There used to be a fairly active linguistics community here, but the science-themed instance it was hosted on went dark over a month ago. Hopefully it comes back.

I can’t imagine there’s not a chess sub here, surely it’s big enough?

Music wise there are some communities, maybe !obscuremusic@piefed.social fits the bill for now?

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

@efi this is the library outside

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117592756378940168

Interesting conversation between these two. They even discuss the Citizens United Supreme Court Judgement. #midterms

@Alison a long way to the top indeed

@lukas maybe another hot take: the disillusionment kicks in when we see the tiny code changes that slipped into our products that don’t serve us but serve the owners of the models we use.

Well yep :)

Remember to thank all the community moderators and admins that tirelessly take the spammy, horrible and bot posts out to the trash for us, so we can have this nice space without being overrun by the trash!

@glynmoody #revolvingdoor #palantir

@hyc @arabine We tried that https://firstdonoharm.dev

@ben could put simplex in a library outside??

an essential part of maintaining a technology is maintaining the culture and society that can repair and produce it

podcasts are good because they are audio
podcasts are good because they are audio
podcasts are good because they are audio
I don't ever want to watch a podcast for the same reason I don't want to inhale a melon. That's not what that's for.

And Pixelfed, Peertube, Bookwyrm, PyLova, WAFRN, Mbin, Loops, Vernissage, … We are legion!

@lain and the yt channel probably leaves out the dumbest scps. white people are a scp too mow

@mike Same but I reserve the right to turn off if it sounds like way too much bs.

I think Pylova (a soft-fork of Piefed) is at the forefront of moderation tools in the threadiverse.

I think their recent addition of shareable user-subscribable block-lists is a good direction to go. I think this can be expanded to instance-level subscribable block-lists. There could be a variety of lists (CSAM, scrappers, scammers, agentics, etc.) and each instance chooses what list(s) to subscribe to or build their own for others to subscribe and contribute to. The lists would be easily fork-able so that any instance can take control of their own moderation, if they disagreed with an addition/subtraction to a list.

For some lists (like scrappers), I think automatic addition could be set up to quickly “inoculate” the rest of the threadiverse against them. Perhaps one approach could be any IP that clicks on a non-user clickable link or gets stuck(?) in Anubis could be added.

I think subscribable block-lists for instance admins could be a great way to protect the threadiverse (perhaps expanded to the fediverse as a whole or just any website in general) against any problematic actors quickly and at the first encounter (alternatively: after (x) # or % of instance admins add them to a list).

Apparently some of these lists may already exist in some form (@Christopher@lemmy.grey.fail: “I was able to implement community maintained blocklists."). So, my thought would be to make sure these lists are a standard format (if they aren’t already) that instances can auto retrieve and contribute to.

Anyone: let me know if you have any thoughts or see any issues with the idea (constructive criticism only, please).

@68000 @NinjaDebugger 👀