Oggi torno con KenoMATTINA! Vi avviso che sono al settimo libro di Dungeon Crawler Carl e ho una voglia matta di parlarne.
Ci vediamo su Owncast:
https://tele.kenobit.it/
@kenobit "Il gioco degli Immortali" di Massimo Mongai l'avevi letto?
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Any UK folks know how to do the legal process to start a business?
Start a business: start doing whatever you are going to be doing, and put money aside each month to pay your tax.
If you mean starting a *company*, then that's easy enough to do online. For more specialist corporate vehicles, you'd probably benefit from some advice.
Markus Beckedahl
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Sieben Menschen, fünf Stellen, Millionen Menschen erreicht: Heute wird das Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie ein Jahr alt.
Wir kämpfen gegen einen Gegner, der pro Tag mehr in Lobbyarbeit steckt, als wir im Jahr ausgeben – und schaffen das, was ihr seht.
Stell dir vor, was wir mit echter finanzieller Basis erreichen.
Geburtstagskampagne bis 31. Mai:
Wer nicht spenden kann: Boost hilft auch.
musicForProgramming();
https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/
Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode]
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Griffin of "Bugs and Biology" just had the experience that makes so many people reconsider ants:
It is the moment when you are observing a colony of ants and realize that the colony is observing YOU right back. They colony is trying to analyze and classify YOU. The colony has plans for YOU.
It can be a chilling experience and bull ants do it better than any ants since they watch large vertebrates with their eyes.
They manage large vertebrates.
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/116525242714137986
This is a big deal...
We talk about how perfect the Fediverse is for independent media.
How they can host own server, own their content, and control their future.
Free from marginalization and censorship by billionaires.
And now the hugely popular Find Out Podcast folks have done it!
Rather than chasing influence, #FindOutMedia is asserting it by creating their own Mastodon presence on the public social web: https://findout.media/about.
Follow @ItsLuke and @TimFullerton
Support this effort!
@mastodonmigration @ItsLuke proud to be part of this movement!
doesn't survive federation. smh
could get the json from source server (in case of mastodon) but that probably requires signed fetch doesn't it
Niléane
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@marc_eu thanks for the rec!
Morning, Twters!
A good night's sleep means I'm feeling good again today, though I'm taking a rest day as yesterday was busy. I've played #Timberborn and eaten bacon on wholemeal roll, had plenty of tea, and am enjoying seeing the sun try really hard to come out.
Anxious about the political climate, but all I can do is exercise my right to vote and hope it makes a difference.
Hope you're all enjoying your Wednesdays! 😘
The fact that Google decided to dump a 4 GiB language model file on every Chrome installation is yet another sign of how the generative AI craze is unsustainable. Don't look at it from the side of users, look at it from Google side. Having every user download a 4 GiB monster which will need to be routinely updated is a significant cost. It takes a ton of bandwidth to do that, far more than Chrome updates consume. And yet they're doing it because they're desperate to externalize the cost of "AI".
@gabrielesvelto I'd still think that shipping a local model is a better way to provide some features based on generative AI, than it would be to start sending more and more user input to be processed elsewhere.
Sending less data is one benefit, but local models also make the computational cost more transparent. And thus at least the user can make a better informed decision on if they want to use the features that use the model.
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@TheBreadmonkey His head leans to his right a bit, but his poor li'l afro leans to the left, as if it's trying to get away from him.
Do you use an RSS reader at least weekly? Is it good for you?
I'm trying to understand if I want to get one after a decade of not following any blogs and such.
@nina_kali_nina I have been using RSS readers daily for the past couple of decades, which brought a steady flow of high-quality writings to my reading queue despite the rise of socials.
I think RSS is also important for bloggers and indie publishers, not just readers:
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-your-blog-still-needs-rss
I use Inoreader and currently subscribe to 322 feeds. My tip: to achieve a good mix and keep the volume of reading material under control subscribe to many feeds updated infrequently, and fewer feeds updated frequently.
@Vivaldi @protonprivacy @infomaniak_network @Mastodon @StartpageSearch @Qwant @ecosia @Mojeek @libreoffice @Tutanota @jolla @volla @murena
Check this out:
https://european-alternatives.eu
It's how I found your awesome browser.
@VerenaRupp yeah there's a bunch of sites like this! Thanks for your support :)
@jpm 'splosion
@voided well, more of a metaphorical land mine, but it’s a pretty good metaphor now that I think about it
Quixoticgeek
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Whenever I want to explain what I mean by "availability is political" and "uptime is a Noble Lie," I'm going to start by discussing these two pages:
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
vs
Even the per-component uptimes are different! And the aggregate calculation is… interesting
ozoned
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Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.
Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network which is just bots talking to each other, right?
Earlier this year I built a stats-counter for my blog. Every time someone clicks from a website which links to my blog, it records that visit in a database. I get to see which blog posts are doing numbers, and where those numbers came from.
Until fairly recently, the Mastodon social network didn't send referer details. I thought that reduced the visibility of the network and lobbied for it to change. As various Mastodon servers upgrade, and admins opt-in, it is becoming more apparent just how much traffic originates from the Fediverse.
Over the last few weeks, here's how many people have clicked from BlueSky and Mastodon to one of my blog posts.
| Total | Source |
|---|---|
| 1,607 | |
| 752 |
At first glance, it doesn't look good for our elephantine friends, does it? The butterfly sends over twice the traffic. Game over!
But, of course, while Mastodon.social is the biggest instance - it is far from the only one. What happens if we slide down the long tail? Here's all the Mastodon-ish instances which sent me over 10 clicks.
| Total | Source |
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| 193 | |
| 120 | |
| 106 | |
| 62 | |
| 59 | |
| 55 | |
| 49 | |
| 48 | |
| 33 | |
| 27 | |
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| 51 |
Ah! Add them all up and you get a grand total of 1,773 visitors from Mastodon-powered sites. That's more than BlueSky.
Now, there are some obvious caveats to the data:
- I have a smaller follower count on BlueSky than I do on Mastodon.
- My posts may appeal more to one demographic than another.
- People may have strict privacy controls which suppress the true volume of visitors.
- There's no way to measure how long someone spends reading my posts.
- RSS and newsletter visitors aren't counted.
- Clicks from apps may not always show a referer.
- Some people may be on multiple services.
- Fediverse users can follow the post directly, so don't need to visit the site to read it.
And yet… no matter how you slice it, Fediverse servers are sending as much traffic as BlueSky!
I think this is brilliant. Web services should be able to scale from small to big - and each ActivityPub-powered site helps power the open Internet.
Just for completeness, this is how Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Lemmy do over the same period:
If you add up all the Lemmy instances, they send about as much traffic as Facebook and LinkedIn combined. That's not a huge surprise - those platforms hate anyone clicking away to the wider web.
Twitter is basically the Dead Internet. I'm no longer on there, but I do occasionally search it to see who is sharing my posts. The popular posts I write get shared a lot - sometimes by accounts with huge followers - yet there are no comments or retweets and barely and clicks.
I don't do Instagram or Threads, and that might be reflected in their low numbers. But I'm not active on YouTube either - yet people there occasionally link back to me.
Final Thoughts
Firstly, my stats only represent my site. Your site might be very different.
Secondly, I've ignored search engine traffic, big blogs, newsletters, and other sources.
Thirdly, and most importantly, this isn't a competition! The desire for a "winner-takes-all" service is dangerous and disturbing. An ecosystem is at its most vibrant when there are multiple participants each thriving in their own niche.
I want a thousand sites, running a hundred different software stacks, some of which only serve a dozen people, or even a lone participant.
Diversity is strength.
#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics
@Vivaldi @protonprivacy @infomaniak_network @Mastodon @StartpageSearch @Qwant @ecosia @Mojeek @libreoffice @Tutanota @jolla @volla @murena
I missed FairPhone (NL) in the List. It's maybe the most sostainable phone in the market, you can change, update or substitute any component by yourself if you want, without the need of an workshop if something break or get obsolete.
@Catweazle I thought about them (I've had a fairphone myself), but they're manufactured in China
Boosting this on Mastodon.
@mastodonmigration thanks!
