Let's see... Just today, in their presentation for the next patch, a child character got a new outfit, and a teaser that the next archon (god) is a kid - again. xD

I sometimes wonder wtf they're doing, ngl...

dass Admins im Fediverse zunehmend meinen, ihre Nutzer vor bösen anderen Instanzen abschirmen zu müssen.

Das Fediverse ist im Grunde erstmal eine Umverteilung des Vertrauens; anstatt Twitter/Reddit vertraust du den Instanzinhaber von Mastodon/Lemmy. Was der im endeffekt macht kann er selbst entscheiden.

Aber; du kannst dir einfach nen Account auf nem anderen Server anlegen und den Communities folgen! Niemand sagt, dass du auf einer Instanz festhängst. :)

Volla Phone, makers of some degoogled phones, actually asked for if people wanted that on Twitter a while back.

Dunno if they went through with it, though. Would also be interested in hiding my phone number; would allow me to come back to Whatsapp. I ain't giving Meta my number... xD

Germany, Europe.

I am actually surprised IPFS isn't leveraged more for this.

This is quite neat. Been using DaddyLive to watch Bundesliga with Kodi, wrapped in some random extension... Rising Tides, I think it was?

No, just the way the Fediverse works. :)

...and, to go on a bit of a tangent, how the internet "used to" work. You still see the remnant with E-Mails; they can go between servers. Most other services have become locked and centralized now. There was a short bit of time where MSN, AIM and YIM were practically compatible with one another due to sharing many of the same XMPP protos.

Personally I am happy to see this again, been too long ^^

Here's a brief: Instead of tweeting to one server, you tweet to many. When you and another person share the same server, they see you. Those servers (relays) can also be broadcasting your messages to other relays, so you might end up indirectly sharing servers as well. Because there are so many servers that potentially sync data, it is supposed to be "uncensorable". Each user is identified by a public key, and signs their message with a private key.

As for the SN aspect; you follow people. Hence the Twitter comparison.

Now what I did not mention on purpose: You can do microtransactions in bitcoins. And if you read that and thought "oh god no" - then yeah, exactly. xD

My biggest gripe with cryptobros is that they have built some actually good tech; like IPFS. But then they ruin it with their coins. Filecoin, seriously?... That said, the sheer protocol of Nostr is actually damn impressive. But man is it verbose (but not as stepp as I thought) to get into... Still, a social network is made and broken by its community. At present, Nostr is the latter.

Spent a while there now. Yep, its Bitcoin, everywhere.

Though if you doomscroll long enough (heh), you MIGHT find someone worth following and reading. ...might.

I'd chirp you a yes. Though, more for fun than anything, I have been called a "featherly" before x)

Also - if you wonder what my species is, it's in the name and avatar ^v

I joined the furry community somewhere in 2009 - the internet was a whole different world at the time. The idea of dynamically fetching content via JavaScript was still "being explored", in a way.

Initially, I landed on ychan/yiffy.tk and spent a great deal of time there and found many friends. I had landed there, because I was looking for something else, but found a Panty and Stockings rule34 picture and decided to dig down further into this "awkward, odd, but interesting thing".

To make a long story short: I am german, and my english was bad. Through roleplaying and interactions I learned how to speak and write english so much and drasticaly, that I improved by magnitudes and actually wrote the school's highest ranked final exam for graduation in my entire year. I also started to run my own community - those who remember who Karma was and what he did, might know what I mean - when the admin started to swing the ban hammer...aimlessly. xD

From there, I maintained the community all the way to 2015. Due to IRL circumstances, I had to let it go. But, it still lives on as a discord server.

In all that time, I have bought many commissions, done a boatload of roleplays, found people to pour my heart out to and find some friends that I have stuck with since. In fact, most of the core-members of the community I founded (Dragon's Inn) are still my friends!

So yeah, the fandom gave me a lot and I will be forever thankful, which is why I keep using my phoenix icon, although I haven't bought a commission in a while, let alone roleplayed... It just means too much to me. <3

Selfhosted Vaultwarden and the Bitwarden apps.

Gives me access to all my things basically any time and anywhere. Its pretty neat. And if I don't want it anymore, I can export the data and just nuke it - and it's gone. :)

Was thinking the same - this looks like a prime usecase for IPFS, honestly.

Interesting. Will give it a try, thanks for the hint!

Honestly, the interesting tidbits you learn as you dig yourself into that rabbit hole is actually quite intriguing and fun. So yeah - I'd say it is also quite "fun" for the process itself!

C: What if you used emojis for pointer (*) and deref (&) signs?

Good call! That said, I am still going to have to copy-paste a lot of community handles... Oh well, it works for now, I guess.

Thanks for the idea!

When I add [email protected] into my search field, it doesn't show anything - in fact, it ends up telling me that there are no results. I have to then go into the Communities tab again, and hope it shows up there.

I can see it doing work as I watch the logs. But this is really a little weird/frustrating. I hope this sees improvement eventually! =)