I wouldn't say that the fediverse is at risk. The whole internet is.

Who needs to learn to read when their future occupation is fertilizing a patch of Ukrainian sunflowers?

Thanks. I find myself struggling a bit with Lemmy.

I check in most days but there's indeed relatively little going on and there's not really a blossoming European community. Happy to play my little part but at the same time it has to come down to everyone. I'm not sure what it takes to make it more thriving. Lemmy is nowhere near the numbers of Reddit, obviously, but it's enough to think more would or could be happening.

As for contributing - I prefer that over here as well, largely for the same reason. At the same time, putting effort into making a post (I am not the type to just post a link or something) you do hope to get some interaction.

It's really about how many people want to make the effort but also the fediverse remains confusing. Two friends of mine tried to sign up and even with my guidance they couldn't quite figure it out, had to wait for days to get login credentials, passwords somehow didn't work... and these are not troglodytes. That is an issue too.

This post is a little old, but: Welcome, glad you're here.

Lemmy is still pretty empty right now. But on the other hand: Be the change you want to see in the world.

I was just a lurker on Reddit, too, but here I’m actually ready to contribute and post every now and then in communities that interest me—simply because I feel like I’m creating content for the community here, not for some money-grubbing company that wants to sell it all for advertising and AI training purposes.

With that in mind, I’m also really happy about every upvote a post gets.

GNU Taler provides a better alternative to USAian credit cards. There "just" has to be political will and awareness in the masses that it exists.

The amount of bribe money going to EU and EC judges and politicians will increase.

Not sure about HF alternatives, but there's eurouter that is the eu equivalent of openrouter. You need to declare a custom provider to use it with opencode but it's the standard text completion api.

Yeah that seems reasonable because of their size.

Fun fact, when this was tested when AI just was predictive networks (well, before LLM), humans got beat to how to handle these cut up smaller networks, a bigger all inclusive net always yielded better results.

I don't know that paper and am not an expert in model architecture. But to my understanding they are still predictive. An important improvement beyond adding more parameters was the introduction of MoE (mixture of experts?) architecture. Basically this segregates the models into experts that are only activated when needed.

Unexpected.

Still predictive like the 2019 google paper though right?

It's what high end models are called. They are at the technological frontiet.

What is frontier models?

I was gonna complain "open weight not open source", but this one actually comes with both the training AND data set reconstruction scripts apparently, making this actually open source in a meaningful way

Next question :are there European huggingface alternatives? I'd like to be able to point opencode or any opensource agent to a European service hosting opensource models.

Hopefully we will see more initiatives like this and also step up to frontier models.

Uh… clickbait much?

It’s about the batteries, not its public usage, which should be simply banned.

If you have any questions about the Lemmyverse you can ask them in the Ask comms:

• https://europe.pub/c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
• https://europe.pub/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Don't forget to choose your UI flavor. In the server sidebar you have a few different UIs to choose.

Thanks. I absolutely want to be active but I also am still figuring out a bit how things work here. I'm rather just part of the community than a 'powerful force', also feels a bit rude to take that on as a newcomer.

But I'm around and all the time I used to spend (lose?) on Reddit has to go somewhere...

If you see something interesting somewhere just post it in fitting communities. The fediverse is also a lot less restrictive in what you can post in most comms than Reddit.

If you make this a habit you can become a powerful force in the liveliness of the fediverse. Only a few percent of users actively post.

Welcome btw

The only reason for me to be on Reddit is because that's where the people are. While the European subs, and some others, were generally positive with interesting people there's of course a lot wrong with the platform.

More generally, I actively try to support European platforms but they tend to be far less populated.

As for specific communities - I can't join you in a football one as I know nothing about it. Beyond that, it's a bit exploring for me what's there.

I know Reddit has pulled a bunch of tricks over the last few years making the platform ever less appealing. Sadly, most people won't move once they're stuck in their ways and platforms abuse that. Cory Doctorow has a word for that.

Funny how we get waves of users for different reasons, I created an account when the blocked the API and left definitely when they started banning people.

I think for random use it fine, but more specific stuff will be harder. We don't even have a big football\soccer community.

I hope to contribute my bit but it's not just me I hope.

I just hope this place becomes a little more lively.

Feel free to post stuff in every community. It's relatively empty because people don't post, you can change that.

Yes.