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the vast majority—up to 82%—of the links to false information in the dataset originated from conservative news domains.

I’m not sure what approach would work. As I understand it, it’s designed around the idea that all messages get routed through a monolithic “relay” which needs to see every single event from every user in order for any of them to get routed between the PDS nodes where user data gets stored.

Probably best to just add ActivityPub on top of it, if they really wanted to federate with anyone.

Just a hunch, but I think no decentralised network is going to run ATProto unless someone other than Bluesky forks it and makes the protocol changes that would allow that to be practical. I guess it’s possible, in theory?

When I looked at bsky it seemed to be about 60% pointing out stupid shit that Trumpists have recently said and done, and 30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.

the study suggests that individuals who deviate from their party norms are quickly treated as if they are a political enemy.

Is that “party” as in political party? Because I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in Canada it seems like the main polarization is between the Conservatives who have their shiny new Conservative party on one side, versus everybody else who doesn’t really have an official party they identify with all that much on the other side. It’s not yet like the USA with its seemingly-eternal two-party system. I wonder if it looks like that if you view it through Twitter.

And then there’s Lemmy, where you can always count on some helpful stranger who’s completely missed the point chiming in to tell you why you’re wrong.

That’s not how it was as of yesterday when I signed up just to see what all the fuss was about. (I don’t think I’ll be participating.)

Bluesky: You are immediately and automatically welcomed into the warm embrace of an algorithm that entices you into a parasocial relationship with the synthetic community it has created.

Mastodon: If you’re lucky you’ll stumble across a warm welcome for new users explaining how posts are called toots here, likes are called florps, and our version of Grok is called Garfiald.

Hello Internet commenters. Please remember that there’s no rule that says you need to tell us all your gut reaction to this if you know absolutely nothing about the situation.

Rule 1: Crushing people with tanks is fine so long as it’s our side doing it.

Literal fucking tankies. I wonder if they will ever come to their senses. Oh well, it’s not as if there aren’t Nazi instances somewhere on fedi as well.

Vim (and presumably neovim) will detect that it’s in “DOS mode” and hide the '^M’s for you. In vim you can just do “:set ff=unix” and then save.

I’m not quite paranoid enough to believe that all of these anti-VPN articles are propaganda sponsored by people who want to make mass surveillance easier, but when it’s from someone whose other recent posts include one titled “Youtube ads aren’t actually that bad” and two explaining why Google’s Manifest V3 is great, I’m at least going to suspect it as a possibility.

Yeah I’m not really convinced that systemd is less secure than anything else would be in actual practice. But if you want to address the theory that its much-maligned style of software development methodology leads to worse outcomes, the usual high-level argument would be that well-defined interfaces between replaceable components is what leads to a more robust system. For example having several available alterternatives for logging, such as syslog, syslog-ng, rsyslog, et cetera as opposed to everyone being pushed into additionally having systemd-journald running because the other systemd components just assume that it will be there.

There are certainly costs to the systemd style, it’s just a question of whether the benefits are worth it for you.

I suppose they probably did have equally trashy opinion pieces about the word hip in maybe 1972.

Sure its complexity and feature creep lead to endless bugs, dependency hell, and limited system configuration options, but such is the price of progress. The initial goal of saving multiple seconds of boot time on older hardware compared to the slowest of the older init systems has been finally achieved. Imagine if startup took 5 seconds instead of 4. Then where would we be? Probably still waiting for the Year of the Linux Desktop in 2024.

That’s not an atheist thing, you’re thinking of asantanists.

1879-1935

TIL you guys have been stuck with the same two political parties since the 1850s. No wonder they’ve gone a bit corrupt.

** for one very specific version of “best”

It seems unlikely that a 51% attack will do anything worse than the ~30000% attackers we currently deal with.

That you felt the need to use images instead of links exemplifies yet another reason search engines have trouble these days I guess. Interestingly, the search box on bsky.app is also unable to find it when I try from here. Mastodon search is often no better of course, but what with bluesky being completely monolithic and centralized you’d think it’d be easier for them.