What is Rob Lowe doing with the Lakers?

That’s essentially what I was doing with the “Community Ambassador” feature on fediverser. They could define all types of RSS feeds as sources of content, and there is a button that lets them select and easily create posts on the Lemmy communities.

The problem with relying on bots for that is that if they post too much content they end overwhelming the members and bringing “organic” output down. Any bot would have to be set up so that it never gets to post more than any “real” member.

Don’t think of these efforts as some form of central planning, but as a simple catalyst.

I’ve tried that with the “Community Ambassadors” idea where people could get content from different sources to help bring content to the curated communities on fediverser. It went largely ignored.

I’m more than willing to try again, however I am tired of instance drama and the tribal mentality that makes people associate a community to “their” instance. So I am not interested in supporting this in any instance that does not have a specific topic or interest group behind.

The beauty of free software is that you don’t need permission to work on someone else’s code.

You completely edited your comment to remove the offensive part. Ok. I will take that as an apology.

Replying to your new comment: you misunderstood.

I’m not the one being affected by cm0002’s behavior. My rant is not "I want to quit because I am feeling bad about their particular actions - this doesn’t affect me directly, I can tune it out just fine, I don’t attach myself emotionally to anything here. My rant is to simply externalize this realization that social media seems to be a place that self-selects for fucked-up people, so there isn’t much of a point in trying to build a “healthier alternative”.

I said at the original post…

At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.

Ironically, I reported your comment due to your veiled implication I have mental issues.

I’m saying there’s a reason it didn’t take off; it serves the function of being worse than the device it’s designed to replace by having less features.

Another possible explanation: companies are not interested in creating a solution that can cannibalize their laptop line of products.

And how’s that going for them?

I am not defending it, but it’s a separate discussion and for the purposes of the argument it does not matter.

For those people we already have tablet computers

A tablet still means another small screen and a whole separate computer. It doesn’t replace the phone, it’s just a more portable version of the laptop.

Any software developer worth their qualifications isn’t ‘coding’ with an LLM

Go ahead and tell that to the management of any tech company in the past 18 months. Developers are not exclusively working through agent CLI/TUI, but the majority of the work on tech (regardless of being big corps or small startups) involves code development via LLM-assistance.

the accessories needed to do the function of an actual computer.

That’s what the lapdock was! The lapdock itself provides the base for the keyboard + trackpad + the display connection. All one would need to do is connect the phone. I don’t understand why the concept seems so complicated.

To be clear, I’m talking about a scenario for people are used to laptops because they are constantly moving their location and do not have any type of hot desk with traditional docks. Let’s call them “on-the-go” workforce.

laptop’s cpu is cooled properly thanks to its larger form factor

The CPU is not the bottleneck for the majority of office/email/conferencing applications, which what most on-the-go people need.

the storage is removable and therefore upgradeable

So it is on my phone. It’s rarer to find phones with SD slots nowadays, but not that difficult.

and the ability to run full windows/PC programs

Again, most on-the-go people don’t need that. Even software developers nowadays can go by through a lot of the work by using some GPT-like (or OpenClaw-like) assistant.

absolutely nuking your battery

The phone would be plugged to this “lapdock”, so it wouldn’t be using its own battery.

a lot of them require a physical computer with USB, cat5, hdmi

That’s I/O. Which could/would be provided by the lapdock.

Flip that around. By having a (business) laptop around all the time, I am carrying a CPU, storage, webcam and audio I/O which are redundant if I have a smartphone with me.

At home I have a big screen, keyboard, big speakers, nice webcam. At work I have a big screen, keyboard, etc. If I could work from my phone I would not need to carry anything for my commute.

I am the admin of the instance. I don’t think the posting is a problem.

If I try to browse by all it feels even worse, because the frontpage is dominated by the anxieties and neuroses of the zeitgeist. The only solace I am getting is that some of communities in the topic-specific.instances I am running started to get some frequent posters, but to be honest to have 3-5 people participating in a community about e.g, basketball, just feels too little, too late.

Holy crap, I am sorry you have to deal with this.

The more I hear stories like these, the less I believe that social media can ever be a net good to society.

I want to believe that the Fediverse could be a healthy alternative, but damn why is it that this place gets to be so much smaller than the corporate networks and yet feel just as toxic as them?

I started working on the Fediverse because I believed that normies could benefit from social media that is mot controlled by any corporation. Now I am starting to feel like the only winning move is not to play.

I agree, but I don’t think it is what is happening here.

Funnily, I don’t like how cross-posts are presented in Lemmy’s UI. But I see why straight reposts would be poorly received.

I for one would like to have a “community following community” system, where moderators could subscribe to one community and then let the community actor send a post while keeping the original author. It would basically kill the need of what these bots are doing and it would keep attribution to the original poster.

Ah, indeed! The bot is taking posts from .ml and re-homing them in different instances. So I guess now I understand the argument (but not accepting the conclusion) from @givesomefucks@lemmy.world.

Victor will only return back to his planet after getting more rings than Chet and forcing him into early retirement.

An account that posts everything it sees somewhere else, drowns that out and lowers the percentage of posts where genuine engagement will happen.

And this is not happening. cm0002 posts are not drowning anything.

Especially on a small site, that fractures the user ase between all the threads.

Not all users care about all the threads. Most users care about finding content that is relevant to their specific interests.

When a fediverse account does that to repost stuff already on the fediverse

Where in the Fediverse is that content? Again, the links I am seeing from cm0002 seem to be (a) relevant to the community and (b) bringing new content.

EDIT: you are right, the bot is pulling content from .ml communities and re-homing them. I wasn’t this because my instance is not following that many stuff from .ml and I tend to favor the topic-specific instances. That explains why I wasn’t seeing content as “duplicated”. Sorry about that.

if you just keep throwing around insults

I honestly had not seen your profile before, and I had to check your history to see what about my comment would be insulting. I’m sorry. I would never guess that my example ended up describing you.