462k are the people that have created an account, Lemmy actually has ~40k active users (and even then “active” just means they logged in once this month). I do share the sentiment that not everything has to be super popular but Lemmy really could use more people.

Also the title is so misleading because it acts like it’s missing a vital component when most people really wouldn’t care about alternate covers…

Yeah, a lot of manufacturers are just bad. I knew people who had Dell and MSI laptops and those things feel like toys. Cheap plastic and very wobbly hinges. The only manufacturer I genuinely trust is Lenovo. My Legion is a bit thick but I can at least rest easy that it’s built well.

It’s not ideal, but you’re getting probably the best hardware in the market in return. The M series still dominates Windows CPUs, and the build quality on most $1000 laptops leaves a lot to be desired.

Seriously. I don’t doubt a lot of effort is going into it but I’ve been hearing “gimp 3 soon” for like 3 years now

The post is from 2 years ago but it does pose an important question which few people really talk about. The Fediverse isn’t scaling.

Any distributed system is inefficient, for one, because it lacks the economy of scale.

Sure, it’s probably worth the tradeoff, but what happens when we actually get so many people that servers start to collapse? Lemmy has ~45k active users, but let’s say we jump to 1 million active users. Small servers will stop working due to too much traffic, medium servers will need way more money to process the thousands of images per day, large servers will become too centralized. We’re already slowly going that way with the instance count steadily going down and users/instance going up.

None of this matters now but within the next 5, 10 years I think we really need a game plan in order for these platforms to succeed. You can’t just increase the servers to spread the load, the load on all instances is steadily going up.

That’s hilarious. Even when Kick isn’t the one doing anything, there always seems to be drama surrounding it.

FYI the title is misleading, it was apparently scripted and it doesn’t seem like Kick will be paying her $50k.

Why would a game connect to the fediverse…?

We did, it’s old news. This happened 2 weeks ago.

It’s big. According to Wikipedia they gained 30.5 million dollars in 2022 and have almost 170 employees - not mentioning probably hundreds of other volunteers. It sounds simple in concept but storing petabytes of data safely and maintaining complex software and hardware for it is impressive. That’s why there aren’t really any alternatives to it.

They’re also much bigger than just the wayback machine, they have multiple projects like OpenLibrary which is a goodreads alternative and scans books to read online. The IA is also under constant legal fire for archiving copyrighted materials so I bet they spent millions of dollars on that alone.

Yeah, it’s a weird blunder to not have rotated keys after being breached. I’m not familiar with how the org works but it sounds like they don’t have a dedicated security guy, which is weird for something of that size.

Ugh. And here I was hoping they’d bring back the rest of their systems online soon, but it seems like their security is in shambles and we may be looking at a few months until IA is fully back online.

The Llama 3.1 models are probably the best all-rounders, with the Llama 3.1 8B version being the most popular.

I don’t know if this was requested before but I really want there to be a way to see all comments throughout crossposted threads. It sucks that there are so many crossposts that have like 1-2 comments each. I want to see all discussion about a post at the same time.

Their problem is that these answers affect their bottom line.

It’s more complicated than that. Adding friction and paywalls will quickly kill their userbase, requiring a proof of identity or tracking users is a privacy disaster and I’m sure many people (especially here) would outright refuse to give IDs to companies.

They’re more like a compromise than a real solution. Even then, they’re probably not foolproof and bots will still manage.

Not even the biggest tech companies have an answer sadly… There are bots everywhere and social media is failing to stop them. The only reason there aren’t more bots in the Fediverse is because we’re not a big enough target for them to care (though we do have occasional bot spam).

I guess the plan is to wait until there’s an actual way to detect bots and deal with them.

I notcied the new update as soon as it dropped. The devs really did a fantastic job, everything about the UI is cleaner and easier to use.

This reads like an ad. They claim to use 1000 times less data than proprietary models, except nobody knows how much data they use or how big proprietary models actually are. Also there’s a giant asterisk here they fail to mention: Molmo outperforms the competition at visual benchmarks, not actual text chat.

Personally I never reached a point where I had to use any kind of storage software. All you need is a good external storage and a little bit of organization.

If anyone is serious about data storage I would honestly choose external SSDs or an enclosure that supports SSDs. I’ve had terrible experiences with hard drives failing over the years or clicking and corrupting my data.