A quick scroll of his account on Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/urlyman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy ) makes it pretty clear why his Discover sucks. The algorithm on Bluesky sorta works like a mirror, you get out what you put in. My feed is all art posts and wholesome memes because I follow artists, creators, and comic pages, so it sounds like he's trained his algorithm to be full of political complaining and toxic people like him. He should probably look into the Mute Words feature and start blocking stuff he thinks is toxic!

Bluesky is the first app built on the ATProtocol, its protocol for federation, sort of like how Mastodon was among the first to use ActivityPub after the overcomplexity of OStatus. The ATProtocol is a few years younger than ActivityPub, so its landscape isn't fleshed out yet. Currently Bluesky caters more towards creators, artists, and social togetherness, whereas ActivityPub tends to lean harder into attracting techies. Both protocols can be run as independent instances, but most people are still using bsky.social for now until more instances pop up and federate together. The process for hosting a Bluesky instance is still undergoing development, but all features of it have been opened up. There exist multiple bridge systems that can interweave ActivityPub with ATProto.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes%20on%20Running%20a%20Full-Network%20atproto%20Relay%20(July%202024)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol#Adoption

Broccoli Cheddar will grow up to be a fierce barn warrior

TIL LibreOffice has socials! One of these days I should look into joining Mastodon

I tested it with "cat" and it blocks me from seeing things I've reposted with the word "cat" in it, so yeah it might! :)

Those screenshots looks an awful lot like AI, be careful with that... AI has no problem letting people wallow in learned helplessness. Regardless, getting stuck in a rut is a real thing that most people go through, many times throughout life. The job market is abysmal right now, especially for the average individual. It's almost effortless nowadays to be overqualified for the minimum wage work, and underqualified for work at a livable wage. And that's without considering whether companies even want more employees...

It's just image files, you can remove them or replace the images with something more corporate. The author does state they'd prefer you didn't change the pictures, but the license doesn't require adhering to their personal request. I know at least 2 sites I've visited previously had Anubis running with a generic checkmark or X that replaced the mascot

FUTO is both a company (LLC, to be specific) and a rich guy.

Centralization strikes again

Maybe skim this recent post? https://lemmy.world/post/43616899 Lot of folks chimed in about their opinions on many different wiki approaches, my takeaway was that Bookstack looked like something I'd wanna use in the future, but there's a lot of stuff covered in there.

I used to be like Steve. It took a lot of years until I looked back and realized my mindset probably made a lot of people feel like you do now. Didn't start treatments or therapy until years into college. You can't rush someone's journey to improve, it goes at their pace. They'll appreciate it if you take the time for yourself that you need, and welcome them into anywhere that you reasonably can. Even if they refuse every offer or sentiment, they'll still know you were there for them, and it will matter.

Article seems kinda clickbaity, not sure about this Andy Chalk fella who wrote the piece.

So RWS caught wind that the devs of the next Postal game they were going to publish were using AI generated art, and then cut ties with the studio due to the community backlash? Sounds like they made the right choice. Maybe they shouldn't have outsourced the development of the game...

Finally, we've managed to shove crypto directly into social media interaction itself. If only there was some way to shove AI into it. Maybe add some NFT's while you're at it?

The author probably is using the historic definition:

... advanced computer technology enthusiast (both hardware and software) and adherent of programming subculture

Mobile games are designed like junk-food: take it out, eat some junk, then put it away to go do something else, throw away the bag or seal it for a quick snack later. Normal games are designed like a full meal: sit down somewhere with good atmosphere, nutritious, good conversation, get full and go home with plenty of leftovers and good memories

Hell, why limit it to gaming? I mean I know this is posted to Gaming, but still. There could be a lot of benefit to a tech industry wide Public Shame Index with how utterly soulless some companies are getting. Though, it would be under constant pressure from the largest companies to call it slander or libel, whatever they'd try to say to the abuse contact email of whoever hosts it to get it taken down.

its a guy in bed getting his face sucked into a phone

So this is basically doing what https://searx.neocities.org/ is doing? Or is it going some step beyond? Neat project

Thanks for the "incoherent rant", I'm setting some stuff up with Anubis and Caddy so hearing your story was very welcome :)