"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

A decentralised Bluesky won't work. We have all heard the arguments that it's totally impossible to decide which Fediverse instance to join. Surely that problem will doom Bluesky's decentralisation efforts.

/s

Funny, I've mostly seen complaints that Mastodon is "empty".

Some tips:

• Use high-volume hashtags for discovery, not for following.
• Discovery: niched hashtags (e.g. #photography - >#birdphoto)
• Discovery: accounts that use the high-use hashtags. Follow or mute
• mute/filter "spammers" and "spammy" hashtags
• Ditch FOMO, grow your feed slowly.
• Look at boosted accounts from accounts you follow. Maybe they're interesting for you.

Pixelfed has been around for a couple of years. I created an account in the summer of 2022. But it didn't become popular until there was an app. A web app that does the same isn't enough. If it isn't in App Store/Play it doesn't exist for most people (which is something all Fediverse devs must think about).

Anyway, plenty of information about the development pace was available for anyone who wants to make an informed decision before they send their money somewhere. Apparently >2000 people thought it was worth it.

Pycon Italia is on Mastodon https://social.python.it/@pycon

I don't have any recommendations, but I'm sharing information about train travel through a Mastodon account in Swedish https://mastodonsweden.se/@interrailinfosvenska I wish you good luck creating a new community in the Fediverse! And I have posted a challenge for a similar thing in Sweden.

Writing code in languages I'm not familiar with yet. Reading code is much easier than learning all the syntax details, so I can still verify that it's correct. I've even written a poc in lang 1 and used LLM to rewrite it in lang 2.

I finally found a Python-specific model. Searching is tricky when almost everything around local llms involve Python. https://huggingface.co/codellama/CodeLlama-13b-Python-hf

Interesting, I had missed that there are "non-official" models that can be used with Ollama just like the official ones. e.g. https://ollama.com/huihui_ai/deephermes3-abliterated

And it gave a good explanation to my "lithmus test" code snippet

If Bluesky becomes federated with multiple instances, it will be just as impossible to enter as ActivityPub-based services apparently are since instance-selection is a blocker.

RIght?

;)

Ollama's Python API works well and there's a lot of examples. However, I've not gotten the Ollama REST API to work, the response doesn't unpack into json for me.

Just design the rest of your system so that it doesn't have to know anything about the implementation (only prompts and responses) and you should be able to easily replace the LLM part later.

The FB export files have everything (your posts, comments, reactions etc) as html files and images/videos.

Getting it from those files into parts that can be uploaded somewhere else will take some work. Either with programming if OP has knowledge, or copy-paste.

The whole point of US and European companies moving manufacturing to China.

of course, I haven't looked at models >9B for now. So I have to decide if I want to run larger models quickly or even larger models quickly-but-not-as-quick-as-on-a- Mac-Studio.

Or I could just spend the money on API credits :D

For lots of people it'll be less confusing. They open their app store and search for this Pixelfed they've heard of and find an official app. That's what they expect.

Interesting, lots of "bang for the buck". I'll check it out