This definitively was not in my 2024 Bingo card:
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This definitively was not in my 2024 Bingo card:
Well, what’s stopping someone else from adopting TomHanks@Lemm.ee?
There’s over 1400 people solely in the US named Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks The Celebrity does not get patent rights or trademarks or copyrights on the name.
Wanna know which is the Tom Hanks The Celebrity? Check if their profile is authenticated against their personal website, à-la-Mastodon.
A toot is literally the sound of a birb. It’s got more comfy than “tweet” does.
True, but mindful: one data (well, one datum, to compare with one anecdote) does not statistics make.
Oh, and for the record, linux is ALSO a confusing hot mess for the average person. But until linux developers accept this,
I’ve heard the same kind of stuff about lots… lots of things that “will never catch on”. Every one of those doomsayers were wrong. Some of them unfortunately, but still, they were all wrong.
God I wish someone went and finally fixed that. It’s incredible that of all the FOSS and community stuff you can find on the internet, lemmy is the big one that can’t even remotely be browsed via w3m / elinks / anything-without-Javascript.
If this later returns as ed.ch
(more streamlined and lightweight, minimal featureset, perhaps not even the ability to store remote files so as to avoid the CSAM issues, etc) it’ll be The Day.
This is cursed in a cool way, and viceversa.
(Me, I’m just using POSIX / regcomp; dunno if there’s a handy C++ wrapper for it)
I would hav thought stuff like Lemmy would have configurations to eg.: not allow to upload images locally, only hotlink.
Anyway, an alternative is “zero knowledge” storage, where you don’t know what you are storing (hence, you can’t “choose” what to host or not host either). Another alternative is disjoint storage, where two different servers store different halves of a file (eg.: an Odd Bytes server and an Even Bytes server), but this means now it’s necessary to hit more servers to recover a file.
But the sensible thing to do IMO is to apply “common carrier” concept. The water distribution company is not, to my knowledge, held liable when something happens like you fill a bucket of water and share it with someone else.
All that is needed is a way to find what you want and a solid system of building trusted profiles with ratings and such.
Wouldn’t the second part require a trusted means to verify that a given profile actually sold you the promised thing, as well as some trusted means (two-party signing, maybe) to announce that a payment actually took place?
XMPP is the way.
aeooooooooooo~
*sips coffee while waiting for the 1.0 release*
It’s certainly and obviously not, but:
Does Youtube have a monopoly and network effect? Sure, absolutely, and someone’s gotta correct that. But it’s not a complete monopoly in the sense of “if you don’t eat you die”. If the main supermarket in the area doesn’t like me because “boobs” or something, I can still go to a minimarket.
…Look, you really get tiresome. I’d ask if you are fine but honestly you are not my problem. If you need serotonin or something, get you seen; don’t try to drain mine.
“Fedi”
Already more than 50% shorter.
In comparison, asterism symbol (and any proposal that further extends into Unicode’s emoji area) still spends three, maybe four bytes.
What I’m hearing here is
I mean , not with that attitude certainly. And dog that doesn’t bark doesn’t eat.
But if you want to be self-defeatist, you do you. I’d thought half the point you were even here, in a platform that is not GAFAM, was that you weren’t.
and platforms who leverage network effect need to be held to different standards
Then do so. Come on. It’s 2024.
Until something is seriously done, being able to at least go elsewhere has to be and is the rational option that is left.
If Lemmy were to integrate with Matrix the storage costs would explode exponentially, the two systems are notoriously heavy! (Lemmy is consistently the only service that fills more than 1 GB of storage in my browser and refuses to clean up).
XMPP is the true inheritor of IRC when it comes to standard, federated, self-hostable chat / messaging.
Oh man this is fun. I remember we had another meme here, uuuh what was it “twice as wide en passant”? What ever happened to that?