Anubis makes your browser solve a challenge to verify you’re not a LLM crawler scraping content. It shouldn’t have the effects that OP describes.
haverholm
I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
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“Criticize”? How dare you! 😂 It was only intended as light ribbing as far as I’m concerned, I fully acknowledge the “foolish” part.
1·2 months agoYou mean worse?
TBF, that should be the conclusion in all contexts where “AI” are cconcerned.
29·2 months agoIt looks like it’s a Webfinger implementation to parse the ActivityPub user URI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750312
The
@user@instance.tldformat has become a convention across most if not all ActivityPub platforms. In the end the software will look uphttps://instance.tld/useranyway.
23·2 months ago“Federated” — why? My immediate questions are: What purpose does federation serve in this context? How are song lyrics like Mastodon updates or Peertube videos?
Federation is great for some purposes, but not for all.
Your statistical uniqueness will be added to our empirical material
The survey is anonymous
I dunno, maybe they thought that cut both ways? 🤷
Sure, I was being slightly facetious to make a point about the issues that Peertube solves. IMHO the most valuable part of Youtube is the one Peertube replaces — videos.
The Youtube advertising that people seem to make money off is the part I already do my damnedest to avoid with third party apps and front ends. Peertube solves that as well.
Really? And here I thought they were all video platforms. Youtube advertising is just an added layer of enshittification.
Not really. They give some lip service to communist dogma, but they really only have a big hard on for totalitarianism.
It’s pretty absurd in 2025 to get high on late 1980s Comintern propaganda, but here they are 🤷
Yeah, why do considerate mods like OP have to wade in and tell others they can just block you? Wotta revoltin’ development. /s
I’d add “report” to that advice. If somebody is outright being jerks, that is probably against your instance’s rules — and if it isn’t, there are plenty others to choose from.
Blocking helps you, but reporting people (or instances) that are just here to troll will help others.
On a good day he’ll just redirect it to X. If he’s off his rocker on ketamine he might have it display a deepfake porn video of himself performing oral sex.
Because “Musk sucks”. That guy loves a dumb pun à la “let that sink in”.
Yeah, I don’t know anything about the state of open Reddit endpoints. Seems they’re intent on closing down non-Google/Gemini access to some of them? 🤷
But if the
/.rss“hack” helps setting up a Lemmy bot or at least track the communities with a feed reader, that’s a small victory I guess?
You’d probably have to jump through several hoops to make that happen. Libreddit doesn’t offer any ActivityPub API to follow directly, or even RSS feeds that might be used by a bot to post updates to Lemmy.
This sounds like a “fight fire with dumpster fire” sort of solution. Please don’t.
Wtf, how have I not heard that writefreely hasn’t federated since Xmas?
This exactly. With a federated app store, how would users verify that apps hadn’t been tampered with? Federation isn’t a one size fits all solution.
And yes, “a future Fediverse OS” isn’t a potential, it’s a hallucination.
Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Here? Blocking just means you don’t see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, “karma” isn’t a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.
I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.