Writing a cover letter is a good exercise in self reflection

Could be worse could be luke smith

Sell to the highest bidder

Check out ollama.com You can download a whole bunch of models for free. The way I rum ollama is on linux from the cli, but if you can’t do it that way try jan.ai

Ddg is more or less a proxy, but yes

Like the old Dog Pile

Is this what you are referring to?

Bell’s Theorem pretty well settles this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell’s_theorem

I don’t come without credentials. I have a phd in physics.

I also don’t see any problem with Feynman’s standpoint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhBcLk_8f0

Or, the conjecture of the multiverse, being non falsifiable, makes it as scientific as the boogie man or the tooth fairy. God of the gaps anyone?

I don’t doubt it, to the extent some want more people on lemmy, do you think what we have is sufficient in quality or quantity in the eyes of those who we would attract? That was my point

Things we have no interest in changing. The topics of the most popular threads (linux, privacy, open source, niche diy, programming), the makeup of the communities (occupation, gender, political alignment, etc.), non-mainstream opinions (privacy, dangers of AI, how to best spend one’s time).

Lemmy will never grow as it stands. The public won’t change and neither will we. Our best shot is to pitch it to somewhat technically minded folks while could operate an instance if it is set up for them. Most of us could do this pretty easily with Ansible.

The harder part is the pitch. ESPECIALLY when persuading someone to manage an instance, we need to lighten any of the opinions in the first paragraph. Something we don’t historically do very well.

We also need to make things more “fun/useful”. Sports trivia, more cat/animal memes, substantially less cynical comics/more “funny ones”, more mainstream hobby communities (e.g. cooking, rock climbing, active D&D), random/communities with no “real purpose”, communities for differently abled/neurodivergent folks with a large enough user base to provide real support.

Creature comforts. A lot of people are going to find Lemmy to be primative. Something we take for granted is we will happily embrace something “inferior” but belonging to us rather than the bleeding edge proprietary offerings. I’ve come to find I “love” my freedom oriented software and hardware to the point I don’t even care if it shits the bed. It’s like my puppy. Sure it will do things I don’t like, but I’m patient with it. Most normies won’t feel that way. We’d need to polish and grow the code base to include the things people expect in a modern app, but most of us don’t have the skill or the time. And these additions may be things we don’t want anyway

I don’t see this as insurmountable. Less so as folks are becoming more aware of the invasive nature of AI. We just need to balance that et. al with the above.

Leave .world alone! (the answer to the original question is not instance wars)

How dare you besmirch the name of the frontman of the greatest band that has ever existed!

*United States (Excluding the islands of Hawaii and Alaska)

Maple. Syrup.

Yes that is important!

The number 8 is lucky to Chinese people. Source: I am Chinese

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Make a list of foss companies you’d like to work for. Scroll to the bottom of their webpages and look for careers.