Posts by kikobar@acc4e.com
(DIR) Post #ATNKBrnooaKuWPxpdA by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-07T14:38:12Z
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@blacklight agree 150%I think we all have been caught up more than once with a dependency on an abandoned project. It sucks... but in its own twisted way, it is fair.In practice, our only defense is to steer away from small projects unless we are prepared to become their maintainer for the envisioned life of our own project or needs. 🤷♂️ @opencollective
(DIR) Post #ATOefKrY2cy7I0zuQy by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-08T06:01:22Z
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@seldo @mekkaokereke not only feels healthier, it IS healthier indeed... this is how humans, and other animals, interact... we poke at each other, we get some clues, then we did a bit deeper for further reasons to believe (or not)... sometimes we go further and sometimes we bailed...Just pure human normalcy.The minute we get algorithms messing with that process we run the risk of something going out of wack with our minds...
(DIR) Post #ATbjG7GSUI24hYvEO0 by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-14T13:25:02Z
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@blacklight No, I haven't yet.This is insane, these are repositories, not social media!Shall we vacate #Gitlab?
(DIR) Post #ATnvvrghE0XK1HQZFo by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-20T10:43:36Z
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@blacklight wishing you super good luck!I am pretty sure that as long as you are there, there will be some pretty good sharing back from Booking. 😉
(DIR) Post #ATsB7xpeTvCyUogRQu by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-22T11:52:41Z
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@blacklight @stephan @yeri long ago we commented that spam was going to be the weakest link of the Fedi.We might be getting there. No amount of human effort is sufficient to stop a few thousand bots... we will need to up our game. 🙄
(DIR) Post #ATsF7JIFbSsCaH0JXc by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-22T12:37:23Z
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@blacklight to your original question, I haven't noticed anything in my tiny instance. No spam. Business as usual (so far).
(DIR) Post #ATsGUNm3D6Qf5xVaCm by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-22T12:52:48Z
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@blacklight I disabled it long ago for the same reason.I thought I'd change it if I encountered problems, but I didn't (so far).I am also in quite a few relays, so I don't think that is the problem either.I believe you need to have subscribed to one of the hashtags to actually get the message in your feed, right?I don't follow tarot and things like that, but if they start polluting some of the things I follow, I'd be seeing the same I guess.
(DIR) Post #ATtFzVQMuY9B0FbTto by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-23T00:21:49Z
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@stanford @rbos @allinone0 I am deleting cached media and cards after 1 day and pruning the profiles after 7 days.
(DIR) Post #AU4RD1EI4X82l4c0ki by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-28T09:49:24Z
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@blacklight actually, not sure all the bots pay... and they get a lot of visibility... 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxKgFxdRHM
(DIR) Post #AUAmSwWq85P81hvsBs by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-03-31T11:15:52Z
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@blacklight @zate I believe in the looooooooong run these approaches are going to triumph, because it makes a lot more sense to pay a few cents to a smaller number of people who actually want to read your adds, than paying $B to corporations for pushing them to mostly people who don't really care about your products or services, lesser care about your adds.Additionally, the fines these corporations are going to pay in the next few years and/or the costs to avoid them, will also help making their business models lesser fantastic.Moreover, it makes absolutely no sense at all to virtually have the entire internet financed almost exclusively with adds/propaganda money.So a combinations of coops and transparent consent-based services are likely to continue to popup, so at the end the common sense shall prevail, but might take very loooooooong time to settle.
(DIR) Post #AUKwlfaxjhw9iDv9fc by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-04-05T08:58:25Z
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@blacklight fully agree.In fact we've had automated code generation for quite some time already, it seems like these tools are just a conversational front end for them.To the risk you describe, I'd add the risk of crappy code being generated and eventually applied repeatedly elsewhere, polluting many code bases and projects.
(DIR) Post #AUUdfAtGP82yhyI8no by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-04-10T01:11:23Z
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@rolle interesting question.If you extract some stats from your site and then compare them with some of the stats in https://fediverse.observer you may come close to the answer. 🤔
(DIR) Post #AVNrzw81hVkb0cH2vI by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-05-06T16:41:07Z
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@boilingsteam @yeri Nice!Looking forward to #AdobeMigration soon.
(DIR) Post #AVTSCubXjLuokmehSC by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-05-09T07:41:32Z
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@louis it is ok to disagree. That is the beauty of the #Fediverse and #OpenSource. Our opinions are just that, opinions in a myriad of other opinions.I agree with you though, that small and single user instances of any app connected to the Fedi are not isolated, totally the opposite, they are fully connected and fully empowered to drive and thrive as any other.If an open source project fails to listen to its community, it quickly forks, so I wouldn't be too worried. 🤷Full disclosure: I run a #Mastodon instance for my family and friends, and so far I am happy and not planning to go anywhere, but as soon as this turns sour I will jump to the next nice Fediverse project, for which there are many cool options. 😎
(DIR) Post #AXaUMQM8K3NvwkSpua by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-07-11T14:31:48Z
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@lowqualityfacts my personal conclusion after about 8 months of not only being on Mastodon, but actually running a small instance is that the path to scale is probably the horizontal proliferation of many instances.This applies not only to Mastodon but all the Fediverse applications as well.Huge instances become painful to moderate and administer, so they require financial resources from the users or somewhere else. Several examples seem to survive, so seems to be possible.Small instances are more homogeneous and easier to manage (say for your office or school) as they have somewhere to draw the resources from and they have solid and visible ties with the users, thus moderation is easier to enforce inside and outside the platform (ie. misconduct can warrant being spelled from school or fired from work).Tiny instances (like mine) are relatively inexpensive to run, with zero moderation efforts as you probably know very well the handful of users in the instance.#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Fediverse #FediTips
(DIR) Post #AXjUerEyvo1IuU0SqO by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-07-14T03:00:04Z
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@mekkaokereke the real issue is that the #Fediverse 'manual moderation' will prove impossible at scales of hundreds of millions or billions of people.This has already been proven by all the central commercial for-profit social media platforms.Yes, they profit from the bots and extremists traffic, and many of us are skeptical about whether they really want to stop it, but I honestly I believe they really can't, and they have thrown a lot of effort to algorithmic and manual moderation... it just cannot be done very effectively. And, BTW, I think #Meta is actually the best at doing it.Moreover, one person's extremism is another person's normalcy...The large Fediverse sites will need to implement some programmatic/algorithmic/hybrid moderation that could talk to the #Meta counterpart or the whole federation idea with them will fail within minutes.The only viable use case I see (at the moment) are small instances where all the users are prepared to deal with 'as-is' Meta content... they may remain federated with them for the benefit of their users to engage with the Meta crowd... and that could be perfectly fine too.It is difficult to predict this collision 'out of the blue', but I think it should be possible to be modeled and researched... and I am sure there must be some folks doing it as we speak. 🤔 @b0rk #Moderation #MastoAdmin
(DIR) Post #AZNTUYjIZgpZDXcH0y by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-09-03T03:26:37Z
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Religions were a good thing... perhaps 2000 years ago.And over the last 2000 years we have created a whole bunch of new religions: Capitalism, Communism, Anarchism, Libertarianism...We don't learn them... we are indoctrinated into them, usually from early age.Anything based on dogma and faith eventually becomes a barrier to universal collaboration and critical thinking.Be critical, test everything rigorously and systematically.Let's make an effort to acknowledge our own dogmas and beliefs for what they are... and then ignore them... We will be rewarded with the powerful ability to build constructive bridges and connections with everyone and everything around us.#Religion #Humanity #Faith #Sustainability #Science
(DIR) Post #Aaxxbq652dbXhNyMRk by kikobar@acc4e.com
2023-10-20T15:54:06Z
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@tante this is joke, right?
(DIR) Post #AhrmCF1QmGK9Nfh9sm by kikobar@acc4e.com
2024-04-22T11:54:07Z
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Daniel C. Dennett has passed.He left us a long legacy of thoughts and books, which are all worth reading with attention.We may agree or disagree with some of his thoughts, but we must acknowledge his brilliance, clarity and amazing style in his writings and debates.Many of his thoughts are inconclusive, leaving a sort of "homework" for the philosophers who follow.RIP.#Dennett #DanielDennett #Philosophy #Books https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html
(DIR) Post #AqyOYgkuAK8NGoBDcG by kikobar@acc4e.com
2025-02-10T10:28:11Z
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@grunfink just read your README and fell in love already. 😊