If you wrote this yourself, that’s even more ironic, because you used the same format that ChatGPT likes to spit out. Humans influence ChatGPT -> ChatGPT influences humans. Everything’s come full circle.
I ask though because on your profile you’ve used ChatGPT to write comments before.
Did you use AI to write this? Kinda ironic, don’t you think?
As far as I’m aware, there’s nothing preventing a PluralKit equivalent from being made for other platforms. In fact, a quick search turned up a WIP Matrix port on github.
So no, I don’t think this is true. Lack of PluralKit isn’t what’s preventing people from switching en masse. It’s the opposite—lack of people switching means there’s a lack of demand for a PluralKit port in the first place, so even though there is a port people don’t know it exists and thus it doesn’t get as much dev attention.
It comes down to network effects, ultimately, and just plain inertia. If you’re already on Discord, and all your friends are on Discord, it’s hard to convince you to switch. And being more familiar with the Discord bot ecosystem (like PluralKit) is just one more thing that adds to the inertia.
Like other people have said, this is very similar to how the Internet already works. All you need to do to connect to the Internet is connect to a single router that’s a part of it, at least in theory. The Internet is already decentralized on the backend, it’s just that only big players get to be a part of it for the most part.
A fundamental problem with your decentralization idea is that on a mesh network, you become reliant on your upstream(s) for your connection. You think Comcast is annoying, or your connection is slow? Imagine trying to troubleshoot your Internet connection and having to go deal with your neighbor instead, but he’s at work so you have to wait for him, but oh he’s too tired so he’ll help you tomorrow…
Not to mention that this severely limits speeds. No longer can your connection go from your house, to the street, to the backbone, and then straight to Google’s servers, now it has to go bounce around between a number of potentially unreliable consumer connections, run by non-professionals.
In a system like this, inevitably local organizations or companies will pop up to take the burden off individuals, which would provide massive QoL improvements, and we’d end up with ISPs again.
That said, there’s a lot of people doing hobby network stuff out there. I know some hackerspaces have their own local hobbynets, that then connect to each other over the open Internet using VPN tunnels. This solves some of the reliability problem, plus it’s just a hobby thing so it isn’t a problem that it’s slow and kinda bad. Then there are even individuals who get their own routers (or VPSes) and plop them in datacenters to participate in the internet alongside big companies and ISPs. Neither of these require new protocols, everything can be done with TCP/IP and BGP. (Plus a splash of VPN protocols here and there.)
Do you have any source for your claim that comments on the Internet are public domain? It’s a common sentiment that anything posted on the Internet is public, but I don’t believe it has any legal basis. Often websites have a ToS saying that anything you submit belongs to them in perpetuity, but programming.dev doesn’t have that.
Interestingly the source you linked says that they do have an in-house web index, they just use it alongside other sources rather than using it as their only source
“as opposed to” is an idiom that just means “in contrast”. You’re creating a contrast between what they’re actually doing as opposed to what they’re supposed to be doing. “As supposed to” doesn’t work as a preposition and doesn’t actually create a contrast on its own.
Apple products are an ecosystem. It’s not just the physical devices they’re selling. It makes sense from a business perspective to keep iMessage on iOS only, because it keeps people in the ecosystem.
What incentive would a bank have to release their apps as FOSS?
You probably could create an open source banking app and use it to run a bank on a primarily open source software stack. But banks are not software companies, and they have no reason to engage with the FOSS world. We could think up lots of potential reasons for why a bank might not want to release their apps as FOSS, but the simplest answer is “why would they?”
I’d love to live in a world where free software is the norm, but we’re not in that world. So if the bank has no incentive to do it other than the comparatively niche interests of the FOSS community, they just won’t do it.
Poor people should try wanting things more
I’m so used to seeing damned bots spamming that everywhere, my half asleep ass immediately reached for the report button lol. It’s just instinct now. Pavlov’s Discord Nitro.
If it ends porn blackmail, it also ends photographic evidence. I think that’s significantly worse.
And sure the tech is bad if you just type a name directly into a model, but if you take the time to refine it it gets pretty good, and it’s only going to get better over time. It’s time to start thinking about a future where this tech exists.
I worry that the cat is out of the bag on this. The tech for this stuff is out there, and you can run it on your home computer, so barring some sort of massive governmental overreach I don’t see a way to stop it.
They can’t even stop piracy and there’s the full weight of the US copyright industry behind it. How are they going to stop this tech?
A hypervisor is a great option because it lets you test a bunch of different software solutions to see what works for you, and it’s a great way to learn. Proxmox VE is just a great software too.
Unfortunately LLaMA 2 is not FOSS. Meta claims it’s open source, but it’s while the source is available it’s definitely not free as in freedom. There are strings attached.
It kind of doesn’t matter, but the moderation policies, local timeline, server uptime/admin skill, blocked instances, and the theoretical longevity of instances can vary widely between instances.
The plethora of “Baby’s First Selfhost” servers don’t make for good Lemmy instances for example, because they are likely to be mismanaged and there’s a good chance they will disappear unexpectedly once the hype dies down in a couple months.
Or another example, you have servers that are essentially unmoderated and full of hate speech and illegal content, or heavily moderated servers that ban dissent and defed liberally, and everything in-between.
I think that telling a story like that requires a high level of intimacy, trust, self confidence/acceptance, consent and willingness from all participants.
I feel like a game like this could soooo quickly veer into rpghorrorstories territory.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about duet TTRPGs. That format seems perfect for a sex/romance-themed game. Any larger than that and I feel like things get a little too chaotic to focus on individual relationships.
The developers will freely admit that they are Marxist-Leninists who support China. I don’t get why people frame it as a rumor.
That said, that has nothing to do with this. It’s just implementation details, and are on the docket to be worked on once the mission-critical stuff is out of the way.
The brigading wasn’t from the same person who made the pull request, and happened three years later. The thread isn’t even that toxic as far as GitHub threads can get.
It’s not a great example of what you’re talking about.