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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Oct-2020 15:46:38 CET 
deadsuperhero
Published writers of the fediverse: for those of you who have written books, how did you do it? What did you do to get the motivation to write every day and get that project finished?I'm trying to write again, but I have a lot of past failures and tend to lose steam and give up. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Oct-2020 04:42:55 CEST
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@lohang yeah, I didn't necessarily mean it had to be some big fancy Open Source / Internet Standards organization. I just think maybe this is something Feneas could one day serve as: a neutral place for builders in the space to hash out ideas and try things together, maybe even push out revisions of the protocol. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Oct-2020 04:42:53 CEST
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@ety @lohang the funny thing is that it's really not very hard to set up an instance at this point. I've been on Pleroma maybe 2 years at this point (oh my god), and it's been pretty pleasant to maintain for the most part. Upgrading is super easy, it works great with clients, and normal operation does not take up a horrible amount of space on my server. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Oct-2020 03:05:03 CEST
deadsuperhero
For some time, now, I've seen various people vent their frustrations over the state of the fediverse, what it is, and where development is going.Some of the arguments are pretty compelling: the lack of a central working group for the standard doesn't exactly bode well for subsequent iterations of the spec. The biggest player in the space kind of has a stranglehold on certain usage conventions. Most implementations don't offer great privacy considerations, and aren't exactly designed with at-risk users in mind.These are good things to think about, in regards to what the fediverse ought to become. There's a lot of incredible work going on under the surface, and I'm always impressed to see what these different projects are capable of doing.But, there's a lot of toxic shit, too. Normally, I just hold my tongue because I'm used to the endless cycles of complaining and infighting and finger-pointing that makes up the worst parts of the space. You can't just take the good without the bad - this project is the byproduct of humans all building towards one common thing with different ideas about how to do it, in what way, and for what purposes.I'm growing very tired of it, though. I'm exhausted by the endless ideology, the pseudomarxist dialectic that casts everybody working on this thing as a white fash-adjacent cis male developer living in a vacuum while jerking off to hentai and reading Mein Kampf. I'm tired of the hand-waving that this system is bad because it's meritocratic - I'm sorry, it takes technical knowledge to learn how to build things, and people aren't going to build things 100% to your specifications for you for free, no questions asked. I'm tired of seeing people whine and complain about how bad things are, how bad people are, and either sit and do nothing or crawl back to Twitter because the toxic environment there ended up being more conducive to their brand of alienation.The people who have been trying to do the most with moving stuff forward have often had the least help in doing so, and often have to dig through endless criticism by people who prefer to sit on the sidelines and act like they're fucking fascists for not bowing down to their demands. It's happened with too many projects to count, where someone gets a horrible rap for not prioritizing some specific feature because they themselves don't even know how to start working on it in a given phase of development. Entire reputations get smeared - and yes, sometimes it's the byproduct of pursuing a bad idea because it seemed right at the time. People are allowed to make mistakes.If there's anything I truly hate here, it's this never-ending toxic cycle of in-group out-group relations, where the finger gets pointed and everybody starts up all over again. It isn't that we can't fix what's broken or work together to make it better...we just get stuck on bullshit tribalism and flock to mass cultural hallucinations to explain things away, because that's more comfortable than actually doing the work.Yeah, we're building a space that anyone can take part in, regardless of what they have to say is good or bad. That's freedom - boundless in its potential and unrestrained in its expression. Liberty brings in every possible belief system, every identity, and every label, regardless of whether they are good or bad relative to an individual. You can't control who gets to use it, or what people get to say, or who voluntarily associates with who. Instead, ideally, you get to decide who can see you, what they can do, and whether they should be able to interact with you. Your experience of the network ought to be something that you curate and control, in regards of what you can see. Your view of the network stops at the things you don't want to see, and the things other people don't want you to see.You get to filter out the crap and interact with whoever you like. Personally, I'm all for the idea of greylisting and whitelisting instances as communities start and gradually branch out...we might have a bunch of fiefdoms for a while, but if that's what needs to happen to cut down on instance drama, to reinforce enclaves prior to opening the floodgates again, spaces ought to be free to do so.We're at the point where we have a network with almost four million people on it. Some days, it may look like we're all just bullshitting around, but we have the potential to kill Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Soundcloud, DeviantArt, Tiktok and more. We could lay waste to the entire old guard of Silicon Valley, if we wanted to, and redefine a lot of what the web currently is. We could knock down a lot of walled gardens and kill a lot of financial incentives to put eyeballs on pages full of trackers. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2020 08:52:33 CEST
deadsuperhero
#SepiaSearch by the #PeerTube project seems pretty nice...but, I can't figure out how to add my videos to it.I figure people might want to see what I've had to say about #fediverse stuff in the past in interviews, but maybe not. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2020 07:16:47 CEST
deadsuperhero
Hey, #ActivityPub experts: what's your opinion of #Spritely so far? I'm just reading up on it and trying to wrap my head around its various parts, and wonder what other people's opinions on it are.https://spritelyproject.org/ -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2020 23:45:52 CEST
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What new things are going on in the #fediverse? I'm super out of the loop. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2020 16:53:39 CEST
deadsuperhero
Hey, I'm alive again! I just graduated basic training, and I'm waiting to fly to my tech school.I miss you, #Fediverse! -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2020 11:34:22 CEST
deadsuperhero
> design a really slow car on purpose> Market it towards rich people"Introducing the S Car:Go"ππππππππππ -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2020 11:00:51 CEST
deadsuperhero
Tonight may well be the last night I lay in this bed.It's strange to think about. You spend so much time in one place that it's possible to forget that one day, everything will change. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2020 12:30:18 CEST
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Today is my last day before I go to Texas and my life changes forever.I'm gonna miss the fediverse. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2020 21:12:00 CEST
deadsuperhero
Good News: weigh-in went well, exceeded expectations! I don't have to go to MEPS!Less Good News: I have to come in on Friday to be weighed again, then get weighed two more times on my ship date (Tuesday). π -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2020 21:12:00 CEST
deadsuperhero
Official weigh-in today at the recruitment office! Hope it goes well! π -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2020 03:50:30 CEST
deadsuperhero
I wonder if there's a good way to get the indie game devs I like to join the fediverse? π€It would be an absolute joy to get the adventure game devs that I love on gamemaking.social or something. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2020 05:27:26 CEST
deadsuperhero
Hi π -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 11:25:53 CEST
deadsuperhero
Man, drawing in perspective at low-res is super difficult sometimes. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 11:25:52 CEST
deadsuperhero
Okay, I think this looks a lot better now. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 11:25:52 CEST
deadsuperhero
Here's an example of a bedroom I'm working on. Most of the objects look okay, and at least kind of make sense.However, the doorway leading out of the room for some reason looks really weird. My brain says maybe the slant at the top of the door should imitate the slant of the upper right wall. But I'm pretty sure that doesn't look right either. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 11:25:52 CEST
deadsuperhero
I think the thing that gets me confused is drawing interiors. I try to draw a wireframe to define the boundaries of the room, but I'm at odds between making the lines look correct in relation to one another, and getting elements to sit correctly in accordance to those boundary lines. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jul-2020 11:25:51 CEST
deadsuperhero
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