AI isn’t ready to replace just about anybody’s job, and probably never will be technically, economically or legally viable.

That said, the c-suit class are certainly going to try. Not only do they dream of optimizing all human workers out of every workforce, they also desperately need to recoup as much of the sunk cost that they’ve collectively dumped into the technology.

Take OpenAI for example, they lost something like $5,000,000,000 last year and are probably going to lose even more this year. Their entire business plan relies on at least selling people on the idea that AI will be able to replace human workers. The minute people realize that OpenAI isn’t going to conquer the world, and instead end up as just one of many players in the slop space, the entire bottom will fall out of the company and the AI bubble will burst.

By 2035 everyone who actually likes computers will be primary using Linux.

Oh totally. I agree with that. I’m mainly talking about the people who appear to have come by, made a community, and then left (leaving it unmoderated and likely even more difficult to grow.)

That doesn’t both me and I think it comes with the territory of federation. Personally I never liked theory of the internet where there should be only one place to discuss a certain topic.

Maybe there could be some kind of combined view, where all of the posts from various communities are mixed together into one feed or something.

The problem, as I see it, is the abandonment of communities by moderators.

For example, if I make a community community called “Baking”, never post anything, and then disappear off back to Reddit (or whatever) I’m basically polluting the namespace of my server with a dead-end community that has no hope of ever growing into something active. Sure someone could make “Baking2” or “RealBaking” or whatever, but that kind of sucks and is messy.

Sure, but the fact that you’re at least still active on Lemmy and paying attention makes it less of a problem.

The ghost communities I’m really talking about are the ones where you click on the moderator’s profile and find that they don’t even seem to be active on Lemmy much at all anymore. At that point, those communities have zero chance of growing because they’ll quickly be unmoderated, and to my knowledge we have nothing like Reddit’s “subreddit request” in place where unmoderated communities can be taken over from absent moderators.

Obviously not every community is going to be super active all the time, that’s not a problem. The problem are the communities on popular servers that have “reserved” good names, are inactive and effectively unmoderated. Those types of communities are only serving to pollute the namespace of the most popular servers, imo.

Right for the wrong reasons.

Yeah it’s wireguard under the hood iirc, so you probably could put in effort in order to achieve roughly what tailscale does, if you have the knowledge and time involved in doing that. I don’t think there’s any secret sauce that would be impossible to someone to DIY.

I don’t blame people for being skeptical, especially those of us in the Linux, FOSS, and self-hosted world. I was skeptical too, because part of the reason I wanted to self-host was to move away from a dependency on companies, and I’m weary of the mere possibility of tailscale’s eventual capitalist enshittification. But after trying it, I have to admit that it’s been a game changer for me.

For me personally, tailscale is just an easy out-of-the-box solution that works well for what I want it to do (give me encrypted access to my server from anywhere in the world). I’m not so good at networking that I could get anywhere near the level of convenience that tailscale affords me, and I have too many other projects that I want to do before reinventing tailscale for myself. So instead I have a small free tailnet with all of my devices (and a couple other users’ devices), and it has totally changed my relationship with self-hosting and my server.

In my view, It’s a pretty good deal, for now at least.

Do you actually want to expose the things to “the internet”, or do you just want yourself (and an approved set of other users) to be able to access them from outside of your network?

If it’s the former, you’re going to want to learn about DNS, NAT, exposing ports, firewall settings, and network monitoring.

But if it’s the latter, then I recommend checking out tailscale because that gives you and some friends LAN-like access with a great internal DNS and it works really well.