Notices by Exerra (exerra@daedric.world), page 2

@BeAware@social.beaware.live /gamerule keepInventory true :hmmyes:

@fbievan@alpha.polymaths.social @xepher@mementomori.social @BeAware@social.beaware.live @bob@beamship.mpaq.org Some apps (mostly on iOS iirc) check what kind of software the instance is running, so even if yours implements the Mastodon API they still won't let you log in.

On Android the PWA experience is good enough that I stopped using apps a while back, so there's that.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @Shoesmithlc@dmv.community Eehhh, pretty sure they're making their own federated protocol named AT Proto. It's very different from ActivityPuh and it seems nicer in a few aspects, but worse in others. They're very cautious and risk averse about it though, only somewhat recently let every PDS (self hosted user instance kinda thingy) federate with their servers without manual approval.

I haven't delved deep into it and currently tired so some other time. Seems interesting though.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @jasdemi@jasdemi.com @hallenbeck@mastodon.social I think that firstly, as I said, people need to realise where they are and what kind of negatives decentralisation has and second they need to stop being hypocritical.

Regarding the first point, if they want total privacy from others they should move to a centralised platform and set their profiles to private. That way they can approve everyone who wishes to see their content and the centralised platform can control access.

Regarding the second point, I feel like if they have that search engine toggle on, they're hypocrites. Why should Google and Bing have access but not others?

As you said, opt-in stuff only hurts the ecosystem and there already is a toggle for search engines, so why not use that as the opt-in/out toggle for every project like this? If Google can, why shouldn't small indie projects?

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @jasdemi@jasdemi.com @hallenbeck@mastodon.social I thought about this exact thing when I woke up today and I think that these kinds of services should act like a search engine in the way that they only index posts from people who have kept the "allow posts to be indexed by search engines" toggle on.

That first of all is an opt-out system, second of all lets the user have control over it and third of all isn't hypocritical.

I think those who complain about it should be reminded of the reality that they are posting on a decentralised social media platform. Social media means that what you say will be public unless set otherwise and decentralised means there isn't one singular source which can control access.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @Jerry@hear-me.social I think ultimately centralisation is bound to happen eventually, but it still hurts. Also a lot of crap is given to centralised platforms like Reddit, Twitter, etc, but I feel like they have been quite good at moderation (bar bots recently on Twitter). As they are big companies they have safety teams with a certain level of accountability, and thus they are more open towards letting users express different opinions.

Here sometimes I get the feeling I am less free due to many admins being personally invested into issues and lacking accountability (no one's firing them or docking their pay).

@Jerry@hear-me.social @BeAware@social.beaware.live This is one of the major pitfalls of the fediverse :/

Centralisation occurs because new users would rather join a well established big instance (psychologically nicer), but that just increases the power of one or multiple people who can easily abuse it for personal reasons.

Hopefully more and more service providers pop up (or masto.host just becomes more successful) so there's more decentralisation and more bubbles don't form (though then post migration is an issue).

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Well what did you expect from a stan account :kekw:

@BeAware@social.beaware.live ... it won't for probably at least a year. But, hey, at least it isn't a mundane, monotone and tedious task :catjam:

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Fair enough, but to be honest if 20-30 is a lot for someone, I imagine they probably wouldn't even consider something like this anyway 😂

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Oops, sometimes I forget not everyone knows the same stuff as me. The screenshot shows Wakatime pages for two projects. Wakatime is a service that lets you measure how long you've been coding a project.

Basically I've been making an Obsidian (note taking app) plugin and the left page shows the time I've been coding it before I renamed it and the right page shows it after I renamed it. So in total 25 hours and 40 mins.

All of that just because I didn't want to copy paste a note template 30 times whilst changing filler data (name, city, cost, geo location data) 🫠

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Meanwhile I've spent 25 hours on a project just because I didn't want to do repetetive tasks 🫠

@BeAware@social.beaware.live True, but maybe it doesn't have to be a lot of images. Photo AI trains a model on your selfies, and the landing page says that 20-30 photos are needed. Just got to mess around with training models a bit.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live I've managed to get it similar as well, but my main goal is to be able to put in a portrait of myself for example and get an image spat out that is close enough. I'm very new to this though so going to take a while for that (if I can even achieve it)!

@BeAware@social.beaware.live I think LLM models are way too overused for far too little benefit, there's only a few practical usecases/products for it, however it is incredibly powerful in those situations.

AI art is cool imo because I can't draw, and I don't have the money to commission every idea that pops up in my head. Currently I am trying to replicate this kind of style with portraits, and I'm sure commissioning someone would be faster and better, but certainly not cheaper. Also, it's more fun and interactive this way!

@fbievan@alpha.polymaths.social @BeAware@social.beaware.live The German non profit "Mastodon gGmbH" has Eugen Rochko (founder) as the CEO, however there is also a US non-profit "Mastodon, Inc." with him as a board observer.

Also, funny how the last annual report was about 2022. Where is it for 2023?

https://joinmastodon.org/about

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @doktorzjivago@mastodonsweden.se This is the way of .world admins apparently:homerhide:

Anyway, I wouldn't be opposed to it if all it did was just throw an automoderator-esque comment with a Ground News link, as it is a pretty good service to see how differently leaning news sites report on things.

Immediately calling something credible or not feels odd. Telling people to migrate in order to not respond to criticism is certainly Reddit mod behaviour, so I guess Lemmy is a great Reddit replacement. Also, pretty sure their response for this is only because they feel proud of the little bot they've made.

Decided to switch to #Sharkey and self-host it as well, because why not. I like the #ElderScrolls and there aren't any Elder Scrolls themed instances (afaik), so why not make the instance be themed around it haha.

Olalaa, at least now I'm King in the castle. King in the castle.