Amikke @Amikke@social.cleverlibre.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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Based on the-federation.info, it looks like over the last ~3 days #Fediverse added about four BlueSky's worth of active users. 
That spike there is roughly 800k monthly active accounts.
Obviously measuring this is difficult, and there are weird bumps like the one about a month ago (visible on the chart), but this time it is confirmed by other metrics sources.
Not all of #NewHere will stay, just like in previous waves. But many will. And it will make fedi more diverse and fun. 🎉
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A kolektiva.social admin was raided by the FBI, who recovered an unencrypted database backup from their computer.
These are the people telling you how to run your server, and encouraging centralization onto just a few instances.
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Hello Poland! Nice to have you there.
Take a seat, we have a lot of them, all for you.
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I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week. This isn't the first time.
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Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person. Oh, but it's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.
Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.
In the discussion on algorithmic content delivery there seems to be a different side of it missed. Algorithms don't have to be used to smartly give you more content, they can also smartly choose what to display if you want less of it.
If you follow people who post a lot but only a part of their posts interests you as much as others', a pure chronological timeline is very sub-optimal. An algorithm can make you a timeline that prioritises the kinds of posts you like and de-prioritises ones you don't, so you get maximum value per watched posts, decreasing as the important new posts run out and the less important ones get presented. This can reduce FOMO of "I'm sitting here for a long time but haven't caught up on all the posts of my favourite people". This is something I remember Twitter doing pretty well, except of course with also inserting random crap it thinks you'd like in-between.
Furthermore, it doesn't have to be a learning algorithm that requires tracking your data, it can be a "dumb" one that simply has priorities set based on some qualifiers (author, keywords, the like) and creates a mix of mostly higher priority posts with some lower priority ones. It can all be configurable.
The fediverse with its open nature allowing one to choose their servers, clients and if they appear algorithms has a big potential for better UX that we're refusing by the allergic reaction to any mention of algorithms.
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This is hilarious. Twitter appears to be DDOSing itself.
Something's wrong with Twitter so feeds aren't loading. Nothing loads, but my Twitter feed is still trying to load, but it doesn't stop trying after so many attempts.
Notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. I haven't done anything more than attempt to view my home feed. Now notice the bouncing scrollbar.
I'm gonna guess there was an bug introduced that was resulting in an endless loop of trying to fetch results, but with no results available, Twitter would have basically been DDOSing itself.
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Now all #twitter t.co links are blocked by twitter login. All #links we ever shared via twitter can not be followed anymore without signing in to twitter, no matter where in the #WWW they point to. Twitter put a gate in front of our links by "shortening" them and now they locked the gate. We never should have given them such power. #gatedcommunities #fediverse #web
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I didn't think they'd raise the walls on *my* garden, sobs the woman who registered at the walled-garden website.
inB4 some of those are way older
I know, I mean the new content.
You know how we laugh at journalists being vultures jumping onto any tragedy to shit out as much content about it as possible? It's somewhat understandable but also quite disgusting. That's the feeling I get every time I visit youtube recently.
It's really bewildering to hear from a western tankie their alternative history in which the soviet bloc countries had it super cool and all the badness is just capitalist propaganda and being shown a recording of some one guy in Latvia that actually liked it as proof, while being East European and knowing how it really was — awful to the point of people hijacking planes just to get to the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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"Why are people saying the modern Web is cluttered and unuseable? It's really not that bad..."
*disables adblocker*
"oh."
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
