Their stated reason for the change was the fact that In the great ai gold rush people who never contributed to the project Simply grabbed it, and without contributing anything to the project did nothing except stripped the branding and then go sell it. kind of a crappy thing to do but hey it’s the Internet. I don’t have any firsthand experience so I can’t say for sure what the deal was. we’ve seen The same thing with forks of V s code turned into all kinds of things.

Yes, but none of them were left alive.

That looks pretty amazing, and it works with OLLAMA which is awesome.

Links to github are right there on the site

I never heard of redit. Is that like ribbit? Or some new fangled app or something?

I’m not going to subscribe unless it is sumo versus bears

Only the crumb grabber is worthy of your attention.

No, I’ll unlock it if I find somebody that is actually interested in posting and maybe being a moderator.

Another thing I think is fine is “because you watched ____” and suggestions based on that. Like we see a video that the user watched the whole video or liked it, and then we find similar videos to that I don’t think its that invasive and may be helpful.

As long as its transparent and the user has control to use it or not I think thats the key. The fediverse however is enormously privacy and corporate sensitive, so I can see that it is a tight line to walk here.

We shouldn’t fear these algorithms, the key though is everything has to be under the control of the user. A simple way is just tags, which are widely used almost everywhere. If the user has their panel and can block tags or words or give a rating from +10 to -10 for any keyword or tag, you can accomplish a hell of a lot with no black box fuckery.

Any other sources of audiobooks besides my local public library and librivox?

“We should join them. It would be wise, Gandalf. There is hope that way.”

Interesting pattern emerging, the IT time of the admins is pretty damn priceless, (thank you admins!) but when an instance gets up to scale a lot of them can end up with a hard cost of 10 cents per user per month.

The last stat I remember from Facebook was revenue per user per year was around 4 dollars. At 31b revenue and 2.7b monthly users, Youtubes average profit per user is about $10 per user per year. 100 million people pay for YT premium now.

So if every user paid $1 per month, it might not pay all the costs but the admins could get paid something and the fediverse could scale. The bigger you get though, you get economies of scale from future Fediverse data centers, but also you need really good programmers because its a huge temptation for hackers and propagandists.

I also want to say its a labor of love and a lot of work for mods too who may be non technical but the work and time they put in is important.

“Private equity always finds a way”-Jeff Goldblum

Its interesting that they plan to profit off of the Fediverse but they aren’t paying for running instances themselves. At least they aren’t now.

The only thing that is actually valuable in all this is the data generated by Fediversers themselves though, lets say 90 percent, and a nifty container around the content to make it more viewable/accessible/prettier, 10 percent.

They want to make profit off of memberships and probably ads, off of Fediversers content, and then they can leverage and monetize their new “social network” by some astronomical valuation in the market.

Good playbook, its been done many times now by Reddit, linkedin, Facebook, and all the rest, and maybe they will pull it off, but after more than 10 years of Social Media abuses, the Fediverse is filled with people who no longer want to be exploited in this way anymore. How about just paying for some instances, or supporting some FOSS projects already in the works?

The Fediverse is both everywhere and nowhere. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!

Pixelfed should be in your mix to check out.

I like it because we are all snowflakes together

The only fair way to handle this is for all admins to immediately turn over all passwords to the Crumbgrabber, who will act as an interface between the government and private sector interests in determining the value of each Lemmy user, and whether they are a fit candidate for the mobile infantry. Remember- only service guarantees citizenship.