It means we’re winning.

You can just follow hashtags instead of users on Mastodon. In fact I think that’s the best way to use it.

You can also subscribe to a hashtag via RSS, which is really useful.

That’s great news. The actual number of viewers will be higher too because not everyone who’s watching a video will be logged in to a PT account.

I downloaded the apk because it wasn’t on f-droid yet - maybe others did the same.

Grandfather: “How is your garden”

Grandson: “Needs a firmware update”

The most useful thing about interacting with another human mind is that it can see when the question needs to be updated in order to get a correct answer.

A crude example would be:

Q1: how many screws should I use to join these pieces of wood?

A1: It’s more relevant to use screws which are long enough.

Q2: Which screws should I use?

A2: This size.

I agree. Real community vibes somehow. I use Pixelfed to experience art and encourage artists I like rather than for ‘lifestyle’ content and it’s absolutely perfect. I love it

Pixelfed is definitely not empty. It even includes posts which include images from Mastodon. I actually find it the best part of the Fediverse, with absolutely loads of great photography and art. Just try following a few hashtags that you’re interested and see 👍

It’s pretty amazing isn’t it?! There’s no way that I would have had the time and patience set up a server without it.

Do you know if hugo blogs can federate?

Peachy. Sounds like there’s nothing to worry about then (from a user POV).

I’ve installed it from F-droid but still. Fuck google. They really do need breaking up.

I heavily rely on Syncthing. Does anyone know what the outlook is for Syncthing-fork, or what the likelihood is of someone taking on maintenance of this version?

Why not. I know a lot of people are into this.

I’m personally not interested in seeing video clips on Pixelfed, so I hope they can be hidden in account settings.

But respect to Pixelfed developers who seem to do a great job - it’s awesome.

Edit: looked properly at loops and it looks like it’s a totally separate thing to Pixelfed. Happy days!

Er, what?

I love RFF. In fact I’ve enjoyed listening to it more than any other online source of music for a long time.

It’s a community internet radio station that plays music (and some spoken word) from artists on the Fediverse.

I love it, especially their ‘Comfy’ channel.

OK, apology accepted. And I do agree that commodified/appropriated speech is annoying to hear by the way.

How about a deal; you make more of an effort to be nice, and I make more of an effort to avoid corporate language?

Woah, shame on me for not getting my thesaurus out for you. I’ll be more careful next time…

There’s no need to be rude and swear at me. Be polite, offer a correction. If you’re against corporations (like I am) then maybe leave their culture of antagonism at the door and help keep the Fediverse pleasant, helpful and cooperative.

You’re not doing it wrong. It’s just a bit like that at the moment.

What Peertube needs is for other Fediverse platforms to build in a filter so only posts which contain video are displayed.

Peertube posts do federate but because there are way less videos produced than text and image posts (for obvious reasons) they are drowned out. Filtering by content type seems like the obvious solution. This is how Pixelfed works (but for still images), so it’s clearly possible.

My feeling is that we’re still in the first iteration of the Fediverse, where it’s mostly trying to replace the functionality of corporate platforms. Which I think has mostly been achieved now. Hopefully it will start leaning into its unique strengths now and become really innovative.

Of course there is also the issue of adoption and Peertube has had less publicity than Mastodon and Lemmy, so it’s understandable that there is less content. If you can, contact your favourite youtubers and ask them to start a Peertube channel. If enough of us do this it starts to become a thing :)

Pretty much like everything else corporations do then!