"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Oskar
Funny, I've mostly seen complaints that Mastodon is "empty".
Some tips:
- Use high-volume hashtags for discovery, not for following.
- Discovery: niched hashtags (e.g. #photography - >#birdphoto)
- Discovery: accounts that use the high-use hashtags. Follow or mute
- mute/filter "spammers" and "spammy" hashtags
- Ditch FOMO, grow your feed slowly.
- Look at boosted accounts from accounts you follow. Maybe they're interesting for you.
Pixelfed has been around for a couple of years. I created an account in the summer of 2022. But it didn't become popular until there was an app. A web app that does the same isn't enough. If it isn't in App Store/Play it doesn't exist for most people (which is something all Fediverse devs must think about).
Anyway, plenty of information about the development pace was available for anyone who wants to make an informed decision before they send their money somewhere. Apparently >2000 people thought it was worth it.
Interesting, I had missed that there are "non-official" models that can be used with Ollama just like the official ones. e.g. https://ollama.com/huihui_ai/deephermes3-abliterated
And it gave a good explanation to my "lithmus test" code snippet
Ollama's Python API works well and there's a lot of examples. However, I've not gotten the Ollama REST API to work, the response doesn't unpack into json for me.
Just design the rest of your system so that it doesn't have to know anything about the implementation (only prompts and responses) and you should be able to easily replace the LLM part later.
The whole point of US and European companies moving manufacturing to China.