I create Fediverse software that empowers people online.
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I'm going to need you to apologize to my wife. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Ditto is the first backend to support literally every feature that could possibly be in this sidebar, and I'm overwhelmed about how to arrange them. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Follow my secret Nostr account: @npub1q3s…d26p npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason gleasonator.dev is shaping up. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason As the creator of Mastodon, I completely agree with you. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason The only shows I like to watch are nature documentaries and The Bachelor. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Vegetarians be like npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Pleroma does something very brave to deal with race conditions. 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Rebooting the application is also fine, just not the OS. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-truth-social-executive-launch-090000339.html npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Wrote a script to migrate ActivityPub follows to Nostr. Now just needs a web UI. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Who sees this and is like "yeah... that's so me"? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Probably the most insane thing I've ever seen. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/nsec/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Sorry, but this is the best keyboard. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Maybe there's hope Jewish and Nazis can be friends again. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Doubt npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason This is literally the greatest thing I have ever eaten, and I'm trying to figure out what I've gotten myself in to. https://thecoconutcult.com/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I'm so exhausted bros... hang on let me write one more line of code. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason "If you love a flower, do not pick it, for then it ceases to be what you love." npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I would like to buy Stonetoss a beer. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason "Enslave me, corporation daddy" - Average American npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason It's unacceptable that the ONLY TVs available these days are these stupid "smart" TVs. 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