Web³ XR

A site about Web³? It's very vague and buzzword-y and reads like a sales pitch, but looks like a weird modern hacker collective site. Strange.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/69967

drop em here!!!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1496877

semiwiki comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/527260

Why YSK: We have a significant number of users now, and yet the amount of content to scroll through is still fairly small. This is because not all users are the same, and while the majority prefer to lurk, and a much smaller minority prefer to comment, the percentage that really likes making posts, memes, art, rants, videos etc is extremely small.

One way that we can all assist with this is to simply make content ourselves. But even if you don't want to do that, you can still help by finding productive creators elsewhere on the internet and telling them about us.

Many reddit users are still simply unaware that we exist. They don't know that there is a community of consumers here, waiting for content. They don't know that if you can navigate reddit, then you can navigate this. Lemmy is just not as complicated as it can sound at first.

So, if you want, simply invite them. Give them a link to a community down here that would fit the content they like to produce, and let them know we'd love to have them. Because we really would love to have them. Let them know that you, as a fan, would love to see them here. After all, wouldn't you?

Thanks for reading.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/532327

I had a feeling they'll put something like this, so I went in every now and then to see how infinity will react. I really loved the app, devs did an amazing job

Hopefully not.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/300117

Found it on Reddit. It's most probably incomplete, but it has a "Suggest link" button.

The rules for submitting a link are (as of recent):

• No links to communities who break their service's ToS or share any illegal content (this should be self-explanatory).
• Link must be an alternative to an existing subreddit. I don't see sub.rehab as a general fediverse directory (for now).
• Community must have a minimal amount of activity. I am thinking - at least 3 posts that are not submitted by the community's moderator team. This does not apply for communities that are verified and proven as official replacements of the original subreddit

Actually, that's a pretty good question... Good thing the video tries to answer it!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/510552

Crosspost from r/steelydan

This is why you always keep backups!

Your nickname is your username(s) and gamertag(s) these days, while your true name is what people call you in modern western civilization IRL. So you may call me Gadg8eer, but that's not my true name. My "god-given" true name is the one my parents gave me, while your true name should probably remain known only to you.

In the old days, before the internet, this was supposed to protect you from outsiders who might be con-men or worse trying to fake their way into gaining your and your family's trust from information gained from other outlaws.

Strangely, the mythology of "the Fae are weak to cold iron" is supposed to mean "the Fae are weak to cold steel; warfare, blades and shows of physical force", not "the Fae are weak to literal iron".

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/423200

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110602268058778563

How to summon a Lemon Demon?

...does anyone remember Lemon Demon?

The internet is slowly dying. I wish we could just say "it was, but then archive.org and other archives showed up", but turns out that now sites like TV Tropes, deviantArt, Twitter and Reddit are losing content for one reason or another. Only some of their content can likely be saved at this point.

Links rot over a period of 20 years, until almost nothing is left. ARPANET is gone, except a handful of records about how the first node was created in the 1960s. BBSes of the 80s are gone. The 90s, the dawn of the World Wide Web, is nearly absent, and so is most of the Turn of the Millennium.

Now we're seeing the disappearance of information from as little as 5 years ago, because sites are being targeted by people who want the information on them gone. Many, many websites have been destroyed because they refused to self-archive, and with the sole exception (thankfully) of Wikipedia, nobody on the internet is completely publicly archiving everything.

From the efforts of egotistical PC gaming modders for games like Transport Tycoon who took and continue to take down their mods out of spite for the actions of a few community members, to governments bringing down tvlinks.cc and then MegaShare, to the hacker who apparently deleted y!gallery, to the dumbing down of Google searches to only provide three pages before no more results are shown, content is being lost every day for reasons that are far from justifiable.

Attacks on the internet as a whole - both successful and unsuccessful - like TWEA, CDA, COPA, DMCA, DOPA, SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, CISA, FOSTA-SESTA or the EARN IT bill; all in the USA alone - are an almost yearly occurence. Hitting closer to home for sh.itjust.works, Bill C-10/C-11 is just one Canadian bill attempting to "kill" the internet within the country.

I do see a light at the end of the tunnel, however. Plugins like Archiveror for Firefox, and systems like Zotero for saving research to a local or cloud storage, make it easy to back up everything you want to find but cannot trust to a bookmark alone. Web Archive Viewer is useful for viewing such archives easily. Perma.cc allows you to keep links indefinitely even if you stop paying your subscription (IIRC), but restricts how many links you can make permanent per month based on subscription level.

So please, if you see this, and think of or find something you see on the internet that you want to preserve, make the effort to do so! If you care, then someone else might as well. Then post a link here to share it with others.

I'll also provide this curated content for anyone wanting to learn more about the history and changing nature of the internet. If you see anything there that you want to stick around, please re-post it here and at least one place elsewhere to prevent it from being lost if Guilded no longer exists.

While we don't condone the archiving of immoral content, I will hold that only content that directly leads to/from an immoral act should be destroyed forever; if the "crime" is victimless, like online piracy of media which is not being circulated or recreational drug use, it should not have to be purged from the federation of lemmy/kbin just because governments say so; governments are partly to blame for this mess in the first place.