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I mean, good for them. Now, if anyone has actual mental health issues, please get in touch with a trained, human therapist.

“LOL”, I guess?

While true, doesn’t have anything to do with my comment?

I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

Yes… In society… What else?

Most of their operations are now running with money as the motivation

Let’s be real, that was always their end goal. They were never “open” except in name. Their free services were only to a) build a user base, and b) use it as unpaid beta testers.

Have you tried the Wayback machine?

Right, it was the local filesharing part (like at a W/LAN party) that I wanted to recommend pirate box for, so I overlooked the other functions 🙂

Either way, bookmarked your GH repo for future reference, excellent project!

Oh hey, this is just what I was looking for recently! I wanted to recommend PirateBox to another thread on here, but realised it was eol’ed six years back. This is pretty much similar usage, right?

Agreed, Nextcloud has gone from a lean little personal cloud to a hulking enterprise hub.

If you’re after something that’ll just sync your files between devices, try Syncthing. If you need files available online, maybe something like filestash or, like somebody else suggested, SFTPgo.

There are also tiny, lean calendar and contact server apps out there if you decide you need those. After self hosting NC for years I’m really happy spreading out the tasks over dedicated services rather than having all my eggs in one basket.

Something speciesist Flipper jokes something.

FFS, our first verbal contact with nonhuman persons is going to cause a diplomatic crisis 🤦

Well, you can use/link a mastodon account if you already have one.

Yeah, that’s what I did. I meant the feature set gave me more possibilities than I could handle 😄

According to their documentation:

login with other Fediverse identity and import social graph

• supported servers: Mastodon/Pleroma/Firefish/GoToSocial/Pixelfed/friendica/Takahē

It’s pretty cool in that it allows cataloguing more media types than just books, so that’s a leg up over Bookwyrm. IIRC it also pulls item information from relevant (open API) databases, so you get the synopsis etc filled in?

For me starting a new account that also made it kind of overwhelming. I’ve never catalogued my books anywhere, so the possibility of doing that, and input watched film, TV shows, etc — suddenly my media habits turned into a bit of a chore 🙂

Oh, never actually tried Bookwyrm, but I’d expected it would have a social aspect as well? That seems like a lost opportunity.

[Edited to add:] Have you had a look at NeoDb? Also a tracker, but apparently with more social aspects —

users can share their collections, publish microblogs, and engage with others in the Fediverse

I only had superficial experience with NeoDb, so can’t say with certainty if a Lemmy community and threads for individual books may be better for you.

What I take away from these testimonies is that, again, the people in charge show that they have little understanding of and zero respect for the skills and craft of creatives — and in this case also programmers. We always knew that, but it is next level offensiveness to demand that skilled professionals use a subpar technology to “generate” ideas, designs and code.

The art director who forgets all his learned process of idea development and instead just prompts Midjourney until he sees something he likes (but which his staff will have to backward engineer to make sense of) is a terrifying image of things to come. Fortunately I’m long out of the corporate creative treadmill.

[Edited to spell “Midjourney” as one word. This is my organic human accreditation 😄]

There truly is no spoon wrong thread 😂

Curated circlejerk 🧐

Lemmy won’t be tumblr, it will just federate with it 🙂 So I guess c/curatedtumblr will work even smoother when it becomes possible to just cross post over ActivityPub.

So, on the plus side that means they’ll be on the Fediverse soon.

On the negative, by now I fully expect Matt Mullenweg to flip out over some perceived slight or rivalry and ruin Tumblr for everybody 🤷