Distributions often ship their own compiled versions of the kernel, with some options changed, but it's still Linux. Same with GNU tools. But the main difference between distros isn't their flavor of GNU tools or what kernel they ship, the difference between distros is actually all the stuff that gets layered on top like the package manager.
I think that's part why BG3 has taken off so much, honestly. We've had so many open world games with ridiculously large maps that a lot of people are disillusioned with the lack of depth.
BG3 with its narrower scope makes for a much deeper experience. I would love a game that can do both depth and breadth, but these games already are a massive undertaking.
I would really advise against Replika, they've shown some scummy business practices. It seems like kind of a nightmare in terms of taking advantage of vulnerable people. At the very least do some research on it before getting into it.
I'm not sure of the cause, but this is an issue with the Web Player on the Jellyfin app. You can fix it by going to Settings -> Client Settings -> Video Player Type and selecting Integrated Player or External Player.
How does moderation work in this scenario? Does it fall to instance admins to moderate, and defederate/ban anyone who is causing problems for the global community? That seems like it would amplify the moderation burden significantly
I find it disappointing that everyone's first suggestion in the selfhosted community is Cloudflare. It seems to run counter to the spirit of selfhosting to hand off the last part to the giant corporation that controls 90% of the Internet.
Most of what Cloudflare does—if it's necessary at all—can be replicated with a cheap (or free) VPS sitting in front of your network on a VPN, and the remainder doesn't matter for most selfhosted use cases.
If it ends porn blackmail, it also ends photographic evidence. I think that's significantly worse.
And sure the tech is bad if you just type a name directly into a model, but if you take the time to refine it it gets pretty good, and it's only going to get better over time. It's time to start thinking about a future where this tech exists.
I worry that the cat is out of the bag on this. The tech for this stuff is out there, and you can run it on your home computer, so barring some sort of massive governmental overreach I don't see a way to stop it.
They can't even stop piracy and there's the full weight of the US copyright industry behind it. How are they going to stop this tech?
This whole thing made me sad, because I feel like I've seen the worst of our community yet. I feel like there was a ton of toxicity and bad faith coming from both instances. I think it's probably for the best that we're defederated, because it's clear that there are fundamental incompatibilities here, but it didn't have to go this way.
It's kinda funny but a lot of modern leftist spaces use the word "liberal" disparagingly, even anarchists and the non-authoritarian. Leftism is radical and niche enough that most people associate the hatred of liberals with the right, but on the left it's just used to refer to the center who still support capitalism and the status quo.
Maybe I phrased it badly too. I'm sorry for the way I engaged. I was just trying to say that they're specific as in not generic. There's specific theory there, and I thought you were saying that being disillusioned makes one see things that Hexbear folks do immediately, and I was trying to say that there's an intermediate step of theory and radicalization, but it seems we're on the same page on that and I spoke too quickly.
Every single one of us is one little disillusionment away from holding the same or similar views as any person from Hexbear
This seems silly to me. The opinions held by Hexbear at large are very specific, and one little disillusionment doesn't suddenly make you a communist. Just because your views line up with Hexbear already and you feel like you are on the precipice of going "full leftist" doesn't mean everyone is. Hexbear isn't the Joker, there's no "one bad day" that will make you into a hexbear.
For what it's worth, you can always report remote posts. Reports get sent to the remote community, which will help them because Hexbear takes transphobia really seriously, but reports also get sent to your local instance admin. It's a good way to help your admins get a sense for what's going on on other instances, and then either set of staff can remove it.
I stand with you on this, Hexbear. I don't understand why this is the thing that people are going with, especially on a trans instance like this. Hexbear is so obviously queer and so aggressively supportive.
The article you linked is about people manipulating the Facebook algorithm to show up on people's pages. That's very different from people on an isolated forum with a clear history and yet with no way for their content to reach outside their niche website until recently. They had extended struggle sessions about whether or not to even join the Fediverse, which wouldn't make any sense for them to do if they just wanted to troll people.
This is weird conspiracy stuff. I'm sure there are people out there who pretend to be communists on the internet, but claiming that Hexbear is an entire instance of non-communist trolls with your only evidence being "they seem trolly" is nonsense.
But their ideology has been consistent for the years they've been completely isolated from the Fediverse. It doesn't make sense that they would be trolls trolling no one but themselves for years with consistent ideology and rhetoric.
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Distributions often ship their own compiled versions of the kernel, with some options changed, but it's still Linux. Same with GNU tools. But the main difference between distros isn't their flavor of GNU tools or what kernel they ship, the difference between distros is actually all the stuff that gets layered on top like the package manager.