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  • A case for preemptively defederating with Threads

  • I think corporate instances should be allowed only as hosts for accounts of their own employees. Letting large companies dominate the fediverse kind of diminishes the idea of putting control of social media back into hands of the people. If the companies really wanted to help the fediverse out they should be donating to fediverse projects rather than trying to monopolize it.

  • RTR#43 Break time

  • Good that you're taking some time for yourself. Long walks are nice.

  • I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you.

  • Hmm... I'm no expert, and probably not even competent at these sort of matters, but the thing that popped to my mind was "something something encryption something something trust". I wonder if this has a smart solution.

  • Best CPU and GPU monitoring app

  • This looks great! They even figured out Intel GPU and per-process GPU support.

  • So... it's been a while now since the great exodus. How are you all doing my fellow refugees?

  • My man, you're straight up fighting it up there with one of the largest websites on the internet with vastly more resources and you're delivering. You deserve the praise and encouragement.

  • Steam using CPU to process vulkan shaders instead of GPU?

  • Thanks! Makes sense. I saw "shaders" and linked it to the GPU.

  • Steam using CPU to process vulkan shaders instead of GPU?

  • Interesting! I think I'll keep it on and just deal with the fact that it runs on CPU and takes a while, then. I was just wondering if it running on CPU was a mistake or something wrong on my part.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Steam using CPU to process vulkan shaders instead of GPU?

  • Hololive @kbin.social
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    COVER Corporation announces debut of Holostars English ARMIS

    holostars.hololivepro.com /en/special/5034/
  • Hololive @kbin.social
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    COVER Corporation announces debut of ReGLOSS under Hololive DEV_IS

    hololive.hololivepro.com /news/20230904-01-202/
  • Hololive @kbin.social
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    Hololive fan-game Holocure has been released on Steam

    store.steampowered.com /app/2420510/HoloCure__Save_the_Fans/

  • Does anyone think that due to how usernames work on the Fediverse, we might get some people using their real names as usernames?

  • The way I'd imagine official instance accounts working is the governments launching their own .gov instance and restricting accounts to only verified government officials, or corporations doing the same thing on their own official domains. Then their posts are federated to whoever wants to see them (or people can just go to the instance).

  • Permanently Deleted

  • Yup, it has to be made clearer what instance a post is from. Instance icons and addresses maybe? Or is that too much clutter?

  • Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer

  • I really appreciate that Valve seems to be ethical about the way they're going about this, at least so far. I haven't heard any bad news nor does it raise any "extend embrace extinguish" alarms. Rare for a company these days...

  • Alternate gender input fields

  • From the documentation, it appears that the country codes are for localization presumbly of the names of the genders.

    Edit: Ah, others already said this (didn't refresh and kbin doesn't update this automatically). Refer to above.

  • Crazy Coincidence

  • I'd argue that social media isn't inherently bad. It's social media that promotes instant gratification that is bad. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok - their purpose is to make you consume more content, quicker, so they can harvest data on your likes and dislikes and stop you from thinking too hard, which makes you less likely to spend money. Social media should be about letting people talk to each other, not about glorification of celebrities.

    And the former purpose is beneficial for youth, while the latter makes youths into victims.

  • 60% of subreddits are still dark! Reddit activity down 30%

  • Beehaw is defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, two large lemmy instances

  • Yeah, it's literally very early days. This is new, everyone here has just flooded in, and things need time to sort out and stabilise. There isn't a "system" that works for everyone yet. We'll see new instances getting popular, drama and controversy, and so forth. That's normal on the internet.

  • Don't be discouraged by people saying these protests don't work, or by subreddits going public

  • I'd beg to differ, honestly. I'd love to see the fediverse take off. We desperately need an alternative to centralised everything where the actions of one company which almost always is profit-motivated can control everything you see and use your data for their own purposes.

    I get what you mean by how a smaller community is nice to have, though. But that's also a benefit of the fediverse - you have a small community of your own with it's own culture, while not losing the connection to what's happening outside. And there's some cross-over that makes it easier to talk to others who aren't in your own community, without needing to adapt to their culture first.

  • As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin

  • Ah, yeah. That makes me want the ability to undo a boost or have a confirmation for boosts even more.

  • While trying to wrap my head around the concept of the Fediverse, I made this map. How did I do?

  • I just wish boosting had a confirmation or a way to undo/delete (not sure if the Fediverse/ActivityPub supports this). My itchy Reddit migrant fingers have accidentally boosted several posts just because my monkey brain goes "ooh, large number" at this point :P