deadsuperhero
@deadsuperhero@lemmy.world
- Comment on Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music 1 week ago:
You’d be surprised, this has always been something of a weird schism within open source. There’s a synthesis between socialist and libertarian ideals, the overlap of which is broadly seen as a beneficial social good. So, you get contributors and users that fall on opposite ends of a spectrum. This is just as true for the Fediverse, only the dynamic is much more pronounced, because it’s a social network populated by people who got off of other social networks.
- Comment on Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music 1 week ago:
Technically, SoapBox and Rebased were forks of the Mastodon frontend and Pleroma backend by an alt-right dev that found some level of success in the alt-right part of the Fediverse. So, it’s not completely unheard of.
- Comment on Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music 1 week ago:
It’s basically an open source, federated clone of GrooveShark, which was kind of like Plex but just for music.
- Comment on Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music 1 week ago:
Generally speaking, I agree. It’s just interesting to see a platform force a mechanism into itself that admins can’t turn off. The only thing that really bugs me about that is that admins are kind of supposed to have the final say on what their server does, and some of the infrastructure for this idea seems a bit shaky at best.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 35 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Remembering Radio Free Fedi 4 weeks ago:
You might want to check out Bandwagon. It’s ActivityPub-based, and you can use it to submit your music to The Indie Beat Radio: bandwagon.fm
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was the Content Nation debacle: wedistribute.org/…/contentnation-mastodons-toxici…
What’s really sad is that the CN dev is actually a super nice and thoughtful dude. In his jurisdiction (Germany) he could’ve gone to prison after being caught with said materials.
- Comment on Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Same thing initially happened with BridgyFed: wedistribute.org/…/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 3 months ago:
Object Storage is relatively cheap, and goes a long way towards affordable hosting. Processing video, on the other hand…
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe 5 months 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 5 months ago:
The connotation has more to do with the long tradition of Pirate Radio, not a bunch of random CIA stuff.
- Submitted 5 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace 6 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 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Introducing Decentralized Social Icons 6 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 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Submitted 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Introducing Decentralized Social Icons 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 10 comments