I’m not sure you understand how a suggestion algorithm works, it’s not something that can be run locally without having to then load and process thousands of messages. There is no aspect of that that could be run locally while simultaneously not having to load all the messages you’re attempting to sort and make recommendations on.

It is not at all equivalent to a word filter, a word filter is not attempting to find something, it’s a filter that applies to things that are already being loaded regardless. When a post comes in the word filter looks to see whether or not it has a word that needs to be filtered. An algorithm needs to find new content out of all the content available and then attempt to determine whether or not it’s something that should recommend meaning the client would have to load thousands upon thousands of random posts from the Federalists in order to make that algorithm work

Discovery is just the worst, lemmy has a problem with it as well but it’s somehow just amplified on Mastodon. There is basically no way for me to organically find things I would be interested in. If I don’t already directly know how to find someone or something I want then I’m never going to come across it.

Compare that with blue sky which has a basic Discovery algorithm that I can pretty easily tune to what I want using filter lists I was able to very quickly get it to understand what type of artists I’m interested in following and what type of content I want to see and what I don’t want to see and through that I have discovered a bunch of artists I otherwise never would have known about.

Mastodon works good enough if you only want to follow very specific people that you already know about and can easily find but if you’re hoping to actually organically discover content I found it awful. The feeds for instances are pretty generic they don’t try to tailor to your interests it’s just a dump of whatever is on that instance or whatever it’s Federated with depending on how you view it which basically just guaranteed it was always filled with stuff I couldn’t give less of a shit about.

It’s very possible that the interface has changed since I last used it but at least when I used it the interface was pretty clunky and not very fun to use at least in my opinion, I did host my own instance for a little while and used a Twitter bot to copy the art of artists I liked over to a mastodon feed but you know all those Bots broke a little while before it became X so ended up giving up on that

Yeah saw that and wasn’t a fan, I’m probably in the minority here but i don’t just blindly want fediverse if its a bad experience. Lemmy is ok, still has some issues but i can use it without being frustrated. But mason just sucks imo

Would probably get more traction on bluesky, i know it’s not decentralized but at least it’s open source. Mastodon just sucks to use (imo)

I’m glad that it has inspired you, but when I say it’s worthless I mean that honestly even if a majority of people did everything I’ve done it would still barely make a dent. The major polluters are not people that is just a lie that’s been sold to us the major polluters are major corporations. It’s nice living more sustainably I genuinely find many of these changes to be nicer than what I had before them I think they can be used to improve one’s life when done correctly. But in terms of helping the climate change process? Despite everything I’ve done I’m still a Doomer because I know that the people can’t fix it

I decided part of reducing waste was getting myself something that’s basically guaranteed to last me the rest of my life, I can use these dishes as footballs for a family football game or to practice my hacky sack throwing and never worry about them getting damaged.

I’ve moved to stainless steel for basically everything. Including plates, bowels, cups, etc. So no more microplastics there at least. I’ve tried to find environmentally friendly soap and detergents where feasible.

I started cooking bulk slow cook meals at home to reduce waste in my food, i got energy efficient everything. My dishwasher, washing machine and dryer (heat pump dryer) are near the top of ESR. I installed solar ( self consumption not grid tie) and in the summer with my batteries can almost meet 100% of my power needs. Winter varies but can sometimes still offset 60% i also use heatpump hot water and room heating. All my lighting is custom high efficiency led strip lights running on the 48v if the solar batteries directly.

I drive a tiny smart fortwo which as far as I can tell is one of the least polluting non-hybrid vehicles the road, I would like to eventually get an electric car to compliment my solar but that’s a purchase for later. I feel as though I’ve done all that I can do without unreasonably disrupting my life I just feel sad knowing that it’s basically worthless in the grand scheme of how much companies are polluting

The key word there is immediately, they called upon Linus but also made the media drama at the exact same time. Call upon Linus, wait for his response, if you don’t get one after a decent chunk of time then go to social media.

It’s hard to know what line is would have done had there not been the drama that exploded before he got to the thread that ultimately upset him he may have stepped in to try and smooth things over he may not have but it was pretty much guaranteed he wouldn’t when it turned into a public event as his opinion on that has been clear for a long long time

While I do agree that there is some very problematic maintainers that are basically blocking progress just because they are old farts that don’t like change. I do also agree with Linus that immediately running to social media to drum up drama is not the correct solution to getting it fixed.

I am ultimately on the side of the rust maintainers here however there were definitely mistakes on both sides, I am not a fan of the trend over the past few years where anytime something doesn’t go your way you try and drum up as much drama on social media as possible. I am also not a fan of policing how people choose to word things, I don’t think there was anything wrong with the context that cancer was used. They were saying that the code would eventually grow uncontrollably and in a way that was unmanageable which is the literal definition of cancer, a cell that grows in an uncontrolled and unmanageable way.

Regardless of whether or not I agree with them that it would become a problem like that, I don’t see any problem with using the word like that.

There’s also some fault with torvald here, he needs to step up and either say that rust is okay or that it’s not because this wishy-washy game is bullshit and is not helping anybody. He originally accepted it into the kernel but has been letting random maintainers create roadblocks for it he either needs to tell them to back the fuck off and get over it or he needs to get rid of the notion that rust is accepted.

He mentioned turning a technical argument into drama and while I am not anywhere near as knowledgeable at these people I didn’t see much technical debate, I saw a maintainer that clearly said they just hated rust and we’re going to do everything they could to block it and not work with anyone on it. Which doesn’t sound like a very technical based argument to me, there were a couple concerns raised but they appeared to be addressed by multiple people quite thoroughly as there was both misunderstandings and even further potential compromises offered

Getting good is an alternative, coding will always be a trade between ease and quality. Super high level languages are super easy and accessible but the tradeoff is you have no idea what is actually happening on the backend nor much control of it and it requires bloated web engines to manage and run.

Maybe it’s been improved, i haven’t used slack in many years now. But i remember it having hilarious issues with state tracking. Trying to go back to old messages would fail half the time it would just scroll up to some random midway point then give up.

Would see notifications of new messages in a channel but didn’t see anything new until reloading slack. Based on what you are saying sounds like they fixed that. Which is good, however I’m willing to bet it still wants 1GB+ of memory just to display some text so bloated/slow still applies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And no I’m not one of those “just use irc” people. Telegram supports all the modern stickers, files, audio, etc but it’s fast and surprisingly light. But it’s also written in native C++ so that’s more expected

Slow, bloated, buggy af. Name one electron application that doesn’t struggle with state tracking over a long session, even just for simple shit like chat. The browser wasn’t supposed to be a real time application, no amount of trying to bolt it on will ever make it ok

Seafile is another to check. It’s focused entirely on the file storage aspect and doesn’t really do all the other stuff next Cloud does but I greatly prefer it