https://youtu.be/aL4wVoFSXjs

Multiple angles

Just put the shitpost in the bag

OpenAI is so lagging behind in terms of image generation it is comical at this point.

They dropped a new image model last week using 4o to contextualize the request, it’s very very good. However it’s for paid subscribers only right now I believe.

However as you mentioned Stable diffusion and mid journey probably still have more customizability.

Again, I’m hoping to see alternative server instances of all the Bluesky services available for utilization by the public

What purpose does it serve for a dev to recreate a brand new app view right now? Yes there’s getting away from centralization but is that enough to encourage someone to build something from the ground up? Right now it’s only devs tinkering.

If Bluesky introduced 5 ads per post tomorrow. You can bet your ass there’s going to be a new app backfilled with historical data within a month. But right now there’s zero incentive since they’ve already solved the major problems of Twitter and Mastodon.

The relay is probably a bit more important for decentralization, but it’s not particularly hard to load up a relay within a days work as the guy in the above response has shown. The white wind app also pulls directly from PDS’ avoiding the need to use a relay at all.

If you have the data and the code you are in the effectively decentralized since anyone can effectively recreate your platform in a few days. Regardless I’m sure BlueSky will make a decision at some point that will entice someone enough to publish a separate appview. Think about how long Lemmy has been around and it’s barely starting to see separate platforms take off more like mbin and piefed. Yeah kbin was around 2 years ago and piefed was very early but it takes a long time for these platforms to grow and mature, we can’t just expect them to exist overnight when BlueSky has been fully public for what barely a year?

On xiaohongshu before the translate feature people would write in both languages for ease of translation and so the other side wouldn’t have to translate it themselves.

That’s probably the best situation especially when we don’t have text limits.

It was however hilarious watching everyone find out in realtime just how bad Google translator is for Chinese and literally everyone having to swap to GPT or DeepL.

Guy looks exactly as you’d expect him to.

You’re in a meme subreddit just put the meme in the bag

What the fuck?

Not sure if an absolute list, but https://atprotocol.dev/ is a good resource.

I think the problem is there isn’t much incentive to run a relay in particular, as it all funnels into the same place, but if you’re questioning the tech this guy did it a few days ago with the relay

https://whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3lkubavdilf2m

It looks like ^ he also has an appview up thats long form blogging here: https://github.com/whtwnd/whitewind-blog

Another guy also built a lightweight app view

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lkwg2djrfk23

And stream.place is another appview but it’s not a microblog platform. Also very early stages I believe.

Claiming it’s a central authority when anyone can run a relay is a little disingenuous.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing though, it removed the complexity behind instances and federation which is primarily the reason mastodon didn’t see mass adoption.

China “open sources” a lot of their technologies. They treat it as a form of competition, we’ll show you how to do x but you show us how to do u and whoever is better at both wins out, there’s a lot of short videos on how BYD taught other Chinese EV manufacturers and even Ford how their automated manufacturing plants work. The end result, everything becomes a highly optimized process. Glad to see they’re also adopting this framework with open sourcing AI development.

This is also a reason why there’s a hugeee cultural clash with US IP theft.

Yeah I would say they likely just aren’t using the protocol properly, that being said I’m not sure I know of an example who is.

Identity is decentralized through the protocol so they’d be fine. Bluesky at the end of the day is just app view that sits on top of the protocol so it can disappear and everything will continue operating as long as there’s a relay online.

Their federation doesn’t work the same as Lemmy & Mastodon there’s no federation to individual servers.

If Bluesky introduced ads to their app, you can take all Bluesky data from the relay and host your own app without ads. This is working today and easy to do.

If they started charging for access to the relay you can host your own relay and it will parse all users data for you to use. This is also working today but it’s a little expensive.

Something would have to SIGNIFICANTLY change with the protocol for Bluesky to change how the relay interacts with the PDS, that would require such a large infrastructure change there’s no reason even questioning further.

The reason you don’t see anyone doing it right now is because there’s not much incentive to. On Lemmy we’re each on our own little “community” but Bluesky is just here’s everyones data no matter what when hosting a relay.

I actually view it the opposite. Lemmy isn’t necessarily doomed from the start but we will not reach mass adoption because we are too clunky to use for most users because of its distributed nature.

Bluesky has enabled tons of non tech users to immediately reap the rewards without having to worry about instances or who can see their posts, while maintaining decentralization (albeit with a high cost).

The true path forward will probably be a world like Bluesky but instead of running your own relay, you’re contributing compute power to a Kubernetes cluster. Instances and having to worry about federation is far too clunky for most users, it’s the reason mastodon never saw mass adoption while Bluesky almost immediately did.

I see the “AI is using up massive amounts of water” being proclaimed everywhere lately, however I do not understand it, do you have a source?

My understanding is this probably stems from people misunderstanding data center cooling systems. Most of these systems are closed loop so everything will be reused. It makes no sense to “burn off” water for cooling.

I was just reading an article about how candy companies are trying to make GLP-1 (Ozempic) resistant candy that is effectively hyper-addicting and restarts the cycle of addiction.

Incredible how bad capitalism is for society and it’s affect on food processes in order to drive needless profits.

Power usage

I’m generally a huge eco guy but on power usage particularly I view this largely as a government failure. We have had to incredible energy resources that the government has chosen not to implement or effectively dismantled.

It reminds me a lot of how Recycling has been pushed so hard into the general public instead of and government laws on plastic usage and waste disposal.

It’s always easier to wave your hands and blame “society” than the is to hold the actual wealthy and powerful accountable.

Someone get her to Congress