Checked in on the Forkiverse
/public/local == "Live Feed"
for the first time in a very, very long time
Months, probably
Clinging to 1,036 Active Viewers according to their own stats and according to mastodon.fediverse.observer
Still virtually no #Hashtag usage
Still no apparent participation with the outer #Mastodon / #Fediverse at large
Running on Mastodon v4.5.9 despite all the "forky" nonsense
It's a "fork" of nothing
ho hum...
Very glad to see the #HardFork and SearchEngine podcast Fediverse community server continuing to thrive. So they are at 10,000 or so registered users, and hovering at a healthy 1.4 thousand of those as monthly active users. That tracks to normal rates on social.
And the conversations are active and growing....
www.timothychambers.netThis conversation between Ezra Klein and Jack Clark of Anthropic is well worth your time.
Listening to the recent #Hardfork #podcast episode which featured a segment on the rise of AI slop taking over YouTube Kids with grotesque alphabet songs, I get to feel smug/grateful that my son is more into his Yoto player than screens. Here is one of his favourite songs to listen to, which is both funny and educational! @kevin @Casey
AFAIK the terms 'soft fork' and 'hard fork' entered the lexicon from the crypto world, where they refer to software changes that split a blockchain into sub-chains. With a soft fork, the sub-chains remain interoperable. A hard fork makes them incompatible; what IRC greyhairs might call a 'netsplit'.
But AFAICT, these terms have since been repurposed by others to refer to something similar but different; 2 ways of forking any Free Code software project.
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