I don’t want my money to go into a company that praises LLMs.

I stopped paying for Kagi a few years ago when they decided to introduce even more AI features than they had at the time. So I now run my own SearXNG instance. Fast, good and no AI in it. Just search results.

Why loops? Long videos aren’t what loops is for.

peertube

All can be made except that “r9k” mode. I don’t plan on storing posts OR comments at all. I DO plan on giving each community a small key-value database so they can store some stuff, but I am not sure how many hashes of posts it could hold.

I wouldn’t define “stat tracking” as appropriate for an automod, but the implementation will be left to mods so I don’t really have any say in that. It can be made.

The kind of automod I am building is not only for Lemmy. It also does not depend on any API. It’s a completely new ActivityPub platform just for automoderation. Any platform that mainly uses Group actors and supports moderation on them can be made compatible with it, with full integration of the platform’s moderation features.

I don’t know about other communities, but we deal with LLM accounts in !asklemmy@lemmy.world almost every month.

There is a clear quality difference between Facebook users and Lemmy users.

Unfortunately you can’t do much about it other than try and block the bots by making it expensive (or impossible since some don’t allow JS) for them with PoW CAPTCHAs (such as Anubis) on the frontend. And even then, if someone really wanted to scrape, they can always set an instance up themselves or even register an account on the instance and just call the APIs directly (which most likely won’t be behind the PoW CAPTCHA as no known Lemmy client has functionality to solve them yet). Whether the scraper instance gets caught and blocked by admins is another matter, though.

You don’t need to calculate the average number of active users. If you do, it will be wasted resources and you probably will miss a few dozen.

Simply request the instance’s NodeInfo.

NodeInfo 2.1 (which Lemmy does implement) and I think 2.0 as well require implementors to provide correct user usage statistics. So you have total users and average active users per month/half year calculated on request.

This also means you can provide this service for other platforms that support NodeInfo.

Making a GET request to /.well-known/nodeinfo will give you the links to the instance’s NodeInfo documents.

In fact, you can recursively begin from some random known instance, get a list of other instances it is federated with, get their NodeInfo and repeat the process. NodeInfo also provides the name of the software (check schema).

You can use that.

FEP: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/0151/fep-0151.md

Schema: https://nodeinfo.diaspora.software/schema.html

Welp, I guess it needs some more development time.

Why not use something like Angelfish instead of Firefox?

Why are you blaming Peertube for its unpopularity?

eOS is based on aosp though.

Surveillance cameras in the bathroom? Not surprised

Plugins update independently from the app.

What about servo?

Oh shit. The god of technology just came and educated us about what MAC stands for. We should be grateful.

I really like the one with the fish

Apparently one of the devs got a confirmation from NLnet for a grant, so GNU Taler will probably become another payment option in Liberapay.

https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/issues/1309#issuecomment-3245159778

https://nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Liberapay/

Switzerland has GNU Taler. They launched it there a few months ago, lucky for you. Check its website: https://taler-ops.ch/de/

You just kind of need to wait for merchants to use it. Could become mainstream somewhere around 2028.

From wikipedia:

GNU Taler is a free software-based microtransaction and electronic payment system. Unlike most other decentralized payment systems, GNU Taler does not use a blockchain. A blind signature is used to protect the privacy of users as it prevents the exchange from knowing which coin it signed for which customer.

The wallet is like cryptocurrency wallets in that when you lose it (lose your cryptographic keys or phone), you lose all the money inside of it. So you must keep it safe like your own physical wallet. It works with NFC, so it can replace Google Pay or Apple Pay or whatever.

It also works offline, which is awesome. Though you do need to be online sometimes to refresh your digital money or they expire and become unspendable. The expiry is set by the GNU Taler operator.

Do keep in mind that receivers are NOT anonymous. Only senders are anonymous. This is by design and is there to apply tax to merchants and also combat fraud, etc.

You can learn how it works by reading their docs: https://docs.taler.net/

The FAQ is also a good thing to read: https://www.taler.net/en/faq.html