Sooo, who wants to develop the open source hookup app based on the Fediverse?

It’s fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.

If we don’t get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we’ll just get used to talking to each other, we’ll get bored or burned out and leave.

You’d be surprised.

I have a RL friend who’s on Reddit all the time, and he didn’t even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I’ve been trying to sell it to him…

Re: The “We’re elite” becomes “We’re bored talking among the same old people” or “We’re burned out”, leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.

I’ve been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.

Or anything the devs can do to make it not look goofy.

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It’s part of the ol’ Big Tech playbook:

If a promising emerging competitor emerges:

1. Acquire the emerging competitor for cheap when it’s still small
2. Copy the competitor’s best features to make them irrelevant
3. Co-opt them with integration so the competitor’s users won’t see any advantage to staying with them
4. Pollute the competitor’s content to make your own offering look better
5. Steal the competitor’s best talent

Image rendering attacks and download tracking are well known, so it’s not paranoid at all.

I’m not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.

I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy’s collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.

A common IP address or address range ban file that’s frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.

If this is actually an org attack, I’m guessing that we’ll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.

It looks like some kind of fix was implemented after my post, so I can’t replicate the problem for you.

Whenever I edit one of my cross-instance posts, the language defaults to English, and I can save my edits with no issues.

Now whether the fix was on an instance basis, i.e. config changes, or in some Lemmy-system update, I can’t tell you.

edit: Maybe my issue was solved along with the fix for the default languages: https://lemmy.ml/post/13410320

I disagree that people suck.

I think that enshittification on any SM platform, whether free and open, or built for commerce, happens when companies try to exploit it for commercial gain.

Take Usenet for example: At the beginning it was great, then spammers found they could post unlimited spam across the newsgroups for free, and it became shit, barring a few groups where mods had to work very hard to weed out the spam to keep them readable, but eventually collapsed, and people moved on to the new platforms.

Reddit, was built for ads and tracking its users to start with, so the gradual creep of enshittification was no surprise there.

And now we have nation-state backed disinformation campaigns to deal with in addition to commercial spam.

I could see Lemmy and the Fediverse in general taking a similar path to Usenet, if the devs, admins, and mods aren’t vigilant about keeping bad actors out.

I like the Fediverse’s guarantor feature for adding new instances, but we’ll have to see how well it holds up under assault from spammers.

Someone just gave me a workaround for this:

Before saving the edits, select a language, other than “Undetermined”.

After doing that, my edits to the posts saved normally

And cryptocurrency mining. That drove a lot of GPU prices through the roof before the pandemic.

Also, most young kids play games on phones and tablets, because parents don’t need to buy an expensive console or PC.

Check this out this short by a game developer if you want to feel old…

https://youtube.com/shorts/h8ElOpITBjQ

If they haven’t been brushing their teeth and there’s visible calculus on them, you could use a metal pick and scrape it off like a dentist doing teeth cleaning, to show them how thick it is.

Forum.Rojadirecta.es has nodes dedicated to pretty much any major sporting events: Soccer, NFL, MLB, F1, NBA, Rugby Union, et al.

Mostly they’re direct downloads from sites with way too much advertising, too many popups and misleading links, so they’re best handled with JDownloader2

Actual torrent links are available sometimes.

The hand near the face is oversized.

I disagree somewhat.

A lot of high tech development comes with a greed motive, e.g. IPO, or getting bought out by a large company seeking to enter the space, e.g. Google buying Android, or Facebook buying Instagram and Oculus.

And conversely, a lot of open source software are copies of commercially successful products, albeit they only become widely adopted after the originals have entered the enshittified phase of their life.

Is there a Lemmy without Reddit? Is there a Mastodon without Twitter? Is there LibreOffice without Microsoft Office and decades of commercial word processors and spreadsheets before that? Or OpenOffice becoming enshittified for that matter? Is there qBittorrent without uTorrent enshittified? Is there postgreSQL without IBM’s DB2?

The exception that I can see is social media and networked services that require active network and server resources, like Facebook YouTube, or even Dropbox and Evernote.

Okay, The WELL is still around and is arguably the granddaddy of all online services, and has avoided enshittification, but it isn’t really open source.

Slogging through Norman Spinrad’s Bug Jack Barron

Usually I love Spinrad, but this is just so dated: The idea that a TV talk show host with a massive audience is holding the rich and powerful accountable, as opposed to pandering to them…

Calling a male a “nephew” in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.

Usually it doesn’t mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.

This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain “He’s my nephew”

契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as “nephew” but it means “adopted brother”

LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.