Yeah, the number is bullshit. I left before AI was truly reasonable and it was flush with corporate fanboys and vote manipulation, paid or not. Also it certainly wasn’t 15% of the subscribers, depending on the sub it might have been more or less of the active participants. Popular subs about products, hobbies, or software seemed to have a LOT of this product is just really great where for the most part noone is going to push their affinity for one corporate product over another.

We’re already offered some protection by up/down votes not mattering. Botting yourself doesn’t buy you much visibility. The real concern for me would be Mods or channel owners on the take. Just like they can’t buy themself views, we rely on mods to bury bullshit and not bury non-advertiser-friendly content. Of course, if a channel goes rogue, we just abandon it on that node and move to another. The pure nature of federation makes us less attractive to advertisers, They’re not going to want to chase dozens of smaller channels all over the place for eyeballs. Also, we’re nearly too small to care about while there are targets as big as Bluesky and Reddit around.

So, nothing has changed in 6 years?

Sooo, Digg started to monetize, Manipulate the feeds for money, allowing Reddit to swoop in and steal their lunch. Doubled down as the platform emptied, now 15 years later, they say Trust me, Bro?

If you put it on IPFS, there’s a chance that it wouldn’t be reachable anyway; it’s been going downhill for a while. I tried some projects with it a year ago, and the results were not inspiring.

A magnet would be good, fast and easy, hell, just giving people the list and writing, keep a copy of this in case it ever disappears off the net, would work pretty well.

The problem I see is that the list needs to be mutable. That wiki is there to accept crowd-sourced help. Simply making it accessible to the masses makes it a target.

It needs to be resilient, multi-homed, easily hosted, accessible by the masses, but managed only by the organizers. A blockchain-based DB could handle a lot of that, but new information still needs to be added in a way that makes it impossible to decoy. The front end needs to be easy to access and easy to edit. Some form of list-of-lists approach with new keys to add/remove data.

It would be overkill for this project, but building a blockchain-backed, secure, distributed, and anonymous document store wouldn’t be the worst thing until the worst people started using it for bad things. Learn from IPFS’s index failings.

Ahh damn, yeah, the only pines we get here are hand-planted… good info though, thank you!

We are already seeing the Axis form, time to make the new Allies kids!

A tree would be neat, how the heck do you get solar to it though?

I need do some experiments with my drone and see if I can get LOS to somewhere useful. The development I’m in has a hill in the way and no trees. I don’t really want to try to sneak it on my neighbor’s roof.

There’s a 5-story apt building, not to far, but i’m not sure it has RLOS to the school and it has no service areas on top, all tin roofing.

There’s a 3-story hotel that has the right kind of roof layout, but it’s way out of RLOS from me.

If you want to go for the record, mention AI too. and include an EM dash and some emoji. Lemmy has some phobias. I’d say it’s all rightly found apprehension, but they take it personally if it looks like anything came from AI.

it’s a list of names and their linked in addresses and their images when available. I suspect they just scraped linkedin for anyone that put it in their profile, but it could have been more. There’s another section with images of cars being used. and a section to crowdsource identifying images and tying them to names.

The people who made it still have the data and could release it tons of ways. The point behind the wiki was to probably to make a living db, allowing crowdsourcing and families outing them which will alwyas be vulnerable to even the most hamfisted attacks.

If that documentation was awful, I’d REALLY like to see your take on NixOS :)

Hey I drove to the library, picked up all these things you needed, got dinner here ya go, free!

You drove? man that’s lazy…

He used AI to clean up translation and save time after he spent a fuck ton of time curating and delivering us a helpful product. Calling him out as lazy is an awful take.

Yup, if there was ever a decent use for AI, this is it. Lemmy can (and will) hate the shit out of it, but it took a little burden off the shoulders of someone doing us a great service.

So, I have rolling hills, but every ideal spot has a cell phone mast, I’m thinking they’d notice. There are some power pylons, I think they’d notice as well. Either one of those would probably be a felony.

None of the buildings are tall enough, it’s US suburbia. I have a drone, i could probably airdrop a small solar node on a roof.

There’s a really large water tower a couple miles away, not LOS, but it would be amazing to help the cause. But again, I don’t think that would go over well and i’m not fond enough of heights to install it.

You all are fighting on who’s riding the biggest turd boat into the sea and you’re both making find points :)

The US is putting Nazi slogans on the government speech podiums and trying to annex countries that are too weak to put up a fight.

The EU is trying to remove private communication.

I think the US is a about 11:59 on the doomsday clock, the EU is about 10:45

We’re both mostly fucked, the EU has more time to turn around, but that’s not likely either.

I tried to, the clients were so awful I bought a streaming stick. Now it just spies on me. without trying to hide a pc near my tv, and work out a remote control that’s not an awful keyboard and mouse there aren’t a lot of good options.

The TV is blocked, the streaming device is pieholed as best i can. I’m sure someone still knows I watch an unhealthy amount of Futurama.

There are 4 in my metropolitan area, and I don’t have line of sight to any of them :(

There are about 30 meshtastic in the same area, but most of them are out of range to each other.

I even stood one up at work on the other side of town and mqtt’d them together.

edit: a’ight I put it on a t114. can’t see anything from the house, track practice is 25mi away, lets see if there are any quiet core nodes out there.

edit: edit: Nothing at all. Which is a fing shame, the client is way nicer, it’s better on battery. It’s better on battery on the t114. The map is faster. I think it’s probably a better product since you can kind of emulate the client/router setup and it can work like meshtastic. Maybe I’ll leave my of my v3’s running on it in the attic with a modest antenna upgrade.

Unsure. all the people on that list appear to have put it in their linkedin…

Doesn’t look like that, the wiki let’s them organize and lets people identify individuals, it’s just that the wiki can’t keep up with it, or maybe they’re being DDOS’d

There’s nothing pay, it’s just overwhelmed whatever it is

They’re trying to make it a full-on living db and app to report and identify with a history of each person, picture and social media links.