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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.

  • We can't just call AI-generated code slop anymore

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  • We can't just call AI-generated code slop anymore

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  • Some communities have "no-AI" rules. If you didn't break any, maybe you've been targeted by moderators that partake in cancel culture?

    If that's the case, at least helps to sift through communities. And worse comes worst, maybe start a personal community to share what you make?

  • Am I asking Too Much?

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  • On the first point, one of the reasons I use and would suggest either Mbin or Friendica. Both are hybrid, meant to bring together microblogging and threads, like Mastodon and Lemmy, and by extension, a bigger chunk of the fediverse.

    On the second point, if you want to keep things floating around, maybe cross-post them to a personal community in a separated instance. The line between preservation and redundancy is often non-existant. Other than that, there are some things you could do like commenting or boosting derelict posts from dead instances, to help keeping them floating.

    On the third point, I suppose Lemmy can be a bit laborious to find new stuff, so specially for it, I'd suggest places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe, though maybe those would defeat the purpose. Alternatively, and bringing Mbin and Friendica a third time, they have boost features, so if someone you follow boosts posts, they get included in your feed (note: boosts in the feed are opt-in on Mbin).

    On the fourth point, on the threadiverse side of things, Lemmy can be a bit isolated indeed. With microblogging and by extension (ahem) hybrid thread/microblogging platforms, there are more options, like trending tags bots, RSS Parrot, Bridgy Fed, and easier connection to less standard places using ActivityPub. RSS Parrot in special I'm finding pretty useful. Most stuff I follow is in places with RSS, so I can add them to the bot to have in my feed.

    And back on point 1, whatever I can use on browsers, I do. If I don't get a function natively, I make Ublock Origin filters and Violentmonkey scripts. If I can't figure out, I ask LLMs to generate something that works for me. If I need to open links to other instances because of e.g. RSS, I have an userscript I keep increasing that redirects the links to my instance's search page, since searches are hardcoded in the link.

  • He badly wants to be orange

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  • Introducing Threadirator - A Threadiverse Community Federator

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  • Tested recently also adding to the federator some Peertube channel as they're treated as communitues here and on Lemmy, and it works too. =O

  • I've taken in a starved stray male cat. Needs neutered asap. How can I tell when he's healthy enough for this?

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  • Imo, regular checkups from a vet are the best approach.

  • Getting exclusive steady posts into my RSS feeder

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  • If emails can be received through newsletter, maybe Kill the Newsletter could help? It acts as an email to receive newsletter contents, and hosts them as HTML pages.

  • Introducing Threadirator - A Threadiverse Community Federator

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  • Boosted to help visibility, even if a little.

    Also, there's Friendica and NodeBB among the "threadiverse", though the latter I'm not very familiar with so Idk if it allows importing communities.

  • Does anyone know of articles discussing PieFed?

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  • The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

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  • Asked some AI, and appears to be that, though please correct me if I'm wrong.

    But going by that, starting from the fediverse, maybe people could try to make a trend like "My Web Directory" / #MyWebDirectory, where he/she posts a list of recommended small sites? On microblog platforms, usually they seem to allow users to have pinned posts, and on threaded platforms, maybe the link to a post could be included in their bio or something.

  • The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

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  • The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

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  • Going by wording, sounds like what Piefed and Bluesky do? A bundle of communities/profiles by common interest?

  • Hosting own instance

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  • From what I read on discussions on the matter, apparently the resources needed for instances to talk to individual ones is proportionally much higher.

    However, I'd argue most people using the fediverse seem to be fine using medium to large instances, so the impact seems to be a diminishing one.

    And agreed it's a form of independence. Besides and extrapolating from owning what you share, censorship, if/when it happens, at most is done at federation level, not on instance level, meaning it's much harder for someone to sabotage the single-user for wrongthink or a potential (and if the user is honest, accidental) fuck up.

  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • To consider the possibility is part of accepting that it will happen, making it much easier to actually happen. First, I think, people should pressure so it doesn't get to pass, as they seem to be against it. If the worst scenario does come, then people can consider what's the least bad route of actions.

  • Locked

    Welcome to the Fediverse where mods and admins alike will ban you for no reason whatsoever

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  • Every story has 3 sides, as the saying goes. Dunno what was the original reason to this tug of war between the two, the OP and the admin, but if the OP's side is the one closer to the truth, and adding your comment, it reminds me of a few instances where administration has all the devices to become power-tripping, just waiting for the right catalyst.

    And about "the largest Mastodon instance", if it is the one I'm thinking about, not the first user I see someone being banned from there for diverging opinions.

    Luckily, at least, decentralized governance allows finding alternatives, or even making them. And widespread adoption of RSS allows following the contents of communities run by power-tripping folks, if the person is willing to endure that.

    Though, using the Mastodon example, always worth keeping an eye for instances that are growing too much, for then you have to bend to their visions to avoid ostracization, and by extension such instances weakening decentralization, free speech, and all that.

  • What do you want out of a coding monospace font?

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  • Verify your ID to protect the kids

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  • The limit of lies is the perception of truth, and Macron's proposal sounds like "people are noticing, so we better formalize it in a way it's not as damaging to us".

    However, formal exposition of a project that works only hidden means its effectiveness is so hindered it's likely to be thrown away soon.

    So I wonder if this is a repositioning of Macron, or just being more of the same.

  • Checking....what's the status for FOSS agentic AI models with skills?

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  • There's also a community for it here on the fediverse, to those interested: !Ollama@lemmy.world

    Also, from my tests, it works decent enough even on Android's Termux, though a powerful phone seems needed.

  • Checking....what's the status for FOSS agentic AI models with skills?

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