dch82

joined 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Scuba divers gotta breathe (a mixture containing) oxygen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

* unxz/gz then untars

 

https://mastodon.social/@catsndogs/113085942557641707

Part of my series of wholesome comics; today is a special!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The danger (as they can see) are not selfhosters, but larger competitive instances. They don't allow AT servers of over 10 users and 1500 events a hour. This is clearly targeted to prevent large-scale instances (fediverse style) from being created.

How many bluesky users actually selfhost?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

IMO, if you choose a common username (except for alt accounts) for all your platforms (in my case, dch82) it's fairly easy to find all the accounts. If you want to, you can also link your other platforms in the bio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't actually mean it's EEE but that whatever they are doing feels similar; besides, with one big server controlled by a corporation in the centre of their ecosystem, they could "defederate" any rising AT-compatible competitor servers out of existence.

They might not now, but don't ever trust a company to not do this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

what are you talking about? bluesky isn't open source, the protocol is, and it reeks of embrace, extend, extinguish by branding itself as an open network

 

This is a follow-up from my previous thread.

The thread discussed the question of why people tend to choose proprietary microblogging platfroms (i.e. Bluesky or Threads) over the free and open source microblogging platform, Mastodon.

The reasons, summarised by @[email protected] are:

  1. marketing
  2. not having to pick the instance when registering
  3. people who have experienced Mastodon's hermetic culture discouraging others from joining
  4. algorithms helping discover people and content to follow
  5. marketing

and I'm saying that as a firm Mastodon user and believer.

Now that we know why people move to proprietary microblogging platforms, we can also produce methods to counter this.

How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Fair enough, I will make another version shortly

EDIT: Solarized low-contrast versions are available; I think it would look much better!

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Fediverse Poster (lemmy.zip)
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A poster I made to promote the Fediverse.

The PDFs and the light version is on the Internet Archive.

This work is public domain, so feel free to do whatever you want with it; for example print it on a T-shirt!

EDIT: Low-contrast Solarized versions are now available!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Gotta need the big cabin to hold in the driver's lonely emotions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, AT is open source, not Bluesky

 

What made everybody move from a corporate social media platform to another corporate social media platform instead of the fediverse?

After all, the Fediverse and Activitypub is much more mature than Bluesky and the copycat AT protocol or Threads and ... whatever they use.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22029394

Link goes to https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/cyber-security-incident?cid=email_FINAL_TFLU369_Security_update-CTA_text_website

Got this email today. It seems someone is getting fired in the IT department...

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I know this isn't the traditional greentext 
but I'm doing this on Lemmy anyways

> Browse Lemmy
> See progressive political post
> See comments
> See Anti-nazi comment
> 100 something upvotes, 1 downvote

Alright, who's the fascist among us?
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

DOWN IN OHIO SWAG LIKE OHIO

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

The constitution makes about as much sense as the judges make it out to be...

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After 2020 it seems many of us experienced time differently than expected. What is this phenomenon called?

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Meet Cat and Dog (mastodon.social)
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EDIT accidentally posted twice

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