Theoretically, one could use Fediverse software to make standalone forums and/or social media platforms. However, not many have done this. Truth Social is the only one that comes to mind.

If you’re interested in running your own, I think you should be able to pick any Fediverse software you choose, install it on a server, and run it in a whitelist mode so that it doesn’t connect to other instances.

If your concern is random people being able to read and scrape your posts, I know that some Pleroma instances are also configured to not allow any pages or profiles to be public-facing, instead requiring a login if you want to visit anything other than the landing page (and even then, this restriction sometimes prevents any content in the feeds from loading when you are on the landing page).

What does one have to do with the other?

Congrats on the weight loss though.

Work is really picking up, so I don’t have the time to tear down all of the arguments.

If your argument, though, in regards to Jews not being the original owners of the land, is that they weren’t there first, so they shouldn’t be there, that’s just silly. “Finder’s Keepers” is not an internationally recognized determinant of the ownership of land or property, nor who should live there. Again, when there’s a war (as there have been between the Jews and Palestinians), you lose the rights to your land. If that’s “stealing land”, it is what it is.

Generally, I don’t spend time engaging with “well they were there first” arguments because they are irrelevant, but I figured a reply (unfortunately short, due to the amount of time I have on my hands) was worth it in this case.

I prolly won’t have the time to follow up with this convo, but I wish you the best. Happy Friday!

History did not begin in the 1940s. Israel had the land before the Palestinians did. If we’re giving the land of Israel back to its original inhabitants, Israel didn’t steal anything, but we both know that that’s not what this is about.

This is a conflict over land between two groups. That’s it. Some people are mad about who’s winning, whatever.

When it comes to killing kids…turns out, that’s what happens in war. It’s not nice, but nobody ever accused war of being nice. That’s why war is bad.

Hamas kills kids too, so Israel will likewise always have a reason to fight, as long as Hamas exists. Furthermore, Hamas has demonstrated a far greater willingness to do terrorist attacks than Israel. The claim that Israel is worse than Hamas in terms of the ethics of violent tactics is so absurd that arguing with a lobotomized human being would be a better use of my time than debating that point.

That ain’t for lack of trying.

At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.

That is a cost that, historically, the type of instance that would block an LLM instance just for having AI bots has no problem with expending fourfold.

Since I presume that few users would try querying an LLM instance, and therefore few instances would likely even touch the LLM instance (again, remember, the posts would be unlisted), this is pretty much an imagined problem, even if the hypothetical LLM instance were to exist in reality.

There isn’t an effect if nobody on a server interacts with or queries unlisted posts or their posters on a different instance.

How do you feel about Japan surrendering to the United States after we bombed them? That killed more children.

https://www.icanw.org/hiroshima_and_nagasaki_bombings

Edit: I guess since Hamas has killed Israel’s children and vice versa, you wouldn’t want either side to surrender.

Load on which servers?

If those posts are unlisted, what would be the big deal about that slop being on the Fediverse?

A bot instance, like Botsinspace, populated with LLMs, would be rather interesting to observe.

I haven’t been paying attention for the last year or so, has Hamas surrendered yet?

Ooh, Mango Mussolini! Good one!!

These types of articles blows up the claims that CBS News is pro-Trump propaganda now.

If the WNBA players aren’t bricking 3s over and over again like they do in the NBA, that’d certainly be a welcome improvement.

It’s rare, but some female sports have benefits/advantages that the male equivalents don’t have. In womens’ soccer, for example, (my favorite female sport), they don’t flop at all. It leads to more gameplay and less downtime.

I like some of the Jack Conte songs.

Maybe I’ll check out a WNBA game when I have a chance, but I watched the NCAAW Final Four last year and wasn’t that impressed. It’s pretty low-scoring and low-energy compared to the male counterpart.

Caitlin Clark was fun to watch in college, but that was largely due to her just obliterating her opponents like she was Steph Curry. Without that skill gap, the female version of the game is a lot less interesting to me.

I like some of the Jack Conte songs, but what does he know about videogames?

Is it normal for Arma games to be FOSS?

Well, in this case, he did step down.