Posts by sam@fed.eitilt.life
(DIR) Post #ApMc8NatVc6jMu554S by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2024-12-24T03:24:11Z
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@grunfink@comam.es: I've not reached the #snac server age to determine this experimentally, but I imagine other peoples' posts which are shown on our public timelines due to us replying to them are subject to the default "maximum days to keep posts" cleanup, but ones we boost are only subject to the user-posts version of that number? With the way conversations are displayed I've found myself gravitating toward boosting other posts in the conversation to keep the context/threading intact into the future (which, now that I'm using software that makes me ask that question, I do consider a perfectly valid reason to boost for anyway).That is, however, distinct from boosting a post because I agree with it/want to share it on its own merits. A low-priority suggestion would be to reveal the like status of posts which are on the timeline anyway for other reasons, whether as an icon on the right akin to the pin/bookmark, or as text on the left as with the "boosted".
(DIR) Post #ApUl159wMVhZ71gYkq by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2024-12-28T05:37:58Z
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I was homeschooled for most of my pre-high-school years, but other than that this captures so much of young me. I'd bring home a stack of books two feet tall from the library every other week, and not infrequently would read them up in the branches of one of our trees. Math workbooks always got finished early because I liked math (still do), but I have a sneaking suspicion that some of the old novels my mother would suggest were to bolster my otherwise... minimal approach to history.Meanwhile I developed absolutely no fear of correcting people twice my height and nearly three times my age because I knew our farm and how to care for the animals, and why wouldn't they love them just as much if only they learned how to work with the goat, say, rather than fighting to get it to obey.
(DIR) Post #ApVYawLnUAtPyHxXjU by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2024-12-10T21:59:13Z
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@grunfink@comam.es: A couple comments on interacting with #Lemmy via #snac. First, posting and responding to what I do see are seamless. I don't get notifications for anything that's not a direct response to me, but that seems to be down to Lemmy only sending to the community and to the immediate parent in the thread, and between missing out on downthread comments or making the nice, lightweight software go out and query for replies it doesn't know exist, I definitely prefer the current behaviour. However, it would be nice if there were an option alongside "Boost by URL" to send a Like to a comment whose URL I have but which isn't known to my server.
(DIR) Post #ApVwKjSI3mpmFBniAS by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2024-12-17T16:53:34Z
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This so much! There are certainly things I need to get notified about. Do I have to be notified about it right then? (In the case of "drink some water so you don't dehydrate yourself", unfortunately, yes, I do. In the case of "this person liked your post", what am I going to do about that in the next fifteen seconds that I couldn't do in several hours?) Even if I do need the immediacy, will I ever have any reason to go back to it after seeing and dismissing it?I guess that's what happens when one of our primary computer providers is an ad business. Who's up for overthrowing Google? 🙃RE: @RL_Dane@fosstodon.orgCC: @sean@social.massalabs.com @praxeology@post.lurk.org
(DIR) Post #Apevzq8uFP6yY7xmrI by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2025-01-01T18:35:40Z
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This, though, I'm fully behind. I can never understand the "ooh, socialism will pry your hard-earned fruits of your labour from your needy hands" fearmongering. There is far more than enough of nearly everything to go around, and for the vast majority of people it would indeed look something like this. The problem we're trying to address is concentration where the worst actors manage to hoard so ridiculously much that they turn "far more than enough" into "widespread shortages".RE: @octade@soc.octade.netCC: @gentoobro@shitpost.cloud
(DIR) Post #ApeyvMkFu9uw4vzWWO by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2025-01-01T18:20:04Z
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Largely agree in the broad strokes, but there's already more than enough people in the armed forces that we don't need to expand, particularly if we bring them home as primarily defensive. Like you say, the worst budget drain is just providing over-engineered and under-performing toys, anyway, so cut all of that and we're so much better off.If you really want a draft, bring back something like the Corps of Engineers working on civil projects, we've got plenty of infrastructure (by which I mean trains, not roads, though I guess we can spare a little for that if we must) that needs doing, forest management, housing, etc.Though on that as well, I can get off my socialist box long enough to recognize that there might be legitimate reasons someone needs two houses. There's practically no reason they need three or more, nor hundreds of acres of private parkland. Put low limits on real estate and landlording, cap the number of short-term rentals per population, and you've got a really good start on homelessness even before the Corps builds a single house.RE: @octade@soc.octade.netCC: @gentoobro@shitpost.cloud
(DIR) Post #B2XAmSKgKZRvsVpneq by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2026-01-21T05:16:41Z
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This sounds a fair bit like Solid. It's never really taken off, and Solid alone wouldn't be able to prevent "unauthorized" data retention (i.e. theft) by just copying what's given to somewhere out-of-band, but if it or another standard like it were ever adopted by some group/government with the authority to actually enforce that the corporations played fair, I feel like it would solve a lot of the permissions and data-ownership issues people have. It's definitely got all the right knobs around fine-grained sharing and revocation.re: @kevinashworth@mastodon.socialcc: @eff@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B2XAmUHv3oQbwWYcd6 by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2026-01-22T00:42:53Z
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You're welcome! The more exposure it gets, the better in my opinion. I don't have much practical experience with Solid, but the principles behind it are quite nice and what I have used makes it seem like the protocol is well-constructed, it's just the tooling that could use a bit of improvement.One of my stalled projects is effectively wrapping an ActivityPub feed around a Solid pod for a more digital-garden approach to Fedi. It stalled both because those aren't necessarily the easiest standards to reconcile in the finer details, and because #snac wound up filling most of the use cases I was wanting it for, but I do still want to get back to it at some point to allow better long-form essays, even beyond the control and flexibility that Solid would allow.re: @kevinashworth@mastodon.social