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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That is weird, maybe check your language settings? Make sure you have 'Undetermined' selected. If not, maybe log out and back in.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Request for change, it's more of open source/programming thing than this comm thing.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 14 points 7 months ago (9 children)

No, that's something with your client. When I go to https://lemmy.world/c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com I see plenty of posts.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 25 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Also, lots of discussion under the announcement post in the new comm https://lemmy.world/post/24437552.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wait, you're telling me someone played up a bit in okmatewanker??? The audacity!

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago (9 children)

And tinned beans for breakfast will never not be weird, sorry UK.

Strong words for a country where more people eat doughnuts for breakfast than sausages.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol, so the "just make good games" crowd need to use bigotry as crunch to salvage their games' reputation.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

I’m seeing Ghost as a Substack killer, as that is a toxic swamp we need sensible folk off. Nearly everyone who had a newsletter migrated there. Only one listened to their fans and backed straight out again.

I always thought a newsletter was just a specialised blog, but maybe that's wrong. I heard about the Substack allowing Nazis on there, so understandable why people would want off.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They already know, it's just fediverse developers are radically anit-VC so reject any offers out of principle.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Tumblr is now on ActivityPub

Is it? I know it's been moved to Wordpress, but I haven't heard about this.

Ghost can apparently be used to manage multiple blogs under different subdomains. Might be worth looking into when their ActivityPub supports goes out of early access.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

He lists examples in the article.

Once upon a time, we had a solid way of overcoming the problem of lock-in. We'd reverse-engineer a proprietary system and make a free, open alternative. We've been hacking fire exits into walled gardens since the Usenet days, with the creation of the alt.* hierarchy:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial

When the corporate owners of Unix started getting all weird about source-code access and user-modifiability, we didn't insist that Unix users were bad people for sticking with a corporate OS. We reverse-engineered Unix and set all those users free:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project

The answer to Microsoft's proprietary SMB network protocol wasn't a campaign to shame people for having SMB running on their LANs. It was reverse-engineering SMB and making SAMBA, which is now in every single device in your home and office, and it's gloriously free as in speech and free as in beer:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ability to import a Bluesky profile to Mastodon or the *key forks

Building an ActivityPub application (APlication?) that uses AT protocol's PDSs would be pretty interesting. Compatibility would be a nightmare, but I don't see a reason you couldn't have the sign up and data management work like it does on Bluesky (did:plc issues aside) and the server side/relay work with APub.

And you get the feeling this isn’t the solution he’d have wanted but it at least looks like some.kind of solution so he’s prepared to support it, albeit grudgingly.

It's more like the idea of adversarial interoperability he's talked about in the past, focusing on making the transition to a new platform easier by forcing compatibility between nominally incompatible platforms. The article does imply he thinks that Bluesky will enshittify, so our focus as activists of the good internet should be on tools to make the inevitable migration easier. I just don't think "Free Our Feeds" is that.

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