Sean Tilley

https://social.wedistribute.org/users/deadsuperhero

Somewhat ridiculous. The clump of brain cells responsible for We Distribute, VidCommons, and Brands.Town. Goofy but lovable, passionate about many things.

💀 Site: https://deadsuperhero.com
📺 Video: https://spectra.video/c/deadsuperhero
🛠️ Code: https://codeberg.org/deadsuperhero

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2024-07-16 15:09:38

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I am! Their newsletter is great, and I have high hopes of their efforts.

2024-07-15 11:52:08

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Maybe I'm just a fool and don't understand some fundamental basic thing. Maybe I'm missing something.
In what world does it make sense for a tiny server to store vast amounts of remote content that no one on the server has ever interacted with? Granted, this thing is connected to a bunch of relays, so maybe something janky is going on.
But like 800GB of media for a server with fewer than 10 people on it sounds like a dumpster fire.

2024-07-15 11:48:25

Deleting over 800,000 objects from Object Storage from an experiment server because I didn't know Mastodon admins were supposed to regularly run `tootctl` cleanup tasks on a regular recurring basis.
Apparently, the "media retention" setting in the UI does *nothing* in certain edge cases? And Object Storage just vacuums up whatever media hits your server, regardless of whether it's local media or not?
What a pain in the ass!

2024-07-15 04:53:39

Hey, #Mastodon admins, quick question for those of you using Object Storage for your instance...
I have a friend who's self-hosting. Unfortunately, their storage fills up very quickly by caching every piece of inbound media that federates to it. Despite having settings in Mastodon to delete content older than a certain interval of time, storage still fills up rapidly.
What's the best way to purge all the remote stuff, and only store media uploaded to your own instance? Is this some weird stuff that needs to be set up on the S3 side?

2024-07-03 23:17:47

Just a light outreach here: I run the #PeerTube instance over at [spectra.video](http://spectra.video ). We’ve had a massive amount of growth over our past two years of operation, particularly when it comes to gaming and vlogging.
I’m looking to feature a few channels on our landing page. If you’re a creator on our instance and want to be featured, I would love to hear from you!

2024-06-30 03:19:15

The @npub1h88…fcfz project released a small boilerplate app and tutorial for people interested in building #Fediverse web clients that work with #Solid. I hope to poke around a bit, and see what’s possible. 😁
https://docs.activitypods.org/tutorials/create-your-first-social-app/

2024-06-30 01:59:34

This conversation about #Diaspora adopting #ActivityPub has completely degraded into total hostility. It’s very depressing to reflect on, but their project lead basically wants nothing to do with the Fediverse, and states he would actively reject code contributions implementing AP.
https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/lets-talk-about-activitypub/741/22?u=deadsuperhero

2024-06-30 01:19:10

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Some people just love to get the last word in.

2024-06-25 17:32:27

Sort of a weird question: is anybody trying to make #Friendica look pretty? A recurring conversation that @npub13xy…g7xf and I have is that the platform is pretty solid, and the project is healthy, but the UI is generally just not great.
I think it would be fun to do some mockups and try to ship a better, more user-friendly theme. I think people look at it sometimes and get turned off, which is a bummer. Friendica is super underrated.

2024-06-24 13:54:37

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possibly, but I think some people also get their rocks off from aggressively telling other people what to do, and how to do it.

2024-06-24 13:11:21

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Anyway, I’m sorry, I’ll shut up now. It’s just been eating away at me for a long time, and I needed to say something.

2024-06-24 13:09:24

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Also, I’m sorry, I realize this probably scans as a lot more hostile than I actually intended.
I care about this place. A lot.
When I first came to Mastodon, the energy was so different. It felt like people were excited to meet total strangers, tell jokes together, share lived experiences. Now, I just feel sick from this unshakable hostility that sometimes emerges, this feeling that there’s just going to be more drama, most ostracizing, more lines being drawn, more vague unspoken rules.
We could build incredible things together and change the face of the Internet as we know it. We could bootstrap a social and technological commons for the good of the world, and make a better form of online communication that doesn’t have the pitfalls that hearken back to Ma Bell and CompuServe and Meta.
But we really need to chill the fuck out about a million and one things, come down from our fiefdoms, and be humans to one another again.

2024-06-24 13:02:54

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I don’t know what else to say other than, shit’s kind of bad, and refusing to embrace any kind of positive motion to make things better in this aspect is awful. I’m not saying everybody has to pitch in, but some of the most toxic people I’ve come across on here barely lift a finger to do anything other than complain. And they just do that, for years and years.
In my headspace, I just imagine a bunch of pissed-off anarchists that all hate each other because they’re the wrong kind of anarchist, and they’re just content to sit back and complain and be miserable until this network rots into the ground.
To me, that fucking sucks, and I don’t want any part in it.

2024-06-24 13:01:37

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A non-zero part of Mastodon’s user community has effectively modeled itself on a kind of social Puritanism that is super unfun to be around. It’s gotten so bad that it’s a meme at this point. Just imagine a stereotype of a stodgy librarian who tells you to CW your own lived experiences because they don’t want to see it, and you’re already halfway there.
There’s this wild idea that any kind of commerce or barter, any kind of exhange between hands that isn’t the most threadbare mutual aid, is forbidden and bad and going to make this place worse somehow. We’re a network predicated on GoFundMe’s and vast amounts of unpaid labor for hosting and moderation.

2024-06-24 12:56:34

“Growth” as a concept does not have to be viewed solely through the lens of Silicon Valley, venture capital firms, or capitalism in general. In the context of the network: some people here, myself included, want to see the network develop along enough to sufficiently challenge the status quo, and dethrone mainstream social networks.
For the #Fediverse to thrive, we inevitably have to bring in more people, new communities, and new ways of doing things. We need to build towards better concepts for user agency, privacy, and control. We need to also embrace the fun stuff that brought us here in the first place.

2024-06-24 01:17:29

This is just a mockup for now. I’m not that far along yet. 😅
My goal with my little Fedify #ActivityPub project is to have an easy lookup utility. It does two things:<li>Attempt to render the object using a bespoke template library, free for anyone to examine.</li><li>Render JSON-LD output in a neat little pane as a kind of Inspector tool. </li>
I don’t know how useful this will actually be to anybody, but it might be handy for looking at activities, figuring out how to implement stuff, maybe even show output for posts that don’t work correctly? 🤔
https://social.wedistribute.org/media/c71bbba9-f055-4fbb-9b05-f81381121305/Screenshot_20240623_161108.png

2024-03-27 02:14:16

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What's funny is that Truth Social is just a Mastodon fork with Alex Gleason's SoapBox frontend grafted back on.
SoapBox itself is a fork of Mastodon's own native single-column interface. Apparently, the dev couldn't get them to use anything other than Mastodon, which is pretty funny.

2024-03-24 14:27:19

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I'd try my best to be calm, objective, and point to the facts of what I know. I think it's important to try to lead with empathy and understand where the other person is coming from.
I also try to confront my own biases, too. There's always a chance that I am wrong, or that there's more to the story that I didn't know about. I think it's important to try to learn, even if it's challenging and I'm feeling emotional.

2024-03-23 23:55:37

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Maybe the real metrosexuals were the friends we met along the way.

2024-03-23 23:53:13

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I mostly cry into a bucket of ice cream.

2024-03-23 23:51:57

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I think it depends on what the thing is. If someone is just doing a thing I don't care for, or making a point I don't particularly agree with, I tend to just not engage.
If someone's talking trash about my friend or an effort I like or a thing I'm really passionate about, though, I try to push back in a way that makes sense. I'll always stand up for my friends first and foremost. But, if it's a piece of software or an abstract idea, I tend to ask why they feel that way first.

2024-03-21 21:15:55

Our interview with Rudy Fraser from #Blacksky just dropped. He shared some valuable insights on building black spaces on an emerging federated network, and brought up the headaches, struggles, and joy of being involved.
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/blacksky-rudy-fraser/