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[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hi, Spectra Video admin here. We actually use two plugins for "Original Publication Date" sorting:

The reason we ended up doing this on our instance is because people were reposting their old videos to get them to the top of the index, which made searching for new content a little bit useless. This wasn't entirely their fault, some people were syncing their entire YouTube archives with PeerTube through an account connection feature, so forcing videos to be sorted and displayed by their original creation date was a punitive action to help correct this.

We probably need to take another look at using these plugins, as they're extremely old at this point.

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Radio Free Fedi was one of the greatest artist projects to ever hit the network. With an unprecedented ethos and a fanatical approach to building and supporting the music community, it became an institution. Today, we remember and honor RFF.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I run Spectra.video, and the only reason we have manual registrations is to ward off spam and trolls. Anyone is welcome to apply for registration, we just manually curate the list first to make sure you're a human that actually wants to use PeerTube and create stuff.

I think you'll find our instance fits with the rest of your criteria pretty well.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was working on a Friendica theme conversion a while back, with the goal of making the theme elements compatible with old-school Myspace layout generators. Unfortunately, Friendica doesn't support a user wall anymore, so I'd maybe have to rewrite the whole thing for Hubzilla?

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's profoundly depressing. Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects, and we're all kind of just scraping by at the moment. Loads of people end up investing years and years of labor for free, only to get toxic interactions in return.

 

FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry, our provider had an outage around that time. We should be good now!

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Gah. Sorry that it's still happening, I'm not totally sure why it happens, beyond the server choking while federating. I'll keep investigating. 😞

 

Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they've already smashed their campaign goal.

But they still need your help!

 

We live in interesting times. As users migrate en masse from existing social platforms to new networks and apps, we ought to think about how to make the experience of signing up, connecting to friends, and finding the good stuff as solid as humanly possible.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

To my knowledge, the project isn't dead...but, it has been moving at a horribly slow pace for a very long time.

Funkwhale is a pretty cool project, but it's one of those things where the ActivityPub implementation really was bolted on well after the core experience was defined and developed. It was meant to be a Grooveshark clone, while a lot of people were hoping to use it in a more social way, like SoundCloud.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Should be working now. Occasionally, the server gets a little janky due to post federation and caching, but it should be settled at this point.

 

Today, we dig into the nitty-gritty of Surf, a new app by Flipboard. We document what it is, how it works, and areas where the experience could be improved.

 

For those interested in trying out Loops, you may be wondering: what are good tools or processes for making videos?

We go into detail with some of the tools we're currently using.

 

Meta's microblogging platform and X rival, Threads, has taken another step closer to two-way connectivity to the Fediverse.

 

Loops aims to be an open Fediverse alternative to TikTok, Snapchat, and Vine. We take an early look at the app, and talk about what it's like!

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm on sertraline and Adderall XR. While neither one is perfect, the baseline quality of my life has improved. It's hard to quantify or explain, but my recall and short-term memory is a million times better. I'm currently going to school full-time, and my grades are the best they've ever been, even in my hardest classes.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

What the actual fuck?

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Most of my working adult life has involved struggling with untreated ADHD. It's one of those things that a lot of people failed to understand, and when I'd explain my symptoms to them, they would often just say that it sounded like I was depressed, burnt out, and overburdened at work. While all of those things were true, executive dysfunction is more complicated and nuanced - for me, it manifests in the form of procrastination, seeking stimulation, and difficulty carrying a thread of consciousness from one sentence to the next. It can also mean that your self-esteem is constantly in the toilet.

In spite of this, I had a lot of success in early stage tech startups, which are often chaotic. You have to switch roles at a moment's notice, going from customer support and technical resolution to product development and logistics. When things are on fire, customers are angry, and things are broken, I tend to be at my very best. It's the slower, more tedious, repetitive tasks like manual data entry that I tend to struggle with. I have been forced onto Performance Improvement Plans more than a few times in my career - despite glowing performance reviews - and have never gotten off of one.

In spite of dropping out of college, I had managed to make a career for myself. I worked at a few tech startups, and had a really good reputation among my team members. As I continued to climb a corporate ladder and move to bigger and bigger companies, I found myself becoming burdened with larger responsibilities. I can accomplish anything I set my mind to, but I gradually turned myself into a workhorse for the entire team. My manager eventually saddled me with an enormous task where I had to develop a deeply technical presentation from scratch and give it to a live audience of over 300 engineers. To be clear - no such resource had ever been developed within the company. I guess this stemmed from me rewriting so much of the documentation so that ordinary people could understand it?

I did the best I could. I solicited advice from just about every department in the company, rewrote the whole thing several times over, and practiced my presentation in front of my manager over and over again, as they nitpicked every aspect of it. Presentation day finally came, it ended up being a huge success. For me, this was a massive accomplishment. Unfortunately, my work performance had been languishing in other areas, and I once again ended up on a PIP. My manager drove the team into the ground, and I tried to make the case that I was just about done with being treated this way.

I ended up in an HR meeting that I thought was initially being done to hash out our differences and find a path forward, but it was actually just the company kicking me out. I got a severance package, struggled for months to apply for a new job, faced a ton of rejections and self-sabotage. I smoked pot and got drunk until I had to sell all of my belongings just to survive, and then had to move back across the country to live with my dad and apply for the military. Four years later, I'm married, going to school full-time, and living a pretty okay life as a veteran.

 

Due to the ongoing strain of trying to write, edit, and publish articles on a consistent basis, and a handful of personal obligations of our founders, We Distribute is officially on temporary hiatus.

This is not the end of our publication or our project, but we need to step back for a while and regroup, if the project hopes to survive.

 

Earlier this month, the Mastodon project announced a new initiative funded by NGI Search: Fediverse Discovery Providers! The goal is to build a resource framework for different kinds of services that can work with potentially any instance or platform.

 

Evan Prodromou, the creator of StatusNet, the OStatus protocol, and co-author of ActivityPub, is launching a dedicated nonprofit for the purpose of advocating for and supporting the Fediverse.

 

For Fediverse musicians looking for a new Bandcamp alternative, Bandwagon feels extremely promising. It's built on top of the Emissary platform, and offers a robust amount of features for playing, promoting, and discovering music.

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