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  • Can’t we just find a new way of monetize stuff without ads?

    Yes it's called taxation and public funding.

    Governments should prioritize floss projects when running their infrastructure and other projects. Our money is paying for these projects. We should have access to all the products of that labor.

    Furthermore they should give out money for non-business cases like games and other stuff just like arts funding.

    We have private corps stepping in to do this sort of thing with "google summer of code". But it would be better through some nominally democratic structure.

    In all cases governments and their agents should be good floss community members. "Free like puppies"

  • @amanaftermidnight
    I think we need some way to paste a URL from any instance into a comment that when rendered on any user's page (whoever is reading it, on any instance) will link to:

    • if the item already exists locally: the user's local version of the item
    • if the item does not exist locally: the prefilled search page to go find the post

    The person who is writing the comment should have a low-BS way of indicating this is what they want to do.

    The easiest way I think would be to use the whole URL prefixed by something. Not a ! because that already has a different meaning. I was thinking of something like /local/ or abbreviated to /l/ because special characters aren't as easily available on all keyboards, they already do other things etc.

    If I wanted to link to this current thread I would do it like this:

    /l/https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/313780/link-for-posts

    I am thinking that when my kbin instance sees that, it would be triggered to locate "the fediverse url" for the post, which it already has available on anything it displays. In this case it would be https://lemmy.nz/post/825037. It would remove the kbin.social URL and replace it with the lemmy.nz URL. So then when it comes to rendering on any other instance, that instance will have the "real" location to work with.

    if interested, here is a thread/xpost which elaborates a bit more on the current situations and both have good comments. I got talked out of the idea of a UUID in favor of something like the above.

    Though I think there would be all kinds of complex use cases to work out. Like I don't only want to be able to do this for URLs that are on kbin.social, so there would be extra work in that case and I don't know enough (anything) about the internals to suggest how that could happen.

    @luthis @instance @willya

  • @AbidanYre I was hoping it would be a Jaquard. Maybe self host the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A\_Jacquard\_loom\_showing\_information\_punchcards,\_National\_Museum\_of\_Scotland.jpg that hold the programing. Those card have been used 200+ years later to exactly recreate historical textiles for restoration purposes. That is some datahoarding!

    Back on topic, I wish people would do more to describe their projects than say it's "like x". I don't know all the different existing projects so its meaningless.

    @Marcon

  • yes the point of it is to keep a list of your rss feeds. an account is required for this functionality. Click "Créer un compte ?".

  • There are some freely available freshrss instances if you want to try it out. The one I use

  • I can't really say I am very interested but I think it's like an online dance battle.

  • just checked. my livejournal is still up. last post 2005. i heard a rumour the site was purchased by russia or something? someone is paying the server bills.

  • do we really have evidence that the problems with a lot of mainstream social media has to do with size? there are shitty smaller sites like for example kiwifarms was vile but not very big. And other sites are expansive like linkedin or quora but pretty benign (if boring) AFAIK.

    A lot of people who are comfortable with tech have a hard time remembering how unusual that is. We are all clustered together with each other so it becomes normalized. But think of all the facebook, tik tok, reddit, instagram users int he world. Who will run services for them?

    It's all well and good for us nerdy types to say "OK, one out of every few hundred of us is going to run a little server". And we can support that because the % of people who have the skills and resources is extremely high.

    For the rest of the population, who is going to put the kind of community cultivation in to setting things up, convincing people to move, orienting users, etc? If this plan was to be viable it would need to have a small army of volunteers to commit to creating instances for specific communities far outside of tech.

  • I can't wait til people start working on more tools to interface with lemmy/kbin. Soon the package managers will be full of clients, libraries, interfaces, scripts etc.

    not at all meaning to be discouraging, but to solve anything at scale it will all have to be available in a browser or mobile client somehow. luckily with open source different people can work from different angles. :)

  • you should never read about the textile industry

  • try browsing the repos for the alternative app stores like foss droid, izzy on droid etc. basically everything is there.

  • 👋 byyye

  • where does it say well funded? the most salient thing I can see is

    I have started each stage, but none is polished enough for me to honestly apply for a payout. I'll need to address this promptly.

  • @Blaze as I understand it, if you are user on a small server, you only see content from communities that others on your sever have previously subbed to previously, or if you do so yourself. And then you only seen content from the moment of subscription on. There is no way to see back prior.

    So if you want to use a community like !fediverse it's OK because its popular and there will be prior subs. but if you are interested in !rockingchairrepair you will miss all prior discussion. Am I incorrect?

    Also in practice, from my experiments, there seem to be inconsistencies in how even this works.

  • when I start writing this comment, the post is 47 minutes old. if I understand the linked page properly, lemmy.world has been functional (all green checkmarks) for the past 10 minutes which is the furthest back the data goes. All the other instances are all green except for lemmy.one which is all red. I am assuming that 47 minutes ago, lemmy.world had red boxes?

    Maybe a different link would have explained the point better but I don't really see how a 30 minute (??) server outage during an upgrade is compelling to avoid a large instance. Are you suggesting it's better to use a server whos admins don't upgrade? If not, is there really any size of server that would meaningfully avoid this kind of occasional disruption? Seems to me that the dynamism of the environment will inevitably lead to various problems. That's part of the experience. TBH threadiverse uptime on the whole is pretty impressive for such a ragtag groups of admins and devs.

    I have accounts on some smaller servers but they have their drawbacks too. Using a bigger server is more convenient because the people and content is already there. It's easier. I didn't plan to use lemmy.world but I ended up making account there to use sometimes.

    I think in a year or so the situation might be different. I see the ideological point and I would like it to be true. Maybe the technology will catch up. I think it would be nice to be able to programmatically seed content, but maybe that would be obnoxious to admins.

  • @manwichmakesameal Who says "manifesting reality" is loony toones horse shit?

    What nobody ever told Oprah is that it only works in the FLOSS world. 🪄

  • someone was just asking for something like this the other day