If you’re going to hate Bluesky because you prefer Mastodon that’s fine. Do you.
But it disingenuous to talk about the ills of Bluesky and ignore the years of poor stewardship, unilateralism and how friendly Mastodon is with centralized platforms despite claiming to build an ethical alternative to them.
Yes, I don’t like Bluesky either, but I’m also a pragmatist.
And a lot of people are just not being honest about the very real and longstanding issues that have been pushing people away from Mastodon for a long time.
Geeks of Mastodon, C writers and API whisperers, are you bored and without a short project?
I would love for #CURL to be able to list Samba directories. Last year I made a PR allowing for local directories listing and wanted to do the the same for smb, but without success. I think succeeding requires knowledge of Windows APIs.
I can provide some help getting it merged.
This is where I got stuck: github.com/colinleroy/curl/com…
(the magic should happen in smb_send_open_directory)
Skeleton for SMB directory listing · colinleroy/curl@b27c3d8
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS…GitHub
Websites which have opinions about how the local part of an email address should be constructed can get in the sea.
It's entirely up to me what my localpart looks like and I'll put + signs in it if I want to.
I'm curious what the real rationale is here -- I mean, what difference does it really make to them?
🔓 ODEMYKÁM — zasloužíte si mít možnost tohle číst → Respekt: Kdo se bojí Lindy B. Dejte si to celé.
respekt.cz/tydenik/2024/47/kdo…
Kdo se bojí Lindy B.
Proč podcasty Krása a Slast Lindy Bartošové vyvolávají takové emoce. A proč mě mrzí, že jsem ji neznala jako mladá ženaIvana Svobodová (Týdeník Respekt)
Yup, I’m calling it.
bsky will prevail where Mastodon failed. The recent migration triggered the critical mass of Chaos Muppet Energy that Masto’s culture works so hard to extinguish
Like a climactic moment in a Zelda game where the accumulation of artifacts and switches pulled channels mystical energy.
I will see you over there!
tired: bluesky will be enshittified by financial incentives
wired: mastodon is already enshittified by poor management
inspired: bsky is adding a million users a day and now tops the Android list as well
User-built algorithms, a chronological timeline, a great blend of safety and product features
Plus a much more diverse slate of conversation topics and contributors
Bluesky now growing at a rate of 12-13 users per second
So why am I beating this drum?
Mastodon’s failure to capture Twitter’s collapse is instructive as a once-in-a-generation cautionary tale
Product design matters, protocol ideology is not enough, and disliking capitalism is not an exemption from economics
You will read a lot of copium about the fediverse still being viable, but it is now the smaller development target. That has consequences.
And I think the short version is this:
A professional team of 20 people, fully funded and paid a proper full-time wage, is an objectively more effective approach to building the future than one grumpy bottleneck guy making $60k a year and a bunch of other people looking on with wishful thinking
Disliking venture capital is NOT ENOUGH. You have to figure out a different model that still can fund enough deep, sustained, collaborative work to build a thing people want
This is the mastodon energy in a nutshell, yup
“Love this crummy platform or get lost” is exactly how this happened
The final nail in the coffin here will be the culture.
But I think the thing that REALLY sticks in my craw is:
- Elon Musk is fundamentally an evil figure who must be stopped
and
- I don’t WANT to defeat Twitter
are mutually incompatible positions. If the place is really that bad it must be destroyed. And the way you do that is by displacing it in its niche
Building the Twitter killer is a moral imperative.
Instead the dominant Masto vibe is “Elon is terrible therefore let’s build a culturally marginal alternative with bad financials”
This is kind of a microcosm of Masto Brain:
Bluesky has optimized safety and social features first ahead of client performance—eg reply gating, blocks that completely deny trolls access to your post’s audience, starter packs to bootstrap your social graph
while deferring client performance
An exercise for the reader to project whether Masto successfully applies these platform fundamentals before Bluesky invests in the nuts and bolts of client performance
toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/1134923…
Alex Russell (@slightlyoff@toot.cafe)
So I've got a bsky acct, and y'all, their web app is everything I warn about. It's React (because they have capitulated to the App Store game via Expo and "need" React Native), but it's also web-as-afterthought-flavoured React.Toot Café
you sound like an investor.
*sees you have a pinned toot pimping AI*
Yeah, you've definitely made the right choice in leaving.
Welcome to the RB family, Canta 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.s…
Canta allows you to uninstall any app from your device, even if you don't have root access.
Once more, joint efforts by IzzyOnDroid and the author led to a successful RB 
RB status at IoD now: 341 apps (28.2%)
Ich habe nochmal nachgelesen: das phone muss gedowngraded werden, den Punkt hatte ich misverstanden. Allerdings ist das eine relativ aufwendige Prozedur.
Und so recht traue ich mich auch nicht....
After consolidating all of the dependencies that #FeatherWiki uses into the project itself and stripping all the features it doesn't use, I managed to shave off 4 more kilobytes 🤯 Now I can use that extra space for some quality of life features like CSS variables for easier theming & extra settings toggles!
What other small-but-helpful addition would you like to see added to the Feather Wiki core? (no, I still won't add search to the core)
Beautiful Focus Outlines
A weekly dose of web accessibility to help you bring it into your everyday work.Accessibility Weekly
Eurasian Nuthatch, oil on wood panel, 20x20cm, Conny Duck November 2024
In other news, Arcane is in its home stretch, and it’s running on maglev: 500 kph of smooth ride. You can definitely see all the shortcuts they took to avoid spending another year (or six) on the series—the montages abound—but the quiet moments and character work are still the real highlight.
Scientists have discovered that Kenyan mealworm larvae can digest polystyrene, showing promise as a tool in addressing plastic waste management 🪱♻️
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
— Matsuo Basho
#JapanesePhilosopy #philosophy #JapaneseReligion #japan #MentalHealth #mindfulness #mindfulliving #bettermentjourney
If you, like me, are bored to death by the current levels of cinematography in seasonal anime slop, do yourself a favour, and watch Dandadan. Go into it blind, but give it a chance for the first arc of four episodes. Then, once you reach episode 7, you’ll see what Science SARU has cooked.
Dandadan Production Notes #01-04
Now that the first arc of the Dandadan anime is over, we can look back at how it represents its series director's extraordinary obsession with internal logic, the way that has enabled creative choices, and also the limitations that its team has to na…kViN (Sakuga Blog)
Ninja Warrior in a Japanese Outpost Town
#ComfyUI #AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #synthography #TrainedAlgorithmicMedia
This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.
I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.
So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.
#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse
Really happy with how my latest embroidery project turned out. I used a pattern from a magazine (credit to www.lucyfreeman.co.uk) Learned some new techniques, my favourite being sewing with multiple different colour threads on the same needle to blend colours together!
#embroidery #mushrooms #embroideryHoop #toadstools #fibreArt #fiberArt #MastoArt
I have enjoyed Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast for years. This fall though he is shipping a fictional piece about a revolution on Mars in the 2200s. Having listened to his historical accounts, I do quite like him using the same tone with a fictional revolution.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes as they say.
Two years ago I bought 70 Years of Christmas Number Ones by Andrew Burford. That was very good. So I'll see what new things I can learn from this one.
Gorgeous Killer
in reply to Gorgeous Killer • • •Do I like the idea of having to join a platform like Bluesky to engage with my people online. No. Hell no. I actually fucking hate it.
But I’m a community person that has empathy for people that do not have my skills and experiences who are just trying to find a place to kick it on a web filled with corporate platforms and open source projects run and maintained by virulent bigots.
So, I’m going to practice a bit of humility and go to where the people so I can listen and learn about what people need to pull them away from platforms we all know are bad in the long run.
The fedi has famously had a lack of empathy for people that are not in tech, which is one of the core reasons people are going to Bluesky.
Yes, there a plenty of great ideas and theories in the fedi, but until they are put into action in a way that is accessible for non tech nerds, the Blueskys of social media are going to win. Period.
And telling people they are wrong for making that decision when there is no open source platform that gives them the experience they want is the kind of arrogance that kills possibilities from happening.