I'm very intrigued, Dan Sup is one of the most interesting people working in the fediverse these days, and I'm very curious about anything he puts forward.
koncertejo
There needs to be a film about the FOSS movement that matches the vibes of 1995's cyberspace masterpiece Hackers.
Definitely a long way off from how active they were a year or two ago.
My early impressions are certainly quite positive, I love how experimental it is and very willing to explore new gameplay styles. Certainly curious to see what the metascore ends up being, probably higher than Link's Awakening HD?
Cryptobros fuck off
If the Play Store becomes required like that then Android's already-shaky status as an open source base platform is going to go out the window. I'm glad there are non-Google distros of Android but there really needs to be more of a push to make a completely FOSS phone platform.
Fedi's daily active users actually went up for the last two months after hitting a low of just under 1,000,000. That's a lot of people, and on a platform that likely has the ability to carry on like a cockroach in a nuclear winter.
What exactly happened for the name to be changed from Kbin to Mbin? I missed that plot point.
server costs were not the biggest reason, it was down to salary costs
The tech savvy will just buy a Raspberry Pi and install yunohost on it.
It was the early days of a new technology and way of listening that was completely different compared to the past 60+ years of recorded audio. I guess as a more modern analogy it's like those cheap 3D films at the height of the fad that felt the need to gratuitously shove objects directly in front of the camera to get the most out of the 3D effect.
I've found that sorting by New Comments is the best way to have a steady stream of interesting stuff on my feed at any given time.