Due to the overwhelming consensus of "yeah probably" and "sounds pretty ok", we have a thread and I might even remember to cycle it each week. Go forth and be mid!
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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This isn't a vote either way but my pitch for a name is just "Stubsack"
I have good news for you: the ChatGPT racists got there because the idea isn’t even original to either of them
Something like a weekly general topic thread would work great for this I think.
in a community i mod there is now a matrix room as a replacement of weekly low effort/news thread and so far it works pretty well
I’m imagining something like that too — a lot of these would generally fit in with TechTakes’ mission statement, but could be a good fit for more of a weekly thread format. my only concern is lemmy seems to be absolutely terrible at surfacing slightly older threads that still have activity, which makes any kind of megathread unfortunately more difficult to sustain (and I wonder if that’s intentional on the part of the devs — some folks just get weirdly angry about slightly older threads getting new posts). I’m definitely willing to give the format a try though, and we can see how well it works for this
you can pin threads, tho that's per sub
aaand I just successfully pinned it on local w00t
I'd say that's ok as I browse by Comments-New anyway, but that reminds me that the "Next" button is broken in that view, so the surfacing issue is still pertinent.
maybe a matrix room would work for this
Or... IRC
matrix has e2ee, threaded discussion, you can put images there directly and there's already nice button in lemmy where you can put your matrix handle
is it like discord threaded discussion? that works suprrisingly well, but also its discord and fundamentally ephemeral on too short a timescale for my taste
Tangent: I keep wondering whether discord sells enough hats[0] to gamer whales to sit stably on the product side, esp. with shit like midjourney and others that must cause ridiculous amounts of useless data over time. Certainly they could drop those or charge for them or whatever, but renting computers from hyperscalers does add up over time..
[0] - I cannot see their nitro pitches as anything but the TF hats model
i don't use discord a lot but in general matrix looks a bit like discord, threads on matrix are a separate chat that opens in a sidebar. all of these threads are accessible from single place
i think that this ephemeral nature of matrix fits well with news and low effort content, and if anyone wants to elaborate then it's a start of a post here
shit, I like that too — and it’d work to coordinate some things for this instance I’ve been wanting to try
I’d try that, although I imagine some initial cursing might apply while figuring out a decent client option
matrix comes in package with figuring your own cryptography, admittedly less of an issue in public rooms, but other than that you have to back up keys always
Element is decent
Element was the thing I tried previously and my opinion of it from then is anything but decent
I’ll see if they fixed the stupid shit from last time yet, it’s been 2y
Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 17:14
ADHD time blindness is a fuck
so uh, element. still seems a bit ungood
first 3 minutes:
it starts out in eye-stabbing bright login screen at start (even with system in dark mode), and then followed this up by taking nearly a minute (????) to open Notifications under settings. seems it still defaults to dings and popups, and there seems to be even more possible sources for those now? madness
props: it has an analytics consent prompt, yay, good. but: I was already clicking around in settings and didn't see anything for that, only noticed that prompt after exiting settings. clicked no. and now.... I still don't see that setting? lolwat
at least account and such work, so I guess I'll see how this goes for a few days. I'm on matrix.org, if someone wants to poke a thing
you don't even have to self host in order for it to work
some things will actually work better with a matrix server that isn’t hosted here, in particular outage announcements and disaster continuity. plus I’ve hosted matrix before and I remember it takes up a fuckton of storage, which our current deployment can’t really sustain without expansion
what’s a good matrix homeserver these days?
i'm using tchncs.de and it Mostly Works™ the only recurring issues being with telegram and signal bridges
Notably there's little to none crypto spammers and conspiracy weirdos there