https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/25/diamonds-lose-their-sparkle-as-prices-come-crashing-down

https://beehaw.org/post/18175881

I think this might be the self hosted guide?

https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy-Cloud/blob/main/doc/DEPLOYMENT.md

(Swapped the link)

I should have linked those, thank you!

There are a few browser extensions that can detect RSS feeds, which can help when they’re not advertised openly

Past that, this add-on was decent:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/

If you’re into self hosting:

https://freshrss.org/

It does help with it though

For profit platforms have more of an incentive to keep the bots going, for engagement reasons. Non profit managed ones should want to get rid of such bots?

Well, whatsapp has stories also, but I don’t see people using them. I don’t like to give my phone number to everybody. And it is very easy if someone has a profile, to look them up and send a follow request. That stuff you won’t find with signal stories.

That’s a good reason yea

Though, pixelfed lacking stories should be possible to overcome right, given the protocol. If two users can handshake, and the instances accept the handshake, then they should in theory be allowed to send each other stuff. Like, in other fediverse platforms you can also send private messages

The problem I think is that we can’t guarantee that the other federated instances will respect the private setting, or the risk that other instance admins might be snooping on the posts.

A proper E2E solution would be ideal

Part of the problem is that pixelfed feeds are public, and in order for private posts/feeds to work you’d need the other user to be on the same instance as you

Signal has stories, although I don’t see many people using them. If more people were on signal, it might get more use?

I love how the channel is dedicated to just this experiment

Interesting ok, I hope the donations take off because it felt like the team was spreading itself too thin working on all three things at once

Didn’t know about sup

Open source, modular, instant messenger. Coming soon! Made by @dansup (Proof: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/111493816842232424)

A big downside to fediverse messaging is that it isn’t secure, and so we’re warned when using it. Would anyone have more details on why we might use this over a more private messenger?

Yup, the x axis might as well not exist

A date on each bubble might have been better

It would be nice to have a decent FOSS video editor on android

ImageToolbox is solid now on the image editing side, having something similar for videos would be excellent

For what it’s worth, there are a good number of younger users here but I don’t think people go around advertising it.

As for your question, you could try the more specific meme communities? For example

!bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world

Yup, see also the specimen preparation section of the linked Wikipedia article

See also this comment in the other thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/14448522

We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room

I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated

They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)

I looked up “Parent AI”, and was disappointed

That all sounds delicious 😊

also thank you for adding photos of the process in the comments!