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Monthly Self-Promotion thread (September 2023) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I launched a big 2.0 update to my album-focused music player Longplay just yesterday. I wrote an announcement post and there's also a detailed overview on MacStories. Feedback and questions are very welcome!

https://longplay.rocks/images/longplay/four-2dot0.png

Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The title of the article doesn't really match the content, which doesn't suggest to fully nuke Siri but rather to abandon the current underlying technology for something that's using generative AI (like ChatGPT). That's a reasonable suggestion and most likely Apple is already working on this.

Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe this says more about women than Elon Musk? Given a choice many women might not want to work for him...

Federation Lag-o-meter in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aye aye. I'm mildly excited.

Federation Lag-o-meter in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This looks great. Is there any chance that this could be extended to include Kbin as well, since those instances federated with Lemmy, too?

Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It is. They've temporarily disabled invite codes.

Identity in the Fediverse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm in the same boat. Would be good to have the ability to have a single identity that works across the fediverse. As a first step if you have your own domain anyway, it'd be cool to alias that to different underlying Mastodon/Kbin/Pixelfed/etc. accounts. It's possible to some small extend using the "Webfinger" protocol: https://philna.sh/blog/2022/11/23/alias-your-mastodon-username-to-your-own-domain-with-jekyll/

Here's the nice Kbird with changes that people suggested, is OK if it isn't the mascot of Kbin but it will always live in our hearts, the real mascot was the friends we made along the way. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The (k)bin bird should be a bin chicken though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dYWhkSbTU

📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

At least they don't donate their time and effort to Reddit anymore.

Traffic Visualization of visits to the top 5 #Kbin and #lemmy servers as of today. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Good reminder to keep those coffees flowing for ernest: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

Reddit usage metrics fall thanks to CEO's plan to boost revenue in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly don't know, but is spez also following Twitter in letting go of many employees? A lot of the backlash to Twitter came from that. He's been saying that they aren't profitable and their cost per API call for third party apps implies that they are running a pretty inefficient ship...

Loving the richness of variety in fediverse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Give it a few weeks. It was the same on Mastodon during heights of the #TwitterMigration. Everyone was talking about how they left the ship, what's different about the new place, and keep talking about the sinking ship.

After a while the new place felt familiar and that talk got less, and those meta-conversations were replaced with conversations about other things. If we get to that on Kbin eventually, that'd be great.