otter

Unless I misunderstood, it will eventually dry up? Investors aren't going to be willing to give money with no returns indefinitely

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Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

The only ~~difference~~ downside really is the occasional extension that needs a manual install.

I've been trying out VSIX Manager for my extensions so that I can keep track of which ones I want to install on each machine. This can make it easier to install the weird extensions that you can't install otherwise

https://open-vsx.org/extension/zokugun/vsix-manager

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

It's hard to tell what was wrong with that post without seeing it. At the same time, we're not a hive mind. People will disagree from time to time :)

or they need a third party APP

I've seen this complaint from other new users. Is there something wrong with a lack of an official app? Would it be an ok compromise for the official project to recommend some third party apps?

A lot of these projects don't have the capacity (yet) to develop an official app on top of the main platform.

As for the recommendations

Pixelfed is a good alternative to Instagram
Mastodon and similar platforms are good alternatives to Twitter/X

These are harder, or there's not as much motivation for them. The projects are still going, but they're slower:

Facebook: a lot of people dropped Facebook completely without replacing it with anything. The only real value is private groups and buy/sell tools, of which the first can be replaced with chat platforms and the second already has a patchwork of proprietary alternatives depending on where you are
LinkedIn: network effect is extreme with this one since it depends on where everyone else in your field of work is hanging out. Some fields don't use LinkedIn at all already
Amazon: I don't see the benefit of having a fediverse version of this? Building tools that independent stores can use to stay competitive might be better
Spotify: Funkwhale exists, but there are some concerns around piracy. Other options are self hosting or using one of the many other proprietary streaming platforms
Cloud storage: there are a number of alternatives https://ca.purchasewithpurpose.io/category/file-storage/

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

shrimp taming

Darn I had a chance until that one.

Last time I tried taming shrimp, bad things happened...

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Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

A lot of great comments, but another one that's not mentioned: money and advertising

Open source / non profit run websites don't have money to burn on mobile ads, and many wouldn't want to put money into the ad industry even if they did.

It doesn't guarantee users, plenty of startups fail after promotional campaigns, but it definitely helps people learn about the platform

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

Can you explain the game? I would like to play

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

I found this

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/openai-could-reportedly-run-out-of-cash-by-mid-2027-nyt-analyst-paints-grim-picture-after-examining-companys-finances

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Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_formula

In chemistry, the empirical formula of a chemical compound is the simplest whole number ratio of atoms present in a compound

In this comic, the "compound" is the entire observable universe. So it's the simplest whole number ratio of every atom in the observable universe

A more in depth explanation for this comic (and all other xkcd comics) is here: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3200:_Chemical_Formula

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

One of my all time favourites for sure :)

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

Great to hear! I've updated the post title and linked to this comment

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

regarding the join button, I actually just saw a user have that same misunderstanding: https://old.reddit.com/r/Silksong/comments/1qltxzy/announcing_our_official_sister_community/o1hlnk3/

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Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

I just took another look at the site, and I love the new changes already!

Very good idea, also opened an issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/issues/526

I see the developer also found the issue, great to hear that you both might be collaborating.

The images are just to avoid having too much text, a bit similar to the Peertube site. I already mentioned it in another comment, if you know any better images to put there I would be happy to replace them. The icons on your site are very small, so it would still show a lot of text.

That's a good point. I like the images you have currently, and I'll keep an eye out for anything that might be better.

True these havent been updated in a long time. Any specific features that you would emphasize?

A few of them have nice big cards now, so those could be combined. Otherwise the features that I personally would have been interested in are (in no particular order):

Emojis with autocomplete support. Start typing :
User tagging using @, Community tagging using !: You could also emphasize that this works across instances. For example: "Tagging users and communities from any federated instance"
Integrated image uploading in both posts and comments.
i18n / internationalization support for > 30 languages
RSS / Atom feeds for All, Subscribed, Inbox, User, and Community.
By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.

Instances can have multiple topics, in fact you can make a PR to this file to update it yourself.

Thanks, I made a note for our team to look into that in the future!

I like Pixelfed’s join page since I can quickly narrow down an instance based on what’s important to me: https://pixelfed.org/servers

That's a good point, I'm also not sure if there is a good way for instance admins to change that on Pixelfed's site. I don't have a strong preference either way, but having some way for admins to update the information would be ideal. Perhaps an automated system with custom overrides through a file on the GitHub?

Some more feedback on the current version of the site:

It might be good to indicate that the instance in the first card is a random instance, and not an official or 'flagship' instance. That way, if it links to a poorly moderated / maintained instance, it doesn't reflect poorly on the project. My personal preference would be to have the Browse All Servers be the primary button, and then the join button be secondary. A refresh button might also work: "Refresh for a new randomly selected server"
Very minor, but some of the images are light mode while others are dark mode. It might look better if it was consistent

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Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

If anyone else is curious, here is what I found on the link

https://docs.hollo.social/intro/

Hollo is a simple, single-user microblogging tool that lets you run your own little corner of the internet. Think of it as your personal Mastodon instance, but stripped down to the essentials.

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Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

I see the original post got removed by moderators to prevent panic. Would you have an update that you can share in this thread? I'm happy to edit the title of this post too :)

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Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

I think you may have accidentally flagged this as NSFW

or is that a joke about agentic coding being unsafe for code

Otter @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

Voyager works, although I don't think it's intended for Desktop use