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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!

  • Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be

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  • I think there's a balance to be struck between "good defaults" and "customize to your heart's content."

    Emissary is very much in line with some of my own pipe dreams regarding Fediverse / IndieWeb platforms, but it's still very young as a project. I think the best thing they could probably do is ship bundles of templates as different experiences, that are easy to install right out the gate.

    Want a bog-standard microblogging system? Go for it. Want something more like Lemmy? No problem. Want to just build something yourself from scratch? Here's the docs.

    I think what excites me about this is that it could be a tremendous development tool for people looking to mock up new ideas for apps and platforms, while sitting in top of ActivityPub and offering actual functionality. The Music project the lead dev is working on already looks great in less than two weeks of development, and aims to be compatible with Funkwhale.

  • You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

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  • I'd actually love to see something like this happen, as it seems to be something European governments and officials are embracing. To have something similar for the United States would be incredible.

    I think at the moment, there's a real need for advocates, consultants, and vendors that can actually cater to government entities here. I would imagine there's probably some crazy data requirements needed for US Government Officials.

  • You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

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  • They probably thought they'd reach a greater number of people. They're probably right.

  • Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024)

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  • Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024)

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  • If you can take a moment to move your massive, fragile ego out of the way, you'll realize it's not a hit piece. It's criticism of your behavior in reaction to what is frankly a reasonable set of requests.

    Journalism is not just about serving as a propagandic mouthpiece to lionize you and your work. Sometimes, I have to report on subjects that are frankly horrible, people acting shitty, and how people in spaces react to that.

    Effectively you are blowing the complaints of a single user completely out of proportion. It is true that we didnt respond ideally in the mentioned issue, but neither is it okay for a user to act so demanding towards open source developers who provide software for free.

    This issue is basic fucking table stakes for user safety and data compliance, and the fact that it still does not exist after four years of being a project is wild to me. It creates liabilities for admins. The fact that it's still a problem, right now, illustrates that these things are not direct concerns in how you design software.

    I find it very questionable that you publish this sort of hit piece against Lemmy without even bothering to ask for a comment from our side.

    Your comments were in the GitHub issues.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml

    Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024)

    wedistribute.org /2024/03/lemmy-image-problem/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml

    Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy

    wedistribute.org /2024/01/sublinks-a-replacement-for-lemmy/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml

    Faircamp is a Free Bandcamp Alternative

    wedistribute.org /2023/11/introducing-faircamp/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
    Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml
    RESOLVED

    Strange Proton Crash with Starfield after 135 hours of playing (AMD/Mesa)

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml

    Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse

    wedistribute.org /2023/08/threads-new-terms-affects-the-fediverse/

  • Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice?

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  • Hey, I'm the guy who started the .ml fediverse community. I started it with the Lemmy part of the network was young, and there weren't many instances yet. It's become a very active community, and I'm constantly amazed to see how much faster things move these days.

    This has kind of been an ongoing conversation in some prior feature request discussions for Lemmy. One idea is that communities could consensually relay posts from one together, effectively creating a group containing Group Actors. This would probably cut down on duplicate content, but could create a larger surface vector for spam. But, I think it's an interesting idea.

    I don't really have a full idea of what the best solution is. A Fediverse-specific instance similar to socialhub.activitypub.rocks could be a really interesting experiment, in that it would try to serve as a "Neutral Zone" between instances while sharing all kinds of news.

    In the end, I don't really have much of a horse in this race. I think cutting down on duplication and redundant communities in favor of a more active shared space would probably have a lot of benefits, there's always going to be independent communities dedicated to the same theme on some far-off server. I'm not really interested in preventing anybody from starting their own.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml

    Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy

    wedistribute.org /2023/07/alexandrite-lemmy-web-frontend/

  • Normalizing home server donations

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  • I really wish this was standardized more across instances. The fediverse is extremely large, but a lot of servers end up being paid for solely by whoever runs them.

    I get that not everybody can afford it, but...a few bucks a month to supporting a server goes a long way.