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Sean Tilley

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I write articles and interview people about the Fediverse and decentralized technologies. In my spare time, I play lots of video games. I also like to make pixel art, music, and games.

  • Fedicon is happening in Vancouver, BC this weekend

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  • Will there ever be a PeerTube TV app (official or third-party)?

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  • Actually, it looks like PeerVue for Roku is what you're looking for.

  • Will there ever be a PeerTube TV app (official or third-party)?

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  • GNU/Hurd Now An Official Platform For SDL Cross-Platform Gaming Library

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  • Hell yeah! HURD gaming, here I come!

  • Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

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  • I would imagine that this is getting addressed in the update as well.

  • Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

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  • A significant portion of the code is available, I think it's just a matter of getting the latest code pushed out to public release status. Judging by the server repo, seems like a lot of development is happening out in the open.

    https://github.com/joinloops

  • Fedicon 2025 is currently taking place. All the videos are being posted in this PeerTube account

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  • I mean, all of the videos are uploaded to PeerTube, and that instance (run by me) federates across a big chunk of the network. Like, yeah, the videos themselves live in an S3 bucket somewhere, but the metadata federation and P2P video capabilities (plus the ability to mirror redundant copies) somewhat mitigates that.

  • I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good

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  • Wanting to get paid for your work, so that you can keep making stuff, is in fact not the same thing as greed. We have this assumption that everything on the Web should be free, or at least helped along by donations, but it's not sustainable.

  • Channel.org open beta

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  • Channel is basically a white label instance of PatchWork, which is a Mastodon fork with custom feeds and community curation tools.

    The main intent behind the project is to help existing communities and organizations get onto the Fediverse, and have some curation capabilities. Ideally, it can be used to get a large amount of people and accounts onto the network with minimal friction.

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • I always liked the concept of Matrix, and still actively use it, but there's some serious jank. Synapse is generally bloated and not fun to run an instance, Dendrite is perpetually in Beta, and the clients themselves range from adequate to awful. The default Element client on Android is so broken for me that I'm forced to use Element X, because I can't even log in with Element.

    It's disappointing, but there's a ton of issues that aren't so easy to resolve. New Vector and the Element Foundation are basically two separate entities that have some kind of hard split between them, neither of which seems to have the money necessary to support comprehensive development. The protocol is said to be bloated and overtly complex, and trying to develop a client or a server implementation is something of a nightmare.

    I want to see Matrix succeed, I think a lot of people see the potential of what it could be. I'm not sure it'll ever get there.

  • Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"

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  • Thank you! I've been thinking about it a lot, and I think it could be used to solve a bunch of different problems, like importing stuff from other networks, and having everything ready to go before you join an instance.

    There's some UX questions that have to be figured out, the last thing I want is some super-cluttered design that asks for a million different options. Also, platforms would need to provide some necessary APIs (for registration and data import) to make it fully useable.

  • Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"

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  • My main critique is just that, within the Mastodon side of the Fediverse, the design is highly misleading about what the feature does. It resembles a normal DM feature, but the message addressing is purely handled by mentions in the message body.

    Basically, it's an antipattern, causing people to accidentally mention other people in what's assumed to be a Direct Message. It's less about privacy, more about poor telegraphing of side-effects.

  • Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"

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  • I used to feel that way, but there's so much crap on that timeline, especially when you're on a bigger instance. I used to use it for the exact same thing, discovery. A lot of it is just noise to me now, though.

  • Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"

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  • Well, no, this was just responding to a critique on UX shortcomings, and highlighting how different efforts could solve various problems.

    It sounds more like you're talking about one of my previous blog posts, where I was talking about a super-flexible frontend that's basically a pagebuilder. Make no mistake, I would love to see custom profile music and radios! And I agree that accessibility needs to be way better!

  • Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse

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  • Yes

  • Bounce Helps You Switch Networks

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  • Oh nice!

  • My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk

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  • I think a lot of people do it because they want to build communities and bring people together. It's easy to underestimate the workload and what kind of problems come up. A big problem is that people start instances, and gradually realize that they're basically stuck running things until they either hand it off to someone else, or shut down.

  • FediForum Has Been Canceled

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  • Posting from another thread:

    Her comments cover everything from “trans women are mostly autistic boys who have been gaslit” to “there are only two sexes” to “trans people are unfit to play in their gender’s sport.” However, there are far worse comments floating around out there that talk about genital mutilation and all kinds of other heinous shit.

    It wasn't just "I have a different opinion, we can agree to disagree", it was full-fledged unhinged stuff that all followed the TERF playbook.

  • homelessness

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  • my view of homeless people changed forever when I learned that more than half of them were foster kids who aged out of the system and were left with no family or resources.

    Jesus, that's dark.

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    Hands on with Ghost’s New ActivityPub Beta

    wedistribute.org /2025/03/ghost-activitypub-beta/
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    Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music

    wedistribute.org /2025/02/funkwhale-filter/
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    How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server

    wedistribute.org /2025/02/your-fediverse-server/
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    IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis

    wedistribute.org /2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/
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    Remembering Radio Free Fedi

    wedistribute.org /2025/02/radio-free-fedi-shuts-down/
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    Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash

    wedistribute.org /2025/02/fedionfire-shutdown/
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    Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

    wedistribute.org /2025/01/pixelfed-kickstarter/
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    The Challenge of Upward Momentum - We Distribute

    wedistribute.org /2025/01/upward-momentum/
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    Surf is a "Social Browser" App From Flipboard

    wedistribute.org /2024/12/surf-social-browser/
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    How to Make Your First Loops Video

    wedistribute.org /2024/12/make-loops-video/
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    Threads Beta Feature Enables Fediverse Profiles

    wedistribute.org /2024/12/threads-fediverse-profiles/
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    First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed

    wedistribute.org /2024/11/loops-early-look/
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    Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers

    wedistribute.org /2024/09/fediverse-discovery-providers/
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    Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation

    wedistribute.org /2024/09/social-web-foundation-launch/
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    The Revolution Will Be Federated

    wedistribute.org /2024/09/the-revolution-will-be-federated/
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    Bandwagon is Emissary’s Bandcamp Alternative

    wedistribute.org /2024/09/bandwagon-music/
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    sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions

    wedistribute.org /2024/09/subclub-paid-subscriptions/
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    A Brief History of the Fediverse Symbol

    wedistribute.org /2024/09/history-fediverse-symbol
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    Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace

    wedistribute.org /2024/08/flohmarkt-federated-market
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    Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse

    wedistribute.org /2024/08/flipboard-fediverse-following/