Power captures power. Money is a form of power, but there are many forms and the powerful tend to try to grab more power no matter the situation.

I’m not opposed to intellectual property because there’s an argument for providing a limited time monopoly to the creators of works to provide incentive to make works public. Without any such incentive, it’s entirely possible that the monetization structures for different works change, for example locking content behind restrictive systems that don’t allow for personal use at all.

The key is “limited time”. If you can’t make your money back in 15 years, then maybe it’s time to make a new thing? The idea that someone should own a thing you made after you’re dead is stupid – how exactly will that promote you to create new works? If you’re dead, your creating days are over except for creating plant food out of your bones and organs.

I put my money where my mouth is, and the legal page of the graysonian ethic specifically lists that the book is put into the public domain or license after Creative Commons CC0 license after 15 years from the date of first publishing.

On a lark I went to check out if animesuki was still up. I used to use that all the time back in the day.

Nope, dead since 2019.

RIP

I was going to use one, but then I just massively increased the character count of my soapbox instance. At 60k I was able to post the first drafts of entire chapters of my book.

The nice thing about a blogging platform is you can organize the long things you’ve written and they don’t just disappear into the void…

My argument about why would be more honest than other apps is that it would be distributed and self-hosted. Most dating apps are trying to eventually monetize you. It isn’t that the users are more or less honest, is that the platform for themselves are less honest because they need to make you feel like it’s worthwhile popping money on their dating website. Moreover, a self-hosted solution doesn’t need to impress investors by having 12 billion users.

I don’t have experience with it, but I’ve heard waydroid runs android apps on Linux.

1000%.

Way back when fbxl was powerusrs gaming in the late 1990s, one of the few articles I wrote on there was saying basically the same thing even back then. It isn’t good for society to be chasing down $300 boxed copies of games just to see a slice of history.

It should be like trademark: use it or lose it.

I’m ok with old games being sold, btw. There was a time I owned every game on gog on principle. (Today there’s too much to possibly lol)

One big problem is that a fediverse dating app would be honest and most are scummy and fraudulent.

Fake profiles, fake messages, it looks like the place to be.

Not sayin nothin’, but back when I was partaking in that sort of thing, sinvr was pretty amazing. It’s 3d, but it’s also reactive based on your movement rather than just a prerecorded video, so it reacts to you moving your hands around and touching things.

Nice!

A short but very nice article, and some good discussion about meta that isn’t just “press the ban button”. It’s important to note that threads and Lemmy probably won’t have much to do with each other since it’s a Twitter clone.

One big thing is what I always say: decentralization is strength. Spread out over different instances and start your own instances or what happened on Twitter will just happen again.

We’re not stuck in here with them, they’re stuck in here with us.

I already can imagine meta defederates with much of the fediverse on day 1.

Many ads are malicious. Many try to install software you didn’t ask for on your computer, or they try to trick you into pressing a “download” button on a download site that isn’t for the thing you wanted but for their software, or they fake error messages to trick you into installing malicious software.

Back when I was younger, all those sort of activities would fall under the banner of “cyber-terrorism”. Therefore, installing an ad blocker is an act of counter-terrorism.

Only “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”, I think.

The thing that made the platform huge imo was when Compaq developed a 100% IBM PC compatible and started that market. The IBM PC wasn’t going to be huge on its own, too expensive and too little going on.

Wanted to share something from my experience running a pleroma instance: I was having an issue where postgresql was becoming more and more of my CPU utilization. It looked like I was going to have to buy a seriously upgraded server, my loads like 3-4 constantly.

I ran pg_repack during a lower traffic hour (site continued to run during the run but at reduced performance) and my loads were down by 90%, to much less than 1. Now I have it set to do a repack weekly (ymmv, it just seemed like a good frequency to me)

Haven’t done it to my Lemmy server yet, but that’s because of all my instances this one is the newest.

It’s like “Holy shit this is actually the future”

There was a lotide (software like Lemmy) instance called goldandblack a couple years back, it was an ancap instance. It was nicely set up and all, I don’t know if they created the hoot front-end, but it was nice when lotide had a much less pretty interface.

Problem was, it pulled posts from reddit. The large reddit community posts totally overwhelmed the fledgling community, and so it wasn’t worth subscribing to those because you’re not there for the news stories, you’re there for the community. You couldn’t see another person in 99.9% of stories.

So it’s a bad idea, but it doesn’t necessarily seem that way at first.

These are fantastic rules. Setting lines so you’re not policing the entire fediverse but you’re also not going to passively sit there and break your toys is good, and it’ll be a culture change for some folks.

I don’t think I had these with my C-64, and that’s a shame. It would have been cool to have since the barebones basic didn’t really have any features for anything besides…the basics…wait a minute…

I was thinking about that, it makes sense for Facebook to try federation so you can access the Instagram, Facebook, whatsapp and meta accounts universally from whatever account you have.

So how do you do that if you’re meta? Start with activitypub, an existing standard, and then once you’ve learned how it works reprogram it to be proprietary. Same story as Google and xmpp.

Say what you will, certain communities won’t have a problem either way because there’s no way Facebook will willingly federate with them for longer than an hour.