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Pamasich

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  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • I love Mbin, but it's no alternative for your use case. That AI moderation will keep affecting you as long as you interact with those affected communities, no matter which software you use yourself.

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  • I think much like CGI in anime, it is possible for people to warm up to AI. But it'll need more than just time.

    There needs to be prominent examples of good AI use in products. Good AI is not noticeable as such by its output, but by its capabilities. So for people to be aware, the use of AI would have to be disclosed explicitly, it can't be left to users to infer, yet the product would still have to be compelling enough to make people give it a chance. So imo games are ideal here.

    However, AI also has the additional issues of ethics and resource use. I think for people to really change their tune, mainstream AI needs to switch to being on-device models that are ethically trained. Not hosted in datacenters and trained on copyrighted or unlicensed works. But that's definitely possible imo with the right changes.

  • How do you pronounce zebra in your country: zeebra or rhymes with Debra?

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  • How does zeebra not ryhme with debra already? I mean, I know english pronunciation is put through a random IPA generator before being finalized, but Wiktionary gives the same exact IPA (bɹə) for the -bra part in both words. So shouldn't they be rhyming then?

  • Can someone explain the hexbear community?

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  • When people talk about left vs right, they don't always mean the same axis.

    Strictly speaking it's about the economic axis iirc, but people almost never use it that way in actual political discourse imo. They seem to conflate other axes into it.

    The original axis wasn't the economic one however, but rather the French one before it, where the aristocracy on the right were opposed by the commoners on the left. The right here stands for tradition and monarchy, while the left are the progressives and anti-monarchy.

    I don't know by what logic, which axis, people on the fediverse like to call Russia left-wing, but I can suggest a possibility.According to what I've seen of Russian propaganda worldview, NATO is imperialist. I think you can map that onto the original French model, with NATO being right-wing because they're imperialist and NATO's enemies being left-wing because they oppose imperialism.

    Again, not sure if that's why, but that would be one way to come to the conclusion.

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  • I don't use Lemmy or Piefed, but I have Active set as my default. And don't really ever change to a different sort.

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

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  • In my opinion, slop is slop. AI tends to result in slop, but it doesn't have to. But to ensure it's not slop, one has to put in effort and time. Which kind of defeats the purpose of using AI in the first place. So I think it's obvious why most people default to AI involvement = slop.

  • When exactly does something count as part of the Fediverse?

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  • I think you can look at this in a gatekeeping way and a functional way. I'm personally anti-gatekeeping, so there's that.

    What I mean with functional is: why do you care about whether something is part of the fediverse? Obviously because you want to talk to it. You want to be able to reach it from places like Mastodon.

    I see no benefit in worrying whether something is based on ActivityPub or merely supports it as one of several protocols. It remains reachable either way, unless your own platform restricts you like in Lemmy's case.

    That said, I do see your point regarding optionality. I think instances that choose not to use the fediverse plugin of their software aren't part of the fediverse. But that's no reason to call the software itself not a part of it. Just means users need to put extra effort into choosing an instance.

  • cssDOOM

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  • Besides the missing floors here and there, this runs really good on Edge for me.

  • Commands/formatting for posting to Lemmy from Mastodon

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  • @Fu@hostux.social Sadly Mastodon isn't really ideal for posting to Lemmy.

    In the federated ActivityPub document, the URL of a Lemmy link post is just a link attachment. So if Mastodon allows you to add arbitrary attachments not limited to images, then maybe there is a way. But otherwise you're probably out of luck there.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • This bill requires the OS to ask you for your birth date, explicitly the birth date. That's all the age verification it requires. So I'm not sure how that's "not going to qualify as age verification". Why would the very method specified in the bill not count? There's no requirement to use other methods to verify the age you're given. The user just selects their birth date freely and the OS accepts it and that's it if they're not underage.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • I'm personally against this kind of thing, but I hate how much of a fantasy echo chamber this stuff is here. There's so much misinformation and hyperbole in this thread alone.

    In general I support the idea of device-level age verification. The narrative around it uses old school methods only (this one goes with just inputting your date of birth, which I've already done for years for stuff like Steam), rather than the ID or face scan by random third parties methods used in age verification discussions and requirements elsewhere. In my opinion software being able to use an API provided by the OS itself is much better, and with the right OS (linux) much more trustworthy than any web-based solution.

    My only real problem is the lack of user choice. This comes in two forms:

    1. Giving your birth date should be optional. I'm fine with them requiring that no birth date given means you default to being underage, but actually giving the birthdate should be up to the user.
    2. The birthdate should not be given out to random software asking for it. Either the user should be asked for permission, or only a boolean of whether they are underage or not should be provided. This bill doesn't require either of those, nor leaves it to later clarification.

  • Do you ask AI for help in formulating questions to post to Ask Lemmy?

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  • Asking AI to help with formulating is an easy way to come across like an AI. And Lemmy is the wrong audience for that.

  • What do you like about Lemmy? What could be improved?

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  • Can confirm that I see "(c)" on Mbin.

    Edit: To explain, I think that's because Mbin uses the source field of the federated post, which contains the comment as you've written it, not as Lemmy renders it. Mbin then parses and transforms it to HTML by its own rules, not Lemmy's. So the (c) doesn't get transformed, because Mbin doesn't do that.

    I assume it's the same logic for Piefed.

  • Looks like Lemmy-Federate is down, has been down for over a day.

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  • I see you're on aggregatet.org, which I never heard about. FediDB says it has 10 monthly active users.

    If you were to create a community on your instance, only people on your instance could see it. No one on other instances will be aware of it. And any posts made to it would not leave your instance.

    For your community and posts therein to federate to other instances, the community needs to be subscribed to from them. You would have to constantly advertise it everywhere to make people aware that it exists, because the likelihood that someone visits your instance and stumbles on it is way too small. It won't show up on their instance if they search.

    With Lemmy Federate, you can give it your community, and it will attempt to subscribe to it from all the instances that have signed up with Lemmy Federate. That way your community appears on those instances when people search for it, and posts you make to the community will federate there.

  • Do you post reviews for products or places? Why or why not?

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  • I'm really bad at selling people on stuff, to the point where I usually turn them away from it instead. Usually I don't even know what to write, I'm bad at putting my opinions into words, but even when I do know, I usually end up not writing anything because of that first point.

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    Is there some place on the fediverse I can follow the ramblings of @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com without actually giving any traffic to his turd of a social site?

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  • Well, the quote I replied to said they don't seem to keep the releases up to date. Which means there are changes to the site not reflected in the released code. At least that's how I interpret that, because how else would it be "not up to date"?

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    Is there some place on the fediverse I can follow the ramblings of @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com without actually giving any traffic to his turd of a social site?

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  • Although they of course half-arse it and don't seem to really keep the releases up to date

    Then they're not technically fulfilling the licence.

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    Is there some place on the fediverse I can follow the ramblings of @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com without actually giving any traffic to his turd of a social site?

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  • I don't think that's how the license works. You're thinking of the general GNU licenses, not the Affero one which Mastodon uses.

    To quote the license (from Mastodon's repo):

    The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

    The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.

    That sounds to me like at least Truthsocial users need to be able to access its source code.

    Also, from the actual terms:

    1. Conveying Non-Source Forms.

    You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License

  • How many Lemmy users post regularly (let's say daily)?

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  • FediDB says there's 966885 active users on the fediverse in general, with 47.8K being Lemmy users.

    Though this is usually measured as monthly active users iirc, so not exactly accurate to the daily you requested.

    You can also get the value of any given instance's monthly active users by checking their nodeinfo endpoint. Here's the one for your instance. But again, that's monthly, not daily.