Davy_Jones

I’m curious, what’s an item, tool, or purchase you own that you feel has completely justified its cost over time? Could be anything from a gadget to a piece of furniture or even software. What made it worth it for you?

Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

Imagine a TierMaker where everyone can rank the same things, and instead of just your personal list, it shows a combined “community consensus.” Would be interesting to see how the internet as a whole ranks thinks.

The other day I turned on the radio and the host was giving what sounded like a sermon about “growth” and how everyone loves it because it improves life quality and makes things cheaper. I already avoid mainstream news because it’s all one-sided and shallow, but now I’m getting sermons too.

Is there any way to listen to radio content filtered by topics I actually want, without having to manually build a playlist every day? Maybe podcasts or a feed aggregator plus with TTS to read it in real time?

I saw a post earlier about a local alternative to Perplexity (an agentic LLM + search), but now I can’t find it. Does anyone know the best way to track down posts like this?

Also, is there any community where you can ask for help searching posts on the Fediverse, or is nostupidquestions fine for that?

I really wish posts were properly organized using tags. Finding stuff would be so much easier.

I’ve been wondering—why don’t we have an AI model that can take any piece of music, compress it into a super small “musical script” with parameters, and then generate it back so it sounds almost identical to the original? Kind of like MIDI or sheet music but way more detailed, capturing all the nuances. With modern AI, it seems like this should be possible. Is it a technical limitation, or are we just not thinking about it?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55628224

I’ve been thinking about discovering underappreciated Lemmy instances. GitHub’s awesome-lemmy-instances used to serve a similar purpose, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and I haven’t found anything else like it.

I got the idea from this post about finding decentralized communities in the Fediverse. I’m thinking of a Lemmy bot that tracks Lemmy instances, calculates the average number of active users and standard deviation, and identifies instances with activity below the average plus two standard deviations. It would then rank these underutilized instances by performance metrics like uptime and response time, and periodically update a curated list on Lemmy to guide users toward instances that could use more participation.

I'd love feedback on how you would go about doing something like this. And specifically how to rank by performance.

I’ve been thinking about discovering underappreciated Lemmy instances. GitHub’s awesome-lemmy-instances used to serve a similar purpose, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and I haven’t found anything else like it.

I got the idea from this post about finding decentralized communities in the Fediverse. I’m thinking of a Lemmy bot that tracks Lemmy instances, calculates the average number of active users and standard deviation, and identifies instances with activity below the average plus two standard deviations. It would then rank these underutilized instances by performance metrics like uptime and response time, and periodically update a curated list on Lemmy to guide users toward instances that could use more participation.

I'd love feedback on how you would go about doing something like this. And specifically how to rank by performance.

Whenever I subscribe to a small but very active community, for example lefty_news@ibbit.at, my Scaled sort feed gets flooded almost entirely by posts from that one community. I thought Scaled sort was supposed to highlight outliers across all communities to prevent a single instance from dominating the feed. Is this a bug or just how it's supposed to work?