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@anp
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Abde :verified:

Lately more and more open source projects are becoming mainstream.

Thanks to , gaming on has become a priority while some years ago it was still niche.

@godotengine has become a very useful engine that is powering many enterprises.

And now, and the are showing us that we do not need propietary services in order to communicate with each other, which has become so difficult in the last years with all the noise that is generated by those services.

This is the era of .

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@aeronlaffere
I hope it remains at least somewhat like this.

Someone said "politicians and celebrities will never bother with this, it'll be only scientists and writers and folks like that move to fedi" - as if that was a diss. That sounds great to me!

Let the drama and gossip remain on the birdsite, and let the be the place for thoughtful and curious conversation.

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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding prep!!!

RT @release_create (twitter.com/release_create)
$ twi add .
$ twi commit -m "I'm not able to listen in EN, but i'm watching it. "
$ twi push

#AsahiLinArt

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meta, covert marketing on fedi 

@wim_v12e There will probably be some hashtag-hogging too, since those are a big tool for discovery on Fedi. Something similar happened on Reddit when it started becoming popular, people "organically" started subreddits for brands or products just because they "love it so much".

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@richarddegenne
I'm lucky I was watching through SingSing's stream by that point, they were able to keep the hype and energy up despite all the (inexcusable) scuff! Were you watching via the official channel? How was the experience there?

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@Khosro
Welcome! Dazed and confused is about right for your first day here, that was my experience too, years ago :blob_grinning_sweat: Take your time to look around and explore things, most stuff here isn't complicated, just different and new!

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Erik Moeller

Expect some of the following to happen in the coming weeks:

- celebrities with huge follower counts pushing tiny community-run servers to their knees

- instance admin burnout; shutting down of servers

- big new servers that don't "vibe" with common rules or culture being widely defederated

- some notable account violating an instance code of conduct and throwing a fit

- lots of people ragequitting Mastodon for one reason or another

- etc.

It'll be a rough ride. Patience and strength, all.

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Eugen Rochko

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon

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Subhodeep

What do you guys usually use for online communication/collaboration for research? Slack? Discord?

Have you guys explored any open-source and free alternative?

I have been using Zulip for the last couple of months or so and I must say, it is superior to either Slack or Discord! Supports LaTeX and Markdown. Threads are better organised. And the best part: you get a free license if you plan on using it for research!

Wonder why it's not that popular!

zulip.com/for/research/

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@subhodeep
But I think looks better visually to a newcomer, more whitespace, less intimidating. That's probably the most common complaint I hear about , that it looks "cluttered" and "confusing". It's a small learning curve/time to get used to it, for so many benefits, but seems to be a roadblock for a lot of people.
That, and and Discord's marketing budgets!

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@subhodeep
Zulip is great! The keyboard shortcuts especially make it a breeze to navigate through. Discord is such a PITA comparatively.

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Daniel Mclaughlan (He/Him)

@skrishna Great article, thanks for sharing.

I think the more about “Mastodon has its own culture” is super important.

Yes, it’s expected that those of us leaving the bird site come here with certain habits and expectations.

However, the Mastodon community existed before we got here and there’s a lot we can (un)learn about our relationship with social media from the wider community.

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@RayScript
That's a pretty new thing (at least in my experience). Posts used to have pretty equal amounts of both (before the ), but a few PSA posts have been floating around about how favourites do "nothing" and if you like a post you should boost it. So I guess that's becoming the new culture here, but I still prefer to fav for "thanks for posting this" and boost only if I think it's something that needs to be amplified.

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C. Matt Schofield

I've seen a lot of people saying that liking posts here is pointless, but I absolutely love the way it works - it feels like what this sort of feature is actually supposed to do.

If I put a star on a toot, I'm not trying to blast it to the universe, I just want to quietly inform the poster that I liked or appreciated what they shared. Not everything needs a comment and I don't always have the mental energy to make one, but I still want someone to know that I valued their thought.

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_lila*

What the hell, @Gargron ?

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

Why are you really doing that?

Rank username matches same, not lower than display name matches
Use reputation score (more followers than following) as a boost
Use log over followers as a boost
Use gaussian decay from last posted timestamp as a boost
This should bring the results a little closer in quality to the elasticsearch ones...

Please don't do that. We don't want reputation scores and competition, what the hell?

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@ceoln
That's true, and an interesting way to look at it. These tools take away the mundane part of struggling with pixels and lines or spelling and grammar, and allow you to express your creativity more directly. I like it!

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John W. Little

More random #security thoughts:

1. Mastodon is pretty chill but expect a surge of troll activity with all the attention. Nothing is totally immune to the challenges associated with attention/scale.
2. Try to be open to new followers but check them out - Who do they follow? Who follows them?
3. Block quickly at any hint of malicious behavior/hate/trolling. Don't engage. Keep the vibe positive.
4. If you see patterns of abuse share that information with your followers.

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@Mr_Teatime
True 😀 I was thinking in terms of availability (i.e. everyone could try them out), but in terms of results they're not quite on par with the Chess or Go AIs. People have posted impressive specimens from AI Dungeon and so forth, but those are the rare fully-coherent ones among the many "abstract" ones as you put it 😁

What kind of NN applications do you have in mind that's in the "quick decision" category?

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@vertexrage
Yeah that part of the post was tough to word correctly, what I meant was popular use of AI by common people, AI that everyone knows to be AI and knowingly uses. For a lot of non-tech people, I think GPT-3 (via AI dungeon) and DALL-E/stable diffusion (via NovelAI and others) was the first AI system they knowingly used, their first taste of AI they could get their hands on and try.

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