@evan somewhat disagree, but really I feel there should be no default, the user should be prompted to choose when signing up. Options should be private, local-only, or federated.
It should be clear that federated means anyone can read it, and that includes search engines and bridges.
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No.@GottaLaff doesn't incitement to commit terrorist acts carry a hefty prison sentence?
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"Unfortunately, our plans to train our AI models by stealing the EU’s rich cultural, social and historical contributions remain paused while EU regulators do their job and protect their citizens. As Mark and Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, recently snivelle..."Unfortunately, our plans to train our AI models by stealing the EU’s rich cultural, social and historical contributions remain paused while EU regulators do their job and protect their citizens. As Mark and Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, recently snivelled, American big tech is at risk of not hoarding as many trillions because of sensible and comprehensive regulation" – translation of Nick Clegg's bullshit
RE: https://www.threads.net/@nickclegg/post/C_3DJvEu4Md
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Was there any talk or discussion at the #FediForum about the banning of #X in #Brazil, and the massive migration of Brazilians to #BlueSky?@everton137 nevermind Orkut, Bluesky has a literal clone of Twitter's UI. Plus it's to all intents and purposes a centralised service with a single place to sign up and to interact with everyone on the platform, unlike the Fediverse where it's necessary to think about which instance to join, understand what federation is and why you can't necessarily talk to everyone else, etc.
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Contemporary car design is so ugly.@crashglasshouses @karlauerbach @Gurre @futurebird in the UK mail usually goes through a letterbox mounted in your front door. To steal it the thief would have to break into your house.
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Contemporary car design is so ugly.@VampiresAndRobots @Gurre @futurebird that's fair. And I can honestly see the sense in it, it must save a lot of time, but it's just something I'd never thought about before. (I'd also worry about the post getting stolen, but that's another topic...)
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Contemporary car design is so ugly.@StumpyTheMutt @Gurre @futurebird oh no!
But also, yes, the lack of 'sidewalks' ('pavements' for us) was the other thing that stood out to me from that image. Totally bizarre to me. It's as if it never occurred to the developers that someone might even walk down the street to visit their neighbours. -
Contemporary car design is so ugly.@Gurre @futurebird In rural areas it definitely makes sense, and I see the same in Portugal out in the countryside (but more like in your photo, where the driver will probably still have to get out of their vehicle). But I've never seen it in urban or suburban areas. In the countries I've spent time in postmen in urban and suburban areas would tend to be on foot or on a bike, and walk up to the door of each house to deliver the post.
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Contemporary car design is so ugly.@Gurre @futurebird Kinda offtopic, but looking at that image I was suddenly struck by the realisation: is the reason Americans have those roadside postboxes so that the postman can deliver the post without leaving their vehicle, as pictured? As a European this had never occurred to me, and it simultaneously makes sense whilst also being a deeply sad reflection on American car-centric suburbia.
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Entomology is WILD! Listening to a talk where one of the experimental steps is “collect mosquito saliva”@millerdl interesting!
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Entomology is WILD! Listening to a talk where one of the experimental steps is “collect mosquito saliva”@millerdl how do they collect it?
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@stefan I missed the poll but I'm curious: why wouldn't you include Lemmy?@stefan Promoting individual instances instead of software projects would be great (and probably more helpful to new users) but of course it would be a *huge* burden to maintain, even beyond the initial work involved.
Thanks for your work on this anyway – I hadn't seen the site before, and it's definitely a useful resource to point people to.
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THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT:@ariaflame @sesivany @aslakr @borisschapira @janrosenow …and also the country responsible for 95% of new coal…
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@stefan I missed the poll but I'm curious: why wouldn't you include Lemmy?@stefan Thanks, sorry I'd missed that somehow. Having read the linked material, I agree that the behaviour and political positions of the lead dev seems concerning. I'm not sure if that's reason enough to avoid the software itself (as opposed to the instances run by the devs) but I guess that was the reason for the poll! (And it seems people are pretty divided on it.)
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@stefan I missed the poll but I'm curious: why wouldn't you include Lemmy?@stefan I missed the poll but I'm curious: why wouldn't you include Lemmy?
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Not one to lag behind in the tech world, Meta has been developing its own flagship generative AI model called Llama.@TechDesk @Techcrunch It is not open-source.
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Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.I suspect most of the federation problems mentioned in the last few posts are the "fault" of Discourse – BrowserPub fails to find anything at https://browser.pub/https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/explaining-the-fediverse-is-a-hard-problem/4462/4 – but in the end the user doesn't care whose fault it is when something doesn't work, they just think federation is confusing and broken.
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Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.@eeeee The lack of complete federation is another very good (and very hard to solve) point that makes federation less-than-intuitive. From my Mastodon instance the situation is worse, none of @bumblefudge 's posts nor any others from SocialHub appear in the thread. (See https://indieweb.social/@julian@community.nodebb.org/112972609579702339)
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@FransVeldman I think 'green' hydrogen could have a place as a form of energy storage.@FransVeldman I think 'green' hydrogen could have a place as a form of energy storage. Because peak times of renewable generation don't usually coincide with peak demand, storage is necessary to flatten the peaks. Of course, there are lots of forms of storage, and hydrogen isn't a particularly efficient one. But at least it doesn't have the environmental downsides of batteries, and it can be transported and used in some ways to replace existing uses of fossil fuels, such as in transportation.