Welcome to 2026. I forgot to renew the domain homebrewserver.club and by the time I realized it got sniped. Its a big bummer and I was expecting some online casino on it but its far worse.

The person that got it made an AI generated version of it, containing some of the old content but also adding new content about AI. The problematic thing is that it is relatively hard to tell apart from the old version as it is clearly trying to impersonate and smuggle in new content.

Do not trust whatever appears on that domain as it is not me or anyone from @varia

I will purge all references to that URL where possible but it will be misleading, annoying and possibly dangerous for a good while.

Don't forget to renew your domains.

#domainsquatting #ai

I wrote a fediverse onboarding tool, and I'm about to ship a much improved redesign and sorting logic!

Take a peek at the existing design: https://fedidb.com/welcome

The new design is much better, stay tuned 😎

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.

@andypiper @hq @brewsterkahle @tommi An other appointment here.

@cyberlyra Why not both? LLMs that run on my MBP are exactly the glue that I've been missing for automations all these years

@posiputt I already have a statistics-related one, so no

@owl snow: it's rain you can punch

I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.

That makes for a pretty bad experience.

> Finally the tube’s scan picked up a blockage ahead and threw an alarm code. I had five episodes of different drama series, two comedies, a book about the history of the exploration of alien remnants in the Corporation Rim, and a multi-part art competition from Belal Tertiary Eleven queued and paused, but I was actually watching episode 206 of Sanctuary Moon, which I’d already seen twenty-seven times. Yes, I was a little nervous.
—Martha Wells, "Artificial Condition"
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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).

Reddit got bad long before they restricted API access. That's what was the final drop for many people, but it wasn't the beginning at all.

I agree that growing would be a benefit for Lemmy though. While I wouldn't dismiss the dangers of a growing community entirely, we can just defederate from or block problematic parts in theory. So I wouldn't say we're in quite the same danger as centralized platforms.

We know… we were there.

@peertube Horizontal scalability, oh yeah, nice woorkkkkk! 😍

Nous venons de publier la version candidate de #PeerTube v9.0 ! 🚀

Il s'agit d'une version importante qui intègre de nombreux changements architecturaux visant à permettre au logiciel PeerTube de prendre en charge la scalabilité horizontale.

Si vous le pouvez, n'hésitez pas à la tester et à nous signaler tout bug ou problème que vous rencontreriez !

👉 https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v9.0.0-rc.1

cool we got a reverse url -> torrent index going. now we need a little crawler to extract url lists from wacz archives by just skimming the zip index and grabbing just enough pieces pull them out, then populating the index becomes automatic.

so coming soon to a #sciop near you, a p2p wayback machine, where a URL can get resolved into a bittorrent-backed web archive. then we federate the sciops. and we have the federated/p2p archive dot org we deserve.

@BAEverything I don’t know if that’s the suburb of London or posting on the Fedi, but both terrify me.

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