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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.
  • It’s a problem in the open source community as a whole. People ask for it to be a little easier because they’re not super skilled with tech and then the reaction is “if your so dumb you cant use this then maybe you shouldnt use it” or something to that extent

  • AOC Asked People Who Voted For Both Her And Trump To Explain Why—And Their Answers Are Eye-Opening
  • We’re all brainwashed in the US though. We’re all in the USA cult here while our taxes bomb and starve millions of people. We still vote for blue even when they continue the embargo on Cuba and we bomb the poorest countries in the world.

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.
  • This smug attitude is why the fediverse will stay niche. People get jobs from twitter and Bluesky showing their posts to people. Its why im on the platforms as an artist. But sure lets talk shit at everyone who doesnt want to post to the void on mastodon.

    Also your feed is chronological by default on bluesky and you can stay chronological and enable some posts from your custom feeds to show in your chronological feed. Best of both worlds

  • My blog now has Lemmy comments
  • Thats Awesome! Needs a mobile ui though

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • It’s because he has an email company he wants you to use for $100 a year lol

  • Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
  • So um. What happens when the white supremacists attacking FEMA and electrical grids starts attacking these nuclear reactors?

  • Steam and Mastodon.
  • Same it’s much nicer to enjoy the tech/tools. I still ad block on all devices tho

  • The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
  • I didnt say they werent working towards it tho. i said they arent communist and i listed obvious examples they are not distributing power and money equally nor horizontally

  • The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
  • Thats so awesome!

  • The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
  • Do you think you’re proving they have infinite money or great working conditions?

  • The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
  • Infinite money? Is that why the factory workers are all paid great salaries and have the best working conditions?

  • The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
  • The workers dont own the means of production. Its not communism

  • The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
  • How big is this area compared to the US? Would be cool to see the areas superimposed

  • Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense
  • Download the torrent for the local copy of wikipedia from 2024 now

    https://kiwix.org/

  • PSA: Stay away from fediverse@lemmy.zip Mod is a transphobe
  • .world has the best reputation overall of quality and care of the sites with big communities

  • Is there anything I can do to fix this Caution status or should i get a new ssd?

    found about this app recently and decided to install it. Not sure what this means but I'm worried because its the SSD my OS is installed on. (all my files are already backed up to backblaze)

    EDIT: turns out its my old external hard drive with issues not my ssd. All good! thanks for the help!

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    Love-Bullet fans are rallying to hep prevent the cancellation

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    This manga is really great but its at risk of cancellation so people have banded together to purchase overseas copies to save it from cancellation. Even though its currently only available in Japanese people are buying the physical manga and reading it online in their native language.

    Statement by the creator of the manga thanking for the support !

    Mini comic the creator had made before mentioning the risk of cancellation

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    Here’s the buying guide if you’re interested https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1acyjITY8ohQbJW8xokiUC0_koa8Sv2tOk9vSRovTPPY/mobilebasic

    And here’s a place to read it in your language https://mangadex.org/title/cb1b1da5-9436-49f5-8a6b-a1689fb86d91/love-bullet

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    Are there any other services that use the AtProtocol other than Bluesky?

    All I can find are third party apps for Bluesky but I can’t find anything like a Lemmy style service or Instagram style service using the AtProtocol

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    With fbox and aniwave being taken down. Whats a good way to keep track of watchlists for anime and non anime?

    I know of my anime list and anilist and using the MALsync extension but i cant find a website with an extension that has both anime and non anime shows

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    Open Source extension that greatly increases streaming speeds
    github.com GitHub - Andrews54757/FastStream: Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that gives you a better, accessible video player designed for your needs.

    Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that gives you a better, accessible video player designed for your needs. - Andrews54757/FastStream

    GitHub - Andrews54757/FastStream: Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that gives you a better, accessible video player designed for your needs.

    I recently discovered this firefox\chrome extension that make streaming videos soo much faster. It also has built in subtitle support that lets you upload subtitles or search through opensubtitles. It's incredible how much faster videos load https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

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    Do any of you play WoW? There's an open source private server we could play and make a Lemmy guild

    I've been looking into private servers so I can play WoW without paying blizzard and came across this private server that has a great reputation for its community and the fact that its open source. Maybe we can get a Lemmy guild going and play? It's called Chromiecraft https://www.chromiecraft.com/en/

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    PieFed is 1 year old

    cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/189492

    > Just a quick note to recognize that the first lines of PieFed code were published on the 28th July 2023, just over a year ago. Since then there have been 1400+ changes made by 9 people, involving adding 88,000 lines of code and removing 28,000 lines. The issue queue has 98 open and 99 closed issues. > > While join.piefed.social went live in October 2023, it wasn't until time off work over the christmas holidays enabled a big push to get it ready that piefed.social went live on 4th January 2024. > > Since then piefed.social has federated 190k posts, 2.3M comments and 19M votes with 1900 other instances of various types. Besides piefed.social there are 5 other PieFed instances that I know of. > > What a year it's been! I've grown significantly as a developer, had a lot of fun and hopefully contributed something meaningful to whatever the fediverse is becoming. Long may it continue!

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    Im counting the days for a Piefed app so i can switch over and be able to forget about ml drama and weirdness

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900

    > [Transphobia Warning] Nutomic’s Stance on Transgender People

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    Easiest way to selfhost Linkwarden on my desktop?

    I want to use Linkwarden to backup websites I find but I can't afford a subscription right now. What's the easiest way to selfhost it on my desktop pc (windows) that will keep it updated and working without having to mess with it or do a bunch of command line stuff?

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    Retro Lite CM5 a Gaming Handheld using a CM5
    github.com GitHub - StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM5: An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s compute module from Radxa.

    An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s compute module from Radxa. - GitHub - StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM5: An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s...

    GitHub - StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM5: An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s compute module from Radxa.

    cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10558285

    > Came across this really cool retro gaming handheld project. Its open source and they’re sharing the BOM soon so anyone get can get it manufactured. Full info is on the github but the gist is, its a retro gaming handheld that runs a version of armbian (arm debian) and it can play up to ps2 and GameCube games. > > > ! > > ! > > ! > > !

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    Retro Lite CM5 a Gaming Handheld using a CM5
    github.com GitHub - StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM5: An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s compute module from Radxa.

    An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s compute module from Radxa. - GitHub - StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM5: An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s...

    GitHub - StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM5: An upgrade to the Retro Lite CM4 handheld, which uses the RK3588s compute module from Radxa.

    Came across this really cool retro gaming handheld project. Its open source and they’re sharing the BOM soon so anyone get can get it manufactured. Full info is on the github but the gist is, its a retro gaming handheld that runs a version of armbian (arm debian) and it can play up to ps2 and GameCube games.

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    datahoarder @lemmy.ml XNX @slrpnk.net
    Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

    cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10273849

    > Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help? > > Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites

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    Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

    Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites

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    PieFed development update, June 2024 - Peertube, Polls

    cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/128173

    > Here's some development highlights from the last 3 weeks and who contributed: > > ### Freamon ### > > Markdown parsing improvements and let us use a different variant of Markdown than Lemmy does. > Poll federation - Mastodon accounts can vote on PieFed polls, and receive votes from PieFed users for Polls they've posted into a local community. > PeerTube integration - New channels arrive with 10 recent videos, their player is embedded in the PieFed post, new posts are correctly restricted to channel owners, and arrive into PieFed automatically. > Manual post-retrieval from remote communities function > Improvements to federation that led to an 80% drop in the amount of spam cleanup work admins need to do (some post deletions on remote Lemmy instances weren’t being imported into PieFed properly). > > ### Rimu ### > > A minor dark mode improvement. > Made the Poll UI and database. > Made a start on federation with Pixelfed and Discourse. > An admin tool to list communities that need to be assigned to a topic. > Update translations from crowdin - French is finished thanks to wazaby. Steady progress continues on Japanese translation. > Much better topic list layout. > Imported many PeerTube channels into piefed.social and assigned them to topics. > Top-level topics added to the main menu under ‘Topics’. > Soft deletes - post deletion can be reversed for up to 7 days. > > ### Tallship ### > > Suggested PieFed use 'soft-break' Markdown > Testing User Follows from various platforms > Reporting that the use of Mastodon's trademark was problematic > > ### General comments ### > > We are reaching the end of the initial roadmap I sketched out 6 months ago at the start of development. There are just a handful of small tasks to do before the “beta test” phase ends. > > With Lemmy to PieFed federation pretty solid, we are entering a phase of diversifying to other platforms. The first other platform, PeerTube, involved a lot of work that hopefully paved the way for future platforms to be integrated more easily. Pixelfed is going live with Groups support very soon. Exploratory work has been done on integration with Discourse although disappointingly they have implemented federation as an optional plugin so fewer Discourse forums actually federate than I initially hoped. NodeBB looks interesting. > > In general the Fediverse has reached a steady state in terms of user numbers which gives us space to slow down and reassess. There is not as much of a sense of urgency or bursting-at-the-seams that there was a few months ago. This might be a good time to start to pay down some of the technical debt we have built up. It’s not that the code is bad, it's just that it’s structured in a way that made things easy in the early days but is no longer serving us as well as it did. > > Very soon it will be good to have a discussion to create a roadmap for what comes after the beta ("1.0"). I’m thinking - more platforms (Mastodon, Friendica, etc), community wikis, API for mobile apps, better accessibility and can’t wait to hear other ideas from the community.

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    Where can i find an archive/compilation of the self recorded videos of idf soldiers blowing up apartments and mocking children in schools

    I remember seeing an archive that was collecting the videos idf soldiers posted of them gleefully mocking children in skits they recorded in their schools, videos of them blowing up apartments, posing with lingerie calling women whores, zip tying journalists and children stripped down to their underwear. I cant seem to find the archive anymore though. Does anyone know which human rights org was archiving these videos or where they can be found?

    I dont know what community this would belong in i hope its not a stupid question

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    Reddit @lemmy.ml XNX @slrpnk.net
    Here's an example of chatgpt\bots being used to push products

    this user seems to be a mix of a chatgpt bot and a real person. Notice how soo many of their posts are these long overly formal\affectionate replies with a link to specific products. The products are amazon links (probably referal links) and all the amazon links are hidden behind a redirect by using tastechocolate.co.uk with a specific link page per product so they don't get hidden by the auto mod. I'm guessing tastechocolate.co.uk is owned by the bot farm\user? A lot of the links are also to zoopy.com via zoopy.link which are probably also owned by the bot farm\user to generate ad revenue and affiliate\referral money.

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    What are some useful protest safety tips and infographics?

    Throughout the years there's been many useful information shared on staying safe during protests as well as many infographics made. What are some safety tips you've learned and some infographics you've saved?

    here's an article i have saved about tear gas and a video of tips and tactics used by the hong kong protestors and an infographic

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240426052300/https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/tear-gas-guide/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0iytr0qM90

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    The need for a Fedi Union.

    tl;dr I propose a Fedi Union consisting of the developers of Phanpy, Pixelfed, Peertube, Lemmy, and PieFed. That will work as a way to fund all of the services collectively (with the option to still go to their individual patreons and fund them seperately) and as a way for them to communicate to help all the services be more compatible.

    The only way to stop Meta taking over the Fedi is by making better apps than them. Defederating from threads as the sole defense mechanism is a fools errand. They are migrating their Billion+ users from instagram to Threads, the couple million mastodon users defederating from them won't hurt them. Yes we might think who cares if they have billions of users on Threads we will stay on mastodon servers that defederate with them but realistically there will be times we need to check stuff posted there if the biggest content creators, journalists, gamedevs, artists, youtubers, are posting their work there which they will do because they want to reach large audiences and because Threads will provide a way to monetize their work.

    Threads is also being designed to take over Reddit\Lemmy next. Something no one has talked about is the fact that only one # is allowed in a post on Threads. This seems small but its actually huge because once launch their Reddit\Lemmy view every post on Threads with a # will be shown as a post on the subreddit/community with the name of that # and every like will be an upvote. Once this happens there will be times when specific niche communities and useful information will be stuck on their platforms. (like sometimes we still have to google for something with the word reddit to find useful information for something specific)

    The only actual way to compete with them is to, well, compete and do a better job. Compare the official Mastodon app with Threads or any other mastodon app. The official app STILL doesn't have grouped notifications, threaded replies, or quote posts. It is barely compatible with any other ActivityPub service (Mastodon basically EEE activitypub but thats a thread for another day). The Mastodon devs are very hostile to the broad activitypub community. They don't work with devs of other services, they don't accept PRs, and they're deadset on sticking to Ruby and being nothing more than a Twitter clone. Mastodon is by far the biggest activitypub app which makes them essentially lead the rest of the space.

    We need a Fedi Union where the developers of the different services work together so the services are fully compatible and so the community can fund the Fedi Union so devs outside the official team have the money to focus on development. The Mastodon team is getting around $30,000 a month and they haven't added a new feature in months (years?) meanwhile:

    The sole developer of Phanpy (a mastodon app) has launched everything mastodon has and more (instant translation on home feed, boost carousel, threaded replies, Catch Up ui, new media focused view)

    The sole developer of Pixelfed (an instagram competitor) has also developed Loops (a tiktok competitor), Sup (a WIP whatsapp competitor), and PubKit a toolkit for activitypub developers.

    the two (main) develops of Lemmy have made the second largest ActivityPub service that is already a fleshed out competitor to reddit and has a huge community of developers making frontends and apps and now a WIP wiki as well.

    I propose a Fedi Union consisting of the developers of Phanpy, Pixelfed, Peertube, Lemmy, and PieFed. That will work as a way to fund all of the services collectively (with the option to still go to their individual patreons and fund them seperately) and as a way for them to communicate to help all the services be more compatible.

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    The Ultimate CyberDeck for Encrypted Messaging over a Meshnet

    cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8609299

    > The Ultimate CyberDeck for Encrypted Messaging over a Meshnet > > The lilygo t deck is an all in one device that includes a LoRa antenna with a screen and keyboard for messaging people over long distances without any internet using the open source end to end encrypted software Meshtastic. > > The video is way longer than it needs to be but you can see the device in action. There’s a growing community of people making meshnets using Meshtastic in different cities.

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    The Ultimate CyberDeck for Encrypted Messaging over a Meshnet

    The lilygo t deck is an all in one device that includes a LoRa antenna with a screen and keyboard for messaging people over long distances without any internet using the open source end to end encrypted software Meshtastic.

    The video is way longer than it needs to be but you can see the device in action. There’s a growing community of people making meshnets using Meshtastic in different cities.

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