Errar es humano. Propagar errores automáticamente es #devops

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  • I mean, I know phones can be cheap or donated. And I also know that homeless people may have possessions that some consider “expensive”. It’s not that uncommon.

    But constant internet connection needs monthly payments that, in my very personal and particular mindset, are not really compatible with “I’m a beggar. I need help”.

    Having knowledge of the Fediverse it’s too niche for me, and the stories like “I can’t pay groceries!” almost every week are unlikely in a place where most of folks are tech workers. My spam-meter says that probably some people out there found the #mutualaid hashtag and are making some fake profiles and fake stories.



  • The worst enemy of a leftie are other slightly different lefties lol

    The good think of federation is that you can mute/block morons. And because there’s no “algorithm” you are not shown content that the server thinks you are interested. So you have to be proactive and follow what you want to see, and mute the ones you dislike.

    Also, you can have multiple accounts for multiple purposes. It’s sane not to discuss politics with other people from other cultures all day, so you can have a dedicated account for that. And other account to have fun in a sane way, which includes muting politics.

    In the case of this girl, she was american like the majority of lemmings I believe. But for people from the other hemisphere, the cultural shock may be even worse. My advice for those is always: Just mute. Don’t argue and don’t feed trolls. Nobody is gonna change opinions anyways.








  • Not true.

    The immutability of the thing is just Merkle trees. And integrity of the writings is any form of authorized blocks. From a certificate from an authority a la PKI to proof of work. And anything in between.

    The thing is that there are not too many applications for slow distributed inmutable databases.

    DNS is the only thing that I know that is globally distributed, with slow updates of domains being acceptable.









  • Political “debates” are useless, but I always like to watch different conceptions from different countries.

    When I see USA politics right-wingers have some speeches and actions that left-wingers have in my home country and vise-versa.

    Like, leftwingers in my country usually attack a former rightwing president because he supposedly fomented immigration, specially illegal immigration. (Although, here rigwingers also have more hate against the inmigrant, just like US) 1 (sorry for the language, didn’t find an english version of it)

    Or a former leftwing president that mobilized our army to Haiti to protect their democracy 2

    Same with labels: In US “liberal” is a left wing label, in my country is a righ wing one.

    Same apply in other countries, like I see Spanish news when “republicans” are the radical ones, usually left-wing, because they oppose monarchy, and the “republican” flag is a left-wing symbol for spaniards.

    That’s why political labels are pretty useless too. Republican means literal nazi or revolutionary against monarchy depending where you are lol.




  • Pros:

    • No single entity that have all control.
    • No entity profits from it, so you are not a product.
    • Related to above: No trackers, no ads, no spyware, etc.

    Cons:

    • It is run by volunteers: bad uptimes, slower progress, slower fixes, etc.
    • Some volunteer may give up and delete the instance. It happened to my first Lemmy account (nothing against you, stux)
    • No market-driven decisions means sometimes instances defederate each other for purely ideological reasons. Sometimes very childishly. (again, nothing against stux)
    • Lots of fedidrama.

    Welcome to Lemmy. Hope you enjoy it.