Personally I think KAT is worth more than Randle and Divencezo

Like a apple TV / Roku which then… Reports everything you’re watching and or viewing. We truly live in the day and age where nothing you do digitally is private, and it’s almost turned into privacy via aggregation imo now since the PBs of raw data isn’t really worth it for major corporations.

Obvs if you’re the .0001% I’m sure the NSA can tap into it and you’re still gonna be fucked that way, but that can be said for pretty much any digital device.

And to give my potential hot take, but I think what Bluesky and the AT protocol does should be called crawling instead of federating

Yeah I definitely wouldn’t argue against it, throwing my hot take out, I would say we should call all of these platforms decentralized social media instead of tying everything to federated social media, and keep everything under the same umbrella. But obviously crypto has somewhat degraded the word decentralized 😅.

Fediverse admins pay fees for their instances.

Yes but they have communities within their instance. With ATProto everything is published to the protocol so there’s no inherent internal community, the instance is just the infrastructure at that point, not a community.

Also in terms of expense I’ve seen it’s around $250 / month which equivalent to larger Lemmy instances, I think programming dev was around this price point so it’s not absurdly large. But it is at the point of why run this if I’m just hosting infrastructure and not creating a community.

I have been reading that some people are working on subdomain @'s (equivalent to Lemmy username@domain) within ATProto, which leads to more community interaction, but I think that’s still handled under the Domain federation not the PDS / Relay federation.

The fact that there is still to this date no alternative Bluesky server

This is true, but why would someone go out of their way to do this when all data ends up in the same firehose?

Three circumstances:

• Domain name federation: Currently live and implemented across the site, in fact I’ve done this.

• PDS (personal data) federation: You would ideally only host your own PDS to host your own data.

• Backup: You want to host a backup of all Firehose data for access by others (very valid case, but you’re paying to just host data that’s already available)

Any other circumstance it’s going to cost the host money for effectively no usecase. Sure people can do it but why would the host pay hosting fees? If Bluesky went down a path of introducing advertisements or became a pile of shit then there’s true incentive to host your own independent PDS/Relay/App View. I generally think people just aren’t understanding federation across Bluesky because it truly is a lot more complicated complicated than ActivityPub (some pros / some cons).

Where’d you order from?

Tbf a lot of the arguments against their federation capabilities here is that they make it hard to access, which is a much smarter decision from a user experience perspective. Majority of the general public has absolutely zero idea wtf federation and instances means and that’s okay, they just need a quick way to sign up and get using the platform.

Considering you can host your own PDS and Relay I would consider that close enough to federation that it should be included in fediverse discussions and shouldn’t splinter.

The big architectural difference is instead of AP federation with each instance it’s just one massive firehouse on the protocol (federation with all default) which absolutely has its benefits compared to ActivityPub.

Imo it’s bc it’s the new kid on the block. Yes it’s 10 years old but barely becoming common use in production and government mandates are only speeding that up. In actuality it’s a great language and has been hyped for a few years by people who actually use it. Python went through the same thing in the 2010s where devs really tried clowning on it, now it’s used everywhere.

Yeah 3.5 was pretty ass w bugs but could write basic code. 4o helped me sometimes with bugs and was definitely better, but would get caught in loops sometimes. This new o1 preview model seems pretty cracked all around though lol

Let’s not forget how will only buy electricity back at a variable yet, sell it at a static rate and keep the profit.

Also up charging a tax on selling electricity back into the grid for “use of their equipment”, which understandable i get but again c’mon.

The realistic progress needing to be done here is a battery storage solution as power needed during intense solar days is effectively 0% in California nowadays. We need to store that energy and use it during night but then it eats into PG&Es profits and we can’t have that can we?

Everything done under the guise of “progress” is helping a corporation somewhere.

Just another reason our election shouldn’t be entirely dependent on 10,000 people in Pennsylvania.

If you want to create an argument against Tesla this is not the way to do it, they are by far THE SAFEST car on the market despite their full autopilot failure.

Nice rule change, spectating those reviews always felt so weird.

As much as people around these parts despise algorithmic feeds, I suspect an algorithmic feed would’ve worked far better in this situation to feed all academic based content to someone immediately on account creation if they show interest/ follow peers in the field.

This would’ve helped the migration since they most likely don’t know the accounts of the Twitter accounts posting academic content as that was algorithmically fed as well. I’m really doubtful it’s a problem with decentralization, seems to me mastodon had a problem with both not having a critical mass and the content that was there wasn’t easy enough to find.

YMMV but my shin splints stopped bothering me when I started taking a Glucosamine / Chondroitin / Hyaluronic Acid supplement (solaray). Might be worth a shot, not really any downsides to trying.

Also Gastrocnemius calf and Achilles tendon stretches before sports helps me to avoid them.

Source as well: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-far-right-oppose-leftist-prime-minister-complicating-calculus-macron-2024-08-26/

I play basketball 2-3x a week in the same workout shirts. Eventually washing did not help get the stench out.

Soaking in oxi clean for 10-15 min then going through a regular wash has been the only thing that can get it back to fresh.

I haven’t used it but I’ve seen BoostCamp recommended a lot and it should have 5/3/1 weights and reps.

Personally really been enjoying Kagi for the past year.

Lol, curious if he’s truly day to day or will be out for the rest of the series