Pennomi

Amazon is more “warehousing and fulfillment” than it is “storefront”.

This would be hard to replicate without immense capital.

AGPL, nice

I love projects like this. Do one thing, super well, without adding a kajillion dependencies. I love the vanilla HTML / CSS approach.

It’s not just democracy, but information quality in general.

This is what we get for seeking profits more than truth.

Yeah that stuff bugs the shit out of me. It’s like people just discovered they can send HTML to a browser.

Skipping that whole loop would be far more efficient but it’s not cool to do that any more.

Algae is also more efficient per cubic meter, if I understand correctly.

No but it is tone deaf (heh) to use Claude, a non-self hosted AI, and Suno, another non-self hosted AI to literally sing the praises of why you shouldn’t use corporate software.

Especially when open source and open weight models exist to do both of those things, albeit at a lower quality.

If I recall correctly, lemmy.doesnotexist.club also has some Nicole problems.

Like every day? Yeah it’s worse now but Google is still useful for a lot of things.

That being said, I do have AdBlock so it’s a different internet for me.

I suspect the fediverse is stickier than mainstream social media, since there’s no incentive to be anti-consumer, and anyone can make their own frontend.

It’s only a matter of time until these companies keep making unforced errors and people join us.

Please file Nicole between “Beans” and “Trying not to Poop”

Being pedantic about the differences between mammoths and mastodons is legitimately one of my favorite pastimes. Thank you!

Agreed on all counts, except that rebrands rarely succeed without boatloads of cash behind them. And even then not always.

I’ve heard (and experienced to a certain extent) that a rebrand is a sign of the beginning of the end for a product.

The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.

I’d argue it’s part of “the fediverse” but not “The Fediverse”.

Think of all the skills you could learn! Basically any task that takes less than 60 seconds to complete!

I’m actually okay with semi-centralized. Most people need that to trust a platform, but it still gives you the option to self host if you really care.

10/1 to celebrate the 101 key keyboard apparently? That’s what the linked article mentioned.

You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. If they joined the fediverse that means you can have an account on any other platform you choose, including one you own. And that one account can access all the content everywhere. So basically you’d get all the perks of YouTube but few if any of the problems.