I usually just describe fediverse platforms as being community built and run, rather than corporate platforms owned by a company. And then if folks have questions I can answer whatever they wanna know more about π€·ββοΈ
To me that feels like the best balance I've come up with so far, but maybe there are better approaches out there still :)
What is quiblr?
Ah, gotcha. Thank you for the additional information :)
Thank you very much the full explanation, there's a lot of that I hadn't considered before. Intuitively it feels like it defeats a lot of the point for everything to be hosted over and over, but I can see how it'd be really hard for things to work as expected if there's only one copy of EVERY comment in a big thread and they're all in different places
The pixelfed app is in beta, but you can use it. In my experience it's pretty unstable right now
https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
Edit: figured I should mention, I just use pixeldroid right now which is less unstable https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pixeldroid.app/
Thats genuinely amazing. The OSM community doesn't care if what you built is dumb, they just care if it's on the map
Props to them
Why in the everliving fuck is that a thing anyone needed? Just go to a gun store and show your ID if needed for fucks sake
We don't need a new way to buy bullets, we certainly don't need a vending machine for them, and if we're getting one anyway it certainly doesn't need AI, who the fuck dreamt this up and thought it was a good idea??
Once again, one of the very rare few areas where ai isn't a completely shitty solution: tasks that are worthwhile and important, but that require labor no one is willing to pay for.
Others include translation, transcription, and image descriptions. Things people won't put resources into but that should happen anyway
The only problem is that these have nothing to do with why massive companies are investing in this tech. If AI didn't enable the equivalent of money laundering for intellectual labor, the billionaires wouldn't give a shit
That looks awesome! I'm deeply nostalgic for that period of time, material design was the big thing when I was first getting into UI design and I was absolutely in love with it
Klwp and Kwgt are still a blast, that's what almost all of my stuff is made out of, but iOS has its pros as well :) from what I hear things are progressively getting a little more customizable, if still pretty locked down
At some point I'd like to get a little better at animations so I can make my setup feel a little more alive, but for the time being it's mostly just static elements
Lol, I'm somewhat similar. I'm a big ui/ux nerd but don't have professional or academic experience other than some pro-bono work in high-school. But I love tinkering with my phone's homesceen and other similar little projects. I'm hoping to make a neocites page soon!
This is my previous phone's homescreen I posted a while back:
https://mastodon.online/@CrisColor/111440259435482295
I've gotten a new phone since then and am still getting it updated to fit properly on a new screen, so right now it looks a little jank π but it's always interesting to hear how other people feel differently about aesthetics than yourself!
Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective with me! βΊοΈ
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain where things are at for folks!
I'll have to wait and see if an Android client that supports it shows up, it looks really neat!