I’ve been on Lemmy for a few months now and am really enjoying it. I think I’ll stay.

I’ve also been thinking about starting a Pixelfed account so I can share some photos I’ve taken recently. In my poking around the last few days, my first impression is that the bones are there, but it’s still rough around the edges. For example, clicking a hashtag in a photo caption to browse all photos with that hashtag is currently broken on the largest Pixelfed instance, and even on the smaller instances, browsing hashtags doesn’t appear to be federated, so there’s basically no way to discover photos of a certain hashtag or for others to discover my photos unless we are on the same instance, which seems to kind of defeat the purpose of moving to a federated service. Not that hash tags are the most important thing, but kind of a bummer from a discoverability standpoint. I may bite the bullet and sign up anyway, we’ll see.

Looks okay in my view. Tapped and opened the link in the Voyager app on iOS.

How is audio different from other media types (e.g. images, videos, etc) that it isn’t / couldn’t be supported by activity pub?

Yup—this whole article is a big fat nothing burger, but it’ll generate clicks, which is all that matters in the digital age.

EDIT: Judging from some of the comments in this thread, rage bait headlines work. For better or worse.

Well, they’re “purchases” of a license that can be revoked at any time for any reason.

They were ordered to pay it, but have they actually paid it?

https://lemmy.ml/post/10266106

Do you have Javascript disabled? Because that will cause videos not to play on Piped.

Are you able to play the video linked in the comments of this post? It plays for me (in Firefox btw).

Is the piped links bot down or something

Regardless of how we feel about Threads, given its impact I don’t think any article about “The Fediverse in 2023” would be complete without mentioning it.

with a name like Catodon, I can pretty much guarantee it won’t be a resounding success

Pfft, are you kidding me?? I’ll take the other side of that bet any day!

Not to downplay all the blood, sweat, and tears that have been shed while making the fediverse work, but if I may offer some unsolicited advice to the author of the linked post: Publicly airing out a team’s dirty laundry tends to be… counter-productive. Usually it’s best to “keep it in the family.”

In this case, we don’t know what’s going on in the original project owner’s life right now. The author of this post could have just said “hey all, we apologize for the inconvenience, but the original project appears to be abandoned, so we’ve forked the project with the intention of patching some of the known issues and adding some new features.” (insert GH link here)

Although the original project dies, this new project is born, and who knows—the original project’s owner might even show up again someday and start making meaningful contributions to the new project (or not).

I say all this without knowing the full history of this project, and I don’t mean to downplay the author’s frustration, just my two cents.

All of that said, in my mind this situation makes for an interesting case study on the pros and cons of different ownership structures for public/open projects.

In Voyager, you can toggle showing users’ instances in Settings > Appearance.

Except that you’ve already posted this article to this very same community in the last 12 hours.

Yup. Two words: Vee, and toe.

Yes—it’s why you should use a password manager to generate a unique password for each and every site you sign up for, and think long and hard before trusting any site (or any org for that matter) with your personal information.

Haveibeenpwned.com is a website for checking which sites have leaked your data.

Repost.

Axel Springer filed several suits in Germany against Eyeo on the grounds that the Adblock Plus extension interfered with their business…

Umm yes, lady madam of the court, let the record show that I hereby counter-sue the advertising companies for interfering with my ability to use the internet!