Last fully blind playthrough I got to do was the original Demons Souls release back in college - every other game since I haven't played until years after release and so I was already fairly spoilered going in. So hyped for a mostly blind ER playthrough.

Just a reminder that Bandcamp is bringing back Bandcamp Fridays through May. So if you haven't been to Bandcamp recently, today's a great time to start constructing your wishlist for purchase on Friday.

Honestly, like fuck Fox News and that dude was just a smug asshole. But at the same time, is he really the one at fault for fucking up that interview?

If this mod were being interviewed by anyone that wasn't already deeply sympathetic to the community were conducting that interview would it really have gone any differently?

Sort of the same deal for "what can one do to be a good citizen of the world." That is, "do your best to operate in an ethical way and encourage others to do the same despite how the broader system is constructed."

To be slightly more specific, stuff like finding, using, and publicizing more ethical websites, platforms, and technologies where possible. And most importantly, contribute in whatever way works for you. The web is meant to encourage collaboration and sharing but it has turned largely into a medium to Consume - spend some time Creating things.

Let’s get this straight: How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engaged in activities that he is engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country that is desperately trying to make sure it maintains its standing as a major world power.

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I don't, per se, disagree with this post, but I think I have come to different conclusions.

Gemini is not a protocol that is ever going to (nor does it intend to) supplant the web. But it also doesn't intend to. It's a cool little protocol to play around with. Building clients and servers.

Establishing standards, both de facto and documented. Collaborating with like-minded folks around the world. Creating content and experiences within a unique set of constraints.

One of the major issues with tech is that we by and large continue to forget the last and spend a lot of time learning and relearning the same lessons, going in circles.

Gemini is a fun experiment in remembering, reliving, and learning from the past.

Yeah, Bandcamp is great. Except they don't have an API for downloading your purchases and no plan to add one. Which means I can't fully automate adding my new purchases to my Funkwhale instance, but it's not the end of the world.

I've been on fedi since 2017 and I largely agree with this post. Well the linked article, this post on lemmy oddly focuses on one small detail.

I think activitypub is a fine protocol, for what it is trying to do. I don't know enough about the internals of the protocol to write up a list of improvements, but I reckon there's some work that could be done to make federation a little bit more granular and to increase privacy and security. Some of that can be done at the application level, others need to be done at the protocol level.

As for mastodon specifically, there's a lot going on there. Mastodon itself is hugely complicated. And it's not even a native speaker of activitypub, having it added only later. So in some ways it had to bend activitypub to its will to keep working the way it had, and in some ways it had to absorb some complexity into it's application to sort of graft on support for it.

A lot of long-lived software has problems like this. In some ways it's unavoidable, in other ways it's requires a very strong community with a well-aligned vision to take decisive action.

But the community doesn't really have that aligned vision. Or rather there's a disconnect between the community and project leadership. I haven't ever interacted directly with any of the regular contributors so I don't want to ascribe motives or personality traits to them.

But whatever the case or cases there's a lot of people trying to address some of these fedi issues as far as personal safety tools, federated blocking, privacy and security tools, etc. But mastodon - perhaps as one of the more established fedi projects - is a little bit more conservative about pursuing or implementing some of these ideas.

Some of the issues, as one of the commenters on the post point out, is just that microblogging is an inherently unhealthy interaction pattern for a lot of people - especially when corporate platforms have trained users for so many years specifically to have those unhealthy interaction patterns.

But ultimately I believe fedi is worth saving and capable of being saved. But it's going to require a strong community with a strong vision. Which may require a new generation of developers making a new generation of software.

Hopefully Lemmy can be a part of that.

Both companies are acting incredibly cynically here and I don't think apple actually makes a good point.

Epic only has this partnership with itch so they could prove the point "it's cool and easy to provide third-party stores." Then they accidentally proved the point "you can't moderate content on a third-party store and it's content may run contrary to the first-party's policies which may confuse users."

Notice how Epic was like "uhh we probably won't do this on mobile though" when they realized what had happened. They don't actually give a shit about itch beyond using them as a pawn. Hopefully creators on the platform are getting some increased sales out of it though.

But ultimately, apple should not block additional stores. If they're as worried about content moderation as they say they could only allow sideloading and instead of serving them via the app store.

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"New"? Also curious how their indexing works - do they feed off of other engines, index things themselves, what?

This is very important. When I first joined the Fediverse via Mastodon, there were a few really great folks kicking around on there that ended up having to leave out because they were interacting with the platform in pretty unhealthy ways.

Ethical platforms absolutely need to be intentionally designed to reduce the risk of unhealthy use. It's especially important because people are typically coming from closed platforms that have trained them to use them in these very unhealthy ways. Ethical platforms need to be intentional to break this programming.

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People who grew up playing the Wii might remember it...

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One may posit that your images, tables, and formatting may be better served as an attachment or linked webpage.

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It's more like someone selling their Apple stock to buy a Lambo.

Sure they could keep their Apple stock and (probably unless the stock drops) buy two Lambos later. But they also want a Lambo.

Same deal here. Sure maybe in a year they'd be able to get two Teslas. But also maybe in a year bitcoin will be worthless.

I'll admit I haven't heard of hispagatos before so I don't want to immediately jump to judgement and will check out some of their blog posts and stuff (to hopefully brush up on my spanish if nothing else).

But I will say it's not really a great look having my first contact with an "anarchist hacker collective" being a shopify shop selling t-shirts/hats/etc with no information about sourcing and a link to a blog where the most recent post is supporting them by mining cryptocurrency.

Edit: after checking out some of the blog posts, I see they espouse a lot of good ideals and principles. I'm very slow at reading spanish so I haven't had a great overview yet, but I am heartened to see what appears to be some good content.

I still have some questions about the discrepancy between the content of the blog and "visit our shopify store," but I guess I can understand from a practical standpoint that money is generally required to further an organization's goals.

The link to the repo is in the community sidebar. The issues page specifically is at https://github.com/krawieck/lemmur/issues

As I understand it, links should work fine but there's an issue with lemmur 0.2.3 and android 11 that was fixed in lemmur 0.3.0. However fdroid still only has 0.2.3 so I haven't been able to confirm that myself.

I see there's an 0.3.0 on github and play store, but fdroid only has 0.2.3. I'd love to get my hands on 0.3.0 so I can like open links and stuff, but I'd prefer not to have to manually install the apk or move over to the play store. Any possibility of keeping fdroid releases up to date?

Ah okay. Looks like it works fine in 0.12 but not with 1.2. I'll check into the server logs on what might be going on sometime soon

Oh weird. I could've sworn I've tried in lagrange before but maybe I'm misremembering or something stopped working after I last tried it. Thanks for the report.

I love the creativity engendered by the constraints of the protocol. I can do simple stuff for the web (and do sometimes) but building web services is part of what I do for my day job. So gemini helps me look at things from a different perspective.

Specifically, I've been doing some work building and refining GemIF, for interactive fiction, which has been a lot of fun.

Also enjoyed chatting with the community. There's a lot of characters on the mailing list, but for the most part folks are nice and have interesting things to say.

In the US at least, "libertarian" implies "right libertarian" or "conservative libertarian."

There are many anarchists on that end of the spectrum ("ancaps" often), but the anarchists you'll find on this site will most often be - as others have suggested - more closely aligned with socialists.

Gotta get everyone back to work so they can pay off those $6k power bills.

Neat. Lagrange is such a pretty client, though I tend to find myself using Amfora more often.

Though Lagrange is if nothing else a great reminder that text of my capsules aren't always rendered monospace and I need to make my ascii art in preformatted blocks.

Trying my hardest not the bring the drew-related drama from the mailing list to this thread based on your screenshot.

I like whatever the accepted standard is for the language I'm using at the time.

So for python and ruby we're talking snake_case variables and PascalCase classes, for javascript camelCase variables and PascalCase constructors, for go camelCase for unexported and PascalCase for exported.

Don't really see how one might have a personal favorite that they apply to all languages equally.

This is a really great idea! Though I don't know of any software with these features.

As mentioned below, plume sorta fits the bill but is still early in it's development and isn't currently actively maintained. I ran an instance for a few months about 8 months ago and it was a very promising start, so it's a little sad that it isn't getting the development love it deserves.

Anyway like I said I don't know of anything that can really do this out of the box (though I'm sure wordpress can be round-pegged into that square hole). Might be a fun side-project, though. Which, now that my interactive fiction on gemini project has sorta stabilized I am looking for a new side-project. 🤔

I tried this out like 12-18 months ago before deciding to just run my own Mastodon instance. I recall, like poVoq mentioned, having to play with my nginx config a bit to get webfinger junk behaving as expected.

But even after I got to working it was pretty bare-bones and I'm not sure it's gotten any better since then.

What a fun little denial of service simulator.

I think certainly better sex education and access to contraception is important.

Reproductive legislation probably wouldn't do too terribly much on any sort of reasonable timeframe given how much pollution is produced by multinational corporations versus individuals and families.

If we're going to do any sort of sweeping and binding legislation let it be against corporations rather than people.

If anyone's curious you can find the text of the resolution here: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1318455?ln=en

Agreed. I still run a mattermost instance for a few people, but if I wanted like a "community" there I'd absolutely need some of the Enterprise features.

Having a separate instance with some communities for sharing flacs might be cool, but I don't know that I'd want it on the "flagship" instance since things like that typically tend to fully take over a community's culture. I want Lemmy to be a diverse sharing and discussion site for a variety of topics and not soulseek-but-it-looks-like-reddit.

I think certainly building a culture where we prefer "blessed" sources of an artist's music (directly on their websites, bandcamp, soundcloud, artist's youtube channel, maybe some day funkwhale will really take off for this kinda stuff) or just user-and/or-artist-respecting platforms and preferring those makes sense.

Agreed, the tildes are really great. Even beyond "the web" (though I know this is !web@lemmy.ml), the tildes are really the embodiment of smol tech and a really fun evolution of pre-web and proto-web communities like BBSes.

Some of the tildes are really embracing(/driving) the gemini community alongside the web, which is also really cool to see as I think it fits right in with their philosophy and aesthetic.

Depending on what you don't love about mutt, I've used alpine on and off throughout the years and have liked it.

Course these days it can be tough to find information on with alpine linux being so popular.

From a technical standpoint, sure someone could make a "votechain" link aggregator. Which I assume is what you mean by proof of work voting.

Heck, I'm certain there's already one out there given how many misapplications of blockchain there are out there.

They couldn't federate with "Fediverse" (colloquial name for ActivityPub) software, though, since the whole point of blockchain is that it can't get input from outside of the network as it is not cryptographically secure.

Anonymous posting would, generally speaking, be possible with ActivityPub. I don't know about the Lemmy-centric activities that are currently implemented and if something would get weird. But speaking about general Fediverse software it would work. But given that Lemmy currently works by opt-in federation, it's possible that major instances would not opt to federate with such instances.

Agreed. Arc-Dark is my go-to. I use Nord theme on all my stuff, so naturally I've tried some Nord xfce/gtk themes, but Arc-Dark blends with my nord-styled applications well enough and feels better than the "real" Nord themes.

Thanks for being a voice of reason and not taking uncited claims on a random blog as fact like everyone else in this thread.

According to the notabug site itself:

What is nsfb? (Not Safe For Brand) Reddit's api returns an undocumented brand_safe field for content. It appears to be applied on a subreddit basis. Snew displays a nsfb indicator when a post has a false brand_safe value. It is believed that all subreddits are nsfb until manually reviewed as safe

I haven't tested the veracity of the claim that reddit's api returns this value as I'm not at a computer, but it's certainly a much less extraordinary claim than "this particular post was deleted so as not to be mean to brands."

Let's don't make Lemmy a place for misinformation to spread just yet, eh folks? Try to verify claims, especially extraordinary claims, even if they reinforce your world view.

(By the way none of this is to say that reddit doesn't suck and they are absolutely just an ad-serving platform at this point.)

Not much going on in this community, so I figure I'll post an update here as a comment rather than making two "back to back" posts (albeit separated by a week).

I've been working on this a bunch over the past week.

You can check the source over at https://git.sr.ht/~nromdotcom/gemif

And the live version at gemini://gemif.fedi.farm

I've implemented simple conditions to make conditional rendering and transitions possible as well as a model to write your stories as a bunch of separate .gemif files and "compile" them to YAML.

Doesn't always* mean that. And I think that's okay.

Sure, in a perfect world there would be a really great FOSS replacement for every proprietary piece of software that's super easy to switch to and use. But I'm also not recommending to anyone (computer enthusiast or otherwise) that they host their own email.

I think getting 50% of people to use software that is 10% "better" (whether you measure by privacy, security, openness, etc) is just as important as getting 5% of people to use software that is 100% "better."

Nearly by definition any Gemini client is going to look old, but be modern. "Awesome" is in the eye of the beholder, but I think geminispace is really cool.

Yeah, makes sense. For me, it was a journey to realizing that most of the time I just really don't have anything interesting to say and am far more of a consumer than a creator.

Then in my brief spurts of creativity I spend it basically setting up a new blog thinking this spurt will never end, but then by the time I've got things set up I don't have much energy left to actually do anything with it.

So really I just need to finally realize that and next time the creative mood strikes me just use what I already have set up.

It's not a problem, I just mean if they're completely rewriting it in a new language does it really make sense to advertise it as a fork versus an entirely separate project.

I'd say it's a fork right now since they share a codebase, even though they have trouble merging new changes from upstream due to drastic changes. Certainly things that start as forks do drift further from the parent project over time (unless the goal is to not as with glitch-soc/mastodon), but if their initial stated goal is a complete rewrite just seems like a weird framing.