A piefed.nullspace.lol admin and PieFed support worker has come along to call people “crybullies” and “deeply unserious”. Your DARVO isn’t going to work.

Also no, I don’t literally think you get paid in a currency I made up on the spot, but I do think you play defence for your side and are biased as fuck to the point you spread literal misinformation about a feature rich fork.

And you’re right things such as trying to enforce vote limits on users without consulting people, trying to hide meme communities (196) via hard code is surely a libertarian move and not the one sided actions of a wannabe dictator.

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

Be careful—you’re getting a few things mixed up.

Lemmy is software built around the concept of “communities.” A Lemmy user isn’t focused on what individual users write; rather, they are interested in what is being posted within the specific communities that interest them!

Therefore, it makes perfect sense that you wouldn’t see content from Mastodon users if they haven’t consented to being visible to you.

In fact, if a Mastodon user chooses (via opt-out) to post within a Lemmy community, you will see that content—provided that you are also subscribed to that community.

Conversely, a Mastodon user will generally see your content in the following three scenarios:

1. If they follow you, or if they follow someone who follows you.
2. If they follow someone who “reposts” (or “retweets”) your content.
3. If someone on your instance follows you, or follows someone who “reposts” your content.

Note that when I say “someone who reposts your content,” that “someone” could be another Mastodon user, but it could also be the Lemmy community where you are posting. In effect, these communities function as special ActivityPub users; Mastodon perceives them as such—for instance, the community https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse appears to Mastodon as the user @fediverse@lemmy.world.

Bridging the “social-verse” (social networks) and the “forum-verse” (discussion forums) has always been an important goal for me. I’ve made an effort to inform Mastodon users about this through posts like this one: informapirata.it/…/mastodon-tips-how-to-use-frien…

…but it’s clear that Mastodon users—and, more importantly, Mastodon administrators—aren’t particularly interested in connecting their users with communities on platforms like Lemmy, PieFed, MBin, or NodeBB. Fortunately, there are some positive developments on the social side:

• There is an app for Mastodon called “Raccoon for Friendica” that makes managing groups easier for Mastodon users. (It’s called “Raccoon for Friendica” because it originated for Friendica, but more importantly, its developer previously worked on an app for Lemmy.)
• A fork of Misskey called “Catodon” offers excellent support for ActivityPub groups, potentially ushering in a new era that bridges the “socialverse” and the “forumverse.”

There are also interesting updates on the forum side: NodeBB now allows administrators to forcibly “move” initial posts into a specific category (in NodeBB, “communities” are referred to as “categories,” but they still function as ActivityPub groups). While this move isn’t visible to other instances within the “forumverse” (such as Lemmy or other NodeBB instances), it is visible to “social” users—because the “category” effectively “boosts” the moved post, allowing social users who follow that community to see it.

I’m not familiar with Piefed, but it would be great if the Lemmy developers took two steps:

1. Introduce a feature similar to NodeBB’s, allowing posts to be moved within a community.
2. Find a way to make this move “visible” across the board—so that it’s not just users on the local instance or those on social platforms who see the change, but also users on other “forum” instances!

However, there could also be negative developments. The most likely risk, in my view, is that the “little dictator” (Mastodon) might decide to implement ActivityPub groups in its own idiosyncratic way—one that is, predictably, incompatible with the “forumverse.” Given how they implemented “quote-retweets,” I’d say that bad news is more likely than good news…

@Gabs 🤭🤗

RT: @owenjonesjourno Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.

The survivors have been living in tents for three years.

Those tents are now being flooded.

The West has condemned them to these apocalyptic conditions.

This abomination must end.

There are safeguards: This works only for one community per post, the second and later ones are ignored.

It only works in top posts, not in replies, replies also cannot post it to other lemmy communities.

So one mastodon post can only appear in 0 or 1 lemmy community, no more, they can’t spam from there.

Goddamnit @dgar!
What did I ever do to you?

@samuelpepys We've told you before, Sam. Fibre.

@kboyd So e.g. Sculpin would be AGPL as kinda a final product.

If you magically became the maintainer of Guzzle (which, well, operates over a networkk) and had full relicensing authority, what would you do with it?

Before I replaced an old machine that feels slow, I'd try newer, lighter software on it first, because what it runs can matter as much as the chip inside it.

Kasparov lost to a supercomputer. He might have lost to a beige box.

Check out my new TLS certificate: yes, Let's Encrypt signed this and yes, it works.

One Hacker News commenter argued that "a lot of that better programming can be attributed to better hardware, it wouldn't have been possible to implement NNUE or Fishtest without modern hardware." That's fair, because the ideas were tested on fast modern machines even if the finished engine fits on an old one. Another just wrote "I had a Pentium Pro 200 back in the day," and I felt that.

The same thinking applies to the computer in your closet.

Carlini says "the majority of the Elo gains (+720 of the +1335 gained) can be attributed to better programming, and not better hardware," and his conclusion is blunt: "we could easily have beaten Kasparov without building Deep Blue, using only commodity hardware." IBM remembers 1997 as the year Deep Blue "became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a match under standard tournament controls."

Not everybody buys the clean split between software and hardware.

Carlini estimates his port plays "at an estimated Elo of 3300 ± 87 at classical time controls," far past Kasparov's "Elo of just under 2800," and he writes that "Deep Blue was rated 2700." That would make the beige box next to him the strongest player of the three, by a mile.

The improvement lives in the code.

RT: @Persianserene1 This is heartbreaking...

Gaza is literally drowning and the mainstream media are ignoring this

Someone put a modern chess engine on a 1996 Pentium Pro, and he thinks it would have beaten Kasparov...

IBM says Deep Blue "was able to evaluate 200 million chess positions per second," and Nicholas Carlini argues a desktop PC from that same era could have beaten Garry Kasparov anyway. In a November 1 post, he describes the machine sitting next to him: a 200 MHz Intel Pentium Pro with 64MB of RAM, running a custom port of Stockfish.

The ratings he gives are lopsided.