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- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 1 day ago:
It's more of a statement on how his followers justify these types of things. Not him. I know he's a wanna be dictator.
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 1 day ago:
I'm also not being serious.
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 2 days ago:
I thought we disliked communism here? Oh right, when orange man does it, it OK. Unga munga.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 3 days ago:
You have to lick it to get it to stick to the laser.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It 6 days ago:
YUP! We talked about Cory Doctorow's Deep Crack! Well it's not his, he's just borrowing the deep crack. :-D I'm a child. It's this and it's SUPER cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
- Comment on Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It 6 days ago:
Cory Doctorow is fantastic. I spoke with him on Fireside Fedi and he's just brilliant and has seen some amazing tech. We even talked about his deep crack. That and lots of other interviews with Fedi folks for anyone interested: https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR
- Comment on new academic book about the fediverse just released!!! 1 week ago:
Thank YOu!
- Comment on new academic book about the fediverse just released!!! 1 week ago:
Talking with Ben Pate today at 1500 Eastern. Robert is tomorrow at 1100
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
No harm in that. To each their own. :-) Everyone gets to decide at least.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
Good plan. Keep locking down your big tech platforms, and we'll all be over here letting folks know where they can find freedom.
- Comment on new academic book about the fediverse just released!!! 1 week ago:
Actually going to be talking with Robert W. Gehl tomorrow on Fireside Fedi! I just found out about him, a few weeks ago, and he's written extensively on social media. I've unfortunately not been able to acquire any of his books to prepare, but they seem to all be incredibly interestingly titled.
https://stream.firesidefedi.live if folks wanna watch live and ask questions.
https://video.firesidefedi.live if you wanna watch the show afterwards.
- Comment on What do y'all think of the live streaming platform, Owncast? 1 week ago:
I personally LOVE Owncast. It's how I've met numerous folks and built a community. I use my own for games and tech, https://stream.ozoned.net . I've even done some testing to see how much overhead it needs, https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/1itGRqF41XeTfrismnsesL , and how many opens streams you can have.
I also use Owncast to livestream my Fireside Fedi episodes, https://stream.firesidefedi.live . I even spoke with Gabe Kangas on the show in the past https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/nyM8V7WzVb1f2GehjAdSTX
I've spoken to numerous folks that flat out tell me it can't work. With THOUSANDS of people you'd probably hit bandwidth limitations, but there's S3 buckets and CDNs. Whether they'll let you push livestreams to those for the long term is yet to be seen.
I'm very biases though as I love Owncast, I love controlling MY platform, and I love Fedi. Also I run the unofficial owncast community.
- Comment on What do y'all think of the live streaming platform, Owncast? 1 week ago:
Https://directory.owncast.online
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
Fediverse has quite alot of indie musicians. Check out LABR http://labr.online/ or the indie beat https://theindiebeat.fm/ and try some new music and support creatives directly.
- Comment on HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA 2 weeks ago:
US has done it before. Stem cell research has been held back in the US even before it could PROVE that it was effective. Here, mRNA PROVED it worked and we're undoing it. This is worse than ignorance. It's down right maliciously negligent. Once again all because of their beliefs that science is wrong.
- Comment on Fedicon is happening in Vancouver, BC this weekend 3 weeks ago:
Asking the tough questions.
- Comment on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps 5 weeks ago:
Techno King Asshole. TKA for short.
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
lots of indie musicians on the fediverse. :-)
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
Oh I absolutely do it for passion. LOVE talking with folks, especially about foss and open platforms. And definitely haven't made really any money. And any money goes to TubeFree or back to the Fediverse somehow. I've definitely spent way more than I've made. Lol
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
TY for linking. :-)
Asking for constructive criticism reasons, is there a reason you don't watch or listen? I've been told my mic quality bothers folk, so working on getting a new setup for that this week hopefully. :-D If you just don't listen because you're not a consumer of that kind of content or just not interested, totally understand. I just thriving on constructive criticism. :-)
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
lol wow I hope folks don't follow my ramblings. :-) But I do like Voyager and TY for suggesting!
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
lol I am here. I'm all in on the Fediverse. ;-) If there's a platform in the Fedi I'm not on, please let me know so I can learn about it! :-D
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
Thank you for your hard work! Let me know if you'd like to talk on Fireside Fedi with me sometime!
- Comment on A podcast episode with heavy-weights of the Fediverse and ActivityPub - fredrocha.net 1 month ago:
Can I throw my Fedicast in here as well? :-) https://video.firesidefedi.live/@show
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 2 months ago:
oooooo do openAI next!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
When I say quality I'm not talking about like Hollywood. I'm more trying to talk about good, fun, no misinformation, NP hate speech etc. Right now I've funded this nonprofit myself. And I have so much I can put into it. I'm just trying to give folks choice as well. I talk with a lot of people and while I've been able to recommend platforms people kind of turn off if I don't ha e a direct way to help them. And lots of folks don't want to trust some random dude, but are more open when they hear it's a real business.
As for charging for storage, I don't know if we'll do that. Right now my goal is to get people involved. Hopefully donations, or sponsorships or grants can help with that. It was one avenue of thought.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Any thoughts, suggestions, etc, I'm always open to hearing it. :-) Hell, the good luck is still a great start. Thank you. We'll need it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I already have some folks interested in joining. I didn't want it to be attached to me as a personal entity, so no. I don't think it's backwards. You can't ask people to come to a restaurant that doesn't exist yet.
Maybe it is. I've never run a business. So this might all flop. But I have to try at least. I personally believe the Fediverse is the next evolution of the web. And we need to help it where ever we can.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It's just an idea at the moment. I don't know if it's feasbile, practical, or even allowed legally. Hence why I have to talk to my accountant.
But my idea is to generate income either through donations, funding drives, sponsors in the banner, etc. Or to do like a service where you can upload X amount of videos for $/month.
Then once we've hit break even, assuming we do (yes I know this is a difficult task atm), to share the additional revenue with content creators.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Definitely a difficult task. Thinking more of a service fee for storage space or faster transcoding maybe. IDK we're still figuring it out. Also checking with an accountant about maybe being able to do a revenue share or something for content creators. All very much a work in progress though.