The weirdness is much less visible in Primeagen’s content nowadays (albeit I’ve almost completely stopped watching it so maybe it’s now getting more overt?), I’m not overly surprised devault has nothing concrete to point at - in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if he has scrubbed the more egregious things from his youtube channel.

It’s never been big attention-grabbing things but more a certain level of crypto-fashy offhanded remarks and general vibes - been brought up in the weekly snarks a few months back.

The biggest recent criticism I could make is having DHH on fire over an hour with allegedly no pushback on how terrible his “distro” is given how much primagen supposedly prides himself on his technical prowess. Then again, he’s not using omarchy himself so what does he care if the rubes in his audience get duped into trashing their machines?

Unsure if this is already your point or not, but, my question is: at what level of automation does it cease to be “selectively raiding the mainstream” and turn into “importing/copying the mainstream wholesale”?

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Noted. Writing to memory.

If one can ignore the externalities involved, this is hilariously absurd.

Lemmy shows you a community’s posts in order — a big room really is a room with more people in it.

This is … wrong and misleading? The default sorting order for posts is “Active”. You can sort by “New” (as well as a whole bunch of other sorting methods) but it’s never been the only option. Maybe OP is on an instance who has set their default sorting order to “New”?

Furthermore, what is this “room” verbiage? Maybe it’s just an attempt at descriptive metaphor. To me, it comes off as mixing up Matrix rooms and Lemmy communities.

And then there’s the line

Which instance you’re on matters about as much as which community

Which (imo) misses how many instances, in practice, self-select who posts from them. I think there’s a degree to which these numbers reflect how much each instance’s userbase tends to get replies, but without more detail on what these uses are posting it’s a correlation at best and noise at worst.

I could have sworn that hexbear defederated from jlai.lu. there was a whole spat between our instances a while back.

The work itself appears to be generated by a Webb Industries AI.

I wonder if they had a human imitate gen ai style or just had nano banana generate it…

Solid conclusion! I had seen headlines but never actually read excerpts of the Pope’s encyclical. Much to your article’s point, I suspect, I never would have expected the head of the Catholic church to produce writing and arguments so relevant to the current state of the fedi.

Ugh. Does it worry anyone else how much this fraudulent/incompetent way of claiming to be scientific resembles nazis and race science at their most fundamental workings?

I didn’t read any mention of the Public Key Directory server approach/proposal (c.f. https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/) in the post nor the two pages it links to. I think overall E2EE is important for messages, full stop, but I do hope that it won’t be as user - opaque as Signal and WhatsApp nor as rough of a user experience as how matrix was when I used it back in 2019.

It’s ludicrous to pay taxes on the wealth your robots make, but it’s savvy business to charge each software-delimited robot as a separate being - just like charging per-cpu-core was!

That’s great to hear!

I’m disappointed there’s no threadiverse integration.

The basic grunt work of bringing together bluesky and mastodon feeds is pretty decently done, if a bit opinionated.

I like the concept and presentation of their feed “packages”, but for most of the feeds I’ve been proposed in the app I’m not interested in the entire package. It’s nice that you can still directly follow the actors packaged into a feed from that feed’s page.

It’s very annoying that Surf wants their/my Surf account to act as the intermediary for my mastodon account. From what I can see, this means I need to exit the app to take some action with my mastodon account. Maybe I just haven’t found the option, but if there isn’t one then it’s a hard blocker for me to use it as my main fediverse browser.

I watched The Big Short again last night. It’s absurd how we seem to be going through the exact same steps as the subprime crisis did, not even 20 years later.

Interesting read, but boy does this journalist have a … different read on things than I do.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win.

IMO it’s the exact opposite; we talk about this because we want the best protocol to win, this time, while knowing full well that usually it doesn’t.

Of course search was broken because all OSS social tools must have one glaring lack of functionality.

My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be “broken” (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.

If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”.

I doubt that trump supporters cheering on the USA throwing their weight around like the world’s bully-in-chief would be receptive to such a message.

I can’t tell if I’m just too deep in the fedi-culture weeds, or if the article really is confidently ignorant.

They aren’t fediverse-first, and they’re French-based/French-focused/French-language-only, but Blast is an online, video-first news station that hosts their own peertube instance (https://video.blast-info.fr/) where they upload everything as well as putting their videos on YouTube. They also have a mastodon account where they share everything they publish: https://mamot.fr/@blast_info.

So, it’s definitely possible to have news on the fediverse, but I don’t think we’re at a point where it can be exclusively on the fedi - even if the stations’ website is ActivityPub-enabled, the majority of the people that a news station would want to reach just aren’t browsing the fediverse, let alone have accounts here.

Flashy and pretty, but as a UI I find it places too much visual emphasis on form over function / style over substance. The biggest example I can give us that I don’t think the bright neon blue left border on posts should be so much more eye-catching than the post titles. If I were to change things, I would probably try to find a dimmer shade of blue for them, and/or add some additional decoration to post titles so that they more clearly are the first thing my eyes are drawn to when scanning the page.

Davos, Switzerland
February 8,1996

Thirty years have not been kind

The only think I dislike about sneaking this into every page of my personal websites is the sinking feeling that I’ll be helping OpenAI claw back market share from Anthropic. I wish someone would disclose an equivalent for chatgpt, and gemini.

Garfield has no solutions

He readily admitted as much when I asked him on mastodon about how to approach the subject with friends and family who are using the “it is what it is” rationalization. Then mentioned cult deprogramming research as something he’s not as well versed in as he would like.

Make of that what you will/want

Someone is working on something related: https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/

The rest of their blog is pretty great, too!