Corgana
/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking powered by Plex, Jellyfin, Adguard Home and Docker.English
2·1 month agoSorry just seeing this, looks like there is a Home Assistant addon yes. Yunohost is very similar but seems to be more popular, so I’d say try both and see what you like.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?English
252·2 months agoI haven’t seen much arguing, it is unquestionably centralized and for profit. There truly is nothing unique about it.
I’m not an expert with the AT protocol but it really seems like what Dorsey and co have made is a super complicated protocol that (under specific conditions that cannot exist in the real world), has the potential to be federated in a meaningful way. That way they can steal all the talking points of the fediverse and muddy the meaning of words.
There are also a lot of people on Fedi who will seek out threads like these to explain how line 2532 of the AT protocol handbook explains how having 100% of users on a single server is actually decentralized but I’m sure they’re all authentic accounts.
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Doctor Who Social Club@startrek.website•The "Disneyfication" of Doctor Who: Is it real?English
5·4 months agoDisney is such a massive conglomerate at this point, I don’t even know what that vibe would be
Safe and unchallenging. Entertaining without much depth that you forget about shortly after.
To be clear I agree with you and don’t think this is happening with Who, just that it is a thing to look out for.
Exactly. Block and move on. Don’t twist yourself into knots appeasing people, focus on keeping the users you want happy.
Not trying to victim blame or anything, but I find it hard to believe that someone operating a low-moderation instance would truly expect people who don’t like moderation to stay away.
Don’t get me wrong I agree with your sentiment and dislike that behavior, but what I’m saying is that asking or expecting users not to go on witch hunts or to behave in a certain way is a fool’s errand that will always lead to burnout. A more sustainable approach for admins and mods is creating space for what they want to host and not trying to control what they don’t.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish governmentEnglish
0·7 months agoI will be dead in the cold cold ground before I ever type “/s”
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Pixelfed: "groups" are coming and they will be compatible with Lemmy (who knows if they will also be compatible with Friendica)English
3·8 months agoHealthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•There are teenagers on the fediverse.English
2·8 months agoI know this comment is satire (well done… I think) but I want you to it hurt me deep in my bones.

I’m clearly not paying enough for a therapist.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•There are teenagers on the fediverse.English
3·8 months agoThen moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold
This is so true. One of the best decisions I made during my tenure as mod of /r/StarTrek was changing the rules to be spirt-based instead of language-based. People will literally try to lawyer their way around the language of any rule, and it leads to mod burnout when they are getting drawn into rules-debates when it’s obvious the person is just trying to get around the spirit of the community’s purpose.
For example we had a rule that was literally just “be nice”. There’s no wriggling around that because it’s not some legal text. If someone is ““concerned”” about a request to “be nice” or “be honest”, they are not someone we wanted to be around anyway. These are discussion communities, not civil society, not everyone has a right to participate in every single one of them.
As you said the beauty of the fediverse is that each instance can have it’s own preferred method of discussion.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?
1·8 months agoWhich ones? Searched and couldn’t find anything. This MotleyFool article is over 4 years old when COVID was still raging, hardly “recent”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George SorosEnglish
9·9 months agoUrban dictionary says it’s a term that refers to when an undercover government agent fails to blend in with whoever they’re trying to blend in with.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverseEnglish
1·9 months agoAbsolutely, if you’re seeing propaganda, it’s because it’s allowed on that instance. But the presence of propaganda has nothing to do if an account is an LLM or not.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is there any counter AI bots in the fediverseEnglish
9·9 months agoModeration on the Feviderse is different than on commercial platforms because it’s context-dependent instead of rules-dependent. That means that a user accout (bot or otherwise) that does not contribute to the spirit of a community will not be welcomed.
There is largely no incentive to run an LLM that is a constructive member of a community, bots are built to push an agenda, product, or exhibit generally disruptive behavior. Those things are unwelcome in spaces built for discussion. So mods/admins don’t need to know “how to identify a bot”, they need to know "how to identify unwanted behavior".
Good point but I will say even with immutable distros users are given a lot more control than Windows or Mac.
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Fediverse@lemmy.ml•John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
9·9 months agoYeah BlueSky is a solid side-step. It’s still for-profit and not federated but every BlueSky user is one not on X. And a lot of BlueSky’s userbase is comprised of particularly influential X users so them leaving is particularly harmful to the ecosystem.
I also think it’s funny how the journalists who repeat BlueSkys “decentralized” nonsense thought Mastodon was too weird and technical, and yet are promoting Pixelfed. Not complaining, but it is funny.
In Bazzite, installing software, for example, works differently than under a typical distribution.
This is true, but it’s also on the whole a lot more familiar to a non-Linux user (open app store, search, download).
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
50·9 months agoTook a long time, but nice to see this topic getting mainstream attention.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
1·9 months agoThis is literally the answer lmao why are you getting downvoted.
“Stuff in my feed I don’t want to see in my feed” is kind of the exact problem the Fediverse set out to solve. Nothing gets “injected” to a feed here so if you are seeing it, it’s a choice to continue to do so.












I do know the addons (not the same as integrations) need the full OS yes. I have it on a Pi but you could do a virtual machine for HAOS (there is an official virtual machine image on their website, also make sure to pass through your matter/zigbee/etc USB adapter).
You could also just run the container Home Assistant version, and run any “addons” as other docker containers within CasaOS or Yuno host, and point the integrations at those. I imagine it would take a little bit of extra configuration but shouldn’t be too hard.