OpenStars
Compassion ~ Thought
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OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study findsEnglish
1·2 days agoDon’t fall for this sea-lioning (intentional or otherwise) situation - if the person you are responding to has never heard of the terms “social media” or “news”, that is not your problem.

It can if you will let it be.
Scrolling through it all would have been more fun if it were in spoiler tags though… 🤔
We can all see that…
Not me, I’m definitely a pile of rocks, oh ah, uh… I-I-I mean human, yeah totally that’s what I meant.
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Pictures for Sad Children (Simone Veil)English
3·5 days agoI think I’ve seen this episode…
Be a part of the change that you would like to see in the world?
Or maybe not, I dunno. 🤪
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•PieFed Flagship Instance Shadowbanning Instances from Discoverability & Other Questionable UpdatesEnglish
35·5 days agoI mean, they can and are doing that right now, haha! 😂
And sometimes they even have a point, buried incredibly deeply, about how we could improve things across the Threadiverse, but it requires so very much effort to translate past all the BS and outright lies (intentional or otherwise) that 99/100 times it simply is not worth the effort. Plus it leaves you drained, exhausted, and burnt-out, without a clear vision of what needs doing in order to move forward.
Which is presumably the very point of much of this drama seeking - to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, in order to “win” their POV by any means necessary (rather than aim for truth as an end-goal and work towards that collectively).
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's wayEnglish
1·5 days agoBecause more people would be promoting it if that were the case? It is what it is, I’m not meaning to knock it, just wanting to seek clarity in its promotion. There are always going to be trade-offs, and it is up to each end-user to decide whether they can live with them.
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Boy I was wrong about the FediverseEnglish
1·5 days agoTbf all of these tools - and Pixelfed more than most - are so very new, and being developed on a shoestring budget using volunteer efforts that are not seeking capitalistic remuneration. And being able to pull in old posts is a very niche feature that affects an instance pretty much only once, upon its initial creation and then never again, so it might not be a top priority for its dev team to implement. Though a lot of teams for Fediverse tools (like PieFed) tend to be quite responsive, and pinging them may help them realize that it needs to be done sooner, i.e. communication of that may be helpful rather than annoying?
Whereas ATproto’s main downsides lay in it lacking “robustness” for the future - what happens when like pretty much every Internet company that ever existed (Google, Meta, Amazon, etc.), they decide to switch from attempts to attract a wider user base to trying to monetizate its content? Suddenly all those ATproto connections become a liability where someone can access the content held hostage therein without having to watch advertisements that benefit the main branch, thereby switching the collaborative model to a competitive one.
ATproto is strictly better in the short term, and will cause much pain later on, as opposed to the Fediverse that has some onboarding and ongoing pains now but to some people offer better hopes for the future of a more unfettered/unconstrained method of interaction between people, where control is placed more democratically into the hands of the end users rather than centralized authorities.
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•PieFed Flagship Instance Shadowbanning Instances from Discoverability & Other Questionable UpdatesEnglish
78·6 days agoCheck this pinned post in the current community: This is not a complaints forum, which among other things clearly states:
If you have problems with an entire instance: Just leave it.
Other communities, such as YPTB, would be a more appropriate forum for this. As it is, this post is merely drama farming.
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•PieFed Flagship Instance Shadowbanning Instances from Discoverability & Other Questionable UpdatesEnglish
37·6 days agoYes indeed, but to clarify: this will only affect PieFed, while Lemmy will remain as it is, subject to the moderation whims of that development team.
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's wayEnglish
31·6 days agoBut there is no mobile version, and their FAQ says it’s unlikely to happen. Instead they point to IronFox, which I presume is nowhere close to feature equivalent to Firefox.
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•PieFed Flagship Instance Shadowbanning Instances from Discoverability & Other Questionable UpdatesEnglish
38·6 days agoDone as of earlier today.
Now when can we expect the same from the Lemmy devs?
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Boy I was wrong about the FediverseEnglish
1·6 days agoWhat if someone KNEW that they were dumber than average - wouldn’t that make them smarter by definition? :-P
OpenStars@piefed.socialto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Boy I was wrong about the FediverseEnglish
2·6 days agoI can’t speak to how Pixelfed works, but PieFed pulls in old posts. e.g. when lemm.ee (a Lemmy instance) shut down, several communities were migrated, including its old content.
Perhaps one day Pixelfed will implement that as well.



I thought it was potassium.