There’s a button in settings to not show bot accounts. I clicked it when I realized how many posts were just reddit mirror bots
I run the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Social, FBXL Lemmy, FBXL Lotide, and FBXL Video. Mostly for my own use because after having my heart broken by too many companies I want to be in control of my own world.
I also wrote The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son, now on Amazon
There’s a button in settings to not show bot accounts. I clicked it when I realized how many posts were just reddit mirror bots
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Before I settled on Lemmy and lotide, I tried out aether:
Like a Bittorrent client you need to expose porch to the outside world because you end up helping to host the network.
Ultimately I preferred a website I could host and visit from anywhere I could get internet to software I needed to run (and set up networking for) anywhere I wanted to use it, but it was a nice system otherwise.
Actually, I lied.
How much more black can this get? None. None more black.
Peertube is a federated video platform. That means that like lemmy or mastodon, there’s a huge number of different instances. My instance for example, is following 103 other instances, and is followed by 73 other instances. Each instance is hosted by different people, and each have different rules.
Because of the wide variety of instances, it’s truly distributed and so all kinds of things are hosted there, from cat videos to porn and other stuff you typically can’t host on other platforms such as covid conspiracy theory videos.
One peertube channel that is similar to what you’re talking about is minetest videos: minetestvideos@share.tube It’s consistently trending on my feed (but different sites will have different feeds based on what they are or are not federated to).
I think your best bet is to see what’s out there, because there’s a lot of content but it’s sort of like old youtube.
If I were to become a youtuber today, I’d diversify. You can create a youtube channel and mirror it on peertube, for example. I think that some other alt-tech sites like rumble and bitchute have similar features as well, so you could set up a workflow where you post a video and have it show up on a number of different platforms.
The reason peertube is better than youtube is the same reason lemmy is better than reddit and mastodon is better than twitter; It’s libre, distributed, and generally not algorithmically driven.
Oh, one other neat thing: If you ever have a peertube video just blow up and become super popular, peertube uses torrent style technology so video watchers automatically share pieces of the video with one another. Just a little neat thing that helps scale a video site whereas it’s generally tough once you start getting popular.
My kid really loves the 2000s Alvin and the chipmunks movies. Dave is always talking about how they need to be like normal kids and they need to plan for the future, but on a lark I looked up how long a chipmunk lives and by the third movie they’d be like 50 in chipmunk years.
I think we’ll just assume whatever Gene makes them talk makes them live really long. Let’s do that.
It’s all relative.
For lemmy it’s been a mass exodus. I was on this part of the fediverse before all this, and it’s a fundamentally different thing now than it was. There were maybe a dozen servers, most of them didn’t have a whole lot going on. Now there’s millions of active users on thousands of servers.
That might not be a mass exodus for reddit, but it sure is one for lemmy.
Oh cool! I didn’t realize lotide federates with the latest version of Lemmy again.
I know it was pretty frustrating for a while there, but it became clearer that everything was having federation problems.
Dude…wash your hands…
Wordpress has had an activitypub plugin for years, in part because it’s an open source project.
I can see why a company with so many separate products like Meta would want to look at federation, but I’m not so sure about Tumblr. Part of their value is in having a walled garden so you need to join them and see advertising from them.
For small instances, strong captcha and applications and email verification are sort of important. I know my fbxl video was constantly growing until I realized they were all fake users. Just adding email verification meant that most user creation stopped immediately in its tracks
😂 that’s the spirit!
You sure?
Ok, you asked for it.
A quarter million users and that’s not even with all the different instances.
Very cool. Just remember folks, don’t forget to diversify and decentralize! These other instances have some interesting posts and conversations, and by spreading out we make sure no single instance or community can break the fediverse.
Wanna know what I wear under me kilt?
Me shoes!
If you were using a vfd in order to control the speed of the escalator, a lot of vfds have intelligence built in, so you could just wire it up and have the vfd take care of everything. On the other hand, I can see a bunch of reasons why a current might work really well for a short term demo and start to fail immediately after. Start to get things gummed up or also trying to deal with very small people riding the escalator, the trigger point might be difficult to keep straight.
Wonder if they’d use a current threshold for determining if someone is on the escalator?
The computer subsystem and the display subsystem are different, largely independent things. Regardless of what your computer is doing, the system that transports data between the video chip and the LCD will always be sending that data at 60 frames per second. It doesn’t care what your CPU is doing, it’s a bunch of separate independent pieces of hardware. Meanwhile, the rest of your computer is doing the game logic and rendering the frames and sending them to the video memory and that could be happening at any frame rate. Your screen will always be running at 60 hertz, but you could have anything from one frame per second to 3000 frames per second and that just refers to the number of times per second you are updating the frame buffer with new data.
Some video games have a setting called vsync, and what that does is it will limit updating the frame buffer to do so only once while the screen is showing one frame. The benefit of doing this is if you are updating your frame buffer in the middle of drawing a frame, you can have it where half the frame is the previous frame and half of the frame is the next frame, this is called tearing because it looks like the screen is being torn in half.