That’s just life on the Internet/fediverse in general, there’s a constant churn of the small websites/instances as people inevitably burn out. You gotta be mentally prepared for it. I’m really sad since .ee was one of the few good instances that federated with the unpopular ones too

The only solution is improvements to the protocol so migrating instances is less painful. A different form of identity (key-based rather than domain based) would be cool to let us keep handles across instances

Isn’t it just a stripped down arch variant?

What is peertube platforms?

hm. Our first computer has windows 98 and it definitely didn’t have it

I don’t think disc-based distribution of software is coming back in the foreseeable future

It was only in some kind of dlc pack (what?) for windows. The first real os it was included in was xp. I thought we all agreed not to talk about windows me

Just went into a fugue state and got 10 million points this game is as great as I remember

What are cheats? Tilting the table?

now i’m sad that this is (afaik) impossible in the future with everything switching to wayland

yeah i’m thinking that if you want you might be able to wrangle this into a semi permanent job

Maybe, but for now the culture is extremely hostile to *brands*. They successfully bullied Adobe inc off the site

There’s no ads on bsky tho D:

Blocking them actually is removing their ability to affect your mood 😌

This is false, they support did:web which ties your identity to ownership of a DNS name (which is its own can of worms, but not controlled by bluesky like PLC).

Unless you mean that you still have to register your pds it to get indexed by the relay, so people can read your posts without querying your server directly (which is possible but discouraged). This is actually an advantage over mastodon/activitypub however, your personal pds will not crash if a post goes viral (unlike a personal mastodon instance).

They support did:web too if you don’t like did:plc

The implementation details matter tho, your instance admin actively makes federation decisions that affect the content you see. I like to explain joining an instance as pledging yourself to a warlord in medieval Japan

Peertube allegedly uses p2p networking that runs in your browser to serve videos. It’s open source but when I tried to actually read up on the protocol large parts of the docs were in french

It was by the largest (by a fair margin) socialist-aligned subreddit, but in practice it was like 60% shitposts. Was originally associated with the eponymous podcast, but the hosts have repeatedly said they disliked it.

they were originally refugees from the reddit ban of r/chapotraphouse (which, while cringy, was not nearly as bad as r/the_donald that got banned in the same wave. but the reddit admins had a thing for being “fair and balanced”)

yep literally this. don’t most routers nowadays have a dns server with a hosts file you can edit?