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- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 2 days ago:
Object Storage is relatively cheap, and goes a long way towards affordable hosting. Processing video, on the other hand…
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- Comment on Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation 1 month ago:
I don’t disagree, but again, the listed platforms are launch partners who have opted to publicly support the organization on Day 1. It very well could be that they reached out to Lemmy and other projects, and didn’t hear anything back.
- Comment on Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation 1 month ago:
The list of shout-outs in the main announcement pertains to projects who have partnered with the SWF, and intend to support it and collaborate.
It’s also worth keeping in mind that there are more than 80 different platforms in varying states of development. Yeah, Lemmy is one of the bigger ones, and OG Threadiverse, but the list of platforms to name is absurdly long at this point. I think it makes sense for them to focus on the protocol, and immediate partners.
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe 1 month ago:
RFF is amazing, and offers so much high-quality music. Historically, it’s all been done by one guy, supporting 500+ artists.
- Comment on Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe 1 month ago:
The connotation has more to do with the long tradition of Pirate Radio, not a bunch of random CIA stuff.
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m aware. I think the Nostr space in particular is doing a really great job, and has some good ideas on how to make it work. Why this development is significant, though, is that it’s happening in ActivityPub space. It’s not as robust, and doesn’t have all the answers. But, the existence of such a project means that people within the space are already thinking about how to make this concept viable for the Fediverse.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Introducing Decentralized Social Icons 3 months ago:
Good question. For now, we have a basic process for submitting icons, which requires adding details about the project repo, information on the icon, and Copyright attribution for whoever created / owns the brand.
We recently incorporated a JS library that allows us to generate the font from the SVG files themselves, which also builds the preview pages that can be viewed at icons.wedistribute.org. With a bit of extra automation on Codeberg, we could basically update the preview page and generated set every time a new icon gets merged in to the
mainbranch.Our goal is to get to a point where new releases automatically get created, and an archive of the assets gets attached as well. That way, once a milestone gets completed, a new release will get put out with minimal amounts of work.
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on Introducing Decentralized Social Icons 3 months ago:
Interesting insights!
The original reason we started this was actually for our own development. Our site includes project icons and colors in dedicated tags, which link to dedicated topic hubs. As we started working on this, we realized that there wasn’t a really good resource, and that we would have to build something from scratch.
Those symbols that you see are typically Unicode. Icon fonts are generally a CSS hack, in that a collection of SVGs have been converted into a font. The Unicode strings can be thought of as “letters” for that font. You’re absolutely right that there are accessibility limitations, but the tradeoff is that people get an easy way to use their favorite project icons to represent where they are on the Web.
At the very least, you won’t have any uBO problems with our site, as the font is incorporated directly into the theme we’re using. We’ll likely explore making a WordPress plugin next, so people can add these to their profiles and menus and other places.
- Comment on Introducing Decentralized Social Icons 3 months ago:
Honestly, this is the first I’m hearing about it. Maybe we’ll try to submit project SVGs.
- Comment on “Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism 3 months ago:
That’s not really enshittification, is it?
I was under the impression that Cory Doctorow’s definition was largely based on how social media platforms entice people with “free” offerings, then gradually tighten the screws over time to make service worse. This usually happens when a platform becomes the dominant player.
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 10 comments
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- Comment on NeoDB is a Review System for Culture 3 months ago:
Not yet, but it doesn’t seem like it would be too hard to add in support for that. I think one of the core ideas here are that you could take NeoDB and use it as a foundation for any review system you want to integrate. Hook up to a service on the search side, support data import on the backend, suddenly you have a way to not only create the reviews, but populate the objects being reviewed with the necessary metadata.
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide 4 months ago:
I agree with you in spirit, but some of this stuff needs to be spelled out for people interested in the space. Not every person that builds for ActivityPub is overly aware of technical and cultural expectations. A lot of that knowledge exists in someone’s head somewhere, and the Fediverse does a pretty poor job of making assumptions about those people.
Case in point: one of the stories linked in the piece discusses a guy that implemented ActivityPub on his own, got it to work, but didn’t know enough about the space. People thought it was a crawler, turns out it was a blogging platform, but the drama ignited to the point that someone remote-loaded CSAM on the dude’s server using Webfinger. Dude was in Germany, and could have gone to prison simply for having it.
We can’t hold two contractary positions, where we invite people to build for this space, and then gaslight them over not knowing things that nobody told them about. More than ever, we need quality resources to help devs figure this stuff out early on. This article is one small step in service to that.
- Comment on Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide 4 months ago:
Google Fonts
Yeah, I need to work on that. It’s been on the back burner, because writing and publishing has kind of been a main focus for me in recent months. But, this hasn’t been the highest priority, mostly because modifying WordPress and making it behave correctly can be a massive pain in the dick.
I’ll get around to it when I’m able.
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on An Admin's Guide to Fixing PeerTube - We Distribute 4 months ago:
Honestly, self-hosting is kind of the way to go, so long as you stay on top of your backups and storage. There are a lot of Object Storage providers out there that offer reliable storage for cheap, it’s a good investment if you plan on uploading somewhat frequently.
- Comment on An Admin's Guide to Fixing PeerTube - We Distribute 4 months ago:
It’s actually not too bad to run, it’s just that my community instance has grown a lot, and is close to four years old at this point. Issues crop up, I mostly wrote this guide to share some insights on how I deal with things.
- Comment on WeDistribute is conducting a poll for instance admins. 4 months ago:
Yeah, I kind of screwed up. In hindsight, I should have just made the question accept a text answer, rather than a multiple-choice one.
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- Comment on The Trouble with Forking Mastodon 6 months ago:
Misskey is a little bit odd, in the sense that there’s constantly new forks in various stages of development. New forks emerge just as quickly as old ones die off.
It may be that the frontend and backend both being written in one language helps make the system easier to hack on. I can’t say for sure. What’s weird is that some of these forks go in really odd directions, like rewriting the whole backend in a different programming language.
The other thing is that, despite their proliferation, the effort is somewhat fragmented into all of these little projects. I’m not sure how viable any of these forks are in the long term.