@cliffwade No, I took the optical drive out of my laptop and replaced it with a second HDD. That said I do have (and already had) a portable usb dvd drive just in case... I used to have a client who would contractualise financial models by burning two copies to CD, then both parties would sign both CDs with a marker pen, and each party would get one each. That went on for a long time after it became hard to find CD drives.
Sadly optical media standards don't grow with the need for more storage and whilst #TapeDrive|s do, modern versions of #LTO#Ultrium are absurdly expensive so unless one needs to backup Petabytes offline it doesn't make financial sense...
Personally I prefer the form factor of 3,5" #FDD|s but their abysmal capacity makes them rather useless these days.
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Project Tapestry is a universal chronological timeline of your favorite social media services, blogs, RSS feeds & more. All updates in one place, in the order they’re posted with no algorithm deciding what you see or when you see it.
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It took just four amazing days for #ProjectTapestry to become 100% funded on Kickstarter! To say we're floored would be an understatement. We couldn't have done this without you and we wanted to give a sincere thank you to everyone.
We'll be posting more details about stretch goals and a video overview of the DIY API behind Tapestry in the days ahead but for now, a sincere thank you from all of us here at the factory. You are the BEST!
🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…
@cliffwade their Circles idea was pretty cool. Unfortunately the discourse never seemed to stray too far from talking about the platform itself, and then they soured a lot of people to it by attaching it to YouTube and other Google services.
@xahteiwi@cliffwade same here - it was the best social network I've ever used, although I'm not at all "social".
I had all the right people in my circles on G+ and enjoyed discussing all the relevant topics with them.
FB-peeps always complained G+ was a "ghost-town", that's because it was very focused "no bullshit" and I preferred it that way. And because of that, I was willing to forgive Google all those little missteps, which were not critical.
Pretty happy with the sign up process so far. I’m gonna tweak some animations (mainly on the server check) and I need to add some error handling but this is pretty much there 😁
Like, if you're totally fine with not being able to effectively moderate a server you operate, then by all means, test out #kbin and #lemmy, but encouraging folks to use either en-mass as if they're anywhere near the calibre of Mastodon or Pixelfed* then you're in for a very very bad time.
Alpha software does need alpha users to test and provide feedback, but we should be VERY careful recommending alpha software to mainstream massive audiences as an alternative to $centralisedPlatform.
🔥 We are excited to let everyone know that our full website is now live!
We hope this will be an easy way for new users to get started with #Mastodon & join the wider #Fediverse & an organizing hub to build & spread a better, more open social web of ALL fediverse offerings.
Shortly we will be opening up all the code used in this website to a full Open Source license.
Not everything would apply, but we would hope this open source code could be used by anyone building out a similar onboarding portals for the Fedi.
For example: #Calkey, #Pixelfed, #Kbin or #Bookwyrm or #Goldfish or other sites may find parts of the code here useful and not have to rebuild EVERYTHING from scratch.
I don't think most people realize just how important that distinction is.
Open, non-product protocols are the whole entire reason why the Internet succeeded, and proprietary networking solutions like IPX/SPX and DECnet didn't.
It's also what brought us successful Internet applications like email, IRC, and the web, and it's the reason Gopher failed.
Now we just need to send commercial social media platforms like X and Discord to the dustbin of history where they belong.
There's a lot of shit flying in the #Fediverse lately and a lot of times perspective seems to get lost. Yes, there are things we need to talk about, and yes there are things we will not agree on. And that's okay.
But leave the pitchforks and torches out of this.
Fedi admins put in the hours and effort and emotion into making fedi happen. Sometimes they make decisions we might not agree with. We should criticize, but we should not pile-on.
And to make this abundantly clear… regardless of how much you disagree with a person and how much you feel their decisions might be wrong:
👉 harassment is harassment, and is unacceptable
👉 calling for harm is calling for harm, and is unacceptable
👉 pile-ons are pile-ons, and are unacceptable
People who engage in that sort of thing are like locusts. They join a community, destroy it, and move on.
If you care about fedi, push back against that, even if it targets someone you disagree with.
I am once again encouraging #Fediverse#admins to add a clause to prohibit using their server’s data for machine training into their Terms of Use, because at some point in the near future there is likely going to be a lawsuit against some major company for scraping and exploiting users’ data, and we should make sure we have a legal leg to stand on.
@drahardja@seb Meant to respond to your earlier post (a couple weeks ago IIRC) to strongly endorse this suggestion and to encourage developers, especially those of us who offer open APIs, to do the same. (We already have thanks to your suggestion)
@drahardja@seb Hi Dave! This is something the admin team is already working on, along with some other policy updates.
I'll push this to the top of the queue.
We have a lawyer on the team (that's me), so no need to collect money for the updates; I do SFBA work on a pro bono basis.
@gbhnews
(TL;DR, cut the unnecessary predatory parasitic middlemen.)
This is the way to make the content you work so hard to produce directly available to the public in a familiar, easy to consume post/microblog format without the need for us to login through abusive external intermediaries that siphon and exploit users' personal information and don't even provide you any tangible benefit in return.
@TCatInReality@Hey_Beth@gbhnews@Dragon i honestly think it is exactly like the 1990s with the birth of the web. Media just doesn't "get" the advantage of the open social web yet, they are still wrapped up in the previous paradigm. They will get there though.
what do we have to do to make the #ActivityPub plugin attractive to more #WordPress users? We are currently at 4000+ active users on WordPress.org + the WordPress.com users.
I think what Stefan may be talking about is a kind of directory that lists available fediverse wordpress blog accounts, perhaps along with the profile description and gives you the option to follow them.
@pfefferle I would love to see ActivityPub get put into WordPress Core, and an interface developed capable of reading articles from other ActivityPub-enabled WordPress blogs.
One real headache we have right now with @wedistribute is that we want to output our articles as the Article type, but Mastodon doesn't support that. We can switch to Note, but that's more of a social status thing, rather than something specifically intended for publishing platforms and readers.
I think a picture of what this could ultimately might look like is:
Make ActivityPub a standard thing in every blog that's easy to turn on.
Add sections to the dashboard for user following and notifications of ActivityPub interactions.
Turn the like, bookmark, and reply functions into ActivityPub actions.
incorporate it in such a way that articles, likes, and responses can be seen within the WordPress dashboard.
The dashboard also has a section for following feeds. Basically, the WordPress.com reader, but ActivityPub-powered, and a standard part of WordPress.