Oh nice

#monsterdon #monsterdondoublefeature

We banned a spammer from this instance recently, and I went to see what instance it was coming from (in case there was more)

coves.social/community-guidelines

Coves is built on the AT Protocol, which means it’s part of a larger decentralized network. Your account and identity exist on your Personal Data Server (PDS), not on our servers. These guidelines and our moderation only apply to the official Coves AppView at coves.social. Other instances of Coves or other AT Protocol services have their own policies and moderation. If you’re banned or have content removed from our AppView, your AT Protocol identity and data on your PDS are unaffected — you can still use other services on the network.

They do credit Photon and they have released the source code for their modified frontend: coves.social/legal

I also found this on their GitHub: github.com/BrettM86/tidepool

Tidepool is a read-only ActivityPub → atproto bridge for the threadiverse. It follows Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin communities (FEP-1b12 group federation), materializes their posts, comments, and profiles as social.coves.* records in a virtual PDS it operates itself, and serves them over com.atproto.sync.* so the Coves AppView indexes fediverse communities exactly as it indexes native ones. Votes stay bridge-side as aggregates behind one sanctioned XRPC.

I think it’s neat that someone is working on this, but I’m a bit concerned that it’s read only from the threadiverse:

• They would suffer from a problem similar to what we have, when someone sets up a Reddit repost bot. Users interacting with some content while not knowing that their replies aren’t reaching the original poster
• they get content without giving content back

@Migueldeicaza One thing that I've learned over the course of my life is that helping people succeed should be everyone's default mode.

AI has unlocked a huge segment of people that want to contribute to the open source community. Maybe they're not professional software developers, but maybe they are experts in biology, math, finance, or medicine. This should be seen as an opportunity, not a threat.

@cheeaun Liquid Material!

Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.

they always end the comment with some sort of wry contrast. I do not consider this kind of preaching to the choir constructive at all: it oversimplifies any nuance in articles posted into building the echo chamber.

@passthejoe Mileages may vary; I installed NetBSD 11 on a VM last week to see if it's workable, and it decidedly did not allow root login without having set a password. No doubt I did something wrong... but that does underline NetBSD's user experience is not quite consistent yet.

I’m kind of obsessed with the heights of celebrities, so I'm constantly looking up their heights online, but I think my search engines are skewed because they always give me heights in cm/m so I have to specify "height in feet" which has resulted in my search engines thinking I’m obsessed with feet and holy shit some of these celebrities have some very strange yet sexy toes.

it’s kinda funny how they’re freaking out over Lemmy and Piefed’s “incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant” UX compared to… Reddit?

If they really love the ads, bots, and default feed of Reddit then I’m happy they’re staying there. I just hope for their sake they don’t get site-banned by an overzealous AI moderator.

Are they using a 3rd party app like Voyager? It makes a big difference.

I genuinely don’t care what their feedback is. lol

@amsomniac PC LOAD LETTER -> YOU HAVE DIED

#silentSunday #fall

@jalefkowit this and Brazil and Vancouver BC are some much needed good news and inspiration!

@Kalshann

no you show up in the fucking primary and replace them

you don't waste your precious energy and time obsessing over how much they suck

centrist democrats fucking suck. i agree with you 1,000%

and?

am i supposed to wallow in fear and loathing now?

what is the fucking point? self-torture?

did you vote in the primary? if so, great! know anyone who didn't? kick them in the ass until they do

and replace the centrist shit!

this is the way