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by jug 3y ago
> You can't force others to interact with you and there's nothing wrong with that. On Mastodon, no one is forced to listen to anyone without a follow. You don't have to worry about that. This is not what I'm talking a
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by jug 3y ago
> if i don't like what someone is saying i have the freedom to disassociate from them Yeah, on Mastodon we usually do so by not following that person? This is not what I'm talking about but the infrastructure issue of internal
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by jug 3y ago
Yes, I think they should be forced to. Note that this still (of course) requires following said person on said instance. So people won't be spammed by views they disagree with. Mastodon is no different than, say, Facebook there. You st
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by jug 3y ago
> Personally, I prefer not to listen to certain peoples’ Important Opinions Of course you can avoid hearing this! You do so by not following said person. Mastodon works just like Twitter or Facebook in this regard. This is not the proble
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by jug 3y ago
My issue with this is that this kind of instance hopping can easily kill a network. Many who were on my instance that shut down didn't migrate away in time and now they lost all their posts, follows, and followers. Many of those won&#x
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by jug 3y ago
I think it's too barebones and they are still working out the moderation and safety problem. Besides, it looks like it scales like shit. It's not ready for wide adoption, I have to agree about this one.
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by jug 3y ago
This is going to be very interesting to watch, and I honestly... For all I think about Meta as a company, I have to congratulate them on the timing. They probably pushed hard to meet this deadline the past few weeks in order to coincide wit
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by jug 3y ago
Weird how it was running on the same network with the same name, but not filling the same purpose. So this is really more just a curiosity. It would have been much stranger if Threads was actually the same thing and now relaunched.
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by jug 3y ago
And then I get defederated for having done so. Did you even read my post? It's an illusion freedom that does not exist in practice because this is Mastodon we're talking about.
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by jug 3y ago
Yes, but the point being made is that you then choose a more welcoming instance and then it's defederated instead because it allowed your post, so then your Mastodon experience sucks anyway and you only gave yourself an illusion of fre
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by jug 3y ago
Ah! The Fawlty Towers attack! Among my favorite moments from that show, haha https://youtu.be/43-7fGKKg2s
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by jug 3y ago
I think it was a long time ago now, back when Google stopped improving their core service (search) to help profits through a better service than the rest and no longer "breaking markets" like introducing Gmail with seemingly infin
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by jug 3y ago
I used Bing and the first link it gave was to a working site.
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by jug 3y ago
I agree, this looks like a misuse of Github unless these magnet link archives were part of a software project. I'm fed up with people abusing this service for this stuff. Support piracy somewhere else.
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by jug 3y ago
I think this nails a problem with federation more than the novelty of following communities from your instance. I was subject to these politics on Mastodon too. Politics hurt ActivityPub. There, I said it. It’s the elephant in the room.
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by jug 3y ago
Yeah, good point about instances being communities! It’s like how the Star Trek one did it and my mind boggled when I realized you could (and someone has done so) make a national Lemmy _instance_ rather than just a /r/mycountry. A
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by jug 3y ago
Yes and it’s weird how weaning yourself off these things can go more easily than expected if you’re ”forced” to (because how you need to use the service changes too much for your tastes). I think it speaks a lot about the _illusion of value
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by jug 3y ago
Ugh, what an eventful time of social media this has been. First Twitter API, then Reddit API, so today Apollo and many more Reddit clients shut down, and now Nitter. :-( I'm happy Lemmy is kind of taking off. I think it's helped m
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by jug 3y ago
This is a good point. I criticized it in another post here in typical Hacker News fashion but just to add some positivity, iPad Pro is great for precisely architects and engineers bringing CAD drawings etc because the guys pack a tablet wit
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by jug 3y ago
Yes, iPadOS has deep, lingering deficiencies as an OS for professional use. But their ads and keynotes are convincing, so I can't blame people falling for it! There's this weird juxtaposition of a terrible productivity machine com
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by jug 3y ago
Weird definition of "open source". "It's open because we violated copyright and uploaded it in the open." Call it what it is. Pirated books. People that must use them still will but at least now we'll know what
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by jug 3y ago
Yet, they were needed only three months ago during a cold snap... But it's apparently not financially viable anymore and better to just import energy next time if necessary. I.e. costs are thrown at the consumer rather than the energy
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by jug 3y ago
Haha, yeah I used Chess.com analysis and it gave me a clearly best sequence of moves (three to checkmate) but it didn't take the first move from white that it asked for. :( I saw many other struggle with this one too. Anyway, I gave up
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by jug 3y ago
There were so far reaching effects too. They even shut down national TV and blocked websites in the risk of propaganda against them. I don't think it was for show either.
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by jug 3y ago
I also heard this. I unfortunately forget which study it was but yes, their paper spoke of likely diminishing returns at least at around 400-500B parameters for current LLM's. The recent news of GPT-4 running on 8x 220B LLM's (whi
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by jug 3y ago
It’s known and this “feature” will be removed in an update.
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by jug 3y ago
Look, I'm just making an argument out of preconceived notions (see my earlier message stating this). It's a dating app rife of this, not a deep analysis. I was assuming you were looking for an explanation.
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by jug 3y ago
These guys are up to no good and intentionally misuse the loaded language. Because it's loaded. ----- terrorism noun the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. "t
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by jug 3y ago
I wonder what is to come next because it’s a site so reliant on their community and they have a very loud voice per the design itself. A mod team needs to have passion and time, and befriend their community. They can’t just throw anyone in.
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by jug 3y ago
What a shitshow. In Socialist Sweden this would be illegal grounds.

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