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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 wordpress
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Are there any designers / developers on here that specialize in #WordPress? We have some big ideas for our site, and would prefer to commission someone from the #Fediverse.

deadsuperhero,
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@scott Oh, hai! 😁

deadsuperhero, to random
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Weird take: Midway Games should have never been sold to Electronic Arts.

As a video game, NFL Blitz was always vastly superior to Madden. Yes, Madden is more realistic, and Blitz is almost cartoon-like by comparison, but the latter was always way more fun than the former.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Weird thoughts about the Thumbnail / DDoS problem…

  1. What if a trusted, vetted Non-Profit ran some infrastructure, like some high-concurrency server for caching thumbnails?
  2. What if we had relays cache a thumbnail, hash it, compare it against the same thumbnail on other relays, and then provide thumbnails to instances?

Idk, maybe I’m just wrong here. But the way I see it, we could either put trust in an entity / service dedicated to this, or we could come up with some kind of zero-trust method?

Just passing thoughts. It’s just such a frustrating problem.

deadsuperhero,
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@deathkitten I can understand the hesitancy a little bit, instantly trusting other instances to do it for you could result in some really weird / gross problems due to malicious actors.

I’ve literally seen collisions happen with proxied media previews before. We’re talking shots of porn showing up on Linux penguin posts.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Kind of want to AI clone Richard Stallman’s voice, just so that I can run it on an iPhone and have it gradually freak the fuck out.

dansup, to random
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Between Pixelfed, Groups, Loops, PubKit and Sup, I'm struggling to meet my self-imposed deadlines to a degree that I'm delaying several journalist interviews

I was planning on working on Loops tonight, however I noticed our Pixelfed TestFlight build expires in 13 days so I had to jump back to the Pixelfed app, and now I'm working on Push Notification support

It's not a big deal really tho, I work better under pressure and love these challenges

Press: Pls wait a min, til we're ready to shine ✨

deadsuperhero,
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@dansup πŸ₯Ί Please, slow down and take care of yourself, Dansup.

deadsuperhero, to random
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I’m currently on track to get out of Active Duty service within the next 60 days (possibly sooner!), and it’s exciting and terrifying and

oh god, I have so much to figure out. 😭

I’ve spent the last few years in Avionics for Aircraft Maintenance. While working on F-16s sounds cool on paper, it was…truly god-awful sometimes. The military, even in the modern era, is profoundly dysfunctional and at odds with itself.

deadsuperhero,
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β€œWhy did you join this environment?”

I joined because I was vulnerable and nearly homeless and had to take a bum deal. I burned out in tech, and it almost killed me. I burned out again, and I almost killed me.

I don’t have regrets. I married an amazing lady. I lived through some incredible experiences, like jumping out of a plane. I met some of the best people I’ve ever met, only to miss them over and over.

Definitely wouldn’t do it again, though. Fuck working in maintenance. Fuck shitty leadership. Fuck rules that make no sense.

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 β€œhe said” vs β€œshe 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.

deadsuperhero,
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@maegul I’m not saying that you were blaming anyone. It’s just a shitty situation, one that I lament often.

I loved Firefish. I really thought the project had a moment where it was going to go big, but there were too many problems. It’s upsetting.

But yeah, I think we’re all hoping to see something get big like Mastodon, maybe even eclipse it. Why that hasn’t happened remains something of a mystery, with potentially depressing tells: most projects and developers in the space are barely making any income, are spread way too thin, and effectively doing hard work for years and years.

I want Fediverse projects to succeed. I think a few are in really good places. But, I worry that many are running themselves into the ground.

deadsuperhero,
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@maegul I think the only way around this problem is to not play that game.

The biggest, most promising thing that I’m seeing is the collaboration between SocialHub (FEPs), FediDevs (Testing Suite), and SocialCG (documenting behaviors of common approaches, like Webfinger usage).

This kind of collaboration is already bearing lots of fruit, and may take us to a place where projects aren’t so centered around Mastodon as a platform.

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

baldur, to random
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Please stop using generated art for thumbnails and illustrations for videos and blog posts that aren’t generated themselves. It gives people the impression that the post is spammy bullshit. Starting to see people dismiss links out of hand just because of the preview thumbnail on social media

deadsuperhero,
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@baldur What’s actually funny about this is that every single article we put up @hello is literally just heavily-edited Public Domain media tortured and altered in GIMP.

You can make some really amazing things with low-tech solutions.

youronlyone, to mastodon
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Ooo? #MozillaSocial reverted to mainline #Mastodon?

I wonder why. Hmm…

#fediverse #Mozilla

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 β€œMasto 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 #ForkOff? 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 #mastodon forming a U.S. non-profit upsets you you have other alternatives. activitypub isn’t just mastodon. the #fediverse 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? πŸ€”

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 #Pixelfed stories πŸ˜…

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!

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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@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.

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