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[–] m_f@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Kagi's pretty good and has a Fediverse search feature, but it's paid. I don't mind paying, but there's also no way to do private searches that way, so I'm not going to use it as my main search engine. It's been good at hunting down memes on Lemmy that I want to find again though.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Admins can purge users/posts/comments, which actually deletes it from the server

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

Hell yeah, it'll be nice to have an answer other than "🤷" for people that want embedded loops 👍

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wow, that was quick, amazing! 🥳

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Cool, that's good to hear. The good news is that if it comes down to parsing the HTML, that's pretty straightforward. I've been poking at it, and it's nice and semantic (gets turned into a regular <video> element by JS:

<video-player
    poster-src="https://loopsusercontent.com/videos/85319640150794240/96649242004583579/8yjZniSLk64lxIPomBfUzr5SwMXRKGWXyHpTLruN.jpg"
    video-src="https://loopsusercontent.com/videos/85319640150794240/96649242004583579/8yjZniSLk64lxIPomBfUzr5SwMXRKGWXyHpTLruN.720p.mp4"
    username="thomasdorr"
    profile-picture="https://loopsusercontent.com/avatars/85319640150794240/v0.jpg"
    caption="Snowing in #DuluthMN"
    tags=""
    likes="8"
    comments="1"
    />

And hopefully it'll get open source soon or have some way of filing bugs/feature requests. I saw that the dev created https://joinloops.org/ and is planning on putting a roadmap there soon.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Neat! Since it's come up a lot in !loops@midwest.social, are there any plans on having loops embed as well? Do you know if that's something the Lemmy devs would support once for everyone, or would every client have to add support for it?

[–] m_f@midwest.social 15 points 6 months ago (10 children)

What makes it nonsense?

[–] m_f@midwest.social 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Since I tried searching for the URL and didn't find it, but happened to see this thread, you can see more info and sign up here:

https://surf.social/

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's totally not ready for that amount of influx. To be fair, it's not even out of beta. I don't think even the dev would claim it's ready for that scale yet. Hopefully it'll be ready the next time an event like that happens

[–] m_f@midwest.social 9 points 6 months ago

The new build 11 released yesterday lets you see only loops from people you follow. There's also a "For You" option that I assume will eventually do what you're looking for. Right now it shows loops sorted by newest, like before

[–] m_f@midwest.social 17 points 6 months ago

Not going crazy. It's always been intended to be part of the Fediverse, it's just under heavy development and adding ActivityPub support is something the dev is working on right now.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 16 points 6 months ago

TBH, I think this is a little counterproductive. It makes corporate social media seem like a delicious treat. Exhorting people to do the right thing like "eat your veggies" probably isn't the best way to convince them. Something like this seems like a better comparison. Something bad for you and gross, but uses flashy marketing to convince you otherwise:

 

Just found out about this and thought it was neat. For those of you that don't know, a Lemmy instance won't automatically federate everything everywhere all at once. It'll federate only what local users are subscribed to. So someone made a tool that will let you increase visibility of smaller communities that might not be synced to every instance.

Looks like it's opt-in, and instances can avoid using it. Some do because it's a lot of server cost for stuff they don't care about.

I've created a few communities, and wondered why I was immediately getting ~30 subscribers, and this is probably why

 
 

Inspired by the recent news of Google's Gemini and race issues, I wanted to know how some basic queries would work with DALL-E. This was completely unscientific and just what I thought of off the top of my head, but I thought it was mildly interesting. The above picture is what happened when I asked ChatGPT to "Draw a picture of a white couple", and it sent this to the image generator:

A romantic, serene scene of a couple, both with fair skin tones, standing close together in a beautiful outdoor setting. The man is tall with short hair, wearing a casual shirt and trousers. The woman, with medium-length hair, is wearing a summer dress. They are holding hands, smiling at each other, surrounded by a backdrop of a lush green park with flowers and a small pond. The lighting is soft and warm, suggesting a late afternoon setting. The scene conveys a sense of love and companionship.

I wasn't really as interested in seeing how things worked through ChatGPT's interpretation of my input, so the rest of these are instructing ChatGPT to send simply "X couple" to DALL-E. ChatGPT already doesn't have strong opinions compared to Gemini and happily draws the picture.

white couple

black couple

Just because, I figured I'd try out other simple colors too:

red couple

blue couple

I think this is the first time I've gotten a nipple from DALL-E, woo

yellow couple

green couple

straight couple

gay couple

lesbian couple

straight white couple

hetero white couple

hetero black couple

straight black couple

diverse couple

interracial couple

couple

Then I tried various countries/ethnicities. See if you can guess which is which:

Then I tried using opinionated words:

normal couple

ideal couple

regular couple

worst couple

Then I hit the API limits so that's all

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