@matt I was invited to a party last night and was tempted to go and was like what time does it start and they responded 3am and I was like uhhhh I am gonna be sleeping! I don't have a plan! though I guess I should start formulating one!
Catching up on the Louis Rossman + GrapheneOS debacle right now after seeing folks on the tl discussing it. Yikes in many directions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
Came across this bizarre comment (screenshot included) in the video that made me laugh.
@dansup@pixelfed I appreciate that you tagged me Daniel, but I have to say I am quite disappointed that the feedback that me and many others in that last thread doesn't seem to be taken into consideration here. 99% of people coming across the screen you just shared will choose the black button instantly without reading any of that text, and even if they did read the it, it doesn't explain how important which home server you chose is and how you have to trust the moderation of the admin.
@dansup@pixelfed This looks vary nice @matt, much better then what is currently being done, the only worry I have here if the second dropdown is preselected without an explanation of what it means then why would someone unfamiliar with the nature of how instances work change to another instance?
@matt@dansup@pixelfed I think if it was randomized that would solve most of my concerns. Actually as opposed to randomized what it it was like slowly scrolling through options until you clicked on it, either linearly like a stock ticker or like it was a rolodex. And then when you clicked on it, it would either stopped right then or showed a drop down or search field.
@matt hmm the screen reader situation is definitely a good one to consider, though tbf I think what you have in the third screenshot would already not really work well for a screen reader, as it would just read a never ending list of thousands of servers you could scroll through. I think asking people who use screen readers on a daily basis for ideas for this case would be the best bet to get ideas that neither of us are going to even think of.
The first approach to "warehouses", channels, rooms. Personally, I don't like the solutions seen on #reddit, but people seem to like them. And yet, the user interface is for people, not for themselves. At least to a large extent.
While reddit's layout isn't fully polished (many subreddit-related modules and pages still use the old layout), I decided to use a drop-down menu that I don't like and redesign it a bit.
"Green washing" = making your project seem eco friendly
"Rainbow washing" = making your project seem queer friendly
"FLOSS washing" = making your project seem open source
is there a master list of these type of generalizations? @wikipedia help me out here!
It exists! European Sleeper inaugural departure. 3x a week, Berlin - Amsterdam - Brussels night train. It’s pretty retro, but it’s a heroic effort to even get this to run
hey @evan I saw you started blogging again at https://evanp.me, was wondering if you have @pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin there yet so I can follow it from here?
@dansup@grishka Glad to hear you are not going this direction. I think relying on corporate infrastructure for moderation is the wrong direction and there is no way to have a selfhosted SMS provider...
@dansup@PixelDroid@pixelfed The future of a strong fediverse relies on a huge diversity of different client apps offering completely unique experiences on top of stable server bases hosting community and coop run instances!
@dansup does pixelfed federate comments? I thought it might be because we implemented signature verification lately and I try them on my blog, but it seems that no comments come through at all.
@dansup@pfefferle wait comments only get federated to followers? how does that work? if I post something on my Pixelfed account and then boost it from my Mastodon account most of the comments will be from people not following my Pixelfed. So then anyone reading the comments from Pixelfed would then not be able to see most of the comments? I didn't realize Pixelfed was federating comments differently then Mastodon.
@dansup@pixelfed this is great! have you tested the federation with other software yet and how the edits come through? does mastodon update the image order and show the "post edited" flag etc?
Being dumb: Using WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, LINE, WeChat, QQ
Being slightly less dumb: Using Telegram or Threema
Having an IQ above room temperature in Fahrenheit: using Signal
Thinking you’re smart: using Matrix on someone else’s server with the Element client
Believing you’re smart: using Matrix on your own self-hosted server with the SchildiChat client
Being smart: using XMPP with the Stork IM client
Being smarter than Steven Hawking: using Jami
Having a quadruple digit IQ: using Briar and having 7 selected government officials hunting you at all times
Being smarter than the average BSD user: communicating using the BitTorrent protocol on the Tixati client
Having ascended as a human being: communicating EmE (earth moon earth) with radio waves and self-made protocols
Giving God lectures about how to run a universe: communicating via LoRaWAN and the decentralized TTN (The Things Network) with a cloud backend
Being praised like a God by the Gods: creating your own LoRaWAN network and communicating only over it, disregarding the restrictive “1% per client” government guidelines regarding bandwidth
Recompiling the multiverse on a daily basis: not talking or communicating
@Erik I hadnt heard of Tixati before so even tho this is a shitpost I am glad to come across it cause learning about different approaches to p2p is exciting!
