Notices by Tekchip (tekchip@mastodon.social)

@Gargron

Another ancient find from my archive.

A Borg mug by Everyone loves to get applause.

Has a certificate of authenticity from Paramount Pictures. Also a receipt from when I purchased it in 1995.

#collectibles #startrek #borg #mug

Any of you Star Trek folk know if this ancient Enterprise Hologram which has been sealed behind the glass of this frame since the 90s might worth something to someone?

#collectibles #startrek #sttng #hologram

@killyourfm @gamingonlinux are the mobile apps actually any better? I nope out of such publications instead of doing so much more work to try to get at whatever content they clearly don't value either.

@dansup @pixelfed maybe this is crazy talk, or maybe it's something, it's effectively using PixelFed as a CDN if I'm understanding that right? That makes sense because that's sort of what the ActivityPub protocol does on some level. Is there a way to layer on IPFS or the like to make ActivityPub both more resilient and maybe even faster? I call mastodon.social.ipfsaddress and I get copies of the Mastodon instance data from whatever other instance federated it but sits closest? :thinkhappy:

@Gargron Thanks for the work you do!

@feditips @ozoned as with most things in life it's about moderation. In the sense of being a balance. Federation is about no one point of control. And yet you need one place to find stuff for the normies to be able to use it. I would think the solution is a search, with controls (safesearch etc), that will let everything be searched and found. But combined with, as you say, a curated discovery platform to aid in surfacing good quality federated content. Quite the problem to solve.

@ozoned @feditips this gets to an idea that's highly needed if federated services are going to be useful. They must have discoverability. Without discovery there is zero chance of popular adoption.

This is the key feature YT and Steam and Twitch provide. Not the core services that most people think of them as. This is what is largely missing in the fediverse. It sort of happens on individual instance servers but I can't point Granny to one place to find all the stuff like I can with YouTube.

@feditips maybe still in progress? Seems plausible.

Though, lack of transparency isn't really what you want from your open projects, is it. ?