I’m new here, fleeing reddit and it’s war on anonymity. Happy to be here!

I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.

I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the ‘Privacy’ community as my example: when I hit ‘subscribe’ and enter ‘Lemmy.world’ as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with ‘Server error’.

I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.

Any hints?

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

@tbr @oleksandr @vbabka @NetworkManager
Won't work with Copilot (any flavor), Microsoft doesn't use IPv6.

#DuckDuckFedi — I'm looking for excellent examples of BA-level course materials for *Critical AI Literacy*. Ideally available online.

Papers are easy to find, syllabi and course materials less so

Some examples:
* Work coming out of the CAIL project by @Iris @olivia and others: https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/cail
* Modern Oracles or Bullshit Machines by @ct_bergstrom https://thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

What else is out there? I look forward to seeing what the fedi hivemind surfaces!

#CriticalAI

Size and commercialisation generally go hand in hand. After all, how do you keep something running with infinite users submitting infinite content for free?

This is a big issue for everyone, it’s important that the fediverse understands that size might some day increase the importance of sensible business models or proactive funding initiatives to counter the growth. This doesn’t mean harmful profit models necessarily, but it does mean keeping revenues under control for individually run nodes or for archiving services for old fediverse domains that might not exist forever.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

@dec_hl
Das find ich toll! Muss ich mir merken hehe

@kyonshi wow! Like trophies!! 🏆

@molly0xfff but was it live-streamed?

Two New 3D Printer Nozzle Patents Challenge CHT Designs https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/suzao-patent-uses-a-hollowing-filament-path-to-melt-material-faster?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing

@hacks4pancakes "I was a mediocre merchant in feudal Mythdonia, but then I got run over by a horse and reincarnated in your Reiwa era and I have the dumbest power which is somehow unraveling your whole economic system"

@smallcircles I hear ya. Sometimes the way I do the inline linking is more on using the linked keyword(s) as a way of hinting at the subject of the embedded article more generally. In this case, I think clicking on that particular link, in the context of the question that was posed in the issue would lead you to the answer you gave.

In any case, I agree that a social network for the people, by the people, with its central aim being to facilitate relationships, not shareholder value is paramount

@SomeGadgetGuy Thanks for talking about this! I can't find information on this anywhere else.

@glynmoody

Yes, clearly clueless too. I wonder whether his assumption that he knows more than anyone else on the planet is shared with many of his big tech peers.

Not going to link it, but there is a Politico hit piece up about Van Hollen that throws every bit of shade they can muster, and it falls flat. They even feature Fetterman aggressively daring Van Hollen.

This is what we are up against. The billionaires are terrified of Van Hollen, and their media will do everything possible to stop him. Fortunately, #WeThePeople are onto this infowarefare BS, and we are not listening to their nonsense anymore.

@sendpaws @phnt @tadano You can now partially hide users and posts from unauthenticated users with profile_access_limited configuration option. It works for Mastodon API but doesn't limit access to ActivityPub objects or Atom feeds.

I said similar, and IME those other gifting/trading events can be much the same in their feel-good effects. 😁

@dgar did you know you can just BUY lab coats?