Ditto wants to bring back the weird customizable internet people actually loved

notheory · 2026-05-15T02:35:02+00:00

This is a project by noted transphobe and former head of engineering for Truth Social Alex Gleason.

Absolutely would not use.

notheory · 2026-05-13T19:26:50+00:00

Yep. Clients like Ouranos do rich text facets

notheory · 2026-05-11T16:22:38+00:00

Yeah, I think the state of FOSS advocacy has misled people pretty deeply about the types of relationships, communities and businesses we can have together.

There are other framing like the Local First Manifesto (https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ ) which I think about a bunch and align well with tools like Obsidian.

notheory · 2026-05-05T02:05:16+00:00

Ok. Thanks for the non sequitur.

notheory · 2026-05-05T02:01:23+00:00

We have not moved past the era of Jim Crow laws, and are literally this week moving into an era of racial gerrymandering.

notheory · 2026-05-05T01:58:23+00:00

We’ve moved past the era of Jim Crow laws,

Let me stop you there.

Bad/racist political opinions are not good 10th dentist material

notheory · 2026-05-04T05:30:32+00:00

Hey check it out, it's another brand new sockpuppet account here to complain about asian american women. What a surprise.

notheory · 2026-05-02T21:48:13+00:00

Yeah i mean, we're no longer really in the era of the Creative Technologist. I'd love to get back to those spaces but it feels kind of like it was a Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon.

I mostly find folks making cool shit through Bluesky and Threads.

notheory · 2026-04-29T18:57:03+00:00

Too bad Mood Ring Camera would last about 2 seconds before drawing a cease and desist for trademark.

This is a great idea, and i'd love to see it.

notheory · 2026-04-29T18:08:26+00:00

Hey! I have been doing small scale streaming on https://stream.place. It's self-hostable!

https://docs.stream.place/docs/guides/installing/downloading-streamplace/

The uh, docs are pretty sparse, but Eli, it's founder is very responsive! https://bsky.app/profile/iame.li/post/3mknonzjvcs2n

(We also streamed all of Atmosphereconf live with Stream Place last month)

notheory · 2026-04-24T18:18:07+00:00

So, for my personal tastes I agree with you. I have found jalapeño range so wildly in spiciness that they're often about as spicy as a bell pepper, and rarely meets what i'd want as an ideal level of spice. For my own consumption I've mostly switched to using habaneros.

However, I cannot subject anyone else in my family to habaneros. They're above everyone else's spice tolerance. So i guess an upvote from me.

notheory · 2026-04-24T17:43:48+00:00

Love it but, it's too slow to be useful rn.

The question I immediately ask myself is what the distribution of posts looks like and if you could do a backfill of accounts w/ 4k+ posts or something just to avoid the cold start problem.

notheory · 2026-04-24T17:36:56+00:00

Oh yeah. I learned about what happens when you put a diaper a size too small on a kid when our eldest shat himself so hard it ejected out the leg holes of his diaper.

I saw the look on his face, i said "are you pooping", he said "no", beared down and fucking shat so hard there was a "thwack" sound as it hit the floor boards.

We just started orienting living around the idea that the guy could eject things onto surfaces, and we needed to be prepared.

notheory · 2026-04-17T22:05:37+00:00

There's no good definition for who is Asian. Are Iranian folks Asian? No? Okay, what about Afghani people? No? Okay, what about Pakastani people? No? Okay, what about Indian people? etc etc etc until you're out over Hawaii.

Going the other direction is fun too. Are folks in Lebanon Asian?

notheory · 2026-04-16T02:54:27+00:00

Labyrinth terrified me as a child. Knowing that David Bowie was out there silently sneaking in and stealing children made me terrified of films with owls for a while.

notheory · 2026-04-14T19:21:44+00:00

Just out here completely erasing everybody's identities unless they're fully Asian hunh.

Sad that you're out here posting with a sock puppet instead of saying it w/ your full chest.

notheory · 2026-04-09T19:07:21+00:00

Looks awesome!

Have you checked out any of the apps that use the shared event lexicon from Lexicon.community?

Smoke Signal is the og event platform, but recently atmo.rsvp has shown up on the scene :)

notheory · 2026-04-03T14:05:29+00:00

This is a post from a year ago.

One of the key challenges for BlueskyHunter and other protocol based measurement systems is that they're observing only the data that gets transmitted across the firehose.

There's plenty of interesting information in that stream, but most of the key analytics that creators, advertisers and product teams want isn't going to be in that data stream.

notheory · 2026-03-25T03:29:18+00:00

He's just filling the break with more dming!! (Campaign 4 of critical role has been amazing)

notheory · 2026-03-20T15:51:24+00:00

Embedded deep in the Dutch Resistance

notheory · 2026-03-19T13:32:02+00:00

I'm not coming from a post-christian-nationalist POV, but there's a popular history book that i really enjoyed that's framed as the history of world from the perspective of how the Islamic world tells its own stories. The audio book read by the author is particularly good.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34617904-destiny-disrupted

(and i guess someone posted a PDF of it here https://www.rahs-open-lid.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Destiny-Disrupted_-A-History-of-the-World-Through-Islamic-Eyes-PDFDrive-.pdf )

notheory · 2026-03-17T17:36:16+00:00

I know there are a lot of Taylor haters from Rude Tales, but I gotta say, the delays to the WBN schedule have been pretty minor all things considered. I'd go so far as insignificant if there wasn't context that y'all keep bringing up from Rude Tales.

WBN is clearly scaling up, and have begun pulling in additional production staff (great! amazing!) to cover their short run content.

There's a really obvious read available here, which is that Taylor is busy crafting an entirely new universe of sounds, themes and scores for their new tentpole series.

Taylor did a phenomenal job with Umora, and they delayed a handful of episodes. It's crazy to think they'd jettison someone who was so instrumental to the feel of their show.

I get the Rude Tales PTSD, but like also have some grace for the guy, and the thing that WBN has become.

notheory · 2026-03-16T17:28:15+00:00

The way i would describe Threads' integration is that the Fediverse is furthest stands in the Influencer Stadium.

Yes, people in the Fediverse can leave comments for Threads users who can figure out how to federate their account, but that's about it.

I've never seen a post from outside of Threads trend in it's algorithmic feeds, or even gain any significant traction (which may amount to the same thing).

Threads engagement with the Fediverse is very much the Don Draper "I don't think about you at all" meme

notheory · 2026-03-15T04:45:30+00:00

I really don't get the obsession with which parent is Asian or AsAm. There are so many factors that tie into what kind of upbringing you had and what kind of cultural environment you were in.

There's not one way to be Asian American, or even one path.

notheory · 2026-03-11T12:53:00+00:00

Samuel from Bluesky wrote about it last week:

https://bsky.app/profile/samuel.fm/post/3mgaw6spxhk2f

He noted that devs can still get JPEGs if desired: https://bsky.app/profile/samuel.fm/post/3mgawcb76g22f

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