RxBrad

The thing about WordPress federation… Nothing shows up outside of the actual blog unless it was published after the federation happened.

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Oh, terrific.

Let’s just make every single functionality in cars be a separate paid subscription service.

Switch to a PAYG account. Continue to use Always Free resources. Still pay nothing. And don’t get your account yoinked for underutilization anymore.

That’s worked for me so far, for almost a year now. (knock on wood)

Communities are going quiet.

Bots posting links to AI spam websites are taking the place of the old posters & commenters.

Moderation is non-existent, and spam sits unchecked in /c’s like mildlyinteresting.

There are a lot of Firefish companies out there.

I worry a little that they’ll need to rebrand again in the not-too-distant future.

ruudfish.world

You only have to look at the dev’s pinned posts on their Firefish account to see what you’re talking about.

I’d asked the dev (on the official Firefish account) whether there would be a Docker release for the latest hotfix beta, and got a lecture and an “unamused” 😒 emoji reaction. That was kind of the last straw after dealing with some fairly broken federation on my selfhosted Firefish server.

So, I’m back on Mastodon after a month-long experiment with Firefish.

Connect.

It’s an all-new app, and not just some dev’s existing Reddit app wrapped around Lemmy.

And it’s free with no tracking, no ads, and no crazy $100 pricetag to remove ads for a social network that’s still on somewhat shaky ground.

I’m not sure federating is retroactive on any of these platforms. (EDIT: Except possibly Akkoma?)

So any posts you made prior to installing the plugin won’t show up anywhere outside of your actual WordPress blog.

I see what you did there.

Heck, I didn’t even state an opinion.

The venom in the replies is real, though.

I find it interesting that many of us ran screaming from the corporate Algorithms that warped our brains for the last 10+ years.

And now we’re trying to put algorithms here.

Kind of a bummer that only the content you post after installing the plugin actually gets published anywhere. But that’s federation.

Last year Google had a thing for past customers where if someone used your code when they bought a Pixel, both you and they got a $100 voucher.

Those expire on the last day of September.

Hey Google… I see you releasing this phone 4 days after the expiration date of the $100 Play Store vouchers that many of us have stashed away.

I used to get excited by new Android versions. But now I barely notice the difference when a new one drops.

As someone who knows a little bit about the pharmaceutical industry…

It sucks too much to let something like this suceed. The companies ultimately making the drugs intend to profit off them. A lot.

Unless tons of people are accessing your pictures, I’d recommend Tailscale instead.

7th gen Intel (Kaby Lake) can encode h265, also. Not just 8th gen.

Source: I encode to h265 almost daily using Quicksync on my i5-7500.

Intel 7th gen & higher CPUs have Quicksync that does hardware h265 encoding.

You can get an old i5-7500 PC pretty cheap these days. That’s what I have, and tDarr converts about an hour of 1080p h264 content to h265 in roughly 10min.