A server will only pull in everything from a community once at least 1 person on that server subscribes. Then it will start pulling in every new post and comment as soon as they’re up.

/r/Tech, /r/Technology, /r/TechNews and others all exist. Which one is the “main” one?

Yeah, posts & comments can’t work in this way because each instance will have different ID numbers for their federated copy. I’m not even sure how to begin approaching this issue.

Jesus:

temperatures surged to more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Dhaka. Other cities such as Rangpur recorded a high of 41 degrees Celsius – the highest there since 1958.

Global warming is absolutely crushing certain countries. There’s going to be a lot of dead elderly and young children before all that is over.

It already says that at the top of the instances page

It’s not allowed in a lot of instances because the moderation is absolutely exhausting and sometimes NSFL material.

The only limiting factor here is admins + moderators of an instance willing to put themselves through that.

Definitely better than what we have! More info is better

So, there’s a fundamental issue here. A lot of the systems that Amanda is talking about aren’t actually AI.

Chat-GPT, contrary to the blogosphere, is not actually AI. It does not have the capability for thought. It doesn’t have the capacity to understand truth or fiction as concepts, let alone tell them apart.

Chat-GPT and similar systems are probabilistic language models. Essentially, I start it off with sentences (a list of tokens, if you want to get technical). Then it responds by essentially looking at the training data it’s been supplied with and picking out the sequence of tokens that most likely is the answer the user is expecting, given the input. Notice that bolded text? The user is expecting. Not anything else. These language models are trained to spit out what users expect, nothing more, nothing less. If a user doesn’t like the response, they give a thumbs down and the model recalibrates, introducing more noise and randomness into the result.

These language models are actually really great at reducing manual labor at certain tasks (writing cover letters, delivering predictable essays, I’ve personally used Chat-GPT for Shadowrun world-building) but they need to have a knowledgeable person using them because they absolutely will not reliably say true things. They will say whatever their training data says is the most likely thing the user is asking for.

Legitimately almost made my spill my beer xD

Yeah, AAA titles have been absolute trash in recent years. I’ve just been on indie games and a total simp for Paradox Interactive (sorry, I love grand strategy games) for quite a while now.

abraxas said he was a typescript vet just earlier, maybe we can coax him into having a look? xD

Worth a shot at least.

EDIT: Just shot him a message

You’re awesome man! This is direly needed. I’m just wondering how on earth to publicize this before the madness that hits on Monday.

Any chance you could find a place to fit this in the join lemmy site and do a pull request before then? I know it’s a lot to ask, but it would be huge.

Maybe you could bring it up with the Kbin devs? I’m sure it wouldn’t be too crazily difficult to have it work similarly over there. Just need to swap /c/ out for a /m/. Probably similar needed over here to translate /m/ to /c/ too.

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EDIT: W

Can confirm bang-prefixed is broken, c-prefixed works. At least from the website UI.

I’ll put up a github issue for it, maybe somebody can look at that

Do you mean at the technical level or UI level?

At the UI level, just have a look at https://kbin.social and you’ll see a lot of very familiar posts. Also their posts show up here, just like any normal post.

Mastodon is a bit trickier. If you put hashtags in your post text, I think it shows up like a “toot” for users following it? Sorry, not a Mastodon user, don’t really know how it works.

At a technical level, Lemmy is built on the ActivityPub protocol. It’s how Lemmy servers talk to eachother, it’s how Mastodon servers talk to eachother, and it’s how a hell of a lot more services talk. Best analogy I’ve heard is ActivityPub is like the email protocol for social media platforms.

All of the more fediverse-focused ones (fedditors, fedinauts, feddies, fedizens, etc) are definitely better. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy: we have users from Mastodon, Kbin and more seeing and replying to our posts. Let’s choose a name that reflects that :)

Also, just to prove a point, if you’re here from anywhere not Lemmy, say hello!

Nope, none at all. A signed off user is one that’s not causing server load :P

I hear you man. I went from active contributor to mostly lurking on Reddit, and it wasn’t even a conscious choice. Gradually, everything became very mechanistic. I knew what the top few comments would be before going to the comments. The churn became cyclic in nature.

After just a few days here, it was actually a little disconcerting how antagonistic and hostile people there are in the comments section. That’s just how people communicate, on a hair-trigger from flamewar.

I recognize your username, I saw what you wrote about SQL scaling. Can you imagine recognizing a username in a major subreddit in the reddit of today?

The dichotomy between the big communities which people subscribe to from all over Lemmy and the small meta/announcement/server issue communities for each individual instance is gonna be interesting to see develop as the userbase increases. Kinda like the difference between seeing people from your street everyday, then many more less familiar people in the city center.

It’s an open issue on their github. The main devs are way too busy to deal with it. I’m trying to grok as much Rust & Psql knowledge as I can to be able to contribute, but it’ll take a while. Anybody with Rust & Psql knowledge can contribute, the devs are open to any contribution to improve the platform