Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

BREAKING: Disney warns that while piracy is safe, and it is convenient, and it does allow people to access high quality versions of music, movies, and TV shows for vastly reduced costs, that the hypothetical lost revenue may also impact their share price, and limit the capital on hand for political lobbying.

Remember: if you get Wikipedia "pls give us money" begging, give to the Internet Archive instead.

The internet archive is perpetually underfunded, whereas Wikipedia has enough cash on hand to continue operating at twice its capacity for about 3 decades.

Editors strongly opposed the wording of the recent beg banner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1123763881#RfC_on_the_banners_for_the_December_2022_fundraising_campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics

Once again I am begging the void to produce an activitypub fediverse answer to bandcamp.

Labels, orgs, groups of punks host instances.

Bands create profiles. Can upload their music, organized by release with lyrics, art, metadata. Numerous download formats available. I don't really care about payment for music, but probably some integration with external payment platform (librepay?) for PWYC downloads goes here.

Profile is viewable by anyone. So far this is a self-hosted bandcamp clone (that also does not really exist as far as I know).

You can follow profiles from elsewhere on the fediverse and you'll get posts when the band publishes new songs/releases (with embedded player linking back to the media hosted on instance?) or posts other updates (tour dates! etc). (It should have RSS too)

We know a lot of nasties are also creeping on the fediblock tag looking for people to harass and abuse.

So if that ever makes you feel unsafe posting a fediblock toot, let me know in a DM along with receipts and I'll do it on your behalf, so you're not exposed to the creeps but that information to still make it out there to help others.

I'm happy to try to take some of the pressure off x

Anyone know of some good studies that examine the psychological impacts of “going viral”? (Working on a project with a first year PhD student and we’re coming up short on recent studies in this space… wondering if there might be some older work out there.)

De Fokke & Sukke voor morgen. Ik plaats hem hier omdat ik wil experimenteren met Alt-Text.

Does this work for you, @oedipusnj ? @labellaragassa

A (paraphrased) description by someone I know, of the "fallacy of the factory", which describes a serious risk of centralized manufacturing:

You build a factory to manufacture something that people need. That requires a big investment, that the factory now needs to make back in some way, but the legitimate need isn't big enough to do so.

So now the manufacturer starts inducing demand, by lobbying, advertising the product, whatever is necessary to make back that investment. Eventually the demand exceeds production capacity, and the factory needs to expand, again requiring significant investment - plus surrounding infrastructure *also* needs to expand.

This cycle repeats until your small "factory with a legitimate purpose" has turned into a self-serving sprawling system that keeps expanding unsustainably, regardless of what exact economic system it exists under.

For anyone who needs this message today!

A quick reminder regarding the fediblock tag, we know a lot of the nasties are also creeping on that tag looking for people to bother. If you ever feel unsafe posting a fediblock toot let me know in a DM along with receipts and I'll do it on your behalf so you're not exposed to them in order for that information to still make it out there to help others.
I'm one of the least visibly marginalised people in the room here so it's a way to show support and take some of the pressure off x

does not work on my machine, let's ship it and hope it works on yours

Heads up for fans of the #Metatext #Mastodon app

- its lead developer @metabolist has stopped updating it, for health reasons.

If someone else would like to help out, please email them at info@metabolist.org

https://mastodon.social/@metabolist/109422457953717612

Web: https://metabolist.org/

#feditips #opensource #accessibility

Today in people attempt to get to the hackerspace party: two trains are cancelled, someone gets lost in Oslo airport, and Schiphol is, well, Schiphol

@actuallyautistic Does anyone have any helpful tips on the rage that comes up as you realize exactly how much ableism you've faced throughout your life? I'm generally very comfortable with anger and processing it but this is..........deep, lolsob.

they should invent adhd accommodations that are possible for ppl with adhd to acquire

who could have ever predicted a student coding project with three people working on it and over 2 million users would have multiple critical vulnerabilities?

"The issues we reported allow any attacker to access all data, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages. This also includes private email addresses and phone numbers entered during login." https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/

Hive is adding ~500k users daily, passing the 1 million user mark on Monday and then 2 million users earlier today. They're supported only by the 24-year-old founder, two employees, and zero moderators.

It's completely irresponsible for them to have unlimited signups when they can't possibly handle abuse, harassment, scams, spam, disinformation, or illegal content. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-competitor-hive-social-run-by-24-year-old-founder-2022-11

Photos by Kyler Steele

#photography #streetphotography #neon #city #leica

"It was my belief that as Mastodon adoption grew, the moderators of whichever instance you chose to use would have to deal ever-increasing volumes of abuse. It’d be like how email providers have to develop spam filters to combat incoming spam from every other provider (but so much still gets through).

After a month on #Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html