Yeah, Lemmy is good because of the topic and threading focus. Mastodon seems better for exploring lots of issues. I’m finding them fairly complementary, they cover different bases.

Still need something I can pull my IRL friends in with though. Pixelfed might work for people who are used to Instagram, but I think it’s probably still a bit sparse content wise.

17 bugs detected including 4 security threats, and we still don’t even know what the programming is supposed to do

The asteroid would have wiped us out before you guys finished this long ass conversation

The app is 4 years behind schedule, and the endgame asteroid is still approaching.

Mastodon could definitely do with some more discovery methods. Hopefully something like bluesky’s starter packs get implemented eventually (but I understand why they aren’t rushing it, there are abuse risks).

Best approach for now on mastodon is to follow all the hash tags you’re interested in, and then follow everyone in your feed who posts anything interesting. Takes a few weeks to ramp up, I guess. My feed got good once I was following around 1k users. You can always unfollow if someone’s annoying.

Follow people and hashtags and interact with them and you’ll get followers. I barely post, just a few replies a day, and I have over 800 followers. I have a pinned post on my account to that effect.

I would join mastodon over bluesky because bluesky seems to be on the same mesh it to fixation trajectory as any other VC backed social network. But yeah, I get that most people won’t see that for another couple of years… Oh well. At least people are bailing twitter. And when bluesky goes to shit mastodon will still be there, and the rationale should be a lot clearer.

Man, people got used to having the whole internet in their pocket from barely knowing it existed in like 15 years. There are already cultural metaphors for federation. People will grok that shit in no time when they need to. But it will take the network effect forcing them to learn it that will get people over the hill.

Countries? Or groups of people?

Kinda blows my mind that people think that shit is going to happen over night… That’s hundreds of millions of people…

Huh, a friendica post in the wild on the Lemmy.world front page. Cool!

Anyone who is on a server that houses any other user that follows you. Not that hard to find out…

But also I don’t really see how that matters in practice for most pleb users, since 95% or them will join a large server, which means the practical answer is “nearly everyone on the fediverse, if they want to”.

In as much as FOSS can be forked, it’s not really completely controlled (and there are a number of active mastodon forks that federate fine with standard mastodon servers)

Is it just the choosing-a-home-server thing, or something else?

Is this actually true? The UIs don’t seem very different to me. What is it about mastodon’s design that’s bad?

Wikipedia makes it sound like not all Teflon pans require PFOA, which is the actual problem here (not that the article describes it clearly).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stick_surface

PFOA/PFOS is in lots of other household shit though, like raincoats

People working in a sewer should be paid the most.

I hate everything about this comment, but you’re not wrong.

You realise “LLMs can quote verbatim” is not a contractdiction of “LLMs can create brand new sentences”, right?

True, I do see a few when I search for friendica domains, and they do have federated content.

They only take from the statistical distributions of words in the context of preceding words (which is why they never say “the the” etc, why the grammar is nearly always correct). But that doesn’t mean that whole sentences are lifted from the source material. There are near infinite paths through those word distributions, and many have never been produced by humans, so LLMs do produce sentences that have never been uttered before.

They couldn’t produce new conceptual context spaces in the way that humans can sometimes, but they can produce new combinations within existing context spaces.