@dansup Is it worse than open source development in general though?

@dansup I appreciate Fediverse devs very much- without you I’d use no social media at all.
You’re doing great, important work, and I think you also are building the future. All the corporate crap could fail and we’d still be here. Thank you! 💌

@dansup also clearly part of the cause of the recent xz security issue. I don’t understand how people feel so entitled at all, much less something they aren’t paying for. Sorry to hear you are dealing with that, thanks for the efforts you put into development, especially software that enriches the fediverse!

@dansup

Necessary edits:

"Imagine writing an open source twitter alternative

One that is federated and built on open protocols

Then having to deal with users who are upset you are working with an established walled garden social platform whose entire agenda is to override and ultimately destroy those very open protocols in a demonstrated pattern of conquest and assimilation"

Finally:

"Girl, you can't have it both ways"

"girl"?

girl?

What is this, TikTok or a high school lunchroom?

@dansup

Valid point, but I worry that this is an #EmbraceExtendExtinguish scheme:

1. Threads federates.
2. Something happens that makes Threads a highly desirable instance to be on, e.g. a flood of spam that only Threads has a good filter for.
3. Threads, having absorbed the vast majority of Fedi users, defederates.

See also: email.

@dansup I value the right of individuals to decide if they want to follow or block (instances). Having a choice is why we should be here. A walled garden decides everything for individuals, and leaves them no choices. Many of us wanted to get away from that.

@dansup I'm sorry...what they have been doing to #pixelfed???

@dansup The stats on FediDB haven't been accurate for a while, a couple of legitimately run instances are banned, despite comfortably belonging in the top 10 largest instances by user count and MAU.

@dansup btw, is the search broken?

@dansup Oh same!
Different IDEs have different strengths. Plus it helps my brain separate things

For me it’s VS Code, IntelliJ and Xcode

@dansup I do this with Visual Studio for .net api code and VS Code for React UI.

@loops That's better 😉

@dansup Hello ! The app is not recognising metapixl.com as a valid server although it is version 0.11.13

@dansup

@pixelfed

When are notifications going to become a real thing within the app?

after my instance updated to the current version, the beta app works great

@dansup @pixelfed je le savais même pas qu'ils avaient leur propre application officielle sur quel store est-elle téléchargeable sur Android

@dansup sorry for ignorance, what's NGI

@dansup super excited about Loops, best of luck!

Been thinking about #MusicDiscovery on Fedi, and Loops could be a game-changer here… Like a “save music” bookmark button to revisit an artists’ music link later?

TikTok has an “add to Spotify” button now but the algorithm lottery is a head-melt for artists. If we had a real alternative, it would be a life-raft for the arts rn💜

Thanks so much for your work, legend

@dansup I am not a tester, but from the screenshot, I would expect the "reply" arrow to point the other direction. Pointing to the right usually makes me think of "forward"

@dansup https://2015-2020.mattwilcox.net/musing/the-ineffectiveness-of-icons.html

@dansup Maybe you could make it adjustable in the profile what the user wants to see. And the initial decision would be made during onboarding.😅

@dansup Both, but also please right align them so they’re consistently positioned on each comment

@dansup
Good job, man!
@pixelfed

@dansup @pixelfed is there any difference between versions?

@dansup @pixelfed What's the best way to provide feedback on the Android app?

Strike that, found the placeholder github repo

@dansup <—— the hardest working person in the fediverse

@dansup Would it use existing Pixelfed login or need a whole new account?

@dansup How would one sign up to be a beta tester?

@dansup This is awesome! Could you also please post it on F-Droid app store? I personally only download from there these days, only open source apps. I have de-googled my phone. Thx!

@dansup I pre-registered, says it will auto-install once it's available 😁

@dansup the server I'm on doesn't support pf, my login details I had with Web version doesn't work anymore.

@dansup @Chocobozzz I already have a couple short form videos uploaded to my #PeerTube instance to test compatibility with

@sc07_shorts / https://sc07.tv/c/sc07_shorts

@dansup @Chocobozzz And if this could be timed with the TikTok Ban bill that'd be fantastic for the fediverse.

@dansup
What about getting addicted? I'm a bit concerned about this, because I had to fight a terrible addiction to YouTube (in general, but also shorts) a year or so ago. Twice.

@dansup Go for it! It’s always seemed like a chicken-and-egg problem: nobody builds C2S servers because there’s no clients, and nobody builds clients because there’s no servers.

If you could get even one good client off the ground, it might bootstrap the whole C2S ecosystem.

And I, for one, will absolutely follow you there. I’d much rather build a solid C2S server instead of implement the Mastodon API.

@dansup When I first got into Fedi, I wanted to — and was frustrated I couldn’t — post from one account to all the things, but came around to the value of having different accounts for different services for different interests.

@dansup many of these different social media’s (microblogs, personal photoblogs, personal video shares) have different circle of friends, acquaintances, random people you’d want to share them with.

One way to enable that is separate (external) account names, an other could be what (I think) Google+ did with its circles & what Insta kinda does with “close friends”.

I don’t know the best solution, but just wanted to add my thinking on the topic.

@dansup You can always do an OIDC flow. That allows you to have a common login and identity for those who want it but still have separate accounts

@dansup when are going to be available the Push Notifications for Pixelfed?

@dansup great work,
looking forward to trying the beta :)

@dansup Thank you. Everyday I’m more amazed - whether it’s your progress on #loops or #pixelfed - I’m really looking forward to seeing the final releases on iOS.

The sheet on the second screenshot should probably be titled just "Options". "Share to -> Share" is confusing, "Share to -> Block" even more so. It would also work better if you make these options icon-with-label buttons like these: