Notices by Kye Fox :veripanda1: (kye@tech.lgbt)

@mods :blobfoxsipglare:

I'll be nice.

@ajroach42 :blobfoxcomfysip: https://tech.lgbt/@Kye/110418207158293077

Lifehack: if you don't think you're smart enough to do something, then be too stupid to quit, and you'll eventually be in the top 1% where practice matters more than effortless understanding.

@jerry Imagine reporting a furry on an infosec server

You'd have to ban 99% of it

10k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

100k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,000k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,300k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,400k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,800k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

I'm starting to think these people aren't real doctors.

Things are getting worse, and I'd like to have the means to get the hell out of Georgia if this "purple wave" proves to be short lived. And long term, I want to get out anyway.

Patreon and Ko-fi are my entire income: less than $70/month. That's not enough to even cover Uber or a rental car so I could get a job and start saving. I don't have anyone I can count on to get me to and from a job, so that's my option.

Send money without a monthly obligation by debit, credit, PayPal, or Venmo: https://ko-fi.com/kyefox

Patreon supporters get #TTRPG maps, background music, and worldbuilding for use in game sessions, plus virtual photography from video games: https://www.patreon.com/kyefox

Things are getting worse, and I'd like to have the means to get the hell out of Georgia if this "purple wave" proves to be short lived. And long term, I want to get out anyway.

Patreon and Ko-fi are my entire income: less than $60/month. That's not enough to even cover Uber or a rental car so I could get a job and start saving. I don't have anyone I can count on to get me to and from a job, so that's my option.

I make music, tell stories, and post talk-free playthroughs of games: https://www.youtube.com/@keenkye

Patreon supporters get #TTRPG maps, background music, and worldbuilding for use in game sessions, plus virtual photography from video games: https://www.patreon.com/kyefox

Send money without a monthly thing: https://ko-fi.com/kyefox

You can get my whole discography for under $50: https://vibrafox.bandcamp.com/

I also do music commissions.

Process and price list here: https://trello.com/c/QRyImNjx/1-the-process

Examples here: https://trello.com/c/m7Vz9ThD/4-previews

FAQ: https://trello.com/c/UWPSxVhY/3-faq

@thomasfuchs If they'd spent the last 10 years mastering COBOL instead of stumbling along with React, they'd be set for life.

Some day a marijuana company is going to sponsor a football game and call it the Packed Bowl.

Spider-Man and Wonder Woman team up to start a detective agency called Amazon Web Service

@pfefferle Hopefully they'll bring it to WordPress.com soon without needing the $300/year plan.

"terraforming Mars"

I think you mean oxygentrificaton

@pawlicker Pleroma is in a bit of a pickle

It's _extremely_ easy to set up, and requires almost no resources. So naturally it's a favorite with people who want to stand up instances full of fake users (or collaborators) to harass people.

It's not Pleroma's fault that its key benefits make it popular with a certain sort of jerk, but it is, and people have to protect themselves.

Can you imagine

You log into your Tumblr dashboard

All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed

Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it's all neatly tied together through #ActivityPub.

This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. https://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

I don't think Mastodon is going to go away, but a federated Tumblr answers a lot of the annoyances I've had with it. It supports all the media types I want to post without complaint, and presents them each in a media-appropriate way.

If they can get it open source and decentralized, even better. This seems to be their long-term plan based on things I've seen in posts around the intwewebs. Making it WordPress-based is the goal, maybe as a major extension alongside WooCommerce and co.

ActivityPub could be the future (2020 vintage) #activitypub https://kyefox.com/2020/04/09/activitypub-could-be-the-future/

It was unthinkable in 2020 that Tumblr would have #ActivityPub support on its roadmap. The quick shift in narrative, from a rehash of tech journalists going "it's too haaaard", to serious people giving it a try, then ordinary people.

My view back then was Mastodon probably wouldn't be The Thing. It would get us there, but would struggle to keep up. I'm starting to think Tumblr might be the thing. Automattic hasn't really been an EEE company, so I anticipate them being responsible players here.