Thanks for your response. I have a little corner of the internet with a couple projects that require full access to the HTML for the site, so neocities of all things works great. I tried wordpress first, and I just couldn’t get something I wanted worked out. For a blog, I’ve used it before. Blogs I’m kind of wavering about.

Friendica seems great and then…I can’t find anything. I actually did find a Lemmy.world group on there that for some reason I couldn’t see when searching globally for communities by the same name, so it did help me with Lemmy’s jankiness… but for example looking for anyone I might possibly know (unlikely) seems to get me nothing close. I’ll give misskey a look, I checked it out a while ago but was a Fediverse newb.

Short of being a proficient and innovative coder (which I am not), is there any way to help the Fediverse not suck like this?

Pollock’s art is splatters and swirls and whatnot, but his process wasn’t just random splatters. He knew when his art was done because it felt done to him.

Likewise, a QR code isn’t random splatters, either. Both are intentionally created to have meaning. One as a work of art that should make the viewer feel something at an emotional level, and one to tell you that the restaurant you’re in hasn’t updated their menu since COVID.

AI art isn’t art because gen AI is trained on art without the ability to feel or sense the emotions it’s trying to convey. If I take a picture of an artwork and try and copy it at home, I haven’t created art. I’ve copied someone else’s art. I’ve made a picture, a copy of the original. If the AI hasn’t been trained on, let’s say, cubism, I can’t show it ONE image of cubism and hope it can go from there and be creative and reach the same point. I can’t describe cubism and expect it to achieve the same thing. The best it can ever manage is to copy an original work it was trained with.

Which is obvious because they call AI images “art.” They’re not. AI images are patterns to fit a mathematical probability. It’s the difference between calling a Jackson Pollock and a QR code art.

yeah, I checked it out a few months ago and it was…sparse. I’ll give it another go around. The hard part about replacing IG is that the only things I like on IG are cooking and cat related, but my spouse and 1 friend send things basically every day.

Thanks - I was looking at it the other day. I have a few other project ideas that might be better for Ghost and peertube, but that’s a longer-term project.

Yeah!

…wait

Yeah, and I think it’s sort of either-or with free form html and ActivityPub plugins. Which is what I expected since Wordpress isn’t an option, but I just wanted to be sure I wasn’t just assuming too much. Oh well, worth an ask at least.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

There’s a thing across Africa called “joking cousins.” Unlike genuine bad-blood tension between different ethnic groups that can often exist, it’s a jovial sibling rivalry style of thing. I’ve always seen the distro thing a bit like that. It gets tiring, but it’s sort of hard-coded into human nature to joke about slight differences when we’re all in the same tribe.

Though, this graph is silly for the reasons you mention - I think that might be intentional as part of the joke. It’s stupid, so clearly OP is daily driving Kali and hacked the central database to add the distro logos. I dunno, maybe I’m explaining it away too easily.

Hahaha, I saw the same thing looking around and thought it was just me. I get enough of that on Lemmy, I don’t need to double-dip. Thanks for the head’s up.

Dark Ages II: Flooding the Zone with Shit

What, like George Soros? Have we jumped straight into conspiracy theories?

I recently started what’s probably my 15th account for a single topic. Same exact thing happened to me.

When I had a dualboot, that’s how I ordered it.

The worst part is the Contributor Quality Score, which is the subjective version of karma.

If you’re not a bot, then you have to spend a lot of real time producing acceptable content to get to do anything YOU want to do. You literally have to grind Reddit to be able to post in some subs, even if your account is older than the hills and has positive karma.

Isn’t it amazing that Reddit Gold was actually one of their better ideas to derive income from users?

Avoiding to Google, novelty just enough to keep users in the ecosystem another 3 minutes on average.

It’s satire. I think. I dunno, Maybe it’s like modern art. Its only purpose is to piss people off.

For a while I was using a VPN where the connections we all via command line. I loved it, because once you type it, it’s just up up up to find that location again and swap around.

Now I have to use the mouse and click like a damn fool!

I think that was really more in the Atari days, right? Some of them have technical steps like jump switches.