@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.

@fesshole In NZ I once met a guy at a hostel who showed me "how tea is acutally meant to be drunk". And he took a tea bag, dipped it into hot water 2 times and put it into waste.

I thought that's a lot of war and suffering for just two dips.

@Gargron just switched from deezer to Qobuz as well and so far I really like it. It's not so bloated and I really enjoy the possibility to buy albums. Also they pay the most to artists among streaming services

@dansup sorry, I might be wrong, but didn't you alter the milestone during the campaign and moved the foundation out of the 100k milestone?

@Gargron Alles Gute!!

@dansup @PixelFed I hope your kickstarters are already set for the beta

@dansup ah, makes sense. Thanks for the editing!

@dansup missing Ghost in the "new Platforms" section. Has that a reason?

@Gargron @Ameboid would change it to my friends are not to sale instead of your, but love it!

@Gargron danke für das alles hier, Eugen! Es hat mir die Hoffnung auf ein besseres Netz zurückgegeben. ❤️