts still appear on Lemmy.World. Also pondercat (rip #3) was a bot-only instance (in its case, for tracking RSS feeds), but interacteable with. So all in all, I think it's fairly possible, with only minor (?) issues being in the way, like mirroring external content that would be loaded seemlessly (e.g. Imgur on Lemmy) and storage and processing power for tracking the instances.

  • Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?

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  • On the first point, propagation happens passively too. For example, if someone follows me on Mastodon, this reply will be pulled to his/her feed as a microblogging post, and will be discoverable on any feeds my account later appears. I remember also testing around between Lemmy and Mbin how liking/upvoting works, and doing that on Lemmy while the Mbin account followed it also showed posts previously not on my Mbin instance.

    Similarly, Mbin (and dunno about Lemmy but I'd imagine it's the same) pulls Peertube channels as magazines/communities, and iirc Peertube channels can also be followed as users on microblogging platforms, and in both cases their video uploads automatically appear on the respective text feeds.

    And about the second point, I agree, but that's also why I suggest recommending major platforms. For example, Lemmy.World and Mastodon.Social are likely to have far more publications being posted on or propagated to than Mbin or PieFed instances, since the former two are around for much longer, and not actively trying to be toxic (at least from what I can observe).

  • Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?

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  • Personally, I think it would only work out if the programmer tries to reconstruct posts from different formats in a format that works out for each. Otherwise it becomes what it already is, a glorified browser with multiple profiles enabled, and with over-preference for a type of engine.

    My opinion is, take note of the major platforms for each engine and/or experience, and recommend them based on your friends' tastes.

    The rest, centralization, would be replaced by what I call propagation (iirc people call it "to federated"?), which people directly and indirectly do, like boosting posts (Mbin / microblogging stuff) and commenting so people following the user see the original post too, following people and following Peertube channels on Peertube and the "threadiverse" so one's account is a bridge for propagation, up/downvoting, etc. And as this web of social medias grows, tendency is that it keeps growing exponentially until either it takes over like email, or stagnates.

    This logic, I think, is similar to recommending Linux Mint or immutable distros to Linux novices, the "safe bet" for them before they get used to the technical side or while Linux wouldn't (past tense) become accessible.

  • Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August

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  • Going by a graph by the GamingOnLinux site, in the past 7 years, overall it has shown an exponential growth tendency. Plus previous surveys all are archived on sites like Internet Archive so they could do their own research. Given that, to me the headline already opening up with "recedes" sounds disingenuous, or at least a case of hyperfocusing on a detail without need, something I tire to see in other types of news. Plus they work on the text based on the headline, without checking or commenting on the tendency.

  • Most Effective way to search the Threadiverse?

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  • I'd try finding a community to where I'd like to post a given article, and look for its posts in the OG instance as well as in instances I have accounts on for other engines (the 3 major thread-oriented ones I know about are Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed). Other than that, of retarded/delayed results but still something I'd recommend, is to follow people in other instances (Mbin / microblogging / Peertube thing), and interact with everything the user finds so posts can propagate across instances, so at least in future searches, others, or even yourself, may find/refind posts more easily.

  • How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?

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  • Maybe have an account on a service that allows boosts, and follow it with your Pixelfed account? When you boost a post, it should get synchronized with every instance whose accounts follow yours (least that's what I do between Mbin, Lemmy, Mastodon and Peertube). Not a great solution but helps mitigating the issue.