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A federated system is in a decentralized system too, but I reckon you're asking about the difference between something that is decentralized in the way Bitcoin or similar systems are, versus the federated software of the Fediverse.

This might be an oversimplification, but the main difference comes mostly down to a philosophy on state and statemanagement.
A decentralized system in the style of Bitcoin and such are a single source of truth decided by consensus of many independent actors(servers) where none of them have any more influence than the other.
However it is important that all actors agree on the entire state of the system, you can't have an actor that only cares about transcations of exactly 420$ for example.
If some servers have a different view which transactions are true; this is a problem for bitcoin as the system requires a single consensus of whats real to work. (I'm no BC expert, but this should be true on a high level, even if there are practical solutions to this)

On the other hand, a federated systems like on Mastodon are a bunch of independent servers which have their own state(ie posts and what not). They are the ultimate owner of said content, in the sense that that they don't need approval of any other member in the fediverse to post that content. The decentralized part of the fediverse is obviously the fact that fediverse servers shares its posts with all other servers it knows off, but its not expected behavior that all servers in the fediverse has to have all posts, and the system is not degraded should some posts be missing.

I loved Mariners line about the enterprise crew talking slowly. The difference in speed between the SNW and LD dialogue was something I noticed and this one line made it click for me. Fantastic

Bought Renoise a few years ago when I started dabbling in music production as a hobby. I ended up just Renoise to sequence VSTs which kind of feels like a waste, so I just decided to stick to Ableton. I still really want to get good at using it

I've only played two games as of late. Warframe and Crab Champions. Crab Champions is surprisingly fun

Sadly, I'm sure any social platform where one can make their own private community (actually private or perceived to be private) will have more of these than most of us think. Its just that we don't see them.

I'm also not surprised that services like discord is seemingly relaxed at moderating them, as its a problem that is invisible to most users. Moderating is expensive, and unless it hurts public opinion, seemingly its not worth it for them

Something tells me it's something dumb like vesper and Dez deciding on a off colab and vesper brought the spear gun, some high jinx happened and now they're both in jail

For sure. Though, the sensors will pick up when the first of two seals break, you could potentially use the system while a replacement seal is being worked on. If you're feeling adventurous that is. ;)

I figure if you buy that house in that location, the cost of having it fixed isnt even on your radar.

If we want an open chat service, I'dd look into Matrix, which is federated like kbin/lemmy. Its also a work in progress, but it does support both text chat and voice/video chat. And it does have rudimentary "spaces" which lets you group channels and such, which makes it easy for people to discover the channels in our community.

I know you asked for a gaming chair but I will advise you to reconsider. Most gaming chairs are not really that good and are quite expensive for what you get.

I bought one and it wasn't really all that great and it only lasted a few years before becoming entirely unusable. I paid similar a normal office chair after that and it is infinitely better and has outperformed the gaming chair in all regards. It don't look as slick though

David Zhang on youtube does a lot of reviews of office chairs, maybe this can help out
https://youtu.be/zpIPhAGHSV4

If this ends up being just the CM having a nervous breakdown, it would be kind of hillarious

I'm a bit on the fence still. On the one hand it was interesting to watch. But I still wonder what it's actually about

Feel like this would have made a great theme for Photoshop battles

Why not both?
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I hadn't considered that angle as a reason for wanting in on activitypub. That is actually quite devious

I'm not against corporations integrating with the fediverse, but I do think that federating with Meta will be a net negative for the fediverse as a whole, atleast in its current state.

First of all, In a purely practical sense, since we're still struggling to keep different instances in sync with the amount of content that is here today. We're going to have a real bad time trying to sync threads content, while they can probably sync the rest of the fediverse without breaking a sweat. I am afraid that we're going to drastically increase the compute necessary to maintain a cohesive fediverse, and that we're just going to hand Meta the keys to the castle as they are the only one able to provide this service at that scale. This is probably less of an issue for Mastodon, where you subscribe to users and not communities.

Furthermore, I'll come out and say that I like that this place is more niche. I've found a lot more joy posting here than i did on reddit or twitter, despite the lower user count. I don't think that access to a large user base is necessarily going to make this a better place for the group that is here now. I think we as a fediverse needs to grow a bit as a community before we can even hope to take in Meta without it warping the entire community to the point that its no longer itself.

I knew something had bean missing from my timeline since I logged on this morning

I think this is the web bubble bursting again. Venture Capitalists have piled money on a bunch of sites and products, we've become used to good free services.

The economy has taken a down turn and there is a increased demand for instant profitability and more and more social media companies realize they have overestimated how many people are willing to become paying customers. So they are forced to cut the product in order to save money instead.

I have a big enough house to be able to put this machine somewhere out of the way but there are plenty of cheap server gear on classifieds. I paid ish 300 euros for a 32 core machine with 40gb ram. I can host all the things without it even breaking a sweat.

Probably uses a lot more electricity, but I haven't really noticed it on my power bill