Ah, but did ye not pull thyself up by thy bootstraps to attain such magnificent power over thy lessers? Thou hast surely earned thy power by the divine right of business!

Every movement begins with and is made up of individuals working toward making things better, which is how anything in history has ever gotten better. One more individual joining their local mutual aid group, protesting for the climate, and fighting for what’s right is exactly what this world needs right now.

You may not have the ability to help someone across the world very effectively or at all, but if you fight for what’s right locally, it can spread all across the globe.

Also @Atlas_@lemmy.world

Huh, you’re right, he has been absent. He still seems to be updating notrack over on his gitlab, so I have to assume he just got bored with videos, or some other aspect of his life took priority. I don’t have a twitter account, so I can’t see if he’s posted there, but hopefully he’s in good spirits and health.

XMPP has quite good encryption nowadays, and at least according to our sysadmin, it’s quite a bit lighter on system requirements. I think there was also some concerns about the matrix foundation being pretty corporate oriented.

My instance uses a self hosted XMPP for mods/Admins to communicate quickly, which works quite well.

May I ask why?

If you’re an EU citizen, you can massively help by joining the petition over at https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Ross Scott (of Freeman’s Mind & Game Dungeon fame) makes a compelling argument for game preservation here: https://youtu.be/tUAX0gnZ3Nw?t=2548

Oh sweet jesus, it’s finally happening! Huzzah! Rejoice!

Huh, it is for me now as well. Thanks for mentioning that, I wonder if Invidious found a workaround.

Hey OP, just wanted to give you a heads up that Invidious has been fully killed by Google, the yewtu.be link goes to a page where no video will load, and AFAIK no fix for that is coming any time soon.

In the meantime, I’ve taken to recommending people use Freetube and libredirect in the post body of every post I put up that leads to YouTube. Feel free to use it for your own posts :)

Consider watching this video with FreeTube, a nifty open-source program that lets you watch YouTube videos without >Google spying on your viewing habits!

Combined with Libredirect, which automatically opens youtube links in Freetube, it becomes really slick and effortless to use.

I thought I tried every weather app on F droid, but never saw Breezy. Extremely impressed with it, easily the best on F-droid, and better than 99% of apps on the playstore.

I think the Weawow app (closed source and playstore/aurora only)still edges it out, but only slightly. Heavily considering switching to Breezy.

Thanks for the recommendation!

The drop in replacement is Sublinks, though it hasn’t gotten any commits since augest, so it might be a while.

The most promising potential replacement is Piefed, which is already operational. It’s ahead of Lemmy in some ways, and rougher in others, but the Dev is a chill dude :)

Also @dennis@midwest.social

It’s mainly about how Kojima’s themes and stories in the Metal Gear series are deeply influenced by his own childhood trauma of losing his Father at a young age, and how he resented his father for leaving a void in him after his death. The series evolution tends to reflect his own evolving feelings about his dad, revenge, and forgiveness.

Hmm… That could be an issue, you’re right.

If it does get that bad, we’d gave to act more defensively by only federating with instances that have reviewed sign-ups and have received an endorsement on fediseer.

That would result in a more isolated experience, but if that’s the only way to combat it, then we’ll have to shift with the needs of the moment to keep it mostly humans we’re interacting with, and to make the moderation workload manageable.

The Fediseer project from @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com helps prevent bot farms from proliferating, as new servers require an endorsement from an already trusted instance to become ‘legit’. And they can be marked as untrustworthy as well, causing them to be defederated fairly quickly, limiting its reach.

We also have a MUCH higher moderator to user ratio compared to corpo sites, with a range between 100 to 2,500 users per mod depending on instance, Vs. 250,000 users per mod on sites like twitter, so we can more adequately spot and deal with spam on the network.

Absolutely incredible breakdown of the problem. In addition to twitter, I strongly suspect Reddit is infested with a similar increase in bot accounts, which would explain how a sub I used to moderate there has some of the highest page visits its ever had, yet its actual user engagement hasn’t changed at all, or even gone down.

Corporate websites, who have a financial incentive to allow the bots, have become completely unusable. The difference in interaction on Lemmy is incredibly stark, which goes to show that the fediverse seems to be far more resilient against bots since we can defederate from an instance that gets taken over, like cutting off an infected limb to stop the spread.

You’re welcome! :D

Reminder to sign Ross Scott’s StopKillingGames EU Citizens Intitiative (which carries legal weight if it reaches 1 million) if you’re an EU Citizen! Ubisoft killing The Crew is what kicked the whole thing off.

Reminder to sign Ross Scott’s StopKillingGames EU Citizens Intitiative (which carries legal weight if it reaches 1 million) if you’re an EU Citizen! Ubisoft killing The Crew is what kicked the whole thing off.