A 6 hour long that goes through all the major parts sof the video game history. One of the best video essays I've watched
> Popular news aggregation and discussion website Reddit has changed its terms of service, allowing users to earn, purchase or sell currencies and items that can be cryptographically verified. The change in terms also explicitly outlined a clear separation in the definition of non-tokenized Web 2 virtual goods and tokenized Web 3 virtual goods, with a member of the Reddit product team disclosing plans to sunset the former.
www.cyentia.com
> Over the last 3 weeks of our data (June 21 to July 12, 2023), we saw a weekday daily tweet count drop from the 1,272 pre-Elon average to just 333 tweets a day, which is about a 74% drop in weekday tweets. The 2-week rolling average (including weekends) dropped down to 272 tweets over the final 2 weeks. When I attempt to remove automated CVE announcements (bots), the drop is even more significant, dropping from over 500 a day down to 66 over the last two weeks, an 87% decrease in CVE-related tweets. Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36780739 From the discussion it seems most of the infosec people have moved over to Mastodon already which is nice.
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That's true, duplicate copies of the same book is perhaps the main pain on bookwyrm right now. On the other hand it also feels like a problem that devs must be aware of and are actively trying to figure out a solution for.
Goodreads is perhaps the best example of enshittification imo. It's only good now as a way to track your reading lists. I tried bookwyrm today and it feels quite polished already, like giving you a guided tour of it's features. Hopefully it takes off as well similar to mastodon and lemmy.
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If you want fan translated chapters - Mangadex
for official translations - Mangasee
for both - Comick
if you want to download them you can either use tools like tachiyomi, hakuneko or fdm2 that allows you to ddl from most major sites or use nyaa if you are comfortable with torrenting.
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It depended on how you used reddit. They were extremely fast, had no ads, trackers or javascript so were extremely privacy friendly. But they were read only so you couldn't engage with the reddit content through them.
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It's an interesting thing to ponder and my opinion is that like many other things in life something being 'OC' is a spectrum rather than a binary thing.
If I apply a B&W filter on an image is that OC? Obviously not
But what if I make an artwork that's formed by hundreds of smaller artworks, like this example? This definitely deserves the OC tag
AI art is also somewhere in that spectrum and even then it changes depending on how AI was used to make the art. Each person has a different line on the spectrum where things transition from non OC to OC, so the answer to this would be different for everyone.
[Libreddit](https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/840) is going down as well. The silver lining here is that both of them are wholeheartedly recommending lemmy as the alternative, so it should provide an extra push to those on the fence about migrating
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Instance admins can setup a slur filter for their instance, which automatically removes that word from ever appearing on that particular instance.
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If you want some method of making all filenames have same format, use advanced renamer
If you want something to automatically fetch metadata, use calibre or YAClibrary.
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Yea some countries have strict piracy laws, that's why using a VPN and following basic privacy becomes necessary while pirating.
Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36709895
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Ahh yes this is one of my favorite quotes and one I think about a lot.
www.theverge.com
More Links https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/12/twitter-block-threads-links/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/twitter-blocks-links-to-rival-threads-while-ceo-downplays-reports-of-traffic-decline/ https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/11/twitter-is-blocking-threads/
Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673040
I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.
> They allege that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's LLaMA chatbots were trained on datasets that included their copyrighted books, without their permission. The datasets in question were allegedly obtained from "shadow library" websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. These websites are known for distributing pirated content.
For those not aware nitter is an opensource twitter frontend which has no ads or javascript. Now it also bypasses the rate limits and other restrictions.
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This is probably outdated since feddit federates with us, I even joined some of their communities.
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Right now it's not even mastodon compatible let alone lemmy. There are some arguments on how federating with them will allow people to migrate to a more privacy respecting instance and still view threads content, and some users say this will allow them to still communicate with their friends who don't want to switch away from threads.
So while we do lean towards defederating from it, it's some months away before we need to actually decide and till then we are simply listening to and discussing both sides of the argument.
This [post](https://lemmy.world/post/1293336) explains the incident well but long story short some hackers were able to compromise user and admin accounts through stolen authentication cookies on some instances. Before things were clear on exactly how this happened, we pulled the plug on our instance to mitigate the risk. We probabaly should have hastily wrote an announcment post before doing that but the situation seemed critical so we didn't want to waste any time. Few hours later, people were able to figure out the issue and promptly fix it. Turns out this vulnerabilty could only be exploited if an instance had custom emojis which thankfully ours didn't, so users using this instance should be safe from the hack. lemmy.fmhy.ml now runs on v18.2rc which has fixed this vuln to be extra secure. Sorry for the downtime and we will try to communicate the problem better in the future. P.S. After somone mentioned exploding-heads on a recent post and why we are still federated with it, we took some time to view it carefully and decided it's an instance that systematically breaks our rules and to defederate with it. We will shortly post our defederation policy soon to give a better idea on how we will decide on which instance to defederate from moving forward.
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that community got famous so naturally will have more posts now, can't do (or should) anything about it imo. Thanks for thinking about the instance though.
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Nope, but they look fine to me. Can you share an example
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fyi they have added themes now so you might find a look that suits your tastes better, if none of them do then you can raise an issue on thier github or add an external theme
Announcement post: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/695504 Github release page: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.1 This version had some major backend optimizations, so lemmy now uses much less resources and should feel a whole lot more snappier. I also compiled a list of some more noticeable changes that have come with this version: ## Features - Captchas are added back. - When you delete your comment, they are now permanently deleted from the database after 30 days (used to be just hidden before). - Federated posts with sensitive images are not cached on local instance if not allowed by the local site. This means such images won't be stored on local servers and would instead rely on image URL. - More sorting options for your feed (with some more like 'best' coming in future updates) - Community sorting options in community tab. - Retain Scroll Position of Home Feed when going back. - Searching for a community for the first time on an instance now gives result much faster. - Body posts text limit increased from 10k to 50k characters. - When hovering, most buttons now show a focus border. - If image size you're trying to upload is more than the allowed size on the instance, it now shows the proper reason of upload failure. ## UI - Base font size slightly decreased and better use of horizontal space for the home page, making overall UI feel much better. - Themes are now added to lemmy, including litely-compact and darkly-compact for people who like their feeds more compact. - Body Preview is removed from posts on home feed (there's now a button to expand a post). - Only child comments now have colored borders. - OP, mod and admin tags are now more prominent on comments. - Private message and Create Post UX improved. ## Fixes - Kbin federation is now better so more posts from there should be visible - Subscribe and Block button were sometimes not clickable on first load. This has been fixed. - Upvoting sometimes caused the page to scroll to previous comment, this has been fixed. - Video Embeds now work the same as other content. - Search request being called twice on search page. - Images no longer auto collapse when they were expanded and upvoted. - Avatars aspect ratios fixed (no longer smooshed). - A 300 comment limit is now imposed on posts to prevent a vulnerability abuse. This is temporary until the vulnerability is fixed. This is also a good time to ask how people are feeling about the instance, and if you have any suggestions on things that can be improved. And once again, if you encounter any bugs after the update, please write them in the comments so we can fix them.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but from what I've seen about it seems like a Mastodon/Twitter alternative? Lemmy really doesn't have anything to do with it since we can't even view mastodon posts here.
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Oh we had censored some words like removed and removed since we got ad posts in the beginning of instance, it seems that had some negative effects. we'll remove those filters now, thanks for catching that error.
Saw my message just says removed lol, pretty good example of unintended consequences.
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users won't want to use an instance that can't view content from threads (since that where's most content would be), but they'll be much more open to joining an open source instance that federated and views stuff from there as well.
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One of my favorite communities here glad to see it grow
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looking at the app it seems it's launched with just local content feed with a promise of being mastodon compatible in the future. I guess specifically to generate some unqiue content so people join.
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I'm totally willing to discuss my thoughts since it seems I'm in the minority on this threads mania-
Once Threads launches it'll obviously have a lot more users than the whole fediverse combined, maybe even 90% of all users. Now let's say some instances with barely 1-2% users and small content feed defederate from it. Do people think a new user who does not care about things like open source or privacy will join the niche instance? No, people will go where the content is. Big social media giants will jump on fediverse bandwagon and instances who dont fetch their data will become extremely niche communtites (some might like that but it's not good for overall fediverse health).
Instead let's say we keep federated with threads, and make posts like how YSK: other instances don't track your data, other instances are free from corpo greed, other instances are run by normal people etc etc and make users aware and let them naturally migrate. Ideally, meta will bring the eyeballs which we can help to make fediverse as a whole grow.
imo it's naive to think that us 100k users defederating will put even a dent on threads. Insta tik-tok people will join the new trendy social media and generate content. The only solution is to make people constantly aware that better alternatives to view the same content exist.