This ended up being such a great interview. I know some people will shrug it off, because it’s Bluesky and not Mastodon, but Rudy’s a super smart dude and an amazing guest, and he shed a lot of light on building a community space for black people on an emergent platform. There’s so much good info coming from this man!
I generally disagree with the analysis of the article. Particularly, I think that Gen Z men and women showing roughly the same divide in voting as older generations still constitutes a major shift. If it gets to the point that Gen Z has a greater divide than older generations, I would consider that an extreme result of this trend. Curious what y’all think?
I don’t buy this narrative. TikTok is facing a ban because it’s a huge loaded gun in the hand of a foreign adversary that is actively pushing the boundaries on covert cyber warfare. Remember how they forced users to call their reps before they could use the app? Imagine that capability used in tandem with a more traditional attack. And of course there’s the potential for Russian style disinformation campaigns.
Either way, I find out seriously unlikely that it has anything to do with support for Palestine. Support for Palestine is actively growing on all platforms and I seriously doubt anybody has hard evidence that tiktok is pushing that forward.
The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He’s helping other projects in the space, too.
I think it’s worth considering a model where one might be expected to provide hosting for their own video. Certainly not necessary now but probably will be if/when video on fedi takes off
Regarding Sup: dansup has mentioned that he’s put the project on hold until the new EU guidelines around interoperability (targeting whatsapp) are available.
This is super exciting. I think one of the things a lot of people are missing here is the potential for wikis to augment existing fediverse communities. Reddit’s killer feature has always been the massive treasure trove of information for hobbyists and niche interests. There is huge potential in the fediverse to take advantage of that sort of natural collaborative knowledge building process.
This is super exciting. I think one of the things a lot of people are missing here is the potential for small wikis to augment existing fediverse communities. Reddit’s killer feature has always been the massive treasure trove of information for hobbyists and niche interests. There is huge potential in the fediverse to take advantage of that sort of natural collaborative knowledge building process.
Hey all, hoping I can gain some insight into an issue I’m having with my sengled lightbulbs. Basically I have two scenes set up in HAS, one “default” scene that has all the lights at 100% brightness with soft white and another that is for movies that turns off all the light except two and modifies the color value to be a...
I was having similar issues with the zigbee ones, and I believe it was a known issue with the way transitions were implemented. The solution ended up being to set short transition times across the board. Not sure if that’s applicable here, but it may be worth a try.
It’s normal that there will be forks and alternatives
This is not the sentiment you have previously expressed in direct response to these forks and alternatives. Thinking specifically about your activity in the sublinks announcement posts.
Let me just give the simplest explanation of my intended outcome here: I want to use Assist to speak “Play {Album} by {Artist} in {Room name}”, and have it “just work”....
CW:SH - Why more men than women die by suicide (www.bbc.com)
Jellyfin (+ARR+RD) What’s the next step?
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Why It's So Hard for Men to Say No to Sex and Why Saying Yes to Unwanted Sex Has Consequences. (www.psychologytoday.com)
Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? (wedistribute.org)
Did grocery chains take advantage of COVID shortages to raise prices? FTC says yes in new report (www.usatoday.com)
Decentered Podcast: Interview with creator of Blacksky (wedistribute.org)
This ended up being such a great interview. I know some people will shrug it off, because it’s Bluesky and not Mastodon, but Rudy’s a super smart dude and an amazing guest, and he shed a lot of light on building a community space for black people on an emergent platform. There’s so much good info coming from this man!
The Stories We Tell Our Sons About Becoming Men (lithub.com)
Newsmast Brings Huge New Features in 3.0 Update - Opening Up the Possibility of Custom Feeds for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
This is an older article, but I’m mostly curious what y’all think about newsmast? Have you used it?
Are Gen Z Men and Women Actually Drifting Apart Politically? (www.theatlantic.com)
Increase in pro-Palestine content pushed US to ban TikTok: WSJ report (maktoobmedia.com)
Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App (wedistribute.org)
The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He’s helping other projects in the space, too.
Nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds (www.nbcnews.com)
Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)
Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation (bsky.social)
Dangerous, sexist rules of how to be a man are still alive for many (www.theage.com.au)
Sengled wifi lightbulbs not keeping color settings?
Hey all, hoping I can gain some insight into an issue I’m having with my sengled lightbulbs. Basically I have two scenes set up in HAS, one “default” scene that has all the lights at 100% brightness with soft white and another that is for movies that turns off all the light except two and modifies the color value to be a...
The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service. (dbzer0.com)
Assist, wildcards, and Dynamic Intents.
Let me just give the simplest explanation of my intended outcome here: I want to use Assist to speak “Play {Album} by {Artist} in {Room name}”, and have it “just work”....
What does your desktop look like? (share.jackgreenearth.org)
Here’s mine. No inspiration at all taken from a certain California based company’s OS ;p...