@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-08-26 19:43:14
if you’re going to paste multiple paragraphs of AI slop at least have the decency to make AI summarize it down to two words or less first (preferably zero words if possible)
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-08-26 19:43:14
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-23 10:27:27
To fediverse admins:
If you see an attempt to create a copy of a Gaza Verified member’s account on your server, without having heard from me first, please suspend it and get in touch with me if you can.
I have asked the Gaza Verified members not to migrate their accounts without telling me first so I can reach out to one of our friendly server admins (…
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social2025-10-23 06:11:55
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115382255162970844
The Fediverse programmer's OS use poll has just ended with 6,064 votes, and 1.1K boosts (thank you.)
Linux or Unix came up first with a whooping 3,453 votes (57%), followed by Ma…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-09-18 17:31:40
The Danish independent media organisation @… are on a member drive with 10 promises if they make it to 50,000, including that they'll share more on social media. I can dream they'll make it to the #fediverse I suppose?
In any case their journalism is outstanding and they carefully avoid making an explicit political stance and contributing to polarisation. #UnbreakingNews
In depth journalism you can read or listen to (try deepL if you don't speak Danish), often beautifully produced, always fascinating. They also don't report on problems without reporting solutions.
It's by far the most uplifting read/listen of my day.
Free link here, pay what you want and free to first time voters...
https://www.zetland.dk/a/rmottram?og=amba25-8
@avalon@jazztodon.com2025-09-13 03:01:19
The trouble with Louis Armstrong's first movie is, well, there are two troubles, one is that it was widely considered dull, but beyond that while widely praised for the music, it is apparently missing.
I'm thinking, if anyone can find it, Fediverse can.
It did play Canada, including #Toronto in January 1931 and
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.social2025-08-22 02:20:21
Gamers are like mostly non-existent on the fediverse.
If they are all hanging out at Lemmy we won't see them in the fediverse...
They will be invisible and perhaps that's their goal?
Maybe they never believed in the fediverse in the first place and they like being "hidden".
At least when we talkin' open source / FLOSS gamers
#gaming
@askans@bonn.social2025-08-19 06:47:34
First time that I made a purchase on the #fediverse
via https://bandwagon.fm from @…
@pre@boing.world2025-10-18 10:48:22
Content warning: dot gov on bluesky
Apparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-08 16:27:33
The third-party app store known as AltStore,
one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union,
is preparing to connect its platform with the open social web known as the fediverse.
The move would connect users on other open social apps,
like Mastodon or Meta’s Threads,
with updates from apps in a new way.
In addition, the startup is announcing its first funding round from outside investors,
with a $6 million Se…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-07 16:30:50
AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-st…
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2025-10-17 21:04:08
It flipped 20m before I arrived at home. Being angry at first that I missed it so close to take a very comforting picture.... I then decided to welcome it as a way to trigger #fediverse‘s #innerMonk . You're welcome
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-09-17 20:32:12
My first quoot!
https://kind.social/@Fruan/115219774480090854
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza2025-10-12 17:07:19
Hello #fediverse
I am happy to share my blog post on #GitRaven project.
This post has been stuck on Drafts for so long! I am happy it's out :)
This is my first C project as well as my first Qt project. Some of you might remember my
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-16 20:25:36
Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-10-14 07:59:27
The (bridged) Bluesky mirror of this account keeps record of the first drafts of my posts on Mastodon (before edits). A wall of shame, if you will:
https://bsky.app/profile/cellfourteen.social.petertoushkov.eu.ap.brid.gy
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-08-07 14:21:59
@… @… @… is it too late for me to uproot my entire family and move to portland first
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-07-31 21:52:36
@… I would not expect this to work without a few changes first. First step would be an internals change to add an export for Core.js over using Eleventy.js — this skips a lot of the file system stuff
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-02 10:22:21
Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-09-06 15:19:29
@… look, the first step is admitting I have a problem
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.social2025-08-08 18:48:25
Like put Wikibase in the fediverse already, come on!
What?
Are you waiting for the downfall of democracy first?
GET ON IT!
#fediverse #Wikibase #GetOnIt
@levi@social.linux.pizza2025-08-27 06:12:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-rElTzR_4
I know, it's kind of ironic, posting this on a social network like the Fediverse. At least we only get stuff by real people in our feed here and - most importantly - only content of people we want to follow in the first place.
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-08-29 16:52:04
Is my host fast yet? is a web host TTFB (Time to First Byte) leaderboard: https://ismyhostfastyet.com/?client=mobile