breakfastmtn
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
Sneaking all around the fediverse.
Also at breakfastmtm@firefish.social breakfastmtn@pixelfed.social
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
He has a real Michael McKean vibe
- Comment on Can't follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon 2 months ago:
- Comment on Can't follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon 2 months ago:
I follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon and will often boost posts. I have a pixelfed.social account though. It’s probably a federation issue on your specific Pixelfed instance. I’ve moved the Mastodon account a bunch and I’ve had problem on specific instances. I was never able to see my Pixelfed posts from fedia.social (ice shrimp), for example.
I was also able to search, follow, and see your Pixelfed posts from mastodon.social.
- Comment on A general fediverse client app, supporting multiple content types? (mastodon, lemmy, peertube, etc) 2 months ago:
For sure, support isn’t always complete and the Masto API is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I think that Fedilab really wants to be a Fediverse app though. I’m pretty sure their development has slowed a lot in the last year too because their dev has had some health issues. Although it’s “tom79,” not Dansup (who makes Pixelfed and a million other things).
I don’t think it supports Pixelfed-exclusive features either. I don’t think there’s even an app that supports stories right now - even the official one.
- Comment on A general fediverse client app, supporting multiple content types? (mastodon, lemmy, peertube, etc) 2 months ago:
I don’t think so. The closest might be fedilab. They support masto+ forks, pixelfed, peertube, and many of the misskey forks partially (with fuller support promised). No Lemmy/mbin though and I haven’t seen anything saying that support is on the roadmap.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
Incredible news for us! Thanks, Reddit! 🎉
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Great news for Loops!
- As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediversedigiday.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediversedigiday.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Gloves should be a requirement to keep in a glove box. 6 months ago:
You should keep the potato compartment filled with spuds as the good lord intended
- Comment on Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse 9 months ago:
I can’t find a complete, but McCue lists some examples here. These newly-federated magazines are apparently curated by the original 25 publishers in their initial test of federation. You can find the list of those publishers here.
I was able to follow all the publishers I tried. I also followed a few of the new magazines. Seems to work!
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 9 months ago:
And Jesus wept for there were no more worlds to conquer
- Comment on Viggo Mortensen has be in The Road, On the Road, and about a dozen road genre movies. 9 months ago:
“Some guys can drink and drink, some guys can’t. I mean, what is drunk?” - Viggo Mortensen
- Comment on Viggo Mortensen has be in The Road, On the Road, and about a dozen road genre movies. 9 months ago:
The extended cinematic roadiverse
- Comment on Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details 10 months ago:
Their timeline is gradual ActivityPub implementation over the next year.
Mosseri says the updates will roll out “in stages,” and he recognizes that the “better part of a year” timeline is a long one. “That’s a lot longer than I, or anybody on the team, wants, but it’s the reality given all the other work we need to be balance,” he says.
- Comment on Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam 10 months ago:
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 10 months ago:
Academics don’t care because they don’t get paid for them anyway. A lot of the time you have to pay to have your paper published. Then companies like Elsevier just sit back and make money.
- Comment on Why is installing a different OS/Custom Rom on phones a huge hassle? 10 months ago:
Mine works, but some banking apps won’t work if they require full SafetyNet compliance. So that could be a deal-breaker for some people too.
- Comment on Why is installing a different OS/Custom Rom on phones a huge hassle? 10 months ago:
I decided to install Graphene before looking up the installation and was blown away by how easy it is. I’d been on stock android for years and was expecting a similar experience as OP describes. My very old custom ROM folder is filled with files with names like ‘confirmedsafeblob’ and ‘bricksafe’ that I don’t even know what they are anymore but speak to some past misery. Then beep-boop done with the web installer.
- Comment on All karma lost since v. 0.19 10 months ago:
I’m sure it’ll get removed. Voyager used to have it and I was shocked it disappeared a couple months ago in preparation for 0.19. Now it just shows post and comment counts.
- Comment on All karma lost since v. 0.19 10 months ago:
It’s not tracked anymore as of 0.19 (“don’t serialize karma”). Dessalines talks about how it’s being removed (and should’ve been removed sooner) here.
- Comment on Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediverse 10 months ago:
First, Mastodon isn’t a platform, it’s a service. Unlike Mastodon, Android was always a bunch of proprietary stuff built onto an open source base. The Android license (Apache) is also a lot more permissive than Mastodon’s (GPL). Probably the most important thing here is that all derivative works must be licensed under the GPL, whereas Google can use AOSP code to build out proprietary features whenever they want.
Their ability to use the app to direct users to mastodon.social depends entirely on Mastodon’s good reputation. Destroying the reputation destroys the ability along with it. Mastodon is way bigger than just m.s, but a buyer wouldn’t control the instance in a meaningful enough sense. Users aren’t serfs and there would be a mass exodus if, say, Peter Thiel bought Mastodon. Some would stay, but the people who contribute probably 90% of the activity would be out the door. Very likely, users would be given time to migrate before the larger community defederated the instance en masse. Any effort to prevent users from leaving would just accelerate that process. They just have no real ability to compel people to behave the way they want.
- Comment on Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediverse 10 months ago:
But while that’s a very lucky thing to have, the issue is that we depend on the owner of Mastodon to not sell the company to a billionaire.
We don’t depend on that. Buying Mastodon would get them the branding but not Mastodon itself. It’s all GPL/AGPL and would be forked immediately if sold. The buyer would have no control over it.
Oracle may have owned OpenOffice but it didn’t matter. Everyone uses LibreOffice now. Same shit.
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 10 months ago:
There’s far less because of server blocks. There are tons of gross servers that are just walled off from everyone else. Mastodon.social blocks a couple hundred servers.
Every now and then someone will write an article like, ‘I love free speech so I thought I could run a Mastodon server without blocking anyone… boy was I ever wrong.’ There’s some truly vile shit out there.
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 10 months ago:
I’m not super familiar with them but mastodon.social is currently limiting them for spam.
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 10 months ago:
Transphobic hate speech. It’s TERFtown.
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 10 months ago:
Gleason is an infamous Fediverse villain.
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 10 months ago:
'omg Meta’s blocking nazi instances!'
- Gleason is a transphobic idiot.
- poast and spinster are blocked by everyone for hate speech.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 10 months ago:
Yeah, Buttondown seem great. They can migrate you from Substack so people don’t even need to re-subscribe which is pretty cool. They’re also active on Mastodon and just added anti-Nazi terms to their ToS. They seem pretty responsive to the community in terms of adding suggested features.
- Comment on Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email 10 months ago:
Uh oh, Shah. This a textbook 3 ghosts scenario.
