overview for spaduf

Hello everyone,

@[email protected] created [email protected] to synchronize efforts to promote the Fediverse on existing social media (e.g. that Reddit thread on /r/Technology which got a few people joining Lemmy)

Spaduf wasn't aware of the existence of [email protected] , which is an existing community focused on the internal growt on the Fediverse, mostly between mods and regular posters trying to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed communitied grow.

To avoid confusion between the two communities, we are thinking about a potential new community, with a different name.

Potential options we came up with:

[email protected]

[email protected]

What do you all think? Do you have any other ideas for the name of that new community?

Meta Hires Project 2025 Co-Author by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago

Literally billions of people.

Meta Hires Project 2025 Co-Author by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 166 points 10 months ago

If you think it's news that Meta's new public policy director, Dustin Carmack, is a Project 2025 co-author,

Consider dropping a tip to your preferred news outlet. I've already sent an email to The Verge's tipline and I implore you to do the same.

https://www.theverge.com/c/tech/22579076/how-to-tip-the-verge-email-signal-and-more

Apple refuses to call Apple Intelligence 'AI' by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago

Let's be honest. They certainly plan to, but first they're gonna see if saying "Apple Intelligence" a bunch is going to convince people they actually did something innovative.

Happy 10 million! According to FediDB, we have hit 10 million users across the Fediverse! by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.

Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago

Tell me this is a good thing.

Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space (while still producing SOTA ML). All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility.

ALSO, the other half of this story is that Firefox is becoming the primary focus again. Everybody's freaking out about the AI stuff but that's because they're only reading the headlines. The programs they've shut down are things like Hubs (Mozilla's metaverse platform), the VPN, and the sensitive data scrubber (which was using a third party service anyway).

I feel seen by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's cause this is a 10 year old post and things have not improved since then.

Police Say They Won’t Reopen Case of Alaska Woman Found Dead on Mayor’s Property by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago

This is when the feds should get involved

Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance. by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The devs actually talked about this in the AMA from a couple of days ago. Sounds like the current plan is to have all federating servers send their entire list of communities to each other on a regular basis.

The other thing that I think is worth mentioning is Lemmy Community Boost which is basically a bot that serves the same purpose.

Is it just me, or have the comments on Lemmy become extra aggressive over the past 3 months? by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 233 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worth noting, the number of people who come here "to escape authoritarian moderators". Nearly all of them were moderated for good reason.

I also don't think the presence of places like hexbear are doing us any favors.

What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 years ago

Unionizing

Nothing to see here, just join lemmy promoting a pedophile instance. Not a good look for the fediverse by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The pedophile community is the largest local community and that should be all you need to know.

EDIT: Relevant discussion over on reddit

You can be banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone for calling out transphobia by spaduf in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 84 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Potentially relevant information from the other individual this person was arguing with:

Hey, Abigail here. I just want people to know the reason this guy got banned is likely because of a deleted comment not included in that thread. OP called me autistic for not liking politics. THAT kind of behavior is not acceptable on lemmy.blahaj.zone, so I reported the comment and let Ada handle it. Ada tried in good faith to reason with OP but it was clear they just wanted to fight. So yeah, they got banned. Ada’s a fantastic lady who’s been great at keeping the trolls at bay.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669

Tough to confirm from the modlogs as blahaj.zone appears to be having some intermittent outages.