Notices by C.W. Smith (cwsmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com), page 5

I really don't want to shut down 4 out of 6 of the instances I run, but at the same time I seem to be the only one who is interested in them. And the cost per month to run them is by itself annoying when no one seems to care.

I don't know if having independent instances for the Bots from the sites I am building is worth the compound server costs.

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#Mastodon
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@LavenderPawprints

Exactly.

I am adding AI Image media types to the web page for Reliquary. I plan to share everything I used to get said Image, as well as tack them to Prompts for people to use to create things. Figure it might be interesting.

@LavenderPawprints

I got the same issue with visuals, and you have to add in the issue of Rigging the model to move.

That particular project is @EternalCurator

I do have an Artist helping out when I can afford to commission her. It's not like a $10k Anime quality type thing, but it's good to start. Plus she doesn't give me too much shit for using AI Image Generators.

@LavenderPawprints

The biggest issue is that people don't seem to understand that copyright is not absolute. You can copyright a specific thing, but not say the style of artwork. The anti's ignore that pretty much their entire arugment is that no one can ever use the same styles or learn from others work. THey say it's different due to it being a machine versus a human, but really its just about the tech existing.

@LavenderPawprints

Definitely has my brain working a bit of scene work.

@LavenderPawprints

Definitely had my brain go to a dark back alley in a Cyberpunk dystopia

@LavenderPawprints

I started working on a VTuber project a while back, it was just suposed to be something to play around with. I ended up with 4 setup ideas, including a setting with a character who is pretty much just a brain in a jar that switches bodies depending on need (There is a Tank option in a warehouse), a nightclub owner of dubious age and origin, and an African hunter/warriro from somewhen between the 3rd and 7th centuries who fell through a temporal breach... yea...

@BeAware @mookie

Of course not... That damn apperition is still stuck in the 1800s and keeps insisting he used to be John Wilkes Booth.

@mookie @BeAware

That fucking Ghost that's been squatting on my property!

@BeAware

I got at least one notification on the post about the Redis situation that said Fuck Mastodon.

... Okay... what do you suggest random Fediverse user?

@BeAware

I got asked this morning, said to keep it active.

Quick question.

Has anyone connected to @Mastodon been working to switch from Redis since they went closed source? What's going to be involved in moving to a drop in replacement?

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For anyone interested, found this old vintage computer #font pack.

#RetroComputing Fonts from the early days of computers.

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

@BeAware

... This is me...

@BeAware @ppb1701

True, but even then there are time when it happens and you did everything right. Like the AT&T breech. Customers didn't mess up.

@ppb1701 @BeAware
Yeah, but Google made their cash off seeing data, pretending it didn't cost us anything. Willingly paying for a service is a bit different.

@darnell

@BeAware

I remember using Trillion a long time ago, when I had accounts on ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and maybe one other.

Pidgin and Kopete still exist as well even though I don't know what networks they could be used for anymore.

Maybe something like Matrix would be a better option. It's still federated and allows for independent networks to be built.

@eatyourglory

The problem is right now on the Threads side that is exactly their experience. Why turn it on when it's one sided and your on the side that's not seeing shit?

@eatyourglory

Yeah, but even a Beta has to provide some reason to test it out.

On my Threads account I turned on Fediverse, and aside from a like on a post just now I get no real experience. It just makes me visable on the Federated network. Nothing else.

Now, once it's got a bit less one sided you'll have a better case and ability to display the benifits.

@eatyourglory

No problem.

I want this to work, but at the same time the biggest issue will be convincing people to flip the switch on both sides of the network.