That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.

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  • The Threadiverse is definitely not ready for “normies”. Even if we ignore the extremism, the on-boarding, UX, service provision stability, topical coverage is not at the point where normies can join.

    I’ve told people about the Fediverse as a concept, but I haven’t suggested anyone try it, as I don’t think it’s ready.

    I will note that I personally think the federated model isn’t inherently too complex, it just needs better UI/UX and the network needs to be larger (e.g. 1 M MAU, 50 K DAU with coverage of at least 5 major langauges).

    I am not really sure there is any magical solution to dealing with extremism. Better mod tools, a development focus on automated admin work will help, but I don’t think it will solve the root cause. IMO it’s not technical problem, it’s a social issue that’s also present in mainstream corporate network (albeit it can be more subtle there).


  • Thanks for sharing!

    From my perspective, the best way to deal with toxicity (whatever that might be for a given individual) is to have multiple accounts and to have regular “time out” periods where you only use the non-politics accounts. This is of course not viable if you are a single admin.

    Then there is the issue of making the most of a bad situation. Even though for me tankies are mortal enemies (including the Lemmy Devs), I see usage of Lemmy (well the Threadiverse) being a less worse choice than using American commercial social media.

    With the Threadiverse, there is a weak light at the end of the tunnel. We may never get there, but it’s there. On the other hand American social media is an intellectual, moral and even economic (I am actually serious about this) dead end. That’s why I use the Threadiverse, although I am trying to slowly move off Lemmy to Piefed for obvious reasons.

    Just sharing some thoughts in context of your very justified comments on the Threadiverse. I am not necessarily trying to change your mind or prove anything. :)












  • Earlier this year, Indonesia’s Attorney General announced an investigation into why authorities chose Chromebooks as client devices when a pilot of the machines pointed out they’re not useful without reliable internet connections – a situation that’s common across Indonesia.

    That’s a really bad outcome. To be fair, Google itself doesn’t seem to be directly involved (although they had to have known about this limitation).







  • The GPU shroud is made up of 5kg or 11 pounds of pure 24-karat gold, upping the weight of the GPU to 7.2kg or 15.9 pounds. To put things into perspective, most RTX 5090 GPUs weigh anywhere from 2.5 to 3.0 Kg, making Asus’s newest showcase GPU 3 times heavier.

    Why would you ever want a ~7 kg GPU, this makes it objectively worse than a regular high-end 5090. They could have used minimal gold coating and diamonds to keep the bling factor while maintaining a more reasonable weight.

    Also it doesn’t seem there are any true product benefits over the ROG Astral RTX 5090. For such a price, I would expect them to source the best binned GPU chips on the planet and other unique features.




  • Definitely. I’ve been on the Threadiverse for a while now.

    The problem is that ML is such a prominent instance and the lead devs are degenerate tankies.

    And I don’t use the word degenerate lightly or as a generic insult.

    Claiming (without irony) that North Korea is good place to live and their political system has been discredited by a vast capitalist conspiracy led by the BIA is a sign of true degeneracy. It doesn’t even matter if they are engaging in demagoguery or not.