Yes, there may be existing options - PieFed has an image view and I suspect the *key forks could be made to do something similar.

That seems like a plus to them.

Apparently, Pinetta is still active. There is an alpha release but it seems like the devs were struggling with time limitations and getting the AP protocol right. It is in Python if anyone wants to take a look.

Also on F-Droid.

Yes.

I’ve just asked. There is a FOSS but not federated version.

I thought that was Nic Cage.

But it is largely human-curated and indexed. That’s great for training AI, like Reddit.

We just added it as the old frontend was getting hammered by bots - it helped a lot.

Here in the UK we have:

• https://verybritishproblemstshirts.com/
• https://t-shirts.co.uk/
• https://www.8ball.co.uk/
• https://jimll.co.uk/collections/all-clothing
• https://www.truffleshuffle.co.uk/t-shirts-and-clothing/t-shirts

There are lists of bots that instance Admins can block for a range of reasons.

Anything online can be scraped but big firms might run into regulatory trouble if they are caught randomly scraping sites without consent. At the moment, the big social media apps have a tonne of content to train on in tightly controlled conditions, so they don’t really need to go into the wild, yet. However, we need to be vigilant, block them and make a fuss if we catch them at it.

Yeah, bit underwhelming.

That’s the bit that made me laugh: “nothing to see here, we’ve been doing this for a while. What, you didn’t know? Not our fault you are unobservant.”

It was pretty inevitable.

Good stuff. 👍

I sense a guerilla sticker campaign looming.

For more mature French comics, Mobius and Jodorowsky dominate the conversation but I’ve been blown away by Philippe Druillet. As this review of Loan Sloane says:

In terms of sheer conceptual imagination when it comes to heroic science fiction in comics, Philippe Druillet is perhaps the only creator who approaches Jack Kirby’s creativity.

Also worth checking out Métal Hurlant and the output of its publisher Humanoids.

There are good English translations of them all available.

VPN and

• www.tf1.fr/tf1
• www.france.tv

Unfortunately, a lot are on YouTube.

I’m not sure I bring many skills to the table that you’d need to make this work. I am happy to cheerlead and throw some ideas in.

Oh indeed, although they are quite clear which ones are. My biggest concern is the other bit of the lemming’s warning (what I’m going with anyway), not to go all in, as you never know if the project is unsustainable without all the data harvesting. However, Google have taught me that lesson over thr years.