What’s mandos? I don’t find anything useful when searching for it.

Most recent episode is 17th Jan. Did they stop?

Substack is Geocities for the Tumblr generation.

Newsletters? Google killed RSS so we could have newsletters?

No, I said, “I like the slacks you’re wearing.” They would go nicely with a red hat.

I think the way to make it work is to have each instance represent a “world” and you only have stats and equipment within a world. Then when you cross over to another instance you are now subject to that instance’s ruleset.

It wouldn’t be so much a federated MMO but more like a large variety of games connected geographically (in the virtual sense).

I’m trying to figure out what that looks like. So you mean they’re just peer to peer? I’d be interested to see one of those, sounds cool.

I’m not sure PixelFed is the best choice for private storage of photos. It’s social media more than it is cloud storage.

Would Immich fit your requirements? I don’t think it encrypts either, but you can self-host it.

Same.

.ml has been loading slowly, and then the image thumbnails take even longer.

Is the whole network under a DDoS or something?

This is the SelfHosted community.

also, Fuck anything predicated on being popular. We can exist without constantly competing for a popularity contest.

Fuck Bluesky and Fuck popular music.

One thing about Cory’s books is that there is always some extremely cringe party section with some rather forced romance part screaming “how do you do fellow kids?” even to me, a middle aged guy himself.

How is that relevant to this post?

your company is hiring and you want to help bring people that are like-minded

This is a mistake. When building any kind of team, you want diversity of experience, backgrounds, viewpoints etc. A mono-culture is extremely prone to group-think and is unlikely to generate ideas as quickly or elegantly as a team comprising many different types of people.

The second reason why I have always advised my teams not to consider “culture-fit” when interviewing prospective employees is that it is a covert way of discriminating against people who have otherwise protected attributes (race, religion, gender, sexuality etc).

You should hire people based on their ability to perform the job, and nothing else.

Looks like a nice idea but jesus tap-dancing christ that name is horrible. I can’t imagine ever trying to convince any of my friends to participate.

Selection bias.

All of the people who are happy with the fediverse just stay here and participate without writing a navel-gazing “review.”

*your

It’s pretty easy to check and see that this isn’t how it works. I checked both my instance and yours and both of them host the images that have been posted to communities on other instances, so clearly images are transferred (or cached) between instances.