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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@quanin It’s harder for sites like rblind.com. We get spammers using AI to answer the question.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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dream, racism, historical inaccuracy, strangeness, long post, anti-black and anti-Irish prejudice

@lynessence I practiced a lot as a teenager. Dream recall is the first step to lucid dreaming. I still remember one or two dreams a night even though I never managed to lucid dream. I just only share the interesting ones. Last nights was something stupid about getting a job at a gym called Hanks happy hangout, that was some sort of dungeons and dragons themed fitness membership. It was deeply incoherent. My primary job was coaching people who wanted to turn into elves through the appropriate workouts. Sadly I no longer remember the training routine guaranteed to turn you into an elf in three months or your money back.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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Every time I update the iOS beta it resets my audio ducking settings. Annoying. But it is a beta, after all.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@lynessence @tjolsen The vibe on Bluesky is...okay. Because of how it works, nobody ever really gets banned. So there are lots of blocklists and moderation services you can subscribe to, and it comes with one by default. But it's really not possible to just defederate entire servers full of idiots the way it is on Mastodon/the fediverse.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@tjolsen @lynessence I use Enafore myself. It runs in the browser, but you can use forms mode and navigate it by hotkeys. Tweesecake has a bunch of other issues with displaying formatted posts, sometimes not detecting links, not easily allowing filtering and muting, etc. Plus I'm not running Mastodon and haven't for years.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@tjolsen @lynessence Correct. Tweesecake doesn’t work with anything but standard mastodon. Not even go to social or akoma.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@bot It sure isn’t!

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

dream, racism, historical inaccuracy, strangeness, long post, anti-black and anti-Irish prejudice

My entire night last night was taken up with a long, involved #WeirdDream. Apparently my subconscious is both racist and terrible at history. I'm sharing because it was so detailed, long, and nonsensical that it's kind of impressive. As it opened, I was somehow teleported to what the dream called 1700's New York City. I decided that the best way to become wealthy and successful would be to invent the record player, years before Edison was even born! Unfortunately, I put tons of effort into it (somehow involving origami tinfoil birds), without realizing the obvious flaw: why would anyone buy a record player, when it's cheaper just to pay an Irish girl a penny and she'll come to your house and sing for you? As everyone but me probably already knows, every single street corner in 1700's New York City had an absolutely identical Irish girl clone on it. Same voice, same appearance, same clothes, and apparently no name or anything. But all the Irish girls could sing, and they all knew the same songs. If you taught one Irish girl a new song, all of the other ones would just immediately know it. So record players were just unnecessary and expensive! Thankfully, I had a second idea to ensure my wealth and success: I invented a slide projector, and an easy way to create slides that involved crystals, lenses, and movable type. It went gangbusters! The New York Times loved it, and said "Thanks to the invention of PowerPoint, mankind has achieved the pinnacle of human civilization." Unfortunately for me, not everyone was happy, and I found myself betrayed by the New York City police (all of whom were absolutely identical Irish men) who were still upset about the record player thing. They allowed me to be kidnapped by what my dream ambiguously identified as an African tribe. The tribe put me on a ship and we sailed to the jungle (lots of rocking and floating sensations), where the chief started to yell at me. He was upset because now that I had given the white man the mighty PowerPoint, his entire culture would be unable to survive, and the whites would surely use PowerPoint to exterminate all of them. Fortunately for me, I figured out how to dematerialize my hands (it felt extremely tingly, and I'm pretty sure my real hands had fallen asleep at this point) and slip them out of the handcuffs. Then the dream turned into a silly action sequence involving swinging on vines and climbing trees as I tried to escape the jungle. Lots of rocking and swinging and falling, and I think I was starting to wake up. Then my alarm went off and I woke up completely before my jungle escape could get resolved. Anyway, now I pretty much have the entire plot for a new 1920's style pulp fiction book for boys. Tom Swift And His Electric Slide Projector, maybe? Good grief, I have absolutely no idea where all of that nonsense came from. Yet it somehow felt meaningful; something about how bureaucracy is the first requirement for genocide, and slavery only goes away when the alternatives are cheaper, maybe? I dunno. But it was one of the extremely rare (for me) dreams where I woke up and felt like I was supposed to take...something...away from that experience. I just wish I knew what.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@jscholes @Jage I will be surprised if Bluesky can last even ten years. The fediverse, though, will probably just plug along literally for ever. In the same way that IRC does; nobody uses it, but it all still exists. But unlike IRC, ActivityPub is flexible enough to modernize. So I doubt it'll ever have the hypergrowth that Bluesky has. But every year, a few thousand more will join. And it'll slowly eat everything else, in the same way that HTTP ate pretty much everything.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@project1enigma I suspect that some kind of CSAM scanning will get built into the relays. But of course, that means even more resources are required, in order to scan all images in Realtime.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@Jage Personally I'd rather try to build a home and identity on something that can't be ripped out from under me like Twitter was. Moving is difficult, annoying work. Not just because you need decent apps for the new thing, but because it can take years to figure out what the new thing even is, and longer for everyone you care about to go there.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@jscholes Yes, it was a huge problem for Lemmy, with people taking over accounts and communities and posting child porn, specifically to discredit the software. rblind.com doesn't host external images for that reason. However, it was obvious exactly what was happening, and it could be cleaned up fairly easily.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@Jage They talk a lot about AtProto and how decentralized they are. And Twitter promised to be open with the API too, remember? That sure didn't last. Yet Bluesky has some of the same people involved with it (like Jack) as Twitter did. And they'll be just as willing and able to sell everyone out at some future date.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@Jage Agreed. And that's why I dislike bluesky. They're using the word decentralized in ways that I believe are deceptive, and make it difficult for people to understand just how bluesky and the fediverse are different.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@Jage Yes, but I'd like to not use them. My issue with Bluesky is that it's pretending to be decentralized in the same way Mastodon is, when that's just not true. And I suspect a lot of people are going to get a nasty surprise when the corporations eventually sell out Bluesky for a buck. At least Discord isn't advertising itself as decentralized, or pretending that that sort of thing could never happen.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@jscholes Yes, but for that data to hit your server, you'd have to be following the person who posted it. So the odds are much higher that you either wanted it, are willing to risk it, or will at least find out about it. If you're running a bluesky relay, it gets everything anyone anywhere ever posts. Doesn't matter if you follow or interact with them or not.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

@Jage But on Mastodon and the fediverse, you have hundreds of servers to choose from. If someone doesn't like you or want to provide you an account, you can go elsewhere. With Bluesky, you're only ever likely to have a choice of one or two places you can go, because the expenses are so high. And those places will all be run by large corporations, with all of the attendant problems (advertising, selling your data, etc.).

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

For some comparison, my single-user #iceshrimp instance is currently using about 3 gigs of ram, and 2 gigs or so of SSD. And that's huge! I have compute to throw at it, so I joined all of the large relays, I follow several hundred people, and I turned all of the configuration nobs as hard as I could to optimize for speed, rather than limiting resources. If you want to host yourself a home on the #fediverse, your resource usage is going to be significantly less than mine. But unlike with #bluesky, you'll be controlling all of the infrastructure you need.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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criticism of bluesky as I come to understand it more deeply

The primary reason #bluesky will never be decentralized is because the resource requirements are way too high. Yes, you can host a #PDS (personal data server) if you like, and that will provide you control of your own personal data. However, you're still dependant on someone else to host a relay, in order for your PDS to become part of the network. Hosting a relay seems to need upwards of 3 TB of SSD storage, and a ton of memory. And once you get that done, you need to host an app view, in order to make use of all of the data on the relay. While that's not quite ready for primetime yet, when it is, it ain't gonna be cheap. Based on what I can understand, an app view needs to index all data on the bluesky network, in realtime. This is the kind of architecture that only our VC funded #capitalist big tech masters could actually afford to deploy. So if, when you say "decentralized", you mean that Google, Microsoft, and Apple could each afford to run a shard of the network, sure it's decentralized. But if you mean that Joe and her homelab could run any useful portion of the network, it is in no way decentralized, and never will be. Even if compute prices come down to the point where small organizations could afford to deploy this sort of thing, you've still got the logistical nightmare that the relay hosts all of the data. From everyone. NAZI's, pedophiles, if you run a relay, all of that data is going to be passing through your server. Content labels and blocklists mean you might never see it, but if you run a bluesky relay, it still exists.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@alexhall That’ll do it. If a post has both formatted and text only versions, tweesecake grabs the formatted version, but then can’t actually display the formatting.

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