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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • My main issue with Teslas autopilot is it’s branding and the way they advertise it.

    Almost every non-tech person I talk to about things like that think it is 100% a hands off robot driver and that is a very, VERY dangerous idea.

    It’s a very good system, and it is improving with every update, but it is far from the idea that many people have in their heads.

    The videos you see of people sleeping on autopilot are worrying, do Teslas not have driver alert monitoring? if I look away from the road for 5 seconds in my Mazda it lets me know very loudly that it wants me to pay attention, if I were to fall asleep it would do it’s best to wake me up. when I use it’s very simple and limited self driving function I cant take my hands off the wheel for more than about 10 seconds before it alerts me.


  • There are some popular comment chains on the github pages talking about implementing a customizable aggregator, much like multi-reddits / custom feeds. you could add a bunch of similar (or identical) communities across multiple instances and combine them into one feed to be interacted with as if it were one singular community. Definite interest from the devs, and it is possible in the architecture so just a matter of time.



  • I did figure out if I just put /c/community@instance into a link markup it works perfectly across instances for all users, which is nice, but there is no way to know whether the user will actually see a feed or just a 404 if the community is small or the server is slower and it is not yet in sync. clicking the link does not automatically federate unless you type it into your searchbar as far as I know. I havent really tested though.







  • topic aggregation and finding communities faster is being worked on, as well as improvements to the cross-instance synchronization.

    If there are multiple communities with the same name you should eventually be able to aggregate them together into one feed.

    This influx of users will give the system a real test, as many users are lumping into a handful of large servers, rather than spreading out as there is no good way to find a local server with free capacity and a low ping.



  • coming along well, will take a while for users to spread out and not just mass on one large server, we need to spread out to keep this working and viable for the future.

    To do that however, we need better ways to find communities on other instances, and more easily link to them with links that work on each users instance URLs. at the moment if I do [email protected] or [email protected] those will take you off your current instance unless you are already on it, losing your login. The average user wont expect that and might not even notice they are on a totally different website and wonder why their logins don’t work.

    Apparently all of this as well as aggregated topic subscriptions (so you don’t need to find and subscribe to 10 different communities for one topic) are being worked on, that will be very cool.