Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Fedi On Fire
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    3 days ago

    The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

    This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Corporate Social Media is Junk Food
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    29 days ago

    organic food for your brain

    High quality, positive content boosts mental health

    Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that’s not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.

    (as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•If you use Mbin, what's the difference between a thread and a post?
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    4 months ago

    I feel like your preference makes sense when aligned from the perspective of a conventional forum-like platform. However I’d argue that that’s missing a core part of what kbin is/was – and by extension what Mbin is – which is the microblog integration alongside the forum-like stuff. With that context in mind, boosts (or whatever term you want to use for “retweet”) make sense to integrate imo.

    Whether or not you think Mbin should try to integrate the microblog side of things is of course a subjective - I personally think it’s a cool idea to try at least, but with how dominant lemmy has become it can be difficult to reconcile differences and incompatibilities between it and other software like Mbin.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion… let’s build a bright future for PeerTube!
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    1 year ago

    From the submission:

    Not a rival, just an alternative

    The realization that led us to develop PeerTube is that no one can rival YouTube or Twitch. You would need Google’s money, Amazon servers’ farms… Above all, you would need the greed to exploit millions of creators and videomakers, groom them into formatting their content to your needs, and feed them the crumbs of the wealth you gain by farming their audience into data livestock.

    Monopolistic centralized video platforms can only be sustained by surveillance capitalism.

    Even though we cannot pinpoint the exact budget Framasoft spent on PeerTube since 2017, our conservative estimate would be around 500 000 €

    With these two perspectives it seems to be doing well, even if it can’t / won’t entirely displace the major players.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default
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    1 year ago

    Which is exactly how the real world works. Harm has to be identified to suggest solutions.

    According to the submission, some harms have been identified, and some solutions have been suggested [that could reduce the same and similar harms from occurring to new and existing users] (but mostly it sounds like a “more work needs to be done” thing).

    I imagine your perspective on the issues being discussed are different from those of the author. The helicopter parent analogy makes sense in a low-danger environment; I think what the author has suggested is that some people don’t feel like it’s a low-danger environment for them to be in (though I of course – not being the author or one such person – may be mistaken).

    Edit: [clarified] because I realised it might seem contradictory if read literally.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•Peertube appears to have doubled their MAU
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    1 year ago

    Unless you’re also throwing money at YouTube premium (etc), isn’t this by definition unsustainable to do? So it’s not really a viable long-term strategy either.

    Like don’t get me wrong, I don’t want all the tracking and stuff either, but somebody has to pay those server bills. If it’s not happening through straight cash then it’s going to be through increasingly aggressive monetization and cost-cutting strategies.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.iotoFediverse@lemmy.world•What is the difference between YouTube and peertube?
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I looked around and unfortunately couldn’t find that much either (except for a few specific niches).

    Honestly though, if peertube semi blew up the same way mastodon / lemmy / kbin have I think most of the hosts would shut down in the process. Anything but short videos are hella expensive to store and distribute en masse compared to text + images. Video might be one of the things that can only survive if mostly centralised for now.