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Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In case it helps you understand: barriers of entry to Mastodon, from my perspective as an ex-Twitter user and current Bluesky and Mastodon user (note it took me 4 tries over 5 years to actually "enjoy" Mastodon)

  • Lack of content discoverability: Bluesky has programmable feeds and starter packs (although the latter is pretty flawed), Twitter has The Algorithm. When you first create a Mastodon account, you're not given much.
    • The primary reason Mastodon "stuck" with me on the 4th go around was this. I manually imported a bunch of my connections from Bluesky.
  • Choosing the right server: on all my previous attempts, I was overwhelmed by server selection and went with generic all-purpose instances. Having a local timeline with things that might actually interest you is very helpful.
  • The network effect: I don't think I really have to elaborate on this one

Bonus things that probably don't serve as barriers to entry but are real issues for active users:

  • Lack of features: it's not possible to search for posts on ActivityPub at any reasonable scale. I don't know all my Mastodon lore and think I've heard that search was intentionally not made good in the past for privacy or something, but if you're posting something on the "blast my posts everywhere" protocol, well... it's still out there.
    • There's also no quote posts, which haven't been implemented for similar privacy/anti-harassment reasons. But instead, other software like Pleroma works around this by simply giving a link to the original post—the worst of both worlds, bad UX and not even an option to attempt to detach or prevent quotes.
  • Fedi meta / sudden defederations: If you picked the wrong server—or any of your friends did—and you end up with a tempermental admin, you could unexpectedly lose contact with each other due to defederation, and you might not even notice.

This is not to say other platforms are perfect. There are plenty of things I don't like about Bluesky. This comment is specifically about Mastodon.

A curated list of non-U.S.-based alternatives to popular services, focusing on privacy and global accessibility. in c/piracy
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Distilled versions of Deepseek are available that can be ran on consumer-grade GPUs, and I have done this myself. I've even ran a really small one on my phone, though obviously at that scale it's going to be slow and bad lol

Crunchyroll is Investigating Situation After Voice Actor Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents | ANN in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Replace "x.com" in the URL with "xcancel.com" to see context, replies, chronological user tweets, etc. It's a Nitter instance that still works.

How much firmware is initializing??? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hadn't heard of pikvm before. Will keep that in mind, thanks!

Student dorm does not allow wifi routers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

While you didn't name names of what app you were using for streaming, I just got into a similar situation with my dorm and what I found worked was using wired ALVR for my streaming. Not wireless, but good, long right-angled USB-C cables don't cost a fortune. https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/ALVR-wired-setup-(ALVR-over-USB)

How much firmware is initializing??? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm at college right now, which is a 3 hour drive away from my home, where a server of mine is. I just have to ask my parents to turn it back on when the power goes out or it gets borked. I access it solely through RustDesk and Cloudflare Tunnels SSH (it's actually pretty cool, they have a web interface for it).

I have no car, so there's really no way to access it in case something catastrophic happens. I have to rely on hopes, prayers, and the power of a probably outdated Pop!_OS install. Totally doesn't stress me out I'll just say I like to live on the edge :^)

Be it ever so humble… in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

What's Reddit?

Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't know the specifics behind why the limit is 72 bytes, but that might be slightly tricky. My understanding of bcrypt is that it generates 2^salt different possible hashes for the same password, and when you want to test an input you have to hash the password 2^salt times to see if any match. So computation times would get very big if you're combining hashes

Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

bcrypt has a maximum password length of 72 bytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt#Maximum_password_length

Has anyone else had issues with domain registries randomly suspending a domain? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Good to know! I suppose it makes sense for the smaller registries to be a little shadier.

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Has anyone else had issues with domain registries randomly suspending a domain? (lemm.ee)
 

Apologies if this is the wrong community. I spent some time searching for a good one, and this seemed to be fairly applicable.

I've owned several domains over the years, but recently I purchased another one (goat.rest) to house a little side project I was working on. For about two weeks, everything was running fine, and then out of the blue the site disappeared. After some investigation, I figured out that the domain had been suspended by the registry, with seemingly no reason or course of action to get it back. I triple-checked, and although the TLD for the domain is intended for restaurants, it should be open for other uses too. The site wasn't spammy, explicit, or in any way content that would be cause for removal. I sent an email to the company that owns the TLD, and three days later the block was removed, and hours later I got an incredibly vague and short email stating as such.

While the site was down, I did a little research and found a post where someone had a similar issue, but I haven't been able to find much else. Do registries just randomly, automatically suspend domains when they want to?

I wrote a blog post going into a little more detail about the whole situation, but mainly I'm just really curious about the question I asked in the title. Am I just super unlucky to have this happen to me, or have other people experienced a similar situation?

Reddit has become the face of enshittification in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

While I do agree that this is bad, I'm a little confused—what does this have to do with dead internet theory? Doesn't that relate to users being bots?

Yuzu will lives under new name in c/piracy
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm sure a lot of forks will pop up right around this time. I'll be less skeptical of them once I see actual commits made to the codebase instead of things like just changing the readme

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How did you all come to discover incremental games? (lemm.ee)
 

I'll start, with less of a discovery and more of a full history:

I think I was around 8 years old when I first got into them, so I can't recall for certain, but it had to be a mobile game, because all I had was an iPad at the time. I remember some of my favorites from that time tended to be arbitrary mobile games like PickCrafter, Tap Tap Trillionaire (I/A), and the classic AdVenture Capitalist. It's weird to see some games I used to play so long ago still maintained to this day.

For a fair while I fixated on a game called Cookie Collector 2 (now known as Cookies Inc) (I/A), with occasional brief interest in games made on Scratch. At some point, I learned about Antimatter Dimensions, and I was irreversibly hooked on browser incrementals. I think at the time I even went as far as disowning Cookies Inc, which was a bit extreme, but I was likely 10 or 11--I guess I wasn't able to comprehend the concept of playing multiple games at the same time. :P

I stuck close to Antimatter Dimensions for a long time, and played most of the mods that had been created, but I can only recall getting deep into the community of Dilmod (potentially broken now?). I don't think Dilmod itself served as inspiration for it, but while I was active in the community I created the first iteration of Tree Game, which was heavily inspired by AD's Time Studies.

After Tree Game, I (most notably) went on to make Tree Game Rewritten, AltTPT (the first mod of The Prestige Tree, before TMT even existed), Tree Game Reloaded, CLEANSED, idle2.html, Pipegame, and most recently, galaxy.click. It seems like a lot when laid out like this, but the games tend to be very short, and I've only published roughly 8 spread out over 4 years. It's okay to not be a constant idea machine, or a master of productivity. It's still possible to make some pretty neat stuff even if you don't have a lot of time or energy.

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