#indieweb 2023-05-05

2023-05-05 UTC
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jan6 the alt text feature was implemented like 1 or 2 days ago, lol
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[tantek] wow
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aaronpk this is very much a build the plane while it's flying situation
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[tantek] ooh I finally saw an [image: ... ] with the alt text there in http://firesky.tv!
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[tantek] Bluesky << Real-time stream of every post in Bluesky: https://firesky.tv/ (presumably as long as it can keep up)
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Loqi ok, I added "Real-time stream of every post in Bluesky: https://firesky.tv/ (presumably as long as it can keep up)" to the "See Also" section of /Bluesky https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=87748&oldid=87740
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[snarfed] they've described it as "build the plane while it's falling" 😆
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shreyanjain[m] and the passengers relentlessly troll the pilots
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aaronpk and some of them are trying to break in to the cockpit to tell the pilots what they're doing wrong
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aaronpk and how to fix it, they are trying to be helpful
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[chrisbergr] Interesting observation after 10 minutes of watching Firesky: Hundreds of posts in japanese and korean, not a single one in chinese. I wonder why...
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[jacky] something something politics and borders
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[tantek] what is the Great Firewall
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Great Firewall" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Great Firewall is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
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[tantek] (one possibility)
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IWDiscordRelay <c​apjamesg#4492> How can they read TCP packets?
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IWDiscordRelay <c​apjamesg#4492> Maybe -> #dev territory
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IWDiscordRelay <c​apjamesg#4492> In fact, maybe #chat.
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petermolnar why did that remind me of the TCP joke... https://i.redd.it/qh4d5zjipjbz.png
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IWDiscordRelay <c​apjamesg#4492> Haha
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IWDiscordRelay <c​apjamesg#4492> “The thing people like the most about Bluesky seems to be the energy — a slippery, ever-changing thing, wholly reliant on fortune’s whims. Ocasio-Cortez isn’t there because she’s excited about AI-driven, label-heavy moderation tools or the future of federation; she’s there because she (apparently) likes posting about Stardew Valley and complimenting strangers’ dresses. Will Bluesky ever reach its final form w
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IWDiscordRelay <c​apjamesg#4492> https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/2/23708385/bluesky-weather-report-moderation-app-store
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[tantek] Bluesky << 2023-05-02 The Verge: [https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/2/23708385/bluesky-weather-report-moderation-app-store Bluesky showed everyone’s ass] / In many cases, literally. <blockquote>The question <i>What’s it really like over there?</i> is essentially what is driving user growth. From inside these garden walls, among the 55,000 users, I can tell you it’s absolutely wild.</blockquote>
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Loqi ok, I added "2023-05-02 The Verge: [https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/2/23708385/bluesky-weather-report-moderation-app-store Bluesky showed everyone’s ass] / In many cases, literally. <blockquote>The question <i>What’s it really like over there?</i> is essentially what is driving user growth. From inside these garden walls, among the 55,000 users, I can tell you it’s absolutely wild.</blockquote>" to the "See Also" section of /Bluesky https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=87765&oldid=87763
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jan6 lol
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