I think we're basically in agreement. The energy expenditure is real, but it adds no real value to the product. In a very real way, it is make believe — even more so than real money.
I dont want to sound too jaded, but people will sign up for anything without reading the TOS. It'll be fine, just try to give them the best possible first impression so they stick around.
The practical thing that trips up most people is the wealth of possible servers to register with. Give your friends a leg up and give them a signup link to a reliable, friendly instance you think will fit them (probably one you're already on).
Just give people a low-friction way in, let them get a feel of the fediverse/a specific, local feed. In my experience over-evangelising the nuts and bolts only turns them off the whole concept.
I think we often try to sell the fediverse too hard on the technical and idealist perspectives. Yes, federation is great and, yes, isn't it lovely that there is no manipulative algorithm, or no billionaire can buy it out and build it into his failed space exploration empire?
But the majority of internet users don't care about those things. Even for those that do, it'll be way down their priority list.
What if I do have the chops to quality check and actually do treat Claude like a junior coder?
Says every Dunning-Kruger sufferer who don't and can't 😉 I don't need to doubt your skills and dilligence, just those of every lazy hack who whack out slop projects without a second thought.
Sorry, but I think those outnumber capable, security-minded developers by a large factor.
>so far I haven't made a single public post about it
Well, now you made one. Congratulations.
Maybe you need to look at the reasons you feel unsure about promoting the project. You seem very eager to get stars on Github (and let's not get into the GH situation, nor "AI", nor the fact that your open source project relies heavy on proprietary models).
I'd suggest you ignore the scoring system for the moment, and just write from your original enthusiasm about the project. Leave marketing to corporations that can afford marketers.
Stars and upvotes and likes are addictive metrics, and can have a deleterious effect when they don't show. And yes, stars decide how high you rank on Github (see parenthesis above), but that's for a later stage. It begins with writing the first post — and for that, again, congratulations 🙂
Fully agree with the last bit. And let's be honest when we admit that there are "good use cases for AI and LLMs". None of us here are doing protein folding or crunching other ginormous datasets for science.
Using Claude to write code you don't have the chops to quality check... doesn't really qualify. That's just choosing convenience over safety. "Move fast and break things" as a service.
That's the key point, isn't it? OP's question isn't really as hypothetical as it's phrased; you definitely can go on Amazon or eBay and find cheaper, Chinese knockoff parts.
But will they perform to the same standards as top name brands? Very unlikely.
I think we're basically in agreement. The energy expenditure is real, but it adds no real value to the product. In a very real way, it is make believe — even more so than real money.
Fair, and not wrong 🙂 Appreciate the reminder!
Thanks for all the replies! In a nutshell,
This boils it down fairly well, I think 🙂
Probably just a dial-up connection that you access entirely from the command line.
Still better than Crypto BS
Also, cryptocurrency. Actually, it's all cryptocurrency, please invest in the pretend money we're wizarding out of the void.
Sometimes you need to own that you went ahead and replied before bothering to read others' comments. Thanks 🙂
Obligatory reference because you're on startrek.website:
Why would you want one small, multi-purpose device when you can have a PADD for each book/instruction manual/hourly report? 🙂
I'm fine with ActivityPub over ActivityPub, thanks.
Ugh, posted before reading the other comments. Loads of people put it shorter and better already. This is just a +1 to all of the above 👍
Yeah, that's only a small corner of the fediverse, though 🙂
I dont want to sound too jaded, but people will sign up for anything without reading the TOS. It'll be fine, just try to give them the best possible first impression so they stick around.
The practical thing that trips up most people is the wealth of possible servers to register with. Give your friends a leg up and give them a signup link to a reliable, friendly instance you think will fit them (probably one you're already on).
Just give people a low-friction way in, let them get a feel of the fediverse/a specific, local feed. In my experience over-evangelising the nuts and bolts only turns them off the whole concept.
I think we often try to sell the fediverse too hard on the technical and idealist perspectives. Yes, federation is great and, yes, isn't it lovely that there is no manipulative algorithm, or no billionaire can buy it out and build it into his failed space exploration empire?
But the majority of internet users don't care about those things. Even for those that do, it'll be way down their priority list.
What makes you confident Signal is secure? It's a centralised service, so there's a single point of failure 🤷
Says every Dunning-Kruger sufferer who don't and can't 😉 I don't need to doubt your skills and dilligence, just those of every lazy hack who whack out slop projects without a second thought.
Sorry, but I think those outnumber capable, security-minded developers by a large factor.
😄
>so far I haven't made a single public post about it
Well, now you made one. Congratulations.
Maybe you need to look at the reasons you feel unsure about promoting the project. You seem very eager to get stars on Github (and let's not get into the GH situation, nor "AI", nor the fact that your open source project relies heavy on proprietary models).
I'd suggest you ignore the scoring system for the moment, and just write from your original enthusiasm about the project. Leave marketing to corporations that can afford marketers.
Stars and upvotes and likes are addictive metrics, and can have a deleterious effect when they don't show. And yes, stars decide how high you rank on Github (see parenthesis above), but that's for a later stage. It begins with writing the first post — and for that, again, congratulations 🙂
Fully agree with the last bit. And let's be honest when we admit that there are "good use cases for AI and LLMs". None of us here are doing protein folding or crunching other ginormous datasets for science.
Using Claude to write code you don't have the chops to quality check... doesn't really qualify. That's just choosing convenience over safety. "Move fast and break things" as a service.
I'm not familiar with that manufacturer and model 😄
That's the key point, isn't it? OP's question isn't really as hypothetical as it's phrased; you definitely can go on Amazon or eBay and find cheaper, Chinese knockoff parts.
But will they perform to the same standards as top name brands? Very unlikely.
I think they're saying it could be useful to know the geographical area you want to learn (or educate others) about.