rysiek

What keeps a core team around over the years, most of the time, isn’t giving a shit.

It absolutely is.

Of course money is important and we need to support our communities, infrastructures, and so on, but if it's money is what's keeping a person working on a thing, they will get a better offer and move on. Like all the cryptobros who'd been pushing web3/DAO crap for years and now switched to pushing AI hype without batting an eye.

Or they will start exploiting their project for profit, to the detriment of the community, as we've seen with so, so many DAO-based cryptocurrency projects.

Absolutely not. Cryptobros showed that the whole cryptocurrency scene is either in on the scams or at least not bothered by them. Just consider Web3 Is Doing Great: for every promise "web3"/DAO people make, there is at least one story there how "web3"/DAO does not deliver and cannot deliver.

Here are some additional resources about why any suggestions of cryptocurrency/NFT/web3/DAO-related actions need to be pushed back on with full force:

• https://doctorow.medium.com/moneylike-d20f8279a72e
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
• https://strangematters.coop/web3-vs-fediverse-decentralized-internet/ (full disclosure, I wrote this one)

Cryptobros had all the time to build sustainable, equitable, decentralized communities, and failed to do so. Instead, they scammed a lot of people out of their money, and a lot of artists out of their work.

Letting them in on the federated social networking action is letting in foxes into the hen house.

Donations, Liberapay, etc are the right way to support these federated social spaces. DAOs and other cryptocurrency scams are absolutely, positively not the right way to support them. Relying on them will let cryptobros benefit financially from it, while destroying the movement.

That is sadly very much not the case. As in, there are loads of people, including in "semi-knowledgeable communities", that do not understand that algorithms are designed by people, for a specific purpose, and thus replicate their biases — even if their designers try not to make that happen.

Yes. For example, when an AI-based system is hyped or deployed, very often it is touted as an improvement over whatever the previous (human-involving) system was, because supposedly it will "make objective decisions", "without prejudices", "based on cold data", and so on.

Each instance of this needs to be called out, every time, because these decisions end up being anything but.

I made a website for viewing and comparing versions of Wikipedia's map of war in Ukraine:
https://projects.rys.io/ukrainvasion/

You can zoom, pan, and compare between two versions of the map to highlight the changes that happened between them. It gets auto-updated with fresh versions from Wikipedia every couple of hours. You can leave it in an open tab and it will reload every now and then to load the new versions.

And… it doesn't use a single line of JavaScript, it's all HTML and CSS (and some background scripts to fetch new versions).

Hetzner. I've been using both, Hetzner has leaps and bounds better support and no-bullshit approach to customers.

You can find some cheap-ish options on their Server Auction but keep in mind that you should expect the disks to fail sooner than in a new machine. I found that not to be a big issue — use RAID1 and ask them to replace any failing drive, and eventually you get a cheap server with fresh new drives, without any data loss.

I find many communities on beehaw.org to be larger and more active than their equivalents on lemmy.ml. I use the "lemmyverse" from my account on szmer.info, and I follow communities from a bunch of different instances.

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https://nitter.net/NicoleDrinda/status/1661502399163375618#m 🤣

Half a million people entered the room in a matter of minutes, it's groundbreaking and exceeded all expectations! If Elon also masters this challenge, and he will, he will introduce a new form of real-time communication between the people and politicians!

Not to worry, Facebook is irrelevant for Meta's business now that Metaverse has taken off. Oh… oh wait.

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Bitwarden is also FLOSS and self-hostable. As much as I love KeePassXC, using it for team passwords is a pain. Having a self-hosted Bitwarden thingy would be way better.

I just wish Murdoch did not get the money back. His media were pushing Theranos. That said, his media (WSJ specifically) broke the story on the scam. Oh well.