Andrew

Well, it won’t help you (or me), but the the most active is probably https://hexbear.net/c/ama (the lemmy.world seems to have got nuked, and the already-mentioned lemmy.ca one is the only other one I found)

PieFed has some design principles, including being accessible on lower-end devices and for those with unreliable bandwidth, which mean that it’s default UI is never going to look like apps which involve downloading a sizable chunk of Typescript.

I’m okay with its look. Partly because it’s themeable, and there’s a theme called ‘Card Shadow’ which looks more modern imo. And partly because Lemmy can feel quite slow showing 20 posts at a time, whereas PieFed throws 100 at a time. And also because there will eventually be an API, allowing people to view it how they want (similar to Lemmy - lemmy-ui is maybe not that great, but there’s other frontends which I think are an improvement)

That’s a different Jerry! (Jerry Bell)

He’s posted before that Day 1 sales covered the cost the device itself, so a decent chuck of everything after that will have been pure profit. It was probably always doomed, what with YouTube being YouTube, so it doesn’t look like he’s too shaken up about it.

Fuckin’ hell, is it Monday again already? Suppose it is, technically. Anyway, still listening to In Waves by Jamie XX. I’ve tried listening to other stuff, but I’m finding them all fatally flawed by not being In Waves by Jamie XX. The last track, a distinctly Irish reversioning of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, continues to amuse me.

Germans no doubt have a single compound word for Annoyed-I-Am-Asked-To-Be.

Oh this is one of those new-fangled ‘immutable’ OSs. I just watched a PeerTube Video from The Linux Experiment about it - it looks complicated but it’s something I’d like to try out at some point in the future.

Crikey - it was only added a few hours ago and it’s already all kicking off on their GitHub’s Issues page.

Jamie XX, In Waves - only just started listening, so haven’t formed a proper opinion yet. It was playing while I was doing something else, and then it was over before I knew it, which is usually the kind of thing I like (interesting, but not too intrusive).

The album I’m listening to on repeat is Brian Eno, Another Day on Earth. Link to the song ‘Just Another Day’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oxNGbP0HFI

Had no familiarity with this, so assumed Florence Pugh’s character was male from this poster (not that any that matters, of course).

The experience from Brazil suggests that the viable ‘post-twitter’ is BlueSky. So one corporate-controlled platform that starts out okay and gets steadily worse is replaced by another, and the cycle continues.

I don’t think there is a viable ‘post-reddit’ unfortunately , because they built up their userbase at a time when people would actually want to use a link aggregator, before the experience of clicking any external links became fraught and exhausting. So now reddit has the userbase, and they have the means to host images and videos internally, and none of the bots or the lack of API or the general weirdness of the place is enough to get people to leave. Potential competitors assume that they should offer an alternative link aggregator, whereas really the only competitor is something that could magically offer a comparable userbase size.

Yeah (well, nerds anyway). With Lemmy, if you do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://lemmy.wtf/c/gametrailers/followers | jq . it tells you there’s 68 but not who they are. With PeerTube you can do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://peertube.wtf/video-channels/startgametrailers/followers?page=1 | jq . and it provides names (including me and you and a bot from leaf.dance)

(edit to fix URLs)

It’s perhaps worth mentioning that - unlike Lemmy - PeerTube makes subscriber info public. I mean, it’s no great secret that I’ve subbed to your channel at !startgametrailers@peertube.wtf, but it’s the kind of thing that some people care about.

Just a temporary thing with Lemmy I think - PeerTube (like Lemmy and Mastodon) are already part of the fediverse. You used to be able to successfully subscribe to PeerTube channels from Lemmy (when it was on 0.18), and likely will be able to in future (it’s just a Lemmy bug that needs a fix).

!truthabouttimwalz@lemmy.world

We may need to ask world to upgrade their storage capacity so we can fit all this man’s egregious deception on.

It’s federated like Lemmy, so each platform has ‘local videos’ and an ‘all videos’ section. E.g. https://fedi.video/videos/local and https://fedi.video/videos/overview

Of course, since it’s federated, it means other platforms like PieFed, MBIN and Mastodon can access the same stuff, so you don’t need to register anywhere if you’re on one of them.

Unherd isn’t Twitter (although you can find the same TERFs in both places). Info about site: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/UnHerd

This is like when supermarkets put the short-dated food in the ‘reduced’ section: I kinda always expect it to be ‘was £3, now 30p’, but it’s usually ‘was £3, now £2.89’

£390 is so close to the retail price for new, that if was going to get one, I’d probably just do that.

Hey! This guy doesn’t know about the three seashells!

I think it’s just a desire to indicate some uncertainty about something (like - I’m not an expert, my opinion on whatever could change with time or new information). A full stop seems arrogant somehow.

I realise it’s not a good impulse and mostly resist. Mostly …

(that last one’s nothing to do with the above reasoning, it’s just a line from Aliens that’s stuck in my head).