@Jeremiah isn't that third set already included in the second?
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I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.
How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?
Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective
It's run by volunteers and rich perverts who want to rule the world don't get a dime from it.
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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eth0 (the dutch event which accidentally got too popular for its size) should rename to something like enp86s0f0np0 to not sell out too fast
One of my most beloved projects, the Lantern Library, has found a new home but needs some help getting there. More, and a way to help, here: https://blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-beloved-lantern-library/
hypebot
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"It’s time for the world to boycott the US"
"Under Donald Trump, the US is escalating violence abroad & repression at home while facing none of the sanctions routinely demanded of other states."
"A global boycott & divestment campaign may now be the only nonviolent way to force accountability."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
#USPol #EUPol #CdnPoli #BoycottAmerica #autocracy #Racism #BDS #Fascism .
@maj yes, that's the default for Mastodon, I think. It is only visible to Bob's followers.
@evan I'm going to need a diagram! This is like set theory.
found an incredible product yesterday
@halcy apparently I am the only person, based on comments, who's mind went in an entirely different direction lol
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:
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E2EE keeps your messages private - but can make adding devices, recovering lost data, or keeping your identity tricky. We make it seamless with unlimited devices, full history, and easy recovery.
Read about the trade-offs and how we work to solve them: https://element.io/blog/decoding-the-hidden-trade-offs-of-e2ee-and-usability/
@kubofhromoslav @EUCommission @stux @dansup
Example of "For You" recommendation feed 'running out':
@rusty__shackleford @kubofhromoslav @EUCommission @stux Interesting, they must have watched a lot, I will work on a fix (I didn't expect people to scroll that far tbh haha)
Konrad Förstner 💻🧬🦠
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@egghat/116029477424043847
Wenn eine Metrik zum Ziel wird, wird sie nutzlos.
Meta weiß damit nicht mehr, ob ihre "KI" systeme wirklich irgendwelchen Mehrwert bringen, weil jeder einfach irgendwelche Modelle mit Bullshit tasks beschäftigt (und dabei Strom usw verbraucht), damit man genug "KI" nutzt
@evan Alice, Alice’s followers, and the subset of Bob’s followers that follow Alice.
@Jeremiah isn't that third set already included in the second?
Ça existe le TDH sans TDAH ? Vu que le TDA existe sans le H ?
@burgervege nan mais pitetre y a des gens qui savent pas ce qu'ils prononcent comme acronyme ^^
James Gleick
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Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
@evan
I would say, To: Alice, cc: both Alice's and Bob's followers, possibly cc: or bcc: a theoretical Collection of all participants in the thread who have not muted the thread by leaving the collection?
@silvermoon82 what does the conversation look like to Bob's followers?
Konrad Hinsen
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So I just had a chat with one of the current students of my alma mater. There’s now an “AI in research” mandatory course right now. And they use “AI” in their literature review process to summarize some of the papers they need.
And I’m, like, lost on words. The whole point of literature review is not getting a short summary. It’s about finding connections, getting meta info, and encountering serendipitous bits.
All my conscious life was about serendipity. I was always exploring something and then finding some elusive traces of another thing that was also interesting. But not the “AI summary” type of interesting. Tangential, side-note, weird. I mean, this is conspiracy theory of everything type of thing sometimes. But I want to see *connections* and I value finding them.
Using “AI” for summaries misses that most useful bit of research. And I’m extremely disappointed about that.
@a_grebenyuk @bens @Soroush @mattiem This has the potential to create a situation where the "indie dev" or SMEs segment would be left out - as one rarely has a corp-sized budget to pay for the real price of tokens to begin with. In effect, it would divide the developer community in a very unfortunate way.
@iamkonstantin @bens @Soroush @mattiem this is the case for a lot of other software products. There are usually plans depending on how much a segment is willing to pay.
They might be a productivity leap for small, fairly standardized, self-contained projects, but their usefulness decreased geometrically with project complexity.
@juergen_hubert Now you are grasping for straws. 😉 This technology is phenomenal and very useful. Now, not every use is maybe a wise allocation of resources. The talk of a "bubble" might be about some of the companies, but the AI technology itself is clearly extremely useful even in its present, rather early stage.
@sturmsucht @_elena great thread, ty
@arjen thank you! ☺️
@stroughtonsmith Phenomenal at business logic. Knows a lot of arcane API that would take me hours of research to discover. Surprisingly good at AppIntents. Absolutely terrible at SwiftUI.
@clarko @stroughtonsmith I have been telling my bots “do not style anything, I’ll do that” and they results are great, then I fine tune myself. But I do the same for anything else, I hear stories of people having success (like Ghostty with a low-bar ui)
@a_grebenyuk @bens @Soroush @mattiem This has the potential to create a situation where the "indie dev" or SMEs segment would be left out - as one rarely has a corp-sized budget to pay for the real price of tokens to begin with. In effect, it would divide the developer community in a very unfortunate way.