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Notices by deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 23:13:50 UTC 
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 03:25:06 UTC
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Sadly, Diaspora has historically been a bad actor in the space, when it comes to supporting other protocols, or helping other platforms adopt their own.
Things really slowed down in the early 2010’s, with the departure of the original core team, and community development has kind of been stuck in a “life support mode” for nearly 9 or 10 years now. Some big features are coming down the pipe, but the attitude of “we don’t have developer resources to support that right now” has slowly mutated into a mindset of “we will never support something not made by us”.
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 03:24:58 UTC
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I used to be the Community Manager over there. I really loved the project in the early days, but it seems to be perpetually stuck in the past.
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jun-2022 14:13:13 UTC
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Critics of the Steam Deck have stated that the Deck “has no identity of its own”, partially because it “offers no exclusives”.
My brother in Christ, it can play almost any game produced within the last 40 years or so. Exclusives are a dumb concept to prop up walled gardens.
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 14-Mar-2022 08:21:06 UTC
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This status was made 420 years ago! -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jan-2022 08:57:45 UTC
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It's early days as of yet: due to #FENEAS dissolving as an organization, I am looking at the possibility of spinning #WeDistribute back off into its own self-hosted media publication again.
We Distribute has only been sporadically updated in recent years (primarily my fault), but in the past has served as an exclusive news publication dedicated to the development and the advancement of the #Fediverse and other decentralized communication technologies. I'm looking into reviving it in a healthy way where I can reliably put out news week after week.
I've started a LibrePay team to see if there's a way to cover the month-to-month hosting costs for project infrastructure: https://liberapay.com/WeDistribute/ -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 03-Jan-2022 14:28:00 UTC
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I love #PeerTube as a project, and have been running an instance basically forever, but my experience on finding stuff to watch is almost as difficult as it is to find people who want to be part of my instance.
Make no mistake: I can basically afford to run my instance for years to come, and plan to keep it on for some time. But, I feel as though my attempt to make a little community for video creators just isn't really progressing in any way. It feels really frustrating.
Making videos is fun, but it also feels like a lot of effort for very little payoff in my case. Every now and then, I make a new effort, but it just feels like I'm politely speaking into the void.
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Oct-2020 22:36:26 UTC
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For some time, now, I've seen various people vent their frustrations over the state of the fediverse, what it is, and where development is going.
Some of the arguments are pretty compelling: the lack of a central working group for the standard doesn't exactly bode well for subsequent iterations of the spec. The biggest player in the space kind of has a stranglehold on certain usage conventions. Most implementations don't offer great privacy considerations, and aren't exactly designed with at-risk users in mind.
These are good things to think about, in regards to what the fediverse ought to become. There's a lot of incredible work going on under the surface, and I'm always impressed to see what these different projects are capable of doing.
But, there's a lot of toxic shit, too. Normally, I just hold my tongue because I'm used to the endless cycles of complaining and infighting and finger-pointing that makes up the worst parts of the space. You can't just take the good without the bad - this project is the byproduct of humans all building towards one common thing with different ideas about how to do it, in what way, and for what purposes.
I'm growing very tired of it, though. I'm exhausted by the endless ideology, the pseudomarxist dialectic that casts everybody working on this thing as a white fash-adjacent cis male developer living in a vacuum while jerking off to hentai and reading Mein Kampf. I'm tired of the hand-waving that this system is bad because it's meritocratic - I'm sorry, it takes technical knowledge to learn how to build things, and people aren't going to build things 100% to your specifications for you for free, no questions asked. I'm tired of seeing people whine and complain about how bad things are, how bad people are, and either sit and do nothing or crawl back to Twitter because the toxic environment there ended up being more conducive to their brand of alienation.
The people who have been trying to do the most with moving stuff forward have often had the least help in doing so, and often have to dig through endless criticism by people who prefer to sit on the sidelines and act like they're fucking fascists for not bowing down to their demands. It's happened with too many projects to count, where someone gets a horrible rap for not prioritizing some specific feature because they themselves don't even know how to start working on it in a given phase of development. Entire reputations get smeared - and yes, sometimes it's the byproduct of pursuing a bad idea because it seemed right at the time. People are allowed to make mistakes.
If there's anything I truly hate here, it's this never-ending toxic cycle of in-group out-group relations, where the finger gets pointed and everybody starts up all over again. It isn't that we can't fix what's broken or work together to make it better...we just get stuck on bullshit tribalism and flock to mass cultural hallucinations to explain things away, because that's more comfortable than actually doing the work.
Yeah, we're building a space that anyone can take part in, regardless of what they have to say is good or bad. That's freedom - boundless in its potential and unrestrained in its expression. Liberty brings in every possible belief system, every identity, and every label, regardless of whether they are good or bad relative to an individual. You can't control who gets to use it, or what people get to say, or who voluntarily associates with who. Instead, ideally, you get to decide who can see you, what they can do, and whether they should be able to interact with you. Your experience of the network ought to be something that you curate and control, in regards of what you can see. Your view of the network stops at the things you don't want to see, and the things other people don't want you to see.
You get to filter out the crap and interact with whoever you like. Personally, I'm all for the idea of greylisting and whitelisting instances as communities start and gradually branch out...we might have a bunch of fiefdoms for a while, but if that's what needs to happen to cut down on instance drama, to reinforce enclaves prior to opening the floodgates again, spaces ought to be free to do so.
We're at the point where we have a network with almost four million people on it. Some days, it may look like we're all just bullshitting around, but we have the potential to kill Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Soundcloud, DeviantArt, Tiktok and more. We could lay waste to the entire old guard of Silicon Valley, if we wanted to, and redefine a lot of what the web currently is. We could knock down a lot of walled gardens and kill a lot of financial incentives to put eyeballs on pages full of trackers. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2020 02:57:46 UTC
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Hey, #ActivityPub experts: what's your opinion of #Spritely so far? I'm just reading up on it and trying to wrap my head around its various parts, and wonder what other people's opinions on it are.
https://spritelyproject.org/ -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2020 21:34:52 UTC
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Thinking about doubling down on my efforts with #Patreon. I only have about a month or so before I ship out (allegedly), but I have some ideas for projects:
✅ New PeerTube channel focusing on the history of online communities and communication networks, including the fediverse
✅ New articles, reviews, and interviews for #WeDistribute
✅ Indie game reviews on my blog
✅ Regular updates on my game development projects
✅ New art pieces and a portfolio gallery
Patreon page and perks still under construction, but can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/DeadSuperHero -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2020 19:15:52 UTC
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Cleaned up spam and fixed up internal data stuff for #WeDistribute. Hopefully, I'll be able to start posting new articles as early as this week!
Special thanks for help from @feneas for patching our federation plugin to help mitigate the federated spam issue. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2020 22:26:39 UTC
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Are there any game dev fediverse instances or indie game developers on this network that I ought to follow? I want to populate my timeline with more people making stuff. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2019 20:24:40 UTC
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Can anyone recommend a good desktop client for XMPP that supports OMEMO?
I'm kind of surprised that Empathy doesn't. I thought it was sort of supposed to be the official gnome messaging product? -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2019 02:17:42 UTC
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An extremely rough attempt to recreate Poppy's magical hit "Computer Boy", which has been stuck in my head for days now. I can't stop. Send help.
Yes, some of the lyrics and instrumentation are totally wrong. I'm not sorry.
Computer Boy - Poppy -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2019 00:13:49 UTC
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Due to the extreme emergency mode my life is going into, I can no longer afford to host or maintain VidCommons.org. In case you don't recall, VC is a PeerTube instance serving as a library of Public Domain and Creative Commons media for the fediverse, kind of like what Open Audio is for Funkwhale.
If anyone is interested in transferring ownership to continue running the project, please let me know in short order! Otherwise, the instance will be discontinued at the end of next week.
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2019 08:51:17 UTC
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Hey, just looking to get some opinions.
If you built your own personal website, what did you use for a backend? Did you end up using a dedicated CMS, or did you end up taking an approach more similar to Jekyll or Hugo?
I'm exploring some different possibilities, with a specific interest on syndicating content from several webapps running on subdomains. [ ] WordPress [ ] Drupal [ ] Hubzilla [ ] Jekyll [ ] Hugo [ ] Rails [ ] Django [ ] Raw HTML [ ] Something else -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2019 18:57:09 UTC
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When you make your own low-quality reaction gifs.
Sean judging you. -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 23:01:45 UTC
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I'm also totally down to do freelance and commission work. I'm a writer and budding musician, and have experience with creating surreal and abstract art.
So, DM me if you see an opportunity to work together, maybe something can happen there.
Abstract Pattern
Abstract Pattern
Really abstract pattern
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deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2019 22:58:32 UTC
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Hey, listen.
I've been unemployed for the last few months, recovering from intense burnout. I'm in the process of looking for jobs, but realistically, I'm very close to being broke.
I'm trying my best to live lean and come up with some kind of income...but to be honest, I need help. I've got only 400 bucks to my name right now, and bills are going to cause major damage.
I'm trying to work my way up to $1210 to cover rent after the next month. While I don't at all expect that kind of money to just be handed to me, I'm not confident that I'm going to be able to get a job in time to cover it.
My biggest costs right now are servers. I'm running We Distribute and VidCommons entirely out of pocket with no donations. This probably is why neither have been updated very frequently in recent months, but if they're to continue operation, I need at least 80 bucks to cover it. If I can't, both of those projects will be on ice for a while, with their sites taken down.
If anyone would like to help me financially during this trying time, here's some links for donations. I hate having to do this, but I'm trying to survive.
Patron: https://patreon.com/deadsuperhero
PayPal: sean@deadsuperhero.com -
deadsuperhero (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2019 23:52:10 UTC
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How is a Philip K Dick novel like a super burrito?
Both are awesome and both completely fall apart when you get close to the end.
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