lemm.ee admin did setup crowdfunding option and the needed amount was filled quite fast, so i guess it is more about whether or not the admin of the instance have technical ability and will to upscale the solution with rising number of users.
it might get different story once the normal users start surpassing the early adopters in numbers (the penetration of people willing to contribute might get gradually lower).
that is total nonsense. these smaller instances do cost money as well. so either million people needs to collectively shell out money to run one big instance, or they have to collectively shell out money running million small instances. the latter will cost more money when you sum that up.
so, if you want the fediverse to stay healthy, people have to pay for it, one way or the other. your economic perpetum mobile does not really work how you think it does.
again, your “lot of small instances” scenario is more expensive than few big ones, because there is a lot of unneccesary overhead.
that is not to say that there should be only big instances, but you really seem to think you have invented some perpetuum mobile, and let me assure you - you did not.
if you have enough admins willing to run small instances and finance them out of their own pockets, these same people can just contribute money to some bigger instance instead.
and vice versa - if you’d end up in scenario where you don’t have enough people to finance the big instance, why do you think these same people would be suddenly willing to finance the small ones AND add some admin work on top of the money? (which they may be lacking both time and skill to do)
also this is totally academic discussion, you are just drafting catastrophic scenario for which you have no basis in reality. just look at the wiki and you will see that people will pay for thing they consider useful.
There is an “offgrid” community on slrpnk.net. I would like to interact with that community from waveform.social. How can I create that community on waveform.social as a federated community, not as a separate new one?
there is also “lemmy universal link switcher” - lemm.ee/post/530506 - which automatically converts all links you meet to links within your own instance.
there is a downside to using it though - reading threads like the one we are in right now is extremely confusing, because all the suggested links are already converted 🤣
tha happens when you are first person from your instance trying to access that remote instance for the first time. you have to reload and it should work fine after that.
i think while it is interesting philosophical question, in reality we would get used to it quite quickly. every time you get in a car you place lot of trust in people driving in the opposite direction. everyone of them can be drunk or just a moron and every car ride can be your last. and in spite of that we don’t really give it a second thought and it usually works out just fine.
that makes two of us, i am not really sure what you are trying to say.
your “consciousness” is just a result of biochemical processes in your brain. if you have the ability to create a copy of your body on a molecular level, then that new copy has your consciousnes, your memories, it is you. so if you create new copy and don’t destroy the old one, there are now two of you. if you destroy the original, then there is only one of you, possibly in different location.
from the point of view of your copy, it is no different than you going to sleep and then waking up. you have no idea what was going on with your body during the sleep. you simply accept all the memories you have as yours and move on with your day.
the original pressumably didn’t experience any gruesome death, no one is shooting it in the face. you just closed your eyes and then opened them at new location. what is the difference from going to sleep and then waking up?
not necessarily. having the transporter means we have figured out how to make exact one to one copy of an object on a molecular level. that doesn’t mean we understand how the informations in human brain are organized and that we can change them.
Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
Edit: alright I'm sticking this up here because a number of people seem confused--this post isn't trying to convince you that "fediverse" is a bad term--rather it's a discussion of why I think "threadiverse" is a good umbrella term, for the forum-based part of the fediverse specifically. (lemmy+kbin)...
i think it is a joke. people who are staying on reddit right now are doing that because they don’t care about fediverse and are still happy with scrolling through w/e they are scrolling on reddit right now. if that changes in the future, it is not going to be because someone changes fediverse to threadiverse.
Early adopters not caring about branding is one of the reasons their software stays in a minority
that is absolute nonsense. it is the product that makes the brand, not the other way around. if you have good product, you will make word-class brand from random mix of characters like “google”. if you have bad product, no brand is going to help you.
that is not to say that fediverse is bad product, it is purely comment on people overestimating the almighty brand.
I’m not saying that it’s vital we have a good name to sum up this segment of the fediverse for it to succeed; I’m saying it’ll probably succeed faster if we have one.
i am saying it does not matter. people go to buy/use product or service because it is good product, not becaus it has nice name.
beside, i question your idea that threadiverse is for some strange reason better than fediverse. it is longer, harder to pronounciate and write, and people really do not care whether it is somehow mix of four different words.
perhaps I wasn’t clear enough; but I’m not saying fediverse is a bad term that needs replacing; nor am I saying the threadiverse won’t succeed if it’s not called the threadiverse– I’m saying that fediverse is a broad term that encompasses all of the connected sites here; not just the thread-based forum ones–it’s a broad umbrella term, and a good one.
i get that part, but i am saying that the name is not a reason why people did or did not came here and will have zero name on the speed of the migration.
people who are here now are mostly people who are fans of opensource and were willing to go through the birth problems because of that. they did not came because of the name.
the rest of the people will number of their friends here reach some critical mass for them to notice.
you have live example of this in musk trying to rebrand twitter right now. he thinks he will change the clusterfuck he created by changing the name, but he doesn’t get that name is not the problem and will have zero effect.
unless you have real name for changing the brand (like two companies merged and you want the branding to reflect that), changing the brand is usually desperate act of clueless manager who just doesn’t have better idea.
You’re perfectly entitled to disagree, but I’d appreciate it if you didn’t try to shut down productive discussion just because you personally don’t see the need for more specific terminology.
having opposite opinion is not "shutting down the discussion"
you are overestimating my powers - i can guarantee that people will say their piece without regards to what i did or did not say ;)
asks if it can be used as a default ui on a server
that is irrelevant. the point is, that this is considered desktop solution. it is expected that everyone uses some kind of app on the phone, so the fact that it renders too wide on your iphone is irrelevant.
it is clearly stated this is a desktop solution, so keep complaining it doesn’t work on your iphone. i am sure if you add little more sarcasm, it starts making sense.
oh. i think i finally get your objection, although it is still unbelivable to me. are all iphone apps that bad that you would rather use the web interface?
deleting works like that. when you delete a comment, you delete it from your own instance where you created it, but it is not deleted from all the other instances where it propagated meanwhile.
i think the point is to not ruin your body so when you get old, you don’t have to end up in a wheelchair. to prevent the problem, not help you manage it when it is already too late.
If you are 80 and you can walk around with the confidence of when you were 18 using some kind of exoskeleton thing, I mean it’s hard to put into words how much that would mean?
i totally understand. i did not mean to say that seniors should not get it. when you are young and it helps you, like the guy in the video, you should absolutely be able to get one and when you get older and could use one no matter what happened before, you should be able to get one as well.
mechs for everybody!
i also agree with your bikestory, that is definitely going to be useful for a lot of people as they get cheaper. i am glad it is working for you.
I can press on main post pics and take a closer look, but comment pictures not only don’t zoom in, but if there’s a way to open them in a browser for a closer look, I can’t find it....
oh. sorry, misses that. i have same problem in jerboa, i think it is just not possible there. if you really need the image, than possible workaround is copy link and open it in browser instead of jerboa, but that is really just emergency measure.
. I would’ve posted as text if that formatting was available.
when creating the post, there is a text field for title and body. filling the url link or image is not necessary.
so my first objection is about the form. you could use a text, or you could use a link - bash.org/?quote=5273
turning a text to image is absolutely horrible thing to do - you turned what could have been 28 bytes into 17 kilobytes, so you increased the size by a factor of 600, and you degraded information in the process!
entire purpose of an aggregation site like Reddit or Lemmy is to…aggregate things.
yeah, except when you are copying stuff that was already aggregated… then you can just say “hey, are you interested in 20 years all irc quotes that are not really funny? well there is website that si full of them!”
I’ve always hated the phrase “you must be fun at parties”, but I’ll be dammed if I can’t come up with a more apt reply to you than that in this moment.
you didn’t come up with anything better than stupid prefabricated cliche and you consider that reason to brag about it? well, to each their own 😂
If you don’t like it, just downvote and move on.
and that is exactly what you could have done with my comment, but you are strangely fixated to it
What is the maximum number of active users on an instance before the financial burden gets too high for the admins?
Pretty straight question....
how can a federated community be created?
There is an “offgrid” community on slrpnk.net. I would like to interact with that community from waveform.social. How can I create that community on waveform.social as a federated community, not as a separate new one?
how can the community lists be filtered by domain?
For example, suppose you click: communities » All and then query:...
Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence (karawynn.substack.com)
Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.
exhausting (lemmy.world)
Black fisherman repeatedly confronted by white neighbors, who ask what he’s doing there (www.nbcnews.com)
Anthony Gibson said his TikTok videos show “what people like me have to go through when they live in a nice neighborhood.”
Is Star Trek’s Warp Drive Possible? (daily.jstor.org)
That akward moment when you forget to disconnect your pushback... (i.imgur.com)
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation (www.businessinsider.com)
Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
On Coining a New Term (kbin.social)
Edit: alright I'm sticking this up here because a number of people seem confused--this post isn't trying to convince you that "fediverse" is a bad term--rather it's a discussion of why I think "threadiverse" is a good umbrella term, for the forum-based part of the fediverse specifically. (lemmy+kbin)...
mighty hunter (lemmy.world)
Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws (www.wired.com)
Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za
Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
Alexandrite is slick, gorgeous, and brings a lot to the Lemmy experience. I highly recommend giving it a try.
Reddit’s r/Place is going about as well as expected (www.theverge.com)
How about participating in /r/Place and promoting the fediverse? (kbin.social)
Could we get all the former subreddit mods who migrated to lemmy/kbin to unite and make some promo for lemmy/kbin on /r/place?
Can spez really be that stupid? (www.theverge.com)
Yes. Yes he can.
Wearing exoskeletons to increase work efficiency (mas.to)
I know what I'm doing, I just don't care (imgflip.com)
Any way to zoom in on comment pics?
I can press on main post pics and take a closer look, but comment pictures not only don’t zoom in, but if there’s a way to open them in a browser for a closer look, I can’t find it....
PING 127.0.0.1 I know it is around here somewhere... (feddit.de)
Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com (lemmy.world)
Not sure if this is a good place for this post or not, but here goes....