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Space Karen is more than generous.

It's not about generosity, it's about substance. There's no substance to name-calling a billionaire. The entire article is emotional drivel.

That's what is distracting about Elon the most. He's nothing but emotional drivel. Everything he does is draped in a veil of emotion.

Re: The Shit Show

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This is similar to how micro.blog has implemented ActivityPub support, from what I can gather. Here's their documentation from when the feature was released: https://help.micro.blog/t/mastodon-and-activitypub/95

Oh excellent, thanks! I wonder how hard it is to make an RSS-to-ActivityPub service.

Darius Kazemi, the creator of Hometown, made an AP server where you can register a feed and it turns into an actor (ie an account): https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub

I made my own thing, fetching an RSS feed and posting entries to an existing account. It makes the code much simpler, but is not practical if you have lots of feeds (you need yo create all accounts separately): https://sr.ht/~rakoo/rss2ap/

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Oh excellent, thanks! I wonder how hard it is to make an RSS-to-ActivityPub service.

Darius Kazemi, the creator of Hometown, made an AP server where you can register a feed and it turns into an actor (ie an account): https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub I made my own thing, fetching an RSS feed and posting entries to an existing account. It makes the code much simpler, but is not practical if you have lots of feeds (you need yo create all accounts separately): https://sr.ht/~rakoo/rss2ap/

That's fantastic, thanks! Just what I was looking for.

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OK, I have to ask- What exactly was your argument against MP3's? They literally let you transfer music with an order of magnitude less data than it took on the CD! Was it an audiophile argument, or...? I was lucky enough to live in a freshman college dorm (a music-focused dorm, no less!) circa 1997-1998 when Napster was still a thing right after MP3's were a thing, and that shit was amaaaaazing I mean given how much…

Yeah, when I snagged my first ""backup"" mp3 of an amazing piece of music I had never before heard (I think it was "Megalomaniac" by KMFDM) in a measly 3 megs or so, I knew this format was about to take the world by storm. It was blatantly obvious. I remember my processor struggled so much even playing it, I basically had to just listen to the mp3 on its own. I eventually figured out I could play 96kbps mp3s without…

KMFDM is admittedly pretty awesome to discover

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What do you think revenue does? It's a signal that something is of value to society so it can be used for growth to further increase value.

Im saddened to hear that my community garden and local library dont provide any value to society, must be why I like spending time there so much.

I think you're confusing "if" with "if and only if".

Revenue is one way to provide value, not the only.

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If federation was a worthwhile goal (in one's mind) after "the bozo took over Twitter" then it is quite obvious nothing fundamentally has changed such that federation would have been a noble goal as a foil to previous Twitter management. Seriously - if more personal sovereignty is the goal then complaining about Twitter only after new management is admitting that the primary quality you don't like is the new manageme…

> complaining about Twitter only after new management is admitting that the primary quality you don't like is the new management. So the thing about Twitter (and actually I think this is something Musk badly misunderstood) is that Twitter users, particularly long-time Twitter users, have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. It's always been a bit of a broken unpleasant mess; there's a reason that Twitter users affe…

That's a fair point - though I do think this particular 'happening' won't be enough to get more sovereign solutions to critical mass, but maybe it's a strong step.
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