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Like the Elon flight tracker?

Hybrid cloud and multi cloud has been a buzzword for a bit.

Colocation or in-housing with your own clusters is slowly getting more practical, as long as you’re not dependent on a bunch of vendor specific APIs. Much less effort to port things that are already in containers.

Right wingers are being taught to believe all pushback against the beliefs fed to them are illegitimate and personal attacks, it’s cult like behavior to make it harder for them to learn and change.

Reddit admins are insanely biased towards right wingers. They talk about the same free speech bullshit while only allowing one side to speak freely.

They tolerated brigades organized by them for years despite brigades being prohibited, they allowed T_D to absolutely dominate the front page by vote manipulation until a huge majority of the site got too outraged (that’s when the 2 post cap/day per sub was set, along with ignoring votes on pinned posts). T_D screamed and screamed and screamed about being censored when that happened (nothing was even removed), and everybody else was happy reddit FINALLY AFTER YEARS did something, anything, to make the site a bit more usable again. Tons of left leaning subs were banned long before they ever touched any far right extremism.

The left wing bias you might have seen comes from moderators who actually have expertise on their subjects (like science subreddits), not from the admins

Insanity. You’re telling yourself that the groups which prides itself on hate are more receptive to you than groups which promotes cooperation and understanding? Maybe ask a psychiatrist what that says about you. You’re supposed to be tolerant to people who act in good faith, but nobody must be tolerant to hate.

The right is full of infighting too, but it’s about who is the most devoted to the dear leader. Challenge their arguments openly and you’ll see them act far worse than any leftist you’ve ever seen.

I hate them.

I run a cryptography forum on reddit (now here too). On reddit it’s /r/crypto. Before the random suggested usernames every spam operation had to make up their own random username scheme. They ended up being mostly distinguishable because they used patterns normal people didn’t. Now? A ton of users with limited activity are now indistinguishable from bots. So the subreddit has to be in restricted mode so only approved users can post, and for anybody with ambiguous post history I have to send them a request for more detail to be able to keep spammers out while still allowing genuine newbies to join to ask questions. Otherwise the spam volume just ends up being way too intense.

If China escalates to cause war in Asia when other countries are sufficiently pissed off by them trying to steal territory and harass others non-stop, then that plus a potential Chinese real estate market collapse could cause pretty serious problems in the region.

Manifest v2 extensions won’t work, the API it needs will be gone soon

To be pedantic, transparency mod bots exists on reddit and server admins can redact the log here.

Server admins can set up moderation filters to deal with stuff like that, and should be coordinating with each other on detected spam patterns, etc.

Infrastructure costs

Lemmy has language tags. Clients could offer integration with translation tools.

Lemmy is built around forums, which is very distinct from microblogging when it comes to moderation and management.

You don’t get the same kind of context collapse as on Twitter. You don’t get the same kind of dependency on server wide shared culture like on many niche Mastodon servers. Although context collapse still happens to some degree on reddit and may happen here when threads gets popular, it’s possible for forums to be moderated to minimize it and enforce quality. You don’t get nearly as many people trying to enforce their rules in others’ spaces, because forum makes it clear that it’s not “your feed” (like how some try to control what they see not with filters but instead by harassing people who post stuff they don’t like), here it’s somebody’s forum and somebody else is the moderator. You can stop seeing specific content by blocking those forums instead of blocking the users. Forums which you don’t interact with doesn’t affect you!

Because of how the federation works here, volume alone is never the main problem. Forums can be hosted on small instances just fine. Users on small instances can use big forums just fine. If a particular forum is poorly moderated it can be blocked regardless of where it’s hosted. Admins for small servers can filter content from problematic servers, regardless how big they are, and can do it on a per-forum basis too in order to avoid collateral.

Spurious defederation between servers where one has a lot of users is where the problems gets complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

It’s losing cost advantages as time goes. Long term storage is still on tape (and that’s actively developed too!), and flash is getting cheaper, and spinning disks have inherent bandwidth and latency limits. It’s probably not going away entirely, but it’s main usecases are being squeezed on both ends

It’s also what Google Maps live view is using. Street view imagery plus rough location plus on-phone camera sensor calibration data allows it to compute highly accurate positions relative to surroundings.

Taxing liquid capital is fairly straightforward, especially if it’s tied to income (like company founders owning shares).

Taxing non-liquid assets is complicated because it’s hard to make it fair in cases of family home inheritance and similar situations.

But taxing use of assets as collateral for loans (to create liquidity from a non-liquid asset) should be reasonably fair, it can be treated as an advance on capital gains taxes on the collateralized asset.

The scaling attack specifically can make a photo sent to you look innocent to you and malicious to the reviewer, see the link above

Of course a group of people could use violence to oppress other people. But then you no longer have anarchy.

The irony is that the amount of coordination needed to protect anarchism would no longer be called anarchism

You will always end up recreating some form of organizations to manage resources. The best you can do is ensure those organizations are structured with accountability to make sure they’re fair to everybody

There’s basically ideologues versus hateful people versus indifferent sociopaths (overlap is common)

I consider political ideologues and “technocrats” and extremely pedantic rule-following bureaucrats to be different flavors of ideologues (has a specific worldview they try to enforce / uphold)