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

Perhaps the Fediverse needs a helpful paperclip like mascot to help with on-boarding.

"Hi, I'm Freddy Verse your friendly guide to the Fediverse, let me help you pick your new home. Please answer these questions:"

What type of service are you looking for?

  • Micro-blogging
  • Blogging
  • Image sharing
  • Long-form video
  • Short-form video
  • Social network
  • Jack-of-all-trades
  • Dick pics

Where do you live?

  • America, fuck yeah!
  • UK
  • German speaking countries
  • France
  • Australia

What are you interested in?

  • Books
  • Films
  • Gaming
  • Star Wars
  • Star Trek
  • Harry Potter
  • Porn
  • Just the dick pics
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So long as everyone has to have the Germans in their feed I’m ok with it. Everyone needs to understand what a Stör is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just looked it up - a sturgeon?

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

So around the time that the Reddit migration to Lemmy happened ich_iel had a bunch of sturgeon memes that confused us anglophones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To slightly unconfuse people: those were based around the pun that while Stör means sturgeon, stören means to disturb/annoy.

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

What would Threads be in this analogy, maybe Edge browser?

Always being shoved in your face, an artificially high "user count", but after a while people don't really use it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Corel word

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Threads has much much much more active content than Lemmy.

Edge is also a fantastic browser and has tons of actual users. Most folks I know use it more than chrome these days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Edge is based on chrome so you can throw this out

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh wow it's it? 🙄

Gotta love when some redditor/lemmy explains irrelevant common knowledge.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you arguing with me or you at this point?

Explain to me in detail how that is irrelevant without telling me it has everything to do with what you and I just said.

Y'all need to go back to Reddit with this shitty argue with everyone attitude, this was a beautiful place at one point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

tfw I block someone not in a political thread

Edit: to be clear it's the one with all the downvotes

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

may I ask what typst is then?

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

Does not exist. No bijection.

And calling something latex after knowing typst is definitely an insult

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use Lemmy and like it, but I still have no idea what the fediverse is. Lemmy seems to work fine for me without this knowledge.

Tbh, I don't think federation is a good selling point. It's difficult to explain and understand for a general audience

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

The good thing about Fediverse is the decentralization.

There's no one Lemmy instance, or Mastodon instance. You could use any server, or even selfhost your own, if you wanted to, and have pretty much the same potential for reach.

That's all anyone needs to know about the Fediverse.

The hard thing is authenticity. Particularly for public figures, celebrities, social media personalities, businesses, etc. People who want or need an online personality that corresponds to their real one. I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For me the issue is privacy.

At any point anyone who wants to train an AI (or something else data-scrapey) they can just get the whole of everything ever posted on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it's not like centralized services in any way prevent this, at best they can make it inconvenient but on the flipside you can be 100% certain they are themselves selling off all your data and doing so with your permission (you did real the TOS right?)

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

Depends on a few things. Instance admin can rate limit requests. Pretty easy to identify a bot that's scraping traffic.

That's also one thing I try not to worry about. I don't generally say anything online I wouldn't feel comfortable saying on a soapbox in town square (generalized anxiety disorder aside). As a nerdy 90s kid, I learned anything you put on the public internet is public domain unless stated otherwise, and will probably exist forever (if only I could remember any of my GeoCities addresses).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's the markdown of social media? Both derogatory and non-derogatory answers accepted

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

I've got GitHub categorized as social media. Just FYI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's silly. It's obviously a dating platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Radioactive carbon dating my abandoned projects, definitely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Dead on. All you have to do is ask programmers about datetime and you'll get lots of replies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Screaming into the void (non derogatory)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

/dev/null as a social media

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But...Bluesky is federated, at least in principle. If it stays single-instance for more than a year or so following the current uptick in popularity, then I'll accept that it's de facto not federated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i feel like being federated in principle is very much equivalent to not being federated in any sense of the word whatsoever at all

they can claim whatever they want, it doesn't make any of it true.

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

There's documentation on how to set up your own server for each of the components involved, and there are example servers running. It will take time for an organization to decide to run another major instance, though.

See also https://lemmy.world/comment/13555889

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was hoping for a \end{meme} in the text description 😢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Best I can offer is an overfull \hbox

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Are there LaTeX haters? Why?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It has a learning curve and it is better suited for technical work IMO. I wouldn't tell a grandparent to write a letter using LaTeX for example.

I WOULD trust a grandparent to be able to download Mastodon and make an account, but still I think the analogy works nicely lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Markdown is expressive enough with better syntax.

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

I'd say anyone who has ever tried to use it hates it a little, even if they also love it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Everytime you are forced to actually look at the log and try to understand the error, I hate that. But I love LaTeX still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I remember having my fair share of grievences when I was learning it lol