What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

@ajAJ Sadauskas I'm less sure that would work on its own. All of the corporate enshittified networks they already use started out that way too.

To make those points I think you have to focus on the community side. Shit like @FediPact:FediPact: #FediPact :FediPact: -- I've got the stats somewhere but off the top of my head I think it was something like 30% of servers had Meta blocked before they'd really even *tried* to join, just from the announcement that they might. The fact that, unlike corporate networks where they do what they want and users whine about it until they get bored, around here it feels like debating the future of the network *actually shapes it*. Everything is built by consensus, not cash. By donations and volunteers and passion. Any VC startup can be slop free for a few years but that stuff is what *keeps* Fedi slop free.

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Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

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I can say the is a different place than any other social media platform I have been on. I've been here since 2022. When my self-hosted instance went down for a couple days, I didn't yearn for social media like a drug. I wondered how certain people's cats were, one person had a mother in the hospital, someone was getting a new job, one had the blues, etc, etc. I missed people more than viralness of a platform. Thank you for being my Old Friends.

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I can say the is a different place than any other social media platform I have been on. I've been here since 2022. When my self-hosted instance went down for a couple days, I didn't yearn for social media like a drug. I wondered how certain people's cats were, one person had a mother in the hospital, someone was getting a new job, one had the blues, etc, etc. I missed people more than viralness of a platform. Thank you for being my Old Friends.

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제 말이... 글 쓰는 일을 해온 사람들은 저런 문장을 쓰는데... 저게 AI가 쓴 글의 척도가 된다는게 억울한 부분... 나는 저렇게 쓴다고요...! AI가 태어나기 전부터 썼어...!.!.!.!!!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5f3cuso34qfncfgph7is7g4o/post/3mesa5k7iqv26

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애플이제대로만들긴뭘제대로만들어이새끼앱알못이네어쩌구 ㄴ 네 저는 앱알못 맞는데 님은 스스로 구리다면서도 꿋꿋이 애플 사서 쓰신 건가요 애플에 얼마나 돈을 바치셨길래 앱잘알이 되셧나요

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D3300のファインダーで見ているフォーカスと写る写真のフォーカス位置が違う問題、某所で見たとおりに、しばらくレンズなしで連射して(100枚程度)ミラーをバシャバシャ動かしたら、治ったようである。
これでSigma 24mm F2.8 Superwide、AF Nikkor 50mm F1.8などの、自動露出できるがオートフォーカスできないレンズも、D3300で快適に使える。純正でないオートフォーカスのSigma 10-20mm F3.5も、見る限り正確にオートフォーカス効いている。

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메르츠 독일 총리는 13일 뮌헨안보회의(MSC) 개회 연설에서, 미국 주도로 유지돼 온 ‘규칙 기반 국제질서’가 “이미 그 형태로는 존재하지 않는다”고 말했습니다. 메르츠 총리는 이날 유럽 차원의 공동 핵 억지력 구축을 위한 움직임을 처음으로 공식 확인하며, “유럽의 핵 억지를 둘러싸고 프랑스 대통령과 비공개 협의를 시작했다”고 밝혔습니다.

독일, “규칙기반 질서는 끝났다”…프랑스와 핵 억지력 ...

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