what features do you miss?

that’s literally the whole point of this?

the point of this is a new youtube is unlikely to take off because people can’t start using it without missing all their regular content.

this means you can keep all your regular content and add new sources, with the same creators, which means they can start to move to new platforms and take their followers. that’s how we’ll replace youtube.

it’s so good, wish I’d found it sooner

use it for home assistant. I’m astonished because my test install from years ago on a pi that’s around 7 years old is going with no intervention aside from updates. it’s crazy robust.

for a while my laptop was slow and I needed a test local environment rebuilding with webpack so I set up a newer pi that ran the Dev servers so my laptop didn’t choke. I’ve got a better laptop now.

they did good

edit: tbh honest i think it was around 5 years ago i started being able to identify things with google lens on my phone. they worked fast!

I’m not very outraged. It’s a chatbot, not an employee who should “know better”

also Hitler was an effective leader, which we should all remember as a cautionary tale about how effective horrible people can be

pretending he was bad at everything because we hate him is a great way to not learn from history

embedded tweets just look like they have a close button now

I’m enjoying the irony of the automatic ai summary to read this for us.

I don’t want a factory job though. I want a world that’s organised well enough that people don’t starve when you don’t have menial labour for them to waste their lives on to justify being fed.

feeding and housing is just logistics and we’re good at that. let the robots do physical work and continue feeding people as before.

Bruce Y Lee is only producing one a day but if you include Bruce A through X Lee, you get a lot more articles…

he could easily just be a bit burnt out and be using chat gpt to give him the bones of an article and a bunch of “amusing” phrases and stringing it together himself.

it’d probably what I’d do if i was a journo right now.

I’m a developer and I always leave telemetry on … when it’s my code I find it useful when there’s a problem so it gets fixed faster. As long as it’s not being used to target ads at me I’m happy to help, esp when it’s free software?

if we use embedding and the language documentation, I wonder how much it can work out going forward?

“this is too hard, I’ll just call the company ‘apple’ instead” - Elon, probably

oh this is super cool! and will change a lot of things, VR for instance.

this makes a lot more sense. I’ll read the link, thank you

edit: yeah, that’s a bigger risk. I’m a bit more torn… I’m frustrated, the promise of an open protocol is having access to the content without signing up to mainstream services. I would really love that and it’s what the protocol was designed for. cutting ourselves off feels like it’s just going to doom the whole idea to being underused and fringe.

do you think xmpp would have done far better without google?

but… the whole point of the protocol is to allow interoperability? someone went out and worked so hard on an open protocol and your response is that you’d rather just have a different account on every service? way to trash their work.

I believe they aren’t releasing in EU because EU has stronger privacy legislation and their application spys on you.

and yes, there is a huge difference between what they get through the protocol (literally only what you choose to make public) and the data they seek to harvest from having you log into their servers and install their app - actually that’s another big one. browser tracking.

I don’t want to log into their sites because of browser fingerprinting. they want to track everything we do online.

remember when the person who started WhatsApp said that even with e2e encryption on the messages, no one should ever use WhatsApp since meta bought it?

but if you log into a Lemmy server they don’t get browser fingerprinting through activity pub. they can’t see personal messages or track social networks outside of the users directly on their service.

and the opportunity is, people will be exposed to the possibility of using open source and private instances. we just have to make it good and they’ll switch. more and more people are hearing about it with all the other social media fuckups.

I honestly agree, I feel so annoyed that on a platform designed from the ground up to enable communication whatever platform we’re on, people are taking the first opportunity to cripple its growth because they hate a company.

You can get whatever data is available from federation with a server just by joining a server - the data they want is from installing their app on your phone.

if you stay federated with them you can get all their content for free without installing their spyware.

complete win.