“Wonder what happened to the dinosaurs? This is a baby Blue Heron." https://leviathan-supersystem.tumblr.com/post/149809167589/clayorey-wonder-what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs
I'm glad that people are so helpful in keeping her up-to-date with this new technology! 🤪
@becomethewaifu You did see the bit where I said it would be the choice of each instance admin as to (a) who they trust, and (b) how much they trust them, as well as (c) whether to automatically or manually approve each change?
Maybe I wasn't clear that there wouldn't be any central list. Each participating "list maintainer" would publish theirs, and other instances would be free to use that list or not, and decide how to use it (see a, b, and c above).
@mym Well, there's always Little Willy (who, legend has it, won't go home). If things get rough, you can always flood the room with love -- which, like oxygen, will get everyone high once there's too much.
Last year's shutdown of @glitchdotcom was a blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.
So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.
Glitchlet runs on any shared hosting service (e.g., Reclaim Hosting). If you can run WordPress, you can run Glitchlet. Projects-in-progress are stored in the browser's local storage, but you can also one-click publish to make them public and remixable. Glitchlet is designed with educators in mind.
There's no single, primary Glitchlet that everyone uses. The idea is that every instructor installs their own Glitchlet and manages their own classes/workshops/projects. You can seed your instance with template files, or Glitchlet can easily import projects (including archived Glitch .tgz files).
Making something so easy to install and host has trade-offs, of course. No fancy pants Node or React projects, but Glitchlet works beautifully with HTML/JavaScript/CSS. No live collaboration, but you can still remix published projects.
Best of all—you're in control and not subject to the whims of some startup that suddenly decides to "sunset" a key pedagogical tool.
Glitchlet is alpha now, but its code will available to all very soon!
It is depressing if someone experiences hate on here, especially if it puts them off using this place.
I follow people that regularly raise these issues, to hear how bad it is and what the causes are.
Five things seem to come up most often:
- Lack of representation in software design
- Users not being able to control who can reply to their posts
- Moderation being reactive rather than proactive
- Allowlists vs blocklists
- Cultural problems
Let's look closer...
🧵 Thread - Part 1 of 7
@FediTips I would also very much like the ability to (a) share my blocklists via API, and (b) automatically or semi-automatically implement blocks from trusted instances. (Each instance could be automatic or manual-verification, but there'd be a notification for admins either way.)
Whenever I propose this, someone always says it would lead to problems -- but I have yet to see a good argument for how.
@FediTips I've been quietly ranting along similar lines for awhile now: Software Uprising
https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
@david_chisnall I remember optimizing thumbnail-images to within kilobytes of their lives...
...and now apparently nobody thinks twice about requiring many MB of JS code per page-load.
(TLDR: this current nonsense is nonsense.)
Funding-infrastructurally: one thing I'd like to see is some kind of mechanism where non-wealthy individuals with a little cash to spare can pledge $support if some corporate sponsor pulls out, especially if it's for questionable reasons.
(Just a thought.)
(Hey have you heard of ActivityPub, maybe that would be good for this.)
If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritely ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.
We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.
@Strandjunker All of the Tr#mpophiles are like that. It's kind of the religion of the far-Right, at least in the US.
@AlsoPaisleyCat @kaia @yschaeff
I'd think mushroom spores, being basically genetic material but also microscopic and essentially invisible, would be an excellent carrier for exfiltrating data.
The only trick would be how to write to them. (Waiting for SporeDrive to be a thing...)
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@shollyethan/116052067979258951
...aka https://selfh.st/apps/?alternative=Discord (actual mousy-clickable link)
@xiann It's never a real principle; it's always about having cover for their real complaint, which is basically racism.
