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

The early web was revolutionary because suddenly everyone could publish. All kinds of voices could be seen and heard that had previously been locked out.

But now we’re approaching the limit of tech-enabled democratization. What is actually required is more democracy. Tech can only help organize.

Defederation is good.

Defederation is GREAT.

Defederation is the WHOLE POINT.

Seedy's guide to software release notes.

1. If a new feature has been added, explain both what the new feature is and how it will benefit users of your software and how they could use the feature. Bonus points if you actually take the time to describe it in your documentation (if any).
2. If an existing feature has been improved, explain *how* it has been improved and what advantage(s) the improvement has over the previous implementation.
3. If bugs were fixed, detail exactly what these bugs were, how they could be reproduced, and how they could have impacted the user experience of your software.

Boost this as much as you can, as far and wide as possible. More software developers need to take heed of this. I'm sick and tired of seeing empty, vague, meaningless one-line release notes that just say stuff like 'We've improved our product and fixed some bugs to make the user experience better for you.

Hey Fedi admins - it's messy right now. There's a lot of emotion bouncing around both the planet and the network.

Remember that "scaling" involves more than bandwidth and CPU load. As your user count grows, the emotional labour you'll be called on to do does as well.

If you're already at your *personal* limit, close your damn registrations for a bit. Make sure you've got support for *you* as well.

You are also a potential point of failure. Add redundancy and reduce the load on yourself.

twitter being completely down or unusable is probably the worst possible time to be doing fediverse recruiting tbh

shoutout to paypal for being the number one source of me having to accidentally learn my friends deadnames

For those who might've missed the journal postings and such, and with the deadline rapidly approaching for the new FA rule changes, I'm posting about this again! Hopefully it'll help folks branch out to other sites.

Links below!

One thing about stuff like Mastodon that I hope more people realize is that you have so many fun goofy ways to post to it because clients can basically be made for anything with an internet connection.

I've posted from MS-DOS both with a dedicated client (DOStodon is awesome) and with the Lynx browser and the Brutaldon web client. Its like the Doom of social media

Casual reminder that pride month is every month. Keep the asshats scared. Keep being visible.

"Oh wow, you are on fire lately!" 🍿

#krita #MastoArt

[edit: at popular demand in the comments, I added Pleroma-tan and AI, Misskey]

Are there any voice actors here? I'm going to need to cast three roles for an animated short fairly soon and want to put some feelers out.
#voiceacting #voiceover #animation

PSA:

you're an open-source software enthusiast, and want to tell people about open alternatives for things on your favorite social network.

what you should do:

point people to these alternatives if they specifically ask about alternatives for something
post about this cool stuff in your own profiles
maybe talk about this if they're not necessarily looking for alternatives, but do have some serious related problems

what you should NOT do:

constantly nag people about alternatives if they talk about proprietary things without looking for solutions or anything

by following these simple rules, you will avoid scaring people off your favorite things and you will not stress them out. which is nice, right? and you're nice too, right? so, like, do that, alright?

alright.

#noretr

I guess it’s time to put this back up 🤣