I feel like having commercially paid influencers on any social media platform as a positive is a hard argument to make, as one of the “unpaid” users of the platform. I might be a little unusual though, I view paid commercially funded content posters as exactly that, they literally are commercials. They’re just ads for things and I have skipped ads one way or another since the 1990s.

@jrollans@threads.net Well look at that! Seems like Threads does know about my little social media server.

Engaged…

Regardless of why #Thanksgiving became a holiday and the history behind it, I view it as a day to be with family and be thankful for having them. So happy Thanksgiving!

Of course the “firehose” is being used like this. The simple fact that it’s an enormous public fountain of information makes it a great target for training models. And in sure it’s being done with #ActivityPub as well. No matter what people think, the Fediverse is being ingested into training models and all sorts of other things.

The only way to make sure you don’t contribute to things like this is to not participate in public internet social media services.

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

The bridge has been working fairly well for me and I see other posts from time to time from folks on Bluesky that I don’t follow. However, I saw a day or two ago that the bridge had been temporarily paused due to the massive influx of new users. Not sure if it’s been fired up again yet!

Some mornings are better than others… I’ve been having terrible migraines for over a week and this morning I only have the faintest ghost of one. Here’s hoping it stays that way or disappears entirely!

@stigatle@activitypub.stigatle.no Oh! I haven’t experienced any server crashes during my use of Mona. I’d love to build an iOS snac centric app, but time is far too short for me these days.

I’ve been using Mona and it’s quick and most things work, that I use at least. Would love to use Ivory, but there seems to be some incompatibility that I can’t track down.

The frequency that I’m getting #migraines for the past two weeks is horrible. I’m really
Hoping to Botox injections start making an appreciable difference.

@pvanb@mastodon.social @chockenberry@mastodon.social I was just wondering about that as well!

Yup, wrong input, but the remote control for the TV is missing… so it involved lots of cussing and fumbling about with hard-to-reach buttons hidden on the back-side of the TV that had no clear labeling. In the end we got it working again.

Oh boy, about to have to help my dad “fix his TV” via FaceTime. Sounds like maybe he’s just got it set to the wrong input, which I hope is the case, because I am already burnt out and I don’t think I got any troubleshooting left in my body.

Even if I were inclined to vote conservative, I don’t believe I could vote for any of these politicians amidst the overwhelming amount of spam I’ve been receiving for the past week. On principle alone, I find it reprehensible that they would resort to SMS bombing like this.

I’ve gotten 46 text messages since 7:30 AM this morning (it’s 11:10 AM now) and every single one of them has been “vote republican” bullshit, but they’re all for North Carolina. I live in Colorado.

I’ve let my programming skills languish for so many years now that I practically don’t remember anything of use anymore, but lately I’ve really been wanting to get back into it. I know I want to do something with #ActivityPub, but I’m not sure what.

@chema@ctrvx.net @grunfink@comam.es I agree completely! I’ve been very satisfied with #snac myself. Server software has gotten so incredibly bloated these days needing ridiculous amounts of resources, snac uses practically no resources and its development has been wonderful to watch take shape.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live We really do. ☹️

My medication that I take for migraines would cost $11,579.64 a year if it weren’t for the state funded health insurance that I have. That’s just bonkers…

This weather is bonkers, yesterday it was 60° F and today it’s 90° F.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @jrollans Ah, that’s it. Thanks for the reminder!

@loganer@mastodon.social It can be pretty fun to run servers like that, I’ve had a few different ActivityPub services over the past few years. There are a LOT of different servers these days.

@Turnimunt@mastodon.social I know I’ve seen a site that basically lists statistics for all the different ActivityPub servers, just can’t remember where it was. Maybe it would be possible to get a rough calculation based on info there?

I would be curious to see the amount of monthly active users federating via #ActivityPub that are _not_ using #Mastodon as their server instance. Basically I want to know the number of folks that actively use the #fediverse sans Mastodon statistics.

Anyone got an idea?

I feel like subscriptions of any kind should be partially opt-in after the fact. It should not be possible for a company to debit your account in perpetuity. There should be some law or regulation that requires companies that offer subscriptions to contact you for authorization every so often (like every three months or something).

For the first time since I moved here back in 2016 it has rained the _entire_ day. I miss days like this.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @samsethi I’ve been using the 18.1 beta on my 15 Pro and while I see some potential with the Apple Intelligence stuff, it’s very rough around the edges, hell it’s rough around the middle! The beta itself it’s quite buggy, lots of heat issues and random crashes still. I’m hoping beta 4 helps in that regard.

Kinda feel like I’m gonna pop when it gets up there.

Lately I’ve been dealing with some elevated blood pressure and I gotta say, it’s really not pleasant. Apparently some folks can’t tell if their BP is high, I definitely can.

Good stuff!

https://lemmy.world/post/19608194