Sean Tilley

Somewhat ridiculous. The clump of brain cells responsible for We Distribute, VidCommons, and Brands.Town. Goofy but lovable, passionate about many things.

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2026-06-23 11:41:46 UTC

I’m feeling the pain, and need to make some hard decisions about Spectra. I’m currently shoveling like $600 per month into the furnace to keep this thing going, and I can’t do it for much longer. Most of the pain stems from a handful of accounts absolutely abusing our “unlimited storage” offering.
#nevent1q…xal9

2026-04-30 17:42:43 UTC

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@nprofile…03me @nprofile…dysu oh no, is the site doing that again? 😅😫
Our WordPress integration has a long-standing content negotiation issue. We’ve never quite cracked it, but if you navigate to the link again, it should render correctly.

2026-04-22 05:41:30 UTC

OH NOOOOOO
New earworm unlocked. #TheyMightBeGiants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8au4eCVPis

2026-04-08 07:05:43 UTC

If there’s any #Godot developers out there making 3D games, I could kind of use some help / advice on how to fix this weird issue I’m having.
Camera is basically attached to a SpringArm and mounted on a pivot, the pivot rotation is what’s used for camera rotation. When switching perspectives, a piece of code is supposed to line up the pivot rotation to the player_mesh rotation. Except it seems to be flipped when I face certain directions?!
https://codeberg.org/deadsuperhero/godot-hybridcam/issues/1

2026-04-08 04:17:21 UTC

It’s kind of depressing, going into Computer Science, when I know how dogshit the tech industry is.
But, I love computers. I love writing code. I love making computers do stuff.
I’m pursuing software engineering in spite the bullshit, but I’d be lying if I said I felt certain about the future.

2026-03-29 10:01:06 UTC

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@nprofile…t3h7 now that’s a grape you eat with a knife and fork!

2026-03-27 03:27:48 UTC

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@nprofile…mkht It’s gotten to a point where I’ve been accused of using it with my own writing, which is incredibly depressing. I’ve made a point for years to do everything by hand, but the writing conventions I’ve used to illustrate my ideas somehow resemble ChatGPT generated text.

2026-03-27 03:22:34 UTC

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@nprofile…mvem What the fuck, this is where I live

2026-03-23 17:18:26 UTC

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@nprofile…p76f Time and time again, DHH shows that he knows next to nothing other than software development.

2026-03-19 16:08:04 UTC

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@nprofile…9uze
The Sphinx: “It’S a MeTaPhOr!!!!!”

2026-03-19 16:05:31 UTC

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@nprofile…xg89 I’m so tired of open source startups being coopted by large companies, particularly AI companies.

2026-03-10 02:06:32 UTC

Uh…for some reason, my latest article is only showing up as JSON? 🤔

2026-03-09 17:19:31 UTC

I can’t really explain why, but I think “All Of Us” by Devo might make a perfect song for the intro of a “All Tomorrows” tv adaptation.
Just imagine all of the drawings of the myriad post-human species flying by with genetic diagrams and complex equations. It would be awesome!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f46n4smKhLU

2026-03-09 17:16:18 UTC

Listen, listen, me no lie! We like stuff that makes us cry. Why, why, why, why? #Devo

2026-03-05 19:44:41 UTC

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One thing I really want to figure out for @nprofile…r5t7 involves creating some kind of a widget sidebar that shows the statuses that federate out. While I could show all the widgets of the Note objects we create, it’s not super clear yet how we can show stuff like boosts and quotes yet.
But I’m thinking about it, a lot. Any suggestions @nprofile…t7tv ?

2026-03-05 19:40:36 UTC

The #ActivityPub for #WordPress team is just crushing it. They just released 8.0.0 of the integration. It’s getting better all the time.
Huge thanks to @nprofile…t7tv for amazing work!
https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/

2026-03-05 07:42:02 UTC

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@nprofile…t3h7 it’s not that bad

2026-03-05 06:46:54 UTC

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@nprofile…r6lk If anything, this has forced me to refer to the Codex far more than any community plugin. I know, I still have a metric shit-ton of them, but I’m slowly whittling it down.

2026-03-05 06:18:04 UTC

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@nprofile…xgry Andy Piper even made a demo: https://web.archive.org/web/20240927000320/https://www.womptriangle.online/

2026-03-05 06:16:18 UTC

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@nprofile…xgry Let’s just call it Womp Triangle and be done with it.
https://codeberg.org/andypiper/womp-triangle

2026-03-04 21:02:50 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag I have yet to find a place I like more. For all the drama and bullshit that happens sometimes, it’s still an amazing space with some great people.

2026-03-04 21:00:40 UTC

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@nprofile…r6lk I honestly hate WordPress sometimes. In a minimal install, it’s not so bad, but so much of the community advice to get something working is “Just install a plugin!” and suddenly you have 50+ plugins and site that’s an eldritch abomination on the backend.

2026-03-04 17:26:01 UTC

> Buy nice-looking WordPress theme
> Set it up in a test environment
> Realize that a bunch of things are hard-coded, and that it's never going to look the way you want.
Every time!

2026-03-04 06:43:15 UTC

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@nprofile…vcny Oh my god, this is great.

2026-03-03 21:42:01 UTC

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@nprofile…np7x We Distribute has been integrated with ActivityPub for many years, ever since such integrations were purely prototypes. I like pushing the boundaries of what’s currently possible with this network, and I think that it’s important for a news publication about the Fediverse to be on the Fediverse itself. These kinds of experiments are worthwhile.
The ActivityPub integration for WordPress is actually really good, it’s just that WordPress itself is sometimes a total headache to develop for.

2026-03-03 21:29:51 UTC

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I think the simplest solution might be to use a very simple skeleton theme, and modify it as necessary. I could keep it simple, not depend on too many plugins, and gradually shape it to look and feel the way I want it to…
What a headache, though.

2026-03-03 21:25:11 UTC

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What’s kind of frustrating is that there aren’t really any #WordPress themes that capitalize on Fediverse integration. I don’t mind adding custom stuff in, but I’m torn between either altering a proprietary theme, or trying to code my own from scratch.
Building from scratch means way more work, but it’s theoretically well-supported to do what I want. Altering something that exists means technical debt, on a system that could change at any time.
I just don’t know what to do. Do I put all the work up front, or do it over time on the backend?

2026-03-03 20:53:02 UTC

Trying to figure out how best to modernize We Distribute’s site theme. I’ve been experimenting with the customization system in the twentytwentyfive base theme WordPress ships with and…it’s kind of good, but just not quite where it needs to be.
Right now, it’s all held together with a crusty expired paid theme. It needs a facelift. I’m not sure if I want to write my own theme from scratch, but a lot of paid themes hard-code so much stuff that I don’t need or want.

2026-03-03 19:50:27 UTC

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It looks like it’s supported for Enterprise packages, no idea whether ordinary rooms / spaces can support it.

2026-03-03 19:47:01 UTC

I really wish @nprofile…k30q offered a dedicated integration for Webhooks. I know there’s a third party bot thing that I can host myself, but it would be so much cleaner to just have it right there in the UI for integrations.
Being able to hook into a code repository or OpenCollective would be so, so useful for making little chat messages.

2026-02-26 15:47:05 UTC

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@nprofile…3z4y what the fuuuuck

2026-02-26 03:17:42 UTC

Huh, so the latest @nprofile…q9cx build…kind of federates with Bandwagon?
Can’t really find any of the actual content, but there’s Actor discovery.
//cc @nprofile…2gus
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/96bf7340e75b0f97a7391ec6a47f5e4d79614b372fbfe16640ffda30aa7081b4.png

2026-02-26 02:28:59 UTC

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@nprofile…2crl I understand your point, but that’s actually a categorical misunderstanding of how AT Protocol’s various layers work. The Fediverse is actually way more tightly coupled when it comes to instances and identities.
At least Blacksky has demonstrated that it’s possible to run the entire stack, and migrate absolutely everything to it from Bluesky.

2026-02-14 05:28:56 UTC

Looks like the latest @nprofile…05gk update is causing the client to crash on Android when I try to sign in with my Akkoma account. I’m not totally sure what changed, it used to be fine… 🤔

2026-02-10 23:06:42 UTC

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@nprofile…6wcx it looks like it only applies when using their push gateway. If you’re self-hosting, how difficult is it to host your own?

2025-12-02 19:40:14 UTC

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@nprofile…shhu @nprofile…pvqa @nprofile…00ws I think @nprofile…d3ed would be able to answer that better than I can. That being said, I plugged in my wallet address, and it just seemed to work?

2025-12-02 19:23:57 UTC

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@nprofile…00ws @nprofile…pvqa Everybody says this when talking about GNU Taler, but I still can’t make heads or tails of how it’s supposed to work. The most I’m able to grasp is that it could provide some useful infrastructure for banks and credit unions, maybe?

2025-11-20 03:11:08 UTC

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@nprofile…shhu Yeah, I 100% agree with this. After migrating onto self-hosted infra, some of the open source alternatives just don’t have great UX. I feel like I have to wrestle with software sometimes to make it do what I want, which is annoying.

2025-10-05 01:47:21 UTC

Hey! Are you a CEO or project lead of a decentralized, open source communication platform or protocol? Are you tired of dealing with negative responses to your misinterpreted posts?
Hire me to be your comms person! I can be your community punching bag that keeps everyone happy and excited!

2025-09-06 03:19:33 UTC

I’m constantly blown away by how good gaming on #Linux is these days. While it’s still not perfect, and some live service games will never ever work, the idea of buying a AAA game on day one and have everything work is still wild to me.
Valve has done some absolutely incredible work in making this whole thing viable. Most days, the only bugs I have to deal with are the same ones Windows users have.

2025-08-21 02:37:20 UTC

I miss @nprofile…jvlv.

2025-08-19 03:24:41 UTC

This #FediCon talk from @nprofile…kzgj is probably my favorite out of the bunch. They’re all really good, but so many of his points hit home for how I feel about the #Fediverse and what we could do together.
https://spectra.video/w/eod3ybLu7sHzAEMihej8km

2025-08-18 23:23:06 UTC

It would be nice if there was a #PeerTube plugin to add social account fields to user profiles. Even if it were just a drop-down of various Fediverse platforms and a text field for URLs, that would be great!

2025-08-10 02:33:39 UTC

Advertisements on YouTube are beyond intolerable now. Just listening to an hour of two people talking results in an ad every five minutes, with the skip button alternating different positions.
It’s so shit, but so much of the good content is still on there. I’d love to find a way to get more good creators onto #PeerTube instead, even if they’re just mirroring a channel.

2025-08-09 01:33:11 UTC

@nprofile…0ghv is looking so freaking good. I’m super excited about the new updates coming in. #Fediverse
https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/big-updates-are-coming-to-loops/

2025-08-08 05:21:34 UTC

For some time now, We Distribute has been looking at organizing a fundraiser for our organization. It might be a Kickstarter, it might be something else. Still figuring that one out.
As a tech publication based entirely within the #Fediverse, we have a unique opportunity to expand our operations, provide better consistency in the articles we publish, and pay people to write and create media with us.
At this point, we’re very small, and at constant risk of burnout. I am hoping to change this. If I were to pass around a form to collect email addresses for people who want to be there on our Day One campaign launch, would this be something you’d be interested in?
#WeDistribute

2025-08-07 23:44:38 UTC

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@nprofile…5f2h As a Web client, Phanpy is absolutely amazing. The catch-up feed is probably one of the most creative features I’ve seen in any social app in a long time.
Unfortunately, I’m a stickler for native clients when I’m on the go.

2025-08-07 22:41:08 UTC

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@nprofile…5f2h I’ve searched far and wide, and Moshidon is still the best Android client. It’s not even close.
Tusky is really good if you’re going for a “vanilla” Mastodon experience. As an Akkoma user, though, Moshidon offers a bunch of extra features that fit well with the platform.

2025-08-07 00:59:59 UTC

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@nprofile…dn53 Your best bet for the short term might be to use a multiprotocol client. OpenVibe is pretty good, and lets you use Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and Nostr simultaneously.
https://openvibe.social

2025-08-07 00:58:04 UTC

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@nprofile…dn53 The short answer is that Bluesky’s various pieces could qualify as “mostly decentralized”, but one piece that is centralized is basically the account registry of DIDs. Most of the AT Protocol could be hypothetically stood up with independent infrastructure, it’s just that this part is managed by Bluesky for whatever reason.

2025-08-06 05:49:19 UTC

Just an FYI: If you missed #FediCon, or just want to see the talks, they are being edited and uploaded to #PeerTube. There’s only three talks up so far, but I am helping @nprofile…vwu2 to add more of them, and ensure that there are accurate captions and nice little thumbnails.
You can see a playlist of all #FediCon2025 talks, sorted in order, here: https://spectra.video/w/p/52g7HzMoUCxEm9nU339mPf

2025-08-02 23:44:47 UTC

Question about corporate brands came up on the #Fediverse.
The answer is brands.town.
#FediCon

2025-08-02 22:34:17 UTC

@nprofile…vwu2 unveils https://crowdbucks.fund/
A #Fediverse crowdfunding, tipping, payments platform.
#FediCon
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/bbc151cfff5544ec936dd218b613a38e0837bec4a4b205d57d90d653cde3374b.jpg

2025-08-02 19:12:29 UTC

The true killer feature of the Fediverse is the ability to leave somewhere, take your stuff with you, and go somewhere else.
#FediCon

2025-08-02 19:10:57 UTC

Activity Intents are super cool. They’re like a social button you put on websites, to get you back to your own Fediverse client, but it can be used for Likes, replies, sharing, whatever you want.
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md
#FediCon

2025-08-02 18:53:14 UTC

The network does not just need technologists. It needs artists, musicians, writers, journalists, and all kinds of other creatives.
#FediCon

2025-08-02 18:39:38 UTC

In the beginning of the Internet, it was beautiful and optimistic. The possibilities were endless. Well, now we’re here.
#FediCon
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/d71b1f5a1df203e99bcbdf7e7ab66711ea1812092be35c8ff832e17b1d638923.jpg

2025-08-02 18:38:00 UTC

Ben Pate from Emissary / Bandwagon is talking about the future of the #Fediverse!
#FediCon
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/b2109594609958914ebd8ce810dc98b4ea850b6baa71615254b4349828d91b4d.jpg

2025-08-02 17:44:11 UTC

Myth: your instance is a window to the Fediverse.
We know this isn’t true, the network has thousands of distinct bubbles. No individual server has a comprehensive purview of the network.
#FediCon

2025-08-02 16:28:20 UTC

The Discovery Problem is pretty infamous within decentralized spaces. How do you find the good stuff you care about, and the people you want to hear from most, on a network where everything is everywhere?
#FediCon

2025-08-01 22:50:57 UTC

I’m about to go up for the We Distribute Live panel at #FediCon! 🥳

2025-08-01 21:53:38 UTC

Damn, there’s even a Twitch alternative.
https://stream.place/
#FediCon
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/fa11f3449eab09feb753f72e6b7d3c40f1c761a0efc772e0315f745b8fd9371e.jpg

2025-08-01 21:22:04 UTC

From the perspective of advocacy, I think we really need to take the experiences of SocialBC and other initiatives, and develop a comprehensive playbook on what things were tried, and how these efforts got a foothold in their local communities. Even though SocialBC is small, it’s a compelling case study.
#FediCon

2025-08-01 21:19:08 UTC

I love the idea of local governments having Fedi accounts. It sounds silly, but the idea of a bunch of local departments being able to get their messages out can actually be really useful. Think about how many municipal accounts post updates on Twitter to keep people informed about local events or developments.
#FediCon

2025-08-01 19:29:51 UTC

What kind of organizations would align well to the Social Web? News, Science, Education, Democratic Governments.
We’re seeing seeds being planted for all of these things, but these benefit the network as well as befitting from it. Being able to openly distribute truth, knowledge, and information are crucial in an era where big platforms can alter the narrative and suppress knowledge for political gain.
#FediCon

2025-08-01 19:07:15 UTC

“We need to go beyond donations and volunteering. Beyond anti-capitalism. From established organizations and upstarts, while abolishing overlords and avoiding becoming overlords themselves.”
—Johannes Ernst
#FediCon

2025-07-31 07:42:24 UTC

Oh no, I’m 35 today! 😩

2025-07-31 07:32:44 UTC

Can’t sleep. My alarm goes off in like two hours anyway, and I’ll be whisked away to the airport.
Ah well, that’s okay.

2025-07-27 04:39:41 UTC

I’ve been playing #ClairObscur #Expedition33 for about two weeks straight now. It’s beautiful, dark, enigmatic, deeply surreal, and probably one of the most exciting and satisfying games I’ve played in years.
The music, story, art, and gameplay are fantastic. The scenery is like something out of a fever dream. The world-building feels like a whole lot of “show, don’t tell”, which only adds to the mystery. The combat and character build system stacks and branches in some really incredible ways, too.

2025-07-18 05:57:40 UTC

Nice! There’s still a fair amount of jank, that jump animation is appalling, and part of his hair does culling at random camera angles. But, I took my custom character and made him move! #GameDev #Godot
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/9c5d0fbbf5b564f833fa4ff176d09f5c6e3b9493338fe1211990196cf7851e55.mp4

2025-07-13 09:23:17 UTC

If I were to make a small game about the Fediverse, it would probably be about project management. It might look like Civilization or another political management game, but also have an insane amount of WarioWare-like mini games. If you fail them, your approval ratings go down.

2025-07-10 20:09:29 UTC

A question for #Fediverse devs: I’m thinking about better ways to document development of the #ActivityPub stack. This would include explanations, demo code, example snippets, and various sections explaining how to build a fully working Fediverse server, with consideration for all of the FEP documents as well.
What do you, as a developer, feel is currently missing? What information would make your life a lot easier?

2025-07-09 04:04:06 UTC

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Make no mistake, I really love what Ghost is doing with publishing. I’m a happy customer, and intend to stay there for the time being. But Ghost’s current ActivityPub offering is ultimately very limited, even when compared to Mastodon.
I think Bonfire could provide the building blocks to make something similar to Ghost, but with a far more robust amount of features under the hood.

2025-07-09 03:58:57 UTC

This is a really great read by the @nprofile…l8y3 team. As someone who has done all kinds of experiments with long-form articles and publishing directly on the #Fediverse, there are a number of headaches and hurdles we still need to figure out.
My overall philosophy is this: rather than adapting existing content management systems to use ActivityPub federation, it’s preferable to build a CMS for the Fediverse, with explicit considerations for how the instance and the network should interact with each other. Everything, from the dashboard to side-effects of interaction, should be designed with federation considerations in mind.
https://bonfire.cafe/post/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1#

2025-06-26 01:33:16 UTC

Okay, #Fediverse, here’s my long-winded reply to @nprofile…3wy7 about “The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins”. I mainly wrote this because it’s a really interesting subject, and I believe there’s a lot of positive things we could do together.
https://deadsuperhero.com/mitigating-the-7-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins/

2025-06-26 01:00:11 UTC

I’ve been writing a long, long response to the excellent article by @nprofile…3wy7 about the Seven Deadly Sins of Fediverse UX design. It’s taken me almost a month, and I’m just trying to get through the last few sections.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to post it tonight. 😅

2025-06-10 22:44:47 UTC

Kind of a weird question, but I’ve never seen it documented anywhere…
How does the “News” tab on #Mastodon’s explore page work?

2025-06-08 05:12:15 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…vgce to be fair, that’s most FEPs.

2025-06-08 04:03:30 UTC

I couldn’t attend the last day of #FediForum due to unavoidable obligations. However, I felt really good about how everything went down at the event.
There’s a lot of passionate, intelligent, amazing people working in this space. If we connect, and keep the conversation going about what needs to be done, we can change the Web.

2025-06-08 03:23:08 UTC

I’m kind of tempted to try setting up a @nprofile…vgce instance for We Distribute. Could be interesting to have a bunch of little badges for exploring the network or learning about it? 🤔

2025-06-08 02:51:43 UTC

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@nprofile…mkea probably some extra strain from all the bots potentially DDoS’ing the service, I would guess.

2025-06-06 15:38:59 UTC

In case you’re just tuning in, we’re covering Day 2 of #FediForum. @nprofile…zwgs giving the opening keynote about Spritely, and it’s great.
https://wedistribute.org/2025/06/fediforum-june-2025/

2025-05-26 06:13:08 UTC

Hey #FediMusic folks! 👋
Two things worth mentioning here:
Our forum now federates with The Social Music Network’s forum, allowing members on each to seamlessly communicate. We hope that this will give us better insight to what’s going on with the art and music community, and help us get better at reporting what’s going on in the space.
I’m compiling a list of resources available to the FediMusic community. Does anyone have things that ought to be added to the list? See here: https://forum.wedistribute.org/topic/16/current-fediverse-resources-for-musicians

2025-05-26 03:37:47 UTC

On the one hand, I’m glad that I back up all of my articles on Archive.org. It makes the process of retrieving lost content fairly trivial…
Except, of course, when I’m trying to get media that’s not actually part of the backup, and is just a dead link to a place where it used to be hosted.
I’m scrubbing through Dansup’s post history trying to find specific videos for #Pixelfed articles. It’s maddening.

2025-05-23 01:14:33 UTC

One thing that kind of makes me uncomfortable with getting into JavaScript is the sheer amount of frameworks and middleware out there. For the frontend, do I want to use Svelte? NextJS? Fresh? React?
What about the backend? Express? h3? Hono?
Then there’s stuff like Yarn and Bun and npm…
It’s just turtles all the way down.

2025-05-13 23:44:56 UTC

I said I would publish this week, I guess it happened earlier than expected. This is a high-level overview of Postmodern, the #Fediverse platform I hope to someday build. It is the culmination of years of study as the network has continued to evolve.
https://deadsuperhero.com/my-dream-fediverse-platform/

2025-05-13 18:41:45 UTC

This is Postmodern, my concept for a #Fediverse platform. This mockup is a builder interface for making your own UI, timelines, and pages visually. It’s a weird and ambitious concept, but this is what I’ve been dreaming about for years.
Blog post dropping this week.
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/05f72d5e9f1690d4121dedadfe5109634b4cab59c2ec2da7fdec53cffa0aac95.png

2025-05-12 23:39:48 UTC

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@nprofile…l805 @nprofile…v0kv Yeah man, Bonfire’s been really exciting to watch. It’s kind of like a super-modular framework for building social networks, and gives admins the ability to choose which bits they want for their communities.

2025-05-12 22:14:37 UTC

Things have been a little slow for a while over at @nprofile…v0kv, mostly because of a really busy spring class semester. Now that I’m done with that, I want to start writing articles again.
What’s some interesting things happening in the #Fediverse we ought to cover?

2025-05-06 18:55:16 UTC

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@nprofile…85l6 @nprofile…mkea Yeah, I blogged about it a while ago. I don’t know what the dev’s current plans are regarding that. We had talked a bit a few months back, and I shared my point of view with them.
Even though I disagree with this conceptually, I wouldn’t mind being able to follow musicians that use Funkwhale and listen / like / subscribe or whatever.

2025-05-06 18:53:05 UTC

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@nprofile…mkea I think there’s a real benefit to finally integrating music platforms into the space. Bandwagon lets artists syndicate their tracks to a global discovery system and even user-run internet radio stations, while still taking full advantage of ActivityPub.
It’s still early days, but having first-class support for this stuff would really bolster the current Fediverse music community here.

2025-05-06 18:42:39 UTC

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@nprofile…mkea Funkwhale is a federated music server that pivoted from being like a “stream my own music collection to myself” (GrooveShark) kind of platform to a “also add accounts for artists to stream their music to others” (SoundCloud) platform. It’s been kinda dormant for a while, but there’s a big 2.0 release around the corner with a total UI overhaul.
Bandwagon is kind of like an open Bandcamp alternative that also federates, but every account just uploads their own music and can post tour dates and stuff. It’s built on Emissary by that project’s dev, and has a decent amount of artists from the musician part of the Fediverse.

2025-05-06 18:25:08 UTC

#Bandwagon is really starting to add polish. I think the inbox / timeline still needs some design love, but I’m really impressed at how well the music and discovery side of the app is working.
I feel like this is a really solid starting point for the FediMusic community, but I would love to see federation working with other efforts like Mirlo.space and Funkwhale in the near future.
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2025-05-03 09:48:49 UTC

I am taking a small break from the #Fediverse for a little while. No, it’s not permanent. This semester was a really tough one, and I need to focus on wellness for the near future.
Right now, I’m playing Oblivion Remastered, and it’s wonderful.

2025-04-17 03:31:21 UTC

Someone messaged me on Reddit asking for help on forking #Mastodon.
Lol. Lmao even.

2025-04-14 19:43:38 UTC

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It sounds like I’d still have to create user accounts locally, if only to properly represent delegation of actions and fight against spam. But, the idea of automatically creating an account on successful authentication doesn’t sound too ridiculous.
But, those accounts don’t have to be Actors themselves. A Group admin could review submitted Events, and approve them, and the resulting create / announce activities could use the Group Actor as the author…

2025-04-14 19:39:41 UTC

Kind of a weird thought I’ve been kicking around…
So, it’s possible to use the Mastodon API for sign-in and authentication, right?
Would it be possible to leverage a remote Mastodon account as a user account in a Web app, then give it the ability to create an Activity within the app, without creating a Note on Mastodon?
I’ve been kind of thinking about having an app where people can sign in and submit Event activities to a Group. I don’t want to create a bunch of Actor accounts, but I don’t mind the idea of having a Group Actor delegate on behalf of signed-in users with MastoAPI.
If this sounds like “Poor Man’s c2s”, yeah, that’s basically it.

2025-04-13 08:05:27 UTC

I wrote up an article on my personal (Ghost-powered!) blog about some of the work I’ve been doing to integrate our news publication at We Distribute into the #Fediverse.
This is the culmination of years and years of experiments, and we’re almost to a point where most of our ideas have been realized.
https://deadsuperhero.com/integrating-a-news-publication-into-the-fediverse/

2025-04-10 19:11:20 UTC

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@nprofile…hftj @nprofile…7nr8 @nprofile…t9gy I like the term personally, and am still in favor of it. But here’s the real challenge: explain what the Fediverse is to someone who has never used it before, and is only now just learning about it.
This is something we’re trying to figure out internally. There are ways to explain it that are less technical and easier to understand, but it takes a lot of workshopping to accurately explain what it is, how it works, and why people would want to use it.

2025-04-10 17:14:39 UTC

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@nprofile…t9gy @nprofile…7nr8 I think one problem we have in this space is explaining its core premise and benefits. When I started writing about the Fediverse, one challenge I really struggled with was the fact that I kept having to explain big concepts before ever getting to the point of the article.
It’s kind of our Achilles heel when it comes to advocacy. I think ideas have to be broken up into smaller bits, to make the concepts more palatable to people who have never used this stuff before.