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Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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♪ Longe vá, temor servil ♪

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  • My 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox server

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  • Thanks too! Was in a similar situation as B0rax.

  • My 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox server

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  • If it still turns on, it still has an use!

  • StackOverflow: We will be retiring the Beta site shortly...

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  • So site will remain mostly the beautiful jank it always was. Fantastic!

    But some points of the announcement seem dubious. At least I got the impression they're not ditching all the ideas of the beta, but it didn't sound clear to me what they'd keep.

  • Stay orange (photo by Christina Morris)

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  • #AllOrangeCatsShareOneBrainCell #BlurryPicturesOfCats 🤭

  • Should we potentially create a Harry Potter Instance?

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  • The Harry Potter franchise is pretty expansive, so even if this next series is a major flop, I have my doubts the series will alone be able to burn all the goodwill in the franchise, leaving plenty still to be discussed.

    Also, I like the idea of forums focused on specific niches, but having seen isolated ones multiple times shrink into irrelevance, being federated should help give it a bigger life span. Also wouldn't be the first focused instance I see around. So on this point, I also defend the creation of a Harry Potter instance.

    Just don't know how protective the companies involved with the Harry Potter brand are towards it, so hopefully a site that presents itself as purely a discussion forum among fans won't be stepping in anyone's toes.

    And about the fediverse not liking Harry Potter as someone commented, such perception feels awfully like centralization, in this case on ideas. So another reason to have a focused forum, so people may be more comfortable enjoying and discussing what they want, instead of falling into a silence spiral to not be the perceived majority's enemies. And as you proposed, those that don't like are free to block/defederate.

    And about software, might I suggest an hybrid one, so people on both threadiverse and microblog platforms may be able to interact? Dunno how Piefed fares on that front (I keep forgetting to check) and Lemmy is kinda isolated by their design philosophy.

    But back on creating an instance, now that at the end I reread the other comments, it's a task, requiring resources, interest and time someone may not have. So if asking for one to be created by others is likely be a short-lived idea.

    So good luck on finding anyone then.

    Or maybe also you'd be interested in reading the responses to a question I made in a self-hosting community, if you want to do it yourself but don't know where to start:https://thebrainbin.org/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/1513112/What-to-study-to-be-able-to-host-a-site

  • I'm still new to the Fediverse. What are your favorite unique things that your instance does? What do you wish was more widely adopted across instances/federated platforms?

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  • Only upside I can think of federating with Threads is to try to pull people into the wider fediverse, but indeed it's a major risk that Facebook the company's grip is stronger in case people don't defederate.

  • I'm still new to the Fediverse. What are your favorite unique things that your instance does? What do you wish was more widely adopted across instances/federated platforms?

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  • Closest in other engines afaik are tags, but they are only an

    <include>

    type of filter, not also an

    <exclude>

    one.

  • I'm still new to the Fediverse. What are your favorite unique things that your instance does? What do you wish was more widely adopted across instances/federated platforms?

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  • @speedythefirst@lemmy.zip AT Protocol uses relays instead of direct communication - think two devices talking over bluetooth (ActivityPub) vs talking through the router on a same network (AT Protocol).

    AT Protocol is better for content distribution, but its relay system is more centralized. ActivityPub is better for decentralization, but contents and to a smaller degree servers need to be found first.

    Also there is the Nostrr protocol, but to my knowledge it's dwarfed in comparison to ActivityPub and AT Protocol, is also relay-based, and the only instance that uses it that I know is minds.com, which also uses ActivityPub.

    And talking about instances with multiple protocols used, alternative to bridging through Bridgy Fed, Wafrn uses both AT Protocol and ActivityPub natively, and NeoDB (for cross-posting afaik) and Friendica (for normal use) allow connecting to your Bluesky account if you have one.

  • I'm still new to the Fediverse. What are your favorite unique things that your instance does? What do you wish was more widely adopted across instances/federated platforms?

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  • Mbin has mixed feeds (microblogging + threads), is very responsive to Ublock Origin so I can simulate a better post hiding than Lemmy or Mastodon's, its RSS picks both threads and microblog posts from communities (but thankfully not comments from users, unlike Misskey), and UI has very little visual noise.

  • How's this Max Messenger ? Has it got a lot of features ?

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  • Yes, though because primary sources don't live much in such places when they pose a risk to a given regime.

  • How's this Max Messenger ? Has it got a lot of features ?

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  • Iirc, in Russia, companies must have participation of the state. And Russia inherited laws from the Soviet Union, has had autocratic tendencies even between the opening of the SU and Putin coming to power, and has worked with other dictatorships such as China, Cuba and Venezuela's. So it's easy to assume and expect there's state-issued spyware to monitor users.

  • How's this Max Messenger ? Has it got a lot of features ?

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  • Well, if it's likely to be mandatory wherever you are, may as well take the initiative and install it to test, instead of asking what, by your comment, sounds like a rhetorical question or an ad.

  • Why are you crying, Windows user?

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  • I had been considering getting a decent computer since 2017 iirc. And since then, prices were already rising constantly, no crypto, plandemic, LLMs or fearmongering needed. So my suggestion is, get the upgrade as soon as possible despite the prices, for the "now" seems to always be the cheapest.

  • New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com

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  • LLM shoehorning aside, holy shit, mobile-oriented site designs never fail to negatively impress me. Dunno if it's the poor use of space, way too many pre-made categories shoved in the sidebar, text elements not being as clearly differentiated making them be ADHD triggers/inducers, or something else, but the beta forum for Stack Overflow feels like it ticks each problem I can think of.

    Please give the jank. At least jank is usable, predictable and doesn't make you feel like you need to take focus drugs/meds.

  • IEEE talking about fediverse

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  • So... Is it an article to promote/defend the actions of the Big Brother State?

    Whenever I see "regulating social medias", I get a cold sweat, reminded of what the current Brazilian government's been insisting on for years, in practice internet censorship.

  • AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec

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  • Didn't read the linked PDFs in the article, but the article itself doesn't mention what patents AV1 would have broken.

  • is there any platform in fediverse where individuals can join groups just like Facebook groups, and share media ??🤔🤔🤔

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  • @ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com It doesn't have SMS. It was just a comparison.

    And aggregator is something or someone that aggregates, that brings things together. The fediverse network is one, for example, as it brings together the several sites you see in users' IDs, such as Divisions by Zero, The/Brain/Bin, Blåhaj Zone, Mastodon Social, etc.

  • is there any platform in fediverse where individuals can join groups just like Facebook groups, and share media ??🤔🤔🤔

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  • @codewizard@hear-me.social In a sense of groups, as mentioned in other comments, there are 5 to my knowledge:

    • Lemmy, created pretty much as a Reddit alternative
    • Mbin, meant as a hybrid of Reddit and Twitter's post styles
    • Friendica, similar to Mbin but with a design philosophy inspired on Facebook
    • Piefed, which launched with a similar purpose as Lemmy, and dunno how it is now, but in the original roadmap it was meant to have microblogging support too
    • Bonfire, which I heard about and that apparently has community-adjacent features, but yet to test.

  • is there any platform in fediverse where individuals can join groups just like Facebook groups, and share media ??🤔🤔🤔

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  • @ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com also, in this line of comparison, someone thought it was a good idea to include SMS support in the email software he was developing, and after dropping the whole project due to health reasons, someone else picked the project to maintain it: enter Mbin

    The original project, Kbin, was more designed with Reddit/Lemmy in mind, but had support for microblogging, e.g. Twitter/Mastodon. Since the original developer had to leave development, someone forked it, named it Mbin, and keeps adding features since.