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deadsuperhero

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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, to random
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Due to the amount of days I’ve accrued in my leave balance, I officially was able to put in my two weeks’ notice with the United States Air Force today.

This is a weird time for me. I’m figuring out what my future looks like, and planning on going back to school full-time. Part of me is really happy, another part of me is sad, worried, terrified, burnt out, and depressed.

I had some amazing experiences, and met some incredible people. We made memories together. Walking away from that puts me in a really weird spot. I have to take time to figure my shit out.

deadsuperhero, to KDE
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Trying out on the desktop, since I'm gradually shifting back to these days. So far it's...alright?

I've always loved the idea of a Fediverse client that integrates nicely with the desktop, while offering full access to whatever features that platform gives you. But, I'm hard pressed to find a client that does everything I want. 😅

deadsuperhero,
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A minor annoyance is that mobile clients like @moshidon are really, really good nowadays. Desktop clients, though? Some are great, but a lot of them feel like they’re five years behind, in terms of user experience.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Hey. Let’s just pretend for a while that the Web is a much simpler, happier place.

Old Flash intro from Homestar Runner . com

caseynewton, to random
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With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

deadsuperhero,
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@caseynewton I know it’s beside the point, but

God damn, that is such a good headline.

deadsuperhero, to random
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This is my nine year old girl. Her name is Lori. She’s a diva, but my heart melts for her.

I adore this dog. She follows me everywhere, cuddles with me, and gives jealous looks / barks whenever I smooch my wife. She also regularly tilts her head back and goes “Bwoo!” as a greeting. ♥️

Lori, a tricolor beagle with white, black, and brown fur, staring blankly with big black eyes at the camera. She's sitting on a bed in front of blue pillows.
Lori, a tricolor beagle with white, black, and brown fur, looking apprehensively to her side.
Lori, a tricolor beagle with white, black, and brown fur, panting happily with her tongue hanging out.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Had to sift through my medical data for my various VA Disability claims, and came across notes from various therapy sessions. It was interesting to read old discussions from another point of view, but it’s a real can of worms.

hello, to bluesky
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It's now possible to connect and accounts together, and talk across a bridge! We get into the nuts and bolts of how it works, and what you can do to get started!

https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/fediverse-bluesky-bridge/

deadsuperhero,
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@grishka @hello I’ll be honest, this didn’t use to exist on the site. I’m not totally sure wtf I toggled, but it’s unintentional.

deadsuperhero,
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@grishka @hello Figured it out, should be good now.

glukozavr, to mastodon
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Am I correct, assuming that @tootapp is dead app? On AppStore no updates for a year and I seems not to find any activity around it anymore.

Which client would be the most versatile to work with #mastodon #pleroma #akkoma and maybe some other #activitypub services with iOS app and alive?

#fediverse #mastodonclient

deadsuperhero,
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@glukozavr I’ve heard that Sora SNS is great!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sorasns-for-mastodon-bluesky/id6450969760

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Most forks fail because you need a core developer to maintain the project

There are dozens of misskey forks, and most of them fail after a few months or a year (calckey ->firefish)

You can't just fork something and live off hopes and dreams

This is why I believe it's in my best interest as the core maintainer of Pixelfed to work with our community as much as possible to eliminate the need for a fork

Such a vibe when you reach this, I love it, fuck egos, we all equals, lets goooo 🚀

deadsuperhero,
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@dansup Yeah, I made a similar case about this recently. It’s one thing if you’re just adding features and having fun (CalcKey was a good example), but long-term sustainability for a project requires sticking to it, dedicating loads of time and energy to doing the boring, monotonous, unsexy stuff as well as the exciting hot new stuff.

I think writing a project from scratch puts a dev in the position that they can’t easily back out of development without shutting down completely. There is no upstream to dump work off to, because you’re the upstream.

dansup, to random
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Yeah I've seen a few fedi devs sell out, some sell soapboxes to presidents and others bring their failed misskey forks to the fintech world

The one thing they all had in common was they never actually wrote their own project, they forked an existing project and added some lipstick

Meanwhile us other fedi devs are still here, not chasing trends or money.

deadsuperhero,
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@dansup I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to “sell out”, if it means keeping the lights on, or putting a roof over your head. Sometimes, people get burned really bad from doing so much work for free. If I could make a living building for this space, I would 100% do it. But, I’m a shitty developer.

And I realize that your statement is more about Gleason and Kainoa, and what they’re doing. I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong for someone to pivot and pursue their own things, it’s just that one built hate speech networks while the other got seriously burnt out and decided to go do literally anything else.

Ironically, both people are the most successful case studies for forks of existing platforms.

deadsuperhero, to mastodon
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As a fun little experiment, @damon and I worked together to get a instance up and running that stores media on ! It was an interesting learning experience.

I don’t think we’re ready to announce anything yet, as this was in service of another project in development. But, there’s an increasing number of ways to host content on an IPFS node service, and tie it back to platforms like Mastodon using an S3-compatible API for Object Storage and some proxying.

This is all pretty rudimentary, but the big-brain realization is that a more robust version could be done by pairing Minio to s3x if we wanted to self-host an IPFS node with those specific features.

deadsuperhero,
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There’s some valid questions as to whether this brings decent benefits, of if it’s just a hype technology that’s mostly drawbacks. I’m not totally sure yet.

That said, I can think of a few narrow applications where something like this might actually be really interesting, like a Fediverse cache for URL and media previews for instances, or some kind of limited holdover service for media and data for an instance that’s bitten the dust.

Anyway, interesting learning experience, might be able to do something with it.

deadsuperhero,
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@ilja So far, the easiest workaround (that was surprisingly easy for us) was to use an Object Storage service that puts everything in IPFS, but serves it back with an S3-compatible API.

After a lot of bumping around and figuring out the pieces, it ended up working better than expected! In practice, though, it just works like regular Object Storage. A next step might be to try to make Mastodon serve back the CID and render it directly, instead of proxying the S3 endpoint.

deadsuperhero, to random
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My wife makes me so happy. 🥰

darius, to random
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I just witnessed some software transcribe "Fediverse" as "Feddy bears" which.. do I need to start a new server??

deadsuperhero,
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@thisismissem @darius Yeah, I regularly have to correct the AI transcriptions generated by Riverside, which we use to record interviews.

Overall, it works pretty well, but the misreads are ridiculous. Some included:

  • That reversed
  • Steady verse
  • That we heard
  • Lead dispersed
  • Freddy Durst
deadsuperhero, to random
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I try to publish daily. No matter what I do though, I always have like 40 drafts in the backlog. 😭

dansup, to fediverse
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?

deadsuperhero,
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@dansup don’t do it, Dansup! You’ve got enough on your plate!

pixelfed, to random
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Due to losing control of our Matrix channel, we are officially moving over to Discord for now.

It's a shame, but we can't properly moderate our Matrix, so we can no longer recommend it.

https://discord.gg/MHvDHaSzmc

deadsuperhero,
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@pixelfed Honestly, that sucks, and I’m sorry you had to deal with that. While I’m happy to see FOSS projects use FOSS comm tools as part of their infrastructure, I would never criticize someone for not using that.

At the end of the day, people use what tools are most comfortable for them. Matrix / Element are cool, but they’re far from seamless, and have a long way to go when it comes to usability.

Don’t let people push you around for embracing what works best for you. They may as well dictate what you wear, and what you eat.

Arataka, to bluesky
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Rip Bluesky? Jack has left and unfollowed everyone - https://thedeepdive.ca/jack-dorsey-leaves-bluesky-board-unfollows-almost-everyone-on-x/

#bluesky #bsky #jackdorsey

deadsuperhero,
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@Arataka Some of the reporting on this topic is really messy.

Jack was on the board, but allegedly had little to do with the day-to-day operations and decisions. He was supposedly bullied off of Bluesky last year by people still mad at him for Twitter, and has largely been supporting Nostr for the duration.

His unfollowing thing on Twitter is supposedly just a test of the algorithm as it exists today. That’s what Jack said, anyway.

hello, to mastodon
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A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/forking-mastodon/

deadsuperhero,
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@hashraydamon Yeah, I wrote about them in the piece. There’s a difference between doing a fork to pursue your own interests and features, and doing a fork to compete with the original project.

The first is easy, the second one is extremely difficult.

deadsuperhero,
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@soaproot My goal isn’t to discourage anyone from running a fork, so much as it’s an insight into what you’re signing up for.

For me, a big concern involves trying to run a fork that actively competes with Mastodon, to the point of trying to replace it. This is what I see when people make calls for a hard fork, and it concerns me because it’s never a call to support an existing fork or another piece of software.

What it communicates to me is that someone is more interested in being the SABDFL, rather than being one of the contributors supporting an existing project.

deadsuperhero,
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@soaproot TL;DR: I’m not saying “don’t do it”, I’m saying “okay, but there’s some big headaches and you need to make peace with a number of things”.

Committed developers, deep knowledge of the code, community outreach, a coherent product vision, and having a designer all go a long way towards making this successful. Making it easy for communities to switch over is important, too.

deadsuperhero,
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@jdp23 You are more than welcome to quote and link!

And yeah, I may have been projecting some of my own discomforts a bit. The last few calls for a hard fork, to me, have felt less like “let’s build our own thing together!” and more like a call to abandon Mastodon in favor of this amazing hypothetical fork where some other person is the SABDFL.

I think there is very much a need for an alternative to Mastodon. I’m not sure it’s necessarily Mastodon itself.

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