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Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by _heimdall »

janandonly wrote: post #275
stevebmark wrote: post #170

It takes blog posts to discover these because Mastodon micro communities aren't discoverable and no one knows which ones to sign up for. Mastodon has no long term potential. We're still waiting for the Twitter replacement.

Maybe the Nostr protocol and all its implementations (that do talk with each other) are the true replacement for Twitter? Check out some trending people/topics on Nostr here: https://nostr.band/

I've never quite wrapped my head around how any federated network would compete with centralized social media platforms, it feels like a solution for a different use case

Federation means we have numerous copies of every single post ever shared floating around somewhere, that's a massive waste of resources IMO. Similarly, the amount of network traffic grows exponentially as the number of full nodes grows and again wastes a ton of resources. Those kinds of issues could be mitigated by limiting the number of full nodes on the network, but then you are driving towards a centralized system again.

Federation works really well when the different groups are infrequently interacting. Sure there could be a mechanism to jump into another circle, but if federation means multiple servers needing to know the entire state of the world the scaling and coordination problems just don't seem worth it.

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Post by coldpie »

proxyon wrote: post #247
joeross wrote: post #225

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> I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community It’s more like after you use it for a little while you look up and suddenly realize you’re in a new but familiar feeling community. It definitely skews developer/blogger/liberal, is openly inclusive and mindful of accessibility (not perfect, but always trying), there's a lot of overlap with various micro.blog/IndieWeb/fediverse communities…

I on the other hand would happily pay through 2030 to avoid the people you describe on omg.lol. I dislike pretentious tech positivity and HR catladies policing my online life.

Cool, man. No one's forcing you to use it. I'm sure you can find someplace else.

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Post by Levitz »

amne wrote: post #268
cderpz wrote: post #257

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>omg.lol does not believe its processing of limited personal data of those outside the United States (if any) brings it within the jurisdiction of these laws. Oh dear. That is definitely not correct. The only way for omg.lol to not fall under the jurisdiction of the GDPR is to not offer their services to people living where it applies.

And how would the owner go about that? Implement expensive geo-fences and KYC processes for a market they are not interested in? If they (EU people) want to use it .. they should be able to without expecting the same protections as if the business operates in EEA. How did we get here? To where If I spin up a webserver and charge for access now I'm suddenly forced to lick your middle finger because you have laws in yo…

>How did we get here? To where If I spin up a webserver and charge for access now I'm suddenly forced to lick your middle finger because you have laws in your country saying so?

You do business somewhere, you have to abide by the laws of that somewhere.

As to how did we got here? I don't know. It probably happened sometime around year 500 BC?

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Post by cwoolfe »

cianmm wrote: post #2

I've been using Omg.lol for around a year now (Cian.lol) and am really enjoying it. It's just so simple - it feels like travelling back in time to when we wrote blog posts and made websites to share with our friends, not to Create Content.

How did you get cian.lol? Why isn't it cian.omg.lol?

Re: Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet

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Post by coldpie »

elxx wrote: post #259
smsm42 wrote: post #228

Opened the front page of the "community of the nicest, most interesting people". Here's what I found, omitting some jokes, "dear diary", etc (profanity omitted, light rephrasing to keep it short): AI is taking our jobs Trump is a liar MAGA republicans are plotting against democracy and Trump is Putin's puppet Trump is bad AOC is cool, she's showing that evil GOP Twitter is dying Christians are hateful bigots Republic…

Anyone can look at the live feed here and see that this is made up: https://social.lol/public/local I had to scroll through over 24 hours of posts before hitting anything political, an article about abortion in Texas. Definitely not the majority of the content and it took way more scrolling than a couple of screens. I still haven't seen anything else on your list yet.

While that guy obviously has an axe to grind, if you visit the main page of that URL there's plenty of tiresome politics all over the place: https://social.lol/ It seems to be coming from different instances, though. I have no idea how Mastodon chooses what content to show on that page.

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Post by bruh2 »

lannisterstark wrote: post #42
cianmm wrote: post #29

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I argue with computers for my day job, I don’t want to do that after work hours too. I’m happy to pay somebody else (especially Adam who is just so active with the community) a fairly paltry sum to do it for me.

To be entirely fair (in my situation), what I do at work and what I find fun to do with computers are two different things :P

So true. I reached a point where the tools I fiddle with at home have such an overlap with the ones I use at work, with Python and Ansible being the uncanny leaders. I feared – in vain – losing the ability to enjoy hacking as a hobby. They just don't feel the same, y'know?

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Post by Aeolun »

chupapimunyenyo wrote: post #291
graypegg wrote: post #140

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For the last few weeks you’ve been mostly posting grammar correction comments. Why? I’ll give you something to keep your interest: wensday.

I also participate in discussions like any other regular user, but I can't look away when I see somebody butcher the english language like that (and it isn't even my first language). It takes me 10 seconds to correct someone, and hopefully the corrected person makes less mistakes in the future. Nobody loses here, I don't see any harm in this, there are only good outcomes. Once you realize how many people can't write…

> It takes me 10 seconds to correct someone, and hopefully the corrected person makes less mistakes in the future.

Or the corrected person does it right 99 times out of 100 and was in a hurry (honestly not sure why that went wrong).

I agree with the sentiment of wanting to correct people, but it’s not always going to be correct.

Also, if you are going to do it, it works better if you at least pretend to be natural about it. I certainly would respond better.

To be fair, I’m pretty drunk right now so I don’t particularly care, but I’d probably be extremely annoyed if I were sober (even though you are technically right, I have a big dislike of people jumping on mistakes).

Maybe it’s worth seeing if there is a history of repeat mistakes? Then you could confidently correct someone.

If you only care enough to just leave a short impersonal comment on each instance, just leave off.

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Post by ipodopt »

footlose_3815 wrote: post #302
slalomskiing wrote: post #191

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It’s just a fun project why are you taking it so serious

It’s $20/mo, and a lot of people are eager to spend it so it should be subject to due criticism.

It's $20 per year, not per month... and there are promo codes for $5/year available most of the time. I don't use the site but browsed the guy's mastodon feed.
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