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Eugen Rochko

At Whorneyside Force.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

A woman with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and a purple wind jacket, is holding a backpack and glasses while sitting on a rock in front of a waterfall.
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Jon Bosak

@Gargron The human figure makes the landscape come alive. Nice!

ASmellyOgre

@Gargron
Ah, yes. The Force. It has the Light side, and the Dark side, and the Whorneyside…

Lovely picture, though. Really. You have an eye for this.

Eugen Rochko

Lydia's belly isn't a trap. She's quite open and up-front about the fact that she'll attack if you touch her.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats

A photo looking down at a grey tabby cat flat on her back exposing her lovely fluffy belly. She is on a white rug with orange, yellow, and pink swirling stripes.
A photo of the same grey tabby cat with a wild look in her eyes, her mouth open, and her paws reaching up to grab a hand that is just barely visible at the bottom edge of the frame.
Another photo of the grey tabby cat on her back on the rug. She is twisting around with paws in the air and her mouth open to show her teeth. Because she was squirming around to attack me I framed the photo poorly, so some of her paws are cut off.
Another photo of the grey tabby cat on her back on the rug, viewed more closely. Both of her paws are extending out past the bottom of the frame, and she has her mouth open to bare her teeth as she goes in for a bite, a wild expression in her eyes.
Eugen Rochko

Near a church...

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

A grey stone building peaking from behind lush green woods underneath a grey overcast sky.
Eugen Rochko

Please remember that Mastodon doesn't have a marketing team or budget. Whatever media coverage Mastodon gets is from inbound interest from journalists. The growth of the platform has been predominantly through word of mouth. If you want the fediverse to grow, tell your friends.

Eugen Rochko

"If you’re going to build something, build it in a way that’s standard and portable across multiple services."

@bart and I chatted with @jaypeters of @theverge about @subclub 🙏🏼

I also talk about how protocol-based networks can drive "one last network effect" and start a flywheel of innovation in social media.

Let's bring the social web back to the users 🌐

Read here: theverge.com/2024/9/1/24232298

That could be especially true if the fediverse is successful to the point where it creates what sub.club adviser Anuj Ahooja calls “one last network effect.” That would be the idea of everyone joining fediverse platforms built on an open protocol where it’s possible to interact online with the option to move from network to network and platform to platform at will. “From there, you can drive so much innovation around social media,” Ahooja says.
“If you’re going to build something, build it in a way that’s standard and portable  a cross multiple services"
“There’s a lot of free labor that runs the fediverse right now,” Ahooja says. “So let’s make sure people are getting compensated.”
Eugen Rochko

Here is a totally innocent cat who definitely didn’t steal my spot when I went to refill my cup of tea

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

A tabby cat lying on a couch beside a throw pillow, and looking up at the camera.
Matthew O'Donnell

@Gargron I *just* finished their Bad Moon Rising episodes, and very happy to hear they're still going :D

Danny :verified:

@Gargron played this at a friend's the other week, my first time and didn't understand the game one bit!!!

Apparently my team won

Eugen Rochko

What do you call it when two influencers want to get married? Engagement.

Eugen Rochko

I have been asked this, and yes, sign-ups and overall traffic from #Brazil are picking up today, following the #X ban. Bem-vindos ao Mastodon!

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Eugen Rochko

Aug 10, 10 sign-ups from #Brazil. Aug 28, 152 sign-ups from Brazil. Today, 4.2k sign-ups from Brazil. Portuguese (Brazil) has already entered the list of top 8 active languages for the last 30 days.

Eugen Rochko

New #Leprous album, Melodies of Atonement, is out today!

flexghost.

@Gargron It’s so good. Einar sounds amazing.

New Wintersun and Fleshgod Apocalypse too! So much good music might have to feature it on #MastodonMusic tonight!

NOTxNSANE

@Gargron how did you find it? I think that bar the first 2 singles, everything else sounds incredibly good. Lots of Malina vibes for me.

manú ela kloß 🦋

@Gargron • By Accident & By Chance ! Kross + Cross Posting ! • @flexghost • Contact Info for Feastday #Album • Mixed by #NothingbutThieves • Mastered by #smith • Recorded by #CastillO !

x.com/studio_ahOi/status/18433

Eugen Rochko

If you like the work that we do--the upcoming 4.3 release, the nightlies for the past year, if you're a user of mastodon.social, or our official apps, or a fork that depends on our work--consider supporting us on Patreon. Mastodon doesn't do ads and doesn't sell your data, so we depend entirely on your support via crowdfunding:

patreon.com/mastodon

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phi1997

@Gargron
I'm looking forward to the 4:3 release of Mastodon, it's a classic aspect ratio

Silvia180sx

@Gargron I haven’t been able to use the news tab in almost a month without the app crashing. It’s basically taken me off the app. :(

Eugen Rochko

Hi folks, we're excited to announce sub.club, payments for the Fediverse. We're the team that built the Mammoth app. Super simple Premium Feeds now available in all Mastodon clients, but especially sexy in Ice Cubes.

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guust

@subclub does this work on Android as well?

🌹 𝐫𝐮𝐳𝐚 ✅:catjam: (eng🇬🇧)

@subclub i appreciate somebody is coming with new things. Up until there will be no Android app for that i still found Nostr with payments integrated into the protocol and a lot of clients available to be better option fort that, even it is still a very niche network.

Eugen Rochko

There is no greater box.
Perfect fit: One cat long and one cat wide. Take note, parcel makers!
#catsofmastodon

Two cats are featured: one black cat is sitting inside a cardboard box filled with crumpled paper, while a gray cat is curiously looking at the box from the side. The background includes a cozy, textured rug and wooden flooring.
A black cat is resting inside a cardboard box lined with crumpled paper. It’s the perfect size, one cat in width and length. The scene is cozy, with wooden furniture in the background and a textured rug beneath.
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Daarin

@anja But isn't it getting lonely in there?

FunGuy2PlayWith

@anja
Typical Maine Coon:
Height: 10”-16" | 25-40 cm
Length: 19”-32” | 48-81 cm
Weight: 10-25 lb | 4.5-11.3 kg

Since Amazon boxes are almost always in that range, even for a single pen, Maine Coon is the way to go for your next kitty.

dimensions.com/element/maine-c

SALT🧂

@anja you can spend as much money as you like on the best present for a cat, but the box and wrapping it came in will always win 🙃

Eugen Rochko

Little bonus @waveformpodcast today about ActivityPub and the Fediverse! If you're trying to understand what the heck the Fediverse is, we get... possibly a little too deep into it. But it's a fun one. Featuring some big names such as @evanprodromou , @mosseri , @mmccue and more. 🎉

Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9CWq5CBlk

Eugen Rochko

@davidimel @waveformpodcast @evanprodromou @mosseri @mmccue If you'd told me the video was going to be used too I would've put more effort into cleaning up the room behind me 😅

Peter Cottle

Awesome episode @davidimel, y'all crushed it. Shoutout to @evanprodromou, @mmccue, and others for lending their perspectives.

I also want to emphasis what @mosseri said at the end -- we can't move as fast as a startup, so fediverse replies won't be done tomorrow (sorry 😅)

But there's a *ton* of benefit to making progress as a large platform, including educating both users and regulators about the benefits of the open web. We're truly trying our best! and we appreciate the patience 😇

Eugen Rochko

“The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus”

baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-s

Where I try to explain, as succinctly as I can (which isn’t that succinct), why I’m worried about where FOSS is heading

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Paul Cantrell

@baldur
Compelling.

This side branch deserves its own writeup:

“Some are reaching for LLM-generated code before they even look for an OSS project, both disconnecting those projects from opportunities to grow a sustainable community and nullifying the strategic advantage of having made an OSS solution for a problem. Note that the models are originally trained on that OSS.”

acb

@baldur @glyph Not sure about the point about laid-off/unemployed engineers not coding. I have spent periods of funemployment between contracts/jobs on side projects (a few apps/frameworks, some playing around with various technologies/languages and such). Looking at the fediverse, I don’t seem to be alone in this. Perhaps better social security such as a UBI would lead to more open source contributions.

Sheogorath 🦊

@baldur I would argue the industry didn't overspend, but overbuilt on FOSS. FOSS was free, is free and that encourages usage. But as all infrastructure, even free one, there is a maintenance price tag and the people with the bills are starting to knock on the door.

As a result: panic.

Not to mention that governments start to pick up on the transparency FOSS provides for regulations.

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