 Pixelfed was forked, I joined their discord and gave them a piece of my mind Forks fucking rule, I'm happy to see this. Open source is crucial to the fediverse, and while we all might not agree on everything, it feels amazing to desire to work with forks Y'all are the real winners, even more so when devs like me do the unthinkable and bring awareness to forks I am cree, and belong to a long line of chiefs and medicine men These are passed down to the oldest son of the oldest son I'm the oldest son. My dad was the oldest, his dad was the oldest. Since I was a kid, I've been prep'd for this Generations of traditions have been passed down I struggle with this in many ways, being a gay man most especially. I feel a duty to pass this on to my own son, and to help heal people in need as I was taught I need to embrace this, and this is my first step!
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@dansup @dansup Traditions are important. But so is your happiness and all, so hope you can keep the struggle light. There has been long traditions I heard in native cultures of gay, lesbian, trans, two-souls, whatever it was called, I bet it happened before, maybe talk to open/progressive elders that might remember.
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 @dansup @pixelfed some people will hate any change, some people will hate not enough change. you can't really keep these folk happy. so manage expectations and get on with your roadmap. but as long as the changes, don't get in people's way, make sense, and there is enough communication for most people there will be some grumbling but they will be fine  An early preview of the redesigned @pixelfed UI It's about time we stepped out of the "federated instagram" shadow While it will remain familiar, I'm eager to build on our Collections (think Pinterest), Exif data (flickr, 500px) and Portfolios (deviantart) features We are not abandoning the social photo sharing aspects of IG Rather we will be extending beyond them to provide new and exciting ways to share photos + videos, more details soon! ๐ธ
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  If you are a bottom, you can ignore this. Tops, they never prepared us for Bravo and reality tv. They hid from us, the Andy Cohen fueled drama that has taken over so much of their free time. If your bottom hasn't asked you to watch any Bravo or TLC show with them, you have hope, don't fall into this trap. We thought we had power, little did we know how tricksy these bottoms could be. It's not too late to just say "Nah" I've tried to find support but there is no treatment for this. My advice is to stay away from anything your bottom wants you to listen to or watch, and don't even get me started on Reels. "babe this is totally you" is a red flag, once you open and watch just one Reel, they won't stop. "why didn't you watch those Reels" is a daily struggle Keep them away from podcasts too, they like to congregate, shits dangerous!! I conflicted with Plane Jane, on one hand she is catty AF and we stan them mean queens but on the other hand she just a dollar store Jimbo and I'm not sure her outfits and opinions will sustain her (like girl, Jimbo was giving wacky and sensational but the only memorable moments you have are in confessionals) I want to love her, but I'm bananas over her nemesis lil mrs.Nymphia #RuPaul #RuPaulsDragRace #Season16 #GirlYouBettaWalkThatDuck #NymphiaWind  @dansup I'm against her because from the comments she made about the other girls I could notice she's clearly fatphobic, one of them gays whose religion is to worship skinnyness. AND THEN because she's discount Jimbo. hope she goes home ASAP. So happy for Venus, this was an iconic season and most of all, as a fellow Metis, I couldn't be more proud of her and the indigenous representation on such a national and global stage. cรฎhkรชyihtam mamihcihiwewak nimis GIRL SLAYYYY ๐ ๐ โจ Thankfully we havenโt lost power yet. Sad to see so many political takes about this situation when really itโs due to 2 major (natural gas powered) power generation facilities being temporarily offline and the excessive demand due to the weather. I hope all my fellow Albertans are safe and am sorry for wishing so hard for snow and a white Christmas ๐ Accidentally posting to a public story on Snapchat is the worst UX ever, like I didnโt know followers even existed on snap and now I have hundreds and they seen too much ๐คฃ Fediverse devs like me get a lot of attention because our work is more user facing, but I still think itโs important to remind people of the crucial work that the ActivityPub authors put in. They did this at a time where there was little to no expectation for established players to join and they laid the groundwork for @Mastodon and others to shine! Yโall wouldnโt be reading this today if Mastodon stuck with just oStatus. Remember the magic of the fediverse is bcuz of them, not Mastodon! @dansup I am very new to the idea of the fediverse. Do you have any recommended reading on this history, other than just Wikipedia (Iโm already reading that)? we really be do standing on the shoulders of giants the fediverse wouldn't exist without the pioneering work of @cwebber, @erincandescent and @evan let's show them some appreciation, Mastodon and Threads get a lot of credit for the ActivityPub spec they built upon and the AP authors don't get the credit they deserve โค๏ธ
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Thanks all! @dansup @cwebber @erincandescent Although @evan won't let me follow him, I don't know if he has blocked only me or all of mastodon.online :-/ y'all be so distracting โค๏ธ (seriously, ask any fedi dev how easy it is to get lost in replies or marketing. Start the night trying to finish a feature and end up helping someone debug an issue or walk through installation. The struggle is real, and I'm here for it most of the time, but now I need to focus on the backlog of features and bug fixes) I unfollowed a few accounts and will be distant from discord/matrix so I can focus on getting caught up on @pixelfed Please don't take it personally fam, I'll be back to my chipper self soon I got a bit distracted with sup, solo and pubkit and need to wrap up the Parental Controls grant milestone so I have the financial stability to focus on side projects like them Donations are very appreciated! I can't emphasize enough how crucial @pixelfed Autospam is to our platform and user experience We're starting to see a lot more spam accounts/posts, and thanks to our (best in class) spam detection system, we are able to prevent 99% of spam posts from ever being seen by users! The best part is it becomes even more accurate and useful the more you train it ๐ Federated Uber but for weed delivery Imagine being able to order the dankest buds or pre-rolls with ease from a local mom/pop store using an open platform that incentivizes delivery with fair driver fees. A stoner can dream...  @dansup better yet, something like an ice cream truck that just has tons of product in the vehicle and drives around town My car didnโt start earlier because of the frigid temperatures of -30 so I plugged her in and she started up with command start just now no problems! I work from home and rarely drive (itโs a 2016 Mazda with only 55k kms lol) but you never know when you need to make an emergency snack/beer/smoke run ๐   |
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@dansup Awesome attitude. Just because you disagree on the direction of a project doesn't mean it has to be hostile.
Best part from my perspective as a potential user of the software? A backup dev team in case the first one burns out. heh!
@dansup don't get too excited. Most forks die almost immediately, once the anger or misunderstanding that triggered the fork blows over and the forkers realize that maintaining a large OSS project mostly sucks and it isn't really about fixing a few bugs or adding some whizbang feature. If you're actively maintaining and improving the project, the fork is unlikely to gain much steam. (But, I agree the right to fork is fundamental to open source, all other rights sort of spring from it.)
@dansup as far as I know, you do almost all of the development on pixelfed yourself. Would this be an opportunity to move to a maintainer team?
#busfactor