I think we’re basically in agreement. The energy expenditure is real, but it adds no real value to the product. In a very real way, it is make believe — even more so than real money.

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Ecosia has their dubiously “green AI”, and do union busting. Source

Probably just a dial-up connection that you access entirely from the command line.

Still better than Crypto BS

built on openness, transparency, and user control instead of central control.

Also, cryptocurrency. Actually, it’s all cryptocurrency, please invest in the pretend money we’re wizarding out of the void.

Sometimes you need to own that you went ahead and replied before bothering to read others’ comments. Thanks 🙂

Obligatory reference because you’re on startrek.website:

Why would you want one small, multi-purpose device when you can have a PADD for each book/instruction manual/hourly report? 🙂

I’m fine with ActivityPub over ActivityPub, thanks.

Ugh, posted before reading the other comments. Loads of people put it shorter and better already. This is just a +1 to all of the above 👍

it’s like Reddit

Yeah, that’s only a small corner of the fediverse, though 🙂

I dont want to sound too jaded, but people will sign up for anything without reading the TOS. It’ll be fine, just try to give them the best possible first impression so they stick around.

The practical thing that trips up most people is the wealth of possible servers to register with. Give your friends a leg up and give them a signup link to a reliable, friendly instance you think will fit them (probably one you’re already on).

Just give people a low-friction way in, let them get a feel of the fediverse/a specific, local feed. In my experience over-evangelising the nuts and bolts only turns them off the whole concept.

I think we often try to sell the fediverse too hard on the technical and idealist perspectives. Yes, federation is great and, yes, isn’t it lovely that there is no manipulative algorithm, or no billionaire can buy it out and build it into his failed space exploration empire?

But the majority of internet users don’t care about those things. Even for those that do, it’ll be way down their priority list.

Some of them were just holes in the ground outside Jerusalem where hermits would contemplate juniper bushes, if I remember “Life of Brian” correctly.

The holy one. The one with holes in it, I suppose.

😄

My computer is a Bermuda triangle

I’m not familiar with that manufacturer and model 😄

Thirded!

So, fake ID as a service?

Identification needs a trusted third party verification to be valid. If you take all authority out of the equation (most commonly governments and banks), this is no more than a piece of paper with no verifiable information.

The print-your-own form lists “EPO” as issuer. I guess that’s the European Patents Office? That’s… a choice, and I don’t know that they issue identity papers, except for concepts and inventions. Either way you can just fill in your own. In fact, you can probably put “Santa Claus” in every form field and push print.

I’m for the idea in principle, but without some validation entity it’s just a novelty site with a straight face.

That’s the key point, isn’t it? OP’s question isn’t really as hypothetical as it’s phrased; you definitely can go on Amazon or eBay and find cheaper, Chinese knockoff parts.

But will they perform to the same standards as top name brands? Very unlikely.

Why a vote to switch up an existing community? The admins have proposed the [AI] tag to mitigate slop projects.

You said you wanted a community to post vibe coded projects, go ahead and set it up. I don’t see why it needs to be foisted onto c/self hosted, unless you have some vested interest in boosting sloppy mcslopface projects.

I want a community where people can use AI to help build a tool

Sure, that’s github

and be able to post about it here

Fine, but others including myself want that slop as far away from here as possible. Maybe start another community? I suggest calling it c/vibehosted.