Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@eloy A forum was one of the functionalities offered, but there were also other sections and features, ranging from news/pictures to a chatroom. So you often got something that was kind of inbetween a personal website and a forum.

Probably the closest analogy would be those decked-out forum installs with a 'lobby' or 'portal' with all sorts of stuff other than just forum threads. Except a lot simpler to interact with.

@bram Hey, I biked somewhere today!

(And I was vaguely surprised that I can still do headwind cycling with my current health)

@SehrLesbisch@chaos.social Hmm, what sorts of things *do* bored crows get up to anyway?

@SehrLesbisch@chaos.social Would be appreciated! I know the "slowly feed them" approach but I'm especially interested in knowing more about whether there are any adverse effects to watch out for, eg. disrupting other local wildlife

@StroomAfwaarts (And this is the case for Clubs, and therefore also the case for the project I am working on - it's about communities rather than individuals)

@StroomAfwaarts Federation as a model mostly just makes sense for identity-centric systems (which is what ~all popular social media networks right now are) because people interact with a wide variety of different people across different communities from the same account, but when your fundamental 'social unit' is a 'community' and there's no individual profiles to speak of, it's much more practical to have the whole community in one place, and just make it easy to move and/or self-host.

@StroomAfwaarts I don't intend for it to federate - it doesn't make much sense for a community-centric thing, and would introduce a lot of problems: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/113764060621165923

@eclectech I'm not associated with the UKUUG but there's usually little you can do about these - what often happens is that the domain doesn't get renewed, and a spammer buys it as it expires, then puts up a cached copy of the old site (pulled from eg. the Wayback machine) but with spam inserted, to try and profit off the domain reputation. It's totally outside the control of the original domain owner in those cases.

@StroomAfwaarts Clubs!

@whreq Nah, it's the community-centric model used by Clubs (the Het Net thing) and a couple of other similar services in different countries

@researchfairy This kind of feels like it fits with my general frustration about TV narratives. It's always either:

1. Liberal drudgery and hidden misery, framed as 'a stable society' and a desirable thing, probably with some "oh well that's just how life is" thrown in for good measure and a total lack of imagination, or

2. Radical/dystopian/etc. narrative that imagines a different world, unfortunately everyone dies and is also an asshole and we're all doomed so why even bother.

Kind of feels sometimes like (popular) TV is incapable of dreaming about hope. Your only choices are hidden misery or blatant misery.

@smveerman Oof. That seems really unpleasant.

@bram This is a big part of why I refuse to use mobile apps where possible, even though I nominally have a smartphone available to me. I have basically nothing that's critically dependent on a smartphone. The only exception is, like, StreetComplete? And that has a good reason to run on a phone!

(Even when places say that you need a mobile app for stuff, there often *are* alternative options available if you pressure them a little)