spaduf

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It’s normal that there will be forks and alternatives

This is not the sentiment you have previously expressed in direct response to these forks and alternatives. Thinking specifically about your activity in the sublinks announcement posts.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

I honestly don't remember but I do recall it's way more of a process than it used to be

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Pretty utilitarian on the ol thinkpad

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am not sure I’d be using any mass communication platform that is primarily developed and/or funded by any government.

One could argue you're using one now.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think the big reason that nobody's mentioned yet is simply that they were earlier. Back when projects like Tox and Matrix were first starting to pop up, telegram was already fully formed. Signal didn't come until at least a year later and didn't have feature parity until several years later. Telegram by contrast was a much closer experience to WhatsApp and Messenger, making the transition much easier, particularly for low-tech knowledge users.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 9 points 8 months ago

Looks like we've been making this stuff since 2006 and at decent enough volumes since then.

About 10 km of REBCO was delivered by SuperPower that year in the world’s first manufacturing demonstration to construct a 30 m long power transmission cable that was installed in the power grid

source

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

for users to migrate it could be dead on arrival

Sublinks isn't meant to appeal to users, it's meant to appeal to admins.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 16 points 8 months ago

Russian Oligarch that is actually wealthier

Putin himself has always been a strong contender

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Worth noting, they have since publicly apologized

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

A cohesive culture has definitely formed distinct from the rest of the fediverse. I think microblogging as a paradigm kind of lends itself to this but Lemmy certainly has a distinct culture as well.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

I don't think it's fair to write off the entire medium like that. They all share a common ancestor in Twitter and I think it's fair to say the toxicity is inherited from there.

 

Followgraph looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon, and then the people they follow. Then it sorts them by the number of mutuals, or otherwise by how popular those accounts are. It then shows the list with Mastodon links to follow them.

 

The community can be found at !opencourselectures@slrpnk.net. Are there any appropriate places under the beehaw umbrella?

 

This is a place to post freely available full-length lectures and courses of the sort available through MIT OCW.

Open Course Lectures
!opencourselectures@slrpnk.net
slrpnk.net/c/opencourselectures

 

The fascinating thing about PeerTube right now is that the frontend experience actually seems to be best on other services. This is primarily because discoverability between instances is fairly poor due to both federation mechanics and due to the nature of bootstrapping social. Because Lemmy and Mastodon feature their own human driven mechanisms for content discovery this problem is largely solved so long as you are browsing through another platform (the same mechanisms do not seem to transfer well to a youtube like frontend, although nobody has tried yet). Comments made on Lemmy and Mastodon will also federate back to PeerTube so you're not segregated based on what service you follow from.

Check out some popular channels:
!veronicaexplains_channel@tilvids.com
!letstalkphilosophy_channel@tilvids.com
!alliterative_channel@tilvids.com
!kde@tube.kockatoo.org
!lofiorchestra@makertube.net
!random_retro@makertube.net

Tips:

  • All of the above are channels. On Lemmy you can only subscribe to channels while on Mastodon you can subscribe to both channels and users. This is important as some videos get federated under the channels and some under the users. I believe this is up to the individual creator.
  • Whitelist only is still fairly popular among PeerTube instances so you may not be able to access all creators from your Lemmy instance.
  • Federation does not backfill so if the channels appear blank don't panic. It will fill in with future videos.
  • If you follow these channels from Mastodon and then put them in a list you have a feed that is analogous to Youtube's subscribed page.
  • Major advantage to following from Mastodon in these early days is it puts you in a better position to help these channels grow, If the boost button is right there things are a lot more likely to gain traction.
 

Presumably this is due to recent actions regarding adblockers over at Youtube.

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances/stats

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3186183

I was shocked to see that there are no English-language Mobilizon servers. It seems like it may be an ideal secondary service for certain existing fediverse communities and was wondering if anybody here had considered it.

For those unaware, Mobilizon looks to fill the role of something like Facebook groups for the fediverse. I believe it is compatible with both Mastodon and Lemmy through the groups actor in the ActivityPub spec but provides additional functionality dealing with scheduled events and shared resources.

 

I was shocked to see that there are no English-language Mobilizon servers. It seems like it may be an ideal secondary service for certain existing fediverse communities and was wondering if anybody here had considered it.

For those unaware, Mobilizon looks to fill the role of something like Facebook groups for the fediverse. I believe it is compatible with both Mastodon and Lemmy through the groups actor in the ActivityPub spec but provides additional functionality dealing with scheduled events and shared resources.

 

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