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JackbyDev

@ JackbyDev @programming.dev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

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    lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

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  • I mean, yeah, any instance could be gone at any time. Anything can disappear at any time. Don't overthink it. Just pick a new instance at random like you did before. Export and import settings. Leave a note on your profile where your new account is. Once lemm.ee is gone, your account's info page will forever say where your new account is. This instance shutting down doesn't mean your old comments and posts disappear. Sure, you won't be able to directly respond to them, but they aren't vanishing.

    It sucks, and it's an annoyance, but it's hardly the end of the world.

    Think about if this were a non-federated platform. You'd be shit out of luck. All your posts and comments would be gone forever. All of everyone's content from your instance would just be lost to time when the server shits down. But with federation it gets copied to other instances. It will live on there. The only time it won't be is if someone makes a new instance after lemm.ee is gone, they won't be able to pull in old lemm.ee stuff.

  • Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia

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  • People aren't reading Wikipedia articles with the intention of getting better at reading.

  • Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia

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  • What's funny is crawling the site would actually be more difficult and take longer than downloading and reading the archive.

    Context for others, Wikipedia is only ~24 GB (compressed and without media or history). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

    As of 16 October 2024, the size of the current version including all articles compressed is about 24.05 GB without media.

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  • Reddit arguably has no reason for it because if you're banned you're not supposed to make a new account. I would never do such a thing!

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  • How is this failing? If lemm.ee was a traditional forum it'd be over, but because of federation everything lives on.

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  • Yes officer, this one right here.

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  • good

    Was it?

  • Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure

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  • It's a joke. Trolling implies intent to deceive or get a negative reaction.

  • Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure

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  • No, I don't. But I do find it humourous you moderate a community called "how to sell drugs online fast" lol. And I genuinely don't mean that in some sort of "you're biased" way, truly.

  • Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure

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  • Someone could say crypto "is a scam" in that proof of stake algorithms (like Ether) is just a plot for the rich to get richer and favor early adopters who have more coins.

    You mean just like stocks, and banks, and real estate, and investing? Doesn’t make it a scam either. Find better algorithms. Crypto works because people use it. If something is better for everyone, it’ll end up gaining traction.

    No, stocks, banks, and real estate do not give you more of themselves by mere fact of owning them. Some stocks pay dividends, but you don't get more stock for owning it, setting something up to buy more with dividends is your own decision. Banks give you interest, but that is not a function of how money works, that's something the bank does. Owning property does not give you more property over time. None of these are like how a proof of stake algorithm works.

    Do I think it makes it a scam? No, not really. Do I think people saying it's a scam because of that are wildly off base? Fuck no. It's valid to be concerned about it. Do I think it's better than proof of work? Yeah, probably. The arms race of increasing hash rate so long as it's profitable energy wise is pretty nasty.

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  • No, it's your accusation.

    I never said it was a scam. I'm asking what people's response to others who feel it is a scam is.

    You tell me why you think this FOSS software protocol is a scam

    I listed many reasons why many people might view it as a scam here: https://programming.dev/comment/17292659

    You've got a navigator avatar, dev in your username, and a programming home instance. I imagine you're capable of educating yourself enough to make some sound arguments on the topic and a bit of factual contribution to the discussion.

    No need to be so condescending.

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  • What's the criteria for something being a scam in your opinion and why do you believe others whose criteria is different from yours don't have legitimate reasons and make invalid accusations?

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  • Right, but definitely not a ponzi scheme. Also, proof of stake is also definitely not a ponzi scheme.

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  • I think you're doing a disservice by saying everyone who calls it a scam doesn't understand it well enough. It's not like everyone saying it is a scam are doing it for the same reason. There's a variety of reasons people have for doing it.

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  • So you're saying there's a chance? Heh heh heh... Only a matter of time.

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  • There are plenty of things that aren't created by scammers to be scams that people call scams.

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  • I think you may have misunderstood. I'm saying people call it a scam for a variety of reasons, so when someone says it isn't a scam, I'm asking which way of calling it a scam are they saying it's not a scam in relation to.

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  • The only funny joke in the emoji movie compared them to emoticons and that emoticons were old.

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  • Someone could say crypto "is a scam" in that the proof of work aspect encourages miners to keep adding more hash rate to the network so long as it is profitable to do so and not whether the network actually needs it. It takes crazy amounts of energy for simple transactions.

    Someone could say crypto "is a scam" in that proof of stake algorithms (like Ether) is just a plot for the rich to get richer and favor early adopters who have more coins.

    Someone could say crypto "is a scam" in that it's controlled by technology and not laws and can't be fixed. Someone stealing it is more likely to get away with it because it's not like a company can just revert fraud.

    Someone can say crypto "is a scam" because it doesn't hold value. Stocks do hold value because you own a portion of that company and if they don't reinvest their profits you get dividends. Money does hold value because even in the absence of a gold standard we've been using it long enough that it's so ingrained in everything and everyone agrees it has value. Money has value in that the massive amount of financial regulations surrounding it creates a more stable value. Not everyone agrees crypto has value. Crypto is hardly regulated. Crypto wildly fluctuates in price.

    Someone could say crypto "is a scam" because it is often used in scams and makes it easier for scammers to be anonymous and lock down funds they steal.

    These are all the ways I could think of off the top of my head. I don't because agree with all of them, and some I think are more valid arguments than others. The last one being the weakest since it feels odd to say scam instead of a trap or something.

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