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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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maegul, (edited ) to mastodon
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Reflecting on the firefish/calckey "moment"

which was about a year ago now, I can't help but suspect it was a small event with wider implications on the dominance of in the

I think it was the last chance to direct the twitter migration energy into discovering new/different fedi platforms.

And it was blown, with alt-social in a weird steady/waiting state that's smaller I suspect, than what many hoped for.

@fediverse

cntd: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/112358202238795371

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deadsuperhero,
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@maegul There were a lot of different factors that went into what happened with Firefish. Some of it was bad optics (the whole “he said” vs “she said” ordeal that may have involved forged screenshots), some of it was community disagreements that went south, some of it was the project lead dealing with school. The database problems didn’t help, nor did switching DB technologies mid-stream.

It’s easy to chalk the situation of Firefish to one or two causes, but there was a lot going on. It’s an amazing project, and showing signs of new life. It just went through hell for a while.

youronlyone, to mastodon
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Ooo? reverted to mainline ?

I wonder why. Hmm…

deadsuperhero,
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@youronlyone Layoffs

deadsuperhero, to random
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Out of a sense of necessity: an upcoming article will focus on the new members of Mastodon’s board, and look into who they are, and what they’ve done. Should be an interesting write-up.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Just because someone specializes in something you don’t like doesn’t mean they’re some kind of villain.

A lawyer specializes in advising and defending AI model creators? Tough titties: somebody has to do that job, and everyone deserves representation in a court of law. It’s better if someone specializes and knows the ins and outs.

A former Twitter cofounder did business as an angel investor and maybe some VC stuff? Okay, in what capacity? A guy who has repeatedly started companies giving his insights to new startups doesn’t have to be this malicious, predatory thing.

But no, half of you hear “Masto board has Twitter guy and AI/Blockchain bro”, and the community immediately erupts into hysterics while doing exactly zero research on any of these people.

deadsuperhero,
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The biggest threat to this space isn’t a board of directors, and it isn’t Threads. The biggest threat is a form of Mastodon that refuses to participate in the FEP standardization process, and drags its feet on adopting innovative ideas other platforms implement. A de facto standard is only good if it doesn’t impede progress!

If better development and participation in the wider community is enabled by better and more direct routes to funding, I’m in favor of it.

deadsuperhero,
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It’s also really telling to see people who couldn’t code their way out of a paper bag demand a hard fork. Like, really, are you going to be the one to lead the charge?

Do you not even remember how well that went the last time this happened, with ? Or that the half dozen Masto forks out there are spread kind of thin?

deadsuperhero,
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@berniethewordsmith yeah, I saw that and thought it was reasonable! They probably could’ve done a better job of explaining things, and that probably would’ve helped some. But, many of the replies are crap regardless.

deadsuperhero,
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@atomicpoet It’s not exactly that simple, companies can still do wildly problematic things. However, the work could hypothetically still stand on its own.

In the situation being discussed, this is more about framing the discussion about people who may have perfectly good intentions and motivations for participation. Maybe they’ve even done great work in the past. But, the collective fact-checking ability here is severely hampered.

People hear a couple of labels they don’t like, pick up some anecdotes that agree with their biases, and will boost some half-assed opinion all around the network without even bothering to look into it.

wyre, to mastodon

you know if forming a U.S. non-profit upsets you you have other alternatives. activitypub isn’t just mastodon. the is more than mastodon. there are plenty of good options. I recommend you get a small instance someplace capable of supporting your crew and onboard them yourself to whatever alternative platform you like. this is the beauty of a federated environment.

deadsuperhero,
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@wyre Why would anyone be upset about this? 🤔

deadsuperhero,
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@wyre Oh, totally makes sense. Yeah, Misskey and its forks are amazing!

deadsuperhero, to random
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Due to an imbalance caused by temporarily being off of my antidepressants (lapse in my script), I developed an overpowering craving to smoke cigarettes. So, I’ve been smoking for about a month now.

It’s frustrating, because I did a really great job of being clean for a year. But, with everything that happened in the last 6 months, the stress response caught up to me.

deadsuperhero, to Pixelfed
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Random question: is there a good open source tool out there for making animated vertical videos? Something that you could use for making Reels or Tiktok videos?

Preferably web-based?

If not, I might have an idea for stories 😅

deadsuperhero,
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I’ve looked at some libraries that could probably be built upon, but it seems like slim pickings:

https://github.com/etro-js/etro https://github.com/Prakshal-Jain/Reactive https://github.com/xzdarcy/react-timeline-editor

Sadly, some of the most impressive SDKs and libraries, like Remotion or Pintura, are proprietary or based on closed services…

Still, might be interesting to experiment!

deadsuperhero, to random
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Therapy session in just a few minutes, finally. I’ve missed my last few, but it feels good to connect again.

I feel like I’ve been dragging my own body all the way to the weekend. I’m almost there.

decentered, to fediverse
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A new episode of is out! We sat down with @pfefferle from Automattic on his effort to bring to the ecosystem!

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/wordpress-matthias-pfefferle/

deadsuperhero,
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@pfefferle It’s a candid image of you laughing. You have a wonderful laugh and smile, and I couldn’t not add it.

But, if you would like it to be substituted, please let me know. 😅

deadsuperhero,
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@wjmaggos @decentered @pfefferle Yeah, I thought it was a really good insight. The blogosphere was really good back in the day, but depended heavily on a flow that was clunky and required a familiarity with 3 or 4 different tools all used in conjunction.

Seeing the developments happening with WordPress and Ghost, I believe that a variety of social interactions across the Web will have much more capabilities, and far less friction.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Sometimes, a bad memory can tear open an old wound that you thought had long healed. You wonder to yourself whether things could have been different, if you had made better decisions. Your mind teases you of what could have been, as your morosely gaze into a deep abyss of failure.

You think about what it would take to be reborn and start again, but your head is clouded, and your body weak. The dream lives on in you, but fear and sorrow just keep you down. To move a finger is to lift a mountain.

deadsuperhero,
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I can’t shake the feeling that my involvement with ended in failure. I know that it was forever ago, when the tools and technology were much more limited. Seeing the state of the project over the past eight years breaks my heart.

I was young, dumb, and sure of myself. I thought I could see the future, but I had no idea what it looked like. Most servers are a ghost town, and the project is a sad bloated husk where bitter men go to shave their yaks.

I just wasn’t who the project needed to put it in the right direction.

deadsuperhero,
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Sometimes, I think about downloading a copy, setting up a test environment, trying to fix all the things that are wrong with it. I’m a shit programmer, though. People tell me I’m smart, but I just talk smart. I’m really just an idiot.

Even so, I’m not sure my patches would be accepted at this point, if I could make them. I think some of those bridges are far too burned to be crossed again, and the people running it have no interest in being dragged kicking and screaming into the rest of the Fediverse.

It just hurts. I dream about starting my own project, but I don’t think I’m smart enough.

deadsuperhero,
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Maybe I’m just being pessimistic. My antidepressants don’t always seem to work, though they make a lot of things better.

I have a lot of ideas, some of them good. It’s just easy to get caught up in your own head, and let fear prevent you from doing some of the things you really want to do.

When I die, I just want to know that my life was worth something, that I did something great and was part of something beautiful. I think I’m on my way with some of my efforts, but I’m not sure how to get past this blocker. My biggest fear is that nothing I do actually matters.

deadsuperhero, to fediverse
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I’m writing a brief guide for how to set up OBS to livestream with and . What questions do y’all have? What do you want to know about?

deadsuperhero,
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@ShredderFeeder I think you have it exactly backwards. I think a core motivation for a lot of people is not to elevate themselves above everyone else on a platform…but instead, a desire to connect, and laugh, and experience things together.

But in order to do that, you have to put yourself out there.

I think it’s less “people want to see me” and more “I want to do something fun with other people online, but in order to do that, I need to be seen.”

Also, while Tiktok is not necessarily my cup of tea personally, it’s a legitimate tool for discovery, from music to books to cooking techniques to political organizing. Short-form video is a medium of a newer generation, and Tiktok just happened to be a place to use it extremely effectively. I hope we get something similar in the Fediverse, as an alternative.

deadsuperhero,
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@torsten_torsten Hey Torsten, can you explain what you mean by this? Chatrooms are one feature that both Owncast and PeerTube support that allows people to comment on an active stream.

deadsuperhero,
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@Frisk I take it that you mean you want to use hardware to encode it, but avoid doing encoding a second time over the stream.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find much on the subject, beyond a couple of forum posts. It seems that video passthrough in this configuration is not currently possible with tools like OBS Studio? It seems that, for the stream to exist and get parsed by the server, encoding is a must.

ricmac, to fediverse
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While content is federated currently, isn’t. And while that doesn’t diminish the decentralized nature of the , having a single identity — that a user fully controls — would make it easier to sign up for multiple apps. My analysis of recent discussions here featuring @evanprodromou, @rabble, @deadsuperhero, @timbray, @osma & others. https://thenewstack.io/one-login-towards-a-single-fediverse-identity-on-activitypub/

deadsuperhero,
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@mogul To be clear: integration of Solid and ActivityPub is a worthy endeavor, and people are doing it! But, it’s easier to start from the ground floor instead of a massive, painful, never-been-done-before refactor.

It’s just a harder path, using tools and an architecture that are very different from how most Fediverse apps (or apps in general) work today.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/

deadsuperhero,
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@rabble You might be interested in reading about some recent efforts I’ve written about. A lot of people are very passionate about figuring out how to fill in those gaps, and there’s some fascinating movements happening in the background.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/extending-activitypub/

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/

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