Another traveler of the wireways.
shuffling a hyperdeck
remember hypercard?
never knew of it?
may you enjoy this
> We also hold Decker-themed "Game Jams" every July and December; the next upcoming jam will be Dec(k)-Month The Second, December 2024.
Thanks! Similar posts to this have had me thinking on this point in particular:
Curation comes before a chronological list. The chronological list is still there, but when you click "all articles" instead of numbered pages, all of the articles on that page are visible.
The Further Reading links are also a good read.
Instead of always being a "performance" level of blogging, it can be a looser more human endeavor that drops the idea of robots sorting the content (in this case simply by date created) and embraces the idea of curation, by me, for you.
Good stuff.
Cool video! Enjoyed seeing a little behind the scenes on the process, interesting stuff!
Btw in the body text of your post, you'd want two spaces after the exclamation point on the line saying, "Hope you enjoy!" so the image would appear below it.
An interesting read, and good recognition of how so often decentralized networks do end up using some centralized components to compensate for the gaps formed.
net nomadism
there are no lasting homes online
there are mirages of these homes born of one's sensations. behind them shuffling machinery humming along to maintain the illusion
but when you've seen behind, you realize your home is you, and you make it as you go
you slip between the mirages, enjoying them before they fade or fall, meeting others between
some yearn to make the mirages last, others mourn their loss, carrying on fond memories, and others still simply keep moving
Pretty sure all the adweb enclosures have been doing this for years now. Even pre-Musk acquisition people mentioned that Twitter seemed to bury posts with links, this is just Musk putting it upfront.
This is how these businesses try to squeeze people for money. Bury outbound links unless you pay up to have them as ads/sponsored/promoted posts.
source link to first image, main post:
https://bsky.app/profile/zachweinersmith.bsky.social/post/3lbrdrz3xos2g
The second image includes a reply from a semi-private account, so while I found the link it won't let you view it directly without a Bsky account. For those interested anyway, here's the link:
https://bsky.app/profile/proggrrl.bsky.social/post/3lbrdyowbs22m
You might try copy and pasting the link into your instance's search bar to try to get it to fetch/sync the post so that you may reply to it. That's how it generally works in my experience when running into your situation, supposing your instance isn't defederated from the other person's.
Their previous game, In Other Waters, is also well worth checking out. Different style of gameplay, but similar focus on narrative.
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Stumbled across someone mentioning this site awhile ago, and it's a nice open education resource worth adding to the links here.
we can go further, somethingsomething StreetPass
Misskey is fascinating and in my opinion more compelling than Mastodon. It's also strange to see them write "somehow" as I'd think with their instance and username they would be aware that Misskey is developed in Japan, by a Japanese developer.
If you skip the technobabble and politics about free (as in freedom), what’s left? If it’s just a platform that feels more complicated to sign up, because you have to learn about instances and it’s not clear which one you want, plus your friends aren’t there, plus it’s just 45k users total instead of a lot…?
The complication arises by making the mistake of pointing people to the backend, and the backends confusing matters by presenting themselves as platforms like existing corporate platforms. As noted, you reduce that by inviting them to join or browse your respective instance (or if you're self-hosting, to whichever open instance you think is amenable).
You're right though that some positive thing would help, and that's really down to whatever positive thing you found and want to share with others about these spaces. For me it's as simple as them being open and ad-free. I'm reminded of it every time I find myself trying to browse enclosures without having an account and they simply won't allow me to browse much before prompting me to sign up or subscribe to view more.
In a way that's kind of the irony of the fediverse, a major feature is that you don't have to sign up at all in many(most?) cases.
I honestly hadn't noticed the recent versions having much of a story. =X
That said, it may be a good idea to have a pinned post/guidance in the sidebar for how to access the old versions for those interested!
Hey, um, welcome back?
It's a struggle, it's frustrating to see alternatives you'd like not catch on as you'd like. I understand the sentiment. I can see some of the efforts put in here to try to get this community going. I don't know what else you and others here may have tried, so it's hard to know what to suggest (or if you want suggestions). If nothing else I get it, and appreciate that you've all tried.
Maybe swing by !fedigrow@lemm.ee if you'd like to brainstorm some more things to try.
At this point these abortion bans should be called Matricide Approvals
some open web and fediverse thoughts
Trying to pitch the Fediverse on its technology backend to non-technical people is a bad approach, but so is trying to pitch it in terms of digital detox or "better" culture.
The backend is for the tech people, and the rest is your regular messy people. There are as many good pockets of the Fediverse as bad, because that's the internet.
In light of that, it's questionable to what extent the Fediverse should be pitched as a distinct thing in a similar vein as those platforms some Fediverse software emulates. Fediverse, open social web, whatever you want to call it is of main relevance more to those working on it and trying to promote it among developers.
To those of us using these platforms, it's probably better to simply invite those to our respective instances/sites as simply another site/app without all the jargon and background.
Forget Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. except insofar as it's in the URL or needed to search apps. Ultimately they're backends, and many weren't going around inviting people to their sites or enthusiast forums talking up apache or phpbb or the like.
The Fediverse is an emerging subset of the open web with improved interconnectedness, and so what's more important than it is reinvigorating the spirit of the open web by reminding people there's more beyond the closed web by inviting and encouraging them to visit our open spaces alongside their own. It's closed web/walled garden thinking to discourage visiting a variety of sites and using a variety of apps.
The open web thrives, enduring, enveloping and eroding the enclosures despite their efforts to ward off its persistent being.
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TL;DR:
Invite people to these spaces without the technobabble, don't give them shit for visiting/using enclosed sites/apps.
Celebrate the open web by showing them more places online to check out alongside theirs.
Regarding a definition, I'd try to look for a succinct one, as longer text in the sidebar tends to look busy and overwhelming. Maybe alongside it a few examples of libre projects/media, say stuff like Project Gutenberg and LibriVox to creative software like Krita/Godot/Blender/etc. Examples would give a much clearer idea of what's considered libre culture to discuss than a definition alone.
Also I think the idea of clarifying what sort of posts are allowed/desired is good, and speaking of memes, some restraint may be wise to avoid it becoming simply a meme community. Maybe a semi-regular memes thread or something? If said threads were active enough then you would have a better sense of whether or not setting up another community dedicated to them is worth it.
Yeah, it's not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.
Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.
natural amnesia
all too easy to forget when among people, they don't make the world. some at times think they do, some may be at the center of it to you, but there is a world beyond us, and it will go on without us. unless we remember it, and harmonize.
make a universe shudder
formed as could formed through chances a universe and what it holds alike and so it may be shaken as it shakes those within. So make it.
Exactly. The need/desire to write longer form like this may not come up as often with other more immediate means to communicate, but when it does, email's there to serve its purpose.
@darklightxi@lemmy.world, I see there's an open issue for this, but wanted to add my details here to try to help pin the problem down.
Unlike Eager Eagle, I've run into this problem using HeliBoard as well (and checked with standard Gboard too to be sure, also OpenBoard). In my experience of the issue I suspect it may be related to the UI not responding to the display of the virtual keyboard, which is also an issue that appears when trying to search for posts in specific communities. In both instances UI elements, specifically text input fields, are partially or completely covered by the appearance of the keyboard.
I think some of the difficulty in replicating this may be related to running tests on higher display resolutions (and/or devices with higher display resolutions), and/or with some text/interface settings set to smaller scales instead of default or larger scales. Regardless, inasmuch as possible the UI would benefit from adjustments to be more responsive to the display of virtual keyboards as well as, to a lesser degree, the display of the bottom navigation bar/buttons (for those that don't/can't use gesture navigation depending on OS version).
All that said, really appreciate the app! It's great for browsing, especially with the keyword filter without having to sign-in. Thanks a ton for all the effort from all of those involved!
Aah I follow ya. As evident in my comment, I tend to pair absurdism with its related philosophy existentialism for something of a grounding effect, personally.
All too prescient. Commenting so this may bring it to more people's attention depending on sorting methods.
Regardless of the outcome, this was going to be the case in one form or another. One outcome makes it more of a pain in the ass, but the work of improving society is never accomplished with elections alone.
It's the unappealing truth that a complex array of efforts accomplish improvements to society, and safeguard it against its degradation. There is as ever more to be done.
Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt
Last week, Bluesky, where I am on the board (so feel free to consider this as biased as can be), announced that it had raised a $15 million seed round, and with it announced some plans for building…
Article by Mike Masnick > Last week, Bluesky, where I am on the board (so feel free to consider this as biased as can be), announced that it had raised a $15 million seed round, and with it announced some plans for building out subscription plans and helping to make the site sustainable (some of which may be very cool — stay tuned). A few days prior to that happening, Bluesky hit 13 million users and continues to grow. It’s still relatively small, but it has now done way more with a smaller team and less money than Twitter did at a similar point in its evolution. > > I’m excited with where things are trending with Bluesky for a few reasons, but I wanted to actually talk about something else. Just before I joined the board, I had met up with a group of supporters of “decentralized social media,” who more leaned towards ActivityPub/Mastodon/Threads over Bluesky. Even though I wasn’t officially representing Bluesky, they knew I was a fan of Bluesky and asked me how I viewed the overall decentralized social media landscape.
you can say segs on the internet
inspired by comments in this thread
alt text:
three lines of text across a rainbow gradient, the first saying in white comic sans font with a drop shadow: "you can say secs on the internet", the second in white papyrus, comic sans, and impact font with a drop shadow, "you can say segs on the internet", and the third in a rainbow gradient to match the background, tucked along the bottom in papyrus font, "you can say sex on the internet"
Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out
Technically, anyone with the knowledge and interest can spin up a single-user ActivityPub server and go about their business, but generally these servers aren't being developed with that usage in mind. In other words, they can be overkill for individuals in terms of features or resource use.
That's where single-user software comes into play. Explicitly developed for individuals, or in some cases very small groups, to use, this software is lighter on resources and more focused in its features for individuals.
As to why you might want this: it enables you to benefit from many of the benefits of ActivityPub, connecting and engaging with others & building your own curated feeds, without some of the drawbacks of multi-user servers such as keeping up with federation/defederation decisions that may affect what you can interact with & follow.
So on to a couple lists, in no particular order:
"Microblogging" but with relaxed character limits:
- GoToSocial
- Hollo
- Ktistec
- Seppo - Note: more specialized/limited compared to above.
- Takahe - More experimental compared to others above
Other
- GoBlog - Simple blogging
- Betula - Bookmark management & sharing.
- Postmarks - Same idea as Betula, but some differences like ActivityPub commenting possible.
I'm sure there's way more, but these were a few that stuck out to me. Let me know any others you're into that I may have overlooked!
We're ending the week today, what's up?
What did you get up to, and what are you getting into here in the End of the Week?
More permissive, broader communities as starting points
I've seen the idea of organically growing communities indirectly and directly mentioned in various threads when people discuss which communities they'd like to see on instances, and in a different way in response to community creation announcements. Despite this, and some inconsistent efforts on my own part, I've not seen too many others appear to be trying to put this in action.
I think any of the open-ended chat/conversation/general communities are a good place to start with this, but I've found it tricky to work out what to post to them. I suspect that may be somewhat similar for others, but being in the boat with'em, I'm not sure how to help.
Regardless, I think these communities make more sense for people to find those that share their interests to then start their own communities vs. starting communities before knowing if anyone else is interested.
What do you think, and what do you think would help people feel comfortable posting in these broader communities?
Fun fact: public Bluesky profiles also offer RSS feeds
As RSS fans here may know, you can grab RSS feeds of communities and even your profile on Lemmy instances if you like. You can also do this with profiles on Mastodon, and I imagine other ActivityPub microblogging services.
However, you may not have known that public Bluesky profiles are much the same. By public, I mean their posts can be viewed without signing in to Bsky. I'm not sure but I'd think those limiting their visibility may not (or should not) permit pulling a RSS feed of their posts.
All you do is copy the account's Bsky handle, e.g. [username].bsky.social (or custom domains, should work the same I think) to your RSS reader of choice, and you should have a feed of their posts.
It's a nice way to get feeds for news sites that don't directly offer them and that have moved to Bsky but not Mastodon or other ActivityPub microblogging services. It's also great if you're simply not into microblogging in general and/or don't want to make another social media account and download another app.
Hope this helps!
remembering some tech hurdles
when tech involved, it's easy to forget the tech hoops one goes through for their systems.
the social media hurdles:
- knowing about email 1.1. having made an email
- knowing about social media 2.1 finding the social media site or app
- signing up to social media (proving non-machine at times)
- verifying registration in email
- sometimes selecting categories to pick relevant sources to add/follow/subscribe 5.1 sometimes letting it read your contacts so it can help you find those sources and not having that phase you at all
- finally getting to a feed/timeline of desired info, sometimes littered with irrelevance, often with ads 6.1 maybe set up profile avatar/banner/bio if really aiming to be social
- fussing with the foolish systems to surface what was chosen (or at least similar to it)
- enjoy when the systems surface what you've chosen (or similar to it)
- rue the days the systems insist on shoveling you garbage instead
the rss hurdles:
- knowing what rss is 1.1 knowing about rss readers
- finding reader apps still maintained
- finding sites that still provide supported rss feeds 3.1 finding where they hide their rss feeds because some like to hide them like they're ashamed of them
- copy feed link to reader app
- get only chosen feeds in reader app 5.1 curse the badly made feeds that include advert articles 5.2 create filter rules to toss the trash from badly made feeds
- enjoy chosen feeds with filters in reader app
- rue the days sites kill their RSS feeds
It's the spooooky time of year!
Any of you that celebrate Halloween already up to anything? Movie marathons/rewatches, books/short story reading/rereading, playing/replaying games, or whatever else?
Also, for those wanting to share spooky vibes, you might check out the following communities: !spooky_memes@lemmy.world !witchymemes@lemmy.world
Sharing clickbait, "viral" or wannabe viral posts, and the like is the real internet equivalent of losing the game
sorry
for your loss
:.|:;
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
> Cloud apps like Google Docs and Trello are popular because they enable real-time collaboration with colleagues, and they make it easy for us to access our work from all of our devices. However, by centralizing data storage on servers, cloud apps also take away ownership and agency from users. If a service shuts down, the software stops functioning, and data created with that software is lost. > > In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data.
Thinking about entertainment communities and other broader focus communities
Gradually we've been seeing the tv and movies or shows and movies communities pick up activity, which is good, and the multiple games communities each seem to be doing okay too.
Entertainment
However, there remains kind of an awkward spot where there's not exactly a general entertainment community (outside of Beehaw, that is) from what I can tell. There is an existing community, !entertainment@lemm.ee, though that someone could try to pick up and make active.
This could serve as a catchall for some of the more business-oriented news and some of the fluff celebrity chatter, depending on how one wants to go with it. Worth noting for celebrity chatter there is also !popculturechat@sh.itjust.works though.
Music
In a similar vein, while there's a variety of music communities, there's only a few generic ones, with the largest outside of Beehaw and Hexbear being the largely undefined Music community on Lemmy World. The lack of definition, that is, no sidebar guidance on what the community may be used for, makes it unclear what the community's expectations/preferences for posts are.
As with entertainment, this could be where more music business news could find its home, alongside some band chatter. Although as with entertainment, there's a music-themed community for the chatter to be found at !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech for those interested.
Sports
Likewise with sports, there's a ton of different sports communities, but only two large generic communities to be found on Beehaw and Hexbear (supposing Lemmyverse is accurate). Before any of the more specific sports communities can gain more activity, I think it'd help to have a generic sports community to help people get oriented and find likeminded folks to form whatever specific communities they'd like.
Much like the first two, this could be for sports news and chatter...But unlike the first two, I can't find any generic fluff sports star/team chat communities.
Ideas on How and Where to Organize
In each of these cases regarding broader communities, I think following a similar organizational approach to Beehaw could be a good idea, but they would be better suited to instances more openly federated and not at as much risk of defederation. A few Lemmy instances that come to mind for this are Lemmee, ShitJustWorks, Lemmy Zip, and perhaps Reddthat?
I'm not sure where Mbin instances are in terms of federation smoothness and stability, otherwise I might suggest some of them. On a different note, if there were more Piefed instances I might suggest them, but last I checked the flagship seems to still be the largest and isn't open for community creation.
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In short: there's good opportunities for broad, generic topic communities for entertainment, music, and sports on more widely federated instances. At the same time, even where these communities may exist on some widely federated instances, opportunity remains for more clearly defined variations of these communities to encourage posting with less uncertainty.
Unifor files a notice of dispute against Canadian National Railway
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20265433
> Canadian National Railway said on Friday that labor union Unifor has filed a notice of dispute to the Canadian Minister of Labor, just three days after initiating negotiations. > > Also known as "conciliation", the notice of dispute can be sent by either party to the Canadian Minister of Labor during a negotiation and typically results in the appointment of a conciliation officer to assist the parties in reaching an agreement.
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo's speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.
> On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ripped into the institution he heads for a spectrum of sins: for covering up cases of clergy sex abuse and being far behind the times on embracing women and the LGBTQ+ community in the church. > > And that was all before Francis met with the people most harmed by the Catholic Church in Belgium — the men and women who were raped and molested by priests as children. Seventeen abuse survivors spent two hours with Francis on Friday evening, telling him of their trauma, shame and pain and demanding reparations from the church.