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There was some talk awhile ago of the devs maybe extending feeds beyond Communities to Posts and Comments too but I don’t think it ever got off the ground. Would certainly be way easier to do what I think you want if they did exist.

Come on its obvious! Sedan - see Dan. Staring at a man called Dan.

Also ‘red’ has 3 letters, just like ‘gay’.

Vorta for Borg Backup - for linux and MacOS. You use it remotely but I use it for local backup because a) its encrypted b) its Borg so awesome and c) easy to use. I just pointed it at my home directory, told it where to place the encrypted backups and how often to make them.

I’ve had to recover files twice and recovery is just as easy as set up.

I can vouch for whisper.cpp . It’s not 100% perfect but it’s good enough to transcribe a half hour podcast with numerous speakers and which requires pretty minimal fixing afterwards.

Sure, but the body of the post mentions donating to devs and instance owners. I’m being pedantic I know, but I think it would be a more informative post if it’d made clear what the donation numbers refer to and what they don’t.

As an add-on (sort of) to Borg, I was told about Vorta yesterday and installed it to run scheduled, encrypted backups of my local machine to an external drive, but you can also ssh to a remote server if you wish. Works like a dream.

Right. My instance maintainer accepts donations via Ko-fi, which isn’t even listed here.

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Cunk

I think it’s something that app creator invented.

Not Only Instant Messenger.

Free speech is a good thing. Absolute free speech is the excuse shit people use to air their shitty opinions.

ActivityPods are being developed. From their website:

What is the main shortcoming of ActivityPub ?

ActivityPub wants to make it possible to create decentralized apps. But to post videos, you need an account on a PeerTube instance. And to post images, you need an account on a PixelFed instance. You must thus handle multiple accounts, with their profile, list of followers, etc.

How does ActivityPods solve this shortcoming ?

With ActivityPods, you have only one profile, one outbox, one inbox and one list of followers - all in a single place. Applications connect to your Pod to post activities, read the inbox and fetch data. And of course they can connect to any existing fediverse application !

I ain’t saying you’re wrong or your points are invalid, but bear in mind that Lemmy is a very young piece of software. It will evolve to cope with these kind of issues and if the lead devs don’t step up, then - as was seen in the near-recent CSAM attacks - the community will and develop it’s own set of tools/plug-ins.

All social media type software goes through a kind of perpetual arms-race with bad actors and whilst it’s not impossible, it’s often very difficult to anticipate what method the next lot of bad actors will chose to attack the lemmyverse with.

Yep, plus a list of reasons why I might want to use it over other Matrix clients.

Then they don’t fall under the heading of ‘sane people’.

OK, so they’re a fucked up fool.

Sadly though, I’m pretty sure I could extend that judgement to a lot of people whose products/services I use, it’s simply impossible to go through life only using products and services who’s owners/developers have values, beliefs and opinions that match your own.

The best ‘revenge’ (if that’s the right word) is to use their stuff for activities that counteract their shitty opinions.

Well, I think the people here prior to Rexit were already producing good content and then the people who moved over from Reddit were primarily people annoyed by u/spez and who valued content quality and genuinely wanted a decent platform. There’ll be times when things get shitty but by and large I do think Lemmy had a good start. We just really need the devs to give some power to instance admins and Mods via decent tools, because the one thing that will kill progress is people not being able to curate and protect their Communities.

Never really understood the thought process “If I move to a different place, it’ll definitely be magically free of arseholes and people I disagree with.” It’s just not reflective of reality - wherever you go, there’ll be arseholes. Just build your Subscribed feed, dip into All occasionally to se what else is out there, find an instance that takes moderation seriously and aren’t actual fascists and block the strays that occasionally make it through.

And OOP is right to say Lemmy has backend issues. The dev team of 2 people is too small and they really need to make safety a massive priority ASAP. Being able to block instances as a user is a big step forward (planned in the next major release I believe) but both mod and admin tools need to be much better and they need to do a lot more to tackle CSAM hits. I hope they’re taking note of the various projects @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com has begun to tackle these issues.

In terms of the size of the Lemmyverse, I don’t really give a shit about that. What I care about is quality rather than quantity and it stands to reason that as quality continues to improve (as I believe it is) then quantity will follow in its wake.

OOP seems to forget that Lemmy only got as big as it is right now about 4 months ago - of course there’s a lack of niche communities and of course there’s a lack of tools. Poor old Ernst developing KBin got hit with tens of thousands of users for software that wasn’t even out of Alpha.

The best things we can do as users is create good content, encourage discussion etc even when it feels like we’re talking into the void. Because sooner or later, if the content is good, people will engage. We’re not at that tipping point yet but it’ll come if we put the effort in.

It’s entirely possible, I agree, but as of right now, there’s only really two ways to show a person ads - targeted or not targeted. And that applies to all forms of advertising really, not just online. I don’t know enough about marketing to say how long it might take to develop zero knowledge ads but in terms of funding development and hosting we’re very long way away from that being a possibility.

And the ethos of the Fediverse was, in part, formed around the idea of not being served ads that were either utterly irrelevant and thus irritating or scarily relevant and thus unsettling. The Fediverse is pretty closely aligned with open source and privacy philosophy. I think any instance that runs ads is going to see either no revenue as they’ll be adblocked or the instance will see a sharp drop off in users.