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ultraHQ

@ ultraHQ @beehaw.org

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  • YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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  • Wait really? Is there a recommended extension for this?

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3

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  • Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?

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  • Thanks for the in depth write up! I haven't looked too far into the docs or the subscription model, but is this a fault on Lemmy's end, or is this a function of how activity pub handles federated communication? (I'm very new to activity pub/federation, just now reading through the activity pub docs)

    I do like your idea of distributed replication via keys,much better than what I had brainstormed

    Edit: yeah it does look like it's a function of activity pub, wonder if theres a more scalable federation protocol out there

  • Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?

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  • it could have been done much better.

    Care to expand on this point?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
    ultraHQ @beehaw.org

    Do you self host a ci/cd pipeline? If so what do you use?

  • How would you make Lemmy nicer for yourself?

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  • I'm presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit's,

  • Site to track Subreddit's as they go dark

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  • Yep! Although it is too bad that when you sesrch for reddit alternstives, that lemmy doesn't come up.

  • FOSS software for music suggestions?

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  • Bonus points for: a way to get my playlists/liked songs off of spotify :)

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
    ultraHQ @beehaw.org

    FOSS software for music suggestions?

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • Absolutely. The value from the knowledge that I've gained from reddit is intangible. It will be next to impossible for me to not use it as reference material in the future.

    Being able to filter out bad information with downvotes was also amazing, and part of the reason I will most likely be moving away from beehaw communities (no downvotes, wtf?? trying to be youtube, eh? 🤣 )

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • It will still be a useful repository of knowledge. It's going to be a hard transition, most of the time when I google something I need to append site:reddit.com, to get a useful answer

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • Note: you will most likely still be able to view from mobile browser via teddit even after the api cutoff date

  • do you think older-style internet forums have a place in the future of the internet?

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  • Interesting write up, thanks for sharing !

  • Looking to migrate from raspberry pi to SFF PC. What are good options in 2023?

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  • Nice! Ill give this a shot, as I have something like 5 unis near me

  • what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back

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  • I'm not sure if anything could at this point. The large amount of users has resulted in a lot lower quality of posts.

  • In contemplating a decentralized future

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  • like, it used to cost some serious $$$ to host your own website/community back in the day, but now you can easily get away with it for less than ~$100/yr.

    Sure, at a small scale. But if you want to run a highly available, horizontally scalable platform that will cost $$$.

    I agree with your other points!

  • In contemplating a decentralized future

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  • The answer is just building strong communities that give a shit about building good internet spaces

    Like I said in my post, interests fade. Most open source projects I've seen fail. What keeps a core team around over the years, most of the time, isn't giving a shit.

  • In contemplating a decentralized future

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  • Ehm, it is hard to make social platforms work. I work in technology, as a software engineer and am paid to keep our core services running. It is a full time job with some of the best minds around me.

    Luckily, I work in a sector that mainly sees traffic 9-5 m-f, but social platforms need hands on deck 24/7/365.

  • Chat @beehaw.org
    ultraHQ @beehaw.org

    In contemplating a decentralized future

  • Is anyone else beginning to mourn reddit?

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  • The one thing that I am worried about for a decentralized future is incentives.

    What keeps a federalized service owner going over the years? Donations alone won't account for server costs, let alone time spent maintaining code or moderating communities.

    Most successful open source projects offer enterprise packages to sustain incentivization, or are a subset of a megacorp that releases (off of the top of my head: canonical, hashicorp, apache, mongodb, k8s, chromium, android, redhat) and the list goes on.

    Most, if not all, of the donations based or FOSS projects that I have seen over the years lose traction because the hobby wears off for the core maintainers.

  • Is anyone else beginning to mourn reddit?

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  • Eh, i've been on it for probably around 15 years. Not going to miss it, but still will append site:reddit.com to all of my search queries as its impossible to get a good answer anywhere else on the internet

  • Can you code? We need your help to improve lemmy

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  • Yeah at work we mask all responses to the client in production to x00, but in the scenereo the original commenter laid out exposing the 403 would be best.

    Adding a modal client side would prob be best here.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    ultraHQ @beehaw.org

    Looking to migrate from raspberry pi to SFF PC. What are good options in 2023?