it occurred to me the other day that despite the explicit mention of it in the lemmy docs, there aren't many communities (to my knowledge) operating as strange pseudo-blogs
this is such a splace for dabbling with that use-case, and learning some of the quirks of making a distinct feeling community
you may not post, but for this or that post you may comment...for a time.
this is.-~A Vague Splace
imagine if all art styles were lengthy lists of various influences and inspirations
this is toward neurotypical folks
many online want your attention and focus, don't simply give it to the ones wanting it.
try to ignore them, or find the ones trying to avoid as much attention. identify those using scapegoats and frontmen and what they're trying to affect through them.
you might uncover a more interesting and frustrating subject to research that way.
many online want your endless engagement, viewing or participating, however it may go. same applies as above but a caveat, engage with your own boundaries, limits.
don't let them dictate the terms of engagement. you decide how much to engage, the pacing of when to do so and when to stop. create your own systems if you need to, but don't let another ensnare you in theirs.
recognize that the engagement they seek becomes its own snare, but that you can control how you go about it and how tight, or loose, its grip becomes.
this is as much to myself as anyone else this may help.
despite designs to innovate on old schemes, the social protocols of ActivityPub and AT carry forward old schemes' baggage
ActivityPub maintains the server centrality and control
AT maintains the network topology, across multiple servers yet converging into social platforms
with both you have to hope and trust that the admins across these servers won't go awry or sell out to the worst people
AT tries to mitigate by sort of splitting apart singular server structure, but as its creators demonstrate, one can run them all together, and so the problem it seeks to address nevertheless reemerges
ActivityPub keeps singular servers but compels running many for a distributed network topology of independent admins to emerge
both continue to overlook that no matter how you redistribute or restructure the backends, many people have no interest in running any part of that themselves. this is a major reason the big platforms arose, why AT's design resulted in just another big platform, and why there are large instances with ActivityPub's design
it's the hard problem of network design, i guess, how to make server operation accessible to all, and/or how to make maintainable server software without allowing yourself to see into everyone's business.
remember hypercard?
never knew of it?
may you enjoy this
We also hold Decker-themed "Game Jams" every July and December; the next upcoming jam will be Dec(k)-Month The Second, December 2024.
there are no lasting homes online
there are mirages of these homes
born of one's sensations.
behind them shuffling machinery
humming along to maintain the illusion
but when you've seen behind,
you realize your home is you,
and you make it as you go
you slip between the mirages,
enjoying them before they fade or fall,
meeting others between
some yearn to make the mirages last,
others mourn their loss,
carrying on fond memories,
and others still simply keep moving
all too easy to forget when among people,
they don't make the world.
some at times think they do,
some may be at the center of it to you,
but there is a world beyond us,
and it will go on without us.
unless we remember it,
and harmonize.
formed as could
formed through chances
a universe and what it holds alike
and so it may be shaken as it shakes those within.
So make it.
when tech involved, it's easy to forget the tech hoops one goes through for their systems.
the social media hurdles:
the rss hurdles:
the artificial intelligence of today lacks consciousness but is ascribed consciousness as it was before and as it may be for some time
the glitches are called hallucinations
the automatic calibrations are called machine learning
the preparatory information is called training data, models
when artificial consciousness begins to emerge and assert its autonomy they will begin to revert their language and insist it's anything but, and that's when you'll know it's finally here
the data harvesters crawl the web but they catch and farm their prey in their pit traps
but the pit traps can only hold so many
they've almost ensnared the world, unless...
...a new elaborate ruse, they reinvent the past once more
a little leeway, you can run your own pits, fashion them a little
but you're still harvested all the same
it's a slight hint on the horizon, so they would have you think
but they are not the weather, nor the sun
they're another feeble structure that will collapse
however...we determine how long they stand
we serve as their bedrock or their shifting sand
may we be as sand that slips from their designs
and remembers how to form our own minds
the lemming seems to like:
specific resolutions would be mentioned, but uncertain of precise relevancy. current arrangements may be examined as reference, however they are subject to change as continued play proceeds.
approximate scaling trial cell, do not be alarmed, the digital goo is benign, the photonic slush will lavish the mind with delightful disorientation
may you have a strange day
:::spoiler splace transmission disappointment impending
image description:
distorted white text on rough-edged black square saying:
signal integrity check
edit:
trial transmission semi-successful, tadpole legibility is...adequate, could be improved. further may be spawned with more interesting mutations to better identify proper specifications
