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Rust’s Runtime (blog.mgattozzi.dev)
What do you recommend to selfhost code repositories? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use gitea

What is the fediverse equivalent to TikTok? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But how is that a different problem than mastodon or Lemmy or friendica face? What makes TikTok different?

What is the fediverse equivalent to TikTok? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I mean network effects are real. You always have a hard time moving users over to a new network platform. Are you saying that anyone using TikTok right now arguable does not care about privacy at all so would be unlikely to see the value of federated decentralized apps?

What is the fediverse equivalent to TikTok? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But what all is needed for tracking? AI-based metadata extraction from the video and metrics of how long the user watched the video before swiping or rewinding or stuff? That can all be done at the instance level. I’d imagine the bigger issues is the engineering involved in the app content creation tools, and the costs of data storage for all of those videos and bandwidth for distributing them, something TikTok currently just foots the bills for. Arguably an open source equivalent wouldn’t have the privacy stigma around it, right?

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What is the fediverse equivalent to TikTok? (lemmy.world)
 

Obviously Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are federated decentralized equivalent to their centralized counterparts, but what is the counterpart in the fediverse to TikTok? It is a dominant app for millions of people, and as far as I can tell the closest thing is Peertube, but isn’t that more of a YouTube equivalent? Does it not exist because the bandwidth and storage costs are just too great? Or because the algorithmic nature of content selection is inherently anti-fediverse in some way? Clearly many people choose to interact with each other this way, but it seems like a gap in the fediverse and I was wondering why.

Challenges/norms of procuring content into Lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Well you don’t have to subscribe if you don’t like it

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Challenges/norms of procuring content into Lemmy? (lemmy.world)
 

So I really am happy with Lemmy and a new refugee from that site. I’m also a software developer and am curious about using Lemmy to unify my own information consumption into one app possibly. I’m curious about the landmines or community issues surrounding pumping information from active websites into communities in Lemmy? Like in theory I could write a bot to post things from hacker news or slashdot or a discourse forum or a subreddit or RSS feed, and create a community and pump both the items and comment threads into a federatable instance?

Would that get the hosting entity in hot water? Would people be annoyed by bot traffic or comments that can’t easily go two ways? What if I just released a tool for people to do it privately? It seems that matrix does similar things pumping data between proxies to other networks and I was curious about people’s thoughts.

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What’s going on with Jonah Hill? (lemmy.world)
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AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks On Linux (www.phoronix.com)
 

This is an in-depth review of how the new AMD chips that framework will be using runs on Linux