I have a few questions I'm really interested in answering. One is about the social graph -- I want to know how Fediverse accounts connect to other accounts, and especially if there are low-hanging options like triadic closure to help people connect more.
As part of my #NetworkScience work in my masters degree program, I have been thinking about how to do some analysis on Fediverse data. I was so impressed to see that there is a data set, #FediData, with anonymised data from the Fediverse.
👀 … https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/15/eternal-november-generative-ai-llm/ …my colleague Denver Gingerich writes: newcomers' extensive reliance on LLM-backed generative AI is comparable to the Eternal September onslaught to USENET in 1993. I was on USENET extensively then; I confirm the disruption was indeed similar. I urge you to read his essay, think about it, & join Denver, me, & others at the following datetimes…
$ date -d '2026-04-21 15:00 UTC'
$ date -d '2026-04-28 23:00 UTC'
…in https://bbb-new.sfconservancy.org/rooms/welcome-llm-gen-ai-users-to-foss/join
#AI #LLM #OpenSource
@mhoye ya I asked for a "subscribe" feature for posts. Love it.
Was let go from my 3rd job this past year and been having a lot of trouble finding another while low on savings. Leaving my Liberapay up for anyone that is able to help me stay afloat in this harsh reality we live in.
Thank you in advance for any boosting or support. ❤️ 🙏
https://liberapay.com/Jasper_Fox/
The beauty of the Fediverse, to me, is our rich diversity of experiences, abilities, and needs.
Everyone brings something unique of themselves into this place, and everyone needs something different from it.
That is a strength, not a weakness. Many come here with expectations that are different from mine ~ on any number of topics: AI, encryption, money, and more.
None of us are “wrong“.. we all just need different things from this place.
And that is beautiful.
@tursiops 🙏🏼
@evan @smallcircles @benpate if servers are blocked, it would depend on how the boost/announce serves the original content as to whether users inside a cenosred context could see posts from a blocked server. This is one way a federated architecture is an improvement over a centralized one.
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Is “follow thread” a good idea as a one click mastodon feature? As in, not quite a favorite but “I would like the replies to this post to also appear in my feed whether they normally would or not.”
(I haven’t thought about this in adversarial terms, perhaps obviously.)