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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 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, 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?

#activityPub #stackOverflow

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/

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.

tedu, to random

Hey team, as a reminder, we've got the mastodon fork standup tomorrow. Nothing formal, just a quick status update. The big thinkers up top are excited to see their vision being built.

deadsuperhero,
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@tedu Can’t wait to see what the endless meetings with almost no code contributors will bring!

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    deadsuperhero,
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    @BoscoZebra In an existential sense, I can’t say that a single thing I do is “important” in the big picture. Some days, I get hung up over the idea that nothing I do actually matters. But, that could be said of any person, any effort, any dream.

    There certainly won’t be statues built of me, or plays written in my honor. I probably won’t even have a Wikipedia page. But, I do feel that I’m writing about a significant development in online communities, one that could change the Internet as a whole. Being a part of that gives me drive, and a sense of purpose.

    atomicpoet, to random
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    I’ve been writing a novel and I think I might just chuck it all out.

    My problem is that I always start with a simple premise. And then things get more and more fantastical until the whole thing gets weighed down by the bizarre plot line.

    For example, in my current novel, what starts off as a simple connection between two people turns into a metaphysical journey into the transcendence of ecstasy.

    I can’t just let my characters be happy. I have to launch them into an entirely new plane of existence where their minds become subsumed by a universal consciousness.

    I’ve gone overboard. Again.

    deadsuperhero,
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    @atomicpoet You’re not alone! I have a similar problem with scope creep, although it often happens in the planning stages.

    For a while, my cloud drive was a graveyard of great ideas. I kept biting off more than I could chew, with not enough breadcrumbs to move from the start of the story to the central idea.

    I may actually pick up trying to write stories again, though. Part of me desperately loves world-building. A challenge I have for myself is to start by writing things that are comically low-stakes, like a plot to buy a coworker a cake to take advantage of their Costco membership.

    hello, to random
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    For our first article on #Nostr, we wrote a crash course guide on the protocol and the network, along with what it is, how it works, and how you can get started.

    https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/nostr-crash-course/

    deadsuperhero,
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    @Huubje I don’t blame you at all. I still think the peer-to-peer aspects of Nostr are interesting and worth writing about, and I do like how they rely on multiple relays, rather than being tethered to a single server.

    I’m doing my best to find the diamonds in the rough, as I think there’s good work happening there, just as there is with Bluesky or Secure Scuttlebutt or wherever else. My whole thing is taking notes on different ideas, and seeing if anything that seems good might help us somehow.

    Fediverse has been, and always will be, my number one place.

    atomicpoet, to bluesky
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    So I just tried opting into #BridgyFed (https://brid.gy/mastodon/@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org).

    I found it confusing. For one thing, it asks me for my Mastodon account. Though Akkoma uses Mastodon’s API, not all sites recognize this nor support it—I don’t know if BridgyFed would reject.

    Secondly, it’s not clear how to opt in. I think I opted in but there was nothing to say “Congrats! People from #Bluesky can see you!”

    Also, how do I receive #Bluesky posts? That’s not apparent to me.

    @fediversenews

    deadsuperhero,
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    @atomicpoet @fediversenews Akkoma seems to be a little bit broken for the time being, although the situation seems to be improving.

    Basically: on the Fediverse side, you need to follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. Right now, the follow seems to be at least a little bit broken with Akkoma, stuck in the “Awaiting Approval” state. But, the profile still shows up on Bluesky’s side.

    I’m building a Bluesky list of bridged accounts for testing purposes: https://bsky.app/profile/wedistribute.org/lists/3krwhq36tjs2r

    Unfortunately, Bluesky users have to also opt into the bridge in order for you to see them. Unless we can get the Bluesky team and a bunch of accounts to opt into it, we might not be able to see many people on this side.

    deadsuperhero, to random
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    Really annoyed that our server sometimes just drops replies from mastodon.social users. I’m still not totally sure as to what’s causing it!

    Some servers work just fine, others are super janky at the most random times.

    deadsuperhero,
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    @piggo That’s an interesting idea. Our server runs on Phoenix, Arizona time, maybe it’s better to align that to other servers?

    It’s just weird, some statuses end up being literally unfetchable. I had some luck in the past by disabling Authorized Fetch on the backend, but why that even worked was beyond me.

    deadsuperhero, to fediverse
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    One of the ideas I’ve been kicking around for the #Fediverse is promotion of small businesses by Fedizens. This includes tools, apps, and services, not all of which have to necessarily be super developer-focused.

    If you’re interested in being featured on some kind of #FediBusiness directory, or know of a really good candidate, let me know! I have a little list going already, but would love to actually turn it into something.

    rabble, to random
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    Is it true that if two people reply to my this post from different servers they won’t see each others reply?

    Doesn’t that make user and community discovery really hard? How do you have emergent conversations with new people?

    deadsuperhero,
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    @rabble It’s not completely true, but can happen.

    Here’s a way to understand it: there are two ways conversations are handled in the Fediverse:

    1. Replies are delegated by the author of the Thread. This is how Diaspora, Friendica, Streams, and a bunch of “long-form social” platforms have done it. The whole conversation tree can be pulled in, but a thread with hundreds of comments can potentially bring performance issues.
    2. Replies are constructed based on what the observer’s server is already aware of. The author will see everything, but that context is not necessarily set for readers from other instances.

    There are some interesting proposals coming out of Streams to basically treat conversations more like form 1 rather than form 2. I’m not sure if it’s a proposed FEP yet, but the idea is to make ActivityPub natively work this way across implementations.

    deadsuperhero,
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    @rabble you can see every reply by viewing the thread on the original server. You will only see replies that your server knows about in the local view, plus any mentions that you appear in.

    It…could definitely be a lot better. The improvement I described earlier to propagate responses to anyone who fetches a thread could potentially fix this, but there’s still the case of loading a thread with many, many replies that’s still something of a headache.

    deadsuperhero, to random
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    Just waiting in my truck with a busted shifter, waiting for the tow truck to come get me, nbd. 🥲

    deadsuperhero, to random
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    Got an unsolicited job offer from a recruiter in Illinois today.

    Recruiter: we were really impressed with your resume, and want to recommend this very basic, bare-bones data entry job that only pays $18.50 an hour.

    Wow, what an honor! 😂 So glad that my years of working in tech startups and aircraft maintenance has given me this prestigous opportunity!

    deadsuperhero,
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    I guess maybe I sound a bit ungrateful. I’ve had dry spells between jobs, where I was lucky to find much of anything.

    But, the absolute low-balling random people will give you is just astonishing. I didn’t even apply for your crummy job! I have no idea who you are!

    hello, to fediverse
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    Do you want to help support #Fediverse musicians, like the ones you hear on @radiofreefedi? We are looking to increase our coverage, starting with more Mixtapes. But, we need your help!

    We are looking for volunteers interested in helping us make more Mixtapes, with the ultimate goal of releasing a new one every Friday. Don't worry - we'll be using a round robin so that different people take turns.

    If you'd like to help out with this, send us a message!

    deadsuperhero,
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    @wjmaggos I don’t think any of this is a problem - it’s akin to a discovery index filled with accounts across the Fediverse, except it takes the form of a radio station. I listen to it when I’m driving to or from work, and it fills that niche of feeling like radio, but entirely comprised of music from this space.

    With CC Music, I mean, I get it? I’ll just say that, having poured years of my life and thousands of dollars into running a CC/PD Video hub on PeerTube, almost nobody seemed to really care about creating a community around it or supporting it. I think CC is useful, but I think it’s dead as an actual cultural movement. Taking a purist stance on how people license their own work is…less than useful.

    I do kind of agree with you on Funkwhale, I think they really missed an opportunity by not investing in social features early on. There is a CC Music server called Open.Audio, but if you look at it…there’s just a real lack of community. It’s more of a “music locker” where the uploaders don’t often seem to be the artists themselves.

    Anyway, the point of RFF is to produce a low-friction, grassroots method of building a music community, and they’ve honestly done an amazing job. The music I’ve discovered through it is often amazing, and there’s some mad talent here.

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