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deadsuperhero

@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org

Somewhat ridiculous. The clump of brain cells responsible for We Distribute, VidCommons, and Brands.Town. Goofy but lovable, passionate about many things.

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deadsuperhero, (edited ) to random
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My wife got me this for recently. It's a sign that I can turn on or off with a remote when we're recording the @decentered podcast.

She's thoughtful and amazing and has been my biggest supporter. 🥰

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to fediverse
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Are there currently any Substack replacements that integrate with ActivityPub?

So I'm currently looking for a Substack substitute for taking donations.

I'd want it to feature a blog (and preferably newsletters too) that include a mix of publicly-accessible posts, as well as posts that are only visible to donors.

And ideally, I want it to also integrate with ActivityPub too.

That might mean a Fediverse post is automatically generated when a new blog post is published. Or potentially the publicly visible blog posts are published in full to the Fediverse.

Now, I know there are a few donations platforms that can handle the first part, such as Ghost and Ko-Fi.

There are also blogging platforms such as WriteFreely/Write.as and Micro.blog that integrate with the Fedi.

And in theory you could do both with a WordPress blog and number of plugins, some paid. But especially with paid plugins, that's likely to get quite expensive quickly. (Not to mention some of the questionable things that have happened at Automattic in recent weeks.)

But are there any platforms out there that support both?

Or is the best option at this stage just to get a Ko-Fi/Ghost account for the donations and donor-only posts, with a separate micro.blog or write.as account for the publicly accessible posts?

@asklemmy

deadsuperhero,
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@ajsadauskas @asklemmy As you've pointed out, the closest thing is probably WordPress for now. Something that might be closer to what you're describing is Ghost, except it doesn't really support ActivityPub, except through some hacking.

https://forum.ghost.org/t/i-wrote-a-mastodon-fediverse-activitypub-integration-for-ghost/37819

What I'd really love to see is something purpose-built for Fedi, but sadly we're just not there yet.

librenews, to random
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I've always wanted to leave Twitter for something more like the Fediverse, but it wasn't because I saw a lot of toxicity (unless I visited a Trump post)
I've seen worse on Mastodon than I ever saw on Twitter. (To be fair it hasn't been bad here either)
I don't know, maybe I just follow nice people.
But here there is a religion vibe that scares me to death.

deadsuperhero,
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@librenews Yeah, I've been struggling for a while with this. I think a lot of the good outshines the bad, but it feels as though the bad stuff just gets increasingly more bleak and dehumanizing.

Like, a lot of people that I've met and talked to here personally, are some of the most amazing people I've ever met. Funny, thoughtful, creative, passionate people that you can talk to about the weirdest stuff for hours. When it's good, it's really good.

The cultural debt and general nastiness though, particularly towards anyone outside of the in-group, is nauseating and nasty and represents some of the worst parts of this network's history.

thomholwerda, to random
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So now y'all fuckers come to my side regarding DisplayPort being the obviously superior port, huh?

HDMI should die a miserable, lonely, excruciating death.

deadsuperhero,
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@thomholwerda What?! DisplayPort is amazing for gaming. HDMI sucks.

18+ pan, to random

Noooo don't put me in the same meeting as Sales ​:akko_angry:​

deadsuperhero,
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@pan I feel seen 😞

deadsuperhero, to random
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Okay, look,

My last article linked to a public discussion that I thought was pertinent to the story. Apparently, people are harassing @aurynn now, and that's fucked up.

Just because a source was linked, doesn't mean it was an invitation to be horrible towards someone that created a post. That's not what we're about.

Aurynn, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry for any grief the article caused you. I'm sorry. I have nothing against you as an admin or as a person, it's just that your status was where the conversation with the dev was happening.

deadsuperhero, to random
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The opposite of a cheerleader is a miserylaggard.

Goodnight.

deadsuperhero,
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@matrixsasuke I like the way you think, but I interpreted it as someone so miserable that they lag behind everyone else.

deadsuperhero, to random
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I’m exploring for a potential project, and it’s weird. I feel like a lot of people have gotten close to making it feel polished and modern, but it’s like a really nice house that put a toilet in the kitchen for no reason.

“Why is the toilet in the kitchen?” I ask.

“Well you see,” the home designer explains, “that’s just how other Moodle kitchens are designed.”

deadsuperhero, to random
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Palworld is way better than it has any right to be.

deadsuperhero, (edited ) to random
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Hot trans women are in your local area, looking to infodump a vast amount of Bionicle lore all night long. 🥵

deadsuperhero,
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FYI, my wife literally does this to me with Bionicle, Destiny, and Warhammer lore.

deadsuperhero,
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@Huubje The really funny thing is that it’s actually piqued my interest a lot. The downside is that it seems like it’s meant to be a never-ending story by design, because they can’t sell minis if one side totally defeats the other.

The lore is, for lack of a better description, fucking fascinating.

mcc, to random
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Confession: I have never had borscht

deadsuperhero,
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@mcc I had it for the first time recently, and was surprised at how good it is!

fediforum, to random
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This subject of making developers more welcome in the fediverse, assuming good intentions and not actively driving them out for no good reason, would be a great session at .

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

/cc @deadsuperhero

deadsuperhero,
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@WanderingTaoist @fediforum I literally had an experience some years ago when I was talking about technology, and someone angrily demanded that I put my posts behind a CW, because she didn’t want to read them.

I told her to fuck off, and she blocked me.

J12t, to random
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A tough but very important piece by @deadsuperhero .

Read this. We need to fix this.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

deadsuperhero,
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@J12t One thought that I have is that we could develop educational materials.

I've been thinking recently about developing a side project under the We Distribute Media umbrella that would effectively be a Moodle website offering course materials to help people learn all of this. You could have something similar to One Month Rails that helps people understand what is needed to prepare their projects for the network.

Might be a worthy joint effort with FediDevs? 😁

deadsuperhero,
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@TLB73 You don’t sound particularly chill, if this is your default tone.

TL;DR, guy started building a website with ActivityPub, people didn’t know what it was, harassed him, then remote-loaded child pornography onto his site to get somebody to report it. In his jurisdiction (Germany) he could have gone to prison.

deadsuperhero,
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@ralf @J12t It was with extreme hesitance that I recently started social.wedistribute.org, and that was only because of having experiences with one space after another either shutting down, or dropping the ball on moderation really badly.

Hosting a small instance for yourself is really good, though, provided you take the necessary precautions.

deadsuperhero,
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@J12t Maybe both, would be useful either way. We Distribute Media still has to go through the federal process for non-profit incorporation in the United States, but we’ve been increasingly interested in production and publishing of content and media for these very purposes.

It may be that we could develop introductory courses that cover these things, with advanced courses exploring different implementations and ideas in the space.

ErikUden, to random
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We need to talk about the recently published WeDistribute Article regarding Mastodon user's response to a new federated service.

To make a long story short, someone tried setting up a website called ContentNation which would display Fediverse posts. To do so it adhered to the ActivityPub protocol, just like every Mastodon server or other Fediverse service. Due to the decentralized nature of the Fediverse this means you could view your own posts on this platform by fetching them, this, again, is possible on every Mastodon server or other Fediverse service. This is how the Fediverse works.

The creator of this platform has essentially created a free Fediverse library with no monetization (no ads, no trackers, no cookies) yet was labeled a “scraper” or “crawler” and, in my opinion, was very mistreated. You can argue about some ActivityPub features being implemented incorrectly or consent for those posts being displayed not being given, but before seeing this as malicious, try seeing it as a new Fediverse developer making mistakes.

Since through this platform you could see every post on the Fediverse, someone posted CSAM (child sexual abuse material), then (others) viewed it through the platform, and then reported ContentNation to their host for “having” CSAM.

Additionally, Kescher, the admin of CatCatNya.com, wanted to “make the crawler crash”. This is just a wonderful way to welcome new developers onto this decentralized platform.

We need to call out and condemn behavior such as this and not see a threat where there could be an opportunity to learn.

I'll leave you with this quote from the article:

Culturally, we need to accept that most people coming into the community for the first time are operating with a lack of prior knowledge. We can’t simply cross our arms and say “You should have known better”, and socially punish people, when in fact there was no way for them to learn about it.

— Sean Tilley, WeDistribute

deadsuperhero,
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@RedstoneLP2 @ErikUden I actually talked to the guy at length about this, it turns out the reimport thing was a software problem that he didn't know how to figure out at the time. Basically, any time a URL got searched for, it would automatically pull again.

He failed to account for the idea that he would need to delete things and set blocks to stop it from happening again.

hello, to fediverse
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The situation is a dumpster fire for the . What would you do if you were building something, people misunderstood what it was, and things escalated to a point that someone loaded CSAM onto your server for the sake of reporting it?

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

deadsuperhero,
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@thisismissem @hello actually, we were taking a different approach here, in that Hello is simply an outreach / syndication channel. It’s a little weird, but felt less weird than wedistribute@social.wedistribute.org 😅

Eventually, the hope is to set up several different channels and some automation to pipe things around. You can kind of see that in progress with @decentered. though it isn’t perfect.

deadsuperhero, to fediverse
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I have a article coming out tomorrow that I'm really not going to enjoy publishing. I think a lot of people are going to hate it, get nasty about it, and probably make the usual boring claims of how I'm spouting bullshit.

I feel as though part of Mastodon's user culture has enabled harassment, doxxing, death threats, and a litany of other horrible shit. What's particularly disgusting, though, is that a lot of these people will whine about privacy and consent before switching to some absolutely dehumanizing tactics that uphold neither principle.

It's not the progressive welcoming circle of friendship that it looks like. It's kind of a fucking vanity cult, actually.

deadsuperhero,
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I'm not saying all of Mastodon is bad, but it has a long heritage of being toxic AF to people while simultaneously offering paper-thin privacy protections to its own marginalized users. And the cultural policing is fucking dehumanizing.

Half the time, people throw up their hands and screech hysterically when one platform doesn't work the same way as theirs. Usually, this exposes an obvious shortcoming in Mastodon, but it's just easier to blame another project.

strypey, to random
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"Circles are pretty similar to how Aspects worked in Diaspora."

@hello

https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/bonfire-nextgen-framework/

Intriguing that you referred to Diaspora in the past tense. Is there news the Wikipedia article hasn't caught up with?

deadsuperhero,
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@strypey @hello I apologize for not responding to this sooner. Yes, Diaspora is still actively developed and used, and no, there's not really anything to read into me using a past tense.

Diaspora kind of kicked off the habit of addressable lists of contacts in a social app, and that convention now exists in several Fediverse platforms. It just feels as though Bonfire may be the first in a long time to really build on the concept.

deadsuperhero,
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@strypey @hello The Friendica family tree, primarily, but also Bonfire.

I also was able to make a very crude facsimile of it when I was recreating the Diaspora frontend for Pleroma.

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