Sean Tilley

@ deadsuperhero @lemmy.world

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2 yr. ago

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.

1y ago

Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago
Generally speaking, I agree. It's just interesting to see a platform force a mechanism into itself that admins can't turn off. The only thing that really bugs me about that is that admins are kind of supposed to have the final say on what their server does, and some of the infrastructure for this idea seems a bit shaky at best.

1y ago

Remembering Radio Free Fedi

You might want to check out Bandwagon. It's ActivityPub-based, and you can use it to submit your music to The Indie Beat Radio: https://bandwagon.fm/

1y ago

Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

Yeah, that was the Content Nation debacle: https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

What's really sad is that the CN dev is actually a super nice and thoughtful dude. In his jurisdiction (Germany) he could've gone to prison after being caught with said materials.

1y ago

Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

Same thing initially happened with BridgyFed: https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/

1y ago

The Platform Directory - Find the right PeerTube platform for you!

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

I run Spectra Video at https://spectra.video/. We have gated signups: basically, someone fills out a request form, we review it, the account gets approved within a short turnaround time, and the user's channel gets created.

1y ago

If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

There is a PeerTube plugin for premium subscriptions that does exactly this: https://github.com/kontrollanten/peertube-plugin-premium-users

1y ago

Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

Yeah, I'd say it might have more to do with the fact that making texts posts is a lot easier than making videos. It's still possible to introduce too much noise, regardless of medium, but there's a lot less friction when the medium is simpler and doesn't require much work.

1y ago

If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

It would be nice if there was an easy and straightforward way for instances to create their own shared indexes. There's a feature for this in PeerTube, which I guess is supposed to act like instance following + a shared search catalogue. It would be handy to know how to easily make sort of the federation equivalent of a webring.

The devs are also working on a mobile app, which I think is something the platform is sorely missing.

1y ago

Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

I actually wrote a bit about this in the past: https://deadsuperhero.com/2021/10/peertubes-content-wasteland/

TL;DR - Yeah, it's possible to fill up your local catalogue of remote entries really quickly through instance following. The problem is not a shortage of instances or videos, the problem is that cutting it down to the good stuff requires a lot of active curation. It's very easy to just open the firehose and drown in a never-ending stream of junk.

1y ago

Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

To be fair, the flagship instance recently had a surge of 200,000 new sign-ups. Dansup mentioned to me that he's currently seeing like 50 new posts every minute. He's probably scrambling to upgrade infra.

1y ago

Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

I agree, but there's still plenty of time for that to happen. I wish them all the success in the world.

1y ago

Surf is a "Social Browser" App From Flipboard

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

I can confirm that the email is only for sending out an invite, for downloading the beta version. You just use your existing MastoAPI-enabled Fediverse account.

1y ago

Surf is a "Social Browser" App From Flipboard

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

Good to know. I have an inkling that this probably slipped under the radar when the SurfApp team were looking at branding and trademarks. Despite the fact that Suckless projects tend to have a somewhat popular following in the *nix community, it's probably pretty obscure anywhere else.

1y ago

Surf is a "Social Browser" App From Flipboard

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

That’s not what this is. It’s more of a feed aggregator / reader with social features, framed as a browser of sorts.

The main thing it’s used for is feed curation and content discovery. You can basically use anything with a feed as a source, then aggregate and filter things.

It’s kind of like a news reader version of Yahoo Pipes almost.

1y ago

Surf is a "Social Browser" App From Flipboard

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

Kind of. It doesn't do everything, but it could be a killer app for custom feeds and discovery in the Fediverse. It's still in Beta, and feels a little underdeveloped, but it's a promising proof-of-concept.

1y ago

Surf is a "Social Browser" App From Flipboard

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

[sorry, a Lemmy bug made me reply to the wrong comment]

1y ago

Threads Has Blocked Minds From Federating With Them

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

That's honestly hilarious, fuck Minds.com. Place is literally Gab Lite.

1y ago

How to Make Your First Loops Video

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

Lukewarm take at best. It's cool if it's not for you personally, but a lot of people use it, love it, and benefit from it.

I think the stuff that Loops is building out could eventually become a standard feature that a lot of Fediverse platforms optionally offer. That kind of interop for the people that want it is frankly a win.

1y ago

How to Make Your First Loops Video

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

They were for a while, but I think the process has opened up a bit?

1y ago

How to Make Your First Loops Video

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Sean Tilley @lemmy.world 1y ago

You might want to try CapCut. It's by ByteDance, used by a lot of Tiktokers, and some of the better features are behind a paywall, but it's probably one of the brightest examples of an easy-to-use mobile editor for Android.

I still haven't found a whole lot of alternatives to that. There's some professional-grade multi-track editors, and some rinkydink open source apps that barely do anything. Honestly, it's kind of hard to find a good balance.