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> But RSS isn’t the reason why podcasts are popular I don't understand the relevance of this point. RSS is infrastructure so why would end users need to know about it? They don't k…

That's only a problem for the engorged advertising industry that's been built up in the past couple decades. Putting ads in an RSS feed is no different than non-algorithmic ads on …

But RSS did become mainstream; podcasts are a normal part of media now and non-techies seem to have no problem finding and consuming them. They don't have to know about RSS. There'…

Aren't the ads already on the webpage? If the RSS contains snippets of the pages and I have to navigate to the page to view the article, then I see your ads. Also, can't the ads be…

Right, you said you're from the UK so that's in line with what I would have expected. My unstated point was that multinyms are intrinsically tied to dialects so there is no absolut…

> "e'er" would sound slightly different as it's spoken almost like two syllables, though not quite. I'm a native English speaker (US). Sometimes when I say "ever"/"never", the 'v' …

In the United States South, its very common to drop the 'g' at the end of a word ending in '-ing'. barren-bearing can definitely sound the same here.

I'm from South Carolina, USA and I pronounce 'greater' and 'grader' the same. There is a subtle difference and that difference can be more noticeable sometimes, but most of the tim…

I think the acronym thing is related but a separate phenomenon. My guess would be that speakers intuitively think the acronym isn't easily understandable so they add an extra word …

> mistranslated horno to "earth oven" My argument is that it's not a mistranslation. In Spanish, "horno" means any kind of oven. In English, it means specifically an earth oven bec…

When a common word from another language is borrowed into English, it tends to take on a more specific meaning. Most native English speakers wouldn't use "salsa" to describe any ot…

> just make transit more attractive, not make driving less attractive If ppl drive more than use transit, they won't support improvements to transit. This is the first step to impr…

> Also, though the author mentions annotations, I don't see how they intend to implement them. It's discussed at the very end of section 8 and all of section 9 that interactive fun…

> The basic thing I am saying is that if you call it a web browser and use the same core protocols etc., you have a practically infinite (for an individual) set of requirements to …

Aren't you the developer of Smithereen (a fediverse server)? Nearly every other fediverse software has a web interface that can act as a PWA. I launch lemmy.ml and kbin.social as s…

I asked for it, and a lot of other ppl did too. These are great features and removing them would cause more than 1% of websites to lose some functionality. But, importantly, they s…

I've found https://tiddly.packett.cool/ is great on desktop and mobile

Discoverability is a little better since Pleroma exposes the public timelines for non-logged in users (though the admin can disable that). I'm not sure about search.

The repos they linked are just for the clients. I think the server software would be way more interesting, but it's also their secret sauce so it unlikely they'll open source that.…

Except in situations exactly like this one. A user shouldn't have to worry about local vs remote videos if they want to share the link outside the fediverse and someone clicking th…

Right, but that doesn't mean the server can't support other post types or leave complex UI to other clients. Each server could fallback to displaying a link to an external post at …

> The UX is important. It's important that all users have the same one. For link aggregators, you want comments displayed as a tree. For microblogging, flat lists work better, espe…

You could ask around the indieweb irc, https://chat.indieweb.org/ Some of the people there have messed around with syndicating to ActivityPub. I think one of them maintains a Wordp…

You could also check out Pleroma; Mastodon isnt the only microblogging software on the fediverse https://pleroma.social/#featured-instances https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma/

That's the basis for https://indieweb.org which i think is a much better solution than ActivityPub. See micro.blog if you want an example of a productized form of those ideas