@gamingonlinux 😍

@evan @reiver @dansup

any chance the talk can be recovered with sound?

@dansup @ariadne

if I may drop my 2 cents here: I find Matrix approach very transparent and reminding. They permanently display the "unlock" icon with an info text in the input field that this message is unencrypted.

Do we have a video link for #fedicon day 2 already? #fossy

A new social me.
How the Fediverse has influenced the way I live my (online) social life now. Especially when you come from Instagram.

https://blog.sturmsucht.de/a-new-social-me/

#blog #fediverse #socialmedia

@Gargron look wonderful! how is the cat doing?

@dansup is that included in the early access I purchased with the kickstarter last year?

So, #pridemonth ...

I'm a white straight middle age man and my timeline is full of rainbows in all sorts of flags, stickers and cats - and I fucking love it!! :owi:

Over at Instagram I've seen: none.
Not even a single pride post.

God, I love the fediverse.
Thank you for being you! ❤️

@gamingonlinux omfg, I love there game so much. can't wait for their wonderful map paintings!

@Gargron yes, missed their concert last year as well....

@Gargron bad news, this will stay for a while:

https://metaladdicts.com/heilung-announces-hiatus-starting-in-2025/

@Gargron nothing to argue here. The movie industry right now is a noob photographer who thinks "great, with that dynamic range I don't even have to expose correctly anymore". And that's what they are literally doing.

When has "I don't know if this scene will be in daylight or night time right now, let's shoot anyway and fix it in post" became a thing?

@dansup I don't think they are harmful either and can be fun to use. I was just confused about priorities as the promised UI is a year late.

But I honestly think the for you algorithm is. You might not send your data to big tech, but you're stuck with the same harmful addictive patterns big tech had invented to keep you trapped. So, I don't think people spending more and more hours in it's actually a good thing.

With Pixelfed for example, I found it's much better at avoiding harmful patterns.

@dansup thanks for the transparency

@dansup Is this more important than the new UI?

So, I started to volunteer in our local community centre to help (mostly) elder people with their computer and smartphone problems.

It's fascinating. We have people there up to their 90s and they are all every open for change.

We remove ad ID's from phones, change default browsers, switch from MS Office to #Libreoffice.

And for next time I already have a date with an elder lady to switch her old Windows 10 laptop to Linux Mint.
And she is not the only one!

What a time to be alive.

@dansup congrats to the first million of accounts! I hope the long waited UI update brings even more of my colleagues in.

Putting BlueSky's 36 million crypto VC money with Mastodon's just reached 2 million through basically personal donations in the same pot feels a bit off, honestly.

Hopefully we can move on from the revenge and underdog narrative as marketing tactics for Pixelfed this year and let it thrive even further.

@Mastodon 🫶

@_elena @pfefferle 🫡 just returned home after FOSDEM, but will take a look tomorrow.

@dansup or: People's brains are used to the toxic trapping mechanisms of big tech social media algorithms, and it just clicks if they find this elsewhere. 🤷♂️

Isn't doom scrolling in open source just the same: doom scrolling?

Not being offensive here, I'm happy the project evolves even if it's not for me.

I just really wonder how we can build these kind of software in a healthy way that helps breaking unhealthy habits.