Just joined, thanks! 👍

Hey! Total non sequitur, but noticed you’re a ‘Brooklyn man’ and I’m trying to help get https://lemmy.ml/c/nyc off the ground- seems like there’s almost zero local content on Lemmy so far. Feel free to post as as much content as you want there, so there’s at least some semblance of activity for when the shit hits the fan next month (in terms of Reddit’s API)

Really unclear what any of this platform’s alleged benefits are over twitter, etc.

edit: sorry, ‘platform’ is a serious misnomer. An OS is a platform- this is just yet another attention-sucking mobile app.

Know if there’s any way to block entire servers when they’re as toxic and low-quality as the one you mentioned? So far it seems like the only way is to browse ‘all communities’ and get rid of them one by one

Yeah, pretty much (GPT-4’s a big upgrade over the default 3.5).

That said, OpenAssistant is already really impressive for a project with such limited resources. Would love to see open-source overtake OpenAI quickly (which IMO isn’t out of the question, considering how quickly Stable Diffusion developed)

Sure! I’ve had a cheap VPS on digitalocean for a few years, mainly just to host a few web pages for friends / family. Just found their guide to getting synching running you can pretty much follow for any server you’re running.

So tldr; I get a sync directory that’s always going to be the same on a Linux laptop, a Mac desktop, an Android phone, etc. It’s amazingly useful- and yes, I’m aware of the irony that DO is technically a cloud service (you could always take this to the next level and run a physical server on your own)

Syncthing, for me. Keep it running on a VPS, and you’ve obliterated the need for personal cloud services