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Sean Tilley

@ deadsuperhero @lemmy.ml

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Former Diaspora core team member, I work on various fediverse projects, and also spend my time making music and indie adventure games!

  • The single most thing that improved your ADHD?

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  • Adderall. There are, of course, some trade-offs. Having gone so many years without any kind of medication, though, it's a night and day difference.

    I feel like my memory recall is so, so much better with it. When I'm off meds, I often find myself in a mental fog, struggling to remember details spoken to me moments ago. It's like I'm constantly trying to hold onto a thought, as it's rapidly slipping out of my grasp.

    I still have to rely on the productivity methods that work for me. I obsessively take notes and make lists, because I would be totally lost without either. I'm slowly making lifestyle changes that are helping me overcome almost 20 years of clutter.

  • Introducing Decentralized Social Icons

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  • Yep, I'm aware of their effort, and have reached out about collaboration. 😁

    The icon font I've been building might technically predate it. I've been building it since December at least, and it's something our site depends on.

  • “Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism

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  • Regardless of how you feel about it, it's still notable that people on the Fediverse managed to scrape $500k together. This is the first time something like that has ever happened on this network. In the world of big politics and presidential campaigns, it's not much. However, within the scope of grassroots organizing, it's substantial.

    I agree that I would love to see that funding go towards mutual aid, infra and project funding, and supporting people who work on different parts of the network.

  • NeoDB is a Review System for Culture

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  • I think it's a big opportunity that the Fediverse has largely slept on. A lot of people shrug it off, but Facebook, Instagram, Medium, and a number of other places offer an export archive of your data.

    Some of it isn't all that usable, but there's something extremely appealing about being able to take old parts of your social graph with you, and merge it into a new identity. A fixation I've had for the past few years is consolidating all of my data into one place, under one identity, and I'm exploring the possibility of writing data converters.

    Interestingly, Pixelfed allows you to import your Instagram archive, and it's fantastic.

  • NeoDB is a Review System for Culture

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  • So, to be clear: it's not a concept like Nomadic Identity. Rather, it's a demonstration of importing data archives from other social networks and platforms, and integrating that data into an existing Fediverse account.

    In other words: it's not a singular managed identity for all your apps, it's a mechanism for marrying data from different systems to a Fediverse Actor. Paired with something like Nomadic Identity, it would be a game changer.

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    NeoDB is a Review System for Culture

    wedistribute.org /2024/07/neodb-review-culture/

  • What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)

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  • I used to work with enterprise customers at a SaaS company, and still have a lot of anger in how corporate types use this fluffy language. I think my "favorite" example of this jargon is "Please Advise.", which basically just means "What the fuck?!"

  • What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)

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  • I was working at a tool checkout in my shop for a while, and the sheer amount of ignorance and repetition blew me away.

    People would come in, see signs stating things like "Don't throw your hazardous waste in this trash can!", and people would straight up ignore it. Things got so bad that we had to stop offering a trash can in our part of the shop.

    A lot of people would also just repeat the same statements, day after day, week after week. For example, we have iPads that contain maintenance manuals. We have to update those manuals every week, on the same day. Without fail, the same people always forget which day Update Day is, and have to ask.

    The worst ones happen when people come to turn in their gear before end of shift. Most people are fine, but every toolbox has to be thoroughly inspected before being scanned back in. Often, somebody misplaced a tool, left garbage in the box somewhere, or there's some other undocumented discrepancy.

    Most people are cool about it, and willing to make things right. But, some people act like you've purposely screwed them over, or react with total apathy and disrespect. I don't make the rules, man, I'm just trying to do my job.

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    Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide

    wedistribute.org /2024/07/fediverse-privacy-and-consent/
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    ActivityPods Releases Example App to Help Developers

    wedistribute.org /2024/07/activitypods-example-app/
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    Canvas 2024 is Live!

    wedistribute.org /2024/07/canvas-2024-live/
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    An Admin's Guide to Fixing PeerTube

    wedistribute.org /2024/07/fixing-peertube-videos/

  • Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts

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  • The shocking part was less about Maven's methods or lack of ethics, and more along the lines of "How the fuck did they do that?!"

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    Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts

    wedistribute.org /2024/06/maven-mastodon-posts/
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    IFTAS Launches Moderator Resource Portal

    wedistribute.org /2024/06/iftas-connect-launches/

  • FediVision 2024 is Live! Listen and Vote!

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  • Oh wow, how did I miss this?!

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    FediVision 2024 is Live! Listen and Vote!

    wedistribute.org /2024/05/listen-fedivision-2024/

  • It’s my 15 year fediversary today!

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  • Congratulations! I've been around for roughly the same amount of time, and it's wild to see how much things have changed.

    I still miss old Identi.ca, though.

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    A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members

    wedistribute.org /2024/05/mastodons-board-members/
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    You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts!

    wedistribute.org /2024/05/fediverse-bluesky-bridge/

  • The Trouble with Forking Mastodon

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  • Most of the backlash pertains to the board members appointed to the new nonprofit. One of the members is a lawyer that has defended crypto and AI companies, another is ex-Twitter angel investor Biz Stone.

    Mastodon's community usually has some kind of vague beef about one thing or another when it comes to Eugen and the decisions he makes for the project, whether it's a new feature or a design change or that he didn't do something that other projects wanted to do.

  • The Trouble with Forking Mastodon

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  • Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud. IMO, as a product Nextcloud is superior in every way.

  • The Trouble with Forking Mastodon

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  • It actually does have that nowadays, it's just that the feature requires Elasticsearch to work, which is one extra piece of infra for admins to worry about.

  • The Trouble with Forking Mastodon

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  • Yeah, if you read the article, Hometown and Glitch actually get mentioned. The criticism is not about making a fork to do your own thing... but, instead, about trying to compete with Mastodon directly.

    Doing that kind of fork (which is what people are calling for) requires a tremendous amount of coordination, effort, and commitment that cannot be done casually.

  • The Trouble with Forking Mastodon

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  • This is a situation that I think will get better in time. There's some really promising efforts involving Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, where multiple projects collaborate on shared ways of doing things. Some of these behaviors are getting studied and standardized by the larger SocialCG entity, as well.

    There's also a lot of promising development behind a Fediverse Testing Suite. If we can develop a platform-agnostic testing system for people to build against, it will potentially become the new development standard, rather than optimizing for Mastodon and nothing else.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    The Trouble with Forking Mastodon

    wedistribute.org /2024/05/forking-mastodon/
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    How to Stream to PeerTube or Owncast with OBS Studio

    wedistribute.org /2024/05/streaming-obs-studio/
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    Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?

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  • While I think shareholders can be a driving factor, I see it way more often with VC-funded companies. The "2.5x year over year" growth mantra that places like YCombinator stipulate have disastrous effects on small tech companies. Often, these startups have an incentive to keep taking additional funding rounds, which appears to tighten the grip the VC has over them.

    Try growing the next Microsoft or Google or Amazon out of that model. I'm not convinced that it's possible. At least if you bootstrap your own company, you don't have the same binding obligations...even if it takes way longer to get to a place that's self-sustaining.

  • I'm giving up — on open source - Blog

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  • Honestly, this really resonated with me. Running an open source project on its own can be hard, running a popular one that gets used by tons of people and companies, while giving free labor, is extremely hard. Acting as free tech support to a large company, for nothing in return, is ass. Full stop.

    I've seen some people make the statement that "maintainers owe you nothing", and I've seen people state that "your supporters owe you nothing."

    While I believe there's nothing wrong in a person willingly running a project on their own terms, just as there's nothing wrong with refusing donations and doing the work out of some kind of passion... there's only so many hours in the day, and developers need to feed themselves and pay rent.

    I think a lot of people would love to be able to work on open source full-time. I'd devote all of my energy and focus to it, if I could. But, that's a reality only for a privileged few, and many of them still have to make compromises. The CEO and founder of Mastodon, for example, makes a pittance compared to what a corporate junior developer makes.

  • Corporate Open Source is Dead

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  • Sentry also did this by embracing the Business Source License. Technically, you can still get an MIT-licensed version, but it has to be more than two years old.

    As a former employee that worked there during the days that Sentry really promoted itself being Open Source, it was disappointing to see. VC Funding and a growth obsession basically poisoned the well.

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    Interview with Matthias Pfefferle, Author of the WordPress-ActivityPub plugin

    wedistribute.org /podcast/wordpress-matthias-pfefferle/

  • Fediverse Article Interop Working Group

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  • Hell yeah, I'm all about this. Article gets rendered so poorly on Mastodon, and the behavior is inconsistent from one platform to the next.

  • ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods

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  • Yes, we have an article in the works about it. 😁

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    ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods

    wedistribute.org /2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/
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    Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be

    wedistribute.org /2024/04/emissary-social-web/
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    PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta

    wedistribute.org /2024/04/pubkit-closed-beta/
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    Talking to Manton Reece about IndieWeb, Federation, and Personal Blogging

    wedistribute.org /podcast/manton-reece-micro-blog/