I’m gonna clean my room up and get a (feminine! Yay!) Haircut

I also wanna go out at some point during this week, socialize with people I don’t know yet

They’re trying to block adblockers again, it seems. I got the “adblockers are not allowed” popup again recently.

I feel like you’re coming at this pretty aggressively. I don’t feel like getting into a fight, but I’ll reply once:

I don’t like Bluesky. I find its culture very US centric, depressing, and frustrating. However, I also find it is technically better than any activitypub software I’ve used, and protocol-wise, much better specified.

It also has >30 million users, and is much more prominent culturally.

Lemmy and the microblogging activitypub software are more pleasant to use, but definitely rougher around the edges.

Fair enough. I only got what people were originally complaining about from context; I woke up too late to see those complaints, just a billion replies.

The other comments are roughly correct in general, but the current drama is because a couple people said “Bluesky is dying” because the number of unique users that liked a post over the past 3 months has gone down (that’s the Number that went down), and then a bunch of people got mad at those people because that’s a single very specific measure and Bluesky is objectively doing very well and anyway they’d still use it if it wasn’t popular etc etc.

Regular internet drama, basically.

Personally? Vibes. Specifically, it feels very… uniform. Like, a human artist good enough to draw like that would be better at composition, I think?

More practically, even the newer ones struggle with specific shapes; look at the arch, no human would draw that weird hybrid of an arch and a… semi-donut?

Older models struggle with lining stuff up and keeping things straight over long distances. The latest ones struggle with constant curvatures.

It’s anarchy for the hierarchies, not for the components of the hierarchies

Fair enough! The disadvantage is that, as opposed to Dropbox and similar, I have go into a file at the root of the synced folder, rather than keeping that config near to where itcs relevant.

Thanks for the names!

That’s… a very good idea. I should do that anyway.

Forgejo for projects and syncthing for data is probably perfect, thank you!

I tried with both, but I didn’t figure out how if such an option exists. I did manage to do the opposite (keeping files uploaded but not having them locally), both with and without VFS (with VFS it’s in a context menu in nautilus, without it’s in the desktop app).

it does! I use it to sync my music, but I feel like it’s not the right tool for the job here.

I don’t want to “have the folders connected”, I want to have the ability to sync files easily, while excluding specific folders and files.

I have. It hasn’t worked very well for me, the docs weren’t great (though I’m looking at them now and they do seem better?) and it broke in strange ways.

So… databases? Especially in data centers? Still a nice boost in that case

Wait, so OpenAI’s whole kerfuffle here is based on nothing directly stated (e.g. in the paper like I thought), and worse, almost certainly completely unfounded?

Wow just when I thought they couldn’t get more ridiculous…

Lol, the sub seems to be completely blocked on my instance. Hell yeah

Is it for sure Microsoft?

Yeah, did:web exists, but I still called it centralized because it still relies on did:plc pretty much everywhere (though honestly domain name handles might actually be did:web, not sure). Didn’t know about that dual setup by Bluesky though!

I did notice the @handle.invalid! Thanks!

My understanding was that activitypub was basically a rough formalization of existing protocols, designed to be as flexible as possible. More a template than a real protocol. Unfortunately mastodon’s popularity basically made a bunch of things de-facto obligatory but not well documented, and there’s still a bunch of ways to do… anything.

That link doesn’t work for me, but I ended up finding a post by them that seems to correspond. Good to know, thanks! Seems like it’s realistic but expensive still (150$/mo?), and it’s not gonna get cheaper… I hope they figure out a way to make them less centralized.