Hhahahha I was about to post that

Yeah. Me choosing to use a vpn and a privacy respecting browser has earnt me a constant captcha

Probably server struggling. Ie. It’s not got enough computational power to keep up. (Could also be network level bottleneck but that would be more visible if you access the websiye as well)

Ah the club world cup, where they can’t even fill in seats in the second largest city in the US for the two biggest football clubs on earth.

Yeah, I don’t think losing the club world cup is a great loss. Even amongst football fans it’s super controversial and a lot of people are boycotting it.

Don’t forget https://quiblr.com/

which I think is the only one that has a true algorithm.

What, centralisation has the opposite effect. It makes things worse. Imagine lemmy.world shutting down (the biggest instance), lemmy would be fucked.

Decentralisation is to be encouraged. So if an instance shuts down, it’s not the end of the world.

Like how basically all lemm.ee communities were migrated.

That’s pretty smart of the admins, actually. Thankful they thought of that.

Also the “glorious” Daily Mail.

Depends what you mean. Fox opinion and the TV is on par with NYPost, perhaps even worse.

Foxnews.com general online news articles is better than NYPost.

I’ve seen lefty people on the lemmyverse actually share the New York Post unironically because they happen to like a headline.

(The New York Post is a tabloid on par with Fox, in fact they’re owned by the same company as Fox News).

I think a lot of open social media accept the RSS format.

Like for example if you add a “.rss” to the end of a bluesky profile url you get the rss feed for it.

So this actually seems quite doable!

I would say its something you dont need top efficiency. Don’t do it in Rust. It’s fine to use python or something.

Is it bad that I believed this until I got to Marcus

For Activitypub, a weakness is that the server has to host all the visible content to the server. So for example if lemmy got really big, and you wanted to host a tiny server but are subscribed to most lemmy comms, your server ends up hosting and fetching a copy of everything posted in these communities, which can add up to A LOT, in terms of network usage, and computational power. (For example see the debacle where an Australian sever (I think aussie.zone) struggled with this and was weeks behind fetching content from lemmy.world since so much content comes from that instance).

This probably would scale pretty terribly if it got anywhere near the size of reddit.

ATProto gives a scalable solution to this (but comes with tradeoffs). Where you can create your own “instance” PDS (Personal Data Server), without hosting all the posts federated to you, since this is hosted by a “relay” which does most of the heavy lifting computationally. So it ends up with a solution that looks more centralised (since there is less incentive to host relays, so fewer relays), but also much more friendly to people who wanna host their own “PDS” and therefore control their data. This is also very helpful with scalability and solves some of the weird federation quirks activitypub has (ie. you can’t see a lemmy community or mastodon account until someone on your instance subscribes or follows it).

In political science, a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power. In the term proxy war, a belligerent with external support is the proxy; both belligerents in a proxy war can be considered proxies if both are receiving foreign military aid from a third party country. Acting either as a nation-state government or as a conventional force, a proxy belligerent acts in behalf of a third-party state sponsor.[1]

That’s a very loose definition of a proxy war, by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war.

Actually @[email protected] was wondering if possible to recover my account since it’s pretty obviously my alt. If not possible, no worries, totally understand.

Which is great until I lost my password 😂 @[email protected] will be dead I guess.

[email protected]

exists and is decently active.

Yeah. Our vibe here is kinda dark, and I feel that way as an adult who’se gone through lots of shit. It’s not the most cheery place. Trying to change that a little by little, cuz I love a lot of people here and it’s so unique!

A lot of people buy flour, rice, and oats (the cheap and hard to grow yourself grains) and grow the fancy stuff (nice fruits and veg, maybe inoculated mushroom logs) and maybe have some meat roaming in tractors like chickens, themselves. For that use case 0.5-1 acre can cover a person’s food needs easy if doing a smart permaculture type style. (Obviously monocultures take way more space per calorie).

I would recommend looking into aquaponics as well if space is a constraint.

But both take years to set up, and a good amount of labour. It isn’t just like having your vegetable garden you water on weekends.

Also, if in an arid region, the acerage requirements go up.

https://tes.lemmy.blahaj.zone/